JAMES O’DEA, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, was formerly director of the Washington, D.C., office of Amnesty International and executive director of the Seva Foundation. He is passionate about applying IONS’ research to personal and social healing in our challenging times.
The Institute of Noetic Sciences employs the rigor of science, balanced by personal and collective wisdom, to support a global shift in consciousness. They serve an emerging movement of globally conscious citizens dedicated to manifesting our highest capacities. They are a nonprofit membership organization.

James O'Dea in The Translucent Revolution:

“Our task now is to hospice the dying and midwife the new. To hospice it respectfully is the challenge, to embody… and we're talking about you know, a synthesis of peace and a deeper awareness of our inner connection, requires that we really hospice that which can no longer, it's a life meaning form that can no longer connect out sufficiently, and therefore in a sense has to die."

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