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From Water to Ones and Zeros: Objective Measures Correlated with Energy Medicine Sessions
Friday, November 13, 2020
11:00am-12:00pm Pacific

The last of three deep dives into the IONS Energy Healing Pilot Study

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In a typical energy medicine session, the practitioner focuses on the health and healing of the specific client. However, the very idea of this healing modality suggests a “field-like” phenomenon. Fields are generally not localized, but extend through space. This raises the question as to whether the application of energy medicine also extends beyond the practitioner and the specific client.

To help find out, in our recent energy medicine pilot study we looked to both water and a quantum number generator (QNG), placing water samples and a QNG system in the shielded room during a session between an energy medicine practitioner and a client seeking health improvements. The results of this pilot study reveal that both the water and the QNG showed significant changes during healing. This suggests that energy medicine does indeed behave in a field-like manner, and that it can also influence objective aspects of the environment.

Join us for a free webinar where IONS Scientists Dr. Dean Radin and Loren Carpenter delve into the mysteries of water and energy healing.

MODERATOR

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, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing.

SPEAKERS

Dean Radin, PhD, is Chief Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and Associated Distinguished Professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies. 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 and popular articles, some 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, four dozen book chapters, and four best-selling books. He has given over 500 invited presentations and interviews for government, military, business, scientific, and popular groups around the world.

Loren Carpenter revolutionized the entire film industry through inventing rendering and modeling algorithms for image synthesis and visual effects. In 2001, he and two colleagues were awarded the only Oscar statuettes ever given for computer science. In 2014, he transitioned from his position as Senior Research Scientist in Disney/Pixar’s research division to that of a Scientist at IONS.

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Energy Medicine and the Heart
Friday, November 6, 2020
11:00am-12:00pm Pacific

The second of three deep dives into the IONS Energy Healing Pilot Study

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What role does the heart play in energy healing?

An innovative component of IONS recent pilot study of energy medicine modalities was the synchronized collection of heart waves (electrocardiography, or ECG) of both the participant and the energy medicine practitioner. As part of our effort to understand what makes energy medicine work, this particular line of data collection allows us to analyze the results in unique ways that we hope will help to illuminate the mechanisms of action for energy healing modalities.

Join Drs. Helané Wahbeh and Arnaud Delorme as they share the results of this pilot study, including how participants’ heart waves changed from the beginning to the end of the energy medicine session and the similarities of participant and practitioner signals.

SPEAKERS

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, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing.

Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, a faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, and a research scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is a long-term Zen meditator, and has taught in India on the neural correlates of conscious experience in a Master’s degree program for the Birla Institute of Technology.

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Witnessing Energy Medicine: Perceptions of a Clairvoyant Seer
Friday, October 30, 2020
11:00am-12:00pm Pacific

The first of three deep dives into the IONS Energy Healing Pilot Study

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Despite growing evidence of the positive health benefits of some energy medicine modalities, there is no consensus within the scientific community for how energy medicine works. In an effort to fill in the gaps of our knowledge, IONS conducted a large pilot study to better understand the effects of energy medicine and find clues regarding it’s mechanism of action — the means by which these modalities can affect the body.

In this pilot study, energy medicine practitioners conducted sessions with individuals suffering hand and wrist pain. One particularly unique aspect to the design of this research project was the inclusion of a clairvoyant seer present in the room for all the sessions, who observed the event from an energetic level and recorded her perceptions. In including this seer our goal was to explore the questions:

1. How do energy medicine sessions function from the perspective of a clairvoyant seer?
2. Do any of these observations relate to changes in the participants’ subjective pain?

Join us for a free webinar where Drs. Helané Wahbeh and Garret Yount will review the results of this data and discuss the implications of their findings.

PANELISTS

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, stress, and post-traumatic stress disorder and their relationships to physiology, health, and healing.

Garret Yount, PhD, is a Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Dr. Yount’s primary interest is bridging molecular neurobiology with aspects of consciousness and the nonmaterial mind. He began his formal studies in consciousness research with a small grant from the Institute of Noetic Sciences in 1995, which allowed him to work with biofield practitioners and spiritual healers in the laboratory.

Dee Merz brings the culmination of 35 years of intense curiosity, mature experience, and enlightened evolution into the art and science of healing. Dee’s intuitive skills help her clients to reconnect with their own mystic power, rediscover the meaning and purpose of their life journey, and most importantly to become re-enchanted with their own spirit. Dee is trained in Vital Energy Transformations, Master Certificate in Intuition Medicine® Certified First, Second, Third Degree Reiki Master in Usui System of Natural Healing; and is senior faculty at the Academy of Intuition Medicine.

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In the third and final installment of our special Fall Noetic Leadership series, Sounds True Founder and CEO Tami Simon will join Claire Lachance in a candid, deep-dive into the opportunities — and challenges — facing leaders who strive to integrate inner wisdom with intellect to drive decision-making from a recognition of our true interconnection.

Friday, December 4, 2020
11:00 am – 12:30pm (Pacific)

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Speakers

Claire Lachance serves as the CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she has championed strategic clarity, healthy culture, and operations grounded in integrity and best practices. Claire earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA magna cum laude in Economics from Tufts University. Representing IONS around the world, Claire is passionate about the expansion of Noetic Leadership as a vital tool for addressing the profound opportunities and challenges of our times.

Tami Simon founded Sounds True in 1985 as a multimedia publishing house with a mission to disseminate spiritual wisdom. She hosts a popular weekly podcast called Insights at the Edge, where she has interviewed many of today’s leading teachers. Tami lives with her wife, Julie M. Kramer, and their two spoodles, Raspberry and Bula, in Boulder, Colorado.

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Join us on Friday, October 23rd for a provocative conversation with IONS CEO Claire Lachance and Dr. Anita Sanchez as we continue our inspirational quest to define the role of noetic sciences in leadership, at a time when humanity is confronting extreme challenges and an invitation to rapidly evolve.

Friday, October 23, 2020
11:00 am – 12:30pm (Pacific)

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In this second installment of our special Noetic Leadership series, we will explore how indigenous wisdom can inform and inspire our ability to lead from a fundamental understanding that we are all precious relations — People, Spirit, and Earth. Anita will share insights and practical examples from four decades of advising thousands of global leaders. Claire and Anita will also offer a live practice to help leaders of all types embody the noetic in daily life.

Speakers

Claire Lachance serves as the CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she has championed strategic clarity, healthy culture, and operations grounded in integrity and best practices. Claire earned her MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA magna cum laude in Economics from Tufts University. Representing IONS around the world, Claire is passionate about the expansion of Noetic Leadership as a vital tool for addressing the profound opportunities and challenges of our times.

Anita Sanchez, PhD is a brilliant international leadership, team, organizational development consultant, trainer, speaker and coach, focusing on diversity, inclusion & engagement, organization and leader development, transformational positive change, communication, unconscious bias and applied neurophysiology/resilience. Her passion is bridging indigenous wisdom and the latest in science to inspire and equip women and men to live their higher purpose in service and joy. Anita is a member of the Board of the Bioneers Organization and of the Pachamama Alliance whose focus is to inspire people to create an environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and social just human presence on our earth. Dr. Sanchez is a vision keeper for the Tipping Point Festival, a 10-year large scale collective action strategy to shift the narrative to a New Human Story of global unity.

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A joint online event from the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Galileo Commission and the Scientific and Medical Network.

Join us for a fascinating look at the scientific research of children who seemingly remember previous lives. Initiated by Prof. Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia in the 1960s and continuing to the present, this research project reveals riveting findings which have profound implications for our understanding of memory and the nature of human existence.

Do Children Recall Past Lives? An Exploration of the Evidence
Friday, October 16, 2020
11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific

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In investigating more than 2,500 individuals from around the world, researchers have uncovered many cases which identified a deceased person whose life story matches the details given by the child. Common features of these cases include: a child speaking of a past life at a very early age; behaviors that appear connected to a past life, such as phobias related to the mode of death; and birthmarks or birth defects that correspond to wounds of the deceased person.

The presentation will include a review of the decades of research as well as the details of recent American cases.

HOST

David Lorimer is a writer, lecturer, poet and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. He has also been editor of Paradigm Explorer since 1986 and completed his 100th issue in 2019. He is the author and editor of over a dozen books, including Survival? Death as Transition, Resonant Mind (originally Whole in One), The Spirit of Science, Thinking Beyond the Brain, and Radical Prince about the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales. He is the originator of the Inspiring Purpose Values Poster Programmes, which has reached over 350,000 young people. He is also Chair of the Galileo Commission which seeks to widen science beyond a materialistic world view.

SPEAKER

Jim B. Tucker, MD is a child psychiatrist and the Bonner-Lowry Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. He is Director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, where he is continuing the work of Ian Stevenson on children who report memories of previous lives. He is the author of two books that together have been translated into twenty languages, Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives (2005) and Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives (2013), a New York Times bestseller. He has published numerous papers in scientific journals and given talks to both scientific and general audiences.

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While aging is universal, our individual experience of the process is impacted by, among other factors, our beliefs, our resources and demographics. For ourselves, our communities and our planet, how we age today is unsustainable unless we can shift our consciousness about aging. That consciousness, in turn, can help us better understand our interconnectedness and allow us to shift toward aging in a way that feels more connected, empowering and transformative. Join our panel of experts for a discussion about cultural and personal perspectives on growing older, as well as what some have called the inherent noetic nature of aging. Together, we will have the opportunity to consider a shift in our consciousness, beliefs and attitudes about the inevitable process of getting older.

Shifting Ageism: How Consciousness Affects Our Experience of Aging
Friday, October 9, 2020
11:00am – 12:30pm Pacific

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Moderator

Marc Blesoff, IONS Certified Conscious Aging Facilitator, says he used to know everything and trust nothing. Now, he knows nothing and has glimpsed trust. He used to believe in coincidence, but doesn’t anymore. For over 30 years Marc was a criminal defense attorney. Then a mediator. Six years ago, he began facilitating the IONS Conscious Aging Workshops. He hasn’t stopped. Marc is a member of A Tribe Called Aging.

Panelists

Elizabeth White is an author and aging solutions advocate for older people facing uncertain work and financial insecurity. Most recently she served as Special Advisor to the Executive Director of Senior Service America. Before joining SSA, she was the Chief Operating Officer of a midsize non-profit focused on improving economic conditions in Africa. She is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded and led a chain of decorative home stores in Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York. She began her career in international development at the World Bank. Ms. White earned an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and a BS in Political Science from Oberlin College. Elizabeth is a member of A Tribe Called Aging.

John K. Holton, PhD, is an educator and public servant trained in understanding the life course of human development. Dr. Holton is currently a research professor at Jane Addams School of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago. Previously, Dr. Holton worked with Concordia University Chicago and the Illinois state government where he served as Director of the Department on Aging and cabinet member for Governors Patrick Quinn and Bruce Rauner. Under his leadership, the Department on Aging grew to become the state’s third largest funded human services department with resource capacities to support a statewide network of private organizations and faith-based institutions providing home and community-based services, protective services, housing, meal, transportation, and counseling services for hundreds of thousands of senior Illinoisans and their caregivers.

Ashton Applewhite has been acknowledged by the New York Times, New Yorker, NPR, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. In her book This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism, Applewhite declares that it’s time to dismantle the last acceptable prejudice; it’s time for age pride. In her candid talks—as she does on her blog, “This Chair Rocks,” and her Q&A Tumblr, “Yo, Is This Ageist?” — she debunks our culture’s most pervasive myths about getting older. And with her funny, straight-talking approach, she helps people realize the often-overlooked benefits of advanced age, championing the need for greater age-based diversity in the workplace and our institutions. Applewhite speaks widely, at venues that have ranged from universities and community centers to the Library of Congress and the United Nations.

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What is noetic resilience? Join us on Friday October 2nd for an experiential webinar exploring four noetic approaches that can help create a robust sense of well-being and thriving through times of crisis. When confronted with ongoing threats and challenges, every one of us can fall into tensing, checking out, becoming immobile, defended, isolated, fearful and anxious, or knocked off balance. This is our opportunity to build greater levels of flexible strength, so we can bend, and not break, in the windstorms of life. Based on the latest science of stress resilience, IONS Fellows Cassandra Vieten and Michael Sapiro will share noetic practices to cultivate hope, flexible, resolute strength of being, and connecting with what remains unchanged within us.

Standing Strong: Noetic Resilience in Challenging Times
Friday, October 2, 2020
11:00am – 12:15pm

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Presenters

Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, Dharma teacher, meditation researcher, and former Buddhist monk. He is on faculty at Esalen Institute and is a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in advanced psychology at the Boise VA Medical Center where he specialized in rural health, PTSD, and combat trauma. Dr. Sapiro is often on podcasts, and teaches nationally on the art and science of transformation, expanded human capabilities, self-care, and meditation for personal and community growth. His work integrates meditation practices, psychology, noetic sciences, and social justice, and is dedicated to personal awakening for the sake of collective and planetary transformation. He can be found at michaelsapiro.com.

Cassandra Vieten, PhD, is Executive Director of the John W. Brick Foundation, Scholar-in-Residence at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at the University of California, San Diego, and Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she worked for 18 years in successive roles as Scientist, Director of Research, CEO, and President from 2013-2019. She is a psychologist, mind-body medicine researcher, author of numerous articles in scientific journals, and an internationally recognized keynote speaker.

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Join IONS Board Chair Claudia Welss in a celebration of our founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s 90th birthday. In conversation with the filmmakers of the upcoming documentary, The Space Less Traveled, we’ll get a rare look into his incredible life story through the eyes of Antares Davis (Edgar’s goddaughter) and Cameron Jutte, and even hear from the man himself via clips from the feature-length film.

From personal stories about Edgar’s childhood in New Mexico to his revelation in space that led to the formation of IONS, we’ll explore what drove the Apollo 14 lunar module pilot, moonwalker, and American Hero of the space movement to inspire a movement in consciousness.

Friday, September 18, 2020
11:00 am – 12:15pm (Pacific)

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Presenters

Antares Davis, Director, Producer
Antares Davis studied at Northwestern University, the Piven Theatre and Second City in Chicago. She also studied documentary filmmaking at Maine Media. While acting, she had the good fortune of working with some of the industry’s top directors including Sidney Pollock and Oliver Stone. She moved behind the camera in 2007 into commercial film and music video production, helping create spots for high profile companies and musicians. She is Edgar Mitchel’s goddaughter and is honored to bring his life story to the big screen.

Cameron Jutte, Director, Producer
Cameron Jutte is a filmmaker who hails from the Pacific Northwest. He received his degree in film from Portland State University and has a journalism background from NewsChannel 21 in Bend Oregon. His resume includes the Director of Photography and Camera Operator for music videos of well-known bands and musicians. Jutte’s films, ‘Eclipse City’ and ‘Feathers’, won awards at numerous film festivals. He joined Edgar Mitchell and Antares Davis in 2013 and began filming The Space Less Traveled to bring Ed’s incredible life story to the masses.

Claudia Welss, Executive Producer
Claudia is IONS Board Chair and a citizen scientist. Her decades of supporting IONS started when President Willis Harman invited her to join a five-year “Peace-building Through Business” inquiry at the Fetzer Institute while she was director of the University of California, Berkeley Haas School‘s center for corporate programs. She joined The Space Less Traveled team as Executive Producer last year. She’s also an executive producer of IONS upcoming Edgar Mitchell Overview Effect Virtual Reality Experience, and is a board member of HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative and Space for Humanity.