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The Death of Religion and the Rebirth of Spirit
A Return to the Intelligence of the Heart
Pearce explains that beneath our awareness, culture imprints a negative force-field that blocks the natural rise of the spirit toward its innate nature of love and altruism. Further, he identifies religion as the primary cultural force behind this negative imprinting.
- Publications Books
- March 13, 2007
- 272 pages
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Essential Shifts Interview: Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill is known for her environmental activism, but she is also a deeply spiritual and reflective being. In this dialogue, she reveals her sense that the most important thing we can do is to hold an image of our world as whole, connected, and complete.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-06
- 00:29:18
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Essential Shifts Interview: Stanislav Grof
What if our propensity to war and aggression had deep roots in the trauma of birth? That’s one of the provocative theories of Dr. Stanislav Grof, drawing from fifty years at the frontiers of consciousness research. There is, he believes, reason for cautious optimism that we can transcend our destructive impulses if large numbers of people engage the healing work that becomes possible in non-ordinary or "holotropic" states such as those used by shamans.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:15
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Intention Downloads Interview: Angeles Arrien
Angeles shares the Inuit people’s philosophy that there are two plans in life: “My plan and Mystery’s plan.” She discusses the relationship between effort and grace and advises us to find a balance between the two.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:25:06
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Stephen Simon
Stephen Simon is a veteran producer whose distinguished career includes the Presidency of two major production companies and the development and production of a myriad of well-known films such as: Smokey and the Bandit, The Goodbye Girl, The Electric Horseman, Somewhere in Time, the Academy Award winning What Dreams May Come, and the Emmy-nominated Lifetime movie Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. He is also author of the definitive work The Force is With You: Mystical Movie Messages that Inspire Our Lives, published by Walsch Books, an imprint of Hampton Roads. His newest book is entitled Bringing Back The Old Hollywood. Simon is also co-founder of The Spiritual Cinema Circle.
Recognizing the powerful effect - both positive and negative - that the media has upon our culture, Simon has become the leading spokesperson for a new genre he has coined as "Spiritual Cinema." Spiritual Cinema examines who we are and why we are here and illuminates the human condition through stories and images that inspire us to explore that what we can be as a humanity when we operate at our very best. Spiritual Cinema reflects our beliefs and values and illustrates their impact upon our lives and our society. In this context, spiritual refers not to religion but to the unseen divine essence that is life force itself. History has revealed that individuals or cultures that lose their connection to this essence become devoid of love, respect and compassion. -
Byron Belitsos
Byron Belitsos is an author, editor, journalist, and book publisher as well as an experienced political activist. Currently he is the CEO of Origin Press, a publisher of trade book titles on spirituality, politics, and esoterica based in Northern California. Origin's world-renowned authors include Peter Russell, Charles Tart, Timothy Wyllie, Ralph Metzner, Phillip Krapf, and Jim Marrs.
Belitsos has extensively studied world history and world religions, as well as political theory and philosophy. In addition he has had a long entrepreneurial career, having started a number of businesses, including a highly successful software company.
Byron has been politically active since 1969 in a variety of venues and contexts. His involvement with the world democracy movement started in 1986 when he joined the World Federalist Association; he is now a board member of one of its successor organizations, the Democratic World Federalists. In 1988 Belitsos wrote, directed, and produced the acclaimed educational film, Toward a Governed World (1988) and has just completed an updated new edition, a 90-minute DVD entitled Toward a Well-Governed World (Origin Press: August, 2005). In addition, he is the coauthor and publisher of One World Democracy: A Progressive Vision for Enforceable Global Law
(Origin Press: September, 2005).
Belitsos founded Origin Press in 1996 in San Rafael, California. He is also its principal funder and stockholder, and is the publisher of its two imprints, Wisdom Editions and Celestia. Origin's eighteen titles have so far been recipients of three national prizes.
Belitsos was also an inaugural member of Ken Wilber's Integral Institute, in its business branch. In this connection, Byron launched in 2001 the website ikosmos.com, known as the Portal for Cultural Creativity. This pioneering website has comprehensively covered the key ideas and books of the integral movement.
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About/IONS around the World/Translations
World Language Translations Blogs Ciencia Noética (“Spreading Noetic Sciences”) is a Spanish language blog by long-time IONS member, international Spanish network representative, and Buenos Aires group coordinator Ana L ... -
About/History
History of the Institute of Noetic Sciences Photo ©2009 Susan Lambert. All Rights Reserved. Origins The vision for creating the Institute of Noetic Sciences came in 1971. Nations throughout the ... -
About/FAQ/General
Frequent Questions About IONS See also Membership FAQ | Research FAQ | Website FAQ What is the Institute of Noetic Sciences - or IONS? What is "noetic"? What are "noetic sciences"? Who founded ... -
Psychic Exploration: A Challenge for Science
The topic of consciousness is as vast as the cosmos and as close to us as sleep. Noetics is the discipline that is arising from this confluence of outer- and inner-space research. It is the ultimate frontier in man’s attempt to understand the nature of the universe and himself.
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About/FAQ/Research
Frequent Questions About IONS Research See also General FAQ | Membership FAQ | Website FAQ EarthRise FAQ--> Where can I find information on the Institute's research programs? Where can I locate ... -
Civilization on the Cusp: Responding to Our Evolutionary Challenge
We are the only species on this planet that can speak, write, reflect, discover, create, and communicate with one another in words and gestures and that can give expression to our imagination and our skills in beautiful artefacts, exquisite musical forms, and brilliant technological inventions such as the Hubble telescope. How have we come to believe that this entire creative panorama has no meaning?
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ProcessMind: A User’s Guide to Connecting with the Mind of God
The processmind is both inside of you and connected to everything you notice. It is an active, intelligent “space” between the observer and observed. It is both you and me and the “us” we share. Studying and experiencing this processmind will connect the now separate disciplines of psychology, sociology, physics, and mysticism and provide new useful ways to relate to one another and the environment.
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War of the Worldviews: Science vs. Spirituality
In a face-off between mysticism and Western science over the most reliable sources of truth, two distinguished advocates bring their best thinking to bear on the kinds of questions that humankind has wrestled with for millennia. How we answer those questions will shape our future.
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The Magic Ocean of Energy and Resonance
We exist in an ocean of information, largely unaware of its depth and breadth, tuned only to a narrow band of frequencies. And yet this vibratory universe may hold the keys to our existence—if we can get on the right wavelength.
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The Reality of ESP: A Physicist’s Proof of Psychic Abilities
Targ, a preeminent figure at the frontier of psychic research, draws on both personal experience and hard-core science to erase any doubts about our extrasensory potential.
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Probable Non Equivalence Between Inertial & Gravitational Masses Opening the Doors to UFO Self-Propulsion
Possible Disparity between the Inertial and Gravitational Masses in Einstein’s Formulas, according to Professor José Álvarez López, PhD. Can this Lead to the Possibility of Self-Propulsion? By Giorgio Piacenza ... -
Energy Psychology: The Future of Therapy?
What we don’t know about healing dwarfs what we do know, and nowhere is this more apparent than the role of “energy” in restoring balance to a fractured psyche. Energy Psychology, modern psychotherapy’s enfant terrible, is growing up and giving us clues to the mystery of its remarkable power.