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The Real Wealth of Nations
Creating a Caring Economics
Bestselling author Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade, which has sold more than 500,000 copies sold) shows that at the root of all of society's big problems is the fact that we don't value what matters.
- Publications Books
- March 28, 2007
- 318 pages
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Teleseminar with Stephen Post (sample)
Stephen Post, author of Why Good Things Happen to Good People talks with Cassandra Vieten about the science of love, compassion, and forgiveness. He sites scientific studies which reveal the human need to live compassionately.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-12
- 00:03:00
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The Scalpel and the Soul
Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope
A Harvard-educated neurosurgeon reveals his experiences-in and out of the operating room-with apparitions, angels, exorcism, and after-death survival, and shares the lessons he learned.
- Publications Books
- March 13, 2008
- 272 pages
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Maureen Venselaar, PhD
Venselaar is a teacher and independent researcher and, for almost 20 years, has been a “spiritual/mental” coach in an institution for elderly and sick people in Delft, The Netherlands. For five years she has been president of VGVZ (in the region of Rotterdam, The Hague, and Leiden), an organization that supports spiritual/mental coaches who work in caregiving institutions such as hospitals. The NDE study took ten years. You can contact Maureen through her website at www.debijnadoodontrafeld.nl (via the webmaster).
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stamina and healing
I have held back on writing about my latest discovery because it is not directly related to consciousness, but it has helped to make my meditations more profound, and I ... -
Mary Jo Kreitzer, PhD, RN, FAAN
As founder and director of the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Dr. Mary Jo Kreitzer brings more than 20 years of leadership and expertise to the field of integrative health and medicine. She was the principal investigator of a $1.6 million National Institutes of Health (NCCAM) education grant and a Fetzer Institute funded evaluation of the Inner Life of Healers Program and the co-PI of a five year $2.1 million NIH (NINR) clinical trial of mindfulness meditation with solid organ transplant patients. She is currently the co-PI of a clinical trial funded by BlueCross/Blue Shield Minnesota on the impact of an integrated residential treatment program on women with eating disorders, the co-PI of an NIH NCCAM R21 grant on mind/body interventions for caregivers of Alzheimers patients and is the co-investigator of a clinical trial comparing mindfulness meditation with pharmacotherapy for people with chronic insomnia. She is also the co-PI of a newly funded NCCAM R25 grant focused on integrating research in a CAM educational institution. In addition to her administrative responsibilities in the Center for Spirituality and Healing, Mary Jo teaches a course on optimal healing environments in the graduate minor in complementary therapies and healing practices and is a tenured professor in the School of Nursing where she is co-director of the doctorate in nursing practice (DNP) program in integrative health and healing. From 2004-2007, she served as the vice-chair of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine. In 2008, she was named by Minnesota Physician as one of the 100 most influential health care leaders in the state. In 2009, she testified at a US Senate hearing titled "Integrative Health: Pathway to Health Reform" as well as the Institute of Medicine Summit titled "Integrative Medicine and the Health of the Public". Dr. Kreitzer earned her doctoral degree in health services research and her masters and bachelors degrees in nursing.
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Death Makes Life Possible – Project update
What happens when we die? And how does asking this question imbue our lives with greater health, happiness, and pro-social behaviors? Thanks to the support of over 550 of you, we have been able to dig deeply into these questions and more through the 'Death Makes Life Possible' project. Here’s what we’ve been up to.
- Noetic Research
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Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change
In the spirit of the hit movie Inception, Wilson, a psychology professor, reveals a new technique that uses the power of our own storytelling to reshape and redefine our experiences as well as our sense of who we are—and who we can become.
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Self-Compassion: The Key to Psychological Well-Being
Although the Western drumbeat has been to improve your life by focusing on self-esteem, Neff asserts that in many ways, self-compassion does a much better job—not only for you but for those around you.