Cedar Creek Institute

The mission in service of which the Institute has been organized and will operate is as follows:             To create an interdisciplinary program of high-quality basic research aimed at elucidating the fundamental character of the relationship between the activities of a conscious human mind and the multitude of physiological activities occurring in its associated brain and body. The central strategy of this research program is to explore, systematically and to the furthest limits possible through sensitive and imaginative application of scientific method, supernormal potentials of human beings including in particular their potentials for creative, transformative, transpersonal or mystical, and psychic or psi-type behaviors and experience. One major research focus will involve systematic collection and analysis of any and all forms of evidence suggestive of post-mortem survival of elements of human consciousness, mind, and personality. These will include in particular cases of the reincarnation type; out-of-body and near-death experiences occurring under extreme physiological conditions such as general anesthesia, cardiac arrest, and coma; trance mediumship; spontaneous veridical apparitions of dead or dying persons; and death-bed visions. A second major research focus will involve psychophysiological analysis, using state-of-the-art neuroimaging technologies such as high-resolution electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), of altered states of consciousness and their associations with supernormal phenomena of the sorts indicated above;             To provide opportunities for free exchange of information among qualified students, scholars, and researchers in any and all disciplines that bear upon the central mission of the Institute thus defined;             To encourage responsible and productive application of the findings and methods of its research to relevant problems confronting individuals and the society as a whole;             To disseminate reliable information concerning the Institute, its activities, and the subjects and results of its research and applications work, to the scientific community, to educational institutions, to intellectually responsible popular media, and to any other interested and qualified individuals or organizations;             And to promote any additional endeavors that will lead to better understanding and utilization of normally latent potentials of human mind and consciousness.