Astronaut Edgar Mitchell founded this organization in 1973 to scientifically research the nature and potentials of the mind and spirit, and apply knowledge to the advancement of health and well-being for humankind. The institute funds scientific research; brings top-level scientists and scholars together to share their methods and knowledge; and, in publications to its members, discusses new developments in consciousness research. Contents: Where Is Our Positive Image of the Future? by Willis W. Harman; Message from Edgar Mitchell; Psi Research in the Soviet Union by Keith Haracy and Russell Targ; Multiple Personality: Mirrors of a New Model of Mind? by Thomas J. Hurley III and Brendan O'Regan; Buddhist Inner Science - An Overview by the Dalai Lama and Robert A. F. Thurman; Placebos and Healing - A New Look at the "Sugar Pill" by Thomas J. Hurley III; Beyond Sports - Imaging in Daily Life by Barbara McNeil; Altered States of Consciousness and the Possibility of Survival of Death by Charles T. Tarf; You Ask Why I Live in the Green Mountains by Li Po; Healing, Remission and Miracle Cures by Brendan O'Regan; Survival of Consciousness: A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective by Sogyai Rinpoche; Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh; Spirit: Resource for Healing by Rachel Naomi Remen; To Live Content with Small Means by William Henry Channing; The 'New Paradigm' and the Rule of Law by Willis W. Harman; Two Kinds of Strong 'I' by the Dalai Lama; Conscious Living, Conscious Dying; Cause and Effect in Science: A Fresh Look by Rupert Sheldrake; Editor's Choice; The Case against Competition by Alfie Kohn; Energy Medicine in China: Defining a Research Strategy Which Embraces the Criticism of Skeptical Colleagues by David Eisenberg; A Native American Worldview by Paul Underwood Spencer; Reconciling Science and Metaphysics: The Union Whose Time Has Come by Willis W. Harman; On Meditation and the Western Mind by Jack Kornfield; Business as a Component of the Global Ecology by Willis W. Harman.
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