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Noetic Sciences Roadmap to the Future
Learn more about IONS programs, plans, and funding opportunities in our 2012 – 2015 Roadmap to the Future. Click to download a PDF (26 pages, 3MB).
Searchable Meditation Bibliography
Click here to access a fully searchable, regularly updated database of nearly 6000 citations to publications on the science of meditation.
The Spiritual Engagement Project
A Longitudinal Study of Spiritual Engagement, Self-transcendence, and Human Flourishing
- Principal Investigator
- Cassandra Vieten, PhD
- Co-Investigator
- John Astin
- Key Collaborators
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Church of Religious Science/Science of Mind,
Contemplative Outreach/Centering Prayer, Open Gate Sangha, Project Implicit, Harvard, Mica Estrada-Hollenbeck, California State University, San Marcos, Mark Litt, University of Connecticut - Project Staff
- Nina Fry, MA, Peter Lewis, Ingrid Ammonson
The Spiritual engagement Project is a longitudinal study that explores the relationship between people's engagement in spiritual practices and communities, and their health and well-being. Building on previous work, we are now examining in detail how deep, dramatic, and permanent shifts in people's worldview can result from engagement in transformative spiritual practices.
We would like to acknowledge the following for supporting this project:
The Fetzer Institute, Duke University Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, and the Templeton Foundation
- Intramural
- Currently Active
- Started 2008
