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We are excited to announce a new free training course for those interested in facilitating an IONS Community Group! We designed this online program to provide tools, information, and resources to start and cultivate a local or virtual IONS Community Group, and to support facilitators in becoming confident about their knowledge and representation of IONS.
Almost everyone who’s had the pleasure of stepping foot on the land at the IONS EarthRise campus remarks that the land feels special, even sacred. It’s more than the beauty of the 194 acres of rolling hills, abundant wildlife, or inspiring views. There is a sense that this land invites and supports our collective evolution. But what is the history of this land?
We are happy to announce that IONS has secured a limited amount of funding to organize our 3rd annual Hackation — a combination of a hackathon and vacation. We started these a couple of years ago as an enjoyable way to hack away at interesting problems and have fun at the same time. This is the third installment — past participants have loved it!
Our IONS scientists Helané Wahbeh, Loren Carpenter, and Dean Radin have just published an exciting paper about full-trance channeling in the Journal of the Society for Psychical Research! The paper, titled “A mixed methods phenomenological and exploratory study of channeling,” details research conducted with five full-trance channelers in a pilot study at Mt. Shasta, California, in March 2017.
Here at EarthRise we have the pleasure of hosting a variety of inspiring groups that either provide transformational programs for those on a personal development path or organizations that come to retreat from their everyday experiences with an intention to deepen connections, gain new insights, and rejuvenate their souls.
Throughout recorded history, humans have reported experiences of receiving information unconstrained by everyday notions of space and time. Traditional terms for these experiences include “telepathy” for experiences suggesting mind-to-mind communication and “clairvoyance” for perceptions that seem to transcend time or space. A broad term used in psychology to refer to these “psychic” phenomena are exceptional human experiences (EHEs). Beliefs in EHEs are widespread worldwide. Popular interest in them is reflected in the entertainment business, which is saturated with paranormal themes and tales of the supernatural.
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.
Join us along with IONS members and noetic explorers from around the world for our upcoming Noetic Global Gathering webinars! Can’t make it live? No problem, register anyway and we will send you a recording of the webinar(s)!
IONS is excited to announce the publication of a paper on mediumship by two of our scientists, Arnaud Delorme, PhD, and Dean Radin, PhD in Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing. The paper, titled “Intuitive Assessment of Mortality Based on Facial Characteristics: Behavioral, Electrocortical, and Machine Learning Analyses” investigates whether some individuals can intuitively gauge whether a person is alive or not, based solely upon a quick glance of the person in a photograph. While studies have shown that various characteristics of the human face can indicate a wealth of information about health status, most of that research focuses on understanding connections between health status and history with certain facial characteristics.
When you think about the concept of all of us having spirits or souls, do you wonder how yours fits into this physical/material world? Often we divide up our lives into “spiritual” and “non-spiritual.” We will meditate, go to religious meetings or ceremonies, practice mindfulness or other ways to connect with our spiritual selves. Then we will go grocery shopping, work, clean house, balance our checkbooks and other things often considered “non-spiritual.” Yet if we are embodied spirits, that part of us is with us no matter what we are doing.