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The Flame of Life
The emerging science of biofields provides a complement and a challenge to standard approaches of modern Western medicine. Beverly Rubik offers a succinct overview of vital approaches to healing, and ...
- Publications Articles
- December 2004 - February 2005
- 5 pages
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Shift Issue 5
THE SCIENCE OF FIELDS
ENTANGLED MINDS
by Dean RadinTHE RESONANT HEART
by Rollin McCraty, Raymond Trevor Bradley, Dana TomasinoTHE FLAME OF LIFE
by Beverly RubikTHE UNSOLVED MYSTERY OF HEALING
by Larry DosseyFIELDS OF FORM
by Rupert SheldrakeSENSING FIELDS
by Betsy MacGregor, Chris Bache, Robert GassFrontiers of Research
Stories of Hope
by Marilyn SchlitzSerendipity and Paradox
by Dean Radin- December 2004 - February 2005
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Science and Spiritual Healing III
Bridging Worlds and Filling Gaps
- Principal Investigator
- Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
- Key Collaborators
- Wayne B. Jonas, MD, Mitchell W. Krucoff, MD, Ronald Chez
- Project Staff
- Charlene Farrell
Science and Spiritual Healing III: Bridging Worlds and Filling Gaps was held in Kona, Hawaii on November 29 - December 3, 2001. This was the third in a series of conferences examining scientific research on spiritual healing practices and related areas. The first conference was held at Harvard in 1997 and the second at Wake Forest University in 2000
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Beverly Rubik, PhD
Beverly Rubik earned her Ph.D. in biophysics in 1979 at the University of California at Berkeley. She is internationally renowned for her pioneering work in frontier science and medicine. Her main area of focus is research on the subtle energetics of living systems, including the human energy field and the body-mind-spirit in health and healing. She has published over 80 papers and 2 books. Dr. Rubik presently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine; Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine; andIntegrative Medicine Insights. She has served on the advisory boards of various distinguished organizations, including the Program in Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona under Dr. Andrew Weil.
Dr. Rubik was one of 18 Congressionally-appointed members of the Program Advisory Board to the Office of Alternative Medicine at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1992-1997, and chaired the NIH panels on electromagnetic medicine and spiritual energy healing. This was the precursory organization to National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine.
In 1996, Dr. Rubik founded the Institute for Frontier Science (IFS), a nonprofit corporation for research and education. Laurance S. Rockefeller, Sr., helped support the founding of the IFS. In 2002, IFS was awarded an NIH center grant for frontier medicine research on biofield science in consortium with researchers at the University of Arizona. Dr. Rubik was a project director in this consortium and conducted studies on Reiki, a form of Japanese spiritual healing, and on qigong therapy, a healing practice that originated in China. Dr. Rubik is currently conducting research in several areas including the psychophysiology of extraordinary states including bliss; the subtle properties of water, including memory; and optimal nutrition for anti-aging and prevention. She is core professor in the doctoral programs in Interdisciplinary Studies at Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, OH, and adjunct professor in Integrative Health Studies at California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco.
Beverly Rubikhas won several awards for her research, including the Alyce and Elmer Green award for her pioneering science, awarded to her in 2009 by the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine. She has been interviewed on various television programs, including the most popular morning program in the US, “Good Morning America” (ABC-TV), where she presented her research on the human energy field in December 2000. She serves as a consultant in the health care industry on maverick health and wellness products and as a holistic health practitioner and educator to individual clients.
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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.