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Happiness: What Causes It?

Happiness Research: One Big Finding Decades of wellness studies have identified a formula for happiness What is the central activity that promotes happiness? A century of research gives us the answer: Connection to others.

Posted on June 4, 2025
Emma Bragdon
happiness, Harvard, psychotherapy, research, Waldinger

Working Group Soteria

Working Group Soteria Authors: Daniel Nischk and Ludi Van Bouwel of ISPS [To learn more about Soteria, a very successful psycho-social approach to treating extreme states, go a previous blog which introduces the concept as

Posted on May 22, 2025
Emma Bragdon
Mosher, neuroleptics, psycho-social care, psychosis, research, residential treatment, schizophrenia, soteria

Mediumship: Research and Latest Discoveries

Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness: Mediumship, Meditation & Citizen Science Using Muse EEG with Helané Wahbeh (above photo), Arnaud Delorme, and Chris Aimone Friday, May 2, 2025 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (PDT) Register Now

Posted on May 1, 2025
Emma Bragdon
brain, citizen science, consciousness, EEG, heartwave, IONS, meditation, mediumship, mind, MUSE, neuroscience, research

Helane Wahbeh-Research at IONS

Helane Wahbeh: Interview with Emma Bragdon Helane Wahbeh, ND, MCR, is Director of Research at the Institute of Noetic Sciences in California, IONS. In this 13 minute video she tells about her early

Posted on January 23, 2025
Emma Bragdon
channeling, Helane Wahbeh, IONS, mediums, mediumship, metaphysics, research