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In the spring of this year, I’ll be launching ENTANGLED — a free mobile app based on the Global Consciousness Project, which examines random data for meaningful correlations that may reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. With Entangled, I hope to give the world a better understanding of what it means to say “we’re all connected.”
Mikey Siegel, founder of Consciousness Hacking, is an advisor and collaborator for IONS new Innovation Lab which seeks to bring transcendent technology into people’s...
When he returned from space 45 years ago, Apollo 14 Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell committed his life to supporting a sustainable future. He worked tirelessly to understand and promote what he viewed as an absolutely necessary collective shift in consciousness. To those of us who knew him well, Edgar was an enthusiastic, loving, dedicated, courageous, generous, and brilliant man who inspired us to be bold in our exploration of the further reaches of human potential, to fearlessly challenge inadequate paradigms, and to carry his spirit of adventure into investigating our inner lives.
In this episode of the Human Experience Podcast, IONS’ chief scientist Dean Radin talks about the field of psi research. While early work focused on demonstrating if the...
In our competitive culture, we usually think “more is better”. Being Number One, winning at all costs, and “having the most” is deeply ingrained in our psyche as real success. This model of going for the max is often erroneously applied to our own understanding of happiness. People mistakenly think intense delight is a sign that their attempt at true well-being is really successful.
A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Can Meditation Gadgets Help You Reduce Your Stress—and Find Happiness?, mentions two opposing views on how meditation gadgets may foster happiness: on one hand, professors like Richard Davidson, founder of the Center for Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, feel that technology cannot possibly be used as an aid to meditation. On the other hand, people like myself or Judson Brewer, of the University of Massachusetts Medical School, are described as “reserved” regarding the contribution of the current technology, while other researchers are more enthusiastic about it. I thought it would be worth it to expand upon my view of these technologies in this blog.
According to the US Drought Monitor, as of November 5, 2015, 71 percent of the state of California is in an extreme drought, including the entire central valley. This is causing a massive amount of destruction to ecosystems and crops. With the aim of heightening our collective intentions to bring relief to this situation, an online experiment has been set up that allows you to invite moisture to California.
Our EarthRise Transformative Learning Center is not only a learning ground for over 120 groups a year who come for experiential education and transformational workshops, it is also home to three campus partners. While these are independent organizations, they too are guided by a desire to to bring about a more interconnected world.
In this panel convened at the 2015 Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference, Deepak Chopra facilitates a discussion on the nature of consciousness. This freewheeling conversation touches on a variety of topics, including mathematics as fundamental to reality, mind beyond the personal, exploration via subjectivity and more.
At the 2015 Science and Nonduality (SAND) conference, five leading scientists came together to discuss the complex topic of consciousness.