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

healthcare

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....

01 Dec

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="576" height="432" m4v="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/clip-2.m4v"][/video] Welcome to Part 2 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 we hear from two unique healing worldviews -- Sufi and Johrei. Arife Hammerle, a pyschotherapist and Sufi teacher, describes how the process of meditation and prayer aligns the healer to the purity of the divine and enables him or her to transfer...

24 Nov

Posted at 09:00h in Featured, healthcare

[video width="720" height="480" m4v="http://marilynschlitz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/clip-1.m4v"][/video] Welcome to Part 1 of a blog series exploring diverse cultural and religious perspectives on healing. The series is based on interviews I conducted with masters and teachers from the world’s traditions. This unique series will illuminate the diverse approaches to healing as well as the common threads that unite the many distinct practices that connect consciousness, healing and transformation. In this first video Sylver Quevedo, MD, a professor of comparative healing, speaks of compassion as a defining quality of healers across traditions. Steven Aung, MD, reflects on "loving kindness" and the importance of the mental state of the...

07 Oct

Posted at 06:41h in Death and Afterlife, Death Makes Life Possible, Featured, healthcare, News and Press, Research

The September issue of Spirituality in Clinical Practice published an article I authored titled, "Gaining perspective on death: Training program and language use outcomes assessment." With co-authors, Jonathan Schooler, Alan Pierce, Angela Murphy, and Arnaud Delorme, this paper examined how structured, supportive discourse on death, dying and what may happen after can have positive, therapeutic outcomes, especially in clinical contexts for both patients and caregivers. We used journaling data from a telecourse I taught called, "Death Makes Life Possible: Mapping Worldviews of the Afterlife," to specifically highlight the various ways the course material may have shifted participants' relationship with death, dying, and their own mortality. These...

25 Apr

Posted at 18:14h in Death and Afterlife, Death Makes Life Possible, Featured, healthcare

This blog series is a transcript of a recent interview I did as a speaker for Dr. Karen Wyatt’s End-of-Life University. In our conversation we shared our own personal stories about death, transformation and the end of life. We also talked about our work in this realm, including my backstory on the documentary film Death Makes Life Possible, which will be world premiering at the Illuminate Film Festival in late May and also screened at the Afterlife Conference in early June. The beautiful web site for the movie will be launched very soon as well! Karen Wyatt: Is there anything else, Marilyn, that you would like...

18 Apr

Posted at 18:08h in Death and Afterlife, Death Makes Life Possible, Featured, healthcare

This blog series is a transcript of a recent interview I did as a speaker for Dr. Karen Wyatt’s End-of-Life University. In our conversation we shared our own personal stories about death, transformation and the end of life. We also talked about our work in this realm, including my backstory on the documentary film Death Makes Life Possible, which will be world premiering at the Illuminate Film Festival in late May and also screened at the Afterlife Conference in early June. The beautiful web site for the movie will be launched very soon as well! Karen Wyatt: I definitely feel that the timing is right, and...

11 Apr

Posted at 09:00h in Death and Afterlife, Death Makes Life Possible, Featured, healthcare

This blog series is a transcript of a recent interview I did as a speaker for Dr. Karen Wyatt's End-of-Life University. In our conversation we shared our own personal stories about death, transformation and the end of life. We also talked about our work in this realm, including my backstory on the documentary film Death Makes Life Possible, which will be world premiering at the Illuminate Film Festival in late May and also screened at the Afterlife Conference in early June. The beautiful web site for the movie will be launched very soon as well! Marilyn Schlitz: I’ve been reading Ernest Becker and The Denial of...

04 Apr

Posted at 06:06h in Death and Afterlife, Death Makes Life Possible, Featured, healthcare

This blog series is a transcript of a recent interview I did as a speaker for Dr. Karen Wyatt's End-of-Life University. In our conversation we shared our own personal stories about death, transformation and the end of life. We also talked about our work in this realm, including my backstory on the documentary film Death Makes Life Possible, which will be world premiering at the Illuminate Film Festival in late May and also screened at the Afterlife Conference in early June. The beautiful web site for the movie will be launched very soon as well! Karen Wyatt: One question that I had for you that I...