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Cassandra Vieten at TEDxBlackRockCity
On Noetic Science
Watch IONS Executive Director of Research Cassandra Vieten, PhD, give her TEDx talk at Black Rock City in the Nevada Desert for Burning Man 2012, where she was working with colleagues on an experiment in collective consciousness. In addition to talking about the experiment they were doing, Cassandra also shares the value of Noetic Sciences and why she disagrees with critiques of Noetic Sciences that researchers often encounter.
- Video Lectures
- 2012-08
- 00:09:30
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Essential Shifts Interview: Andrew Harvey
In this interview, scholar and mystic Andrew Harvey blazes a path straight into the sacred heart, shying away from none of the horror of the world’s situation while calling us into our most naked and vulnerable core.
- Audio Interviews
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Intention Downloads Interview: Sequoyah Trueblood
The release of intention and the intellect is the message from Sequoyah Trueblood of the Choctaw Nation, in this enlightening interview with IONS’ President, James O’Dea.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:27:20
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"Building True Wealth" with Catherine Austin Fitts
IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert and guest Catherine Austin Fitts engage in a thought provoking conversation which includes the analogy of big business as a tape worm. Catherine describes what we need to be aware of in our investments to insure that we are not unintentionally feeding the 'tape worm.'
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-01-03
- 01:01:01
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"Frontiers of the Heart" with Mitchell Krucoff
Dr. Mitchell Krucoff and host Marilyn Schlitz engage a thought-provoking discussion of noetic health care. After Dr. Krucoff's visit to a hospital in India, he was inspired to research the intangible. Why were the pediatric cardiology patients in India smiling? When children with severe heart problems didn't cry, he and his team wanted to know why.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-10-18
- 01:03:58
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Research/Projects/Collective Consciousness
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Burning Man Experiment—Data Analyzed!
Data analysis has just been completed on the experiment that IONS research scientists collaborated on at Burning Man just over a month ago. The report on the experiment is now available, and there are some significant results!
- Noetic Research
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Perfect Knowledge in an Imperfect World
Dr. Benford: You are probably familiar with what Western theology calls "the problem of evil": Why does evil exist? Srila Prabhupada: Evil is the absence of good, just as darkness ... -
Research is Humming in October
We completed our analysis of the collective consciousness experiment at Burning Man, Dean and I just returned from a trip to teach an intensive 20-hour workshop on the Noetic Sciences in Italy, our laboratory will be moving this month, and more...
- Breaking News from IONS Research
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Suzanne Sterling
Suzanne Sterling is an ecstatic vocalist and composer whose devotional music has been called a "groove-loving and seductive journey into Spirit." She has received critical acclaim both as a performer and as a recording artist and her music has been commissioned for film, theatre, and DVD. She also recently completed the music for the bestselling yoga DVD "Vinyasa Flow Yoga with Seane Corn" produced by Gaiam Inc.
She performs and facilitates retreats and workshops in the U.S. and abroad, and brings a special blend of music, kirtan and sacred ceremony to events as far reaching as yoga retreats, emerging culture conferences, and music festivals - most recently as featured artist at several Yoga Journal Conferences, Esalen Institute and the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Along with Hala Khouri, Seane Corn, Ashley Turner, and Julian Walker, Suzanne is also co-founder of The Yoga Groove Collective, a group of yoga teachers, musicians and activists dedicated to creating benefit classes and events that serve the yoga community and several other important causes.
Suzanne has performed and toured internationally both solo as well as with well-known electronic dance act Medicine Drum, innovative electronic dance act Alcyone(System Recordings NY)and acoustic trio Kali's Angels. She has enjoyed mainstage billing at festivals such as Earthdance, Burning Man, Reggae on the River and The World Festival of Sacred Music (hosted by the Dalai Lama).
Suzanne has also been a ritual designer and priestess for many years and has developed curriculums, teacher trainings and apprenticeship programs for numerous communities nationwide. At Earthdance 2005, Suzanne was a featured speaker and led the worlds largest Spiral Dance for 5000 people.
She is currently creating new albums and performing solo shows and kirtans across the country.
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Two New Video Talks on Noetic Sciences
Two TEDx talks I gave last year have both just been released on video. In December I spoke at TEDx Napa Valley on "The Science of Interconnectedness." Earlier in the year I gave another TEDx talk at Black Rock City in the Nevada Desert for Burning Man 2012. I hope you enjoy these talks as much as I enjoyed giving them!
- Breaking News from IONS Research
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The Flame of Love
The Flame of Love By Payam Ghassemlou On a daily basis, many of us spend a lot of time thinking about our life challenges. We think about all sorts of ... -
Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science
The topic of consciousness is as vast as the cosmos and as close to us as sleep. Noetics is the discipline that is arising from this confluence of outer- and inner-space research. It is the ultimate frontier in man’s attempt to understand the nature of the universe and himself.
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Ascension Doubt Blues
ASCENSION DOUBT BLUES It seems so long ago: All that excitement, spreading throughout the New-Age World about the Ascension Process: To ascend, and entirely by our own efforts. Neither Lord ... -
Ascension Doubt Blues
ASCENSION DOUBT BLUES It seems so long ago: All that excitement, spreading throughout the New-Age World about the Ascension Process: To ascend, and entirely by our own efforts. Neither Lord ... -
A Path Forward: Embracing our Creative Imagination
It’s been quite a year – and it’s barely April. Extreme political unrest is underway throughout the Middle East. Earthquakes rock New Zealand, China, California, and Japan. Shifting plates and tsunami waves in the Pacific Ocean have nuclear power plants perched on the edge of total meltdown.
- Global Shift
- In the News
- Media and Consciousness
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Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change
In the spirit of the hit movie Inception, Wilson, a psychology professor, reveals a new technique that uses the power of our own storytelling to reshape and redefine our experiences as well as our sense of who we are—and who we can become.
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Ancient Cosmology: A Map of the Future?
Like the mayfly, which lives but one day a year and knows nothing of the seasons, the human being has an average life span that comprises only one-360th of the roughly 24,000-year precessional cycle. And just as the mayfly born on an overcast, windless day has no idea that there is anything as splendid as sunshine or a breeze, so do we, born in an era of materialistic rationality, have little awareness of a golden age or higher states of consciousness – though that is the ancestral message.
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War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality
In a face-off between mysticism and Western science over the most reliable sources of truth, two distinguished advocates bring their best thinking to bear on the kinds of questions that humankind has wrestled with for millennia. How we answer those questions will shape our future.