Institute of Noetic Sciences
| Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) |
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| purpose | Promotion of scientific research |
| Chair: | Marilyn Mandala Schlitz - President / CEO (as of 2012) |
| Establishment date: | 1973 |
| Number of members: | approx. 12,000 |
| Seat : | Petaluma , California |
| Website: | noetic.org |
The Institute of Noetic Sciences ( IONS , German: Institute for Noetic Sciences ) is a US non-profit organization that claims to conduct and financially support scientific research on telepathy , psychokinesis , clairvoyance and the effects of meditation . The term noetic is derived from the Greek noētós (German: “spiritually perceptible”) and refers here to an intuitive consciousness assumed by the founders of the institute, which should be able to access knowledge that goes beyond that which is normal for the normal senses and reason is accessible.
history
The institute was founded in 1973. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell and businessman Paul N. Temple were co-founders .
Mitchell participated in the Apollo 14 mission and he was the sixth person on the moon. He made several positive statements about the existence of psi phenomena and was convinced of the effectiveness of remote healing. He was "90 percent sure" that many UFO sightings were due to extraterrestrial visitors. He also said he learned from military and intelligence circles that facts about the UFO phenomenon were being kept secret. During the Apollo mission, he privately conducted experiments on extrasensory perception , which remained inconclusive. When he saw Earth from the space capsule during the three-day return flight, Mitchell had a key experience:
“In a peak experience, the presence of divinity became almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just an accident based on random processes. The knowledge came to me directly - noetically. It was not a matter of discursive reasoning or logical abstraction. It was an experiential cognition. "
“In a peak experience, the presence of the divine was almost palpable and I knew that life in the universe was not just a coincidence based on aimless processes. That knowledge came straight to me - noetic. It was not a question of reasoning or logical abstraction. It was knowledge through experience. "
Two years after this space flight, Edgar Mitchell and others founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences .
activities
The institute has u. a. sponsored a comprehensive bibliography of the physical and psychological effects of meditation, a bibliography of spontaneous healing, and studies of the effectiveness of compassionate treatment in healing AIDS patients. Current (2006) research and information activities focus on human development , integral health and healing (integral medicine) and new worldviews .
The quarterly magazine Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness is published by the institute. The institute has around 12,000 members worldwide; membership is possible from an annual fee of 35 US dollars . It is headquartered in Petaluma , California on an 8-acre residential and educational campus .
criticism
From the Institute of Noetic Sciences supported research a strictly been for the lack of peer review examined Empiricism criticized Thomas W. Clark, founder of the Center for Naturalism , commented in an article on the Hingewandtheit the New Age movement to limit science in this Sense about the work supported by IONS. The institute suffered from what the humanist philosopher Paul Kurtz called “ transcendental temptation”. This drives the work away from the standard procedure of a peer-reviewed empiricism and into the arms of a dualism that prefers the spiritual over the physical and the teleological over the non-purposefulness.
Quackwatch tops the institute on its list of questionable organizations. Nine criteria were established for inclusion on this list, which are designed to help identify organizations that disseminate unreliable information on health issues.
Mentions
The Institute of Noetic Sciences is also in the 2009 novel " The Lost Symbol " by Dan Brown mentioned. There, the scientist Katherine Solomon conducts experiments that are supposed to prove that the human mind is capable of divine achievements. Among other things, she claims that the human soul has mass and that human thinking can transform matter.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Frequent Questions About IONS. How many members does IONS have? Institute of Noetic Sciences, 2012, accessed April 17, 2012 .
- ↑ Duden - The great foreign dictionary: Entry "noetic" ( memento of the original from June 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Dudenverlag 2003.
- ↑ noetic.org: What Is “Noetic”? ( Memento of May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), last accessed on June 14, 2008
- ↑ noetic.org: Paul N. Temple , last accessed June 14, 2008
- ↑ Tom Rhodes: UFOs: It's A Coverup. Astronaut Asks Washington To Tell Truth About Aliens. Times of London, October 11, 1998, archived from the original January 28, 2007 ; accessed on April 17, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Private Lunar ESP: An Interview with Edgar Mitchell , last accessed June 12, 2008
- ^ Howard Rheingold: They Have a Word for It: A Lighthearted Lexicon of Untranslatable Words & Phrases . Sarabande Books, 2000, ISBN 1-889330-46-9 , pp. 166 .
- ^ O'Regan Brendan & Carlyle Hirschberg: Spontaneous Remission. An Annotated Bibliography. Institute of Noetic Sciences. 1993, Sausalito, California (book)
- ↑ Become an IONS Supporting Member. (No longer available online.) Institute of Noetic Sciences, 2012, archived from the original on May 4, 2012 ; Retrieved April 17, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Clark, Thomas W .: The Specter of Brain Science - or - How the New Age Might Lose Consciousness ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Center for Naturalism , November 2005
- ↑ Stephen Barrett : Questionable Organizations: An Overview , last accessed June 12, 2008
