About us
This is the meetup group for people in Ontario supporting IONS, encompassing the Greater Toronto Area and surrounding regions. We welcome new members from all around Ontario and encourage and support you to start your own meetup in your region.
Our Vision
The Institute of Noetic Sciences serves an emerging movement of globally conscious citizens dedicated to manifesting our highest capacities.
We believe that consciousness is essential to a paradigm shift that will lead to a more sustainable world. We encourage open-minded explorations of consciousness through the meeting of science and spirit. We take inspiration from the great discoveries of human history that have been sourced from insight and intuition and that have harnessed reason and logic for their outer expression.
It is our conviction that systematic inquiries into consciousness will catalyze positive concrete transformations in the world. In this process, our vision is to help birth a new worldview that recognizes our basic interconnectedness and interdependence and promotes the flourishing of life in all its magnificent forms.
Our Mission
Broadening our knowledge of the nature and potentials of mind and consciousness and applying that knowledge to enhancing human well-being and the quality of life on the planet.
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ONLY CONSCIOUSNESS: Reality, Energy, and Manifestation
Toronto City Hall Committee Room 3, 100 Queen St W, Toronto, ON, CAA cordial invite to the second segment of a miniseries of meetups on the resurging interest in the Perennial Mystery of Consciousness.
Last December we held the first of the series: The Holy Grail of Consciousness Embedded AI focusing on two opposing understandings of Consciousness.
The prevailing concept among many scientists that bursts of electrical activity creates consciousness. And that it is conceivable, indeed possible, to harness this burst of electrical activity in silicon chips giving rise to consciousness in AI.
This differs from the Perennial understandings reached by thinkers of the East who investigated states of Mind beyond dreamless deep sleep and made empirical observations of human and non-human entities over millennia. To them, Pure Consciousness as Ultimate Reality cannot be expressed by speech or understood by the Mind, for it is the illumination of Pure Consciousness which enables the speech to be expressed and the Mind to understand in the first place.
In this and follow up sessions of the series we will be joined by Dr. Afsaneh Khorasani, Afsaneh Personal website-| Home, an eminent research scientist. Among other initiatives Dr. Afsaneh has been involved with the Princeton University linked Global Consciousness Project led by Roger Nelson to which our Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) has been providing logistical home base over the years.
Dr. Afsaneh will lead us into a deep yet practical journey into the nature of reality, consciousness, and energy, bridging modern physics, ancient wisdom, and lived experience. Together, we will look at consciousness as the ground of all experience, energy as the language of the universe, and manifestation as alignment rather than effort.
We’ll explore how thought, emotion, belief, frequency, and awareness shape our lives, our relationships, and our ability to create with clarity and presence. The session will be reflective, expansive, and grounded in real-life application, offering insights you can integrate into daily living.
In the months ahead, we will invite other panelists to share their perspective in a conversational setting with emphasis on audience interactions.
We look forward to sharing this space of inquiry, awareness, and connection with you.
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