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"The Origin, Persistence, and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory" with Henry Bauer
Dr. Henry Bauer and host Dean Radin engage in an interesting discussion about scientific practices and the difficulty of changing commonly accepted assumptions. Dr. Bauer's latest book The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory challenges the hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-06-20
- 01:08:25
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Teleseminar with Monica Sharma
Monica Sharma, the Director of Leadership and Capacity Development at the United Nations-OHRLLS, talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about her large scale work and the systems used to make sustainable changes in developing countries.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-04-01
- 01:03:29
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"Taboos in Science and Spirituality" with Dean Radin (part 2 of 4)
In this segment Dean identifies three types of taboos in science: transitory, stubborn and double secret super taboos.
- Video Lectures
- 2006
- 00:03:14
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Why Good Things Happen to Good People
The Exciting New Research that Proves the Link Between Doing Good and Living a Longer, Healthier, Happier Life
A longer life. A happier life. A healthier life. Above all, a life that matters—so that when you leave this world, you’ll have changed it for the better. If science said you could have all this just by altering one behavior, would you?
- Publications Books
- May 8, 2007
- 320 pages
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"Neuroscience of Well-being Panel" with Cassandra Vieten, Rick Hanson, and Michael Spezio
IONS Research Director Cassandra Vieten leads a panel on the Neuroscience of Well-being with Rick Hanson and Michael Spezio for the Next Evolution of Health Summit.
- Audio Lectures
- 2010-12-12
- 01:31:43
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"Science of Spiritual Transformation" with Solomon Katz
In this teleseminar, host Cassandra Vieten talks with anthropologist, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and former board president of Metanexus Institute, Dr. Solomon Katz. Their dialogue explores some of the findings from the Metanexus Institute's Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-07-08
- 01:07:24
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Essential Shifts Interview: Van Jones
Van shares intimately about his formative years and his journey into becoming a social activist, as well as the story of Ella Baker, the "secret godmother" of the civil rights movement and mentor to Dr. King. Van advocates a "third way" between Islamic and corporate fundamentalisms and towards a vibrant, global pro-democracy movement that supports "green-collar jobs."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-08-31
- 00:32:29
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Essential Shifts Interview: Don Beck
Spiral Dynamics Integral provides a powerful, multi-leveled mapping of culture, values, and consciousness. In this interview, the leading practitioner of this work, Don Beck, shares his insights about how we can more effectively meet different cultures with solutions appropriate to their "memetic codes."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:48
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Steve Villano, JD
Steve Villano was CEO/President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences from June 2012 through March 2013.
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Henry Bauer
Henry Bauer is Austrian by birth (1931), Australian by education (1939-56), and American (since 1969) by choice. His Austrian background is evident in his pronunciation of the consonants and slow tempo of speech; his childhood experience in Austria of the Nazi takeover in 1938 led to an unshakeable belief that human beings should be treated as individuals and not as members of groups. His Australian upbringing is discernible in his pronunciation of the vowels and in a relish for plain-speaking argument; his education in Australia led to an unshakeable wish that everyone should be able, as he did, to benefit from free public education focused on intellectual development.
Bauer taught chemistry and carried on research in electrochemistry for about 25 years, at the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Michigan, Southampton (England), and Kentucky. In the 1970s he turned to “science studies” (history, philosophy, and sociology of science), looking particularly into how to differentiate science from pseudo-science. He was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Science in Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, teaching in the undergraduate program in Humanities, Science & Technology and the graduate program in Science & Technology Studies. From 1978 until 1986 he served as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. When political correctness arrived, he joined the National Association of Scholars, and founded and edited (1993--99) Virginia Scholar, newsletter of the Virginia Association of Scholars. Retired from teaching at the end of 1999, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Bauer’s studies and writings in recent years have focused on the takeover of science and medicine by bureaucracies, resulting in the creation of knowledge monopolies and research cartels and in the suppression of substantively valid though heterodox approaches--regarding Big-Bang cosmology, “cold fusion”, global warming, HIV/AIDS. His latest book, The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory
(McFarland 2007), draws on official reports and data to demonstrate that almost everything that “everyone knows” about HIV/AIDS is plainly wrong.
Bauer’s earlier books include--as well as texts in electrochemistry and analytical chemistry-- Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies (2001/2004); Fatal Attractions: The Troubles with Science (2001); Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method (1992/1994/2005); To Rise Above Principle: The Memoirs of an Unreconstructed Dean (1988, as ‘Josef Martin’); The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery (1986/1988; U.K. edition, 1991); Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy (1984/1999).
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Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD
Margaret E. Kemeny, PhD, is Professor of Psychiatry and the Director of the Graduate Academic Program in Psychology at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Kemeny's research has focused on identifying the links between psychological factors, the immune system and health and illness. She has made important contributions to our understanding of the ways in which the mind -- one's thoughts and feelings -- shapes biological responses to stress and trauma.
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Leanna Standish, ND, PhD, LAC, and FABNO
I am a scientist and physician with a background that is ideally suited to the investigation of ayahuasca in humans. I was first trained as a neuroscientist with a focus on psychopharmacology and limbic system functional anatomy. In the first decade of my career I studied the psychopharmacology of benzodiazepines, amphetamine, ketamine, and phencyclidine in rodent and primate behavioral models. Since then I have not only actively pursued research interests in clinical neuroscience, behavioral sciences, neuro-oncology, acupuncture, ethnopharmacology and natural products, but have also cared for patients as a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist. I have deepened both my research and clinical interests in cancer and have become board certified in naturopathic oncology, the application of natural medicines in cancer research and patient care. For the last eight years I have been using fMRI brain imaging technology to measure subtle effects of medical qi gong in both healthy subjects and brain cancer patients.
I bring a wealth of experience as a researcher to the endeavor that we now propose. As principal investigator of a Phase I dose escalation trial of a medical mushroom extract in breast cancer patients and as Co-investigator on a number of projects including a large pediatric Echinacea trial, a Phase II trial of silymarin in hepatitis C patients, and a Phase I trial of andrographis in HIV+ patients, I am experienced in all aspects of natural products clinical research with IRB- and FDA-approved study medications. As an NIH PI since 1994 and an experienced NIH center director, I have learned the skills of leading and managing large complex multi-center, multidisciplinary clinical research projects that involve pharmacology, brain imaging, botanical drug manufacturing, psychological and neurochemical measurements, and the local, state and federal agencies that oversee such research.
While ethnopharmacology is part of naturopathic medical training, I first learned about the interesting psychoactive ethnomedicine ayahuasca during ethnopharmacology field trips to the Amazon in 2000 and 2005. I have studied the ethnopharmacognosy, botany, harvest and cultivation methods of the two plant species that make up ayahuasca extracts. I have learned ayahuasca extraction methods from Amazonian herbal healers and have successfully replicated these methods under GMP.
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Monica Sharma, MD
Dr. Sharma, trained as a physician and epidemiologist, worked for the United Nations for 22 years, and in 2009 received "The Spirit of the United Nations Award.” She is now an international consultant in leadership development for sustainable change and has published and presented over 250 articles in journals and international forums.
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Whole-Systems Transformation from the Inside Out
In this excerpt from the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ recent teleseminar series, “Shifting Paradigms,” Monica Sharma, former physician and United Nations program director and now international leadership development consultant, explains that the most reliable method for changing outdated institutions is to go to the source – each person's latent capacity for leadership and meaningful action.
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The Magic Ocean of Energy and Resonance
We exist in an ocean of information, largely unaware of its depth and breadth, tuned only to a narrow band of frequencies. And yet this vibratory universe may hold the keys to our existence—if we can get on the right wavelength.
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The Emergence of Global Medicine
As borders dissolve, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to health and healing are becoming the norm worldwide.
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Cassandra Vieten, PhD
Dr. Vieten is President / CEO at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and presenter.