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The Science of Consciousness (TSC) conference, sponsored by The Center for Consciousness Studies, is the world’s longest running interdisciplinary conference addressing fundamental aspects of consciousness, the brain, reality and existence. The 2020 TSC ONLINE: TSC Consciousness Reboot – September 14-18, 2020 – will include plenary and keynote sessions and will be livestreamed/virtual with live Q&A discussion for each session. The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) Science Team will present a pre-conference workshop on “Interconnectedness” on Monday, September 14th from 2:00 – 6:00 pm (MST).

Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Dean Radin, was recently interviewed on Coast-to-Coast with George Noory about consciousness and psychic phenomena. In the first half of the interview, Dr. Radin discussed his work with the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), along with updates on psi and healing experiments. The GCP has been collecting data for over 23 years using electronic devices called random number generators (RNGs), which are located around the globe. There is evidence that these devices respond to fluctuations in mass attention during significant world events. “The biggest reaction in the RNG data so far,” he said, “is the pandemic, and of course, we’re still in the midst of it.” Rather than a random walk that fluctuates around chance, the curve over the last six months is headed straight down (away from chance), he continued, and this is the most dramatic long-term change observed in the sequences in all their years of data collection. Based on this and many other experiments, Dr. Radin has concluded that mind and matter are interwoven in fundamental ways, and it’s their mysterious interaction that contributes to the effects seen in the GCP.

Much attention has been paid to the question, “Is there life after death?” and what people believe about this question in both the media and research. Several studies about Near Death Experiences (NDEs), apparitions and hauntings, mediumship, and reincarnation suggest that consciousness does persist in some form after someone dies. However, much of these studies base their findings on experiences of living people (rather than directly from deceased people). As a result, skeptics argue that the evidence may not actually indicate the survival of consciousness but rather the natural psychological urge to believe that death is not the end of who we are. At this point, it is unlikely that we can contribute completely new evidence that some aspect of our consciousness may exist after physical death. However, what we can do is explore the variety of ideas on exactly what persists after death.

On Wednesday, July 22nd, 261 participants from around the globe joined together on Zoom with Lyla June, IONS 2019 NextGen Consciousness in Action Award Winner. The NextGen Consciousness in Action Awards, which began in 2017, honor up-and-coming professionals who seek to uplift culture and whose noetic work extends into domains beyond what we are focusing on here at IONS. As noetic seekers, we are continuously looking for ways to illustrate our deep interconnection and where we, as humans, can improve life for all on this planet.

Biofeedback is a technique that is easy to learn and allows us to control some of our bodily functions, like our skin temperature and heart rate. Biofeedback is often used to reduce stress, anxiety, and specific conditions like TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction) or shoulder strain. Neurofeedback is a type of biofeedback where people’s brainwaves are monitored using EEG. There is some evidence that EEG neurofeedback can help a variety of brain conditions like depression, anxiety, and insomnia. The majority of evidence involves the treatment of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). With neurofeedback, you can learn to change your brainwaves.

IONS Scientists recently developed and validated the Noetic Experience and Belief Scale — a 20-item survey for evaluating paranormal beliefs and experiences. Belief in the paranormal is widespread worldwide, however, having a belief in the paranormal does not necessarily mean having experienced the paranormal. A paranormal experience refers to an individual’s memory of an experience that one judges to be genuine. A concise questionnaire that adequately evaluates beliefs as distinct from experiences does not currently exist. To address this gap, IONS created the Noetic Experience and Belief Scale (NEBS) to evaluate paranormal beliefs and experience as separate constructs.

Guide your teens on an experiential journey into the ways our worldviews influence our perceptions and behaviors.

Please join us in welcoming the following new IONS Community Groups:

I am thrilled to share the exciting news that the IONS Awaken the Noetic Now! fundraising campaign was an enormous success! While we continue to tally incoming gifts, we can report our preliminary results…drumroll please…$920,000! This remarkable total reflects the generous gift from our Board of Directors, who matched all donations dollar for dollar. The success of this campaign fills a critical gap in IONS’ finances created by the pandemic-related temporary closure of our EarthRise Retreat Center.

All of us age. It is a unifying fact of life. If we can survive adulthood, our last third allows getting closer to being the person we’d like to be. If aging is inherently noetic, then all of us can have access to a quality of mind that senses what is needed without relying solely on rational processes. This is just one of the opportunities that conscious aging offers. Join our panel for a conversation about the noetic wisdom in aging — for ourselves and for our interconnected world.