Organizations
Alex Tanous Foundation
Formed in 1990,
this organization seeks to conduct rigorous scientific research in areas
related to physical and spiritual development, including, but not limited to,
the development of creativity, creativity and healing, and the teaching of
creativity. The foundation serves as a forum for the presentation and
discussion of anomalies.
http://www.alextanous.org/
Borderland Sciences Research Foundation
Founded in 1945 by Meade Layne as Borderland Sciences
Research Associates, concerned with the "border-land" region between
fantasy and reality, fields of parapsychology, the occult, psychic research, hypnosis, dowsing, radiesthesia, radionics,
telepathy, and other phenomena. Layne showed a special concern with flying
saucers. BSRA published many mimeographed bulletins, including Flying Roll
and Meade Lane's Round Robin, now known as the Journal of Borderland
Research.
Around 1960, the organization evolved into Borderland Sciences Research
Foundation, Inc. It explores phenomena that orthodox science cannot or will not
investigate, and it offers recognition, understanding, and encouragement to
individuals who are having unusual experiences of the borderland type or are
conducting research in the occult.
Center for Frontier Sciences (What’s Going On At Temple University?)
The history of science has shown repeatedly that many of the most important
scientific discoveries have been initially disregarded. Thus, scientists
working at the forfront of knowledge face
considerable obstacles. With this in mind, Temple University
established the Center for Frontier Sciences in 1987.
In l988 Dr. Beverly Rubik relocated to Philadelphia to become founding director of
the Center. The Center facilitated global information exchange, networking, and
education on frontier issues of science and medicine. Two important foci of the
Center were alternative/complementary medicine and the matter-mind-spirit
interrelationship. The Center was the first of its kind in the world linked to
a major university and spawned sister centers at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico and the University
of Milano, Italy.
A journal, Frontier Perspectives, was
founded in 1990 by Rubik and was published and distributed semi-annually to
over 3,500 affiliates of the Center in 58 countries.
The Center hosted free public lectures, and International
Roundtable Meetings and Proceedings. Luminary members and lecturers included
David Bohm, Gerald Edelman, Roger Penrose, Karl Pribram, Sir John Eccles,
Herbert Froehlich, Larry Dossey, and Robert Jahn.
In late 1995 Dr. Rubik left Temple University to continue her work as an independent scholar
and consultant and founded the Institute for Frontier Science, a nonprofit
corporation.
In 1998, a prominent representative of
authoritarian science (scientism), Martin Gardner, published the article What’s Going On At Temple University?
in the Sept-Oct 1998 issue of Skeptical
Inquirer:
“In recent years Temple
University, a distinguished coeducational
institution in Philadelphia, has become a center for the promulgation of some of the
wildest aspects of pseudoscience. It all began in 1986 when Richard J. Fox,
chairman of Temple’s board of trustees, met with
some fringe scientists in London.
He became impressed by their difficulties in getting work published that went
beyond ‘mainstream paradigms.’ ‘Paradigm’ is still a favorite buzzword of
maverick scientists and those who write about them.”
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/whatrsquos_going_on_at_temple_university/
Although Frontier Perspectives is still apparently being published under auspices of the Center for Frontier Sciences, Temple University, no mention is made of this center in the list of “Centers” at the Temple University home page: http://www.temple.edu/academics/centers.htm
Issues appear to be available only in archives or through collections ie;
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-156136197.html http://www.encyclopedia.com/Frontier+Perspectives/publications.aspx?pageNumber=1
THE CENTER FOR FRONTIER SCIENCES AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY STATEMENT, in courier font, with traditional contact information appears on the Cavendish Lab, University of Cambridge UK website:
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~bdj10/mm/misc/cfs.txt
The Energy Medicine Institute
http://www.energymed.org/
Esalen Institute
Founded in 1962 by Michael Murphy and Richard Price as an educational center for the exploration of unrealized human capacities. http://www.esalen.org/
Esalen Center For Theory & Research: “The Esalen Center for Theory & Research supports essential philosophic, academic, and research aims of the Esalen Institute. It evaluates frontier inquiry, creates networks of pioneering individuals, and works to catalyze new discoveries that promote personal and social transformation.”
http://www.esalenctr.org
Foundation for the Advancement of Energy Medicine
http://www.faemt.org/
Foundation for Mind Being Research
http://www.fmbr.org/index.htm
Independent
Researchers' Association for Anomalous Phenomena (IRAAP): founded in 1997.
http://www.iraap.org/
International Association for Near-Death
Studies, Inc
http://www.iands.org/
Institute of Heartmath
A
nonprofit 501(c)(3), is a recognized global leader in
researching the critical link among emotions, heart-brain communication and
cognitive function. The following scientists are associated with Heartmath; Robert Neil Boyd,
Peter Gariave, Rollin
McCraty, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Vladimir Poponin, Glen Rein, William Tiller.
Institute for
Advanced Studies at Austin
The Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin
is a private think tank in Austin,
Texas, established in 1985 to
explore advanced concepts in forefront scientific areas. Its activities
range from theoretical studies to publication in professional journals of such
fundamental topics as gravitation, inertia, energy and cosmology. The
Institute's Director, H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D., is a member and
officer of several professional organizations (NY Academy of Sciences, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Physical Society, Society for Scientific Exploration)
Institute
of Biosensory Psychology, St.
Petersburg Russia.
According to their website, “The Institute is a
non-commercial private educational institution providing additional
professional education and training in fields of biosensory
psychology, bioenergy informational studies, healing,
breathwork and paranormal practices. The Institute
has carried on its activity under different organizational forms since 1993. In
that time period approximately 100,000 people have undergone studies.” http://www.biosens.ru/index.php?res=file&rec=838
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Located in Northern California,
IONS is a nonprofit membership organization that conducts and sponsors
leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness. Founded by Edgar Mitchell. http://www.noetic.org/
International
Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL)
See Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) http://www.icrl.org/history.php
International Institute of Biophysics Neuss Germany
Albert Fritz Popp is an important contributor http://www.lifescientists.de/
International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy
Medicine (ISSSEEM)
ISSSEEM Central Office
356 Goldco Circle
Golden CO 80401
An interdisiplinary organization dedicated to
improving human health and welfare thriugh the
advancement of education, practice, training, and research in the emerging
field of subtle energies and energy medicine be (a) increasing the knowledge of
the membership about the fields of subtle energies and energy medicine via
meetings, educational programs, publications, and special interest groups; (b)
improving applications of subtle energies and energy medicine through high
standards of professional practice, peer revies,
ethics, and education; (c) promoting Independent Exploration Groups; and (d)
disseminating information to the public about subtle energies and energy
medicine. http://www.issseem.org/
ISSSEEM provides two publications:
Bridges: a quarterly magazine
providing a resource for those interested in the study of informational systems
and energies that react with the human psyche and phsiology,
either enhancing or perurbing healthy homeostasis.
Intuition Network
The purpose of the
Intuition Network is to help create a world in which all people feel encouraged
to cultivate and use their inner, intuitive resources. http://www.intuition.org/
Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR)
This program was
established in 1979 for the sole purpose of rigorous scientific study of the
interaction of human consciousness with random physical processes. Three types
of research have been persued: anomalous
human/machine interactions, remote perception, and theoretical modeling of
consciousness. The experimental agenda consisted of studying the interaction of
human consciousness with sensitive physical devices, systems, and processes,
and developing complementary theoretical models to enable better understanding
of the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality. http://www.princeton.edu/~pear/
The PEAR lab was
closed in Feb 2007, and the PEAR program has been incorporated into the broader venue of the
International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL).
Rhine Research
Center
“An
Integrative Center for the Study of Consciousness” http://www.rhine.org/main.shtml
Society for Scientific Exploration
Publishes Journal of Scientific Exploration
Publications only
Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine
Journal
A peer reviewed journal providing guidelines, scinetific
background, and scinetific credibility for subtle
energies applications, and to support increased dialog among clinicians,
healers, and the scientific and medical communities. The Journal Advisory Board
includes Robert O. Becker, Dolores Krieger, Charles Tart, and William Tiller. [1]