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The Institute of Noetic Sciences exists because of our members. And, we’ve just lost one of our most respected, earliest, and most dedicated ones. On January 5th, Claire Russell, a vibrant noetic explorer to the very last day, died at the age of 95.
I cry as I approach the sand.
Rays of light burst forth
from the orange orb descending in the sky.
“I read too much science fiction as a kid,” Dean Radin tells Julie Motz of KWMR FM Radio’s Hot Tech, Cool Science when asked how he got involved in noetic sciences. “It is comparable to someone reading Harry Potter books today. I was most curious about what is possible in order for magic to exist.”
IONS President and Senior Scientist Cassandra Vieten was recently a guest on The Consciousness Podcast with Stuart Preston. They had a great conversation and covered consciousness, interconnectedness, spirituality, and much more. Please enjoy this episode with Dr. Cassandra Vieten.
IONS President Cassandra Vieten, who is the co-author of Spiritual and Religious Competencies in Clinical Practice talked to Emma Bragdon, PhD, about why it is important to increase public awareness and also the training of mental health workers so those in crises can obtain the support they need.
IONS President and Senior Scientist Cassandra Vieten was honored to be interviewed on the All Possibilities podcast this Fall. On the All Possibilities podcast, intuitive life purpose coach, Yale and MIT alum and founder of Being My Purpose, Julie Chan, talks with entrepreneurs, business executives, scientists, educators, and leaders to hear their stories of transformation, and examine the science behind them. She also explores what it means for anyone to unlock one’s potential in life and career.
The science of how people change (and why they don’t) has not yet made it to the front lines of people fighting the good fight. Until now…The Consciousness, Communication, and Change (C3) workshop brings together the findings of social, cognitive, neuro, worldview, and behavior change research, and unites them with wisdom practices from the world’s spiritual traditions.
The practice of meditation is believed to have existed well before written history. Today, the growth of research on meditation and the development of new applications incorporating meditation are advancing exponentially. This rapid expansion is due to the efforts of clinicians, theorists, and researchers — all of whom are interested in legitimizing meditation research by secularizing the various practices, translating them into clinically relevant interventions, and examining the effects of meditation on biological outcomes such as brain structure and function, immunity, and stress hormones. And yet, there is much more to know.
If you have a cause so near to your heart that you want to shout from the rooftops, you may have found yourself running into resistance when you try to get people to join in, to make a change.
An important part of IONS mission is to encourage society’s institutions to pay more attention to the connection between science and spirituality to ease suffering and promote thriving. As part of this, we have been engaged in a collaborative effort to help providers and policy-makers in the field of mental health care recognize the importance of spirituality in most people’s emotional and psychological lives.