Tuesday, February 28^th, 2012

6:30p Social, 7:00-9:00p Program

Austin Center for Spiritual Living

5555 North Lamar Blvd., Suite D-117, Austin, Texas

The meeting is free & open to the Public

Book donations are welcome

Opening to Other Worlds, Other Lives

Presentation by  Katya Walter, PhD

Katya Walter, PhD, will talk about past life regression, the coming age of psychic expansion, accessing universal mind to astral travel in time as well as space beings Katya has encountered in these travels, and learning to access secrets of nature through communication with universal mind. This is an exploratory talk ranging into the last frontier, consciousness itself.

About the Author

Katya Walter has a Ph.D. with an interdisciplinary emphasis from the University of Texas at Austin. She spent 5 years of post-doctoral study at the Jung Institute of Zurich, and a year of post-study in China. Dr. Walter taught in colleges and universities in the USA and abroad for sixteen years before focusing on writing and lecturing. She has published in the areas of cosmology, chaos theory, social criticism, and poetry. She has given numerous workshops on the I Ching, Chaos Theory, Synchronicity, and Dreams in the United States and Europe. Dr. Walter is author of the Touching God’s TOE series of books. She also authored an accompanying handbook called “Dream Mail” – designed for contemplating the deeper structure of dreams. It discusses the fractal messages that are carried in the symbolism of dreams and how to interpret dreams for daily life.

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During 2011, INACS awarded several deserving projects with Quick-Start Grants,  including two grants for Katya Walter to publish her “Double Bubble Universe” TOE trilogy in both book and e-book format (now available on Amazon.com and iBooks).

INACS (Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Study) and the Anomaly Archives present:

Exploring UFOs and Consciousness with SMiles Lewis

Austin, Texas – Tuesday, October 25th, 7-9pm CST

What can we learn about UFOs from studying such diverse arenas of consciousness exploration as shamanism and drugs like DMT? What about Carl Jung’s collective unconscious and parapsychology? What about near death and out of body experiences? What have human agencies (governmental, corporate, aboriginal and esoteric) discovered about the UFO phenomenon’s effects on consciousness? Has humanity interacted with Alien Others throughout history? Could we be communicating with CryptoTerrestrials or a Gaian Mind? What do we really know about these diverse and exceptional experiences and those who’ve had them? Come discover the fantastic facts about UFOs, Altered States of Consciousness, and Mind-at-Large!

Free Lecture – Tuesday, October 25th at 7pm

Austin Center for Spritual Living
5555 North Lamar, Suite D-117
Austin, TX 78751

www.INACS.org / www.AnomalyArchives.org

Click Map Images Below For Location Detail…

SMiles Lewis has had a lifelong interest in all things anomalous. An early age proclivity at recalling his nightly dreams as well as several personal experiences with ESP, precognition and dream switching bolstered his interest in the paranormal. Shortly after high-school he joined the local MUFON chapter in Austin, Texas. He would later become a MUFON State Section Director for that group as well as leader of the local UFO Experiencer Support and Study Group. A lover of books, SMiles collected over 1000 titles before founding the non-profit Anomaly Archives that serves as the lending library of the Scientific Anomaly Institute (501c3). For over twenty years he has worked with digital audio, video and other bleeding edge internet technologies. He has published his own print journal (E.L.F. Infested Spaces), edited a local paranormal newspaper (Austin Para Times), maintained a large network of websites (ELFIS.net), organized a national UFO conference (NUFOC-38), spoken to anthropologists about UFOs and parapsychology (Encounters with the Fantastic), hosted (and been a guest on) both terrestrial and webradio talk shows and has been podcasting since before the phrase existed. All these efforts and more have led radio talk show host Robert Larson to describe Miles as a “Gonzo Alt-Media Proprietor and Informationalist.” He is also the LOWFI-Texas State Bureau Chief of The League of Western Fortean Intermediatists.

SMiles’ current projects include co-hosting PsiOp-Radio with Mack White as part of the many unique shows airing daily on his ANOMALY RADIO Network.

He is active with several local non-profits which includes his service on the board of directors for the Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies (INACS) and the Scientific Anomaly Institute‘s lending library, the Anomaly Archives.

His writings can be found within the Archives of his print journal ELFIS and ANOMALY Magazine.

In his day job with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission‘s Talking Book Program he manages a Volunteer Recording Studio and audio duplication department and has been a consultant on two digital audio development documents for the Library of Congress‘ National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

Experiences of Consciousness Beyond Hypnagogia:

Using introspective experiences to develop skills like Remote-Viewing, Lucid-Dreaming, Out-of-body Experiences, or for the development of Spiritual Experiences

Hypnagogia is a generic label given to sensorial perceptions that happens “automatically” – without conscious control – while falling asleep, or while awakening from sleep. Hypnagogia may also happen while a person is meditating – or while in trance-like situations.

In this talk we will explore what can be learned from the perceptions we encounter during the sleep/awake thresholds, and from trance-like situations usually encountered in introspection practices like, for example, meditation and hypnosis. The most common and accessible skills that can be developed through situations of hypnagogia are lucid-dreaming and out-of-body experiences. However, remote-viewing frequently makes use of perceptions “on the threshold of consciousness,” which is obviously within the realm of hypnagogic perceptions. Remote-viewing may also make use of a conscious interaction with the subconscious mind, done while fully awake. Therefore, while working on developing these skills, we willingly or unwillingly tend to encounter experiences that are considered spiritual, and may be used for personal and spiritual development. We will discuss various examples of situations where the explorer discovered him or herself in contact with something that could be interpreted as our higher-self, or by a surprising meeting with a spiritual teacher or guide to help along the way. 

This talk expands on the former talk presented through INACS in May 2007, titled:

Consciousness and Hypnagogia:

Dream imageries, reveries, and the development of a relationship with the “unconscious” mind

By Sirley Marques Bonham, Ph.D.

You may download the article that accompanied that talk through these links:

• Article- INACS-PUB-Consciousness and Hypnagogia (.doc)
• Article_INACS_PUB_Consciousness (.pdf)

About the Author:

Sirley Marques Bonham is a Ph.D. physicist by education, but due to her long time involvement with the subject of consciousness, she also considers herself somewhat of a neuroscientist. She was born in Brazil and first came to the US in 1986 to follow post-doctoral research with the Astrophysics Group at the University of Chicago and the NASA-financed Theoretical Astrophysics Group at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), located in Batavia (IL), near Chicago. Her main scientific work was done in an extension of Einstein’s unified field theory, but she has also worked in neuroscience research at the University of Texas at Austin, and in biophysics for the US Air Force in San Antonio, Texas. She has also taught at universities in Brazil, South Africa, and the US.

Dr. Bonham’s involvement with the phenomenon of Consciousness, as viewed by neuroscience, started in 1992 through a group of scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, followed by a brief work with a group for research in neuroscience, specifically in the processes of memory and learning, at the University of Texas at Austin. Though she has learned about the paranormal through her father’s interest in this area, it has been her practice to approach this science strongly rooted in a scientific perspective, which has influenced her personal self-experimentation with the phenomenon of awareness during sleep, represented by the modern approach to the so-called out-of-body experiences, and the recently developed techniques of lucid-dreaming.

Dr. Bonham came to live in Austin, Texas, in 1993. She presently is a visiting scholar at the Center for Relativity at the University of Texas at Austin, and is a member and scientist of the Institute for Neurosciences and Consciousness Studies (INACS). Her writings can be accessed at her website: www.TheConsciousDreamer.org

WHEN: Tuesday, May 11th at 7pm

WHERE: Austin Center for Spiritual Living
4804 Grover Ave
Austin, TX 78756

Consciousness Connections Meeting

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

6:30p Social, 7:00-9:00p Program

Austin Center for Spiritual Living

4804 Grover

Note – New Location

Visitors are welcome, the meeting is free.

Book donations are welcome.

Documentary and Panel Discussion

“God on the Brain”

From BBC Horizon (2003)

Rudi Affolter and Gwen Tighe have both experienced strong religious visions. He is an atheist; she a Christian. He thought he had died; she thought she had given birth to Jesus. Both have temporal lobe epilepsy.

Like other forms of epilepsy, the condition causes fitting but it is also associated with religious hallucinations. Research into why people like Rudi and Gwen saw what they did has opened up a whole field of brain science: neurotheology.

The connection between the temporal lobes of the brain and religious feeling has led one Canadian scientist to try stimulating them.  80% of Dr Michael Persinger’s experimental subjects report that an artificial magnetic field focused on those brain areas gives them a feeling of ‘not being alone’. Some of them describe it as a religious sensation.

“…a high probability [Ellen White] had temporal lobe epilepsy” says Prof Gregory Holmes, Dartmouth Medical School. His work raises the prospect that we are programmed to believe in god, that faith is a mental ability humans have developed or been given. And temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) could help unlock the mystery.

What side are you on, science or spiritualism? Be prepared to defend your position.

The documentary will be shown followed by a discussion. Is Illumination, cosmic consciousness, Kundalini and various religious sensations a spiritual manifestation, or is it simply the neurological manifestation of the brain? If there are volunteers from the audience, a panel will be selected for a debate and Q & A. Please prepare for a lively debate.

Resources:

Great article:

www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=24068

Good articles:

www.cognitiveliberty.org/neuro/neuronewswk.htm
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_3_116/ai_53739125/?tag=content;col1

A few others:
blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/06/this-is-your-brain-on-religion-.html
www.livescience.com/culture/090309-brain-religion.html
www.religionlink.com/tip_050425.php

Recommended Reading…

Why God Won’t Go Away

Brain Science and the Biology of Belief

Authors

Andrew Newberg, Eugene A’Quili, Vince Rause

Over the centuries, theories have abounded as to why human beings have a seemingly irrational attraction to God and religious experiences. In Why God Won’t Go Away authors Andrew Newberg, M.D., Eugene D’Aquili, M.D., and Vince Rause offer a startlingly simple, yet scientifically plausible opinion: humans seek God because our brains are biologically programmed to do so.

Researchers Newberg and D’Aquili used high-tech imaging devices to peer into the brains of meditating Buddhists and Franciscan nuns. As the data and brain photographs flowed in, the researchers began to find solid evidence that the mystical experiences of the subjects “were not the result of some fabrication, or simple wishful thinking, but were associated instead with a series of observable neurological events,” explains Newberg. “In other words, mystical experience is biologically, observably, and scientifically real…. Gradually, we shaped a hypothesis that suggests that spiritual experience, at its very root, is intimately interwoven with human biology.” Lay readers should be warned that although the topic is fascinating, the writing is geared toward scientific documentation that defends the authors’ hypothesis. For a more palatable discussion, seek out Deepak Chopra’s How to Know God, in which he also explores this fascinating evidence of spiritual hard-wiring. –Gail Hudson –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

The Brain in the Soul

The Cerebral Basis of Language, Art, and Belief

By

Michael R, Trimble, M.D.

“There have been a flurry of books recently on God and the brain, written either from the cold hard world of a neuroscientist or the more abstract but less brain-informed pulpit of a spiritual leader. Trimble tackles this most important topic with his unique knowledge and perspectives gained as a knowing and caring physician, a critical neuroscientist, a gifted historian, and a superb storyteller. He fuses these fields to address the simplest and most important questions: Why do we cry when we listen to music, or pay money to go and weep in the theater? This book is a remarkably new approach to understanding why we behave, think, and feel as we do.” — Mark S. George, Medical University of South Carolina

Inspired by the writings and reflections of his patients — many of whom have epilepsy, psychosis, or affective disorders — Trimble asks how the human species, so enamored of its own logic and critical facilities, has held from the dawn of civilization strong religious beliefs and a reverence for the arts. He explores topics such as the phenomena of hypergraphia and hyper-religiosity, how religious experiences and poetic expression are neurologically linked with our capacity to respond to music, and how neuropsychiatric disorders influence behaviors related to artistic expression and religiosity by disturbing brain function.

NeuroNews – A Toyota Unbash

Toyota technology has brain waves move wheelchair
The Associated Press

TOKYO – Toyota Motor Corp. says it has developed a way of steering a wheelchair by just detecting brain waves, without the person having to move a muscle or shout a command. Toyota’s system, developed in a collaboration with researchers in Japan, is among the fastest in the world in analyzing brain waves, it said in a release Monday.

Past systems required several seconds to read brain waves, but the new technology requires only 125 milliseconds , or 125 thousandths of a second. The person in the wheelchair wears a cap that can read brain signals, which are relayed to a brain scan electroencephalograph, or EEG, on the electrically powered wheelchair, and then analyzed in a computer program.

Research into mobility is part of Toyota’s larger strategy to go beyond automobiles in helping people get around in new ways. The new system allows the person on the wheelchair to turn left or right and go forward, almost instantly, according to researchers. Coming to a stop still requires more than a thought. The person in the wheelchair must puff up a cheek, which is picked up in a detector worn on the face.

Japanese rival Honda Motor Co. is also working on a system to connect the monitoring of brain waves with mechanical moves. Earlier this year, Honda showed a video that had a person wearing a helmet sitting still but thinking about moving his right hand. The thought was picked up by cords attached to his head inside the helmet. After several seconds, Honda’s boy-shaped robot Asimo, programmed to respond to brain signals, lifted its right arm.

Neither Honda nor Toyota said it had any plans to turn the technology into a product for commercial sale as each said they are still developing the research.

www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/features/high_tech/49426247.html

INACS News…

Benefits of an INACS membership include but are not limited to Quickstart grants, the NeuroNews newsletter, monthly meetings related to consciousness (Consciousness Connections), and attendance at quarterly research and educations meetings. Membership is $25 a year and can be paid through Paypal on the INACS website  www.INACS.org

For those of you that have a project that is consistent with the INACS mission, and need financial assistance, a Quickstart Grant might be available.

The INACS NerveCenter space is available for classes and lectures. Call 704-8167 for information.

INACS The Organization…

The Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, Inc.

Or INACS, is an Austin-based, 501 (c) 3,

nonprofit, scientific, Research, and educational institute,

incorporated in the State of Texas.

Vision

Our vision is to contribute to the positive development of our local, national, and international communities, as well as the other-than-human communities with whom we share the earth, by supporting scientific inquiry and hosting educational opportunities for the study of consciousness in all its forms.

Mission

INACS’ mission is to expand, deepen, and enrich our understanding of brain functioning and the phenomenon of “consciousness,” and to develop innovative, practical applications of this understanding for public benefit. INACS will pursue its mission by:

• Conducting scientific research on the human mind/brain system.
• Promoting closer cooperation among consciousness researchers through publications, conferences, and similar activities.
• Offering educational opportunities to mental health professionals and the public.
• Investigating PSI and related phenomena

Current Research Projects

EEG correlates of Human Subtle Energy Vibrational States

Robert F. Price PhD

Psycho-Grapho Correlation Study

Raymond Hawkins PhD, Marcus Barnes

QEEG Correlates to Motor Tasks – Baseline Studies

James King, Jan Six, PhD

Finding the Golden Key to Every Kid (Quick Start Grant)

Roberta Shoemaker-Beal, ATR-BC

12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302, Austin, Texas 78759   www.INACS.org

The Consciousness Groups…

ACA (Austin Creativity Association)

A forum for professionals seeking to explore and develop creative ideas and technologies.

www.amcreativityassoc.org

Austin IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences Community Group)

Consciousness research & education group founded by astronaut Edgar Mitchell

www.ionsaustin.org 258-9878

Anomaly Archives

Library of scientific anomalies located in the INACS Nerve Center

www.anomalyarchives.org

INACS (Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies)

Consciousness research and education group located in NW Austin on Research Blvd.

www.INACS.org 425-0822

Jung Society Austin

Promoting the study of Carl Jung’s psychological works

www.jungsociety.com 366-2357

MUFON – Mutual Unidentified Flying Objects

www.austinmufon.org 250-1167

What if it Really Works

Internet radio featuring the spiritual and metaphysical

www.whatifitreallyworks.com 673-7051

Austin IONS January 26th. Movie Premier: Beyond Belief by Austin filmakers, Becky Hays and James Holtzknecht. Embark on a journey of expanded awareness with interviews of leaders in the conscousness movement.

Austin Center for Spiritual Living, 4804 Grover Ave, just south of 49th street and just east of Burnet Road.

7 PM Free and open to the public.
Go to …. www.IONSAustin.org for more information.
www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com/bbproject.html

Save the date Jan 26th, Tuesday next week, for the Austin IONS~INACS combined meeting will be a movie premier, of Beyond Belief: the movie. Check out the trailer. See the press release below.

DVD’s of the film will be available for sale.

The producers of Beyond Belief are committed to empowering individuals and organizations to achieve their maximum potential.

IONS~INACS will be in our NEW event location:

Austin Center for Spiritual Living
www.AustinCSL.org

PRESS RELEASE: BEYOND BELIEF

Present Course Media L.L.C. Releases an Inspiring
Self-Empowerment Documentary

Present Course Media LLC is proud to announce the release of Beyond Belief, a compelling documentary film that will change your life. The DVD will be available in time for the holidays! The release is scheduled for December 15, 2009.
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Embark on a journey of expanded awareness Beyond Belief. This innovative film reveals the role beliefs and the subconscious mind play in creating your experience. Uncover the source of limiting beliefs that stop you from having what you want.

Beyond Belief provides tools to release limiting beliefs and remove obstacles that are blocking you. Discover the powerful resources you have buried deep inside. Unleash the potential of your creative mind.

Wake up…to your dream life.
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Beyond Belief features some of the top authors, researchers, scientists, teachers, psychologists, personal transformation experts, healers, and spiritual leaders in the world. Experts from the films The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know join inspiring leaders in delivering a powerful message that will transform your life.

Featured Experts:

Jack Canfield, Julia Cameron, Robert Dilts, Bob Doyle, Jonathan Ellerby, Stewart Emery, Timothy Freke, Amit Goswami, Christina Hall, David R. Hamilton, Maisha Hazzard, Elaine Hendrix, Tad James, Adriana James, Bruce Lipton, Brad Morris, Judith Orloff, Greta Sesheta, Marci Shimoff, Sandra Anne Taylor, James Twyman, Joe Vitale, Cheryl J. Ward, Dr. Darren Weissman

Produced and directed by Becky Hays and Jim Holzknecht, Beyond Belief is an invaluable resource for anyone who truly wants to create the life of their dreams.

For More Information:
www.beyondbeliefthemovie.com

Click here to view the embedded video.

THE SHIFT – A Movie Being Made by a Movement

This coming Tuesday, December 9th, a joint INACS & Austin IONS community event is happening at the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin at 4700 Grover at 6:30pm CST.

12/08/09: The Shift Movie – www.IonsAustin.org

Download the PDF Flyer: Lo Res / Hi Res

November 6th, 7th & 8th, 2008

In this workshop: Discover the unification of physics and metaphysics. Find the origins and inner workings of consciousness and reality,mind and matter. Understand who, what and why you are. Integrate your personal experience and present understanding within a larger scientific context. See how love, spirituality and quantum mechanics are derived as fundamental aspects of reality. Nuclear physicist Thomas Campbell helped get Bob Monroe’s laboratory for the study of consciousness up and running in the ’70s. Tom, the “TC (physicist) ”in Monroe’s book Far Journeys, has been a serious explorer of the frontier of reality, mind, consciousness, altered states and psychic phenomena for 35 years. He has steered his research toward discovering the outer boundaries, inner workings and causal dynamics of the larger reality system. He published his My Big TOE trilogy (my-big-toe.com) in 2003. It is a logic-based work of science representing the results and conclusions of his scientific exploration of the nature of existence.

Download the PDF Flyer: Lo Res / Hi Res

For details see the url below…
www.inacs.org/krippner.htm

“Finding Your Personal Myths Through Dreams
and Anomalous Healing Experiences”
UT Austin Thompson Conference Center
Friday/Saturday – April 20th & 21st

Photo © Robert Knight

FRIDAY TALK:
Finding Your Personal Myths Through Dreams
and Anomalous Healing ExperiencesFrom a psychological point of view, myths are imaginative statements or stories that address existential concerns and have behavioral consequences. Myths can be cultural, institutional, ethnic, familial, or personal. Myths generally operate outside of conscious awareness, but emerge in dreams, often in the form of metaphors and symbols, and in anomalous, extraordinary personal experiences. By working with our dreams and extraordinary experiences, we can discover the myths that control much of our waking activity, and begin to change them if they are blocking our potential development. This lecture will describe the process of myth-making as well as how to evaluate functional and dysfunctional myths, prior to initiating change.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP:
Discovering Your Personal Myths Through DreamworkParticipants in this workshop will be taught how to use their dream reports to identify personal myths, those beliefs and attitudes that dictate life choices. Because most of one’s personal mythology operates at an unconscious level, dreams offer an excellent opportunity to locate the source of these myths, especially those that are irrational and dysfunctional. Workshop participants will be taught several procedures that they can use to implement a personal mythology that is rational, functional, and conducive to their psychological and spiritual development.