WTF Podcast Interview
After the passing of her father, Liz Entin delved into understanding the possibilities of life after death, ultimately writing two books about her investigations.
She now runs a podcast, WTF Just Happened, in which she has interviewed over a hundred people on a wide range of related topics.
In episode 108, she interviews ICRL’s president, Jeff Dunne, about the research done at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory.
Check out the recording, and perhaps even share it (and other of Liz’s work) within your circles!
Gainesville Consciousness Dialogues Retreat
We are pleased to announce the next Consciousness Dialogues retreat will take place at the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies (BIHS) in beautiful Gainesville, Florida.
This first Consciousness Dialogues retreat of 2025 will begin the afternoon of Wednesday, March 26 and continue through the morning of Sunday, March 30. During these days participants will participate as a group in a selection of activities designed to highlight different aspects awareness. Some examples from the inaugural CD retreat include: guided meditation, out-of-body experiences, dance and improv, group art creation, and (of course) variations of PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research) Laboratory experiments like remote viewing and affecting Random Event Generators. After each activity, the group participates in a Bohm-esque discussion focused on exploring the prior consciousness experience through the lens of foundational principles.
First Consciousness Dialogues Retreat a Great Success
Several years ago ICRL partnered with the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies (BIHS) on a project to explore the language that we use in consciousness research, with the ultimate goal of creating a form of Rosetta Stone to help everyone understand how we intend the words we use.
The effort experienced a COVID delay, but is finally back on track! At the end of June, 2024, ICRL and BIHS joined forces with the Monroe Institute to host our first Consciousness Dialogues Retreat at their beautiful facility in Faber, Virginia.
The event was held over the course of four days with a dozen of the most beautiful souls humanity has to offer. In that time, we engaged in a variety of group activities that ranged from interpersonal relating to meditation, art, dance, and – of course – telekinesis and remote perception. After each activity, the group engaged in deep discussion, exploring the essence of the shared experience and the expressions of consciousness that were found within.
What’s Next?
Is this going to happen again? Feedback from the group made it unanimously clear: these event must continue! We are in the process of finalizing logistics, but here’s how things are shaking out. In the spring, it looks like we will hold the second retreat at the BIHS facility in Gainesville, Florida.
Later in the year we may return to the Monroe Institute or the ICRL Retreat Center, both in Virginia, although we are also exploring a future Europe-based options as well.
Consciousness Alliance Kickoff
It is no surprise, and no overstatement, to say that ICRL is just one of a great many organizations that seek to raise awareness of the nature of consciousness, to emphasize that we are more than the physical, and to help make the world a healthier and more humane place in the process. Alas, while those who seek to exploit the planet and its organisms for personal and financial gain are very well-organized, the greater community promoting post-materialist view is… not.
While there may not be a lot of money out there for organizations and efforts that seek to help people evolve and find peace and greater harmony, we do have something to offer that is – believe it or not – more satisfying than financial wealth: family. And we hypothesize that we can leverage such personal relationships to create a network of mutually-supportive organizations aimed at making the world a better place.
This is the vision behind the Consciousness Alliance.
ICRL, the Scientific and Medical Network, and the Pari Center partnered to organize an initial Alliance meeting at the beginning of July 2024.
Ten individuals representing roughly twenty organizations met for two days, exploring the potential for what the Alliance could be, how it should function, and what next steps are on the horizon.
The initial meeting was held at the fledgling ICRL Retreat Center in Roanoke Virginia, and we are now in the planning process for a second in-person gathering, to be held outside of London in November (16th and 17th).
If you are part of an organization that fits the goals and intentions of the Consciousness Alliance and would like more information on what the Alliance is and how to get involved, don’t hesitate to reach out to us. And in case you missed it on the right-hand side of the page, there is a link to a CA page with a little more information too.
degree from Hollis University and has accumulated a diverse work experience, spanning multiple disciplines: education, technology, business and law, predominately in support and administrative roles. She currently works for the College of New Jersey in its Office of Disability Support Services. Lynn Ann has been an administrative assistant to ICRL’s President since 2011, and has extensive familiarity with the organization’s structure and activities, along with a deep commitment to its mission.
Vasileios Basios is a physicist, conducting interdisciplinary research on the foundations of complexity science and nonlinear systems, self-organization and complex matter. During his formative years, he was tutored by Ilya Prigogine, at ULB where he received his PhD, and by Emilios Bouratinos on meditation and philosophy. He is currently interested in the complex interface between action and information. Other interests include the history of ideas in science and their role in the transformation of science beyond the prevailing naïve, materialistic, mechanistic-reductionist world-view. With others from PEAR, he initiated the Mind-Matter-Mapping Project and has since published several essays for ICRL. He is also a member of the Board of the Scientific and Medical Network and the Steering Team of the Galileo Commission. Vasileios is inspired by the prospect of introducing self-reflection into the practice and understanding of science, and the emergence of a Self-Reflexive Science of Consciousness.
Ian Cook is a Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, where he directs the UCLA Depression Research and Clinic Program at the Semel Institute and was the inaugural holder of the Joanne and George Miller and Family Endowed Chair in Depression Research at the Brain Research Institute. He has been a part of the PEAR/ICRL family since 1980, when he was among the first undergraduate students to conduct research at the PEAR lab. He graduated from the Yale School of Medicine and pursued his residency training and research fellowship at UCLA. His research has focused on understanding the relationships among the mind, the brain, and the body, and in translating developments in technology into more effective treatments for disorders of mood and cognition.
Bob (Brahmatirtha) was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1949, completed his B.S. in Chemistry at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1971, and received his M.S. in Geology from Rutgers University in 1975. After a twenty-year career serving as a geologist and vice-president of a large regional environmental company, he currently works as an environmental consultant to state governments. He has been a member of the Bhaktivedanta Institute since the inception in 1976, giving a presentation at their First International Conference on Life Comes from Life in 1977, and working on a multitude of projects with R.L. Thompson (Sadaputa) from 1995 through 2008. He is also a certified court mediator. He now serves as the Director of the Bhaktivedanta Institute for Higher Studies.
Carolyn is a writer and dancer, two avenues that support her central purpose as a healer. Through her numerous books she teaches that every moment brings unbidden opportunities from the universe, that every day of is filled with beauty and surprise. Ecstatic experience is the goal of her work, the personal to the cosmic. 
The largest dataset collected at PEAR used Random Event Generators, or REGs. These devices were essentially electronic coin flippers that produced a series of 1’s and 0’s; operators were instructed to influence the machines to produce more 1’s than 0’s or vice versa.
