ConnectIONS Live!
Co-produced by the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Scientific and Medical Network
Can a consciousness-based approach to life heal social divisions and promote life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
We live in a time when societies are overrun with division and strife. Developing higher states of consciousness not only helps individuals, but it benefits society as a whole. Peer-reviewed research has shown that a non-ideological, consciousness-based approach to life can heal social divisions. Apart from the practical benefits of improving cooperation and reducing fatalities, this research demonstrates that consciousness has field-like qualities and is primary to matter.
Join us for a fascinating ConnectIONS Live webinar on January 20th, at 11 AM PST, when Barry Spivack will be talking about this thrilling research. As he sees it, the values of freedom, happiness and truth have their source in the least excited state of human consciousness. With the development of higher states of consciousness, or what is sometimes called self-realization, these values will be enhanced both in individual and public life.
Healing Social Divisions: The Truth of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Friday, January 20th
11:00am – 12:00pm PST
Please register even if you can’t attend live and you’ll receive an email with a link to the recording.
PRESENTER
Barry Spivack studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University before training as a teacher of Transcendental Meditation. For 25 years, he has worked in industry and taught Transcendental Meditation. He currently teaches Transcendental Meditation in Essex, mainly in schools, companies, and to patients in the UK National Health Service. He is also leading a small transcendental meditation project in the UK armed forces. His book, An Antidote to Violence: Evaluating the Evidence, was co-authored with Dr Patricia Saunders.
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 Network, 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 worldview. Visit his website to learn more.
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.
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.
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, a faculty member 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.
Shelley Evans, PhD, DNM, DHM, is internationally recognized in Quantum Medicine circles for her contributions in Bliss and Consciousness Research, Frequency Medicine, and the Sacred Arts, as a Mental Health Specialist, Dr. Shelley Evans provides both preventive and restorative modalities. With over 30 years’ experience in Natural Health, Psychoeducation and Research, informed through universal laws observed in Mother Nature, her forte is identifying subtle world influences. Her protocols establish harmony between the psycho-somatic expression of mind/body and Spirit. Dr. Shelley is currently writing her second book called ‘Lucid Living for the Suddenly Sovereign’ which builds on skills established through lucid dreaming. Her website called The Shareable Wave underscores her belief that the Highest level of Joy comes from the Deepest level of Understanding and that we can all access our own higher wisdom to solve the mysteries behind patterns and subtle world influences by learning the language of Nature called Quantum Physics.
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 worked in India as Principal Plant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute ICRISAT, and also lived in the Benedictine ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths, in Tamil Nadu. From 2005-2010 he was the Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project for the study of unexplained human and animal abilities, funded by Trinity College, Cambridge. He is currently a Fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and of Schumacher College, in Dartington, Devon. He lives in London and is married to Jill Purce, with whom he has two sons.
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.
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Alexander Moreira-Almeida, MD, PhD is Professor of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) School of Medicine and Founder and Director of the Research Center in Spirituality and Health, Brazil. Chair of the Section on Spirituality of the Latin American Psychiatric Association (APAL). Founding chair of the section on spirituality of the Brazilian Psychiatric Association (2014-21). Former chair of the Sections on Religion, Spirituality and Psychiatry of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) (2014-21) when coordinated the WPA Position Statement on Spirituality and Religion in Psychiatry. He obtained a medical degree at UFJF and trained in psychiatry and cognitive-behavioral therapy at the Institute of Psychiatry of the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he also obtained his PhD in Health Sciences. Formerly a postdoctoral fellow in religion and health at Duke University. Author of more than 170 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and chapters that received more than 7,200 citations, h index 43 (Google Scholar). More than 550 presentations at academic meetings, including 131 abroad in 17 countries. More than 400 interviews to lay media. Coordination of TV NUPES, a YouTube channel on science, health and spirituality with more than 300 videos and 960k views in 160 countries. Editor of the book “Spirituality and Mental Health Across Cultures” (Oxford Univ Press, 2021) and coauthor of “Science of Life After Death” (Springer, 2022). His main research interests involve the exploration of the association between religiosity and health as well as empirical studies of spiritual experiences, especially their implication for the mind-brain problem, as well as the methodology, history and epistemology of this research field.
Jan Ögren, MFT is a Medicine Woman, storyteller, international author and licensed psychotherapist. She has apprenticed with Native American Medicine teachers since 1981. For over 30 years, she has worked in the psychotherapy field helping people change their neurological programming and recover from trauma. She works with the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) combining spirituality and science to help with the shift in global consciousness. She presents talks and workshops on psychological and spiritual topics. See 
Guenet Sebsibe was born and raised in Ethiopia & came to the Bay Area in the 1990s. Her professional life has spanned many ‘health’ related projects with various Public Health Departments, local community-based and international organizations & as faculty at UC Berkeley in research & health program development initiatives. In the last 10 years, Guenet has been untangling a lot of religious, academic & cultural programming. In doing so, she’s found ways to re-orient many limiting beliefs and also discovered the deep esoteric wisdom for many concepts that we’ve just simply ‘absorbed’ from our families & environments. Among her passions in life, traveling to far-away & unique places to absorb local wisdom-often has been the most fulfilling. She’s convinced that traveling opens up the soul to a world of beauty and an awareness of the amazing resiliency of the human spirit. 
