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Worldview Transformation and the Development of Social Consciousness

by Elizabeth Miller, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, PhD, and Cassandra Vieten, PhD

In this paper, we examine how increasing understanding and explicit awareness of social consciousness can develop through transformations in worldview. Based on a model that emerged from a series of qualitative and quantitative studies on worldview transformation, we identify five developmental levels of social consciousness.

• Scholarly Papers
• August 1, 2010
• 19 pages

Intuition through Time

What Does the Seer See?

by Ana Borges and Dean Radin, PhD

A great deal of human activity is involved in anticipating the future, from predicting the next influenza strain to the expectations that underlie the placebo effect. Most models of anticipation take for granted that events unfold in a unidirectional flow of time, from past to future. Two experiments were conducted to test this assumption.

• Scholarly Papers
• July 1, 2009
• 12 pages

Compassionate Intention as a Therapeutic Intervention by Partners of Cancer Patients

Effects of Distant Intention on the Patients' Autonomic Nervous System

by S. Eskandarnejad, Gail Hayssen, L. Kozak, E. Levine, D. Mandel, Dean Radin, PhD, Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, PhD, and J. Stone

This double-blind study investigated the effects of intention on the autonomic nervous system of a human "sender" and distant "receiver" of those intentions, and it explored the roles that motivation and training might have in modulating these effects.

• Scholarly Papers
• July 1, 2008
• 9 pages

Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention During Pregnancy on Prenatal Stress and Mood

Results of a Pilot Study

by John Astin and Cassandra Vieten, PhD

Stress and negative mood during pregnancy increase risk for poor childbirth outcomes and postnatal mood problems and may interfere with mother-infant attachment and child development. However, relatively little research has focused on the efficacy of psychosocial interventions to reduce stress and negative mood during pregnancy. In this study, we developed and pilot tested an eight-week mindfulness-based intervention directed toward reducing stress and improving mood in pregnancy and early postpartum.

• Scholarly Papers
• February 1, 2008
• 8 pages

Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge

by Dean Radin, PhD

This study explored the hypothesis that in some cases intuitive knowledge arises from perceptions that are not mediated through the ordinary senses.

• Scholarly Papers
• January 1, 2008
• 11 pages