Channel: Consciousness and Healing
Hosted by Marilyn Schlitz.
With medical and health insurance costs skyrocketing and millions of people having no insurance at all, there is growing professional frustration and despair among physicians. More and more patients are seeking alternative treatments, in which physicians are not well-enough informed to take part. The Consciousness & Healing channel features content that calls health professionals and patients alike to carry the responsibility to help craft a new, more fitting way of practicing medicine in light of the major crisis in the practice and delivery of healthcare in the United States. On this channel we take the time to consider the integral perspective, the view that the scientific quest is incomplete without data from many domains of inquiry, and that human transcendence can occur in the face of illness and disease.
Listing of recorded teleseminars in this channel
Gary Huffaker teleseminar on "Integral Medicine: Shifting the Focus from Disease to Thriving Health"
June 17, 2009 | 1 comment
Retired Kaiser Permanente physician Gary Huffaker talks with host Elizabeth Miller about integral theory and how it could be applied to the current medical system. 
May 20, 2009
Senior Scientific Investigator with the Group Health Center in Seattle, Dr. Dan Cherkin talks with host Elizabeth Miller about his research to evaluate conventional and alternative treatments for low back pain.
May 5, 2009
Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson are co-authors of Spiritual Politics (Foreword by the Dalai Lama), and Builders of the Dawn. They are co-founders of The Center for Visionary Leadership...
April 15, 2009
Reverend Lauren Artress, President and founder of Veriditas – The Voice of the Labyrinth Movement talks with host, Angela Murphy about the transformative power of labyrinths. From a basic description of the four “Rs” of labyrinths use, Lauren delves into the depths of transformative opportunities available including grieving our own death.
March 18, 2009 | 1 comment
Where can you get a foot massage and your teeth cleaned at the same time? Ina Pockrass and Dr. Fred Pockrass tell host Angela Murphy about their intention to change the neuro associations people have about visiting the dentist. 
February 18, 2009
Pharmacologist and author, James Arond-Thomas M.D. emphasizes the importance of patient responsibility and discusses the development of a multi-dimensional healing process.
January 21, 2009
Host Marilyn Schlitz talks with Harvard Professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey about their new book “Immunity to Change” and they guide listeners in an exercise. The results show that goals become thwarted when we have one foot on the gas and one on the brake. Becoming aware of the competing commitments can lead us to make real change.
December 17, 2008
Oncologist and pioneer in integrative medicine, Dr. Jeremy Geffen, provides insights into his seven levels of healing program during this teleseminar with host Marilyn Schlitz. He describes the first three levels as being about survival: information and education; connection with others; and viewing our physical bodies as gardens in our care.
November 19, 2008
The violence (social & ecological), alienation and depression of our times reflect an underlying crisis of imagination. The sustainability movement and other social movements often try to fix the future with a list of problems and a to-do list.
October 15, 2008
Emmy award-winning composer/producer Gary Malkin shares his journey with harnessing the power of music and spoken word to make a difference in the world. Gary believes the arts provide portals into soul nourishment and transformation, and he shares how he creates verbal and musical alchemy that nourishes the human spirit. Listen to a free download from his “Graceful Passages” book and CD set on his SIA luminary page for the next two weeks.
September 17, 2008
The modern healthcare system is in crisis, and integrative therapies have become especially useful as ancient yet modern, cost-effective complements to traditional medical and psychotherapeutic practices.
August 20, 2008
How will the current ailing healthcare system nurture to retain its most precious resource, caring professional nurses, while preparing a new generation of health practitioners?
July 16, 2008 | 1 comment
Heartmath co-developer, Howard Martin, discusses the properties and power of the heart and the new Global Coherence project, with host Cassandra Vieten. Howard shares information about the role of heart and the importance of heart coherence to advance intelligence and well-being.
June 18, 2008
When you think of meditation, do you picture a passive spiritual practice that takes decades to show benefit? Think again. Today, leading Western doctors are prescribing meditation for everything from chronic pain to cancer prevention.
June 10, 2008
In this teleseminar, author and clinical psychologist, Richard Miller, PhD shares with host Marilyn Schlitz, his definition of non-duality and how he uses it in his research and training programs.
May 21, 2008
Does time spent in nature heal? Is nature a source of spiritual healing? Do we need this type of healing when we have so much technical and pharmacological prowess at eliminating disease and pain? If nature heals, what is it about nature that heals us? 
April 16, 2008 | 1 comment
In this teleseminar, host Marilyn Schlitz talks with Nina Wise, who is known for her provocative and original performance works. They discuss the value of improvisation in transformational work. Nina shares stories of Vietnam Vets who have participated in her workshops and had breakthroughs they weren't able to achieve during therapy. 
March 19, 2008
Marilyn Schlitz talks with Michael Harner, widely acknowledged as the world's foremost authority on shamanism and has had an enormous influence on both the academic and lay worlds.
February 20, 2008
John Astin, co-director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group, talks with host Marilyn Schlitz about bringing attention to attention. In this engaging dialogue Marilyn and John explore the distinction between two approaches to mindfulness and consciousness training in general, "deliberate" or "intentional" mindfulness on the one hand and "effortless" or "natural" mindfulness on the other. 
January 30, 2008
In this teleseminar, author, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, Chip Conley discusses Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs with host, Marilyn Schlitz, and how he has applied this in his business. They discuss the content of Chip's book “Peak: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow.”
January 16, 2008
IONS researcher Cassandra Vieten, and host Marilyn Schlitz, explore IONS ' continuing research on the role of spiritual, religious, and informal/non-traditional practices and experiences in how we transform consciousness - both our own and in the world around us.
December 19, 2007
Institute of Noetic Sciences Research Psychologists Cassandra Vieten, Ph.D. and Tina Amorok, Psy.D. are co-investigators on the IONS Transformation Study, and co-authors of the book, Living Deeply: The Art & Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, (New Harbinger/Noetic Books, Jan 2008). They join host, Marilyn Schlitz in this discussion of the decade long research process which culminated in the publication of the book.
November 14, 2007 | 1 comment
Dr. Jeanne Achterbergis acclaimed for her work on the use of imagery in healing, psychoimmunology, behavioral strategies for the reduction of pain and anxiety, and the role of women as health consumers.
October 10, 2007
Barbara Dossey PhD discusses Florence Nightingale's vision for a healthy world during the Victorian era and how her ideas are still relevant today. 
August 29, 2007
In this dialogue, integrative physician Sylver Quevado draws upon his scientific expertise and his deep appreciation of indigenous and alternative pathways to healing to paint a picture of a more balanced kind of medicine that treats the whole person. 
July 25, 2007
In this moving discussion with host Marilyn Schlitz, her guest James Gordon, talks about his experience "Healing the Wounds of War".
June 13, 2007
Marilyn Schlitz, host of the Consciousness and Healing Channel, and her guest Dr. Elliott Dacher, discuss "The Perfection of Health."
Our conception of health is not something to be fixed and frozen in time. To do so would be to fix and freeze our human potential, needlessly limiting ourselves and denying our precious opportunity to gain a vast, profound, and enduring health, happiness, and wholeness. 
May 16, 2007
Marilyn Schlitz and her guest Deepak Chopra discuss his new book, "Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment." 
March 14, 2007 | 1 comment
Dr. Eskenazi co-founded the Women's Committee of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. She has been on over 10 trips to foreign countries where she has done free surgery on children in need. She is the founding partner in this very unique woman's cosmetic and reconstructive surgical practice in San Francisco.
January 26, 2007
Elliott Dacher and Marilyn Schlitz discuss "Building Values-Based Health Care."
Elliott S. Dacher is a pioneer in the emerging medicine of the future. His knowledge and practical approaches to the field of health and healing have evolved from his extensive experience as a practicing internist participating in over 50,000 medical visits and his ongoing independent research and study.
January 24, 2007
Marilyn Schlitz and her guest, Neale Donald Walsch discuss the question "What Is the New Spirituality?"
In 1992, Neale Donald Walsch's life was transformed when in frustration he fired off an angry letter to God, asking the questions from his heart (but really the questions all of us want answers to) and to his great surprise, received an answer!
December 6, 2006
Joan Borysenko and host Marilyn Schlitz had a lively discussion on "Wisdom of the Heart."
October 18, 2006
If you are intrigued by a metaphysical discussion of subtle energy in relationship to heart stints or the importance of having hospitals with access to nature, pets, and water, you'll want to hear Dr. Krucoff's thoughts on the leading edge of medicine.
September 7, 2006 | 1 comment
Join a thought-provoking discussion between mind-body healer, Janet Quinn, PhD and Consciousness and Healing channel host Marilyn Schlitz. Janet helped pioneer Therapeutic Touch and received the first federal grant for research in this field in the 1980s.
August 6, 2006
Although scientific research has long evidenced a profound connection between mind and body in healing, the medical model has been slow to integrate that evidence. John describes the barriers between the bio-psycho-social model of medical philosophy and the bio-medical model of the industry, which have been the topic of his research.
May 12, 2006
M. Bridget Duffy, MD, is a consultant to healthcare organizations throughout the country, promoting the development and implementation of patient-centered chronic disease initiatives, physician education, and leadership programs that sought to foster the convergence of information, technology and a humanistic delivery of that care.
March 29, 2006
Join Tom Janisse in dialogue with Consciousness and Healing channel host Marilyn Schlitz on "The Power of Relationship in Medicine."
Tom is Associate Medical Director of Northwest Permanente Medical Group in Portland, Oregon where he conducted relationship research on physicians with the highest patient satisfaction.
February 16, 2006
Join President/CEO of IONS Dr. Marilyn Schlitz on the "Frontiers of Integral Medicine." Her most recent book Consciousness and Healing, which highlights the pioneering work of some 60 leaders in the field, has proven to be a cross-over success, reaching into both professional and lay audiences.
January 6, 2006
Elliott S. Dacher is a pioneer in the emerging medicine of the future. His knowledge and practical approaches to the field of health and healing have evolved from his extensive experience as a practicing internist participating in over 50,000 medical visits and his ongoing independent research and study. He is the author of Whole Healing and Intentional Healing, and his latest book Integral Health: The Path to Human Flourishing will be published in 2006. 
November 18, 2005 | 1 comment
Join consciousness pioneer Stanley Krippner and Consciousness and Healing channel host "(discover)Marilyn Schlitz":http://shiftinaction.com/discover/luminaries/marilyn_schlitz in an exploration of the frontiers of healing and its relationship to cultural contexts. 
October 9, 2005
What’s the future of medicine? Find out with Lee Lipsenthal, President of the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and President/CEO of IONS Marilyn Schlitz. Dr. Lipsenthal offers a profoundly optimistic vision of the breakdowns now occurring, which are clearing space for a practice of medicine that is better for the patient, healthier for the practitioner, and even more economical. 
August 25, 2005
In this teleseminar, What the Bleep? luminary Candace Pert discusses the subject of "Psychosomatic Wellness" with President/CEO of IONS Marilyn Schlitz. Dr. Pert explores the history of her turn towards a noetic worldview, the current frontiers of mindbody science, and an innovative new AIDS treatment she has developed that involves peptides, the informational substances that link body-mind and spirit. 
August 5, 2005
Join mind-body medicine pioneer Dr. Larry Dossey and host Marilyn Schlitz at the frontiers of integral medicine. Dr. Dossey shares his journey through Vietnam and his return to a world of medicine profoundly limited by physical, mechanistic understandings. Instead of conforming, he began to practice meaning-centered medicine, recognizing that all treatments are filtered by the patient’s views, dreams, hopes, and emotions. Today’s task, as he sees it, is for doctors to become healers. 
