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your mind, open your heart, and activate your full
potential.
Upcoming
Workshop:
March
27-29, 2009
The
Healer's Journey: Enhance
your healing practice, increase joy, and reconnect with
your life purpose
Lee Lipsenthal, MD, ABIHM and Cassandra
Vieten, PhD
This
program is designed to enhance the life and capacity
of all people in the healing arts. This would include
massage therapists, yoga teachers, psychologists, physicians,
naturopaths, social workers, nutritionists, teachers,
nurses, and anyone interested in personal growth.
Register
online, email workshops@noetic.org,
or call 707-779-8224.
See
a complete list of 2009
workshops.
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The
Retreat Center at the Institute of Noetic Sciences |
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Located
on 200 acres of beautiful rolling hills just 25 miles
north of the Golden Gate Bridge, we offer meeting facilities,
cuisine, and accommodations for 5-120. Our clients offer
educational programs, workshops and retreats, with a
broad focus on health, personal growth, and transformation.
We also welcome weekend workshops and retreats for small
groups (less than 25). Many programs are open to the
public.
For
more information and Events Schedule: www.noetic.org/retreat.cfm
lvanderboom@noetic.org
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Retreat Center Events
San Francisco Bay Area |
Gathering
in Gratefulness
February 20-22, 2009
This weekend - led by Br. David Steindl-Rast,
Roshi Joan Halifax, and Tessa Bielecki - will allow
you to explore the practice of grateful living -
the ethics behind a sustainable global community.
Jim
Garrison
February 24, 2009
Potluck dinner followed with a presentation by the president of Wisdom University and the State of the World Forum.
New
Equations
February 25-March 4, 2009
Participants in this multi-session training
program learn how to connect and communicate with
people in such a way that those with whom they engage
discover the physical expression of their own spiritual
nature. This is a two-year training program.
Dennis
Klocek
March 10, 2009
Potluck dinner followed by a presentation by the Director of the Consciousness Studies Program at the Rudolf Steiner College.
Certified
Laughter Yoga Leader Training
March
14-15, 2009
This weekend will be an in-depth educational experience
for you to enjoy the powerful health benefits of
laughter, develop your own laughter practice, learn
to lead laughter clubs and to facilitate the use
of laughter to promote happiness at work.
Regression
Therapy Intensive Training
March
16-20, 2009
The wisdom of the ancient healing tool of hypnosis
can be utilized to help people learn the origins
of current life situations or difficulties, eliminate
many kinds of emotional and physical problems, and
improve the quality of everyday life.
Brad
Warner
March 19, 2009
Potluck dinner followed with a presentation
by an American spiritual seeker from Akron, Ohio
who took a most unlikely path to enlighten his consciousness.
Creative
Memories Scrapbooking Weekend
March
20-22, 2009
Celebrate and preserve your memories into treasured
keepsakes - your life, your story, your way. Felicia
will show you how with top quality photo albums
and organizing products.
Two
Week Intensive in Advanced Shamanic Healing with
Michael Harner
March
23-April 3, 2009
A variety of advanced methods are practiced in this
residential program, including extraction healing,
soul retrieval, psychopomp work, divination, and
work with the spirits of nature.
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Temple
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The
16th Annual Temple Awards for Creative Altruism
will be presented at our International Conference
Toward a Global Shift: Seeding the Field of
Collective Change, June 17—21, 2009, in Tucson,
Arizona.
The
Temple Awards for Creative Altruism are presented
to one or more outstanding altruists whose lives
and work embody the inspirational light of unselfish
service motivated by love. An award fund of $25,000
is divided between recipients each award year.
The
deadline for nominations for the 2009 Awards is
March 1, 2009. Download
a PDF of the Nominating Form for 2009.
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Becoming Part of Our Work |
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At
the Institute
of Noetic Sciences, consciousness
matters.
By
supporting our rigorous scientific
research and educational
programs on consciousness and human potential,
you are helping to midwife the emergence of a
more sustainable worldview by addressing a root
cause of our challenges: narrowly conditioned
consciousness. The survival and flourishing of
humanity requires a fundamental shift in attitudes
and beliefs that lead to more holistic and aware
choices and a worldview centered in interconnectedness.
As
a research and educational center that focuses
on consciousness—and as a gravitational attractor
for the emerging consciousness movement—we are
dedicated to bridging the rigors of science and
the deep wisdom of subjective experiences to serve
individual and collective transformation. In this
we inspire to nourish and support you in your
work and in your experience during this momentous
time in history.
Because
we are a nonprofit, we rely on your engagement
and financial support to keep our efforts going.
Our mutual work is of vital service to the world;
your collaboration makes all the difference! Thank
you for all you do!
Give
a gift today.
For
information about the benefits of Circle membership
with the Institute of Noetic Sciences, contact
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| In
the News |
 Dean
Radin, PhD, Senior Scientist at the Institute,
was recently named Coeditor-In-Chief of Explore:
The Journal of Science and Healing,
which addresses the scientific principles behind, and applications of, evidence-based healing practices from a wide variety of sources, including conventional, alternative, and cross-cultural medicine. It is an interdisciplinary journal that explores the healing arts, consciousness, spirituality, eco-environmental issues, and basic science as all these fields relate to health.
Dean's
first career as a concert violinist shifted into science
after he earned a Masters degree in electrical engineering
and a PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois,
Champaign-Urbana. For the next decade he worked on advanced
telecommunications R&D at AT&T Bell Laboratories and
GTE Laboratories; since then he has been engaged in
consciousness research. Before joining the research
staff at IONS, Dean held appointments at Princeton University,
the University of Edinburgh, the University of Nevada,
and three Silicon Valley think-tanks, including SRI
International, where he worked on a classified program
investigating psychic phenomena for the U.S. government.
He is author or coauthor of over 200 technical and popular
articles, a dozen book chapters, and several books including
the bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne,
1997) and Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster,
2006). His technical articles have appeared in journals
ranging from Foundations of Physics to Psychological
Bulletin, Journal of Alternative and Complementary
Medicine, and Journal of Consciousness Studies.
He has been interviewed for television shows ranging
from Oprah and Larry King Live to
the BBC’s Horizon and PBS's Closer to Truth,
and he has presented over a hundred invited lectures
in venues including Harvard, Stanford and Princeton
universities and Google.
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Media
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Listen
in for live
teleseminars featuring authors and
luminaries in the field of consciousness.
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Wednesday,
February 4th at 5pm Pacific - Matthew
Gilbert with Graeme Taylor
on "Evolution's
Edge: The Coming Collapse and Transformation
of Our World"
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Wednesday,
February 11th at 5pm Pacific - Cassandra
Vieten with Wilford Welch
on "Tactics of Hope"
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Wednesday,
February 18th at 5pm Pacific - Marilyn
Schlitz with James Arond-Thomas
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Wednesday,
February 25th at 5pm Pacific - Dean
Radin with Jim Walsh on "Intention
and Food"
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  Here
is a sneak
preview of the upcoming Institute of Noetic Sciences
Shift
Magazine. If you join
us today you will receive this provocative
issue.
Table
of Contents
Consciousness
and Healing
In Search of Happiness
by Vesela Simic
There has been an unprecedented explosion of interest in the pursuit of happiness. What are scientists learning? Is the quest for happiness appropriate and useful in a time of global instability? What's missing from the discussion, and where is this quest taking us? Its pursuit is more—and less—complicated than we think.
Extended
Human Capacities
Twin Telepathy and the Illusion of Separation
by Diane H. Powell
Despite substantial evidence validating psychic phenomena,
the scientific community remains largely resistant. Enter the revolutionary phenomenon of telepathic communication between twins. Numerous cases have been accumulating since the late 1800s. If they can't be explained through synchronicity or genetics,
what other explanation could there be?
Emerging
Worldviews
The Adaptive Organization
by Carol Mase
The strains that most of us are feeling these days are also reflected within our institutions. In attempting to adapt, most still rely on traditional models of change that no longer work in a world where the old rules don't apply. Mase makes the case for a new model that bridges psychology, biology, and the principles of interdependence.
Transformation
A Quiet Revolution: An Interview with Adyashanti
by Steve Donoso
Spiritual teacher Adyashanti, who began his public teachings in 1996, shares his wisdom on the nature of awakening consciousness. "The most powerful impediments to awakening are our beliefs about it," he says. His recommended tools are self-honesty, meditation, and inquiry into primordial silence.
 The
Institute's new Shift
in Action
radio show is a free internet broadcast
that showcases the voices of an emerging conscious
culture. Our weekly show gives you access to some
of the most inspiring leaders, brightest minds,
and top innovators who are committed to building
a better world.
It's
a great way to introduce your friends to the Institute.
Join host Stephen Dinan every
Tuesday at 9 am PST (rebroadcast at 9 pm PST)
on VoiceAmerica.
- Feb.
3rd - Barbara Marx Hubbard
- Synergistic Democracy
- Feb.
10th - Andrew Harvey - Evolutionary
Mysticism and the Birth of the Divine Human
- Feb.
17th - Shiva Rea - The Evolutionary
Edge of Yoga
- Feb.
24th - Sadhguru - Spirituality,
a Living Process
 Shift
your thoughts about your job in our new
One
Minute Shift with Chip Conley,
entrepreneur and author of Peak: How Great
Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow. Discovering
the higher purpose in what you do can transform
your work into a "calling" and enable
you to make a difference in the lives of others.
Experience
Chip Conley live at our International
Conference in June! Registration is now
open. For more information on Chip's presentation
and workshop, visit www.ionsconference.org.
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| Institute
of Noetic Sciences Research Programs |
Our
research currently encompasses three main program areas:
Emerging Worldviews and Transformation, Consciousness
and Healing, and Extended Human Capacities. Here is
a detailed overview of the first.
Emerging
Worldviews and Transformation
Never before in history have so many cultures, belief
systems, and new scientific discoveries emerged and
interacted so quickly. These projects study whether
a blend of ancient and contemporary wisdom may help
to generate transformative models for how to live life
in the 21st century.
The
Tranformation Project
For over a decade, we have been investigating how people experience transformations in consciousness. These are fundamental shifts in worldview and ways of being that result in such beneficial outcomes as increased quality of life, an orientation toward service, and a higher likelihood of experiencing compassion, forgiveness, gratitude, joy, and meaning.
Worldview
Literacy - Education and Consciousness
For this project we are researching and creating a youth curriculum on exploring and understanding different worldviews. Our goal is to work toward transforming the model of education in America by creating whole-person education, identifying barriers to inclusion of whole-person education, and developing strategies to overcome those barriers.
Meditation
Bibliography
The Physiological and Psychological Effects of Meditation project has been underway since 2000. This portion of the project is developing an online searchable bibliography for all known scientific studies on meditation.
At
Home Within
The Institute is collaborating with a leading provider of homeless services in Petaluma, California. Consciousness-oriented programs are now offered year-round in the shelter, and we continue to test the effects of participating in these programs on coping, stress, and well-being.
Film:
Survival of Bodily Death
Footage from leading scientists has been accumulating, but we need additional funding to complete the editing and format the film for publishing on the internet or on a DVD. We also want to create a learning guide to accompany the film.
Achuar
This project takes us deeply into the Achuar worldview of the Ecuadorian Amazon to better understand the process of dream sharing within this remote group. Through this project we seek to learn new ways of bridging Western rational and objective ways of knowing with indigenous intuitive and unitive ways of knowing.
"Noetic
Intervention" for Latina Teens
This study examined the effects of a specially developed intervention designed to encourage maternal infant bonding and communication in pregnant teenagers of Marin county, many of whom are highly stressed economically or by virtue of recently giving birth.
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and sponsors leading-edge research into the potentials
and powers of consciousness—including perceptions,
beliefs, attention, intention, and intuition. The Institute
explores phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional
scientific models, while maintaining a commitment to
scientific rigor.
We
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