Organizations

Institute of Noetic Sciences

1973

Research institute founded in Palo Alto in 1973 by Edgar Mitchell to study consciousness, altered states, and phenomena at the edge of established science, including remote viewing and psychokinesis. Has since directly engaged with the UAP disclosure movement.

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Connections (9)

confirmedFetzer Institute

an early funder of its consciousness research

Source: Fetzer Institute; IONS

confirmedDean Radin

chief scientist there

Source: Institute of Noetic Sciences history

confirmedPEAR Laboratory

kindred mind-matter research institutions

Source: consciousness-research histories

confirmedCharles Tart

allied transpersonal / consciousness researchers

Source: consciousness-research histories

confirmedBigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies

parallel consciousness-research institutes

Source: Institute of Noetic Sciences history

confirmedEsalen Institute

kindred consciousness-research institutions of the era

Source: histories of the human-potential and consciousness movements

confirmedEdgar Mitchell

founded it in 1973

Source: Institute of Noetic Sciences history

confirmedStanford Research Institute

IONS gave early private funding for its psi research

Source: Jim Schnabel, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies (1997)

confirmedAARO

framed its mission around 2024 UAP disclosure law

Source: Institute of Noetic Sciences statements

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