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Negative Affect, Emotional Acceptance, and Smoking Cessation
This article describes recent theoretical developments and empirical findings regarding the role of negative affect (NA) and emotion regulation in nicotine dependence and smoking cessation.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- December 1, 2007
- 10 pages
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"Psilocybin and quantum change in attitude and behavior" with Roland Griffiths
The overall finding that psilocybin can occasion, in most people studied, mystical-type experiences having sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance, indicates that such experiences and the changes they produce are now amenable to rigorous prospective scientific study. Several ongoing studies are discussed, including a study of psilocybin on meditation and spiritual practice in healthy volunteers, a study of psilocybin in psychologically distressed cancer patients, and a study of psilocybin-facilitated treatment of drug cigarette smoking cessation.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-09
- 00:57:12
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The Journey of Robert Monroe
From Out-of-Body Explorer to Consciousness Pioneer
In 1971 Doubleday published a book called Journeys Out of the Body, a Virginia businessman's memoir of his weird and wonderful adventures on other planes of reality. That book, which has sold more than a million copies, and that man, Robert Monroe, helped cement the concept of astral travel into the American psyche ...
- Publications Books
- July 13, 2007
- 408 pages
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Intention Downloads Interview: Larry Dossey
In this discussion with Marilyn Schlitz, Dr. Dossey cautions us about the current popularity of books and movies that promote intention setting for purely self-centered reasons.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:26:33
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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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"Quantum Change" with William Miller
When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives
Dr. William Miller talks with host Cassandra Vieten about motivational interviewing used to identify conflicting motivations and how to move forward into life changes. Dr. Miller has studied the phenomenon of transformational changes, those that usually occur within a matter of hours and result in enduring and sometimes dramatic change in one's life and personality.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-04-22
- 00:54:48
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WHAT is it with trippy things?! Feel like I'm missing a point here (not trying to sound vague)
WHY is it that fractals are so damn trippy? WHY is it that hallucinogens can give you fractal-like visions and whatnot? WHY is it that those programs (I think you ... -
Roland Griffiths
Roland R. Griffiths, Ph.D., is Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His principal research focus in both clinical and preclinical laboratories has been on the behavioral and subjective effects of mood-altering drugs. His research has been largely supported by grants from the National Institute on Health and he is author of over 300 journal articles and book chapters. He has been a consultant to the National Institutes of Health, and to numerous pharmaceutical companies in the development of new psychotropic drugs. He is also currently a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Drug Dependence for the World Health Organization. He has an interest in meditation and is the lead investigator of the psilocybin research initiative at Johns Hopkins, which includes studies of psilocybin occasioned mystical experience in healthy volunteers and cancer patients, and a pilot study of psilocybin-facilitated smoking cessation.
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Why are mental powers increasing around the world : Answer
With IONS connecting the dots from science to religion and more and more people understanding that something is happening around them. The world weather patterns growing to large dangerous storms ... -
EarthRise Retreat Center/Plan Your Stay/Guest Guidelines
Guest Tips & Guidelines Welcome to EarthRise Center at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Please take a few moments to acquaint yourself with these guidelines. Click here to download a PDF ... -
the purpose of our existence, it is our mind?
hi all! first, let me say, I have respectfully to you, with all respect and Recognition in that one must have an institution such as yours, Anssi that person also ... -
Hallucinogens and consciousness expansion – some of it "real"?
I've only done LSD once in my life, back in 1997, and I don't plan on using ANY drugs anymore (and haven't since 1997, other than alcohol ...
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Alternative Higgs Theory
My true loves in life is my family and figuring out how things work. I was never worried to much about putting my ideas into mathmaticle form as long as ... -
About/News@IONS/"The Lost Symbol"
IONS and the Science Behind The Lost Symbol Intuition, ESP, quantum entanglement, and other extraordinary phenomena are part of a normal day’s research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences ... -
How Giving Improves Your Health and Heals a Wounded World
If the art of holiday giving is starting to feel a little more contrived this year, a little more commercial, then the science of giving has some news to bolster your holiday spirit...
- Noetic Research
- Personal Well-being
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Re-writing the Story of Who We Are
The consequences of our 500-year-old model of consumption, profit, and externalized costs in the form of environmental degradation and natural system collapse are mounting. The old story we keep telling ourselves...is evaporating, leaving in its place the frantic question “What comes next?”
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An Unfinished-Business Memo Set in History.
ASCENSION SUPPORT TEAM. DAVID AND YVONNE BRITTAIN PART ONE, AN UNFINISHED-BUSINESS MEMO SET IN HISTORY. It is the middle of the night. You and your family are torn from sleep ... -
The Mind’s Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation
Scientific study of meditation has flourished over the past several years, summarized in this excerpt from a new book of groundbreaking conversations between the Dalai Lama and leading researchers from both Eastern and Western traditions.
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The Promise of Psychedelic Research
Laboring under various taboos after the borderless experimentation of the sixties and seventies, the therapeutic use of psychedelics is now being studied—and in some cases sanctioned—by a small but growing group of pioneering researchers blessed by federal consent.