In the News
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Posted by Marilyn Schlitz, PhD on March 10, 2012
Tribute to a Friend: Dr. Jeanne Achterberg
A few days ago, on March 7, 2012, Jeanne Achterberg, PhD passed on to the next phase of her spirit journey. Jeanne was a dear friend for decades. Her work with IONS was foundational. Jeanne was always in the vanguard. She was a beautiful, courageous, visionary, and spirited woman.
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Posted by Cassandra Vieten, PhD on Sept. 26, 2011
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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Posted by Heidi Fuller on Sept. 4, 2011
Consciousness Matters—The New IONS Blog
After a year of publishing contributed blog posts from a variety of visionaries, we will be focusing more on the inner life of IONS. Here at the blog, each week a member of our staff will bring you a close-up view of life inside IONS and/or commentary on what we are learning about the evolving field of consciousness research.
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Posted by Marilyn Schlitz, PhD on Aug. 15, 2011
Rejecting Uncommon Beliefs: How Worldview Shapes our Experience
What limits our desire and capacity to take in new ideas – even when we hold an intention to transform and grow? How can we shift a paradigm that we see as flawed and incomplete without understanding the barriers to changing our minds and behaviors? And how can we develop habits that allow us to explore and reveal our own biases and intolerance of ideas that refute our prevailing beliefs and opinions?
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Posted by Matthew Gilbert on April 4, 2011
Generation Wired…and Wise?
Wisdom and technology had their friendly faceoff at the second annual Wisdom 2.0 conference as some of Silicon Valley’s finest mixed comfortably with a trio of mindfulness masters and an audience of new media pioneers...
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Posted by Marilyn Schlitz, PhD on April 4, 2011
A Path Forward: Embracing our Creative Imagination
It’s been quite a year – and it’s barely April. Extreme political unrest is underway throughout the Middle East. Earthquakes rock New Zealand, China, California, and Japan. Shifting plates and tsunami waves in the Pacific Ocean have nuclear power plants perched on the edge of total meltdown.
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Posted by Cassandra Vieten, PhD on Dec. 24, 2010
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.
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Posted by Cassandra Vieten, PhD on Dec. 15, 2010
It’s about Time – Psi Research at a Tipping Point
Why is the existing literature on psi phenomena routinely dismissed by the scientific community and virtually ignored within the broader academic community? I think it's fear that some of our most cherished beliefs, about how the world works and about who and what we are, may be wrong. Such examination may lead to radical revisions in understanding our human potentials.
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Posted by Dr. William Benda, MD on Nov. 2, 2010
Rustum Roy: Ode to a Contrarian
Very few have heard of Dr. Roy, as his books and lectures focused on geochemistry, glass ceramics, and nanocomposites rather than low-fat diets and the number of steps to optimal health. But he was the consummate unsung hero of healthcare, and he passed away on August 26, 2010, at the age of 86, a true visionary in a realm where the word is applied a bit too freely and often with a taste of self promotion.
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Posted by Dean Radin, PhD on Sept. 9, 2010
The Psi Taboo in Action
I have lectured and written about the scientific taboo that prohibits scientists from openly studying psi. One way this prejudice manifests is by being invited to give a lecture at a scientific conference, and then finding yourself disinvited after someone on the conference committee discovers that the invitee has an interest in parapsychology.
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Posted by Larry Dossey, MD on June 29, 2010
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, the world’s largest democracy, where you can now be convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to life imprisonment ...
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Posted by Mickael Drouard on June 22, 2010
The Sustainability Movement in Europe
Building a sustainable future? Of course that’s what we all want…but how?
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Posted by James O'Dea on May 10, 2010
Social Healing: Sri Lanka at a Tipping Point
Social—or societal—healing is an emerging field. It seeks to bring learning in a variety of adjacent fields such as peacemaking, peace building, conflict resolution, trauma recovery, and restorative justice together with insights from the new sciences including consciousness studies, neuroscience, and an integral approach to mind-body medicine...
