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  Program
Area 1:
Extended Human Capacities
This program area investigates states of consciousness suggesting the existence of human capacities
that extend far beyond conventional assumptions of who and what we are.
If you want to help fund one of the projects,
please contact Jenny Mathews at
707-779-8234. For more information, download our updated complete
research portfolio. (1.5 mb pdf)
| Accomplishments |
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Completion of
a state-of-the-art psychophysiology
laboratory |
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A decade-long
project on meditation research |
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Co-sponsored
nearly a dozen scholarly meetings
on the possibility of survival
of consciousness after bodily
death |
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Sponsored fieldwork
on reincarnation and on the "Rainbow
Body" |
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Developed a suite
of online
psi tests embedded within
an adventure type game that allows
web users to test and explore
their psi abilities |
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Sponsored a special
issue of the Journal of Consciousness
Studies on "First Person
Methodologies" |
| Current
Projects |
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Experimenter
effects and the remote detection
of staring
This study aims to understand
the role of the experimenter in
studies investigating the "feeling
of being stared at." Marilyn
Schlitz, PhD, & Richard Wiseman,
PhD |
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Gut intuition
experiment
This study investigates the role
of "gut feelings", in
an individual's perception of
a distant person's intention and
emotions. Marilyn Schlitz,
PhD, & Dean Radin, PhD |
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Effects of
meditation in a long-term care
facility
This study investigates the
effects of relaxation-meditation
on depression, anxiety, and spiritual
well-being in residents living
in a long-term care facility. Rebecca
Vela |
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Brain imaging
of the Jhana states
This study is investigating
brain activity related to seven
Jhana states of meditation. Douglas
Finlayson, MD |
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Consciousness
during lucid dreaming
This project is exploring
the potential of lucid dreamers
to carry out specific experiments
in the lucid dream state. Stephen
LaBerge, PhD |
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Functional
MRI, psi and the brain
This project examines the relationship
of brain electrical activity and
psi abilities. Edwin May, PhD |
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Experience
of percipients in the Ganzfeld
ESP situation
This study is examining 236 Ganzfeld
telepathy transcripts for different
aspects of the percipient's ongoing
experience, attitude, and approach.
James Carpenter, PhD |
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Global Consciousness
project
An international effort designed
to explore whether the concept
of interconnectivity can be scientifically
validated through objective measurement.
Roger Nelson, PhD |
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Hypnosis,
altered states of consciousness,
and the facilitation of human
potentials
This study focuses on how these
experiences can serve as a platform
for positive change that help
guide experiencers toward positive
outcomes. Philip G. Zimbardo,
PhD & Stephen LaBerge, PhD |
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Young adults
in India who as children remembered
previous lives
This field study re-investigates
a set of young adults in India
who, as children, claimed to have
remembered past lives. Antonia
Mills, PhD |
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Rainbow Body
research project
This project involves fieldwork
as well as ethnohistorical data
collection aimed at gathering
evidence for the alleged Rainbow
Body manifestation. Father
Francis Tiso, & Brother David
Steindl-Rast |
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Transformational
Practices: Phase I, II
This project studies how transformational practices such
as meditation and yoga affect psychological, physiological,
and spiritual well-being. Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, Cassandra
Vieten, PhD, & Tina Amorok, PsyD |
| Proposed
Research |
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EEG correlation
neurofeedback training experiment
This project tests whether it
is possible to train pairs of
people to generate correlated
EEG signals when they are isolated
from one another. Dean Radin,
PhD |
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Psi in gifted,
talented and creative populations
This study will test these populations
using a suite of specially designed
psi tests to assess whether "gifts
and talents" manifest in
psi functioning as well. Marilyn
Schlitz, PhD |
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Presentiment
A new series of experiments is
examining the phenomenon of human
skin conductance unconsciously
reacts to randomly selected pictures
seconds before those pictures
are displayed. Dean Radin,
PhD |
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Psychological
and psychophysiological effects
of meditation on depressed patients
This research aims to conduct
a rigorous study of consciousness
by examining subjective and objective
effects of training in attentional
stability and clarity. Allan
Wallace, PhD, Marilyn Schlitz,
PhD, & Greg Simpson, PhD |
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RNG field
consciousness product
This project is developing a hardware/
software product that will provide
an easy to use tool to record
and analyze data collected in
"field consciousness"
experiments. Dean Radin, PhD |
To help fund one of the projects, please contact Jenny Mathews at
707-779-8234.
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