Presentation

Integrated Centre of Experimental Research (ICER)

Created on 30th August 2002, this is a sector of the Faculdades Integradas Espírita – FIES (Spiritualist Integrated Colleges).

All the sciences are consolidated through the continuous and systematic production of knowledge within its area of influence. In the case of psi research, production is limited by the lack of financial resources, which curtails research. Nevertheless, despite this limitation, a considerable body of knowledge has been produced that offers proof of the existence of study objects and sheds light on their nature.
In this challenging context, ICER maintains activities aimed at developing scientific knowledge, both theoretical and practical, which may contribute:

•To the institutional goals of FIES, especially its philosophy of human values;
• To the scientific advance of psi research;
• To society in general, emphatically exploring practical contributions.
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ICER reception room

The specific goals are:

• To develop, in a systematic way, different types of theoretical and experimental research;
• For these studies to explore: a) the understanding of the phenomena (nature), b) its replication (proof), and c) their practical application (social objective);
• To this end, to try to integrate a quantitative approach (experimental) with a qualitative approach (phenomenological);
• To stimulate interdisciplinary and cross-cultural activities, seeking to integrate professionals from different areas, institutions and cultures;
• To develop scientific knowledge based on this research;
• To publish theoretical and experimental articles in professional magazines and newspapers, as well as at congresses and scientific events;
• To develop video-documentaries about research development and related subjects, to facilitate the promotion of themes of the area;
• To develop extension courses, lectures and workshops at FIES and other institutions, publish articles in popular newspapers and interact with the general means of communication, aiming at integrating society with the developed scientific knowledge;
• To maximise the potential of financial resources for research and related activities;
• To facilitate educational research and supervised internships for the students of the FIES;
• To establish and maintain a network of contacts and partnerships with other institutions and researchers, both national and international;
• To promote scientific events in this area, aiming at the updating, integration and promotion of the work from different researchers and cultures;
• Based on the developed knowledge, to offer, even if in an exploratory and experimental way, services to the community, aimed at developing possible practical applications of psi research and, in this way, try to contribute to social development.

To achieve these goals and organise these activities, the following structure is adopted:

Four experimental laboratories

• DMILS – Direct mental interactions with living systems
• Ganzfeld and modified states of consciousness
• Micro PK
• Psychomanteum

DMILS study with students from the André Luiz School

Applied Research Centre

Exploratory studies aimed at checking the possibility:

• Of the improvement of decision making and solving problems through anomalous capacities; ;

Social and Scientific Interaction Centre

• Web site
• National and International Interchanges
• Psi Meeting – annual international scientific event
• Study groups (Neuroscience)
• Experimental groups in dynamics and deep experiences for self-knowledge
• Interpersonal and Intuitive Development Groups, in the Casa de Custódia de Curitiba (prison) and the André Luiz School;
• Television Program “Science and Spirituality”, at CWB TV

Coordinator

Fabio Eduardo da Silva is a Psi Researcher (1994) at the Open Course of Parapsychology of the Faculdades Integradas Espírita (FIES) and has been a professor of this course since 1996, after concluding Consciousness Studies at FIES. Has been a facilitator of deep experiences and dynamics for self-knowledge since 1996. He is a psychologist at the Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná (2006), a specialist in Superior Education and Neuropsychology at IBPEX (2005/2007), and Professor for Post-graduate courses. He completed his Masters Degree in Social Psychology at the São Paulo University, where he is currently conducting a Ph.D. in psi. Fabio is also a member of the Parapsychological Association (PA) and the International Society of Life information Science (ISLIS), Japan.

Contact

facbio.z@gmail.com