This reprint from the Institute of Noetic Sciences blog features NextNow Claudia Welss, IONS Chairman, June 2019 “If somebody had said before the flight, ‘Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the Moon?’ I would have said, ‘No, no way.’ But yet when I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the moon, I cried.” ~ Alan Shepard, Astronaut on Apollo 14 in February 1971. In the upcoming drama/sci-fi feature film Lucy In the Sky, Natalie Portman plays an astronaut (loosely based on real-life astronaut Lisa Nowak) struggling to readjust to life on Earth after experiencing…
From QuantumVIZ to Inner Space: Original NextNower Bruce Damer at IONS Conference
[What if] we can find the cycle of the engine of creation, if we find we came not from competing individuals but from a network, a collaborative community that was at the tap root at the Tree of Life? — Dr. Bruce Damer I met Bruce in June of 2002 when, together with Bonnie DeVarco, Eileen Clegg, Bill Daul and others, we participated in creating QuantumVIZ at the Exploratorium in San Francisco, described as “Social Networks, Planetary Visualization & Dynamic InfoScapes —2D, 3D, N-D —a multi-venue event for leaders in the field of information technology, geospatial visualization and global ecology.” …
NNC + Pop Up Zendo: Inviting A Community Leap of Insight
“The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.” KOBUN CHINO OTOGAWA In the midst of revolutionary, disruptive change, the need for evolutionary, conscious insight arises as the only real path by which we might envision a harmonious world. Having seen the accelerating speed with which we’re collectively conjuring global change—whether it be through a new machine, movement, meme or mouse (thank you NextNower Doug Engelbart!)—we…
More Than An Accumulation of Acts
It is not just an “accumulation of acts” needed now; it is an accumulation of coherence which elevates the Source of all our activity. According to Deepak Chopra, the highest form of Intelligence is Being; next is feeling; third is thinking (reflective, not automatic); and finally, doing. Or as Swami Beyondananda advises: “Don’t just do something, sit there!” -CW The following is courtesy of Clarissa Pinkola Estes My friends, do not lose heart. We were made for these times. I have heard from so many recently who are deeply and properly bewildered. They are concerned about the state of affairs in our…
Women Inventors and Innovators Virtual Exhibit and Mural: NextNow Collab Project Visualizes Complex History to Illuminate the Contributions of Women
The focus of the Women Inventors and Innovators Mural is subtle, powerful and essential for our evolutionary times. Through illuminating the drivers of success and resilience that have enabled women to help change the world over the last 100-plus years–often against great odds–our goal is to help accelerate the necessary shift to a more balanced and equitable world, furthering innovation important for meaningful societal advancement and planetary wellness. This project of the NextNow Collaboratory leverages our hallmark approach to complex problems: Making the Invisible Visible™ through the visualization of complex information via large murals that show events and ideas in a single big picture, enabling us to perceive key…
Physicists Say Consciousness Should Be Considered A State of Matter: The “Non Physical” Is Real (CE Reprint)
ARJUN WALIAOCTOBER 28, 2016 “Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking in the radio for the announcer.” –Nassim Haramein, director of research for the Resonance Project It’s been more than one hundred years since Max Planck, the theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics, said that he regards “consciousness as fundamental,” that he regards “matter as a derivative from consciousness,” and that “everything we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” He is basically saying that the immaterial ‘substance’ of consciousness is directly intertwined with what we perceive to…
The Legacy of an Astronaut: From Outer Space to Inner Space
“Edgar Mitchell entrusted his life to technology, and technology repaid him by enabling a life-altering epiphany as he viewed Earth from space. The IONS Innovation Lab continues the exploration of the beneficial role technology can play in shifting planetary consciousness.” Claudia Welss, IONS Innovation Lab Advisor Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut and 6th man to walk on the moon, was a keynote speaker for NextNow Collaboratory’s defining project, the International Society for Digital Earth Symposium at UC Berkeley (ISDE5). I’ve know Edgar since 1995. Even in his 80’s he’d tell me that he planned to return to space on behalf of…
The Unstoppable Momentum of Natural Forces
Institute of Noetic Sciences blog post by Claudia Welss on COP21 and Subtle Activism: The Unstoppable Momentum of Natural Forces 9 December 2015 By: Claudia Welss, IONS board of directors, Global Coherence Initiative Steering Committee, Gaiafield Project Council Twenty years ago I was distributing research by the Union of Concerned Scientists to global executives of major corporations as director of executive education at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, trying to get their attention and hoping to influence their policies. The research concluded we had twenty years before Earth and humanity reached a climate tipping point, beyond which there was no…
The Truest Thing I’ve Seen All Year
While we re-imagine this site, I couldn’t resist posting this. This is Rx not just for people, but for Earth. We are cells in the planetary body.
The New Science of Remote Causation
NNC is one of the original supporters of this continuing campaign/experiment at Burning Man to determine if something real is being measured…. I Controlled a Huge Freakin’ Laser With My Mind! The New Science of Remote Causation by Tam Hunt, UC Santa Barbara Reprinted from the Santa Barbara Independent Journal, Wednesday, March 27, 201 I contrive no hypotheses. ~ Isaac Newton, discussing gravity in Principia Mathematica Isaac Newton, perhaps the greatest scientist who ever lived, did of course make many hypotheses about gravity. In fact, he developed an incredibly profound general theory of gravity that united such seemingly different phenomena as a falling apple and the circling of the…
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