Neuroscience
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"Science of HeartMath" with Rollin McCraty
Explore the frontiers of consciousness science and its practical applications with Rollin McCraty, Director of Research for the Institute of HeartMath, and IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin in a teleseminar that speaks to both head and heart. The HeartMath System is designed to enable people to decode and employ the intelligence of the heart.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-05-31
- 00:59:50
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"Biology of Belief" with Bruce Lipton
This high-octane teleseminar surveys a broad scope of history and human evolution as Dr. Lipton illuminates the parallels between reptilian, avian, and mammalian evolution and the epochal transitions humanity as a whole is now traversing. He shows how corporations and large governments parallel the increase in size of dinosaurs without an increase in brain size or awareness.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-05-17
- 01:09:12
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"Cells and the Sacred" with Sondra Barrett
What can your cells teach you about living a spiritual life, love, and the Self? 100 trillion individual cells create your personal physical universe providing their own "wisdom medicine" through self-diagnosis, love, repair, regulation, and regeneration.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-03-03
- 01:06:59
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The Sacred Neuron
The Sacred Neuron provides a new way of understanding our emotionsand faith. Drawing on cognitive science, John Bowker examines such questions as, Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Or, that some things are beautiful, and other things ugly, some good, and others evil?
- Publications Books
- May 12, 2005
- 150 pages
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Neuroethics
What if there is no ghost in the machine?
- Publications Articles
- December 2005 - February 2006
- 2 pages
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Why Science Needs Art
The more we know about reality, the more palpable its paradoxes become. The author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist believes that artistic interpretations of scientific ideas and theories offer science ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2008
- 6 pages
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Mirroring People
What accounts for our remarkable ability to get inside another person's head--to know what he or she is thinking and feeling? Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the "smart cells" in our brain...
- Publications Books
- May 13, 2008
- 336 pages
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A Re-examination of the Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
The first report of a series under the Causality Issues in Contemporary Science project, funded in part by the Fetzer Foundation and Laurance S. Rockefeller.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- 1991
- 110 pages
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Evidence Adds Up to a Healthcare Revolution
As integrative medicine finds a place on the national health care stage, science has acquired tools to better measure the effectiveness of transformative practices. A close look at three such ...
- Publications Articles
- Summer 2009
- 6 pages
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Are the Thought Police Knocking on Our Door?
"You can't go to jail for what you're thinking," wrote Frank Loesser in his 1956 hit song “Standing on the Corner.” His observation no longer applies in India ...
- In the News
- Technology and Consciousness
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"The Biology and Sociology of Good and Evil" with Van Jones and Thomas Lewis
Psychiatrist Thomas Lewis, who has studied the neurobiology of emotion, and human rights activist and lawyer, Van Jones present two perspectives on understanding good and evil. Is our perception of good and evil biologically or culturally based?
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-12-02
- 01:01:06
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"Born to Be Good" with Dacher Keltner (sample with discussion questions)
Author and professor of psychology Dacher Keltner talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about his research on the biological and evolutionary origins of human goodness, with a special concentration on compassion, love, and beauty. Following the presentation, we provide questions to guide discussion about the teleseminar.
- Audio Shorts
- 2010-08-03
- 00:17:01
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"What Is Consciousness?" with Stuart Hameroff
In this teleseminar we explore the question of consciousness with Dr Stuart Hameroff of the University of Arizona, whose approach to consciousness research looks at bringing modern physics into the workings of the brain. His work with anesthetics led him to discover that cellular structures called microtubules, present in neurons as well as most cells, show some interesting patterns of behavior.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-09-15
- 00:56:13
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"Neuroscience of Well-being Panel" with Cassandra Vieten, Rick Hanson, and Michael Spezio
IONS Research Director Cassandra Vieten leads a panel on the Neuroscience of Well-being with Rick Hanson and Michael Spezio for the Next Evolution of Health Summit.
- Audio Lectures
- 2010-12-12
- 01:31:43
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"The Use of Psychedelics in Psychiatry and Medicine" with Charles Grob
This discussion reviews the history of psychiatric research with psychedelics from the 1950s to the present. Particular focus is applied to recent approved investigations with normal volunteers and with specific ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-23
- 00:56:51
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"Brain Functioning" with Fred Travis
This presentation centers around two points: 1) The brain processes in-group and out-group experiences differently. Different styles of brain functioning are also seen when considering facts about other paradigms and ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-03-16
- 00:59:02
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"Neurotheology" with Andrew Newberg
This teleseminar reviews Dr. Newberg's most recent work on the Principles of Neurotheology where he outlines the major principles that are the foundation for future neurotheological research. The principles ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-05-11
- 01:00:28
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"Psychology of the Future" with Stanislav Grof
In the last five decades, psychedelic therapy and other avenues of modern consciousness research have revealed a rich array of “anomalous” phenomena that have undermined some of the most basic ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-06-15