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"Energy Anatomy and Self-Diagnosis" with Caroline Myss (part 1 of 2)
An intense discussion on understanding how to read one's own intuition and apply intuitive skills toward evaluating the information that is always active is one's energy anatomy system. It is this energy information that contains the warning signals that one is entering the stages of illness.
- Audio Lectures
- 1993-06-23
- 00:44:19
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"Energy Anatomy and Self-Diagnosis" with Caroline Myss (part 2 of 2)
An intense discussion on understanding how to read one's own intuition and apply intuitive skills toward evaluating the information that is always active is one's energy anatomy system. It is this energy information that contains the warning signals that one is entering the stages of illness.
- Audio Lectures
- 1993-06-23
- 00:45:23
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"Cells and the Sacred" with Sondra Barrett
What can your cells teach you about living a spiritual life, love, and the Self? 100 trillion individual cells create your personal physical universe providing their own "wisdom medicine" through self-diagnosis, love, repair, regulation, and regeneration.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-03-03
- 01:06:59
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Monkeyluv
and Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
How do imperceptibly small differences in the environment change one's behavior? What is the anatomy of a bad mood? Does stress shrink our brains? What does People magazine's list of America's "50 Most Beautiful People" teach us about nature and nurture? What makes one organism sexy to another ...
- Publications Books
- September 15, 2005
- 224 pages
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Ken Smith
KEN SMITH is communications director for The Institute of Therapeutic Discovery (www.titd.org). Under the name Ken Eagle Feather, he wrote and published four books on the human energy body. He is currently writing a book detailing our bioenergetic anatomy.
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Michael A. Jawer
Jawer is an emotion researcher and writer based in Washington, DC. He has been investigating the mind-body basis of personality and health for fifteen years, and his articles and papers have been widely published. He is co-author with Marc Micozzi of The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion (Park Street Press, 2009), a pioneering examination of the brain-body nature of anomalous experience, and Your Emotional Type: Key to the Therapies That Will Work for You (Healing Arts Press, 2011).
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Caroline Myss
Caroline Myss is a pioneer in the field of energy medicine and human consciousness. She holds degrees in journalism, theology, and intuition and energy medicine. Over the past decade, her work with Norman Shealy, M.D., a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon and founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, has helped define how stress and emotion contribute to the formation of disease.
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Why do some people get well with a placebo?
Hidden in the placebo is proof of the highest of human potential to self heal... and that there is no separation between mind and body. We know there are significant ...
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Seeing your world with new eyes: altering the senses.
Hello folks, I thought I'd go ahead and share my nifty little experience with altering one's perception. Afterwords maybe other people can share there own interesting tales of ... -
Alex Grey
Alex Grey is a visionary artist who's oeuvre spans a variety of forms including performance art, installation art, sculpture, and most significantly, painting. His unique artwork takes the viewer on a journey toward their own divine nature by examining, in detail, the body, mind, and spirit.
Alex spent five years at Harvard Medical School working in the Anatomy department. He also worked at Harvard's department of Mind/Body Medicine with Dr. Herbert Benson and Dr. Joan Borysenko conducting scientific experiments to investigate subtle healing energies. Alex's anatomical training prepared him for painting the Sacred Mirrors and for doing medical illustration.
Grey was an instructor in Artistic Anatomy and Figure Sculpture for ten years at New York University, and now teaches courses in Visionary Art with Allyson at The Open Center in New York City, Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado and Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York.
In 1972 Grey began a series of art actions which bear resemblance to rites of passage, in that they present stages of a developing psyche. The approximately fifty performance rites, conducted over the last twenty five years move through transformations from an egocentric to more sociocentric and increasingly worldcentric and theocentric identity.
Grey's unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, present the physical and subtle anatomy of an individual in the context of cosmic, biological and technological evolution. Begun in 1979, the series took a period of ten years to complete. It was during this period that he developed his depictions of the human body that "x-ray" the multiple layers of reality, and reveal the interplay of anatomical and spiritual forces. After painting the Sacred Mirrors, he applied this multidimensional perspective to such archetypal human experiences as praying, meditation, dying, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth and nursing.
Alex Grey's written work and audio recordings include Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey; The Mission of Art
; Transfigurations
; Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics
; The Visionary Artist
and Art Psalms
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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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Bruce Lipton, PhD
Dr. Bruce Lipton is an internationally recognized authority in bridging science and spirit. He has been a guest speaker on dozens of TV and radio shows, as well as keynote presenter for national conferences.
Dr. Lipton began his scientific career as a cell biologist. He received his Ph.D. Degree from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville before joining the Department of Anatomy at the University of Wisconsin’s School of Medicine in 1973. Dr. Lipton’s research on muscular dystrophy, studies employing cloned human stem cells, focused upon the molecular mechanisms controlling cell behavior. An experimental tissue transplantation technique developed by Dr. Lipton and colleague Dr. Ed Schultz and published in the journal Science was subsequently employed as a novel form of human genetic engineering.
In 1982, Dr. Lipton began examining the principles of quantum physics and how they might be integrated into his understanding of the cell’s information processing systems. He produced breakthrough studies on the cell membrane, which revealed that this outer layer of the cell was an organic homologue of a computer chip, the cell’s equivalent of a brain. His research at Stanford University’s School of Medicine, between 1987 and 1992, revealed that the environment, operating though the membrane, controlled the behavior and physiology of the cell, turning genes on and off. His discoveries, which ran counter to the established scientific view that life is controlled by the genes, presaged one of today’s most important fields of study, the science of epigenetics. Two major scientific publications derived from these studies defined the molecular pathways connecting the mind and body. Many subsequent papers by other researchers have since validated his concepts and ideas.
Dr. Lipton’s novel scientific approach transformed his personal life as well. His deepened understanding of cell biology highlighted the mechanisms by which the mind controls bodily functions, and implied the existence of an immortal spirit. He applied this science to his personal biology, and discovered that his physical well-being improved, and the quality and character of his daily life was greatly enhanced.
Dr. Lipton has taken his award-winning medical school lectures to the public and is currently a sought after keynote speaker and workshop presenter. He lectures to conventional and complementary medical professionals and lay audiences about leading-edge science and how it dovetails with mind-body medicine and spiritual principles. He has been heartened by anecdotal reports from hundreds of former audience members who have improved their spiritual, physical and mental well being by applying the principles he discusses in his lectures. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of the new biology. Dr Lipton is the author of The Biology of Belief
and the co-author of Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here)
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Energy Medicine and the Multidimensional Model
If everything is energy, what constitutes the legitimate domain of energy medicine? In attempting to answer this question, I found a useful model that is shared by modern science and many ancient traditions. It accounts for the diversity in the field of energy medicine and helps to explain a vast array of energy-based phenomena.
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Tasting the Universe: What Synesthesia Suggests about the Nature of Consciousness
Among the beneficiaries of the various shifts in human consciousness now underway are a little-known group of outliers known as synesthetes. A synesthete may hear a symphony but also see amorphous, multi-colored shapes go by. She may say the word “table” and taste cake, just like Academy Award-winner Tilda Swinton.
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Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist and religious scholar, holds a distinguished chair at Baylor University, where he is University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Professor of Medical Humanities, and Director of the Program on Religion and Population Health at the Institute for Studies of Religion. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, where he is a member of the Community of Scholars at the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health.
Dr. Levin received his AB from Duke University in 1981, graduating Magna Cum Laude and with Distinction in both Religion and Sociology. He received his MPH in 1983 from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, and his PhD in Preventive Medicine and Community Health in 1987 from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Medical Branch. He also completed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 1987 to 1989 at the Institute of Gerontology of the University of Michigan, and has additional advanced training in quantitative methods from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Levin is a pioneering scientist whose research and writing beginning in the 1980s helped to create the field of religion, spirituality, and health. He was the first scientist to systematically review the research literature on religion and health, and the first scientist funded by the NIH to conduct research on the topic. His studies have pioneered basic research in the epidemiology of religion and on the impact of religion on the physical and mental health and general well-being of older adults. His research has been funded by several NIH grants, totaling over $1 million in support, and he also has received funding from private sources, including the American Medical Association’s Education and Research Foundation.
Dr. Levin is professionally affiliated with leading organizations at the interface of religion, science, and medicine. This includes serving as the principal Research Area Consultant in the area of public health and medicine for the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, as a member of the Extended Faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, as a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and as Scientific Chair of the Kalsman Roundtable on Judaism and Health Research at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He was Chairman of the NIH Working Group on Quantitative Methods in Alternative Medicine, is a former member of the NIH Workgroup on Measures of Religiousness and Spirituality for the National Institute on Aging, and is a current or past member of the Editorial Boards of nine peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences; The Gerontologist; the Journal of Religion and Health; the Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging; the Journal of Mindbody States; Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine; Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine; the International Journal of Healing and Caring; and EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, in recognition of outstanding career achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of gerontology.
Dr. Levin is the author or co-author of over 150 scholarly publications, as well as over 140 conference presentations and invited lectures and addresses, mostly on the role of religion in physical and mental health and aging. He has published six books, most notably God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001). He is also editor of Religion in Aging and Health: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Frontiers (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994); co-editor of Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999), Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson (New York, NY: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2005), and the forthcoming Divine Love: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions (West Conshocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2010); and, co-author of Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004). According to the Institute for Scientific Information, since 1981 Dr. Levin has been one of the most highly cited social scientists in the world.
Dr. Levin is an internationally known scientist and has lectured throughout the world on most aspects of the interface of religion and health—scientific, clinical, methodological, historical, theological, metaphysical, and with respect to public health and health policy. His research has been featured in many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday, JAMA, Modern Maturity, Tikkun, Moment, Spirituality and Health, and in cover stories in Time, Readers’ Digest, and Macleans, and on national radio and television, including NPR, PBS, CBC, CTV, and CBN. His biography has been included in Who’s Who in Theology & Science, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and International Who’s Who in Medicine. In 2001, a statement in praise of his work was read into the Congressional Record from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a recipient of both the 1996 and 1997 Templeton Prize for Exemplary Papers in Religion and the Medical Sciences, and of several named or endowed lectureships. In 1997, he served as Distinguished Lecturer in Gerontology at Duke University Medical Center, and delivered the First Annual K.J. Lee Fellowship Lecture in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2003, he delivered the First Annual David B. Larson Memorial Lecture in Religion and Health at Duke University Medical Center and the Sixth Annual Richard J. DeBottis Memorial Lecture in Gerontology at the University of Houston. In 2004, he delivered the Second Annual Blair Justice Lecture in Mind-Body Medicine and Public Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. In 2006, he delivered the Fifth Annual Spirituality and Health Forum Lecture at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Dr. Levin is married to Dr. Lea Steele, an epidemiologist and human ecologist. Dr. Steele, who will be joining Baylor University as Research Professor in the Institute of Biomedical Studies, is former Scientific Director of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Energy Psychology: The Future of Therapy?
What we don’t know about healing dwarfs what we do know, and nowhere is this more apparent than the role of “energy” in restoring balance to a fractured psyche. Energy Psychology, modern psychotherapy’s enfant terrible, is growing up and giving us clues to the mystery of its remarkable power.
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Biomedical Research Needs a Paradigm Shift
After many years of increasing investment and diminishing returns, the question we must begin to ask ourselves is, Are we using the right paradigm? Given the experimentally verified validity of quantum mechanics, I believe it’s time to seriously consider the implications for biomedical research.
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Darwin’s Unfinished Business: The Self-Organizing Intelligence of Nature
There is an intelligence in evolution, argues Powell, but it has more to do with natural intelligence than some divinely inspired intent—the intrinsic capacity in all of life to absorb information, solve problems, and literally make sense of things.
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Feeling Psychic: How Emotion May Shape Anomalous Experience
I once spoke with a woman – a travel writer – who, in an article I’d read, made passing mention of her sensitivity to particular places reputed to be haunted. Her account is remarkable.