Noetic Advanced Studies Institute

The Noetic Advanced Studies Institute (NASI) founded in 1974 in Palo Alto, CA is an independent nonprofit research fellowship with current offices located in Oakland, California near UC Berkeley, the Escalante Desert, UT and in Recife, Brazil where a new medical college based on principles related to Saude Quantico is being established. Members of the institute (from eight countries) are international academic specialists from diverse scientific fields ranging from quantum physics to neuroscience and philosophy of mind. The publishing division of the institute, called Noetic Press, publishes occasional monographs, conference proceedings and the technical peer reviewed research periodical The Noetic Journal ISSN 1094-0359 (Print) ISSN 1528-3739 (CD-ROM). To date NASI publications have been translated into five languages.
Noetic Press
The Noetic Press publishes a small number of monographs and edited conference proceedings annually and the Noetic Journal specializes in research papers on a so-called "physical cosmology of consciousness". This cosmology depicts a universe with an inherent teleological or anthropic action principle driving self-organization; as opposed to Big Bang cosmology where evolution is considered naturalistic (Darwinian) or random.
The Noetic Journal describes itself as an inter-disciplinary peer-reviewed science journal providing an international forum specializing in the physical basis of consciousness, including aspects of Extended Electromagnetic Theory, de Broglie-Bohm and Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Quantum Computing, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Superstring (M-Theory), Philosophy of Mind and Cartesian Dualism.

Noetic Medal of Consciousness and Brain Research
Given to outstanding individuals for lifetime achievement in the fields related to cosmology of consciousness, noetic medicine, transpersonal psychology, philosophy of mind and brain research. Noted recipients have been neurophysiologists Karl H. Pribram, Benjamin Libet, Engineer , Physicist Avshalom Elitzur and Elizabeth Rauscher (for contributions to several fields of science including physics and the philosophy of mind and medicine - especially for the non-invasive heart pacemaker).
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*[http://www.mindspring.com/~quantum.computing/], Noetic Medal Home Page
Physics Symposia
Following the first two Vigier Symposia Held at York University, Toronto, in 1998 The Noetic Advanced Studies Institute became the organizer and sponsor of the series of Physics Symposia in honor of noted French Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier.
*[http://www.mindspring.com/~cerebroscopic/Index3.html], 2000, Vigier III SYMPOSIUM - "Gravitation and Cosmology: From the Hubble Radius to the Planck Scale". A Symposium in Celebration of The 80th Birthday of Jean-Pierre Vigier, UC Berkeley, USA. Proceedings by Springer Google Books
*[http://www.mindspring.com/~cerebroscopic/Index4.html], 2003, Vigier IV SYMPOSIUM, "The Search For Unity In Physics". A Symposium in Celebration of The 83rd Birthday of Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier, Pierre et Marie Curie Universite, Paris, France, Mon - Fri, September 15-19, 2003.
*, 2005, Vigier V SYMPOSIUM, Liege, Belgium in conjunction with the CASYS Symposium CHAOS Website
*, 2007, Vigier VI SYMPOSIUM, Liege, Belgium in conjunction with the CASYS Symposium CHAOS Website
*[http://www.mindspring.com/~quantum.computing/index7.html] 2010, Vigier VII SYMPOSIUM - "The Search For Fundamental Theory", Imperial College, London UK, July 12 to July 14, 2010 Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier Proceedings by American Institute of Physics (AIP)
*[http://www.mindspring.com/~cerebroscopic/index8.html] 2012, Vigier VIII SYMPOSIUM - "The Physics of Reality: Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos", Imperial College, London UK, August 15 to August 18, 2012. Symposium in honor of Mathematical Physicist Jean-Pierre Vigier. Proceedings by American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Cosmology of Consciousness / Philosophy of Mind Symposia
Sponsored Mind-Body Conferences
1st Workshop on Convergent Ideas in the Philosophy of Science, George Mason University 1998
January 1999]
Science and the Primacy of Consciousness: Intimation of a 21st Century Revolution. Conference at University of Lisbon, Portugal in 22-24 April 1998.
Fundamental Principles of Cosmology: The Foundations of a Conscious Universe, October 14-16, 1999 George Mason University, Fairfax, VA Keynote address - Henry Stapp
Fellows of the Institute
Richard L. Amoroso
Richard L. Amoroso, a practicing physicist is director of NASI as well as executive editor of the Noetic Press and Noetic Journal. He received his B.S. in psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, his M.A. in consciousness studies from John F. Kennedy University, and a DeD in cosmology and philosophy of mind from the now defunct International Noetic University (INU) in Hayward, California. He also studied for two years at the New England School of acupuncture under Dr. James Tin Yau So and was on the staff of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics from 1980-1982. His recent writing involves philosophy of mind, quantum cosmology, astrophysics and noetic medicine. He is an opponent of contemporary theories of the Big Bang, and has proposed an alternative he calls the "holographic anthropic multiverse".
Amoroso characterizes the Noetic Press and its accompanying journal in this way:

Science is inadequate to complete the task of explaining consciousness without being drastically reformulated. ... The Noetic Journal seeks to fill this gap by boldly addressing a complete epistemology that is not just confined to current myopic limits of scientific phenomenology.

Amoroso is chief financial officer of Cerebroscopic Systems, Inc. He is chairman of the board of directors for the Museum of Robotics, and a search committee member of the Noetic Medal of Consciousness and Brain Research.
Elizabeth Rauscher
Elizabeth A. Rauscher, one of the senior fellows of NASI, received her Ph.D. in astrophysics and nuclear physics from University of California at Berkley. She holds senior fellowship at the Noetic Adv. Std. Inst. and carries memberships in APS, IEEE, AAAS, MAA, and AAMI. She holds four patents in United States and Europe, and has authored over 275 scientific papers. She is co-author of the 2009 volume The Holographic Multiverse: Formalizing the Complex Geometry of Reality, with Richard Amoroso,; and chief scientific adviser to BioHarmonic Resonance, Inc..
Recently Prof. Rauscher received notoriety with release of the book "How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival" for her instrumental part in founding the Fundamental Fysics Group at UC Berkeley

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