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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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"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
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"Beyond Mind-Body Medicine to a New Era of Healing" with Larry Dossey (part 4 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
- 00:17:31
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz
IONS Board Member Lee Lipsenthal, MD, talks with IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz about changes in allopathic health care, focusing on 5 themes: (1) Meditation, Yoga, and Consciousness; (2) Conscious Medicine; (3) Health and Social Contact; (4) Whole System Care; and (5) Relationships and Health.
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 1 of 5)
Meditation, Yoga, and Consciousness
IONS Board Member Lee Lipsenthal talks with IONS President Marilyn Mandala Schlitz about changes in allopathic health care and the wider acceptance of meditation, yoga, and consciousness in healing practices.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:04:57
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"Frontiers of the Heart" with Mitchell Krucoff
Dr. Mitchell Krucoff and host Marilyn Schlitz engage a thought-provoking discussion of noetic health care. After Dr. Krucoff's visit to a hospital in India, he was inspired to research the intangible. Why were the pediatric cardiology patients in India smiling? When children with severe heart problems didn't cry, he and his team wanted to know why.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-10-18
- 01:03:58
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Multi-Generational Healing through Genetic Influencing
An intriguing way to be healed is by inheriting the effects of an ancestor's healing. Three children, aged 8, 11 and 12, participated in an experiment with their respective ... -
Education/Self-Study/Consciousness & Healing
Consciousness and Healing Self-Study Courses Explore the role of consciousness in healing through a series of one-hour, self-paced programs led by visionary leaders in the field of health care. Find ... -
Thought Balloons
No one ever mentioned thoughts in medical school, or throughout my residency training. Come to think of it, the term was rarely mentioned during my years with the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Mind, mindful, mind-body, yes. But no professorial lecture or class discussion on what actually constitutes our thoughts...
- Noetic Research
- Personal Well-being
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The Art of Healing through Conscious Loving
To adopt a shamanistic attitude doesn’t make one a shaman any more than watching an operation makes one a surgeon. But even without the traditional shamanistic use of music, songs, and ritual objects, we all have the potential to heal ourselves, each other, and probably a good portion of the planet.
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The Emergence of Global Medicine
As borders dissolve, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approaches to health and healing are becoming the norm worldwide.
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Energy Medicine and the Multidimensional Model
If everything is energy, what constitutes the legitimate domain of energy medicine? In attempting to answer this question, I found a useful model that is shared by modern science and many ancient traditions. It accounts for the diversity in the field of energy medicine and helps to explain a vast array of energy-based phenomena.
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The Healing Power of Stories and Consciousness
Given a grim prognosis of recovery from cancer, Fortson decided to meet the challenge with courage, commitment, and a spiritual fire. And she found plenty of others doing much of the same—all of them with a story of survival.
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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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When Cancer Disappears: The Curious Phenomenon of “Unexpected Remission”
During the past few decades there have been thousands of reported cases in which cancer has simply disappeared. Or is it that simple? Turner, one of the world’s foremost researchers on the topic, decided to find out.
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Orchids and Dandelions: The Emerging Science of Emotional Sensitivity
People are sensitive—some more apparently so than others—and how those sensitivities affect one's health is becoming a topic of increased scientific scrutiny.