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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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Becoming Compassionate
The Origins and Development of Empathic Concern
This pioneering psychologist-scientist in the study of child development concludes that nature needs nurture to nourish our inherent capacities for humane behavior.
- Publications Articles
- December 2006 - February 2007
- 4 pages
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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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The Compassionate Brain
How Empathy Creates Intelligence
Here is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity.
- Publications Books
- June 13, 2006
- 160 pages
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"Exploring the Noetic Sciences" Teleseminar Series
The focus of this teleseminar series was to provide a basic understanding of IONS' three primary program areas: Consciousness and Healing, Extended Human Capacities and Worldview Transformation.
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Forgiveness
Conversations with Fred Luskin, PhD
In this program, recorded during a conference called Living Deeply: Expanding Human Capacities, held on the IONS campus in May 2003, we explore both the challenges and benefits of forgiveness. Dr. Fred Luskin describes his research findings on forgiveness and offers practical tools for learning to truly forgive.
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The Frontier of Noetic Sciences (Volume 2)
Extended Human Capacities
This series of articles, written by members of the research team at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and contributors from other fields of study, represents a variety of perspectives and topic areas in the program area that IONS calls "extended human capacities," which include such little-understood phenomena as ESP, distant healing, near-death experiences (NDEs), mind-matter interactions, and subtle energies.
- Publications Books
- 2010
- 48 pages
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"Optimal Health and Human Flourishing" with Elliott Dacher (class 4 of 8)
Transforming Disturbing Emotions
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Week 4 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.
This class presents the seven approaches to work with afflictive emotions, in order to restore natural harmony and balance. We learn about the human capacity for self-regulation and explore current research in the field of neuroscience.
- Audio Optimal Health
- 2011-10-21
- 01:58:47
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IONS Research Program: Extended Human Capacities (sample)
IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz and Senior Scientist Dean Radin engage in a spontaneous dialogue about IONS’ scientific legacy and continuing inquiry into the frontiers of consciousness and the outer limits of “inner space.”
- Audio Lectures
- Spring 2007
- 00:03:00
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The Noetic Post, Vol. 1, No. 1
A Bulletin from the Institute of Noetic Sciences
An 8-page newsletter with information on the noetic sciences, from feature articles and book reviews to research updates and news on IONS.
- Publications Newsletters
- Fall/Winter 2009
- 8 pages
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"Optimal Health and Human Flourishing" with Elliott Dacher (class 5 of 8)
The Noble Heart
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Week 5 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.
This class helps us develop an understanding of the concept of "otherness," the focus of a noble heart. We learn how to shift from self-centeredness to other-centeredness and expand our capacity for selfless intimacy, joy, and love with "loving kindness" meditation.
- Audio Optimal Health
- 2011-10-26
- 01:56:20
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"Recovering the Soul of Healing" with Elliott Dacher (part 1 of 2)
Elliott S. Dacher is a pioneer in the emerging medicine of the future. His knowledge and practical approaches to the field of health and healing have evolved from his extensive ...
- Audio Lectures
- 00:41:54
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"Recovering the Soul of Healing" with Elliott Dacher (part 2 of 2)
Elliott S. Dacher is a pioneer in the emerging medicine of the future. His knowledge and practical approaches to the field of health and healing have evolved from his extensive ...
- Audio Lectures
- 00:44:08
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Gratefulness
Conversations with Brother David Steindl-Rast
In this program, recorded during a conference called Living Deeply: Expanding Human Capacities, held on the IONS campus in May 2003, we explore the concept and practice of gratefulness with Brother David Steindl-Rast, PhD. Brother David also offers a fresh perspectice on the language of Christianity, especially the clichés that tend to alienate people from traditional doctrines.
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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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"Future of the Body" with Michael Murphy and Keith Thomson
Metanormal Capacities and Bodily Transformation
An Invitational Research Symposium co-sponsored by IONS, Esalen Institute, and New Dimensions Radio, featuring Michael Murphy's "Reflections from a Synoptic Empiricist" with response by Keith Thomson.
- Audio Lectures
- 2001-03-15
- 00:54:15
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The Altruistic Species
Scientific, Philosophical, and Religious Perspectives of Human Benevolence
What motivates altruism? How essential is the phenomenon of altruism to the human experience? Is altruism readily accessible to the ordinary person?
- Publications Books
- October 1, 2007
- 304 pages
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"Entangled Minds" with Dean Radin (2009)
Dr. Dean Radin has explored the further reaches of consciousness perhaps more than any scientist alive. As the Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dean has investigated subjects ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2009-03-03
- 00:43:30
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The Wise Heart
A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology
You have within you unlimited capacities for love, for joy, for communion with life, and for unshakable freedom—and here is how to awaken them. In The Wise Heart, one of the leading spiritual teachers of our time offers the most accessible and illuminating guide to Buddhism’s transformational psychology ever published in the West.
- Publications Books
- April 29, 2008
- 448 pages
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Spiritual Evolution
A Scientific Defense of Faith
In our current era of holy terror, passionate faith has come to seem like a present danger. Writers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens have been happy to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare ...
- Publications Books
- May 20, 2008
- 256 pages