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Research Campus

The IAC Campus is located on a greenfield site of approximately 25 acres (98,000 m2) near the village of Évoramonte, in the bucolic Alentejo region of Portugal. The center is dedicated to conducting research and providing individuals with opportunities for producing parapsychic experiences and expanding their self-awareness. In essence, it comprises an environment dedicated to scientific debate and investigation into the manifestation of the consciousness, as well as the overarching theme of evolution.


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Laboratories at IAC Campus

The complex features a number of laboratories, each designed and constructed to provide an optimized environment for personal experimentation and research on a particular theme. Among the full set of laboratories planned are the following: cosmoconsciousness, energetic self-control, holochakralogy, holokarma, intermissive course, intraconsciential recycling, macrosoma, multidimensional self-awareness, neothosenes and original ideas, paratechnology, retrocognitions, universalism, vibrational state, waking physical immobility, and the Projectarium (see below for more details).

In its final form the complex will include the following:

  • Consciential Laboratories: providing specialized and optimal environments for self-experimentation on specific themes
  • Multipurpose Auditorium: for conferences, debates, group practical courses, research meetings and exhibitions
  • Library and Holo-archive: comprising a multimedia library, special collections, archives and objects related to consciousness research, online computer terminals, and research room
  • Administrative center
  • Lodge: providing accommodation for visitors and researchers
  • Restaurant: serving campus-based visitors and researchers
  • Support building: business centre, café, and reading centre. It will also provide Internet-enabled laptop stations plus a lounge area for networking and meetings
  • Researcher’s House: long-term accommodation for the head resident researcher or faculty.

Nature

The campus is located in protected, peaceful countryside filled with native plants, small wild animals and many bird species, providing exceptionally reinvigorating immanent energies.

Campus IAC NatureThe property features some 300 mature cork and scarlet oak trees, which will remain intact as construction will take place in the glades between them. As most of these trees are well over 100 years old, they cloak the campus with natural, exceptional bioenergies that promote relaxation, serenity and personal balance. This characteristic of the immanent energies of the campus has proven to facilitate the manifestation of parapsychic phenomena and the expansion of the mentalsoma.

Ongoing efforts will be made to contribute to the already prolific verdant site and indigenous animal life. As an example, an initiative called Sponsor a Tree has been established to help raise funds to protect the trees from fungi and other diseases. (More information is available on the IAC website.) Consistent with the aim of creating an environment in natural harmony, the IAC has also implemented Project Oasis, whose main objective is environmental sustainability. This will be achieved through the development and care of natural vegetation, the preservation of biodiversity; the management and use of natural resources such as water; and sewerage treatment.

The development and construction plans are based on the most upto- date techniques and approaches for making the campus complex an example of environmental sustainability in the region.

Architectural Design

Event held at IAC CampusThe buildings at the IAC Campus have been devised and constructed for holding advanced educational events related to conscientiology, and thus include tailored architectural characteristics and a specialized energetic field. The sturdy construction techniques take into consideration the bioclimatic architecture strategies used in the region, and provide for healthy conditions and thermally comfortable spaces, with efficient use of electric energy.

The laboratories and main buildings feature organic, spherical and semi-spherical architectural designs that have proven ideal for activities involving energies and multidimensional phenomena. They also provide an inspiring, mentally-expansive environment that is in keeping with the natural environment.

Acknowledging the pre-existence of the local flora and respecting the existing lay of the land, an aesthetically pleasing spiral layout for the laboratories was conceived and developed, with the Projectarium centrally positioned.

Self-Experimentation and Consciential Laboratories

The term self-experimentation refers to experiments or self-research carried out by individuals seeking a more complete understanding of themselves and an expansion of their parapsychic experiences. This kind of selfexperimentation engages the individual as both the subject of study and the researcher, observing and analyzing the experience.

In projectiology and conscientiology, experience is considered more valuable than theoretical ideas alone. First-hand experience is self-convincing and eliminates conditioning and brainwashing. These scientific fields place emphasis on theorice, which is the indivisible association of theory and practice.

The reasoning behind this approach is described by the consciential paradigm, a leading-edge perspective on existence that places consciousness at the center and suggests a need for investigation beyond the material world and the purely objective explorations of traditional mechanistic science.

To foster such individual experiences, a number of optimized consciential laboratories are being constructed. Physically, the laboratories are designed to provide optimized comfort and control of light, temperature, and sound. In addition, the laboratories provide a specialized extraphysical (non-physical) environment through the installation of an energetic-informational field specific to the theme of each laboratory.

This specialized arrangement of the physical, extraphysical, and energetic elements creates a multidimensional chamber, providing opportunities for deep self-research, expansion of consciousness, and increased multidimensional self-awareness. Consciential laboratories may facilitate parapsychic experiences even for individuals with no history of such experiences. The selfexperimentation laboratories are open to those who have taken IAC’s core curricular course at its educational centers, or any course at the IAC Campus.

Projectarium

Projectarium - First optimized OBE laboratory in the worldAmong the existing laboratories at the IAC Campus is the Projectarium, a remarkable spherical building with a diameter of 29.55 feet (9 meters) and a hollow internal space. The Projectarium is the first construction of its type in the world, and includes a number of characteristics known to facilitate out-of-body experiences (OBE, conscious projection).

It aims to harmonize architectural, psychological, energetic and nonphysical elements to reduce environmental stimuli and enhance opportunities for interaction between the physical and non-physical dimensions. The self-experimenter lies with their head in the center of the sphere, on a suspended platform (surrounded by a safety net), giving them the sense of being in a void. The main structure of the Projectarium will be connected to a semi-spherical support building, which will comprise a reception area, monitoring room, and preparation area.

The OBE is an evolutionarily valuable and life-changing experience that provides a unique opportunity to develop multidimensional awareness and holomaturity. Few psychic phenomena raise more questions concerning consciousness and the mind-body relationship. Given that the OBE can be willfully induced, it is the ideal phenomenon for studying and understanding realities beyond the purely physical.

In addition to being an important vehicle for self-research, the Projectarium also aims to be the focal point for a multiplicity of other investigations, conducted under the IAC’s high code of ethics. Such investigations will be conducted by researchers from the IAC and diverse affiliated organizations, with the objective of enhancing humanity’s understanding of this unique phenomenon.

IAC Research Campus

Physical Address:
N18, Km 236 Herdade da Marmeleira
7100-300 Estremoz — Portugal
Email for bookings: campus@iacworld.org
Telephone: +351 26 895 9148
Fax: +351 26 895 0053
Coordinates: Latitude: N 38 47' 46", Longitude: W 07 41' 10"

IAC Research Campus

Physical Address:
EN18, Km 236
Herdade da Marmeleira
7100-300 Estremoz
Portugal

Email for bookings:
campus@iacworld.org

Telephone:
+351 26 895 9148
+351 918 797 924

Fax:
+351 26 895 0053

Coordinates:
Latitude: N 38 47' 46"
Longitude: W 07 41' 10"