States of Consciousness
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The Evolutionary Mind
Stimulating and often startling discussions between three friends, all highly original thinkers: Rupert Sheldrake, controversial biologist, Terence McKenna, psychedelic visionary, and Ralph Abraham, chaos mathematician. Their passion is to break out of paradigms that retard our evolution and to explore new possibilities.
- Publications Books
- April 1, 2005
- 224 pages
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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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Spontaneous Remission
While the authors believe that the phenomenon of remission is relatively rare, the data from their research suggest that it may not be as rare as previously believed. It appears that the impression of rarity is at least partly an artifact of underreporting, but research shows...
- Publications Bibliographies
- June 1993
- 713 pages
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Evaluating Effects of Transformative Practices
A group of 62 practitioners of a transformative practice community were studied over the course of a year.
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Spontaneous Remission Bibliography Project
In 1993 IONS published Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. The online project includes additional data for the online copy of the Remission Database.
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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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Stanley Krippner Interview
This is an interview with Dr. Stanley Krippner, an internationally known humanistic psychologist, who has written extensively on dreams, altered states of consciouness, hypnosis, shamanism, dissociation, and parapsychological subjects.
- Video Interviews
- 00:56:38
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The Noetic Post, Vol. 1, No. 1
An 8-page newsletter with information on the noetic sciences, from feature articles and book reviews to research updates and news on IONS.
- Publications Newsletters
- Fall/Winter 2009
- 8 pages
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"Varieties of Dissociation Experience" with Stanley Krippner (part 1 of 2)
Stanley Krippner, PhD is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, and has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis all over the world.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:39:44
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"Varieties of Dissociation Experience" with Stanley Krippner (part 2 of 2)
Stanley Krippner, PhD is professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, and has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis all over the world.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:33:01
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"Healing Dreams" with Marc Ian Barasch (part 1 of 2)
From the IONS lecture series Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness.
- Audio Lectures
- 01:16:12
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"Healing Dreams" with Marc Ian Barasch (part 2 of 2)
From the IONS lecture series Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness.
- Audio Lectures
- 00:23:03
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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 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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"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