MindRealm Institute

Explores, develops and challenges current perspectives on consciousness

MindRealm Institute explores the intersection of scientific and contemplative methods of investigating the mind. The convergence of empirical and contemplative modes of inquiry may well suggest novel approaches to universal emotional, cognitive and behavioral problems, but it also sheds light on vested religious, philosophical and institutional interests that might obstruct any such development.

MindRealm Institute therefore investigates the underlying intellectual and philosophical dynamic that animates this field. Through free-ranging discussions; inter-cultural, philosophical, and sociopsychological analyses; expert-meetings and masterclasses; conferences; retreats and so forth, the institute invites full expression of their participants’ foundational views and motives.

In particular, to retrieve unexamined assumptions vis-à-vis consciousness, MindRealm Institute focusses on:

 Deliberate or inadvertent philosophical choices;

 Interactions that lead to scientific innovation or stagnancy;

 Intellectual patterns that suggest evolution or evasion;

 Tensions other than mere intellectual disagreements, such as intercultural, institutional or philosophico-religious contests;

 The applicability of scientific thought in other fields – religion; philosophy; health care; business.

To foster new insights MindRealm Institute use techniques such as philosophical debate; reformulating and (re)contextualizing methodological issues; and unsettling habitual patterns of thought. Recognizing that scientific and religious understandings of the nature of mind can never be fully decontextualized, MindRealm Institute seeks to examine both the content and (inter)subjective utility of their philosophical presuppositions – what matters is not merely what we think, but how we think.