Research

Consciousness & Healing

Humanizing Healthcare Invitational Meetings at Esalen

A series of meetings exploring strategies for integration of consciousness into healing and healthcare.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2008

The Spiritual Engagement Project

A Longitudinal Study of Spiritual Engagement, Self-transcendence, and Human Flourishing

A study of how engagement in spiritual practices is related to health and well-being.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2008

Double-Slit Experiment

Experimental Tests of the Role of Consciousness in the Physical World

This is a mind-matter interaction study using an optical system.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2008

The Science of Peace

This project proposes a comprehensive strategy to form a new multidisciplinary “science of peace.”

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2006

Evaluating Effects of Transformative Practices

A Longitudinal Study of Integral Transformative Practice Participants

A group of 62 practitioners of a transformative practice community were studied over the course of a year.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2006

Mindful Motherhood

A Mindfulness-based Program for Pregnancy and Early Motherhood

Development of a mindfulness training program for pregnant women and new moms.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2005

Gaia's Dreams

Online Games

Web site repository of nightly dreams, to be used as a means of measuring the collective unconscious.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2005

End of Life Care: Cosmologies of the Afterlife and Their Clinical Relevance

An eLearning Course for Health Professionals and Life-Long Learners

Where does our consciousness go when we die? This online educational program directed toward both health and healing professionals and life-long learners delves into this intriguing but often marginalized topic.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2004

At Home Within

A Personal Growth Program for Homeless Adults

The Institute of Noetic Sciences has collaborated with the Committee on the Shelterless to develop and pilot test a transformational practice program for homeless adults.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2003

Psi Arcade

Online Games

A set of on-line psi games, primarily designed for entertainment and self-exploration.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2002

Connexiones

Developing a Noetic Approach to Conscious Parenting in Pregnant Latina Teens

This study aimed to examine the effects of a specially developed noetic intervention designed to encourage maternal infant bonding and communication in Latina pregnant teenagers in Marin County.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 1998

Global Consciousness Project

Noosphere Project

The Global Consciousness Project, also called the EGG Project, is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists, engineers, artists, and others. Data has been continuously collected from a global network of physical random number generators located in 65 host sites around the world.

• Extramural
• Currently Active
• Started 1998

The Achuar Project

Dreaming for the Community Amongst the Indigenous People of the Amazon

This project takes us deeply into the Achuar worldview of the Ecuadorian Amazon to better understand the process of dream sharing among this remote group.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 1997

The Transformation Project

A series of studies over a decade has investigated transformations in consciousness, or how people make fundamental shifts in perception that alter how they view and interact with themselves and the world around them.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 1997

Living Deeply

The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life

A book, DVD, and series of workshops that move spirituality off the mountain top and into your daily life... one step at a time.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 1997

Spontaneous Remission Bibliography Project

In 1993 IONS published Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. The online project includes additional data for the online copy of the Remission Database.

• Extramural
• Currently Active
• Started 1996

Psychophysiology of Spiritual Transmission

This project examines the physiological correlates of spiritual transmission in both transmitters and recipients and explores the influence of expectancy, proximity, veracity of the spiritual teacher, and susceptibility of the recipient.

• Intramural
• Currently Active
• Started 2011