ConnectIONS Live!

In this ConnectIONS Live Webinar, we’ll hear from IONS Scientist Arnaud Delorme, PhD, whose research on how and why our brains focus, is outlined in his new book Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts. We’ve all had the experience of losing focus on one thing and realizing we’re daydreaming, or that our minds have wandered to focus on something else entirely. Why does this happen?

We see the world through the lens of our attention, so why do we sometimes have such little control over that lens? How does our brain decide to focus on one thing over another and why, from an evolutionary standpoint, does this help us survive? We’ll hear more about this in the conversation as Arnaud discusses new research that demonstrates daydreaming is not a single state of mind, but rather has very different states governed by different neurological pathways.

Join us as we ask Arnaud about the science and theory behind why we daydream, examining its potential purpose and learning how to tame our ‘monkey minds’ with techniques to help us hone our attention, improve our mood and foster a greater creative capacity.

Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts
Friday, December 15th
11:00am – 12:00pm PST

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Why Our Minds Wander is available December 19th. Pre-order today

PRESENTER

Arnaud Delorme, PhD, has been studying human consciousness for the last 20 years. He is a scientist at IONS, a CNRS Research Director in Toulouse, France, and a senior Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego. In 2000, Dr. Delorme completed his PhD thesis on visual categorization in humans, monkeys, and machines. Dr. Delorme then moved to the Salk Institute for a postdoc in Terry Sejnowski and Francis Crick’s laboratory where he focused on statistical analysis of electroencephalographic (EEG) signals recorded during various cognitive tasks. He developed the free EEGLAB software for advanced analysis of EEG signals in collaboration with Scott Makeig, software which is now amongst the most used in EEG research worldwide. He was also awarded a Brettencourt-Schueller young investigator award and a 10-year anniversary ANT young investigator award for his contributions to the field of EEG research. He is a long-time Zen meditator, recipient of several research prizes and the author of some 160+ peer-reviewed publications.

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Join CHI for their collaborative online event, “Navigating the Future of Energy Healing: Policy & Practice Insights.” This online conversation aims to provide education and awareness on issues that affect the energy healing practitioner community thanks to CHI’s Energy Healing Practitioner Council and Working Group.

This event is for you if:

• You are an energy healing practitioner with questions about your legal rights
• You would like to understand the historical context of regulating energy healing practitioners
• You are curious as to how energy healing practitioners fit into the legal system
• You would like to know the basics about what all of this legal talk even means

The event will also feature speakers who have experience and knowledge in particular areas that can affect the scope of practice for energy healing practitioners, including legislation, licensing, certification, and indigenous healing practices and perspectives.

It’s important to note that at CHI, they are aware this is a hot topic in the practitioner community. Many people are unaware of what is going on with regard to this topic. they also know that folks involved in this work have different opinions on what should or should not be done. Their trusted speakers will not be sharing their opinions, but rather educating to the best of their abilities based on their respective backgrounds. CHI has no vested interest in promoting any solution or lack thereof a solution with this event. They are neutral on this and don’t believe they have the answer. Instead, they believe in the need to come together to educate ourselves on this topic.

Navigating the Future of Energy Healing: Policy & Practice Insights
Friday, November 3, 2022
9:00am – 12:00pm PDT
Online

This event is hosted by The Consciousness and Healing Initiative (CHI). Please visit their website for more information.

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“We’re all in this together, and we’d better start behaving like it.”
— IONS Founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell

We extend our heartfelt care and concern to all those facing the current escalation of conflict around the world and to everyone everywhere, including all life facing existential threats.  As we reaffirm that the mission of IONS is to elevate humanity and our planet beyond the levels of consciousness creating the conditions for self-destruction, we invite you to join us in meditation to build coherence in the collective field, through the higher spectrum frequencies of love and compassion, with IONS Fellow Dr. Michael Sapiro.
— Claudia Welss and your Friends at IONS

From Dr. Sapiro:

In the face of war and its horrifying consequences, we, who live safely at a distance, are not immune from the suffering, nor are we helpless.  If we choose to, we can offer a variety of resources, the least of which, but possibly the most powerful, is Love. Collectively, we can direct our loving attention toward those who suffer in hopes of strengthening their resolve and resiliency, and toward those who cause violence and harm, hoping to soften their anger and dissolve the hatred that has gripped their hearts.  We know from our research that directing attention with an intentional, conscious purpose has an impact on the field around us. Let us gather then to generate love for both Israel and Palestine.  Please join us for a 30 minute meditation for peace.

Meditation For Peace
Thursday, October 19th
5:00 – 5:30pm PDT

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HOST

Michael Sapiro, PsyD, is a clinical psychologist, psychedelic-assisted therapist, transformational coach, writer, meditation teacher and researcher, and former Buddhist monk. He is MAPS trained, is on faculty at Esalen Institute, is a Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and is core faculty in the Psychedelic’s Today Vital psychedelic certification program.  He recently completed a study on time travel, hope, and love with Dr. Julia Mossbridge of The Institute for Love and Time.  Dr. Sapiro teaches nationally on the art and science of transformation, expanded human capabilities, and futuremaking. He is the integrative psychologist at the Boise Ketamine Clinic where he offers Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (individual KAP and group KAT) sessions, and is an integrative coach with VETS and Sabot Foundation, helping former Navy Seals and other special operations team members recover from combat exposure with psychedelic-assisted therapy. He hosted a syndicated radio program on expanded human potential called Radio Awakened out of KRBX now found on Soundcloud. His work is dedicated to personal awakening for the sake of collective and planetary transformation.

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Join us to celebrate 50 years of leading edge of consciousness research, and discover new directions for the next decades. During this free event in our special series honoring our 50th anniversary, we’ll hear from the IONS science team, including Helané Wahbeh, Dean Radin, Arnaud Delorme, Garret Yount, and Cedric Cannard who are leading research in the areas of non-local consciousness, channeling, exceptional healing, psychic phenomena, survival of consciousness, and more. Board Chair and Interim CEO Claudia Welss will provide context for IONS at 50 and beyond.

We’ll explore the areas of creativity and psychedelic studies, UAPs, conscious AI, and more with IONS science advisors, board members and special guests.

Carrying on the legacy of IONS founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell, whose original mission was to expand knowledge of the nature and potentials of the mind and apply that knowledge to human and planetary advancement, IONS continues to publish highly cited, peer-reviewed findings demonstrating the fundamental nature of consciousness and deliver transformational programs backed by the latest science. Last year our white paper ‘What If Consciousness Is Not An Emergent Property of the Brain? Observational and Empirical Challenges to Materialistic Models,’ rose to the 98th percentile of downloads on the Frontiers In Psychology website.

We are living in unprecedented times. As we continue to push the boundaries of scientific understanding of what it means, or could mean, to be human, we invite you to join us as we celebrate where we’ve been and explore where we’re going over the next 50 years. 

On The Leading Edge: IONS at 50 and Beyond
Friday, November 17
11:00am – 2:00pm PDT

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PRESENTERS

Claudia Welss is IONS Board Chairman and Interim CEO. 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).

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.

Dean Radin, MS, 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 articles, some 125 peer-reviewed journal articles, four dozen book chapters, and four best-selling, popular books. He has given over 600 invited presentations and interviews for government, military, business, scientific, and other groups around the world.

Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS Research Director in Toulouse, France, and a senior Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego, and a Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He is a long-time 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. He is the author of some 160+ peer-reviewed publications, and is best known for developing the EEG software that is now the most-used in EEG research worldwide.

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 extended human capacities. 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. He is the author of Why Vibes Matter: Understand Your Energy and Learn How to Use it Wisely.

Cédric Cannard, PhD, completed a Bachelors in sport science and a MSc in neuroscience during which he worked brain atrophies (MRI) associated with Schizophrenia with the ISTCT laboratory in Caen, France, and then on brain oscillations (EEG) involved in color vision processing with the CerCo Laboratory in Toulouse, France. He then moved to California to become a research assistant for the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), and in December 2018 received a 3-year grant to work on his PhD in neuroscience under the co-supervision of Drs. Helané Wahbeh (IONS) and Arnaud Delorme (CerCo, France), focusing on well-being, EEG methods, wearable neurotechnologies, consciousness, and psi. In early 2022, Cédric successfully earned his PhD from Paul Sabatier University, CNRS, France, and joined the IONS Science team full-time as a Senior Research Associate.

Stacey Lawson is IONS Board Secretary, an entrepreneur, business executive, political leader and author. She is dedicated furthering the principles of social enterprise, sustainability and awakened leadership within our business, financial and political institutions. Stacey is Vice Chairman of Ygrene Energy Fund, an innovative clean energy finance company, where she brings 24 years of experience in the areas of finance, clean energy, technology and manufacturing. Prior to joining Ygrene, Stacey was a candidate for U.S. Congress in California’s 2nd congressional district where she advocated for property assessed clean energy (PACE) and other leading economic, environmental and social justice initiatives, as well as authored “Making More in America: How Restoring America’s Manufacturing Strength Can Help Rebuild Our Middle Class.” Previously, Stacey co-founded the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at the UC Berkeley School of Engineering, where she was an Industry Fellow, board member, and active advisor to new ventures. Stacey has held senior executive positions at Seibel Systems and Parametric Technology where she built and grew new businesses to scale, and co-founded InPart Design which was acquired by PTC. Stacey is an active board member of IONS, Ygrene, Catalog Data Solutions, Tripura Foundation, and the California Technology Council (CTC). Stacey holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Mark Gober is an IONS Board Member, a Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, a former New York investment banker with UBS, and former Princeton University tennis team captain. He is the author of An End to Upside Down Thinking and host of the Where Is My Mind? podcast. He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University with a major in Psychology and wrote his thesis on Prospect Theory, a Nobel Prize-winning theory in the field of behavioral economics. He was also a Division-1 athlete all four years at Princeton, serving as captain of Princeton’s Men’s Varsity Tennis Team.

Àlex Gómez-Marin, PhD, is a recipient of the first annual Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize. He has a bachelor’s degree in physics, master’s degree in biophysics, and Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the University of Barcelona. He conducted postdoctoral research at the EMBL-CRG Center for Genomic Regulation and the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. Since 2016, he has been the director of the Organism Behavior Laboratory at the Institute of Neuroscience in Alicante. Currently, he is an associate professor at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the director of the Pari Center in Tuscany, Italy. His work encompasses the microscopic origins of the arrow of time, animal neuroethology in different species, and artificial intelligence applied to human stupidity. His current research focuses on the scientific study of consciousness in the real world.

Bruce Damer, PhD, is the Chief Scientist at the BIOTA Institute (www.biota.org) and Associate Researcher, UC Santa Cruz Department of Biomolecular Engineering. An astrobiologist, he co-developed a novel scenario for the origin of life, advises NASA on where life might begin in the universe, and offers new views of life’s deep nature and future. Inspired by Edgar Mitchell’s proposal for a universal, interconnected “field,” he applies ground-up insights from prebiotic chemical and energetic systems as explanatory bases for biosystems up to and including conscious experience.

Jo’el Adifon is a conjure priest-clown, neo-griot, and blerd. His high jinks involve the company of spirits like Joyboy, High John, and Fra Binidittu.

Drawing from his Italian origins and West African roots, Jo’el blends his extensive and eclectic studies (including a Columbia University MA in Clinical Psychology) with lifelong immersion in the supernatural.

The 2021 winner of the IONS Consciousness in Action Award, Jo’el boldly explores the childlike fusion of real magic and performance art, the suspension of disbelief, the alignment of Grace and Luck, and the proximal power to make things real.

Remarks

Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, MBA, MA is an acclaimed social scientist, award-winning author, and master teacher. She is CEO/President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at IONS. Marilyn has conducted clinical, laboratory and field-based research into consciousness, transformation, and healing. Her books include Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life (with Cassandra Vieten and Tina Amorok): Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine (with Tina Amorok and Marc Micozzi); and Death Makes Life Possible (and companion film by same title, with Deepak Chopra). Marilyn has taught at Stanford, Harvard, and Trinity Universities and is currently Professor of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University. She has published hundreds of articles in scholarly journals and popular publications, and has lectured extensively in diverse venues, including the United Nations, Smithsonian Institution, Commonwealth Club, and community groups across the world.

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 IONS 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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Schedule

11:05 AM Presentation by Claudia Welss, IONS Interim CEO and Board Chair 

11:30 AM Presentation by New IONS President 

11:45 AM Legacy video featuring Edgar Mitchell and Willis Harman with remarks by Fellow Marilyn Schlitz

11:53 AM Presentation by 2023 Linda G. O’Bryant Prize winner Alex Gomez-Marin

12:05 PM Presentation by Helané Wahbeh on The 2024 Linda G. O’Bryant Prize

12:10 PM Remarks from IONS Board Member, Linda G. O’Bryant 

12:19 PM Experiential Exercise led by Jo’el Adifon

12:34 PM Panel Discussion with Dr. Cédric Cannard, Dr. Dean Radin, Dr. Helané Wahbeh, Dr. Arnaud Delorme and Dr. Garret Yount

1:14 PM Remarks by IONS Past President Dr. Cassandra Vieten

1:17 PM Panel Discussion with Dr. Bruce Damer, Dr. Philippe Golin, Stacey Lawson and Mark Gober

ConnectIONS Live!

In experimental remote viewing (RV) studies, photographs are frequently used as targets. But beyond the contents of the image itself, certain emotional, historical or spiritual qualities may be contained within the information field of the image, which could potentially influence the outcome of the experiment. Such considerations may not be limited to RV and are potentially relevant across many research disciplines.

One of the many potential outcomes of RV experiments known as “displacement,” where participants accurately describe an alternate, unselected image rather than the intended target, highlights the importance of understanding what qualities may make an image more or less “attractive” to a remote viewer. Dr. Damon Abraham, an independent researcher and behavioral scientist specializing in experimental psychology, emotion, and mental representation, has begun curating an open-source database of around 3000 images in collaboration with IONS and The Institute for Love and Time (TILT), which he’ll be telling us about in this webinar. 

This resource allows researchers to handpick stimuli for their experiments based on specific subjective attributes, and in this webinar, Dr. Abraham will discuss the project’s inspiration and potential future, including implications of this work in fields beyond RV such Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. We hope you will join us for this engaging and informative event!

Remote Viewing and the Power of Images
Friday, October 20th
11:00am – 12:00pm PDT

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PRESENTER

Damon Abraham, PhD is an independent researcher and behavioral scientist specializing in experimental psychology, emotion, and mental representation. His interests are centered at the intersection of consciousness, psi, and AI for human potential and personal growth. His explorations include non-local consciousness (OBEs, NDEs, etc.), non-local perception (RV / precognition), and non-local influence (RNGs, micro & macro-PK effects, etc.). Damon has presented at various conferences, including IRVA, IANDS, and the SSE, and is an active member of the Parapsychological Association and currently sits on the Society for Scientific Exploration’s council is an elected member. Damon is the principal research scientist for the Entangled Consciousness App.

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ConnectIONS Live!

During a lucid dream, we realize within the dream that we are dreaming. We literally know, “This is a dream!”  

Experienced practitioners can use a lucid dreaming state to access their inner creativity, heal emotional trauma and recurring PTSD nightmares, promote physical healing, perform spiritual practices, and consciously engage a non-visible inner awareness. Lucid dreaming seems to be an ‘open platform’ for people desiring inner adventures.

But, can lucid dreaming give us vital insights into how we create our perceived experience?  And, could these insights help us better understand how we create our waking experience?  

In this illumintating webinar, Robert Waggoner will explain how lucid dreaming naturally leads to a new understanding of perceived experience. It can push lucid dreamers to move beyond the creations of the mind and seek out a real-reality that is not based upon the mind’s constructions.

Lucid Dreaming: Can it Show Us How We Create Experience?
Friday, September 29th
11:00am – 12:00pm PDT

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PRESENTER

Robert Waggoner is the past President of the International Association for the Study of Dreams (IASD). For the past twenty years, he has been the co-editor of the online magazine, The Lucid Dreaming Experience, the only ongoing publication devoted specifically to lucid dreaming. A lucid dreamer since 1975, he has logged more than 1,000 lucid dreams.

Lucid dreaming offers science a revolutionary psychological tool to experiment and investigate the deeper aspects of the dream state, consciousness and the mind. In 1975, Robert taught himself a simple technique to become consciously aware in dreams. Since that time, lucid dreaming has been proven by the pioneering research of Dr. Keith Hearne, University of Hull, and Dr. Stephen LaBerge at Stanford.

Robert’s first book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, shows how lucid dreamers can explore the subconscious and its knowing. With fascinating lucid dream examples, thought-provoking questions and exciting techniques, it has been hailed “a classic” by experienced lucid dreamers. His latest book, Lucid Dreaming, Plain and Simple: Tips and Techniques for Insight, Creativity and Personal Growth, written in collaboration with Carolina McCready, was called the “perfect book for beginners” by easy-lucid-dreaming.com.

Robert frequently speaks on lucid dreaming at national and international dream conferences, workshops and college classrooms, including Sonoma State University, Iowa State University, The University of Washington, The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Evergreen State College, and internationally at Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University, in Jerusalem, Israel.

Robert has been interviewed by CNN, CBS News and ABC News (KABC – Los Angeles) about the practice of lucid dreaming. His comments have appeared in media as diverse as DETAILS, The Huffington Post, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Popular Science and Brides magazine. During 2009-2010, he had a regular Iowa Public Radio show, discussing dreams and lucid dreams.

The Lucid Dreaming Experience

The Lucid Dreaming Experience (LDE) is an independently published quarterly e-zine dedicated to educating and inspiring lucid dreamers everywhere. The magazine seeks to educate, inform and inspire lucid dreamers by exploring lucid dream techniques, sharing lucid dreams and discussing the potentials of lucid dreaming.

Through the lucid dream experiences of our readers, you will learn a lot about lucid dreaming — new challenges to try, techniques to prolong lucidity, ideas about the boundaries of lucid dreaming and more. Many of our readers find that reading about lucid dreams in the LDE (particularly at night before going to sleep) increases their likelihood of having lucid dreams!

Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple

Based on many decades of personal experience and some of the latest scientific research, Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple, seeks to introduce the beginner to the science and practice of lucid dreaming. Robert Waggoner, author of the acclaimed book, Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the Inner Self, has teamed up with a talented teacher and lucid dreamer based in London, Caroline McCready, to help you learn important lucid dreaming techniques to induce, maintain and explore this special state. Along the way, you will be treated to numerous examples of lucid dreams, and the various ‘lessons in lucidity’ that emerge from the authors’ decades of experience and observant eye.

Lucid dreaming offers you access to an inner platform to call forth creativity, promote healing, seek insight and personal transformation. In clear and thoughtful language, Lucid Dreaming Plain and Simple shows you what you need to know in order to benefit from this extraordinary state. Moreover, you will learn how experienced lucid dreamers use this to accelerate spiritual growth, heal from past traumas and clear out mental debris which keeps you from your full potential.

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A four-week online workshop with support and guidance provided by acclaimed author, lucid dreamer, and teacher Robert Waggoner.

This workshop speaks to all explorers of lucid dreaming – from the inexperienced beginner to those who have ventured far along the path. While giving you sound foundational materials, it offers insight far beyond lucid dreaming basics. It’s for the lucid dream explorer, the adventurers and the curious, who seek to understand this fascinating state of being and to access a larger awareness of the consciousness for growth, insight and transformation.

With the guidance of a lucid dreaming expert with many decades of experience, this workshop will help you to:

• Practice lucid dreaming incubation techniques in a supportive environment
• Discover how to maintain and prolong your lucid dreams
• Learn effective techniques for exploring and consciously relating to lucid dream symbols and energy
• Resolve personal issues and blockages while aware in the subconscious
• Lucidly access your own Inner Muse and wake with creative gifts
• Experiment with the boundaries of your larger Self’s knowing
• Incorporate mental techniques from lucid dreaming into your daily life to elevate creativity and confidence
• Learn how to open pathways to inner information, whether dreaming, lucid dreaming or waking
• Seek spiritual knowledge and insight by experimenting with time/space, esoteric ideas and spiritual practices while lucid dreaming
• Realize the Oneness – the interconnected nature of consciousness

Lucid Dreaming and Living Lucidly: Gateway to the Inner Self
October 19 – November 18, 2023
Online

This workshop is produced and hosted by our friends at GlideWing, and offered in partnership with IONS.

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A four-week online workshop with support and guidance provided by acclaimed author, lucid dreamer, and teacher Robert Waggoner.

This workshop speaks to all explorers of lucid dreaming – from the inexperienced beginner to those who have ventured far along the path. While giving you sound foundational materials, it offers insight far beyond lucid dreaming basics. It’s for the lucid dream explorer, the adventurers and the curious, who seek to understand this fascinating state of being and to access a larger awareness of the consciousness for growth, insight and transformation.

With the guidance of a lucid dreaming expert with many decades of experience, this workshop will help you to:

• Practice lucid dreaming incubation techniques in a supportive environment
• Discover how to maintain and prolong your lucid dreams
• Learn effective techniques for exploring and consciously relating to lucid dream symbols and energy
• Resolve personal issues and blockages while aware in the subconscious
• Lucidly access your own Inner Muse and wake with creative gifts
• Experiment with the boundaries of your larger Self’s knowing
• Incorporate mental techniques from lucid dreaming into your daily life to elevate creativity and confidence
• Learn how to open pathways to inner information, whether dreaming, lucid dreaming or waking
• Seek spiritual knowledge and insight by experimenting with time/space, esoteric ideas and spiritual practices while lucid dreaming
• Realize the Oneness – the interconnected nature of consciousness

Lucid Dreaming and Living Lucidly: Gateway to the Inner Self
October 19 – November 17, 2023
Online

This workshop is produced and hosted by our friends at GlideWing, and offered in partnership with IONS.

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ConnectIONS Live!

IONS Founder Edgar Mitchell felt it impossible that humans were alone in the Universe, and was openly curious about evidence of contact with nonhuman intelligences and what it could mean for us, our purpose and our cosmic identity.

In honor of his birthday, IONS is hosting a ConnectIONS Live to pursue Ed’s visionary curiosity and courage, especially in light of current events regarding UAPs, and what it all might mean for our future.

Don’t miss this special event!

Celebrating Edgar Mitchell’s Vision: Are We Alone?
Friday, September 15th
11:00am – 12:00pm PDT

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PRESENTERS

Claudia Welss is IONS Board Chair and Interim CEO. Her work with IONS began in the 90s when IONS President Willis Harman invited her into a 5-year inquiry on social change while she was at the University of California, Berkeley. She’s on the boards of Space for Humanity, HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative, is lead citizen scientist for the Global Consciousness Project 2.0, and advisor to NEXUS Global on the relationship between personal and planetary change. She’s co-investigator with Cassi Vieten (UC San Diego) studying shifts in perception and psychophysiology in response to the Edgar Mitchell Overview Effect Virtual Reality Experience (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. 

Mark Gober is a Princeton graduate, a former Partner at Sherpa Technology Group in Silicon Valley, and worked as an investment banking analyst with UBS in New York. He has been named one of IAM‘s Strategy 300: The World’s Leading Intellectual Property Strategists. Mark is also an award-winning author of 5 books published since 2018 and is the host of the podcast series Where Is My Mind? His book An End to Upside Down Contact explores evidence for nonhuman intelligence, and it was mentioned in the Wall Street Journal in 2022. Since 2019, Mark has served on the Board of Directors of IONS and The School of Wholeness and Enlightenment.

Sean Esbjörn-Hargens PhD, has spent his life developing “metaintegral” approaches to the fields of ecology and animal consciousness, mixed-methods research, integral psychology, philosophy of science, holistic education, and new post-capitalist models of measuring social impact. For the last four years he has been applying everything he has learned over the last 30 years in these contexts to developing this new field of exo studies. Exo studies is an emerging integrative metafield exploring the psychological, sociological, and scientific implications of the UFO phenomena in all its empirical and mysterious facets Sean is very passionate about using integral methods to expand our understanding about the big mysterious universe we live in. Thus, exo studies is committed to producing new metaviews of what it means to be living in a multidimensional multiverse. Sean is Dean of Integral Education, and Integral Noetic Sciences (INS) Program Director at California Institute for Human Science. The INS program offers a very unique optional concentration in Anomalous Studies, which includes extraordinary experiences such as encounters with UFO and Non-human Intelligences. As a result this accredited graduate program is the first of its kind to engage the relationship between consciousness and UAP studies.

Thomas G. Brophy, PhD, is President of California Institute for Human Science (CIHS). His tenure as president of CIHS oversaw a many-year effort to achieve regional accreditation in 2021, for CIHS as a unique mind, body, spirit centered university. Earning a BA in physics from Colorado College, and MS and PhD degrees in physics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, Thomas’ academic and scientific backgrounds include work on NASA’s Voyager and Cassini spacecraft projects, the CU Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, 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. Thomas explored the consciousness related aspects of UAP phenomena 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.

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