Program Areas

The pioneering work of noetic scientists gives us new understandings of how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world. Building on our past accomplishments, we are developing a deeper comprehension of human experience, including creativity, intuition, and intention.

We are accomplishing this within an integrated research and educational program that focuses on the interfaces between consciousness, science and society. This is a multidisciplinary, multimethodological, and multinational collaboration.

Our mission is to expand human possibility by investigating aspects of reality—mind, consciousness, and spirit—that both include and seemingly transcend physical phenomena. The vision of this research is to foster linkages between apparently divergent ideas and disciplines—and to explore familiar territory with a new view of what is possible.

We function as a meta program, with each project carefully selected for the knowledge it will add to our overall mapping of consciousness. Our efforts are informed by an ongoing inquiry into those topics which offer transformative scientific, social, or spiritual potential.

To help support these and other important projects which await funding, please contact Marilyn Schlitz, director of research, or Jenny Mathews, research program manager, in the IONS Research Department.