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As the world faces multiple crises, we look toward strong leadership now more than ever. Waging Peace: Building Humanity’s Golden Peace, a new event hosted by The Visioneers International Network and the International Foundation of Learning, honors and celebrates the official designation of the extraordinary achievements of a multigenerational, global cohort of leaders, changemakers, and wisdom keepers. Hear their greetings, wisdom, and strategies for action to secure a peaceful, sustainable future.

Shared passing, or Shared Death Experience (SDE), is an experience in which loved ones, caregivers, or people in the proximity of the dying person feel they are sharing the dying person’s transition to a benevolent afterlife. And as we’ll see, these people don’t need to be in the same room as the transitioning person! 

Recent scientific breakthroughs have provided ever-increasing and compelling evidence that our Universe exists and evolves as a nonlocally unified entity. Its appearance of energy-matter and space-time are being discovered to emerge from deeper levels of non-physical causation and cosmic intelligence, expressed as meaningful in-formation and holographically manifested – and progressively revealing that mind and consciousness aren’t what we have but rather what we and the whole world essentially are. 

Humans have pondered the idea of reincarnation for ages. This is reflected in widespread cultural and religious beliefs about reincarnation. 

How are we aware that we are aware? Consciousness remains a perplexing mystery for science. Today’s neuroscience assumes that consciousness emerges from neurons interacting with each other in the brain. Yet, we still do not have an explanation for exactly how these neural interactions cause subjective experience or the experience of being conscious. Or, to be more specific, how interacting neurons could cause us to be aware of the profound and moving experiences of falling in love, enjoying a delightful piece of art, or feeling a wave of dazzling inspiration.

Dreams foreshadowing the future – AKA precognitive dreams – have been reported throughout time in every culture and belief system. The elements of a dream playing out in waking life, inducing a sensational moment of déjà vu, has likely happened to you at some point. Despite the normality of this experience, it is only recently that sleep and dream experts, scientists, and psychologists have stopped dismissing night visions as random.

In a recent study, conducted by Kirsten Cameron in conjunction with the scientists at IONS, actual precognition skills were measured in adults with varying abuse or neglect levels in childhood. To access the publication, please see Precognition as an Adaptation to Childhood Abuse and Neglect.

Psilocybin has literally mushroomed. Scientific studies now echo what ancient anecdotes have stated for ages – psilocybin mushrooms can help alleviate mental health conditions. The mushrooms have recently reached the mainstream through multiple Netflix documentaries including Fantastic Fungi and How to Change Your Mind.

The following excerpt is from the new book,
Proof of Spiritual Phenomena: A Neuroscientist’s Discovery of the Ineffable Mysteries of the Universe.

I’m writing today to let you know about an important leadership transition at IONS as the evolution of our organization continues.