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Health & Healing |
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  Program
Area 2:
Integral Health & Healing
This program area focuses on the integration of ancient healing practices, contemporary medical science,
and emergent worldviews. We are transforming our understanding and our approaches to individual and social health, and the
nature of the healing system within us all.
If you want to help fund one of the projects, please contact Jenny Mathews at 707-779-8234.
For more information, download our complete research portfolio or just
download Program Area 2.
| Accomplishments |
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Creation of the
Spontaneous Remission Bibliography,
and the Heart of Healing
television series and book. |
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Completion of
a study on distant healing intention
to help late-stage AIDS patients,
published in the Western Journal
of Medicine. |
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A study on the
possible effects of Qi gong on
brain tumor cells in a state-of-the-art
laboratory setting that continues
under the sponsorship of the National
Institutes of Health. |
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In 2002 and 2003,
IONS sponsored 24 medical students
in a month-long, fourth-year rotation
on integral medicine. |
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The Science
and Spirituality of Healing
conference brought together a
balanced forum of leading scientists
and practitioners involved in
research on spirituality and healing.
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| REsearch
Archive - downloadable pdf documents |
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Electroencephalographic
Evidence of Correlated Event-Related Signals Between the
Brains of Spatially and Sensory Isolated Human Subjects
by Leanna J. Standish, N.D., Ph.D., Leila Kozak, M.S.,
Dipl. Hom., L. Clark Johnson, Ph.D., and Todd L. Richards,
Ph.D. -
—THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
Volume 10, Number 2, 2004, pp. 307–314 |
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Replicable
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evidence of Correlated
Brain Signals Between Physically and Sensory Isolated
Subjects
by Todd L. Richards, Ph.D., Leila Kozak, M.S., L. Clark
Johnson, Ph.D., and Leanna J. Standish, N.D., Ph.D.
—THE JOURNAL OF ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE
Vo lume 11, Number 6, 2005, pp. 955–963 |
| Current
Projects |
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Connexiones:
Developing a noetic approach to
conscious parenting
This study examined the effects
of a noetic intervention designed
to encourage maternal infant bonding
and communication in pregnant
Latina teenagers of Marin County.
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD, LuAnn
Palmer, RN, PhD, & Cio Hernandez |
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Effects of
compassionate/loving intention
as a therapeutic intervention
Partners or spouses of women with
breast cancer are being taught
how to focus a compassionate or
loving intention on their partners,
even if she is not physically
present. Ellen Levine, PhD,
Jerome Stone, MA, RN, Marilyn
Schlitz, PhD, & Dean Radin,
PhD |
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Distant healing
and placebo effects for wound
healing in breast cancer patients
The study compares a distant healing
vs. control group (no distant
healing) with a placebo group
on acceleration of wound healing
in women with breast cancer. Marilyn
Schlitz, PhD, Harriett Hopf, MD,
& Cassandra Vieten, PhD. |
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Physiological
synchronization between healer
and patient
This project involved the development
and use of neurophysiological
techniques to evaluate hypotheses
emerging from the field of mind-body
medicine. Leanna Standish,
PhD, Deepak Chopra, MD, &
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD |
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Impact of
external Qi Gong on cancer cells:
Effects of dose and distance
This study is researching the
hypothesis that human gene expression
responds to the effects of intentionality
on the part of Qi Gong masters
operating from a distance. Garret
Yount, PhD & Chinese Academy
of Medical Sciences, Beijing,
China |
| Proposed
Research |
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Identifying
the elusive power behind bioenergy
healing modalities
The study will approach what occurs
within practitioners when they
offer a distant healing intervention
through detailed interviews with
distant healers from a range of
traditions and schools. Marilyn
Schlitz, PhD |
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Physiological
synchronization between healers
and patients
The goal of this project is to
develop and use psychophysiological
techniques to evaluate hypotheses
emerging from the field of mind-body
medicine. Dean Radin, PhD &
Marilyn Schlitz, PhD |
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Iridology
and Intuitive Diagnosis
The proposed research on intuitive
diagnosis would offer a unique
application of CAM therapies in
communities of color. Chu Chu
Onwuachi-Saunders, MD, MPH Howard
University |
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The MANTRA
Project: Phase II
This project centered at Duke
University examines whether "noetic
therapies" (defined as subjective
techniques, such as meditation,
visualization, biofeedback, etc.)
can facilitate healing in seriously
ill cardiac patients. Mitchell
Krucoff, MD |
If you want to help fund one of the projects,
please contact Jenny Mathews
at 707-779-8234. For more information, download our complete
research portfolio or just download Program
Area 2.
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