ConnectIONS Live!

Join us for an insightful free webinar with IONS Senior Research Associate Cédric Cannard, PhD, where we’ll explore the exciting potential of virtual reality (VR) in advancing intuition research. 

Despite consistent findings in past intuition research studies, translating these effects into real-world applications has proven challenging due to the limitations of traditional research environments. 

In this talk, Cedric will discuss a new study conducted at IONS’ cutting-edge laboratory called “Driving with Intuition”, and share about how you can participate in this groundbreaking research. Using innovative technology to measure brain, heart, and eye activity in a virtual driving environment, the study aims to develop a sensitive and reliable measure of intuition with practical implications. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to join us as we delve into this promising research and its potential to revolutionize our understanding of intuition.

Driving with Intuition: Advancing Intuition Research Through Virtual Reality
Friday, March 1st
11:00am – 12:00pm PST

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All registrants will receive a link to the recording. Please register even if you can’t attend live.

PRESENTER

Cédric Cannard, PhD, completed a Bachelor in Sports Science and an MSc in Neuropsychology and Clinical Neuroscience. During his MSc, he worked on brain atrophies in Schizophrenia (Magnetic Resonance Imagery; MRI) at the “Imaging and Therapeutical Strategies in Cerebral and Tumoral Pathologies” Research unit (ISTCT, Caen, France), and then on brain oscillations (electroencephalography; EEG) underlying color vision and perception at the “Cente de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition” laboratory (CerCo, Toulouse, France).

In early 2022, Cédric completed his PhD in Neuroscience co-funded by the CerCo (CNRS, Toulouse, France) and the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS, California), under the co-supervision of Drs Helane Wahbeh and Arnaud Delorme, focusing on well-being, advanced EEG methods, and on collecting large EEG datasets in real-world settings using wearable neurotechnology.

Since then, he has joined the IONS Science team as Sr. Research Associate, working at the intersection between biosignal analysis (EEG, ECG, PPG, EDA, EGG), developing open-source tools (e.g., the BrainBeats toolbox), wearable neurotechnologies, well-being, altered states of consciousness, and psi.

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For the past 50 years, IONS has been leading the world in researching the possibilities of consciousness. This moment demands that we put what we’ve learned into action, that we shift from “me” to “we” to address our global crises together. That’s why now more than ever, we need BEYOND: Global Mind Change in Action.

Over four days, this historic virtual IONS gathering will bring together thousands of community members and thought leaders, including scientists, practitioners, and healers to explore the individual and collective paths available to shift global consciousness.

Together, we’ll journey beyond the material world, beyond separation, and beyond the limits of our current understanding toward healing, interconnectedness, innovation, and peace.

What’s Possible?

As our consciousness research moves beyond space and time, it only feels natural to scale up our conference to become a global event bound by neither. We look forward to gathering our community members from more than 65 countries on our easy-to-use digital platform. Our new possibilities include:

• A globally curated lineup of noetic topics, including mind-expanding science and experiential options with powerful researchers, teachers, and practitioners
• An accessible online exhibition hall that allows people of every ability to explore and meet facilitators and entrepreneurs in the world of consciousness exploration
• An unprecedented number of interactive breakout sessions with renowned presenters
• Expanded one-on-one networking and conversations with fellow explorers from our international community
• Deep connections, new friends, and endless inspiration, all from the comfort of your home

BEYOND: Global Mind Change in Action
May 30 – June 2, 2024
Registration opens March 19th. Mark your calendar!

IONS Member Event!

Have you ever visited a place and felt a strong positive – or negative – vibe the moment you walked in? If so, you may be experiencing emotional residue, a theory suggesting that thoughts and emotions can imprint subtle energy in the environment — energy that can be sensed by or influence humans.

In our hour together, we’ll lay the foundation of this topic with a look at some of the science behind the theory, hear a fascinating tale of morphic fields experienced at sacred sites in Egypt, break into small groups where you can hear from like-minded noetic explorers, and share a bit about your own experiences and thoughts on the topic.

Noetic Global Gathering – The Vibes of Spaces and Places
Friday, February 23rd
11:00am – 12:00pm PST

IONS members, check your email for your invitation link. And if you are not yet a member,  become a member today — not only will you be supporting pioneering consciousness research and programs, but you’ll also have access to an extensive media library, exclusive content, and members-only webinars, such as our February Noetic Global Gathering!

Join IONS this March for Monday Meditations!

Each week a member of the IONS team will host a 15-minute meditation live on YouTube. All are welcome to join live, or watch anytime that’s convenient for you. Experience relaxation and rejuvenation with weekly meditations from IONS.

Monday Meditations in March:
Monday, March 4 with Andrea Livingston
Monday, March 11 with Arnaud Delorme
Monday, March 18 with Kerstin Sjoquist
Monday, March 25 with Helané Wahbeh
11:00am – 11:15am PST

Watch Live on YouTube

• Andrea’s meditation will connect with the natural presence within your body, heart, and mind, and cultivate a space to access your deep inner wisdom.
• Arnaud will lead us through an exercise from his book Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts.
• Kerstin’s meditation will focus on using your inner senses to find deep relaxation and comfort that you can use throughout the day.
• Helané will lead a meditation to clear, ground, and open your heart to love and compassion.

FACILITATORS

Andrea Livingston, MA, is the Associate Director of Communications & Engagement at IONS. Her work with IONS, as well as her academic background in Consciousness and Transformative Studies, informs her deep passion for the education and exploration of consciousness and its applications for positive societal change. Andrea began her career as an intern at IONS over 12 years ago. Today she serves as an experienced facilitator and practices with some of the world’s leading meditators. Andrea is the host of ConnectIONS Live and is currently planning IONS 19th International Conference in a new virtual format to provide greater accessibility for all.

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.

Kerstin Sjoquist, MA, is the Director of Experience & Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. A long-time IONS member, a series of synchronous events led Kerstin to a staff position at the Institute in 2014. She now spends her days supporting the creation of IONS’ programmatic and workshop offerings as well as overseeing the organization’s marketing and communication endeavors. Kerstin began leading workshops focusing on manifesting techniques in the early 1990s. After completing a 250-hour certification process in 2001, she launched a successful private hypnotherapy practice. That same year Kerstin also founded Consciousness Arts, Inc., specializing in psycho-spiritual products and classes. She is the creator and producer of the Bliss Trips line of guided meditation journeys and numerous hypnotherapy products produced under her label, as well as developing white-labeled products for other organizations. She volunteered for Women in Community Service, where she developed and led confidence-building and stress management workshops utilizing visualization and guided imagery techniques for women transitioning from welfare to the workplace. In recent years, Kerstin has produced and/or taught several workshop offerings for IONS.

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.

Join IONS this March for Monday Meditations!

Each week a member of the IONS team will host a 15-minute meditation live on YouTube. All are welcome to join live, or watch anytime that’s convenient for you. Experience relaxation and rejuvenation with weekly meditations from IONS.

Monday Meditations in March:
Monday, March 4 with Andrea Livingston
Monday, March 11 with Arnaud Delorme
Monday, March 18 with Kerstin Sjoquist
Monday, March 25 with Helané Wahbeh
11:00am – 11:15am PST

Watch Live on YouTube

• Andrea’s meditation will connect with the natural presence within your body, heart, and mind, and cultivate a space to access your deep inner wisdom.
• Arnaud will lead us through an exercise from his book Why Our Minds Wander: Understand the Science and Learn How to Focus Your Thoughts.
• Kerstin’s meditation will focus on using your inner senses to find deep relaxation and comfort that you can use throughout the day.
• Helané will lead a meditation to clear, ground, and open your heart to love and compassion.

FACILITATORS

Andrea Livingston, MA, is the Associate Director of Communications & Engagement at IONS. Her work with IONS, as well as her academic background in Consciousness and Transformative Studies, informs her deep passion for the education and exploration of consciousness and its applications for positive societal change. Andrea began her career as an intern at IONS over 12 years ago. Today she serves as an experienced facilitator and practices with some of the world’s leading meditators. Andrea is the host of ConnectIONS Live and is currently planning IONS 19th International Conference in a new virtual format to provide greater accessibility for all.

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.

Kerstin Sjoquist, MA, is the Director of Experience & Engagement at the Institute of Noetic Sciences. A long-time IONS member, a series of synchronous events led Kerstin to a staff position at the Institute in 2014. She now spends her days supporting the creation of IONS’ programmatic and workshop offerings as well as overseeing the organization’s marketing and communication endeavors. Kerstin began leading workshops focusing on manifesting techniques in the early 1990s. After completing a 250-hour certification process in 2001, she launched a successful private hypnotherapy practice. That same year Kerstin also founded Consciousness Arts, Inc., specializing in psycho-spiritual products and classes. She is the creator and producer of the Bliss Trips line of guided meditation journeys and numerous hypnotherapy products produced under her label, as well as developing white-labeled products for other organizations. She volunteered for Women in Community Service, where she developed and led confidence-building and stress management workshops utilizing visualization and guided imagery techniques for women transitioning from welfare to the workplace. In recent years, Kerstin has produced and/or taught several workshop offerings for IONS.

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.

IONS Scientist Arnaud Delorme, PhD will be speaking on the GTP Monthly Podcast Series. The discussion series features leading minds in science, education, health, and mind body advocating for the UN Resolution for Mind Body in Public Education. Learn more about Global Transformation here.

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GTP Monthly Podcast Series with Arnaud Delorme
Sunday, January 21st
1:00pm PST

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Register prior to Sunday morning. This is a free online event hosted by Global Transformation Project.

GUEST SPEAKER

Arnaud Delorme, PhD, has been studying human consciousness for the last 20 years. He is a scientist at IONS, a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, and a tenured research scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Delorme has a keen interest in the scientific study of consciousness and spirituality. He is a long-time Zen meditator. He studies brain dynamical changes underlying extraordinary states of consciousness, including meditation, psycho-active agents, and mediumship.  The author of over 160 publications, Delorme’s work on mediumship is of particular interest — even with the mainstream. His paper on evidential mediumship and the brain activity of mediums is among the top 1% of articles viewed on the Research Gate platform.

Backed by research that spans a decade, Delorme has made a compelling argument that the topic of mediumship is worthy of scientific investigation.

Dr. Delorme is also investigating the means by which technology, in particular multi-channel neurofeedback, could be used to assist meditation practice.

ConnectIONS Live!

In this ConnectIONS Live Webinar, we’ll hear from Dr. Jim Garrison. In recent months, the US Congress passed the UAP Records Collection Amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act mandating that all US Government agencies and contracting corporations turn over all the evidence they have gathered concerning UFOs — now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) — to the National Archives for dissemination to the public. According to Garrison, the world will now be provided evidence that we are not alone, that Extraterrestrials exist, that they have been on Planet Earth for some time, that there has been contact and communication, and that there are retrieved alien spacecraft and alien bodies to prove it.

Join us to learn more about this extraordinary topic. Humanity is entering its ET moment. A whole new era of human history is beginning.

The Implications of the Reality of ETs on Earth
Friday, January 19th
11:00am – 12:00pm PST

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All registrants will receive a link to the recording. Please register even if you can’t attend live.

PRESENTER

Jim Garrison, PhD, serves as Director of the Washington, DC Office of the New Paradigm Institute where he focuses on the US Government release to the public of information pertaining to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). He also serves as Convener of Humanity Rising Network, a daily global broadcast on issues of global concern. 

Jim served as Founding President of Ubiquity University from 2005 – 2023. He continues to be involved with Ubiquity on the Board and as President Emeritus.  He was co-founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation/USA (1992 – 1995) and President of the State of the World Forum (1995 – 2004) with Mikhail Gorbachev serving as Convening Chairman. 

Jim received his B.A in History from the University of Santa Clara, an MA in History of Religion from Harvard University, and a PhD in Philosophical Theology from Cambridge University. He has written numerous books, including The Plutonium Culture, America as Empire, The Darkness of God: Theology after Hiroshima, Citizen Diplomacy, and Civilization and the Transformation of Power. He lectures on comparative philosophy and religion, world history and politics, and the implications of humanity’s contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligences.

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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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All registrants will receive a link to the recording. Please register even if you can’t attend live.

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.

Register for free

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.

LEARN MORE & REGISTER AT CHI’S WEBSITE