Social anthropologist, consciousness researcher, Professor at Sofia Univ, and curious explorer of culture, science, and the wonder of it all.

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09 Apr

Posted at 14:03h in Featured, News and Press

We are living in unparalleled times. Saying so is such an understatement that I am reluctant to be cliché. And yet, it’s obvious to everyone. A sweeping virus, swinging stock markets, and increasingly polarized dynamics at social and political levels, can pull us off course. Public health professionals call upon us to shelter in place. Practicing physical distancing is almost the new normal. In the midst of these turbulent seas, many of us are experiencing anxiety, isolation and loneliness. What can we do? As I live into my own reactions to the news of the moment, my worldview has been...

14 Aug

Posted at 09:20h in Featured, News and Press

The anthropologist Marilyn Schlitz led studies for the field of consciousness. Below is an introduction excerpt from the article. Please click here to download the PDF. The innovative research on telepathy, precognition and remote healing of the noetic science institute paranormal experiments that will change the world. The noetic science institute is the research center where the most leading scientific experiments in the world regarding the paranormal capacities of the human mind are being carried out. Among its walls, academics of the first category are offering a new vision on the subject and the universe, applying the latest knowledge of quantum...

10 Nov

Posted at 10:04h in Featured, News and Press, Research

A recent article published in the online magazine, Uplift, discusses Marilyn Schlitz's parapsychology experiments. Dr. Marilyn Schlitz has conducted some of the most prominent parapsychology experiments in history. In the lab, she has explored psi phenomena like the ability of a person’s thoughts to physically affect another person’s body. She has taught at Trinity University, Stanford University, Harvard Medical Centers, and currently at Silicon Valley’s Sofia University. She has lectured at institutions including the United Nations and the Smithsonian Institution. Schlitz has been instrumental in making inroads for parapsychology into mainstream science—in starting to bridge the gap between believers and skeptics. But even if skeptics...

18 Jul

Posted at 14:26h in Featured, News and Press, Research

A recent article published in the online magazine, Inverse, details the the life and dreaming culture of the indigenous Achuar peoples of the Amazon. I was interviewed for this piece, drawing upon my experiences working with and conducting anthropological research with this thriving jungle community 20 years ago. Specifically, I had studied the dreaming culture of the Achuar who interpret dreams daily to inform their lives and act for their future. In partnership with a dozen young Achuar men who agreed to record their dreams for the course of one year, the collaboration yielded a deep perspective into the power of sharing dreams amongst a community, and...

20 Jun

Posted at 13:13h in Featured, Research, Transformation

What does it mean to be part of a greater whole? How does our worldview, or model of reality, impact what we understand about who we are and how we relate to others? And how can we become more aware of all the ways we are part of an interrelated, global community? It’s clear that we are social beings from the very beginning of life. Social relations impact every aspect of our being. Of course, there is developmental variability in the extent to which each of us is aware of culture’s impact on us. It takes a level of perceptual acuity,...

15 Jun

Posted at 13:12h in Featured, Transformation

How can you find the inner resilience to match the outer complexities of your life? I ask myself this question everyday. It is sometimes a struggle, just to turn on my computer, or get my son to school, or get through the dishes on the way to making breakfast. My most important tool is simple: practice mindfulness by taking time to center and track my breathing. Simple. Powerful. And easy to forget when we’re caught up in firestorms of our busy lives. But the value of mindfulness is not new to our modern world. Far from it. For thousands of years, people...

28 Feb

Posted at 10:23h in Death and Afterlife, Death Makes Life Possible, Featured, News and Press

Captain Edgar Mitchell was a hero, stepping up to challenges throughout his life with courage and tenacity. Born in Texas on September 17, 1930, Mitchell embraced a changing world in every moment. He often remarked that his grandparents had traveled across the country in a covered wagon and he went to the moon. Anything is possible. During his illustrious career, Mitchell was an American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer, noetic scientist, and NASA astronaut. He was a test pilot during the Korean War, taking off and landing on the aircraft carriers. It was, according to Mitchell, like finding...

26 Jan

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="640" height="480" mp4="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Untitled2.mp4"][/video] Welcome to Part 8 of this blog series which explores the many cultural and religious perspectives on healing. Using video excerpts from two DVDs, Consciousness & Healing, and Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing, this series illuminates the diversity of perspectives and the common threads that unite the many distinct approaches to healing. In the video excerpt above, Alan Wallace, a Tibetan Buddhist scholar and practitioner, articulates the importance of the mind in healing. In contrast to Sequoyah Trueblood, whom we heard from previously in this series, Wallace ascribes great importance to the refinement and utilization of the mind...

19 Jan

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="588" height="480" m4v="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/5.m4v"][/video] Welcome to Part 7 of this blog series that explores the many cultural and religious perspectives on healing. Using video excerpts from two DVDs, Consciousness & Healing, and Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing, this series illuminates the diversity of perspectives and the common threads that unite the many distinct approaches to healing. Rabbi Yisrael Rice offers a Kabbalistic perspective on prayer and healing in this video excerpt. In addition to invoking "blessing" as a powerful type of prayer he describes the view that the human body is designed to be a vessel that draws in divine energy....

12 Jan

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="720" height="480" m4v="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/4.m4v"][/video] Welcome to Part 6 of this blog series that explores the many cultural and religious perspectives on healing. Using video excerpts from two DVDs, Consciousness & Healing, and Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing, this series illuminates the diversity of perspectives and the common threads that unite the many distinct approaches to healing. In the video above Sequoyah Trueblood, of the Cherokee and Chocktaw traditions, expresses similar perspectives to what previous healers in this series have shared -- the process of healing is one of letting the divine flow through you and that the distance between healer and...

05 Jan

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="640" height="480" mp4="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/clip-krucoff.mp4"][/video] Welcome to Part 5 of this blog series that explores the many cultural and religious perspectives on healing. Using video excerpts from two DVDs, Consciousness & Healing, and Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing, this series illuminates the diversity of perspectives and the common threads that unite the many distinct approaches to healing. In the video above Mitchell Krucoff, MD offers a perspective as a cardiologist who recognizes that the tools of transformation are accessible to us at all times -- and in the simplest of ways. He shares a powerful story from his experience in a chaotic...

15 Dec

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="640" height="480" mp4="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/clip-4-swami-2.mp4"][/video] Welcome to Part 4 of this blog series that explores the many cultural and religious perspectives on healing. Using video excerpts from two DVDs, Consciousness & Healing, and Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing, this series illuminates the diversity of perspectives and the common threads that unite the many distinct approaches to healing. In this video excerpt Swami Veda Bharati represents the Hindu and Vedic traditions as he speaks to the idea of universal energy as a conscious force. He particularly emphasizes a central Vedic idea that we must recognize ourselves within an awareness continuum, put aside the ego, and let the...

09 Dec

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="532" height="432" mp4="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Untitled.mp4"][/video] Welcome to Part 3 of this blog series that explores the many cultural and religious perspectives on healing. Using video excerpts from two DVDs, Consciousness & Healing, and Compassionate Intention, Prayer, and Distant Healing, this series illuminates the diversity of perspectives and the common threads that unite the many distinct approaches to healing. In the video excerpt above Nancy Maryboy, who is Navajo and Cherokee and has a doctorate in Native American cosmology, shares Native perspectives on distant healing. She tells us that while there may be spatial differences between on-site versus distant (e.g. across the country) healing,...

05 Dec

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare, News and Press

Centuries ago, adventurers exploring the frontiers of our planet discovered, again and again, that they lived in a wider world than previously assumed. During this period, the art of mapmaking made tremendous strides. Fictitious lines of latitude and longitude became as important to navigators as the force of currents and the direction of winds. Perceptions of the world changed as new tools were discovered and new ideas unfolded. More recently, the quest to understand the universe and our place in it follows a similar pushing of boundaries with its own inventive mapmaking. New maps are being made to reflect new discoveries....