We are living at the edge of a new scientific and cultural frontier—one that is calling us to expand how we understand consciousness, connection, and the nature of reality itself.
Lighting the Path: Giving Day 2026 is an inspiring, free online gathering bringing together pioneering scientists, visionary thought leaders, and a dedicated global community to explore the emerging science of consciousness and human potential.
At a time when many are questioning the limits of a purely materialist worldview, IONS is advancing research that bridges rigorous science with lived experience—investigating phenomena such as nonlocal awareness, mind-matter interaction, and the deeper dimensions of human knowing.
Through conversation, reflection, and shared inquiry, this event invites us to engage with the big questions of our time and to imagine what becomes possible when science expands to include the full spectrum of human experience.
As part of Giving Day 2026, this gathering also offers an opportunity to support this work and help shape the future of consciousness science. After the event, there will be an optional 30-minute discussion time where you can meet and talk with other like-minded seekers in our community.
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Lighting the Path: Giving Day 2026
Friday, June 12
Main Event | 11:00am – 12:30pm PDT
Social | 12:30pm – 1:00pm PDT
All registrants will receive a link to the recording. Please register even if you can’t attend live.
PRESENTERS
Dean Radin, MS, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He was awarded an Honorary DSc in yoga research from S-VYASA. Before joining the research staff at IONS in 2001, he held appointments at AT&T Bell Labs, Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, and SRI International. Dr. Radin is author or coauthor of hundreds of technical articles, some 145 peer-reviewed journal articles, four dozen book chapters, and four best-selling, popular books. He has given over 750 invited presentations and interviews for government, military, business, scientific, and other groups around the world.
Helané Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is the Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Wahbeh is clinically trained as a naturopathic physician and research trained with a Master of Clinical Research and two post-doctoral research fellowships. She has published on and spoken internationally about her studies on complementary and alternative medicine, mind-body medicine, extended human capacities, stress, posttraumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing. Dr. Wahbeh is especially known for her research around — and noetic approach to — channeling.
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a neuroscientist at IONS and has been studying human consciousness for the last 20 years. He is a CNRS Research Director in Toulouse, France, and a senior Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego. He is a long-time Zen meditator, and recipient of several research prizes. He is the author of some 160+ peer-reviewed publications, and is best known for his work on the neural correlate of mind wandering and for developing the EEG software that is now the most-used in EEG research worldwide. He is the author of Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn to Focus Your Thoughts.
Thomas G. Brophy, PhD, is President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS). He previously served as president of California Institute for Human Science (CIHS). His tenure as president of CIHS oversaw a many-year effort to achieve regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, Colleges and Universities Commission (WSCUC) in 2021, for CIHS as a unique mind, body, spirit integral university. Earning a BA in physics from Colorado College, and MS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Colorado (CU), Boulder, Thomas’ academic and scientific appointments include: the CU Nuclear Physics Laboratory, the CU Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) where he worked on NASA’s Voyager and Cassini spacecraft projects, and an appointment as a National Science Foundation Exchange Scientist at the University of Tokyo Department of Earth and Planetary Physics and ISAS robotic space program, where he published pioneering work on computational solutions to the Boltzmann equation, the astrodynamical origins of planetary rings and interstellar comets. Thomas explored the fundamental science and ontology of consciousness and its cultural implications in his 1998 book The Mechanism Demands a Mysticism: An Exploration of Spirit, Matter, and Physics. His study of the archaeoastronomy of prehistoric Egypt, published in his books The Origin Map, and Black Genesis co-authored with Robert Bauval, has been cited as relevant to the study of extraterrestrial, or transhuman, intelligence.
Claudia Welss is IONS Board Chair. Her work with IONS began in the 90s when IONS President Willis Harman invited her to join a five-year inquiry on peace building while she was at the University of California, Berkeley. She’s on the boards of Space for Humanity (“To Space, For Earth”), HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative, and is lead citizen scientist for the Global Consciousness Project 2.0. Claudia is founding chair of a working group at NEXUS Global, bringing practical consciousness research to nextgen philanthropists, impact investors, social entrepreneurs and activists focused on global transformation. An executive producer of the award-winning Edgar Mitchell Overview Effect Virtual Reality Experience (EMVRX), she’s co-investigator with Cassi Vieten (UC San Diego) studying shifts in perception and psychophysiology in response to EMVRX. Claudia convenes the IONS Overview Effect and Collective Consciousness webinar series and is contributing author to the Gold Nautilus award-winning Our Moment of Choice (Simon & Schuster).
Theresa Cheung is a Sunday Times bestselling author and a renowned expert in dreams, spirituality and personal transformation. Her writing and research bridges the mystical and the scientific, offering grounded insight into the deeper dimensions of human experience. Theresa has a degree in Theology and English from King’s College, University of Cambridge and has published close to a 100 spiritual titles with her latest titles: Extreme Dreaming published by Hachette in October and Invisible Strings published by Inner Traditions in December. In 2018 she co-authored The Premonition Code with IONS fellow, Dr Julia Mossbridge and is a frequent expert guest on mainstream TV, radio, podcasts and in major print and online media, Theresa has become a trusted voice in the world of holistic wellness. Hailed by the media as the “Queen of Dreams” and the “British grande dame of psychic and spiritual studies,” she has been repeatedly named among the ‘100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People.’ Theresa also hosts a weekly live radio show: The Healing Power of Your Dreams on UK Health Radio: The world’s number 1 talk health radio station. You are invited to contact her with any stories, insights or questions via her website www.theresacheung.com or @thetheresaCheung on Instagram, @thetheresacheungofficial on Tik Tok or her author pages on X and Facebook.
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