LABORATORY FOR ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALTH

L.A.C.H.

LABORATORY FOR ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALTH

Mission:
To investigate the role of human consciousness and its potential applications for personal, societal, and global health.

Under the direction of Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (LACH; formerly the Human Energy Systems Laboratory) focuses on advances in human consciousness emerging from the process of scientific discovery. However, it is especially concerned with investigating specific research topics whose controversial findings require, to various degrees, a transformation in human consciousness. Because the discovery of seeming "anomalies" in science often raises challenging questions concerning the need for substantial changes in perception, understanding, and wisdom, LACH includes eight specific consciousness research programs that are controversial in society as well as in mainstream scientific disciplines including psychology:

The founding of LACH was partly inspired by five visionary books:

Stephen Pepper's World Hypotheses : a Study in Evidence

Jonas Salk's Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason (Convergence Series)

Ervin Laszlo's Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos : The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality

Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth : Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

John Mack's Passport to the Cosmos : Human Transformation and Alien Encounters

The creation and mission of LACH was inspired by a number of University of Arizona colleagues, especially Drs. Julie Beischel, Iris Bell, Audrey Brooks, Anne Baldwin, Melinda Connor, Katherine Creath, Cheryl Rittenbaugh, Ernie Schloss, and Mikel Aicken. It was also inspired by a number of international colleagues, including Drs. Dean Radin, Rupert Sheldrake, Edgar Mitchell, Kim Jobst, and Suzanne Mendelssohn.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of vibration. We must assume that behind this vibration a conscious and intelligent mind exists. This mind is the matrix of all matter.
Max Planck

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of the Universe.
Freeman Dyson

When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions; that is the heart of science.
Carl Sagan

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein