Lifelong Learning with Marilyn Schlitz & Tom Hurley

Program Description

The Institute of Noetic Sciences was founded in 1973 after astronaut Edgar Mitchell traveled to the moon and saw Planet Earth from outer space–a journey that transformed his life. Noetic Sciences is an organization that asks the questions every era must answer anew: What is real? What is possible? How do we know what we know? How then shall we live?–yet also entertains a willingness to not-know. Tom Hurley and Marilyn Schlitz talk with Michael Toms about how Noetic Sciences was founded, what it has accomplished and where it is headed. Hurley reminds us, through the words of the late Willis Harman, former president of the Institute, that “the world doesn’t change from the top down, or the bottom up, but from the inside out.”

Hurley is the director of the Pathfinding Project, and Schlitz is director of research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• How multiple personalities and spontaneous remission have helped us all heal
• How worldwide change comes about
• The founding myth and origin of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
• New frontiers in science
• Science and moral values
• Transformational journeys that will change your life

Program Number: 2693           Host: Michael Toms           Interview Date: 12/11/1997