Death, Dying & Beyond
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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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When The Impossible Happens
Feelings of oneness with other people, nature, and the universe. Encounters with extraterrestrials, deities, and demons. Out-of-body experiences and past-life memories. Science casts a skeptical eye.
- Publications Books
- April 1, 2005
- 400 pages
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The Mystical Impact of Near-Death Experiences
Once regarded as meaningless hallucinations, near-death experiences (NDSs) have become the subject of serious study across a wide range of disciplines. Those who have had them are never the same ...
- Publications Articles
- December 2007 - February 2008
- 6 pages
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End of Life Care: Cosmologies of the Afterlife and Their Clinical Relevance
Where does our consciousness go when we die? This online educational program directed toward both health and healing professionals and life-long learners delves into this intriguing but often marginalized topic.
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“Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences”
Much of the data about NDEs lend support to the hypothesis of an afterlife—although commitment to that belief remains, from a purely scientific perspective, a leap of faith.
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Explorers of the Infinite
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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"Facts" and Their Interpretations
As a scientist and neuropsychiatrist, I agree with the late physicist Sir William Lawrence Bragg’s statement that, “The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new ...
- New Science
- Noetic Research
- Worldview
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"Survival of Consciousness" with Dean Radin and Julie Beischel (part 1 of 3)
Half a dozen classes of scientific evidence exist for some form of survival of consciousness after bodily death; some are more persuasive than others. We will review this evidence and assess the current state of the art.
- Audio Lectures
- 2009-06-21
- 01:16:01
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"Death and the Afterlife" with Sukie Miller (part 1 of 2)
"Death & the Afterlife" with Sukie Miller, PhD. From IONS' Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness lecture series, November 18, 1998.
- Audio Lectures
- 1998-11-18
- 00:44:58
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"Death and the Afterlife" with Sukie Miller (part 2 of 2)
"Death & the Afterlife" with Sukie Miller, PhD. From IONS' Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness lecture series, November 18, 1998.
- Audio Lectures
- 1998-11-18
- 00:18:35
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"The Rainbow Body Phenomenon" with Father Francis Tiso
Monsignor Tiso discusses the implications of an IONS-sponsored research project investigating a specific case of the Tibetan Buddhist practices of the "Rainbow Body," the ostensible dematerialization of the physical body ...
- Audio Lectures
- 2002
- 01:12:40
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"Life After Death" with Charles Tart and Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy and Charles Tart, PhD on "Life After Death: Assessing the Evidence" - From IONS' Conversation at the Edge lecture series, October 14, 2005.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-10-14
- 01:18:36
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"The Afterlife Experiments" with Gary Schwartz
Professor, doctor, and skeptic Gary Schwartz discusses the experiences that led him to consider the super-contraversial subject of afterlife communication as a valid phenomenon, and presents scientific evidence that has ...
- Audio Lectures
- 2002-11-13
- 01:11:02
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"Near Death Experience" with Bruce Greyson
Bruce Greyson discusses how cumulative research into Near Death Experiences challenges both a classical physical view of reality, and an exclusively neuroscience-based view of consciousness.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-10-13
- 00:42:31
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"Life Before Life" with Jim Tucker
Dr. Tucker describes some of the findings, includingunusual play, behavior patterns, specific phobias, and birthmarks or birth defects specifically related to the life and death of the previous personality. He will discuss the interpretation of the data and details about the methodology as well as possible pitfalls of individual cases.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-12-08
- 00:57:38
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IONS on Times Square
What are the questions that ignite scientific inquiry at the Institute of Noetic Sciences? Find out some of them in this short video that started showing on Times Square in New York City in May, 2011.
- Video Shorts
- May 2011
- 00:00:20
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Children’s Memories of Previous Lives
It is clear that for many of these kids this is not a game of make-believe but very important and meaningful for them. They talk about the people they miss. Some of the children cry daily to be taken to someone they say is their real family.
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Farewell Lee Lipsenthal
Beloved IONS Board member, colleague, and friend Lee Lipsenthal passed away last Tuesday, September 20, after a two-year battle with untreatable esophageal cancer.
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