RESEARCH CONSENT AND AUTHORIZATION FORM
TITLE: Analysis of Channeled Content about Extraterrestrial Intelligences (ETI)
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Helané Wahbeh, research@noetic.org
FUNDED BY: Institute of Noetic Sciences
PURPOSE: The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is conducting a study to collect trance-channeled content from sources believed to be Extraterrestrial Intelligences (ETI). This data will be uploaded into an extensive database that will be used to help answer research questions about ETIs. To submit materials to the data archive, you must be an adult aged 18 years and older, understand, read, and write in English, understand this consent form, and be able to follow the instructions to upload the channeled material through this survey. In addition, you must have explicit permission from the trance channeler to submit the materials if the content is not publicly available. If you do not already have permission or the material is not publicly available, please stop here and return later when one of these is true.
PROCEDURES: When you enter the survey, you will be asked questions to confirm your eligibility. If you are eligible, the survey will continue, and you will be asked some questions about the material you want to upload, such as the trance channeler, the perceived source of the material, the approximate date of the channelings, and a brief description of the material. You will then be asked to upload the materials. You may upload up to 20 documents; each file must be less than 16MB. The accepted file types are PDF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF.
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE DATA?: Your data will be kept indefinitely for future research at IONS. Anonymous data may also be released to other investigators for future research studies.
ACCESS TO RESULTS: Study results will be presented through IONS blogs and on the website as they are generated. We invite you to join the IONS email list to receive notices: https://noetic.org/#subscribe Any presentation of the results will contain anonymous information about the group results. Individual results will not be shared, and our reports will not include identifying information.
RISKS: There are no known risks from participating in this study. Although we have made every effort to protect your identity, there is a minimal risk of loss of confidentiality. Because this is a research study, if you decide to discontinue the study, your data may or may not be used in the research study.
BENEFITS: You may or may not benefit from being in this study. However, by submitting this information, you will help us learn more about channeled content.
CONFIDENTIALITY: This is a non-anonymous study. Your name and contact information will be stored on password-protected computers and only available to IONS staff. Any reporting of the data or results will be strictly anonymous.
COSTS: Participation in this study will not cost you anything.
COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT: By consenting to participate, you acknowledge that IONS may make any lawful use of your data, including, but not limited to, future research studies, destroying it, or transferring it to a public or private entity. We may use data obtained from you and stored in this research archive to make a discovery that could be patented or licensed to a company. There are no plans to provide financial compensation to you should this occur. However, should IONS ever provide your data to anyone else for research or commercial use, it will do so anonymously. Further, you will have no responsibility or liability for any use that may be made of your data.
