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"Drunk with Wonder" with Steve Ryals (excerpt)
Host Belvie Rooks and guest Steve Ryals discuss Steve's book Drunk with Wonder and explore his journey from being a homeless drug addict in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district to earning three college degrees. His book has been described as a cross between Conversations with God and What the Bleep Do we Know!?
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-11-15
- 00:04:52
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Poetic Medicine
A Kind of Magic
Western medicine's zealous preoccupation with technology, prescription drugs, and financial return has taken much of the healing out of health care. Citing research and his own experience with patients ...
- Publications Articles
- September - November 2008
- 6 pages
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Irreducible Mind
Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century
Topics addressed include phenomena of extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms and secondary personality, near-death experiences and allied phenomena, genius-level creativity, and 'mystical' states of consciousness both spontaneous and drug-induced.
- Publications Books
- December 7, 2006
- 800 pages
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"Psilocybin and quantum change in attitude and behavior" with Roland Griffiths
The overall finding that psilocybin can occasion, in most people studied, mystical-type experiences having sustained personal meaning and spiritual significance, indicates that such experiences and the changes they produce are now amenable to rigorous prospective scientific study. Several ongoing studies are discussed, including a study of psilocybin on meditation and spiritual practice in healthy volunteers, a study of psilocybin in psychologically distressed cancer patients, and a study of psilocybin-facilitated treatment of drug cigarette smoking cessation.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-09
- 00:57:12
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Rational Mysticism
Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality
John Horgan, author of the best-selling The End of Science, chronicles the most advanced research into the mechanics—and meaning—of mystical experiences. How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences “work”? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation ...
- Publications Books
- January 22, 2003
- 304 pages
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The Woman in the Shaman's Body
Reclaiming the Feminine in Religion and Medicine
A distinguished anthropologist–who is also an initiated shaman–reveals the long-hidden female roots of the world’s oldest form of religion and medicine. Here is a fascinating expedition into this ancient tradition, from its prehistoric beginnings to the work of women shamans across the globe today.
- Publications Books
- March 29, 2005
- 368 pages
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Shift Issue 20
ART, SCIENCE & CONSCIOUSNESS
WHY SCIENCE NEEDS ART
by Jonah LehrerPOETIC MEDICINE: A KIND OF MAGIC
by John FoxON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ARCHITECTURE
by Alain de BottonVISIONS FROM THE TECHNO-MYSTIC EDGE
by Kate McCallumFrontiers of Research
Reassessing the Link Between Psychotherapy and Cancer Survival
by Marilyn Mandala Schlitz- September - November 2008
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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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"Neuroscience of Well-being Panel" with Cassandra Vieten, Rick Hanson, and Michael Spezio
IONS Research Director Cassandra Vieten leads a panel on the Neuroscience of Well-being with Rick Hanson and Michael Spezio for the Next Evolution of Health Summit.
- Audio Lectures
- 2010-12-12
- 01:31:43
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Essential Shifts Interview: Arisika Razak
In this interview, professor, dancer, and midwife Arisika Razak shares her unique angle on the essential shifts our world now requires. She explores how we can each activate our "lineage of the heart," thereby linking us into the larger vision of what we are creating.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:44
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Essential Shifts Interview: Thom Hartmann
Air America radio host Thom Hartmann is rising quickly as a voice for societal progress, economic justice, and spiritual awakening. In this interview, he explores a wide range of subjects, from the vital importance of small acts of compassion to stopping the corruptive influence of corporate personhood.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-01
- 00:36:22
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Intention Downloads Interview: Sequoyah Trueblood
The release of intention and the intellect is the message from Sequoyah Trueblood of the Choctaw Nation, in this enlightening interview with IONS’ President, James O’Dea.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:27:20
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"Quantum Change" with William Miller
When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives
Dr. William Miller talks with host Cassandra Vieten about motivational interviewing used to identify conflicting motivations and how to move forward into life changes. Dr. Miller has studied the phenomenon of transformational changes, those that usually occur within a matter of hours and result in enduring and sometimes dramatic change in one's life and personality.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-04-22
- 00:54:48
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Essential Shifts Interview: Andrew Harvey
In this interview, scholar and mystic Andrew Harvey blazes a path straight into the sacred heart, shying away from none of the horror of the world’s situation while calling us into our most naked and vulnerable core.
- Audio Interviews
- 00:52:49
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Consciousness and Healing Forum: Deepak Chopra (part 1 of 2)
Deepak argues that consciousness is the phenomenon, and all else is the epiphenomenon. Just as our DNA differentiates skin, bone, and organs, our consciousness differentiates perceptions, cognition, moods, behavior, biology, social interaction, personal relations, the environment, and forces of nature.
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-03-23
- 00:40:14