PsychonauticswithMike Jay
May 17, 2024
Here he focuses on the long history, within western science, of researchers exploring the effects and effectiveness of different drugs through self-experimentation.
Cassandra Vieten gives an overview of the Future of Meditation Research (FOMR) initiative recently launched by IONS to explore the deeper aspects of meditation and transformational experiences.
While research to-date has focused on the secular and cognitive aspects of meditation, a broad range of reported events — such as past-life recall, synchronicities, precognition and extra-sensory perception, experiences of God and deities — remains uncharted scientific territory. IONS formed the FOMR group to support research and researchers in exploring these domains.
Cassandra Vieten PhD is President/CEO and a researcher at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
Published on April 28, 2016