THE HARDMAN INSTITUTE

FOR CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES
The Hardman Institute for Consciousness Studies
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What is human consciousness? Does a conscious individual soul or self continue after physical death?  The HICS explores these questions wtih focus on scientifically proving or disproving the existence of a non-localized conscious individual soul or self.
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BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT

We work with legal professionals  and attorneys to rigorously apply the legal principle of "beyond reasonable doubt" in the  accessment of evidence for and against
reported NDEs and OBEs.
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MILLION  DOLLAR  PRIZE

US$1,000,000 will be awarded for scientifically verified proof or disproof of the non-locality of consciouseness and the continued existence of such post-mortem.

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$25,000 AWARDS

We work with OBE-ers and OBE researchers to design, monitor and verify out of body experiences. If your project meets HICS requirements US$25,000 will be awarded.

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$500,000 AWARD

Design, conduct and monitor a custom veridical near death experience. If your project meets HICS requirements  US$500,000 will be awarded to the team responsible.

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IN MEMORIAM

HICS was founded in loving memory of Heidemarie Hardman (1924-2024) whose steadfast belief and faith that "we will meet again" was constant and unwavering. She experienced an out of body NDE in hospital during a miscarriage with severe blood loss in 1953 and HICS is a tribute to her pure soul, her love and kindness, her faith and strength until the end, and her unshakable conviction that "there is so much more than we know".
Heidemarie Hardman - inspiration behind The Hardman Institute.
Heidi Hardman on a Bangkok river boat.
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“I have no doubt in my mind. Life does not end with the death of the body"
Dr Peter Fenwick,  Neuro Psychiatrist


"Consciousness is the essence of who we are"
Dr Pim van Lommel, Cardiologist

"Human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism."
Sir John Eccles, Nobel Prize in Medicine & Physiology


"A scientific world-view which does not profoundly come to terms with the problem of conscious minds can have no serious pretensions of completeness"
Sir Roger Penrose,  Nobel Prize in Physics

"To suppose that consciousness or mind has localization is a failure to understand neurophysiology"

Dr Wilder Penfield, Pioneering Neurosurgeon

"I regard consciousness as fundamental."
Max Planck,  Nobel Prize in Physics

"At the heart of science you have to believe that there is a truth, that there is something greater to be discovered. It's faith that drives science"

Dr Rosalind Picard, Professor at MIT

"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence"
Nikola Tesla

"What we know is a drop. What we don't know is an ocean"
(attributed to) Sir Isaac Newton


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