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created: 2025-07-22
updated: 2025-07-22
title: Institute of Noetic Science
tags:
  - organization
  - research
  - science
description: The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute.
category: "Private Organization"
summary: "The Institute of Noetic Science (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute. It was founded by former Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, a known psi enthusiast."
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The [[Institute of Noetic Science]] (IONS) is an American nonprofit parapsychological research institute. It was founded by former Apollo 14 astronaut [[Edgar Mitchell]], a known psi enthusiast. In the context of the *Remote Viewers* narrative, the Institute provided a grant that funded [[Andrija Puharich]]'s efforts to bring [[Uri Geller]] to America in 1972 for scientific testing at [[Stanford Research Institute|SRI]].[^1]

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[^1]: Schnabel, Jim. *Remote Viewers*. Dell, 1997.