What we’re about
North Texas IONS Community Group
North Texas IONS Community explores consciousness, belief, healing, intuition, and the interconnected nature of reality. Our goal is expanding our understanding through information and thought-provoking insights, thus increasing the likelihood for achievement of greater potential. We come together with open minds and hearts to seek, learn, and grow…
IONS Community Groups are independent, self-organizing, gatherings held across the globe. Each group sets its own purpose and direction, consistent with the overall mission of IONS.
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Meeting Details:
Some meetings are online, while other meetings are in person in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area.
Facilitator:
Darla Gray
[northtexasions@gmail.com](mailto:northtexasions@gmail.com)
469.290.2644
North Texas IONS Community Group serves members and friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a nonprofit organization dedicated to research and education on consciousness, human potential, and personal and social transformation. [Group Name] is wholly independent of the Institute and may be legally and financially responsible for its own activities."
“Views expressed by speakers, facilitators, and participants do not necessarily reflect the views of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).” To learn more about the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), please visit: www.noetic.org.
About The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is a research center and direct experience lab specializing in the intersection of science and profound human experience.
Noetic sciences reveal a deeper understanding of our inner worlds, our shared reality, and the interconnection between all things.
IONS uses scientific exploration and personal discovery to push beyond the current limits of human knowledge.
Today, we have the world’s largest team of multidisciplinary scientists conducting research on frontier topics in consciousness and its impact in our lives.
Inspired by a profound experience of personal discovery, Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell created IONS in 1973 to explore the interplay between scientific knowledge and inner knowing.
On his way back to Earth after his pioneering moonwalk, Apollo 14 astronaut and IONS founder Dr. Edgar Mitchell had the profound experience of feeling interconnected to everything he was observing from the window of his space capsule: the stars, the moon, our blue planet, and the vastness of the cosmos. He realized quickly that in order to explain such an extraordinary experience (and others like it), there would need to be a rapprochement between the scientific and spiritual interpretations of reality.
As a scientist and visionary, Dr. Mitchell saw a need to reconcile his training as an engineer and astrophysicist with the wisdom of the ages to transcend the limitations of what he saw as an outdated materialist worldview. A new framework would be needed: one that could help explain the unexplainable—and spark transformation.
He called this framework noetic sciences.
These two ways — of gaining knowledge through scientific exploration and of gaining deep knowing through direct experience — have generally remained separate. Some people value science. Others value spirituality and direct experience. IONS values both. It is time to bring them back together — allowing each to inform one another, weakening neither, but rather strengthening our overall understanding of reality.
Our premise: at the nexus of inner knowing (noetics) and outer investigation (science), we will discover entirely new ways of being and of doing that uplift humanity and advance thriving for all.
Noetic: inner wisdom, direct knowing, intuition or implicit understanding
Noetic sciences: A multidisciplinary field of study that brings objective scientific tools and techniques together with subjective inner knowing to study the nature of reality.
