Founded in 1973 by astronautEdgar Mitchell, the Institute of Noetic Sciences explores the frontiers of consciousness through rigorous scientific research, bridges science and spirit, and seeks to support a fundamental shift in human consciousness to create a world grounded in freedom, wisdom and love. The Institute publishes a quarterly review call Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness. It is a membership organization with 30,000 members worldwide. The headquarters are in Petaluma, California, on a 200 acre (0.8 km˛) campus which houses an active retreat and learning center.
Among the projects it has sponsored are a comprehensive bibliography on the physical and psychological effects of meditation, an extensive spontaneous remission bibliography, and studies on the efficacy of compassionate intention on healing in AIDS patients. Current research and education is focused on three primary areas: Extended Human Capacities, Integral Health & Healing, and Emerging Worldviews.
The Institute of NoeticSciences is a nonprofit membership organization located in Northern California that conducts 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.
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Materialistic science has tended to test knowledge by noting whether it leads to the ability to predict and control; while the consensus on validation of noeticsciences has not yet emerged, it seems clear that it will have more to do with understanding than prediction, and more with joining than control.
Because the noeticsciences are partially a process of rediscovery it is possible to anticipate what some of the essential characteristics will be.
A noeticscience &emdash; a science of consciousness and the world of inner experience &emdash; is the most promising contemporary framework within which to carry on that fundamental moral inquiry which stable human societies have always had to place at the center of their concerns.
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