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The Frontier of Noetic Sciences (Volume 3)
Worldview Transformation
This compilation of articles represents a range of perspectives and topics in an area of exploration that IONS calls “worldview transformation”—beneficial changes in consciousness that affect how we relate to ourselves, others, and the world.
- Books
- 2012
- 44 pages
Scientists at IONS disseminate the results of their research in peer reviewed academic journals, books and book chapters, popular press articles, and other publications. This section includes a selected list of publications by IONS researchers.
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Worldview Transformation and the Development of Social Consciousness
In this paper, we examine how increasing understanding and explicit awareness of social consciousness can develop through transformations in worldview. Based on a model that emerged from a series of qualitative and quantitative studies on worldview transformation, we identify five developmental levels of social consciousness.
- Scholarly Papers
- August 1, 2010
- 19 pages
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Intuition through Time
A great deal of human activity is involved in anticipating the future, from predicting the next influenza strain to the expectations that underlie the placebo effect. Most models of anticipation take for granted that events unfold in a unidirectional flow of time, from past to future. Two experiments were conducted to test this assumption.
- Scholarly Papers
- July 1, 2009
- 12 pages
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Mindful Motherhood
From hormones to stretch marks, labor pains to diaper changes, motherhood is an adventure like none other. The rapid changes in your body, your lifestyle, and your very identity call for a certain mental agility. Mindfulness can help you meet the challenge ...
- Books
- May 1, 2009
- 200 pages
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Compassionate Intention as a Therapeutic Intervention by Partners of Cancer Patients
This double-blind study investigated the effects of intention on the autonomic nervous system of a human "sender" and distant "receiver" of those intentions, and it explored the roles that motivation and training might have in modulating these effects.
- Scholarly Papers
- July 1, 2008
- 9 pages
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Effects of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention During Pregnancy on Prenatal Stress and Mood
Stress and negative mood during pregnancy increase risk for poor childbirth outcomes and postnatal mood problems and may interfere with mother-infant attachment and child development. However, relatively little research has focused on the efficacy of psychosocial interventions to reduce stress and negative mood during pregnancy. In this study, we developed and pilot tested an eight-week mindfulness-based intervention directed toward reducing stress and improving mood in pregnancy and early postpartum.
- Scholarly Papers
- February 1, 2008
- 8 pages
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Testing nonlocal observation as a source of intuitive knowledge
This study explored the hypothesis that in some cases intuitive knowledge arises from perceptions that are not mediated through the ordinary senses.
- Scholarly Papers
- January 1, 2008
- 11 pages
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Negative Affect, Emotional Acceptance, and Smoking Cessation
This article describes recent theoretical developments and empirical findings regarding the role of negative affect (NA) and emotion regulation in nicotine dependence and smoking cessation.
- Scholarly Papers
- December 1, 2007
- 10 pages
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Effects of Intentionally Enhanced Chocolate on Mood
A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled experiment investigated whether chocolate exposed to "good intentions" would enhance mood more than unexposed chocolate.
- Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2007
- 8 pages
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Toward Understanding the Placebo Effect
Conventional models of placebo effects assume that all mind-body responses associated with expectation can be explained by ordinary causal processes. This experiment tested whether some placebo effects may also involve retrocausal, or time-reversed, influences.
- Scholarly Papers
- September1, 2007
- 7 pages
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Double-Blind Test of the Effects of Distant Intention on Water Crystal Formation
The hypothesis that water "treated" with intention can affect ice crystals formed from that water was pilot tested under double-blind conditions. A group of approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo focused positive intentions toward water samples located inside an electromagnetically shielded room in California.
- Scholarly Papers
- September 1, 2006
- 4 pages
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Of two minds
The first author, a proponent of evidence for psychic ability, and the second, a sceptic, have been conducting a systematic programme of collaborative sceptic-proponent research in parapsychology. This has involved carrying out joint experiments in which each investigator individually attempted to mentally influence the electrodermal activity of participants at a distant location.
- Scholarly Papers
- August 1, 2006
- 10 pages
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Experiments Testing Models of Mind-Matter Interaction
Three models of mind-matter interaction (MMI) in random number generators (RNGs) were tested. One model assumes that MMI is a forward-time causal influence, a second assumes that MMI is due to present-time exploitation of precognitive information, and a third assumes that MMI is a retrocausal influence.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2006
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I to We
It is clear that human consciousness can be transformed through spiritual experiences and practices. Little is known, however, about what the predictors, mediators, and outcomes are of such transformations in consciousness. In-depth structured interviews were conducted with forty-seven teachers and scholars from religious and spiritual traditions and modern transformative movements to identify factors common to the transformative process across traditions.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2006
- 17 pages
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Gut Feelings, Intuition, and Emotions
Investigate whether the gut feelings of one person, as measured with an electrogastrogram (EGG), respond to the emotions of a distant person.
- Scholarly Papers
- February 1, 2005
- 7 pages
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The Role of Transformation, Spirit, and Psychospiritual Approaches on Human Brain Activity and Immunity
The word transcendent conjures images of seeking a mountain top experience, of catapulting above the mundane physical world into a realm where one is unaffected by day-to-day complaints. One definition of the term transcendent is "separate from" or "beyond." But the root of the word transcend is "to climb over or across," which may more accurately describe the lived experience of one facing an illness or other challenging experience. In the real world, transcending life's events has less to do with finding a way to avoid or remove them and more to do with developing ways to live with them on a daily basis.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2004
- 4 pages
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Electrodermal Presentiments of Future Emotions
Many people have experienced intuitive hunches or forebodings about future events that later turned out to be correct. Most such hunches can be attributed to unconscious inferences, others are undoubtedly coincidences, instances of selective memory, or due to forgotten expertise. However, sometimes a hunch seems so intrinsically unlikely and yet turns out to be valid, that one wonders whether such experiences, often on the edge of conscious awareness, might involve perception of future information.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2004
- 21 pages
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Event-Related Electroencephalographic Correlations Between Isolated Human Subjects
To examine electroencephalograms (EEG) in pairs of people to see if event-related potentials evoked in one person's brain are correlated with concurrent responses in the brain of a distant, isolated person.
- Scholarly Papers
- April 1, 2004
- 9 pages
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Effects of Healing Intention on Cultured Cells and Truly Random Events
To explore effects of healing intention and intentional space conditioning on the growth of cultured human brain cells and the distribution of truly random events.
- Scholarly Papers
- February 1, 2004
- 10 pages
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Distant Healing Intention
This paper provides definitions and a discussion of evolving guidelines for conducting research on the effects of distant healing intention (DHI) on living systems in the laboratory. We consider the relevance of DHI laboratory research to applied healing, special theoretical challenges, and other considerations that distinguish DHI research from other domains of laboratory science.
- Scholarly Papers
- May 1, 2003
- 13 pages
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Thinking about Telepathy
Dean Radin, Senior Scientist at The Institute of Noetic Sciences, argues that telepathy is real, and suggests that quantum mechanics may ultimately provide an explanation of how it works.
- Scholarly Papers
- January 1, 2003
- 5 pages
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Random Event Generators
The interaction of consciousness and physical systems is most often discussed in theoretical terms, usually with reference to the epistemological and ontological challenges of quantum theory. Less well known is a growing literature reporting experiments that examine the mindmatter relationship empirically. Here we describe data from a global network of physical random number generators that shows unexpected structure apparently associated with major world events.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2002
- 14 pages
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Exploring Relationships Between Random Physical Events and Mass Human Attention
Exploratory study of the outputs of continuously operating truly random number generators (RNG) located around the world indicated that the largest daily change in variance in the year 2001 occurred on an unprecedented day in United States history, September 11, 2001.
- Scholarly Papers
- 2002
- 15 pages
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Ganzfeld Psi Performance Within an Artistically Gifted Population
ESP Ganzfeld study with exceptional population, students from Juilliard School in New York City. Twenty undergraduate Juilliard students each served as a receiver in a single telepathy Ganzfeld session. Juilliard students achieved a significant success rate of 50%, double the chance of expectation. Students of music demonstrated the most outstanding ...
- Scholarly Papers
- April 1992
- 14 pages
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A Re-examination of the Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
The first report of a series under the Causality Issues in Contemporary Science project, funded in part by the Fetzer Foundation and Laurance S. Rockefeller.
- Scholarly Papers
- 1991
- 110 pages