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Welcome
to the 33rd SSF-IIIHS International Conference …
Here is a reproduction of our 1975 founding purpose: The International Institute of Integral Human Sciences “A ‘United Nations’ of Future Science” A
Global Village laboratory for A Message from the Founder-President IIIHS in 1975 To achieve world peace and international understanding in the years ahead we must somehow learn to overcome the artificial conceptual barriers which we have created in Western civilization between intuition and reason, mind and body, spirit and matter, religion and science, the sacred and the profane. There is already considerable evidence emerging from recent studies in consciousness, from mind-body research, from Quantum Physics, and from experimental studies on the extraordinary capacities of the human psyche and spirit which would suggest new, integrative models for a better understanding of humanity and our place in a multidimensional & psychoenergetic universe, which is apparently alive and responsive to our innermost aspirations. It is only through the now nearly-lost primal faculty of a spiritual and psychic intuition and its heightened perceptions of a “higher consciousness” that we can hope to reground ourselves as a race upon any truly “universal human values.” This is the way ahead to realize the potential unity of humanity on earth, across man-made conceptual, religious, and cultural barriers. Under the weight of 18th & 19th Century reductionistic philosophies and ideologies, we have been unable thus far to integrate “ancient spiritual insights” with “modern scientific discoveries.” We must now work to create a more humane model for transcultural education and advanced research, which can reunite our highest aspirations for the integration of new sciences with the factor of human spirituality for the recognition and agreement on shared “Human Values.” That is the motivation behind the International Institute of Integral Human Sciences, and the goal of its programs. Come, let us work together to built it, and with it a firm and humane hope for the civilization of tomorrow. Fr. John Rossner,
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