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Explorers of the Infinite
The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes--and What They Reveal About Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communication, and Touching the Beyond
Real-life psychic, near-death, and paranormal experiences are combined with cutting-edge science and vivid adventure stories in this energetic look at why extreme athletes and mountaineers take the risks that allow them to push the limits of consciousness, and what they encounter there.
- Publications Books
- May 29, 2008
- 304 pages
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The Genie in Your Genes
Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention
Your genes don't control your health or happiness outcomes; in fact many of the choices you make turn genes on or off. Author Dawson Church applies the insights of the new field of Epigenetics (epi=above, i.e. control above the level of the gene) to healing.
- Publications Books
- April 15, 2009
- 395 pages
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Susan Mersereau
Susan Mersereau is currently a senior vice president of Information Technology, Vice President of Organizational Effectiveness, and was Vice President of Quality and Business Services and Vice President and General Manager of Information Systems at Weyerhaeuser Company Tacoma, WA. She sits on numerous boards including: Liason Company in GA and provides tactical and strategic direction to the company; University of Washington Press Board where she advises staff regarding strategies and technology direction; she is also on the board for the Northwest International Women’s Conference, the board of King’s County United Way and the Board of Weyerhaeuser Foundation. Susan is a spiritual seeker and as such a graduate of Nine Gates Mystery School, a poet, an artist, a drummer, and an avid athlete. She is retiring from the business world and intends to devote herself to non- profit spiritual endeavors. She is married to Phil White and as such is Daphne White’s sister-in-law.
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Fred Travis
Dr. Fred Travis received his Masters and PhD in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management in 1988. He had a two-year post-doctoral position at UC Davis and the VA Medical Center in Martinez, CA with Dr. Irwin Feinberg, exploring brain changes during sleep.
At the conclusion of his post-doctoral position in 1990, he returned to Maharishi University of Management to direct research at the Center for Brain, Consciousness and Cognition. Since 1990, he has authored 47 papers and conference presentations that investigate the relation between brain patterns, conscious processes, states of consciousness and meditation practice.
His recent work has reported brain patterns of world class performers—athletes who have received gold medals in World Games, National Game or the Olympics; top-level managers; and professional musicians. He regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses, gives seminars, and speaks at conferences on brain development in children and across the lifespan.
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Research/Meditation Bibliography/Meditation Types
Meditation Types Photo by premasagar Traditionally, meditation was situated within the context of a set of religious beliefs, teachings, and practices. The objective was to alter everyday consciousness to reach ... -
Ed Bastian
Ed Bastian is President and Founder of the Spiritual Paths Foundation. The Foundation provides both public programs on the world’s great spiritual traditions, and an Institute offering a graduate program in InterSpiritual Studies and Contemplative. Spiritual Paths programs focus on how spiritual knowledge, values, and experiences can help solve the critical challenges of the 21st century.
Bastian has taught courses and moderated discussions on religion for the Smithsonian Institution on Buddhism and world religions. He also has taught and lectured at a variety of educational venues and presented scholarly papers and films at academic conferences in the U.S., England, Japan and India. Bastian was a program director for the Smithsonian Institution where he directed programs on BioDiversity and Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Most notably, he co-directed the 1988 National Forum on BioDiversity, a partnership between the Smithsonian and the National Academy of Sciences that introduced the term “biodiversity” to the world.
Bastian was the executive producer for a series of six award-winning television programs on religion in India, Bhutan and Japan for the BBC and produced a series of three films on Tibetan Buddhism with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the U.S. Office of Education and the Smithsonian Institution. These films were produced in close association with indigenous spiritual scholars and exemplars and they have generally been recognized for their sensitivity, accuracy, depth and authenticity. He was the founder and president of Aspen Interactive Media (including aspen.com) that was sold in 1999.
Bastian has directed several non-profit organizations, and has been a business executive, scholar, teacher, filmmaker, athlete, sailor, and amateur musician. He has been a political organizer for presidential, congressional, and local political campaigns and issues. Bastian has been a consultant to spiritual institutions and media organizations and sits on various non-profit and public interest boards. He has two children, Jonathan and Alexandra. Currently, he divides his time between Santa Barbara and Aspen where the Spiritual Paths Foundation has its offices.
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Walter Semkiw, MD, MPH
Walter Semkiw, MD, MPH
I am a Board Certified Occupational Medicine physician and serve as the Assistant Chief of Occupational Medicine at a major medical center in San Francisco. Before that, I was a Medical Director for Unocal 76, a Fortune 500 oil company.
My undergraduate years were spent at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where I majored in biology and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with University Honors. After obtaining my medical degree at the University of Illinois, Chicago, I trained in psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Denver. I later entered an Occupational Medicine residency at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where I earned a Masters of Public Health (MPH) degree. In this program, I studied epidemiology and biostatistics, disciplines concerned with establishing scientific proofs. On my Occupational Medicine board examination, I scored in the 99th percentile.
I share my educational background because I know that the information I am forwarding on reincarnation may be hard for some to believe. I want to reassure you that I am grounded in science.
My parents, Luba and Zenobius Semkiw, were immigrants from Ukraine, who were displaced during the Second World War. They came to the United States with nothing, yet found opportunity. My mother worked and supported my father while he went to medical school. Later on, my mother became a laboratory technician. Continuing the medical tradition, my brother George became a pharmacist and Leo an orthopedic surgeon.
My father was a gifted pianist and he would play Chopin late into the night. I remember well these childhood nocturnal serenades. I wanted to play piano also, but I didn't have the talent. I am athletic, though, and I found that I could dance, which became a way to express music. I eventually married a beautiful and intelligent woman named Oksana. Though in time we parted, our early years were the happiest in my life. Many times, couples and other family members come back to life together from one incarnation to another, and indeed, I believe that Oksana was a close relative of mine in a lifetime past. Our story is described my book.
Though I like science, I have always been attracted to the metaphysical world. Though I knew that going into medicine was the right thing for me to do, I also felt that I had another purpose in life that had to do with the spiritual. It was only in 1996 that I started to realize what that task was. I unexpectedly found myself on a path which led me to investigate objective evidence of reincarnation, as well as a past lifetime of my own. In 2001, I presented my reincarnation research to the International Association of Regression Research and Therapies (IARRT). Approximately a year later, I was elected to the Board of Directors for IARRT.
It is my assertion that the objective evidence of reincarnation that is now emerging, from multiple independent research sources, has the potential to change the world in a fundamental way. This evidence demonstrates that we retain similar facial features, personality traits and even writing style, from lifetime to lifetime. We come back into life with people we have known before, and it appears that we all have a predetermined destiny or life path, which ensures that we rendezvous with souls that we are meant to reunite with, once again."
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Andrew Cohen
Andrew Cohen is an American spiritual teacher and visionary thinker widely recognized for his original contribution to the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality. Through his talks, retreats, publications, and ongoing dialogues with the leading philosophers, mystics, and activists of our time, he is becoming a defining voice in an international alliance of individuals and organizations who are committed to the transformation of human consciousness and culture.
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Ancient Wisdom and the Perfection of Health
The human capacity for lifelong well-being was well known to wise women and men throughout time and across diverse cultures. The ancient Greeks called it eudaimonia—human flourishing, the flourishing of our deepest nature.
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Metaphysics in Popular Culture
In the following dialogue, excerpted and adapted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ teleseminar series “Essentials of Noetic Sciences,” IONS Director of Research Cassandra Vieten talks with Jeffrey Kripal, chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University. Kripal’s latest book is Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
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Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: A 21st-Century View of Meditation
The field of contemplative neuroscience is exploding, in tandem with the explosion of knowledge about brain science in general. People know twice as much about the brain today than they did in 1990, and science knows a hundred times more today than it did in 1990 about what happens in the brain when people engage in contemplative practices.
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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.