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The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological [1] research institute. It was co-founded in 1973 by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, [2] [3] [4] the sixth man to walk on the Moon, along with investor Paul N. Temple [5] and others interested in purported paranormal phenomena, [1] in order to encourage and conduct research on noetics and human potentials.
The soul is also an energeia: it acts upon or actualizes its own thoughts and creates "a separate, material cosmos that is the living image of the spiritual or noetic Cosmos contained as a unified thought within the Intelligence". So it is the soul which perceives things in nature physically, which it understands to be reality.
The Institut Suisse des Sciences Noétiques (Swiss Institute of Noetic Sciences) or ISSNOE is an established public utility nonprofit foundation dedicated to the scientific and comparative study of consciousness.
The Global Consciousness Project (GCP, also called the EGG Project) is a parapsychology experiment begun in 1998 as an attempt to detect possible interactions of "global consciousness" with physical systems.
Gnosiology is focused on the study of the noesis and noetic components of human ontology. [6] [7] Within gnosiology, gnosis is derived by noesis. [8] Noesis refers to the experiences or activities of the nous. This makes the study and origin of gnosis and gnosiology the study of the intuitive and or instinctual.
Willis W. Harman was born in Seattle, Washington on August 16, 1918. His father was a hydroelectric engineer and his mother was a music teacher. [2] He attended the Western Washington College of Education before moving on to graduate from the University of Washington in 1939 with a B.S. in electrical engineering.
Every intentional act has noetic content (or a noesis—from the Greek nous, "mind"). This noetic content, to which the noema corresponds, is that mental act–process (e.g., an act of liking, of judging, of meaning, etc.) which becomes directed towards the intentionally held object (e.g., the liked as liked, judged as judged, or meant as meant ...
Noetic quality. Mystics stress that their experiences give them "insight into depths of truth unplumbed by the discursive intellect." [41] James referred to this as the "noetic" (or intellectual) "quality" of the mystical. [41] Transiency. James notes that most mystical experiences have a short occurrence, but their effect persists. [41] Passivity.