Mind-Matter Interaction
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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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Larry Dossey One Minute Shift | True Healing
Healing is something far more profound than curing disease. In this video, medical pioneer Larry Dossey shares how healing is a process of connecting with our infinite non-local nature, which helps us transcend our fear of death and alleviate suffering at the root level.
- Video Shorts
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What mind-body practices have had the most beneficial effect on your well being?
photo by Jennifer Duquette O'Hara
What mind-body practices have had the most beneficial effect on your well being?
There are numerous programs and practices designed to help people improve ...
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Wikipedia – ‘Reader Beware’ When it Comes to Psi Research
The Wikipedia entry on Masaru Emoto is a good example of why no one should trust an encyclopedia written by anonymous amateurs. I know it is possible, at least in principle, to edit Wikipedia pages to make corrections. But it is also possible for pranksters to change information on any page just for fun.
- Noetic Research
- Worldview
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Thought Balloons
No one ever mentioned thoughts in medical school, or throughout my residency training. Come to think of it, the term was rarely mentioned during my years with the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Mind, mindful, mind-body, yes. But no professorial lecture or class discussion on what actually constitutes our thoughts...
- Noetic Research
- Personal Well-being
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Is there Evidence for Universal Consciousness?
In Dan Brown’s new book The Lost Symbol, the fictional character Katherine Solomon mentions “universal consciousness,” which is an ongoing topic of interest at the real-life Institute of Noetic Sciences.
- Collective Intelligence
- Noetic Research
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What are examples of your extended human capacities?
What are examples of your extended human capacities?
One of the main areas of research at IONS is Extended Human Capacities. Research projects in this area investigate how consciousness interacts ...
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Absent-Minded Science – Part I
We learn from an early age that “to be scientific” means avoiding attributing to nature humanlike tendencies such as mind or purpose. To be “anthropomorphic” in science is a cardinal sin... Science has progressed far by expunging mind from its explanations, and anthropomorphism can indeed be a lazy philosophical position if we simply extend human attributes reflexively (and unreflectively) into the universe around us. But to go further than today’s impasse we need to re-embrace mind and ourselves as an inherent part of nature.
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Absent-Minded Science, Part II: The Zombie Defense
Can zombies argue that they don’t exist? Empirical evidence suggests they can. Or does it? The philosophy of mind is a thriving field in recent decades, with new books and articles appearing with increasing frequency. This article is the second in an occasional series on the role of mind in the universe and, thus, in science.
- Worldview
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Responding to the Debate – Psi Research at a Tipping Point
I posted an article about Psi Research on my Huffington Post blog Friday morning and by Friday evening had nearly 1000 views and 250 comments. It’s been very interesting to read the comments on this article – now nearly 900 - and to see the great interest this topic generated. In this follow-up post I share my response to some of these comments.
- In the News
- Noetic Research
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Getting the Facts Straight: Dean Radin Responds to a Skeptic’s Conviction
Professor Daryl Bem, a prominent psychologist from Cornell University (now retired), will soon publish an article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, a top-ranked, mainstream psychology journal. The article reports nine experiments involving 1,000 subjects, each study investigating an aspect of precognition – perception of the future. The combined results of the nine studies were astronomically significant, with odds against chance far beyond a million to one. Nevertheless, that a well-regarded journal would dare publish this article has outraged a few scientists...
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Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion?
The controversy over the existence of psychic phenomena, now commonly called psi, has been raging for centuries. But it is only in the last 100 years that psychical researchers, now commonly called parapsychologists, have been mostly confined to their laboratories in order to gather experimental evidence. The anecdotal evidence is easy to question and dismiss, and so the critics have demanded – quite reasonably – reliable experimental evidence for the existence of psi. Has such evidence been provided?
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The Science of Transformation
In the following dialogue, excerpted and adapted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ teleseminar series, “The Essentials of Noetic Science,” IONS Director of Research Cassandra Vieten talks with psychiatrist-educator-writer Dan Siegel about Mindsight – the ability of the human mind to see itself – and how that relates to transformation.
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Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable—and Couldn’t
The finding of an as yet undiscovered sensory capacity might force us to question all kinds of scientific truths – in physics and neuroscience, just for starters. So, the thinking goes, the evidence provided for telepathy must be as extraordinary as the claim itself.
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Energy Psychology: The Future of Therapy?
What we don’t know about healing dwarfs what we do know, and nowhere is this more apparent than the role of “energy” in restoring balance to a fractured psyche. Energy Psychology, modern psychotherapy’s enfant terrible, is growing up and giving us clues to the mystery of its remarkable power.
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Hands-On Miracles: More Questions Than Answers
No one was more surprised than Bengston when he inadvertently discovered the healing power of his hands. It inspired him to develop a technique that is as remarkable for its effectiveness as for the elusiveness of why it works.
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Orchids and Dandelions: The Emerging Science of Emotional Sensitivity
People are sensitive—some more apparently so than others—and how those sensitivities affect one's health is becoming a topic of increased scientific scrutiny.
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Neurotheology: The Crucible of Religion
Are spiritual experiences a by-product of brain chemistry, or do they reflect contact with a higher source? Such questions are the focus of an emerging field of scientific study that is finding common ground between the spiritual and the secular.
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Double-slit Experiment Published in Physics Essays
For the last few years we have been exploring the possible role of consciousness in the physical world through an effect known as the quantum measurement problem (QMP). This refers to a curious phenomenon whereby quantum objects behave differently when they are observed than when they are not observed.
- Breaking News from IONS Research
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Men Who Stare at Photons (I)
This is part one of a two-part presentation from the January 2013 Electric Universe Conference in Albuquerque, NM, featuring IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin, PhD, discussing aspects of the US government's "Stargate" program related to psychic spying, as well as IONS experiments using optical interferometers to study mind-matter interaction particles of light—photons.
- Video Lectures
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