ConnectIONS Live!
Join IONS Board Chair Claudia Welss for our next ConnectIONS Live webinar on May 28th as she speaks with Frank White, author of The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution.
“Once a photograph of Earth, taken from outside, is available, a new idea as powerful as any in history will be let loose.”
~ English Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle in 1948
The Overview Effect is a cognitive shift in awareness reported by most astronauts while viewing Earth from space — most notably including IONS Founder, Apollo 14 lunar module pilot and sixth man to walk on the moon, Captain Edgar Mitchell. The term was coined and the theory developed by space philosopher Frank White, who explored the theme in his 1987 book of the same name.
A Deeper Dive into the Overview
May 28, 2021
11:00am – 12:15pm Pacific
Please register even if you can’t attend live and you’ll receive a link to the recording.
Last year, Frank joined Claudia, Shuttle Endeavour astronaut Mae Jemison, and IONS scientist Loren Carpenter on our Collective Consciousness webinar series. Now, on the occasion of the release of the fourth edition of The Overview Effect, they will go deeper into what this view that’s “as powerful as any in history” can mean for the early days of the 21st century — and how we can maximize, in time, its potential to shift human consciousness toward the recognition of our profound interconnectedness.
HOST
Claudia Welss is a citizen scientist, Board Chairman of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and on the boards of HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative and Space for Humanity (“to space for Earth”). She’s also Founding Chair of the Invest in Yourself Working Group at NEXUS Global Network, sharing practical consciousness research with NextGen social entrepreneurs, impact investors, philanthropists, activists and cultural influencers. She’s executive producer of IONS Edgar Mitchell Overview Effect Virtual Reality Experience (EMVRX) and the upcoming movie about Edgar Mitchell, The Space Less Traveled. Claudia’s essay, “Humanity’s Change of Heart” appears with those of other Evolutionary Leaders in the Gold Nautilus Award-winning book Our Moment of Choice.
SPEAKER
Frank White is best-known for his book, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, which is considered by many to be a seminal work in the field of exploration. In his latest book, The Cosma Hypothesis: Implications of the Effect, he asks the fundamental question, “What is the purpose of human space exploration? Why has the evolutionary process brought humanity to the brink of becoming a space-faring species?” Frank is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and a Rhodes Scholar. He earned an M.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University.
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. Dr. Yount was among the first scientists to be awarded a Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institutes of Health to study energy healing. He has spoken nationally and co-authored peer-reviewed papers on the topic of establishing rigorous guidelines for research into biofields and micro-psychokinesis.
Charlie Morley is a bestselling author and teacher of lucid dreaming, shadow integration, and Mindfulness of Dream & Sleep. He has been lucid dreaming for over 20 years and was “authorized to teach” within the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism by 
Mark Gober is an international speaker and author of An End to Upside Down Thinking (2018), which was awarded the IPPY best science book of 2019. He is also the author of An End to Upside Down Living (2020) and host of the podcast Where Is My Mind? (2019). Additionally, he serves on the Board of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the School of Wholeness and Enlightenment. Gober’s background is in business as a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley and previously as an investment banking analyst in New York. He has also been named one of the world’s 300 leading intellectual property strategists by IAM Magazine. Gober graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University where he was elected a captain of its Division I Tennis Team.
David Lorimer, MA, PGCE, FRSA is a writer, poet, lecturer and editor who is a Founder of Character Education Scotland, Programme Director of the Scientific and Medical Network, and former President of Wrekin Trust and the Swedenborg Society. Originally a merchant banker then a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College, he is the author and editor of over a dozen books, most recently The Protein Crunch (with Jason Drew) and A New Renaissance (edited with Oliver Robinson). He has edited three books about Beinsa Douno: Prophet for our Times (1991, 2015), The Circle of Sacred Dance, and Gems of Love, which is a translation of his prayers and formulas into English. He is a founding member of the International Futures Forum and was editor of its digest, Omnipedia – Thinking for Tomorrow. He was also a Trustee of the St Andrews Prize for the Environment and a Churchill Fellow. His book on the ideas and work of the Prince of Wales, Radical Prince, has been translated into Dutch, Spanish, and French. He is the originator of the 
Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, is a biologist and author of more than 90 scientific papers and nine books, including The Presence of the Past. The third edition of A New Science of Life, fully revised and updated, is published in the UK by Icon Books, and in the US, retitled Morphic Resonance, by Park Street Press. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge University, and a Research Fellow of the Royal Society. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and of Schumacher College, in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London.
Nina Fry-Kizler, MA, is Senior Designer of Experiential Programs at IONS. She has worked for years with the Science team at IONS and continues to be a liaison between the Experience and Science departments, infusing cutting-edge research into our experiential programs. As a former professor at John F. Kennedy University in the Holistic Health Education Masters Program for a decade, Nina taught classes on the psychology and physiology of stress, the challenges of change/transformation, energy models of healing, and mind-body medicine. She was trained in the Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training program at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine and as a Birth Doula through Doulas of North America.
Bruce Greyson, MD is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. He was a co-founder and President of the International Association for Near-Death Studies and Editor of the Journal of Near-Death Studies. His research for the past four decades has focused on near-death experiences and particularly their after-effects and implications. His academic work has been translated into 20 languages and used in hundreds of studies worldwide. Dr. Greyson has published more than 100 scholarly articles about near-death experiences and gives regular addresses at international conferences on the matter. 
