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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.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- April 1, 2004
- 9 pages
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Electrocortical Activity Prior to Unpredictable Stimuli in Meditators and Non-meditators
Advanced meditators occasionally report experiences of timelessness, or states of awareness that seem to transcend the usual boundaries of the subjective present. This study investigates this awareness in eight experienced meditators and eight matched controls by measuring 32 channels of EEG before, during, and after exposure to unpredictable light and sound stimuli.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September 2011
- 14 pages
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Consciousness and Healing Forum: Marilyn Schlitz
Marilyn shares exciting news about IONS projects and experiments that explore an integral, consciousness-based approach to healing. She highlights studies where physiological changes have been rigorously monitored to demonstrate a fundamental interconnectedness between physically separated subjects, and the impact of compassionate intention.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-03-23
- 00:15:19
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Great Shift Dialogue: Kurt Smith (excerpt)
Wild Divine CEO Kurt Smith has been at the forefront of innovative technologies that expand consciousness and enhance health. In this dialogue he begins by urging patience: deep changes take time. He also emphasizes that collective changes can only flow from personal changes, so we need to enhance our personal well-being.
- Audio Shorts
- 2008-02-05
- 00:01:54
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The Science of Interpersonal Peace with Emiliana Simon-Thomas
Science of Peace Week Teleseries
In this Science of Peace Week session from the Summer of Peace 2012 Telesummit, host Cassandra Vieten talks with guest Emiliana Simon-Thomas: Senior Research Scientist and Science Director at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2012-07-25
- 00:57:03
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Selections from the Consciousness and Healing Forum
These talks were recorded at IONS' Consciousness and Healing Forum on 3/23/2005 in San Francisco, where Deepak and Marilyn deepened the dialogue initiated in the newly-released book Consciousness and Healing.
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Arnaud Delorme, PhD
Arnaud Delorme, PhD, is a CNRS principal investigator in Toulouse, France, and a faculty project scientist at the University of San Diego California. In 2000, Dr. Delorme completed his PhD Thesis on visual categorization in humans, monkeys, and machines. Based on the results of his modeling work, he co-created with Simon Thorpe the Spikenet Technology Company, now a successful start-up. Dr. Delorme then moved to the Salk Institute for a post-doc in Terry Sejnowski and Francis Crick’s laboratory where he focused on statistical analysis of electro-encephalographic (EEG) signal recorded during various cognitive tasks. He developed the free EEGLAB software for advanced analysis of EEG signals in collaboration with Scott Makeig, software which is now amongst the most used software in EEG research worldwide. He was awarded a Brettencourt-Schueller young investigator award and a 10-year anniversary ANT young investigator award for his contributions to the field of EEG research.
Dr. Delorme has a keen interest in the scientific study of consciousness and spirituality. He is a long term 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. Starting in 2002, he has developed a strong ongoing collaboration with Dr. Rael Cahn to look at brain dynamical changes underlying extra-ordinary states of consciousness as experienced during meditation and due to the effects of psycho-active agents. He is the co-director in Rishikesh, India of the Meditation Research Institute. In 2010, he started collaborating with Dean Radin on analysis of electro-encephalographic (EEG) signal recorded during presentiment tasks.
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Psychophysiological Correlates of Nondual States of Awareness
Testing the Ontological Status of the Experience of Meditation Induced Timeless States
- Principal Investigators
- Dean Radin, PhD, Cassandra Vieten, PhD
- Co-Investigator
- Arnaud Delorme, PhD
- Project Staff
- Leena Michel
An EEG study to test whether "non-dual" meditators' subjective states of "timelessness" can be objectively measured.
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"Facts" and Their Interpretations
As a scientist and neuropsychiatrist, I agree with the late physicist Sir William Lawrence Bragg’s statement that, “The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new ...
- New Science
- Noetic Research
- Worldview
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Edward F. Kelly, PhD
Edward F. Kelly, Ph.D. is currently Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatric Medicine at the University of Virginia. He is author of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
, Computer Recognition of English Word Senses and Altered States of Consciousness and Psi: An Historical Survey and Research Prospectus. His central long term interests revolve around mind-brain relations and functional neuroimaging studies of unusual states of consciousness and associated cognitive phenomena.
Dr. Kelly received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Yale and a PhD from Harvard with primary interests in psycholinguistics and cognitive science. His research, carried out at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill as part of a large neuroscience research program, involved non-invasive study of normal and abnormal plasticity in human somatosensory cortex using high-resolution EEG and fMRI techniques. He had previously spent over ten years working full-time in experimental parapsychology, initially at J. B. Rhine’s Institute for Parapsychology in Durham, NC, and subsequently through the Department of Electrical Engineering at Duke University.
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William Bengston, PhD
Dr. Bengston is a professor of sociology at St. Joseph’s College in New York, and President of the Society for Scientific Exploration, an international group of scientists who study anomalies. For over twenty five years, Dr. Bengston has been doing research into anomalous healing and has numerous publications. His research has produced the first successful full cures of transplanted mammary cancer and methylcholanthrene induced sarcomas in experimental mice by laying-on-of-hands techniques that he helped to develop. He has recently published a memoir, The Energy Cure, with Sounds True, along with a 6 CD set Hands on Healing: A Training Course in the Energy Cure, which describes his healing techniques.
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Double-Slit Experiment
Experimental Tests of the Role of Consciousness in the Physical World
- Principal Investigator
- Dean Radin, PhD
- Co-Investigators
- Leena Michel, Arnaud Delorme, PhD
- Key Collaborators
- Robert Richenbach, Paul Wendland, James Johnston
This is a mind-matter interaction study using an optical system.
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Mediumship Study Update
In our last Breaking News we mentioned analyzing data for a study on mediumship. Some of you wanted more information...
- Breaking News from IONS Research
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IONS Scientists at the Tucson Consciousness Conference
This is the second edition of Breaking News, giving you the latest updates on what's happening in Research at IONS. Last week, three of our visiting scholars participated in the "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conference hosted by our longtime friends and collaborators at the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona...
- Breaking News from IONS Research
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Are the Thought Police Knocking on Our Door?
"You can't go to jail for what you're thinking," wrote Frank Loesser in his 1956 hit song “Standing on the Corner.” His observation no longer applies in India ...
- In the News
- Technology and Consciousness
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What’s the Matter with Miracles?
Some days I wake up and it hits me all over again. There’s a lot of science going on in the world, but how many people get to work at a place where a few very brainy and dedicated scientists are measuring the farthest reaches of the mind for clues to higher levels of the human experience?
- Noetic Research
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1998，Chinese Research of Noetic Science, the content of book published
Wu banghui , “Introduction to Science of Human Body”,1998,SICHUAN UNIVERSITY PRESS,ISBN 7-5614-1855-1, Introduction to Science of Human Body First Volume Content Section 1 General Survey Chapter 1, The ...