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"Whether its psychic phenomena, mystical experiences, communications with the dead...whatever it is, you're implying that reality is different from the way they taught you in school. Sooner or later we're going to say "Well if all of that's so, then our emphases in business and economics have to be different, as well as our emphases in politics, education and healthcare."
Willis Harman

Willis Harman was Professor Emeritus of Engineering Economic Systems at Stanford University, USA, and President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He died on 30th January 1997.

Back Story

How did your own interest in the subject of consciousness start? Was it an early passion?

Willis Harman No, I was trained as a scientist, thought I was going to be a chemist for a while, ended up as an electrical engineer and then systems engineer. And then in 1954 at age 36 I had an up-ending experience that I hadn't asked for and the net result was my path through life took a sudden swerve. It was a two-week seminar which, there was nothing like it at the time although later on there were things like Est and Silva Mind Control and all kinds of things, but at that time, it was a fairly intensive seminar and I only came into it because I didn't realise that. I was tricked into coming into it, thinking it was going to be a nice, safe intellectual discussion.

What was the seminar, specifically?

Willis Harman It was called The Secora Seminar. The same group became Beyond War, they still exist, I think. It became apparent to me through that experience that I had feelings that I was not even aware of, you know my unconscious mind. Its rather hard to explain how an experience suddenly opens you up. It's not exactly a rational, linear process. At any rate I just started to search around for whoever knew something about any part of this.

I made one trip to Europe and got aquainted with the Society for Psychical Research, that was back in the days of Sir George Joy and Rosalyn Heywood. Celia Green was just a youngster coming in at that time. So in the next half dozen years or so I got somewhat involved in psychical research and somewhat involved in the psychedelic research. That sort of blew up in a way in the 1960's! So I shifted over to doing research on the future.

New Reality

Willis Harman I think that this is, indeed a remarkable point in history. I think the world-view is shifting in a way that few people recognise and, I think, few scientists understand.

What are the new ideas coming in?

Willis Harman If there really is something new coming in and it's bubbling up out of the collective unconscious, then nobody's going to be able to tell you exactly what it is. But I think we can see some signs of it. In a different picture of reality that involves consciousness or mind or spirit in a very different way, not something that ended up as the final product of billions of years of evolution, but rather as something that was here before evolution. For example one Nobel scientist, George Wall, started to write that six or eight years ago that the fundamental picture of evolution, he was convinced, was not one where consciousness comes along at the tail end of the evolution of mammals, resulting in human beings. Instead of that, consciousness was there all the time, or something like consciousness or mind or spirit. That's a very different story and it has profound implications for the economic system, for business, for any aspect of society.

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Originally broadcast on UK television's Channel 4, dprogram is an award winning, mind expanding trip featuring rare and exclusive interviews with leading edge personalities from areas like cyber culture, consciousness research, parapsychology, music and art.

Volume 1 includes:
• Dan Mapes CEO of San Francisco's leading edge virtual reality design company SynergyLabs on the metaphysics of VR.
• Jah Wobble Musician and founder member of Public Image Limited on Cockney mystics, creativity and the inspiration of William Blake.
• Dr Sara Parker UC Berkeley scholar on the New Age 'colonisation' of Native American spirituality.
• Bishop Joey Head of the First Church of the Last Laugh - the worlds fastest growing snack relgion!
• Burning Man A unique four day experience exploring creativity and consciousness in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
• Willis Harman Former president of The Institute of Noetic Sciences on their 'conventional research into unconventional areas'.
• Dr Edgar Mitchell Founder of The Institute of Noetic Sciences and Apollo 14 astronaut on parapsychology experiments in space.
• Nick Pope of the British Ministry of Defence on why he had to change his mind about the UFO phenomenom.
• Peter Russell Author, on the global brain, spirituality on the net and our part in the evolution of the planet.
• Ann & Alexander Shulgin Pioneer researchers into psychedelics and the mind, on the politics of ecstacy.
And more...

Running time: 70 mins.
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