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Tradition and Transition
Healing Justice for American Indian Youth
Indigenous traditions of justice that favor communal health over individual retribution restore peace, harmony, and balance to the whole.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2005
- 4 pages
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"Cross-Cultural Traditional Healing" with Sylver Quevedo
Dr. Quevedo discusses the integration of cross-cultural traditional healing practices with modern western medicine and the developing interdisciplinary curriculum for a new medical training center in Kenya.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2010-12-15
- 00:59:26
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I to We
The Role of Consciousness Transformation in Compassion and Altruism
It is clear that human consciousness can be transformed through spiritual experiences and practices. Little is known, however, about what the predictors, mediators, and outcomes are of such transformations in consciousness. In-depth structured interviews were conducted with forty-seven teachers and scholars from religious and spiritual traditions and modern transformative movements to identify factors common to the transformative process across traditions.
- Publications Scholarly Papers
- 2006
- 17 pages
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The Homeopathic Universe
Disease and Healing as Manifestations of Consciousness
Homeopathy's proven effectiveness defies traditional scientific principles. The reasons may lie at the deepest intersection of the physical and the spiritual.
- Publications Articles
- March - May 2006
- 4 pages
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We Are All Savants
Savant abilities have defied traditional explanations. Medical clinician Powell suggests the answers lie in parapsychology and the nonlocal mind.
- Publications Articles
- December 2005 - February 2006
- 4 pages
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Contemplative Mind, Hard Science
In this tantalizing excerpt from his new book, the Dalai Lama suggests that Western science will never understand consciousness without some help from an ancient tradition.
- Publications Articles
- December 2005 - February 2006
- 4 pages
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Ceremonial Healing
Traditional Ways of Healing Expressed Through Navajo Consciousness
Native American healers Maryboy and Begay describe the importance of language, worldview, and ceremony in healing.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2004
- 6 pages
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One
Essential Writings on Nonduality
This book compiles the most lively expressions of nonduality, which are the understanding that existence is one undivided whole and that the daily distinctions we make within this unity are useful, but not ultimately true.
- Publications Books
- January 29, 2007
- 224 pages
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Teleseminar with Ed Bastian
In this teleseminar, host Tina Amorok talks with Ed Bastian, President and Founder of the Spiritual Paths Foundation. They explore various indigenous traditions and how their beliefs can effect our lives and how spiritual knowledge, values, and experiences can help solve the critical challenges of the 21st century.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-19
- 01:00:31
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"Optimal Health and Human Flourishing" with Elliott Dacher (class 1 of 8)
A Precious Life
ACCESS RESTRICTED TO COURSE MEMBERS
Week 1 of the course Optimal Health and Human Flourishing.
This class explores the traditional elements of a daily sitting practice and mind-training practices which are integrated into daily life.
- Audio Optimal Health
- 2011-09-28
- 01:52:08
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Review of 'One' by The Editors
- Publications Book Reviews
- Dec. 1, 2007
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"The Self and the Emerging Paradigm" with Michael Nagler
This conversation explores the slowly unveiling convergence of human wisdom traditions with the emerging sciences of consciousness to reveal an inspiring vision of the authentic state of the human being ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-01-05
- 00:55:52
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The Adaptive Organization
The strains that most of us are feeling these days are also reflected within our institutions. In attempting to adapt, most still rely on traditional models of change that no ...
- Publications Articles
- Spring 2009
- 6 pages
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A Spiritual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe
Travel Tips for the Spiritually Perplexed
A Spiritual Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe is the perfect book for readers who feel that their religious tradition no longer satisfies their spiritual needs. An elegantly written memoir and meditation, the book explores the many paths of enlightenment available to readers looking beyond today's churches, temples, and synagogues.
- Publications Books
- May 22, 2009
- 296 pages
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Cassandra Vieten at TEDxNapaValley
The Science of Interconnectedness
Presenting at TEDxNapaValley, Cassandra shares how interconnectedness has inspired people in important ways throughout history, what modern science is telling us about interconnectedness, and the work that we're engaged in at IONS exploring interconnection in ways that go beyond the traditionally understood five senses.
- Video Lectures
- 2012-12
- 00:20:37
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"Bridging the Worlds of Contemplative Practice and Science" with Alfred Kaszniak
This discussion focuses on some of the fruits of "contemplative science," and the implications of this body of meditation research for contemplative practice. It also explores how this area of research has come to gain increasing respectability within the scientific community, and address the question of whether contemplative science may serve as a skillful means for making meditation practice more approachable for a greater number of people in modern western culture.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-02-16
- 01:02:54
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Living Deeply Practices
To help you deepen your practice of Living Deeply, we’ve created these Living Deeply Practice audios, designed for you to drink from the well of wisdom and spirit, featuring ...
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"The Gift of Gratitude" with Angeles Arrien
Angeles Arrien invites us to cultivate the power of deep appreciation so that it becomes our foundation for daily living. Integrating the latest findings from social science with stories, prayers ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-08-03
- 00:56:11
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"Healing Power of Meditation" with Susan Taylor
Imagine combining meditation science with time-tested nutritional, breathing and relaxation techniques. Dr. Susan Taylor did. Today, the growing popularity of yoga has offered many people a glimpse into the benefits of meditation. Yet, while yoga is traditionally intended as a preparation for deeper meditative experiences, yoga classes often only address the physical aspects of the practice.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-06-18
- 01:00:34