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IONS Research Program: Extended Human Capacities (sample)
IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz and Senior Scientist Dean Radin engage in a spontaneous dialogue about IONS’ scientific legacy and continuing inquiry into the frontiers of consciousness and the outer limits of “inner space.”
- Audio Lectures
- Spring 2007
- 00:03:00
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Our Ethnosphere at Risk
Wade Davis Talks with SHIFT Editor Vesela Simic
The renowned National Geographic Society explorer warns us that in losing the diversity of the world's cultures and languages, we limit our global evolutionary potential.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2006
- 2 pages
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Integral Education and Nonduality
The late Indian philosopher and yogi on the empirical self, the transcendental self, and the limits of our educational institutions.
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2005
- 3 pages
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Great Shift Dialogue: Ervin Laszlo and Peter Russell
Their discussion covers the acceleration of growth, the crises that follow, and the imperative changes required to move from a materialistic and unsustainable way of life to one in which we respect the limits of growth and learn to live joyfully within them. They also cover the role of the global media, survival drives, and hopeful new signs in an emerging generation.
- Audio Interviews
- 2008-01-23
- 00:31:12
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The Untethered Soul
The Journey Beyond Yourself
What would it be like to be free from limitations and soar beyond your boundaries? What can you do each day to find this kind of inner peace and freedom? The Untethered Soul offers a simple, profoundly intuitive answer to these questions.
- Publications Books
- October 3, 2007
- 200 pages
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Do You Need a Guru?
Understanding the Student-Teacher Relationship in an Era of False Prophets
In the 21st century, Mariana Caplan predicts, there will be a shift back to the student-teacher relationship as we realise the limitations of trying to "do it on our own". However, this teacher-student relationship will have to be created anew to reflect our new awareness.
- Publications Books
- September 25, 2002
- 304 pages
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Great Shift Dialogue: Neale Donald Walsch (excerpt)
Neale Donald Walsch is renowned for pioneering a new and more personal approach to questions of God and spirituality. In this interview, he shares his deepest understanding of how we can shift our collective beliefs around God and spirituality to create a great shift in the years ahead.
- Audio Shorts
- 2008-02-12
- 00:01:56
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Explorers of the Infinite
The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes--and What They Reveal About Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communication, and Touching the Beyond
Real-life psychic, near-death, and paranormal experiences are combined with cutting-edge science and vivid adventure stories in this energetic look at why extreme athletes and mountaineers take the risks that allow them to push the limits of consciousness, and what they encounter there.
- Publications Books
- May 29, 2008
- 304 pages
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"Is Consciousness Energy?" with Christian de Quincey
What is consciousness? It’s an age-old question that still stretches the limits of science. Is consciousness a form of energy? Christian de Quincey has dedicated a career to exploring ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-04-06
- 01:04:52
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"Neurotheology" with Andrew Newberg
This teleseminar reviews Dr. Newberg's most recent work on the Principles of Neurotheology where he outlines the major principles that are the foundation for future neurotheological research. The principles ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-05-11
- 01:00:28
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Ontology of Consciousness
Percipient Action
In Ontology of Consciousness, scholars from a range of disciplines—from neurophysiology to parapsychology, from mathematics to anthropology and indigenous non-Western modes of thought—go beyond these limits of current neuroscience research to explore insights offered by other intellectual approaches to consciousness.
- Publications Books
- April 30, 2008
- 656 pages
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"Psychosomatic Wellness" with Candace Pert (teleseminar)
Pert explores the history of her turn towards a noetic worldview, the current frontiers of mindbody science, and an innovative new AIDS treatment she has developed that involves peptides, the informational substances that link body-mind and spirit.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2005-08-24
- 01:00:58
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Essential Shifts Interview: Laurie Monroe
Laurie Monroe carried on the legacy of her father, Robert Monroe, as the President of The Monroe Institute, a pioneer in out-of-body-experiences and consciousness technology. In this interview on the essential shifts of our time, she discusses how the personal work of evolving consciousness is pivotal to solving planetary crises.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:20:46
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"Why the Dalai Lama Matters" with Robert Thurman (sample)
Author and Buddhist scholar, Professor Robert Thurman, discusses his new book Why the Dalai Lama Matters with former IONS President James O’Dea. Dr. Thurman explains how the situation between China and Tibet affects the whole world.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-08-13
- 00:03:00
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"Science of Meditation" with Roger Walsh
Roger Walsh discusses how the meeting of meditative and Western psychological disciplines holds major theoretical and practical implications for each, as well as the promise of mutual enrichment and potential integrations. If handled skillfully, this meeting may enable them to become partners in one of the greatest of human quests—the exploration, understanding, healing, and enhancement of the human mind.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-11-17
- 00:54:52
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"The Global Brain" with Howard Bloom
In this intellectually far-ranging teleseminar, polymath Howard Bloom explores the evolutionary process with former IONS President James O’Dea. As both a scientist and a humanist, Bloom draws upon concepts from biology to physics and mythology to political theory to weave a tapestry of provocative evolutionary ideas.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-11-28
- 01:00:15
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Out of Our Heads
Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
The notion that consciousness is confined to the brain, like software in a computer, has dominated science and philosophy for close to two centuries. Yet, according to this incisive review of contemporary neuroscience from Berkeley philosopher Nöe, the analogy is deeply flawed.
- Publications Books
- February 17, 2009
- 232 pages
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The Frontier of Noetic Sciences (Volume 3)
Worldview Transformation
This compilation of articles represents a range of perspectives and topics in an area of exploration that IONS calls “worldview transformation”—beneficial changes in consciousness that affect how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world.
- Publications Books
- 2012
- 44 pages
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