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"The Self and the Emerging Paradigm" with Michael Nagler
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"Evidence-Based Spirituality" with Charles Tart
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"Rethinking the Scientific Method" with Jonathan Schooler
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"The Power of Transformational Presence" with Alan Seale
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"Psilocybin and quantum change in attitude and behavior" with Roland Griffiths
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"Bridging the Worlds of Contemplative Practice and Science" with Alfred Kaszniak
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"The Use of Psychedelics in Psychiatry and Medicine" with Charles Grob
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"Consciousness in Film" with Stephen Simon
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"Whole Systems Transformation from Inside Out" with Monica Sharma
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"Brain Functioning" with Fred Travis
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"The Revolution Has Begun" with Kenny Ausubel
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"The Timing of Paradigm Shifts" with Richard Tarnas
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"Shifting Paradigms" Teleseminar Series
This IONS teleseminar series took place from January through March, 2011, and focused on the different aspects of the current paradigm shift we are experiencing, such as 'Accelerators for Transformation' (February) and 'Global Transformational Opportunities' (March).
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"The Self and the Emerging Paradigm" with Michael Nagler
This conversation explores the slowly unveiling convergence of human wisdom traditions with the emerging sciences of consciousness to reveal ...
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"Evidence-Based Spirituality" with Charles Tart
The idea of evidence-based or at least evidence-enriched spirituality is audacious, preposterous, inspiring --- and absolutely needed! Better answers need to be discovered, they aren't in, and there is real resistance to even thinking about this, but if we don't get some answers that are effective, there may not be much life left to mankind after the 21st century, we may have destroyed our planet by greed and stupidity if we don't get a practical spirituality that makes us really care about each other and the world. Professor Tart shares some ideas to get us started thinking about this direction of evolution, and then draw us out to give us even more possibilities….
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"Rethinking the Scientific Method" with Jonathan Schooler
Why, despite a wealth of evidence to the contrary, is the prevailing scientific paradigm is essentially materialist, reducing all ...
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"The Power of Transformational Presence" with Alan Seale
Leadership coach Alan Seale has a gift for taking big ideas and giving them practical, accessible language and application in every day life and leadership. Transformational Presence is the core concept in his book Create a World That Works: Tools for Personal and Global Transformation (May 2011). Join Alan and Angela Murphy as they explore transformational presence, what it means, why it matters, and how you can develop it within yourself.
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"Psilocybin and quantum change in attitude and behavior" with Roland Griffiths
The overall finding that psilocybin can occasion, in most people studied, mystical-type experiences having sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance, indicates that such experiences and the changes they produce are now amenable to rigorous prospective scientific study. Several ongoing studies are discussed, including a study of psilocybin on meditation and spiritual practice in healthy volunteers, a study of psilocybin in psychologically distressed cancer patients, and a study of psilocybin-facilitated treatment of drug cigarette smoking cessation.
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"Bridging the Worlds of Contemplative Practice and Science" with Alfred Kaszniak
This discussion focuses on some of the fruits of "contemplative science," and the implications of this body of meditation research for contemplative practice. It also explores how this area of research has come to gain increasing respectability within the scientific community, and address the question of whether contemplative science may serve as a skillful means for making meditation practice more approachable for a greater number of people in modern western culture.
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"The Use of Psychedelics in Psychiatry and Medicine" with Charles Grob
This discussion reviews the history of psychiatric research with psychedelics from the 1950s to the present. Particular focus is ...
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"Consciousness in Film" with Stephen Simon
There are many films that look at the dark, ugly, negative, violent, greedy sides of humanity, and there is ...
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"Whole Systems Transformation from Inside Out" with Monica Sharma
Dr. Sharma has been working internationally with groups from all levels of society, and shares with us her wisdom gleaned over the years. She discusses “whole systems transformation” and the cutting-edge transformational approaches she uses to facilitate large scale transformation.
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"Brain Functioning" with Fred Travis
This presentation centers around two points: 1) The brain processes in-group and out-group experiences differently. Different styles of brain ...
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"The Revolution Has Begun" with Kenny Ausubel
The story of today’s battle is above all the battle of the story. As human beings, we’re hard-wired for story, and when our story conflicts with the facts, we tend to stick with our story. Ausubel discusses how people around the world are working to help birth the transformation to a new story.
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"The Timing of Paradigm Shifts" with Richard Tarnas
A major paradigm shift within the collective depends on more than just theory or new empirical data. It needs ...
