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As a transformational leader, I’ve dedicated much of my life to supporting people in bringing noetic practices into their professional lives. I like to think of it as where mystic meets MBA. How can we best use our inner-knowing in harmony with classical management tools to produce results that are both successful for our organizations and sustainable for our interconnected world?
We’ve all heard extraordinary stories about the capacity of the body to heal that leave western medical science perplexed. A terminally ill cancer patient whose tumor dissolved overnight, a quadraplegic who walks again with no explanation, and countless anecdotes of healers and shamans that produce results that seem to defy any modern scientific understanding.
If someone were to say “let’s examine who we are and embody a new way of being” as a solution to the environmental crisis, you may be tempted to dismiss them with skepticism. With the wealth of scientific knowledge and technology at our fingertips, ruminating on who we are and who we should be seems trivial. Questions like this seem out of place in the environmental crisis discussion. But perhaps that’s part of the problem.
What Is a Worldview? How Does It Shape Our Experiences?
These are exciting times for anybody interested in the science of meditation, as research into the subject has grown tremendously over the last couple of decades. And yet, meditation is such a deep and multi-faceted subject that the majority of this research has barely scratched the surface. In most cases, the practices have been secularized in order to study specific characteristics such as neural or other physiological correlates of meditative states, or were looked at with a specific goal in mind such as therapeutic applications. But the practice and promise of meditation goes far beyond what has been investigated so far.
IONS was honored to be featured in a two-part series titled “Where Science and Spirit Meet” on the White Shores with Theresa Cheung podcast.
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Join us on November 8th from 11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific for a free interactive Noetic Global Gathering on climate change. We will investigate a noetic approach to the escalating ecological crises and see how we, as the IONS community, might join together to make an impact. We will begin with a video replay of “Eco-healing: A Lovers’ Reunion” by Charles Eisenstein at the 2019 IONS International Conference this past July. Eisenstein states…
For more than 25 centuries, historical teachings of the Buddha traveled across the people, languages, and cultures of the world. Mindfulness – commonly described as attention to and awareness of present moment experience – is at the heart of these teachings. Remarkably, over the past two decades, popular and scientific interest in mindfulness has seen a resurgence. Whereas a total of 39 scientific papers were published before the year 2000, today that number is a staggering 6000 papers. Likewise, mindfulness practices and interventions have innervated nearly every sector of society including health care, schools, corporations, corrections, government and policy making, military, social justice movements, and mobile applications with reach and access to millions of new practitioners.
Recently I watched a documentary about the exceptional life and music of the vocalist Linda Ronstadt. Now 73, living with Parkinson’s disease, wheelchair dependent and no longer able to sing, she displayed an acceptance of her current reality with her characteristic optimism and humor. One quote in particular has continued to resonate with me. She asks “People want to talk about life after death, but what about life before death? How do we want to live?” This deceptively simple question is at the heart of conscious aging.