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CELEBRATING THE PAST TWO DECADES by Winston
Franklin and Barbara McNeill
The Institute's history of two decades involves a wide network of organizations and individuals dedicated to consciousness
research. We take this opportunity to recognize and celebrate this broad movement and community of important contributors.
OUR ROOTS: THE AMERICAN VISIONARY TRADITION
by Eugene Taylor
Harvard lecturer and psychology historian Eugene Taylor traces the roots of today's "noetic sciences" through
a long lineage of American visionaries. His historical overview—from the Founding Fathers to the Sixties counter-culture—highlights
two deep and converging currents of ideas: mainstream rationalism and a perennial "shadow visionary culture".
HUMAN POTENTIAL: THE MOVEMENT, THE MEDIA &
THE MYTH by George Leonard
Picking up the Sixties story, author George Leonard recounts the genesis of the "human potential movement", and
how the issues of that time have set the agenda for the Nineties and beyond.
MIND-BODY HEALTH: THE BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT
by Henry Dreher and Barbara McNeill
The human body may possess an as yet unidentified healing system. This insight was at the core of Brendan O'Regan's vision
that led to the creation of the Inner Mechanisms of the Healing Response program. Members of the project's advisory board
recall the early days and evolution of this program.
AN ENRICHED MEDICINE: TAKING THE NEXT STEP
by Rob Lehman
The Fetzer Institute emerges as a leader committed to the future of mind-body health, enriched medicine, and education
for human wholeness.
TELEVISION: A MEDIUM FOR TRANSFORMATION?
by Winston Franklin
IONS Executive Vice-President Winston Franklin looks at the emerging role of television. "Can we learn to use the
medium, or will it continue to shape our minds?" Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers and The Heart of Healing are
two examples of major media attention this year.
ON DEFINING SPIRIT by Rachel Naomi
Remen
In by far the most requested reprint item from the Noetic Sciences Review, Rachel Remen says, "There is something
in all of us that seeks the spiritual." She suggests that we can begin to define spirit by looking at its role in
our lives.
CONSCIOUSNESS & COMMUNITY: A BRIEF HISTORY
OF THE INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES—1973-1993 by Thomas J. Hurley
"When the people lead . . ." The Institute is not just the staff and board members; it is a growing network reaching
out to include all 31,000-plus members who share our vision. As a network focal point, the Institute emphasizes the importance
of membership for setting directions and agendas.
CREATING SACRED PLACES by Sherry Ruth
Anderson and Patricia Hopkins
Sacred places are vital for individual renewal. "We often heard women express a longing for a sacred gathering place,"
write the authors of The Feminine Face of God. Here they describe some of the ways different groups of women have set aside
a special place in their lives—a sacred circle for prayer, for meditation, for sharing, for being themselves.
TOWARD A WORLDVIEW OF ECOLOGY by Edward
Goldsmith
"Not business as usual," warns author and The Ecologist editor Edward Goldsmith. We need to find a different
way to share the planet's resources, a way which will require a different worldview. We can be guided in this by the way
"vernacular" peoples have lived in harmonious relationship with nature for countless generations.
THE SKY'S THE LIMIT by Sy Safranski
"I liked it better when healing the planet meant long hair and rock music and marching against the war, when it meant
telling everyone else what needed to be changed." The Sun editor and author of Four in the Morning gives a personal
perspective on ecological responsibility.
IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, YOU WILL SEE THAT IT
IS TRUE by Vine Deloria Jr.
Native American scientist Vine Deloria Jr. compares two worldviews—of Western science and of Western Teton Sioux.
He explores the structure and relationships of the tribal universe and the potential contributions of tribal knowledge
to a "science of wholeness".
"HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW?"
TOWARD AN EPISTEMOLOGY OF SCIENCE An Institute of Noetic Sciences Report
Twenty leaders in their fields, from physics to psychiatry, signed a statement acknowledging the need for a new approach
to a science of consciousness.
TOWARD AN ADEQUATE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS
by Willis Harman
Our worldview is too important to be defined by scientists and philosophers, says Institute president Willis Harman. It
affects everything we do and everything we care about. "None of us can afford to be uninvolved." He proposes
reworking an old idea of multiple realms of being—including matter, body, mind, soul and spirit.
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