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At Home Within
Pilot Program
This video illustrates the "At Home Within" pilot program—a collaboration between the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Committee on the Shelterless—which offers mind/body practices to homeless participants.
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"Drunk with Wonder" with Steve Ryals (excerpt)
Host Belvie Rooks and guest Steve Ryals discuss Steve's book Drunk with Wonder and explore his journey from being a homeless drug addict in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to earning three college degrees. His book has been described as a cross between Conversations with God and What the Bleep Do we Know!?
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-11-15
- 00:04:52
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Essential Shifts Interview: Arisika Razak
In this interview, professor, dancer, and midwife Arisika Razak shares her unique angle on the essential shifts our world now requires. She explores how we can each activate our "lineage of the heart," thereby linking us into the larger vision of what we are creating.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:44
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Essential Shifts Interview: Van Jones
Van shares intimately about his formative years and his journey into becoming a social activist, as well as the story of Ella Baker, the "secret godmother" of the civil rights movement and mentor to Dr. King. Van advocates a "third way" between Islamic and corporate fundamentalisms and towards a vibrant, global pro-democracy movement that supports "green-collar jobs."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-08-31
- 00:32:29
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Essential Shifts Interview: Thom Hartmann
Air America radio host Thom Hartmann is rising quickly as a voice for societal progress, economic justice, and spiritual awakening. In this interview, he explores a wide range of subjects, from the vital importance of small acts of compassion to stopping the corruptive influence of corporate personhood.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-01
- 00:36:22
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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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Intention Downloads Interview: Angeles Arrien
Angeles shares the Inuit people’s philosophy that there are two plans in life: “My plan and Mystery’s plan.” She discusses the relationship between effort and grace and advises us to find a balance between the two.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:25:06
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"Afterlife Encounters" with Dianne Arcangel
What happens when we die? Dianne Arcangel, a former hospice chaplain and author of Afterlife Encounters, has assembled the world’s largest database of over 10,000 case studies involving contact with “the other side." In this teleseminar with scientist Dean Radin, they explore the implications of this data, the relationship between seeing apparitions and personality types, and alternative explanations such as super-psi.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-09-13
- 01:03:56
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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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At Home Within/Overview
At Home Within: A Noetic Program for Homeless Shelters and Social Service Agencies The Institute of Noetic Sciences has always been dedicated both to discovering how science can help us ... -
About/Case Studies/At Home Within
Personal Growth Program Guides Homeless Adults to Self-Sufficiency by Repairing Inner Resources Homelessness is a perennial and pervasive condition globally. In developed societies, where plentiful resources exist to ameliorate the ... -
At Home Within/Impact
Impact of the At Home Within Program Committee on the Shelterless (COTS) In a nutshell, what we found was that while residents of the shelter improved their well-being just by ... -
Juliet Ellis
Juliet Ellis is Executive Director of Urban Habitat, a regional environmental justice organization. Urban Habitat works in partnership with low-income communities and communities of color to advance social, economic, and environmental justice in the Bay Area region and beyond.
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At Home Within
A Personal Growth Program for Homeless Adults
- Principal Investigator
- Cassandra Vieten, PhD
- Key Collaborators
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John Records at COTS/Mary Isaak Center,
Priya Bhagaonker, dissertation student, Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, Richard Miller at the Integrative Restoration Institute - Project Staffs
- Charlene Farrell at IONS, Lauren Darges at COTS
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.
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At Home Within/Free Manual
A Step-By-Step Guide to implementing an At Home Within style program in your setting IONS is pleased to present a guide for people who would like to incorporate this kind ... -
Stephen Simon
Stephen Simon is a veteran producer whose distinguished career includes the Presidency of two major production companies and the development and production of a myriad of well-known films such as: Smokey and the Bandit, The Goodbye Girl, The Electric Horseman, Somewhere in Time, the Academy Award winning What Dreams May Come, and the Emmy-nominated Lifetime movie Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. He is also author of the definitive work The Force is With You: Mystical Movie Messages that Inspire Our Lives, published by Walsch Books, an imprint of Hampton Roads. His newest book is entitled Bringing Back The Old Hollywood. Simon is also co-founder of The Spiritual Cinema Circle.
Recognizing the powerful effect - both positive and negative - that the media has upon our culture, Simon has become the leading spokesperson for a new genre he has coined as "Spiritual Cinema." Spiritual Cinema examines who we are and why we are here and illuminates the human condition through stories and images that inspire us to explore that what we can be as a humanity when we operate at our very best. Spiritual Cinema reflects our beliefs and values and illustrates their impact upon our lives and our society. In this context, spiritual refers not to religion but to the unseen divine essence that is life force itself. History has revealed that individuals or cultures that lose their connection to this essence become devoid of love, respect and compassion. -
About/Temple Award Winners
Recipients of the Temple Award for Creative Altruism About the Temple Awards Past Recipients: 2011 | 2009 | 2007 | 2005 | 2003 | 2001 | 1999 | 1998 2011 Edgar Mitchell Institute of Noetic Sciences Petaluma ... -
James Gordon, MD
James S. Gordon, MD, is the Founder and Director of the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, DC and is a Clinical Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Gordon recently served as Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy. He also served as the first Chair of the Program Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health's Office of Alternative Medicine and is a former member of the Cancer Advisory Panel on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the NIH.
Dr. Gordon has devoted 30 years to the exploration and practice of mind-body medicine. A Harvard Medical School graduate, he was for ten years a research psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health. There he developed the first national program for runaway and homeless youth, edited the first comprehensive studies of alternative and holistic medicine, directed the Special Study on Alternative Services for President Carter's Commission on Mental Health, and created a nationwide preceptorship program for medical students.
In the years since then, Dr. Gordon has created ground-breaking programs of comprehensive mind-body healing for physicians, medical students and other health professionals; for people with cancer, depression and other chronic illnesses; and for traumatized children and families, and those who serve them, in Bosnia and Kosovo, Israel and Gaza. Dr. Gordon integrates relaxation therapies, hypnosis, meditation, acupuncture, nutrition, herbalism, musculoskeletal manipulation, dance, yoga and physical exercise in his own practice of medicine and psychiatry.
Dr. Gordon's two most recent books are Comprehensive Cancer Care: Integrating Alternative, Complementary and Conventional Therapies
and Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies
(both Perseus Books). In addition, Dr. Gordon has written or edited nine other books, including the award-winning Health for the Whole Person, and more than 120 articles in professional journals and general magazines and newspapers, among them the American Journal of Psychiatry, Psychiatry, The American Family Physician, The Atlantic Monthly, The Washington Post, and The New York Times. He helped develop and write the educational materials to supplement the public television series "Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers".
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Steve Ryals
Steve Ryals is the author of Drunk with Wonder: Awakening to the God Within, the culmination of years of research and decades of personal experience. It's been hailed as where Conversations with God meets What the Bleep Do we Know!? A study in the evolution of consciousness, both personal and planetary, Drunk with Wonder offers hope to those ensnared in addiction.
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Social Healing: Rwanda Has Much to Teach Us
On a recent trip to Rwanda to explore how societies heal from massive collective trauma, violent conflict, and human rights abuse, I was shocked to find more evidence of societal healing than I could have imagined possible.
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