![]() ![]() How does it arise from a physical system? Is it limited to our brain? How do I explain my experiences, from aha! to awe, that I know to be true, yet don’t fit any current scientific explanation? This, for the survival and thriving of humanity and our planet, is one of the most important endeavors of our time.ĭespite humanity’s ever-expanding knowledge about our physical world, there remains a gap in our understanding when it comes to consciousness. Our technology must increasingly be infused with the wisdom that comes from personal inquiry, and the lens of science must be applied to the further reaches of human potential. Our future demands that we explore our inner space with the same rigor and ingenuity as we explore our outer world. Now more than ever, humanity is facing vitally important questions that will directly affect our individual and collective realities. The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. ences: A multidisciplinary field of study that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the nature of reality.Our premise: at the nexus of inner knowing ( noetics) and outer investigation ( science), we will discover entirely new ways of being and of doing that uplift humanity and advance thriving for all. It is time to bring them back together - allowing each to inform one another, weakening neither, but rather strengthening our overall understanding of reality. Others value spirituality and direct experience. These two ways - of gaining knowledge through scientific exploration and of gaining deep knowing through direct experience - have generally remained separate. Practices for making love and compassion central orienting principles in our lives. While science observes and experiments in our largely physical world, spiritual wisdom practices on the other hand allow us to explore, describe, and express some of the deepest mysteries of being human. ence: Systems of acquiring knowledge that use observation, experimentation, and replication to describe and explain natural phenomena.Įven with these advances, science has not yet revealed everything about how reality works, and humanity’s promise – to ourselves, to each, and to the planet – has not been fully realized.In the past one hundred years alone, the powerful tools of science have driven tremendous advances including doubling our lifespan, dramatically improving our quality of life, and birthing a technological age beyond our wildest dreams, taking humans to the moon and soon, beyond. ![]() They are illuminations, revelations, full of significance and importance, all inarticulate though they remain and as a rule they carry with them a curious sense of authority… William James, philosopherįor millennia, science has governed the exploration and discovery of our inner, personal worlds as well as the world outside of ourselves. states of insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect. He called this framework noetic sciences. A new framework would be needed: one that could help explain the unexplainable-and spark transformation. Mitchell saw a need to reconcile his training as an engineer and astrophysicist with the wisdom of the ages to transcend the limitations of what he saw as an outdated materialist worldview. He realized quickly that in order to explain such an extraordinary experience (and others like it), there would need to be a rapprochement between the scientific and spiritual interpretations of reality.Īs a scientist and visionary, Dr. Edgar Mitchell had the profound experience of feeling interconnected to everything he was observing from the window of his space capsule: the stars, the moon, our blue planet, and the vastness of the cosmos. On his way back to Earth after his pioneering moonwalk, Apollo 14 astronaut and IONS founder Dr. Noetic sciences are one of many frameworks we can use to engage with our daily reality. From instinct to intuition to intellect, part of being human is using multiple ways to gather and utilize information. ![]() The way we understand ourselves and our world is always evolving.
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