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Intention Downloads Interview: John Hagelin
In this interview, quantum physicist and former Presidential candidate John Hagelin explains the difference between intention and consciousness, which opens the door on a fascinating discussion of how spending time in deep meditation in the “nuclear” level of thought can multiply the efficacy of intentions.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:23:12
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Intention Downloads Interview: Rupert Sheldrake
Biologist and author Rupert Sheldrake discusses intention as it relates to all living organisms in this discussion with IONS' Senior Scientist Dean Radin. Rupert's morphogenesis theory implies that intention is not a unique trait of human consciousness, but an essential part of the nature of life in all biological systems.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:22:22
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Intention Downloads Interview: Edgar Mitchell
The founder of IONS has a unique vantage point to view intentionality, having witnessed and helped facilitate many new scientific studies, as well as developing a theory of quantum holography that can help explain “miraculous” results that some healers produce.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:28:14
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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: Michael Bernard Beckwith
In this interview, Michael turns the spotlight on the root assumptions of scarcity and fear that underpin war, sustainability, and other collective crises. He shares his insights into community building, leadership and spiritual living through connecting to a larger source of intelligence, abundance, and healing.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:27:37
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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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Essential Shifts Interview: Don Beck
Spiral Dynamics Integral provides a powerful, multi-leveled mapping of culture, values, and consciousness. In this interview, the leading practitioner of this work, Don Beck, shares his insights about how we can more effectively meet different cultures with solutions appropriate to their "memetic codes."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:48
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Rebecca Costa
Rebecca Costa is a sociobiologist whose unique expertise is to spot and explain emerging trends in relationship to human evolution, global markets, and new technologies with an emphasis on such growing concerns as global warming, pandemic viruses, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and failing public education.
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Edwin C. May, PhD
Edwin C. May, PhD is internationally known for his work in parapsychology. Having spent the first part of his research career in his chosen PhD-degreed discipline, Low Energy, Experimental Nuclear Physics, he became interested in serious parapsychology in 1971. At that time, he was peripherally involved in a psychokinesis (i.e. putative mind over matter) experiment that was being conducted informally in the physics department at the University of California at Davis. Starting in August 1974, Dr. May spent nearly a year in India researching psychic phenomena with Yogis and other Masters. In 1975, he returned to the States and worked for eight months with Charles Honorton at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. It was there where he was introduced to formal research parapsychology.
Beginning in 1976, Dr. May joined the on-going, U.S. Government-sponsored work at SRI International (formerly called Stanford Research Institute). In 1985, he inherited the program directorship of what was now called the Cognitive Sciences Program. Dr. May shifted that program to Science Applications International Corporation in 1991. Dr. May’s association with government-sponsored parapsychology research ended in 1995, when the program, now called Star Gate, was closed.
Dr. May accumulated over 12 years experience in experimental nuclear physics research, which included the study of nuclear reaction mechanism and nuclear structure. Dr. May’s accelerator experience includes a variety of tandem Van de Graaff generators and cyclotrons operating under 50 million electron volts. Other specialize experience includes four years of x-ray spectroscopy, one year of trace-element analysis (x-ray, and a-particle techniques), numerical analysis, Monte Carlo techniques, digital signal processing, and cardiac blood flow research. In addition, he has conducted physiology research through the careful investigation of the efficacy of biofeedback in a clinical setting.
Dr. May’s eclectic background has provided him with significant expertise in a variety of seemingly unrelated disciplines; thus, he is ideally suited and experienced to direct interdisciplinary research. He is the author or co-author of a total of 130 reports: 16 papers in experimental nuclear physics: 30 papers presented at technical conferences on anomalous cognition; 19 abstracts presented at professional conferences on physics; 79 technical or administrative reports to various clients; and 14 miscellaneous reports and proposals. The Parapsychological Association, an affiliate member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, granted him the Outstanding Achievement Award for his contribution for research excellence. He was President, The Parapsychological Association for 1997.
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The G20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic, by Ervin Laszlo
The ship is heading into iceberg territory, but passengers in first class squabble among themselves to secure a safe spot on the upper deck. Does that make sense? To the ...
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Robert J. Gilbert, PhD
ROBERT J. GILBERT, PHD, is a former U.S. Marine Corps nuclear-biological-chemical warfare survival instructor with a doctorate in international studies. He researches and teaches sacred geometry and BioGeometry™and is cofounder of Vesica: Spirit and Science Resources (www.vesica.org).
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Fred Segal
Fred Segal has long been involved in spirituality and promoting world peace. He created Peace Park in Malibu out of his desire to provide a sanctuary for visiting spiritual leaders, including the Dalai Lama. Peace Park is also used for yoga retreats, workshops, and seminars on world peace and improving ecology. He participated in and helped organize and promote awareness for the Great American Walk and the American-Soviet Peace Walk for world peace and nuclear disarmament.
Fred believes that Neve Shalom/Wahat Al-Salam in Israel, where Jews and Palestinians have been living peacfully through conflict resolution for more than 20 years, is a major role model for all. He plans to build the World Peace Library at the Neve Shalom School for Peace, which will house world peace works of all kinds. Fred is the original creator of fashion jeans, which created the jean sportswear industry. Fred Segal Stores, started 40 years ago, are located in Los Angeles and Santa Monica. They enjoy a worldwide, high integrity reputation and are now mostly owned by former employees. Fred is the father of four daughters and one son and grandfather to three granddaughters. He is married to Maryann Segal, also an IONS member.
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Andrew Newberg
Dr. Andrew Newberg is Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Medical College. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. He is considered a pioneer in the neuroscientific study of religious and spiritual experiences, a field frequently referred to as – neurotheology. His work attempts to better understand the nature of religious and spiritual practices and experiences. This has been compiled into his latest book, Principles of Neurotheology, which reviews the important principles and foundations of neurotheology. Believing that it is important to keep science rigorous and religion religious, he has engaged the topic like few others. He has been fascinated by the implications of this research for the study of the mind, brain, consciousness, morality, theology, and philosophy. He has also been particularly interested in the relationship between the brain, religion, and health. His research has included brain scans of people in prayer, meditation, rituals, and various trance states. He has also performed surveys of people's spiritual experiences and attitudes. Finally, he has evaluated the relationship between religious and spiritual phenomena and health. This includes a recent study on the effect of meditation on memory.
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Mr. Ranjan
Ranjan has been working in healing for more than thirty years. Ranjan’s healing ability has been researched at Harvard University Medical School. His course “Let Me Show You New Worlds—The Nurture of the Soul” is now available online with tutorials via Skype (contact 13.ranjan@gmail.com for information).
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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
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- Media and Consciousness
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Joanna Macy, PhD
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy, PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. She is also a leading voice in movements for peace, justice, and a safe environment. Interweaving her scholarship and four decades of activism, she has created both a ground-breaking theoretical framework for a new paradigm of personal and social change, and a powerful workshop methodology for its application.
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Ken Homer
"What is the greatest challenge facing humanity today?" The question hung like a storm cloud over the heads of more than 200 spiritual teachers crammed into a hall clearly designed to accommodate a much smaller crowd. After a brief silence the first tentative replies issued forth: “Over-population… loss of habitat… pollution… war… famine… AIDS… nuclear waste...” They seemed to gain in severity as more people weighed in with their perspectives. “Global warming... human trafficking… political corruption… increasing gap between rich and poor…” We were all familiar with this laundry list of global ailments. But few of us were prepared for what came next.
"Those are all very serious and complex challenges." said the speaker, "But, they are all secondary. The greatest challenge we face is for people who see the world very differently to sit in the same room together and not resort to violence in trying to get their way. Or for people to abandon the conversation when it does not confirm their view of the world. Because if we can't find a way to do that, we will never be very successful at tackling all the issues you just raised."
His words set off a lightning bolt in my brain! Up until then I had been stumbling along, seeking something to ignite my mind and give me direction. In the space of a few moments, this man's reframing of world challenges sparked a life-defining question in my mind: How do we bring diverse people together to explore the enormous challenges before us in ways that lead to understanding and effective action instead of stalemates, empty gestures and increased strife? Attempting to answer this question, has opened a path – crooked and twisting, filled with false starts, dead ends and unexpected company – that I have followed for the two decades since I was a volunteer at that conference.
I'm Ken Homer. One of my favorite things in life is designing, convening and hosting gatherings where people learn with and from each other. My background includes ten years as a member of the design team that developed the World Café dialogue process. I am also trained as an integral and ontological coach. My business partner and I run a successful consulting business that emphasizes social learning and collective intelligence to improve organizational capability. I have had a long, fruitful and warm friendship with IONS for many years, having consulted here, and presented at and supported several of their conferences, as well as being befriended by many of those who work here.
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Positive Fear
Positive Fear: There’s been a lot of talk about fear being negative thing but in actual fact if it wasn’t for fear none of us would be here ... -
John White
John White is an author and educator in the fields of consciousness research and higher human development. He has been Director of Education for The Institute of Noetic Sciences, a research organization founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell to study human potential for personal and planetary transformation, and President of Alpha Logics, a school for self-directed growth in body, mind and spirit.
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Is your tax money getting to IONS?
....Military-Funded Brain Science Sparks Controversy By Charles Choi | LiveScience.com – Tue, Mar 20, 2012....Email Share2Print......Brain research and associated advances such as brain-machine interfaces that are funded by the ...