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"Mind, Brain, and Consciousness" with Larry Dossey
Premonitions involve the ability of consciousness to function noetically, beyond the constraints of space and time. Dr. Dossey discusses why this capacity should be viewed as a form of preventive medicine, and what premonitions imply about our origins and destiny.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-04-21
- 01:03:30
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 4 of 5)
Whole System Care
Marilyn and Lee discuss the broken health care system and the increased public interest in more integrated care.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:06:21
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Whole Person Healthcare (3 volumes)
These volumes show how Western and non-Western healing practices—including yoga, meditation, QiGong, art, music, and dance therapy—are being integrated with modern Western medicine and psychology, in hospitals and at nontraditional healthcare facilities nationwide.
- Publications Books
- August 30, 2007
- 1128 pages
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"Future of Integrated Health Care Panel" with Lee Lipsenthal, Victoria Maizes, and John Weeks
Lee Lipsenthal leads a panel on the Future of Integrated Health Care with Victoria Maizes and John Weeks for the Next Evolution of Health Summit.
- Audio Lectures
- 2010-12-11
- 01:00:27
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Deep Medicine
Harnessing the Source of Your Healing Power
Every issue is a health issue; everything we think, feel, and do impacts our state of well-being in ways not yet fully understood by science. Without question, our ability to prevent disease, heal illness, overcome mental health issues, and maintain peak performance as we age is affected by our deepest inner beliefs and core values ...
- Publications Books
- July 1, 2009
- 224 pages
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Dreaming While Awake
Techniques for 24-Hour Lucid Dreaming
What if you could dream 24 hours a day, even while awake? According to innovative psychotherapist Arnold Mindell, PhD, we already do. The seeds of dreaming arise in every moment of the day ...
- Publications Books
- October 2000
- 276 pages
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"Natural Mindfulness" with John Astin
John Astin, co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group, talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about bringing attention to attention.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-20
- 01:07:07
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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
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Stephen Post, PhD
Dr. Post is professor of preventive medicine and director of the Center for Medical Humanities, Compassionate Care, and Bioethics at Stony Brook University. He is a leader in the study of altruism, compassion, and love and president of the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love.
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Howard Hall
Dr. Howard Hall holds two doctorate degrees in psychology, a Ph.D. from Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey) in experimental psychology and a Psy.D. from Rutgers University (Piscataway, New Jersey) in clinical psychology. He is boarded in biofeedback and is an approved consultant in clinical hypnosis. His clinical psychology internship was at Rutgers Medical School (Piscataway, New Jersey); post doctoral studies at Rutgers University, Center of Alcohol Studies (New Brunswick, New Jersey); and a fellowship at The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Faculty Development Program in the Prevention of Substance Abuse. Dr. Hall has conducted research and taught hypnosis at the Pennsylvania State University and at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Dr. Hall is currently an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics, at the Case medical center and on staff at Rainbow Babies and Children Hospital and Universities Hospitals of Cleveland (Cleveland, Ohio). In his current position as attending doctor he treats both children and adults presenting with complex medical symptoms employing hypnosis and biofeedback within a spiritual context. Dr. Hall has conducted and published pioneering work on the effects of hypnosis, imagery, and relaxation on immune responses. For the past decade he has been traveling to the Middle East and scientifically investigating Sufi (Islamic mysticism) rapid healing phenomena.
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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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Lee Lipsenthal, MD
Dr. Lipsenthal was a member of the IONS Board of Directors and Founder & CEO of Finding Balance in a Medical Life. He was also the Medical Advisor for HeartMath, LLC and received numerous awards in the Academic and Medical field.
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John Astin
John Astin received his PhD in Health Psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and completed postdoctoral training at Stanford Medical School. From 2000-2002, he served on the faculty at the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Presently, he holds an appointment at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco, CA., where he is the co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group. Currently, his work focuses on the application of meditation and acceptance-based methods to prevent relapse from substance dependence. Along with his scholarly work, John is also an accomplished songwriter and recording artist having produced 6 albums of original spiritual/contemplative music and is the author of the books, Too Intimate for Words
and This is Always Enough
, poetic and prose reflections on the nature of non-dual awareness.
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Death Makes Life Possible/People
People On Camera Experts Lauren Artress, DMin, Episcopal priest, credited with reintroduction of the labrynth to Western culture Ed Bastian, PhD, Religious scholar Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith, New Thought minister ... -
Social Healing: Sri Lanka at a Tipping Point
Social—or societal—healing is an emerging field. It seeks to bring learning in a variety of adjacent fields such as peacemaking, peace building, conflict resolution, trauma recovery, and restorative justice together with insights from the new sciences including consciousness studies, neuroscience, and an integral approach to mind-body medicine...
- Global Shift
- In the News
- Worldview
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Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH, an epidemiologist and religious scholar, holds a distinguished chair at Baylor University, where he is University Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health, Professor of Medical Humanities, and Director of the Program on Religion and Population Health at the Institute for Studies of Religion. He is also Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center, where he is a member of the Community of Scholars at the Duke Center for Spirituality, Theology, and Health.
Dr. Levin received his AB from Duke University in 1981, graduating Magna Cum Laude and with Distinction in both Religion and Sociology. He received his MPH in 1983 from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, and his PhD in Preventive Medicine and Community Health in 1987 from the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at The University of Texas Medical Branch. He also completed a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from 1987 to 1989 at the Institute of Gerontology of the University of Michigan, and has additional advanced training in quantitative methods from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Levin is a pioneering scientist whose research and writing beginning in the 1980s helped to create the field of religion, spirituality, and health. He was the first scientist to systematically review the research literature on religion and health, and the first scientist funded by the NIH to conduct research on the topic. His studies have pioneered basic research in the epidemiology of religion and on the impact of religion on the physical and mental health and general well-being of older adults. His research has been funded by several NIH grants, totaling over $1 million in support, and he also has received funding from private sources, including the American Medical Association’s Education and Research Foundation.
Dr. Levin is professionally affiliated with leading organizations at the interface of religion, science, and medicine. This includes serving as the principal Research Area Consultant in the area of public health and medicine for the Institute for Research on Unlimited Love, as a member of the Extended Faculty of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, as a Past President of the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine, and as Scientific Chair of the Kalsman Roundtable on Judaism and Health Research at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He was Chairman of the NIH Working Group on Quantitative Methods in Alternative Medicine, is a former member of the NIH Workgroup on Measures of Religiousness and Spirituality for the National Institute on Aging, and is a current or past member of the Editorial Boards of nine peer-reviewed scientific journals, including the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences; The Gerontologist; the Journal of Religion and Health; the Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging; the Journal of Mindbody States; Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine; Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine; the International Journal of Healing and Caring; and EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, in recognition of outstanding career achievement and exemplary contributions to the field of gerontology.
Dr. Levin is the author or co-author of over 150 scholarly publications, as well as over 140 conference presentations and invited lectures and addresses, mostly on the role of religion in physical and mental health and aging. He has published six books, most notably God, Faith, and Health: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection (New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, 2001). He is also editor of Religion in Aging and Health: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Frontiers (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994); co-editor of Essentials of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1999), Faith, Medicine, and Science: A Festschrift in Honor of Dr. David B. Larson (New York, NY: The Haworth Pastoral Press, 2005), and the forthcoming Divine Love: Perspectives from the World’s Religious Traditions (West Conshocken, PA: Templeton Foundation Press, 2010); and, co-author of Religion in the Lives of African Americans: Social, Psychological, and Health Perspectives (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004). According to the Institute for Scientific Information, since 1981 Dr. Levin has been one of the most highly cited social scientists in the world.
Dr. Levin is an internationally known scientist and has lectured throughout the world on most aspects of the interface of religion and health—scientific, clinical, methodological, historical, theological, metaphysical, and with respect to public health and health policy. His research has been featured in many newspapers and magazines, including The Washington Post, USA Today, Newsday, JAMA, Modern Maturity, Tikkun, Moment, Spirituality and Health, and in cover stories in Time, Readers’ Digest, and Macleans, and on national radio and television, including NPR, PBS, CBC, CTV, and CBN. His biography has been included in Who’s Who in Theology & Science, Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, and International Who’s Who in Medicine. In 2001, a statement in praise of his work was read into the Congressional Record from the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a recipient of both the 1996 and 1997 Templeton Prize for Exemplary Papers in Religion and the Medical Sciences, and of several named or endowed lectureships. In 1997, he served as Distinguished Lecturer in Gerontology at Duke University Medical Center, and delivered the First Annual K.J. Lee Fellowship Lecture in Complementary and Alternative Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. In 2003, he delivered the First Annual David B. Larson Memorial Lecture in Religion and Health at Duke University Medical Center and the Sixth Annual Richard J. DeBottis Memorial Lecture in Gerontology at the University of Houston. In 2004, he delivered the Second Annual Blair Justice Lecture in Mind-Body Medicine and Public Health at the University of Texas School of Public Health. In 2006, he delivered the Fifth Annual Spirituality and Health Forum Lecture at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
Dr. Levin is married to Dr. Lea Steele, an epidemiologist and human ecologist. Dr. Steele, who will be joining Baylor University as Research Professor in the Institute of Biomedical Studies, is former Scientific Director of the Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Cassandra Vieten, PhD
Dr. Vieten is President / CEO at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, author, and presenter.
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The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age
Instead of “take two aspirin and call me in the morning,” Louv, who coined the term “nature deficit disorder,” advocates a simpler prescription for well being: make meaningful contact with the natural world. The science is backing him up.