Noetic Sciences Collection, 1980 to 1990: Ten Years of Consciousness Research

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.