Exploring the History of Reincarnation Beliefs
Do you believe in reincarnation? The answer to that question varies vastly across individuals and religions. It’s commonly known that Buddhism and Hinduism have reincarnation as a key pillar, although...
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A Chaotic Life: The Memoirs of Stanley Krippner, Pioneering Humanistic...
IONS Fellow Stanley Krippner’s memoir, A Chaotic Life: The Memoirs of Stanley Krippner, Pioneering Humanistic Psychologist, is a riveting masterpiece chronicling the extraordinary journey of a...
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In Memoriam: Gene Milstein
It is with heavy hearts and deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Gene Milstein, one of our Circle and Legacy Society members. Gene departed this world on February 13, 2024, leaving behind a...
View ArticleCan Humans “Feel the Future”?
Can humans “feel the future”? Experiments about how people react to events they shouldn’t be able to predict suggest there might be something to this idea of a mysterious human ability. One of these...
View ArticleIONS50 Series: Spontaneous Remission
In 1993, the Institute of Noetic Sciences published Spontaneous Remission: An Annotated Bibliography. In this work, the authors, Caryle Hirshberg and the late Brendan O’Regan, defined spontaneous...
View ArticleJoin IONS First Virtual Conference
IONS is gearing up for our FIRST VIRTUAL Global Conference on Thursday, May 30 through Sunday, June 2, 2024. While it’s our first virtual conference, it will be IONS’ 19th conference in our 50-year...
View ArticleWhat is Mercury Retrograde?
Have you heard someone curse the smallest planet in our solar system when things don’t go as planned? While there is not a large body of scientifically validated research on astrology, over millennia...
View ArticleCan Channelers Give Accurate Responses to Questions from Scientists?
Throughout history, people have tapped into different mental states to glean insights from realms beyond everyday physical reality. This process has been known by various names like channeling,...
View ArticleExplore the Question “Who Am I?” from Why Our Minds Wander
The thoughts and beliefs we have about ourselves may be the most important way we define ourselves. It’s why they may often come up repeatedly during our mind wandering. As Arnaud Delorme shares in his...
View ArticleOptimizing Reports of Biofield Therapy Research
What are Biofield Therapies? Biofield Therapies, a major sub-group of integrative healthcare practices involving energy healing, have their origins in widely diverse cultures. Reiki and Johrei were...
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Explore Beyond the Stars with the Webb Telescope
Human beings are not the only ones able to create art: the universe paints the most stunning works of art on the canvas of the black sky. NASA has built a web index with the latest shots from the James...
View ArticleClairvoyance: Everything You Wanted to Know
Clairvoyance is sometimes used as a catch-all term for psychic abilities, but it literally translates to “clear seeing.” In parapsychology, clairvoyance is defined as the “perception of distant events...
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IONS50 Series: EarthRise Will Always Be Home
In the 2000 book Cultural Creatives, IONS collaborator and sociologist Paul Ray describes crisis as “transformation without a container.” That same year, IONS left its offices in downtown Sausalito, CA...
View ArticleCreating A Global Mind Change Movement
“We are living through one of the most fundamental shifts in history – a change in the actual belief structure of Western society. No economic, political, or military power can compare with the power...
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Mainstreaming Mysticism: Ketamine-Assisted Therapy and Noetic Experiences
We’re experiencing a mental health crisis – and the uncertainty in the world doesn’t make things better. Allopathic medicine can be a slow and not always efficient route to treating mental health...
View ArticleThe Cabbage Patch Kid: Charles Tart’s Contributions to Parapsychology
In a recent article, Dean Radin, PhD, Chief Scientist of IONS, writes an homage to the legendary Charles Tart, PhD, an influential figure in parapsychology for over 60 years. Tart co-founded the...
View ArticleExploring the Frontiers of the Mind: A Proposal for Mind-to-Mind Experimentation
In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human mind, few pursuits captivate the imagination like the exploration of telepathy. The notion of directly communicating thoughts and feelings from one...
View ArticleHow Breathwork Changes Us
Most people never properly learn how to do the one thing that keeps us alive: breathing. Ironic at its best, illness-provoking at its worst. To breathe should be the most natural thing that exists. And...
View ArticleWhat is Life Like After Near Death Experience?
Seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Reaching a point of no return. Meeting “beings of light.” And then getting propelled back into this moment, into the here and now. The above are commonly...
View ArticleIONS50 Series: Correlations, Consciousness, and the GCP
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) originated out of the Princeton Engineering and Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) in the 90s and soon became a part of IONS. Now, it’s been reimagined with GCP2.0....
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