(IONS – April 2016) – Recommendations for expanding the science of meditation. Cassandra Vieten gives an overview of the Future of Meditation Research (FOMR) initiative recently launched by IONS to explore the deeper aspects of meditation and transformational experiences. While research to-date has focused on the secular and cognitive aspects of meditation, a broad range…

(March 2017) – Being aware of the things that are happening in our body, and what does it mean and how do you get to that place of awareness. For Cassandra Vieten, PhD, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, there is a place in ourselves that isn’t about thinking, about what we are feeling…

(Augmented World Expo – June 2017) – A panel at the Virtual World Society Track at AWE USA 2017 – the largest conference for AR+VR. A talk from the Virtual World Society Track at AWE USA 2017 – the largest conference for AR+VR in Santa Clara, California May 31- June 2, 2017.

(Institute of Noetic Sciences, July 2017). A panel with Cassandra Vieten, Dacher Keltner, Rave Mehta, and Loren Carpenter, discussing the nature and transformative potential of awe, aha moments, and flow states. Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell was inspired to create IONS after he saw the earth from outer space and experienced an awe that forever…

(Global Purpose Summit, San Francisco, Nov 2017) How to connect with and align with the deepest source of your inspiration to become a powerful and effective change agent. Social-, cognitive-, and neuroscience have a lot to tell us about how people actually change their minds and how they are inspired to take action. In this…

(Seven Rays Conference, Nov 2017) – Cognitive, social, and brain science, along with practices for powerful presence, that can empower changemakers to be more effective. Cassandra Vieten, President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, reveals insights on how we change and why we don’t — despite the best intentions. In fact, we may be doing…

(Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat Bahamas – April 2018) – Using science to study the objective sense of interconnectedness, as well as the subjective realities of awareness and consciousness. Beginning with a meditation, Cassandra Vieten opens this talk an awareness exercise, challenging us to focus within. She discusses the objective sense of interconnectedness, as well as…

(Awakened Futures Summit – UCSF Mission Bay – June 2019) – How inducing experiences of awe and wonder with psychedelics, meditation, VR might unlock latent capacities and skills that we might not be able to access otherwise.

(Theosophical Society, Aug 2018) – Using science and spiritual practices to become a more powerful agent for change.