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Toward Understanding the Placebo Effect
Investigating a Possible Retrocausal Factor
Conventional models of placebo effects assume that all mind-body responses associated with expectation can be explained by ordinary causal processes. This experiment tested whether some placebo effects may also involve retrocausal, or time-reversed, influences.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- September1, 2007
- 7 pages
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"Waking" with Matthew Sanford (excerpt)
Matthew Sanford, a yoga teacher who is also paralyzed, reveals his unique insights on the mind-body dynamic and its relationship to consciousness. In this compelling interview, he also discusses subtle energy, existential philosophy, trauma, health care reform, true healing, and the relavance of mind-body science to business.
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-11-29
- 00:10:57
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"Consciousness and Downward Causation" with Noël Radcliffe
Seeing Mind-Body Medicine from Another Perspective
The science of medicine looks to the cellular level to explain what is happening. However, there is a fundamental difference in world view between western medicine and eastern philosophy, the origin of mind body medicine. It is based on whether change happens from the cellular level (bottom up) or from the level of consciousness (top down).
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-06-16
- 00:55:46
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"Healing the Wounds of War" with James Gordon
In this moving discussion with host Marilyn Schlitz, her guest James Gordon, talks about his experience healing the wounds of war. Dr. Gordon has devoted 30 years to the exploration and practice of mind-body medicine.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-07-25
- 01:03:40
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"Healing Power of Ordinary Awareness" with John Astin
Although scientific research has long evidenced a profound connection between mind and body in healing, the medical model has been slow to integrate that evidence. John describes the barriers between the bio-psycho-social model of medical philosophy and the bio-medical model of the industry, which have been the topic of his research.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-08-02
- 01:04:28
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IONS Research Program: Consciousness and Healing (sample)
IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz offers historical context and future plans for this research focus on the nature of healing, which integrates ancient wisdom. Schlitz discusses the Consciousness and Healing book's integral approach to mind-body medicine and its impact on the mainstream.
- Audio Lectures
- April 2008
- 00:03:00
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The Biology of Belief
Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles
Through the research of Dr. Lipton and other leading-edge scientists, stunning new discoveries have been made about the interaction between your mind and body and the processes by which cells receive information.
- Publications Books
- September 15, 2008
- 240 pages
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"Medicine as Spiritual Practice" with Jeanne Achterberg
Jeanne Achterberg shares her broad understanding of medicine as anything that helps or heals, and describes the parallels between the process of helping people in crises and spiritual practice.
- Audio Lectures
- 2006-03-12
- 00:40:36
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At Home Within
Pilot Program
This video illustrates the "At Home Within" pilot program—a collaboration between the Institute of Noetic Sciences and the Committee on the Shelterless—which offers mind/body practices to homeless participants.
- Video Features
- 00:08:30
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 2 of 5)
Conscious Medicine
Marilyn and Lee discuss the challenges new medical students face learning alternative healing modalities in addition to their required allopathic curriculum.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:04:37
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"Wisdom of the Heart" with Joan Borysenko (sample)
Joan is co-founder and past director of the Mind/Body clinical programs at Boston's Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center, and taught at Harvard Medical School. Her work focuses on creativity, women's issues, relationship-centered healing, spirituality, and the inter-religious dialogue.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-12-06
- 00:02:37
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"Integral Healing" with Lee Lipsenthal
Dr. Lee Lipsenthal discusses the new integral model of healing that is emerging, and how it represents the next step in health care, as it aims to incorporate all dimensions of healing, from physical to spiritual, and ecological to cosmological. He describes how this approach takes “mind-body medicine” to the next level, one that integrates spiritual dimensions fully into our understanding of how the body works in health and illness.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-12-01
- 00:57:37
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"Optimal Health and Human Flourishing" with Elliott Dacher (class 3 of 8)
The End of Suffering
ACCESS RESTRICTED TO COURSE MEMBERS
Week 3 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.
This class explores the way to progressively alleviate stress, and suffering while simultaneously promoting the qualities of human flourishing – optimal health, enduring happiness, and a stable and profound peace of mind, body, and spirit.
- Audio Optimal Health
- 2011-10-14
- 01:51:58
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"Is Consciousness Energy?" with Christian de Quincey
What is consciousness? It’s an age-old question that still stretches the limits of science. Is consciousness a form of energy? Christian de Quincey has dedicated a career to exploring ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-04-06
- 01:04:52
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"Psychosomatic Wellness" with Candace Pert (teleseminar)
Pert explores the history of her turn towards a noetic worldview, the current frontiers of mindbody science, and an innovative new AIDS treatment she has developed that involves peptides, the informational substances that link body-mind and spirit.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2005-08-24
- 01:00:58
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"A Search for Truth and Wisdom" with Christian de Quincey (part 1 of 2)
Christian explores consciousness by asking the questions, are we searching for truth or for wisdom? Are we looking for decisive facts about consciousness or for enlightening lived experience? Then he answers yes and both ...
- Audio Lectures
- 2006-03-12
- 00:27:22
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"A Search for Truth and Wisdom" with Christian de Quincey (part 2 of 2)
Christian explores consciousness by asking the questions, are we searching for truth or for wisdom? Are we looking for decisive facts about consciousness or for enlightening lived experience? Then he answers yes and both ...
- Audio Lectures
- 2006-03-12
- 00:28:15
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"Beyond Mind-Body Medicine to a New Era of Healing" with Larry Dossey (part 1 of 4)
Dr. Dossey, speaking at the Reinventing Medicine conference, discusses what it is to re-invent the medical industry rather than dismantle it. Drawing from the reports of both patients and of medical experts, he proposes an integration of "first era"/allopathic and "second era"/noetic medical techniques for optimal healing.
- Audio Lectures
- 2000-05-19
- 00:43:14
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"Beyond Mind-Body Medicine to a New Era of Healing" with Larry Dossey (part 2 of 4)
Dr. Dossey, speaking at the Reinventing Medicine conference, discusses what it is to re-invent the medical industry rather than dismantle it. Drawing from the reports of both patients and of medical experts, he proposes an integration of "first era"/allopathic and "second era"/noetic medical techniques for optimal healing.
- Audio Lectures
- 2000-05-19
- 00:40:47
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"Beyond Mind-Body Medicine to a New Era of Healing" with Larry Dossey (part 3 of 4)
Dr. Dossey, speaking at the Reinventing Medicine conference, discusses what it is to re-invent the medical industry rather than dismantle it. Drawing from the reports of both patients and of medical experts, he proposes an integration of "first era"/allopathic and "second era"/noetic medical techniques for optimal healing.
- Audio Lectures
- 2000-05-19
- 00:39:31