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About ICRL

Purpose

ICRL is an international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational consortium of scholars who aspire to integrate the subjective and objective components of human experience into an expanded "science of the subjective," thus sustaining the spiritual substance of science and enhancing its cultural benefits. This mission is pursued via a three-fold enterprise focused on the exploration and representation of the role of consciousness in physical reality:

Research

  • Oversight of collaborative projects that strengthen the empirical databases on consciousness-correlated physical phenomena;
  • Development of theoretical models that dialogue effectively with the empirical data to constitute a self-reflexive science of the subjective;
  • Encouragement and support of the involvement of young scholars.

Education and communication

  • Mentoring of younger members by more experienced colleagues;
  • Sharing of intellectual, technical, and financial resources;
  • Creation, production, and distribution of pertinent educational resource materials;
  • Composition and distribution of salient technical publications;
  • Provision of electronic links to various other educational resources, such as bibliographies, available academic programs and courses, research tools, and announcements of relevant meetings and symposia;
  • Facilitation of one-on-one contacts, local or regional gatherings, more extended convocations, and electronic discussions among its members via a structure of web-based forums.

Applications

  • Encouragement of commercial enterprises to develop marketable technical equipment, supporting analytical software, and protocols to enable beneficial public utilizations;
  • Explorations of the psycho-physiological effects of novel working and living environments.


History

ICRL was initially established in 1990 by the founders of the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University. In its early years it functioned as an informal consortium of a small group of senior colleagues from several countries and diverse professional backgrounds who met annually to explore their shared interests in the role of consciousness in the establishment of physical reality. It was formally incorporated in 1996 in the state of New Jersey as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public foundation, under the direction of a distinguished and dedicated Board of Trustees. In the intervening years, ICRL has gradually expanded to include a broader group of international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational scholars, most of whom have been associated with the PEAR laboratory over its 28-year history as interns or research collaborators. This assembly, referred to as the PEARtree, presently comprises some 75 members, representing more than 20 different countries and a comparable number of academic and profesional backgrounds. Members of the group share their interests and activities via a dedicated web-based discussion forum, collaborate in interdisciplinary research endeavors, and meet periodically for academies of several days duration.


Communications and Outreach

ICRL maintains three levels of outreach to the broader community:

  • A private mailing list for individuals who share our vision and wish to receive periodic announcements of activities and publications (click here if you would like to join this list);
  • Discussion forums on specific topics for those desiring to network with others who share their interests;
  • Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaborative research projects with ICRL members.

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