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Random Event Generators
Correlations of Continuous Random Data with Major World Events
The interaction of consciousness and physical systems is most often discussed in theoretical terms, usually with reference to the epistemological and ontological challenges of quantum theory. Less well known is a growing literature reporting experiments that examine the mindmatter relationship empirically. Here we describe data from a global network of physical random number generators that shows unexpected structure apparently associated with major world events.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- 2002
- 14 pages
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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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"Natural Mindfulness" with John Astin
John Astin, co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group, talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about bringing attention to attention.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-20
- 01:07:07
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Psychophysiological Correlates of Nondual States of Awareness
Testing the Ontological Status of the Experience of Meditation Induced Timeless States
- Principal Investigators
- Dean Radin, PhD, Cassandra Vieten, PhD
- Co-Investigator
- Arnaud Delorme, PhD
- Project Staff
- Leena Michel
An EEG study to test whether "non-dual" meditators' subjective states of "timelessness" can be objectively measured.
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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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Consciousness & Healing
Book and DVD
- Principal Investigator
- Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
- Co-Investigators
- Tina Amorok, PsyD, Marc S. Micozzi, MD, PhD
We completed a study of barriers to the integration of mind-body medicine into healthcare, as well as an exploration of strategies used by leading healthcare professionals who are successfully integrating more consciousness-based approaches into medical education settings.
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East Meets West on Evolution’s Border
The official theme of the third annual Science and Nonduality conference was “On the Edge of Time,” but the unofficial narrative was about time running out on the flat-earth paradigms of our day: the world works like a machine, consciousness follows matter, our lives are essentially meaningless, we are in this thing alone.
- Collective Intelligence
- Global Shift
- Worldview
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SCIENCE & CULTURE REQUIRE THE "PARA" and interactive HIGHER REALMS
Quantum Potentials, Integral Science, Non-Duality and Higher Realms By Giorgio Piacenza Cabrera Non-duality in physics begins with a wordless inspiration leading to an integral view that makes room for all ... -
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist and religious scholar, holds a distinguished chair at Baylor University, where he is University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Professor of Medical Humanities, and Director of the Program on Religion and Population Health at the Institute for Studies of Religion. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, where he is a member of the Community of Scholars at the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health.
Dr. Levin received his AB from Duke University in 1981, graduating Magna Cum Laude and with Distinction in both Religion and Sociology. He received his MPH in 1983 from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, and his PhD in Preventive Medicine and Community Health in 1987 from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Medical Branch. He also completed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 1987 to 1989 at the Institute of Gerontology of the University of Michigan, and has additional advanced training in quantitative methods from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Levin is a pioneering scientist whose research and writing beginning in the 1980s helped to create the field of religion, spirituality, and health. He was the first scientist to systematically review the research literature on religion and health, and the first scientist funded by the NIH to conduct research on the topic. His studies have pioneered basic research in the epidemiology of religion and on the impact of religion on the physical and mental health and general well-being of older adults. His research has been funded by several NIH grants, totaling over $1 million in support, and he also has received funding from private sources, including the American Medical Association’s Education and Research Foundation.
Dr. Levin is professionally affiliated with leading organizations at the interface of religion, science, and medicine. This includes serving as the principal Research Area Consultant in the area of public health and medicine for the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, as a member of the Extended Faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, as a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and as Scientific Chair of the Kalsman Roundtable on Judaism and Health Research at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He was Chairman of the NIH Working Group on Quantitative Methods in Alternative Medicine, is a former member of the NIH Workgroup on Measures of Religiousness and Spirituality for the National Institute on Aging, and is a current or past member of the Editorial Boards of nine peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences; The Gerontologist; the Journal of Religion and Health; the Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging; the Journal of Mindbody States; Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine; Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine; the International Journal of Healing and Caring; and EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, in recognition of outstanding career achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of gerontology.
Dr. Levin is the author or co-author of over 150 scholarly publications, as well as over 140 conference presentations and invited lectures and addresses, mostly on the role of religion in physical and mental health and aging. He has published six books, most notably God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001). He is also editor of Religion in Aging and Health: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Frontiers (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994); co-editor of Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999), Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson (New York, NY: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2005), and the forthcoming Divine Love: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions (West Conshocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2010); and, co-author of Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004). According to the Institute for Scientific Information, since 1981 Dr. Levin has been one of the most highly cited social scientists in the world.
Dr. Levin is an internationally known scientist and has lectured throughout the world on most aspects of the interface of religion and health—scientific, clinical, methodological, historical, theological, metaphysical, and with respect to public health and health policy. His research has been featured in many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday, JAMA, Modern Maturity, Tikkun, Moment, Spirituality and Health, and in cover stories in Time, Readers’ Digest, and Macleans, and on national radio and television, including NPR, PBS, CBC, CTV, and CBN. His biography has been included in Who’s Who in Theology & Science, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and International Who’s Who in Medicine. In 2001, a statement in praise of his work was read into the Congressional Record from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a recipient of both the 1996 and 1997 Templeton Prize for Exemplary Papers in Religion and the Medical Sciences, and of several named or endowed lectureships. In 1997, he served as Distinguished Lecturer in Gerontology at Duke University Medical Center, and delivered the First Annual K.J. Lee Fellowship Lecture in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2003, he delivered the First Annual David B. Larson Memorial Lecture in Religion and Health at Duke University Medical Center and the Sixth Annual Richard J. DeBottis Memorial Lecture in Gerontology at the University of Houston. In 2004, he delivered the Second Annual Blair Justice Lecture in Mind-Body Medicine and Public Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. In 2006, he delivered the Fifth Annual Spirituality and Health Forum Lecture at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Dr. Levin is married to Dr. Lea Steele, an epidemiologist and human ecologist. Dr. Steele, who will be joining Baylor University as Research Professor in the Institute of Biomedical Studies, is former Scientific Director of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Absent-Minded Science, Part VII: What Is Life?
Is life something that, like obscenity, we know when we see it? This intuitive approach may be good enough for many people, but science seeks definitions in order to get a better handle on the phenomena being studied.
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Probable Non Equivalence Between Inertial & Gravitational Masses Opening the Doors to UFO Self-Propulsion
Possible Disparity between the Inertial and Gravitational Masses in Einstein’s Formulas, according to Professor José Álvarez López, PhD. Can this Lead to the Possibility of Self-Propulsion? By Giorgio Piacenza ...