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Distant Healing of Surgical Wounds
An Exploratory Study
Distant healing intention (DHI) is one of the most common complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) healing modalities, but clinical trials to date have provided ambivalent support for its efficacy. To examine 2 potential variables – expectation and belief – we explored the effects of DHI on objective and psychosocial measures associated with surgical wounds in 72 women undergoing plastic surgery.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- July 2012
- 7 pages
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"Research in Prayer and Distant Healing" with Elisabeth Targ
From the IONS lecture series Exploring the Frontiers of Consciousness.
- Audio Lectures
- 2002
- 01:14:20
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Distant Healing Intention
Definitions and Evolving Guidelines for Laboratory Studies
This paper provides definitions and a discussion of evolving guidelines for conducting research on the effects of distant healing intention (DHI) on living systems in the laboratory. We consider the relevance of DHI laboratory research to applied healing, special theoretical challenges, and other considerations that distinguish DHI research from other domains of laboratory science.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- May 1, 2003
- 13 pages
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The Unsolved Mystery of Healing
Distant Healing: Healing Mediated by Nonlocal Mind
Are fields adequate for explaining every kind of healing? Larry Dossey poses this intriguing question as he brings the concept of nonlocality into our discussion about fields.
- Publications Articles
- December 2004 - February 2005
- 2 pages
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"The Spiritual Implications of Psychic Ability" with Russell Targ
Targ discusses the commonalities among the healer, the mystic, the psychic, and the spy, and speaks of data for distant healing and nonlocal mind from the framework of information flow.
- Audio Lectures
- 2002
- 01:18:30
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Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing
In this innovative three-DVD self-paced learning program, you will meet scientists, healers, and health professionals who are exploring the frontiers of consciousness and healing by addressing the widespread practice of distant healing. [CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE]
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Compassionate Intention as a Therapeutic Intervention by Partners of Cancer Patients
Effects of Distant Intention on the Patients' Autonomic Nervous System
This double-blind study investigated the effects of intention on the autonomic nervous system of a human "sender" and distant "receiver" of those intentions, and it explored the roles that motivation and training might have in modulating these effects.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- July 1, 2008
- 9 pages
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The Frontier of Noetic Sciences (Volume 2)
Extended Human Capacities
This series of articles, written by members of the research team at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and contributors from other fields of study, represents a variety of perspectives and topic areas in the program area that IONS calls "extended human capacities," which include such little-understood phenomena as ESP, distant healing, near-death experiences (NDEs), mind-matter interactions, and subtle energies.
- Publications Books
- 2010
- 48 pages
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"Entangled Minds" with Dean Radin (2009)
Dr. Dean Radin has explored the further reaches of consciousness perhaps more than any scientist alive. As the Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dean has investigated subjects ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2009-03-03
- 00:43:30
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"The Power of Relationship in Medicine" with Tom Janisse
Tom Janisse, MD, recently completed nine years as Associate Medical Director of Northwest Permanente Medical Group in Portland, Oregon where he conducted relationship research on physicians with the highest patient satisfaction.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-03-29
- 01:02:54
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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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Consciousness & Healing
Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine
Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine is a collection of 47 essays on integral medicine, consciousness, and healing that integrates mainstream medical knowledge with recent developments in the emerging areas of frontier sciences and insights from alternative healing perspectives.
- Publications Books
- October 21, 2004
- 585 pages
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"Frontiers of the Heart" with Mitchell Krucoff
Dr. Mitchell Krucoff and host Marilyn Schlitz engage a thought-provoking discussion of noetic health care. After Dr. Krucoff's visit to a hospital in India, he was inspired to research the intangible. Why were the pediatric cardiology patients in India smiling? When children with severe heart problems didn't cry, he and his team wanted to know why.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-10-18
- 01:03:58
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Intention Downloads Interview: Edgar Mitchell
The founder of IONS has a unique vantage point to view intentionality, having witnessed and helped facilitate many new scientific studies, as well as developing a theory of quantum holography that can help explain “miraculous” results that some healers produce.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:28:14
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Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing
Assessing the Evidence
- Principal Investigator
- Marilyn Schlitz, PhD
- Project Staffs
- Kelly Durkin, Ken Corr, MDiv
This project culminated in an innovative three DVD self-paced learning program featuring scientists, healers and healing professionals who are exploring the frontiers of consciousness and healing by addressing the widespread practice of distant healing.
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