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Science Buzz CaféThe Physics of Synchronicity
- Presenter
- Sky Nelson
- Host
- Daniel Osmer
- Sponsors
- Aqus Café, EarthRise Center at IONS
Have you ever wondered what makes synchronicity tick? Jung wrote odes to it. You know that feeling, that conviction, that there is something about this moment that has some sort of cosmic import about it and that you should pay attention because God or somebody is gonna quiz you on it later? You haven't? Well, you should get out more.
- Community Events
- Jun 4, 2013
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Change, Initiation, Transformation
After nearly eight years as the editorial director at IONS, my final day was May 31. An alignment of constellations—personal, professional, and, well, cosmological—made it clear that it’s time to chart a new course.
- Media and Consciousness
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Ralph Metzner, PhD
Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., who has a B.A. in philosophy and psychology from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Harvard University, has been involved in the study of transformations of consciousness ever since, as a graduate student, he worked with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert (later Ram Dass) on the Harvard Psilocybin Projects. He co-wrote The Psychedelic Experience, and was editor of The Psychedelic Review.
During the 1970s, Ralph spent 10 years in the intensive study and practice of Agni Yoga, a meditative system of working with light-fire life-energies. He wrote Maps of Consciousness, one of the earliest attempts at a comparative cartography of consciousness; and Know Your Type, a comparative survey of personality typologies, ancient and modern. He was the Academic Dean for ten years, during the 1980s, at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where he is still Professor, teaching courses there on “Altered States of Consciousness" and “Developing Ecological Consciousness".
Ralph maintains a part-time psychotherapy practice, and conducts numerous workshops on consciousness transformation, both nationally and internationally. His books include Well of Remembrance
, The Unfolding Self
, Green Psychology
, and two edited collections on the science and the phenomenology of Ayahuasca and Teonanácatl.
» Watch a video recording of Ralph Metzner's 2/21/12 lecture on "Consciousness, Entheogens, and Healing: New Directions and Implications." This lecture was streamed as part of the IONS sponsored lecture series at Aqus Café in Petaluma, CA.
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Goldilocks and the PK Experiment – a Q & A from IONS’ Parapsychology Lab
A conversation with IONS' Senior Scientist Dean Radin about some of the challenges he's encountered when trying to find a device that is "just right" to measure psycho-kinetic (PK) abilities in the research lab.
- New Science
- Noetic Research