The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological research institute. Several private institutions, including the Institute of Noetic Sciences, conduct and promote parapsychological research. However, both his semantic memory and noetic consciousness remained unimpaired. His four key characteristics of religious experience are&colon; 'passivity', 'ineffability', 'a noetic quality', and 'transiency'. Noetic understanding can not be achieved by rational or discursive thought (i.e. systemization). With Willis Harman, he co-authored "The Scientific Exploration of Consciousness" (Institute of Noetic Sciences, 1996). In the Orthodox Churches, noetic prayer is the first stage of "theoria". Gnosiology is focused on the study of the noesis and noetic components of human ontology. Faith is the intuitive, noetic experience of the nous or spirit. Faith being characteristic of the noesis or noetic experience of the spirit. In this model, the poem is created, and is interpretable, within both noetic horizons. Purification and illumination of the noetic faculty are preparations for the vision of God. In "Against the Postivists", he took the position of intuitive noetic comprehension, or insight. Kolb has hosted the monthly Atlanta Community Group for Noetic Science since 1996. In October, Matt announced a collaboration with Grammy Award-nominated producer BT called "The Noetic".