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Steve Villano with Jean Houston
IONS 40th Anniversary Conversations
For this special call, IONS CEO/President Steve Villano talks with scholar, philosopher, and researcher in human capacities, Jean Houston, PhD. Houston was contacted by IONS Founder Edgar Mitchell shortly after his return from the moon, and she helped him explore the epiphany he had experienced.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2012-12-19
- 00:55:49
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"Exploring the Contemporary Global Crisis" with Jean Houston (sample)
Celebrated psychologist, author, and speaker Jean Houston joins former IONS President James O'Dea to offer an uplifting and poetic perspective on the tribulations of the contemporary world situation. Together, they bring together the external reality and inner journey in a satisfying and inspiring talk.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2005-09-14
- 00:03:00
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"Healing Journey" with Jean Houston (part 2 of 2)
Jean explores physical, psychological, mythical, and spiritual paths that are to be found on this healing journey. One can become a world server filled with a passion for the possible, and having the capacities to make these possibilities happen.
- Audio Lectures
- 1998-06-17
- 00:33:31
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"Healing Journey" with Jean Houston (part 1 of 2)
The journey of personal and social transformation follows a path of reweaving the self wherein the human being becomes what he or she truly is. Jean explores physical, psychological, mythical, and spiritual paths that are to be found on this healing journey.
- Audio Lectures
- 1998-06-17
- 00:41:26
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Psychic Exploration
A Challenge for Science, Understanding the Nature and Power of Consciousness
Psychic Exploration, A Challenge for Science is a primer on psychic research, life's purpose, and the meaning of the universe. Originally published in 1974, this landmark anthology of nearly ...
- Publications Books
- July 1, 2011
- 722 pages
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The Mystery of 2012
Predictions, Prophecies, and Possibilities
What Will Happen in 2012? Will there be an age of awakening, a new step in human evolution, or even an end to the world we know?
- Publications Books
- September 1, 2007
- 417 pages
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Essential Shifts Interview: Don Beck
Spiral Dynamics Integral provides a powerful, multi-leveled mapping of culture, values, and consciousness. In this interview, the leading practitioner of this work, Don Beck, shares his insights about how we can more effectively meet different cultures with solutions appropriate to their "memetic codes."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:48
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"Afterlife Encounters" with Dianne Arcangel
What happens when we die? Dianne Arcangel, a former hospice chaplain and author of Afterlife Encounters, has assembled the world’s largest database of over 10,000 case studies involving contact with “the other side." In this teleseminar with scientist Dean Radin, they explore the implications of this data, the relationship between seeing apparitions and personality types, and alternative explanations such as super-psi.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-09-13
- 01:03:56
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Houston Community Group
Houston, TX US
We have programs ranging in style from reflective to discussion and experiential. To get onto the meeting announcement list, contact Linda Houle at: mail@houstonions.com. For more information contact Laurel Smith or visit www.HoustonIONS.com for up-to-date information.
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Scott Houston
Scott Houston is the coordinator of The Gathering Community Group in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Oliver Markley, PhD
Oliver Markley is Professor Emeritus of Human Sciences and former Chair, Studies of the Future, University of Houston-Clear Lake. He currently writes and speaks about resilience and “manifesting the upside of down” for sustainable well-being.
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Transformation: The Evidence
I’m reading “The Great Gadsby,” the most popular book in the year of my birth. Two generations away now, the government out of control, there is a definite connection ... -
Jean Houston, PhD
Jean Houston, PhD is an internationally known psychologist, scholar, behavioral scientist and teacher is one of the foremost visionary thinkers and doers of our time. She is long regarded as one of the principal founders of the Human Potential Movement. She is the author or co-author of twenty-six books, including The Possible Human; Godseed; The Search for the Beloved; and The Hero and the Goddess; Manual for the Peacemaker: An Iroquois Legend to Heal Self & Society.
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George Zimmer
George Zimmer is a member of the IONS Board of Directors.
He is Founder, Chairman of the Board, and CEO of The Men's Wearhouse, Inc. George Zimmer opened the first Men's Wearhouse in 1973 in Houston. Since then, Zimmer has led the company through every phase of its growth. Under Zimmer's leadership, the company has become the largest retailer of men's tailored suit and dress casual clothing in the U.S. and Canada with over 650 stores with $1.3 billion in sales. Zimmer personally grew with his company from an initial sales employee of a single store to a broad strategic corporate thinker and visionary. He attributes much of the company's success to integrating his Servant Leadership values into the corporate culture. The company's financial success and corporate values of collective honesty, sincerity, integrity, responsiveness, authenticity, mutual goodwill, and caring for each other have become a primary focus for Zimmer as CEO. One of Zimmer's proudest achievements is the inclusion of Men's Wearhouse on Fortune's "The 100 Best Companies To Work For" list since 1999.
Zimmer is a rare example of a company co-founder, entrepreneur, TV icon and CEO, who has transitioned his company over the years to $1.3 billion in sales and a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. His humanity developed simultaneously with the growth of his business acumen, which together created a Fortune 1000 company with a spiritual corporate culture.
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Ervin Laszlo, PhD
Ervin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is also the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.
His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. His career also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.
For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of both the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.