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While we continue to work on building our social media footprint, the primary way we keep people informed about ICRL activities is via our digital newsletter. It is sent out roughly once a month (although sometimes more frequently when things get very busy) and includes updates on events, opportunities, new papers, etc.
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Becoming a part of ICRL can mean a variety of things, from staying in touch and attending events to being a volunteer or a research partner. We share many different kinds of opportunities in the main updates carousel on our homepage, such as being a participant in experiments, and others on our Support page.
The first step is to register as a member. At this time we have two membership levels. Friend memberships are free, and give access to more than those just visiting the site without joining. Family memberships (which are paid either monthly or yearly for a discounted price, though neither are terribly expensive) provide more still – greater access to content as well as discounts (often completely free access) to events for which others have to pay full price. And in time we will be adding even more benefits. Click here to register or upgrade your current membership level.
Naturally, we always suggest subscribing to the ICRL newsletter if you haven’t already, as that is the best way to receive information right in your email inbox about new opportunities to engage as soon as they become available. But there is also no need to wait. Send us a message to let us know about your interests!
Changing the world is not going to happen as the result of pushing from a single direction. ICRL is always interested in partnering with other organizations that likewise believe that understanding ourselves, the nature of reality, and connection between those two is an essential step on the path of making a positive change. Whether you are interested in one-on-one organizational collaboration or becoming part of the Consciousness Alliance, please get in touch!

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.