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The thoughts and beliefs we have about ourselves may be the most important way we define ourselves. It’s why they may often come up repeatedly during our mind wandering. As Arnaud Delorme shares in his book Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts, these thoughts can be categorized into different types, such as self-critical thoughts, self-affirming thoughts, self-doubting thoughts, self-judgmental thoughts, self-comparing thoughts and self-reflective thoughts. 

Throughout history, people have tapped into different mental states to glean insights from realms beyond everyday physical reality. This process has been known by various names like channeling, prophecy, oracle, or spiritual communication. No matter what it’s called, the essence remains the same: the channeler serves as a conduit to convey wisdom believed to stem from otherworldly beings or dimensions. The true source of information is unknown, and might be the unconscious mind, a higher self, telepathic connections, or non-physical entities – or all of the above. 

Clairvoyance is sometimes used as a catch-all term for psychic abilities, but it literally translates to “clear seeing.” In parapsychology, clairvoyance is defined as the “perception of distant events or images” (Real Magic by Dean Radin). It is sometimes thought of as any psychic ability that is an “extension” of our eyesight. In this blog, we’ll explore what clairvoyance is — both the direct experience of it and the abundance of scientific study about it.

Have you heard someone curse the smallest planet in our solar system when things don’t go as planned? While there is not a large body of scientifically validated research on astrology, over millennia people across the globe have used the movements of the cosmos to inform their lives. In this article, we’ll review what Mercury retrograde means.

IONS is gearing up for our FIRST VIRTUAL Global Conference on Thursday, May 30 through Sunday, June 2, 2024. While it’s our first virtual conference, it will be IONS’ 19th conference in our 50-year history.

In 1993, the Institute of Noetic Sciences published Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. In this work, the authors, Caryle Hirshberg and the late Brendan O’Regan, defined spontaneous remission as “the disappearance, complete or incomplete, of a disease or cancer without medical treatment or treatment that is considered inadequate to produce the resulting disappearance of disease symptoms or tumor.”

Can humans “feel the future”? Experiments about how people react to events they shouldn’t be able to predict suggest there might be something to this idea of a mysterious human ability.

It is with heavy hearts and deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Gene Milstein, one of our Circle and Legacy Society members. Gene departed this world on February 13, 2024, leaving behind a legacy that will forever shape the landscape of the seed industry and his employees’ lives.

IONS Fellow Stanley Krippner’s memoir,  A Chaotic Life: The Memoirs of Stanley Krippner, Pioneering Humanistic Psychologist, is a riveting masterpiece chronicling the extraordinary journey of a visionary whose life work has been dedicated to weaving cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspectives through international travel, scholarly research, and social activism.

Do you believe in reincarnation? The answer to that question varies vastly across individuals and religions.