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Enlighten Next:
Field Work at the Frontier of Consciousness
Interview with Marilyn Schlitz
by Elizabeth Debold
Spring/Summer 2010
From the cutting edge of psychic research, the president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences explains how she and her team of “renegade scientists” are using the straight-edged tools of science to capture the mysterious connection between consciousness and the material world.
Secrets Of 'The Lost Symbol'
Dateline NBC - an NBC News Special
Produced by Tim Beacham
October 15, 2009
Dan Brown: “Noetic science really is the reason this book took me so long to write. I've said before I'm a skeptic. And I hear about these experiments that are being done that categorically and scientifically prove that the human mind has power over matter.”
Matt Lauer: “The physical world?”
Dan Brown: “Power over the physical world.”
Woman Reads Dan Brown Novel, Discovers Herself
National Public Radio, All Things Considered,
by Barbara Bradley Hagerty
October 12, 2009
Dan Brown's latest blockbuster, The Lost Symbol, is jam-packed with surprising twists and turns — especially for Marilyn Schlitz. "Waking up one morning to find yourself a fictional character in a best-selling novel has taken a little adjusting to," she says, laughing.
Touched by an angel? Most say they've been protected
by Cathy Lynn Grossman
September 18, 2008
A new survey of the USA's religious beliefs and practices finds 55% of all adults — including one in five of those who say they have no religion — believe they have been protected from harm by a guardian angel.
Good Vibrations:
Can chocolate infused with positive intentions actually improve your life?
by Chris Warren
May 1, 2008
A self-described rebel who came of age in the 1960s and ’70s, Jim Walsh always cringed at the ritual his mother, an ardent Catholic, would subject him to whenever he visited her. “Every time I’d come home,” recalls Walsh, who obviously didn’t share his mother’s faith, “she’d take the holy water out and make the sign of the cross on my forehead. And I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, I have to put up with this again?’”
Hope for the Blue Planet:
A Conversation with Edgar Mitchell, PhD
by Sidney L. Murray
April, 2008
. . . The greatest people I have ever met are also the most humble and Dr. Edgar Mitchell is no exception. He is matter-of-fact about his accomplishments. I asked him, What is the one thing that we could all do to change the world? Mitchell replied, “Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me.”
Do You Believe?
The Oprah Show
February 15, 2007
On this program IONS' Senior Scientist Dean Radin spoke briefly about what science has to offer about the "sixth sense." The program also featured well-known psychic mediums John Edwards and Allison DuBois and explored the question of whether it is really possible to communicate with the dead.
Paranormal beliefs, from prophetic dreams to Atlantis
by Cathy Lynn Grossman
September 12, 2006 (Updated July 25, 2008)
Overall, 52% of people surveyed say they believe in prophetic dreams. More than 40% agree that places can be haunted and that ancient advanced civilizations, such as Atlantis, once existed, just as writers from Plato to psychic Edgar Cayce have described.
View of God can predict values, politics
by Cathy Lynn Grossman
Updated September 12, 2006
Forget denominational brands or doctrines or even once-salient terms like "Religious Right." Even the oft-used "Evangelical" appears to be losing ground.
Interview with Dean Radin
by Cate Montana
April / May 2006
For those fuzzy on quantum entanglement, could you give a brief overview of the relationship that you've written about in your new book, Entangled Minds, between quantum entanglement and psi effects?
SPECIAL REPORT: The Science of Connecting Mind Over Matter
by Garvin Thomas and Dean Smith
March 22, 2006 and August 11, 2006 (ran twice)
Ever been to a concert or sporting event where the atmosphere was electric, almost as though there was something more than just the event going on in the room? Something connecting everyone there. Well there are scientists out there trying to prove what you felt actually is something real.
Study Seeks to Test Power of Prayer
World News Tonight
January 8, 2006
Natalia Kraft has a pretty good reason to believe in prayers: This past year, she survived breast cancer. Now, she is part of a study to see if, in fact, prayers are answered.
Scepticbusters
by Adrian Turpin
April 1, 2005
If only everything in the strange world of parapsychology was as simple as it looks on television.
Medicine mixes with spirituality
by Amy Doolittle
July 12, 2005
More than 1,000 doctors, spiritual counselors, holistic healers, and patients gathered at the Consciousness and Healing conference at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Crystal City during the weekend to discuss the intersection of spirituality and modern medicine.
Speakers at the conference, which was hosted by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), came from a variety of medical and spiritual backgrounds.
Mind May Affect Machines
by Kim Zetter
July 19, 2005
For 26 years, strange conversations have been taking place in a basement lab at Princeton University. No one can hear them, but they can see their apparent effect: balls that go in certain directions on command, water fountains that seem to rise higher with a wish and drums that quicken their beat. Yet no one hears the conversations because they occur between the minds of experimenters and the machines they will to action.
Edgar Mitchell ushers in the Next Epoch in Evolution
by Diana deRegnier
May 19, 2008
A telephone interview with Dr. Edgar Mitchell about the 2008 revised edition of his 1996 book, The Way of the Explorer, yields details from his life story, the dyadic model – a proposed model of reality in language for the scientifically-challenged, and Mitchell's spirituality.