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ICRL is an international, interdisciplinary, and inter-generational consortium of some 75 members, most of whom have been associated with the  Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory as interns or research collaborators over its thirty-year history.  Our goal is to extend the work of PEAR into a broader range of inquiry; to encourage a new generation of deeply creative investigators to expand the boundaries of scientific understanding; and to strengthen the foundations of science by reclaiming its spiritual heritage.  Ultimately, we seek to integrate the subjective and objective dimensions of human experience into a self-reflexive Science of the Subjective.
 

This mission is pursued via collaborative initiatives in Basic Research , Educational Outreach , and Pragmatic Applications , all of which focus on the exploration and representation of the role of consciousness in physical reality.  These are described in some detail on the Activities pages that follow.  ICRL thereby serves as the coordinating hub of a diverse, yet unified community of participants bringing many varied skills and backgrounds to a shared vision for the future.  
 

Initiated in 1990 by the founders of the PEAR laboratory, in its early years our organization functioned as a small informal consortium of colleagues from several countries and diverse professional backgrounds who met regularly to explore their shared interests in consciousness-related phenomena.  In 1996 ICRL was formally incorporated in the state of New Jersey as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public foundation, under the direction of a distinguished Board of Trustees .  Since then it has gradually expanded to include a broader network of  scholars, currently representing some 20 different countries and a comparable number of academic and professional backgrounds.