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"Taking Heart in a Dark Time" with Joanna Macy (sample)
Joanna engages Cassandra Vieten and IONS members in a thoughtful, interactive exploration of how fearlessly facing together the dangers and suffering in our world can help us break through to new vision and creativity.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-08-19
- 00:03:00
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Spiritual Evolution
A Scientific Defense of Faith
In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare ...
- Publications Books
- May 20, 2008
- 256 pages
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Intuition
Its Powers and Perils
How reliable is our intuition? How much should we depend on gut-level instinct rather than rational analysis? In this engaging book, David G. Myers shows us that while intuition can provide us with useful—and often amazing—insights, it can also dangerously mislead us.
- Publications Books
- September 1, 2002
- 336 pages
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"Rise of the Integral Worldview" with Steve McIntosh
Defining the integral worldview as one that simultaneously addresses both one's "inner" experience and "outer" conditions, Steven outlines its power to help address global legacy problems while preserving local historical and cultural values.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-07-09
- 01:12:16
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The End of Faith
Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes-heinous crimes.
- Publications Books
- August 2004
- 336 pages
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The Way of the Explorer
IONS founder and Apollo astronaut, Edgar Mitchell, details his quest to reconcile the seemingly disparate worlds of science and faith, combining elements of history, science, and theology to explain the mysteries of human consciousness, the universal connectedness of life, miracles, and human destiny.
- Publications Books
- May 7, 1996
- 288 pages
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Essential Shifts Interview: Stanislav Grof
What if our propensity to war and aggression had deep roots in the trauma of birth? That’s one of the provocative theories of Dr. Stanislav Grof, drawing from fifty years at the frontiers of consciousness research. There is, he believes, reason for cautious optimism that we can transcend our destructive impulses if large numbers of people engage the healing work that becomes possible in non-ordinary or "holotropic" states such as those used by shamans.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:15
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Essential Shifts Interview: Arjuna Ardagh
For the author of The Translucent Revolution, the question of how we create a new world boils down to one shift: wake up! At the root of all the societal ills and dangers we experience lies a fundamental feeling of separation that fuels hatred, greed, overconsumption, destruction, and war. Instead of remaining in this dream, if we drop the filter of separation by investigating our true nature, we discover ...
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:26:51
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"Quest for Meaning" with James O'Dea
In this recorded message to members, Former IONS President James O'Dea talks with us about "A Quest for Meaning." In his poetic style, James explores the history of humankind, language and worldview, offering a powerful testament to how consciousness can reshape our lives and our world.
- Audio Lectures
- 2008-07-26
- 00:48:45
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Essential Shifts Interview: Dean Radin
In the view of IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin, we’re in the midst of an epochal transition from a world steeped in fear and hysteria to one that’s, well, a bit less fearful and hysterical. This insightful and entertaining interview focuses on the shift from a mechanistic model of science to one based on quantum interconnection, drawing upon the latest research on the effects of minds on other minds, as well as the environment.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:21:21