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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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"Conscious Education" with Nina Lynn Meyerhof (excerpt)
Visionary educator Nina Lynn Meyerhoff and former IONS President James O'Dea look into the fractured heart of our times, facing such deep wounds as the Holocaust with a spirit of liberating wisdom. Each individual carries within themselves the full wounding of the collective as well as the power to heal those wounds.
- Audio Shorts
- 2007-06-27
- 00:05:05
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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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Social Healing for a Fractured World
A coherent vision of healing has begun to emerge, weaving together a diversity of approaches to address both individual and collective wounding.
- Publications Articles
- June - August 2005
- 4 pages
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"Sufism and Rapid Wound Healing" with Howard Hall
We explore the mysteries of consciousness and Howard Hall’s systematic research of Sufism and rapid wound healing for the past decade. The question of consciousness and healing has to ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-05-25
- 00:55:37
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"Exploring the Contemporary Global Crisis" with Jean Houston (sample)
Celebrated psychologist, author, and speaker Jean Houston joins former IONS President James O'Dea to offer an uplifting and poetic perspective on the tribulations of the contemporary world situation. Together, they bring together the external reality and inner journey in a satisfying and inspiring talk.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2005-09-14
- 00:03:00
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"Wounding and Healing" with Andrew Cohen
An Evolutionary Dance
Andrew Cohen is the founder and editor in chief of the international, award-winning magazine What Is Enlightenment?, dedicated to creating "nothing less than a revolution in consciousness and culture." Join Cohen in dialogue with former IONS president James O'Dea and Judith Thompson ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-01-25
- 00:58:09
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"Waking the Global Heart" with Anodea Judith (excerpt)
Activist-author Anodea Judith discusses her book Waking the Global Heart with host Stephen Dinan. Anodea explores the historical stages of human development and how they correlate to the chakras. She sees the need to “stop the slaughter at the root of the source instead of continuing to dress the wounds."
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-08-30
- 00:03:46
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Taking in the Good course (class 5 of 8)
Filling the Hole in Your Heart
ACCESS RESTRICTED TO COURSE MEMBERS
Week 5 of the course Taking in the Good: Weaving Peace, Happiness, and Love into Your Brain and Yourself.
This class deals with how losses and wounds affect us. Key “antidote experiences” for disturbances in the brain’s avoiding, approaching, and attaching systems. How to pair positive and negative experiences to heal distress and dysfunction.
- Audio Taking in the Good
- 2012-04-11
- 01:37:18
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"Waking the Global Heart" with Anodea Judith
Anodea explores the historical stages of human development and how they correlate to the chakras. She describes the Static Feminine; Static Masculine; Dynamic Masculine and the newly emerging Dynamic Feminine. She identifies the need to open the heart chakra at this point in our developmental history and experience a rite of passage from adolescent behavior to an integrated society.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-08-30
- 01:02:13
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Great Shift Dialogue: Andrew Harvey and Shiva Rea (excerpt)
Mystic scholar Andrew Harvey and renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea come together to illuminate a path towards sacred embodiment and activism while exploring the initiations that humanity must face: radical heartbreak, death, and rebirth. In this process, two great fires need to be married in the human heart: the passion for justice and the passion for Spirit.
- Audio Shorts
- 2008-01-22
- 00:02:46
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"Psychology of the Chakras" with Anodea Judith
Anodea Judith is a true pioneer in bringing the Eastern map of the chakras into dialogue and application with Western psychology. In this far-ranging interview, she explores the power of this map to understand personal and collective evolution, as well as the current challenges we face in moving from a third chakra culture based on the “love of power” to a fourth chakra culture based on the “power of love.”
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-02-06
- 01:03:22
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Shift Issue 7
HEALING ANCIENT WOUNDS
SOCIAL HEALING FOR A FRACTURED WORLD
by Judith Thompson & James O’DeaTHE ALCHEMICAL COMMUNION
by Will Keepin, Molly Dwyer & Diane HaugOF RACE AND LIONS
Stephen Dinan interviews Belvie RooksYOU ARE NOT MY ENEMY
by Marc Ian BaraschEMPATHY
by Carl RogersTRADITION AND TRANSITION
by Ada Pecos MeltonCAN LOVE MAKE PROGRESS?
by Thomas Jay OordFrontiers of Research
Social Parapsychology
by Dean Radin- June - August 2005
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Essential Shifts Interview: Marilyn Schlitz
In this interview, Dr. Marilyn Schlitz explores an expanded vision of health for ourselves and our society. In this time of rapid acceleration, it is easy to fixate on answers rather than questions, and speed rather than quality. Real transformation, as borne out by IONS research and new scientific studies, is a process that often requires slowing down, appreciating relationships in a new way, and quite literally smelling the roses.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:19:22
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Essential Shifts Interview: Van Jones
Van shares intimately about his formative years and his journey into becoming a social activist, as well as the story of Ella Baker, the "secret godmother" of the civil rights movement and mentor to Dr. King. Van advocates a "third way" between Islamic and corporate fundamentalisms and towards a vibrant, global pro-democracy movement that supports "green-collar jobs."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-08-31
- 00:32:29
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Intention Downloads Interview: Michael Murphy
In this interview, Esalen’s co-founder Michael Murphy explores the further reaches of human potential, ranging from the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo to the bodybuilding practices of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:26:41
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Intention Downloads Interview: James O'Dea
In his deeply heartfelt and poetic style, James contrasts a more materialistic understanding of intention with the summoning of purpose in a life such as we witness with a Mahatma Gandhi. His discussion connects intention to such concepts as Flow, Aikido, the Tao and the transmission of love from one heart to another.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:28:50
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Intention Downloads Interview: Larry Dossey
In this discussion with Marilyn Schlitz, Dr. Dossey cautions us about the current popularity of books and movies that promote intention setting for purely self-centered reasons.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:26:33
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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