Eywa Has Heard You-Are we all part of a collective consciousness?

Why is it when scientific studies buck the current trends and paradigms, they are relegated to the backwaters and entitled Pseudoscience?

Long have I followed the studies and notices from the IONs website. For those who are unaware of this incredible establishment, IONs is the Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded forty-four years ago by the Apollo Fourteen astronaut, Edgar Mitchell.

Their mission statement is to discover how consciousness interacts with our environment. It allows a massive multidisciplinary team to work together on profound consciousness questions. They aim to apply standardised experimental protocols and rigorous testing methodologies to questions regarding the human psyche.

Despite years of unquestionable evidence in support of their findings, they have met with a barrage of criticism and resistance from the scientific community at large. Many highly regarded and lauded individuals who support the findings, seem to get sidelined in their attempts to obtain validation for their evidence. Mainstream scientists seem to wrongly label much of their work as crazy hippy hypotheses.

Take Dr Rupert Sheldrake, for example. With a double first from Clare College, Cambridge, a distinguished Botany prize in 1963, a spell as a fellow at Harvard, before returning to complete his doctorate in biochemistry at Cambridge University, this man could hardly be called a hippy. He then became a fellow at Clare college, rising…