Cassandra Vieten, PhD, is President and CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and a scientist at the Mind-Body Medicine Research Group at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. She completed her pre and post-doctoral training at The University of California, San Francisco, working primarily on the biological and psychological underpinnings of addiction and alcoholism. Her research has focused on how psychology, biology, and spirituality interact to affect experience and behavior, developing mindfulness-based interventions for pregnancy and postpartum health, addictions, emotion regulation and behavioral disorders. She is co-author of Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life and author of Mindful Motherhood: Practical Tools for Staying Sane During Pregnancy and Your Child's First Year.

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Who's Who in Postmaterialist Science

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Julia Assante near-death experience, archaeology, art history of the ancient near east

Mario Beauregard neuroscience, neuropsychology, mystical experience, postmaterialist science Marc Bekoff animal behavior, cognitive ethology, behavioral ecology, compassionate conservation Daryl Bem psi, self-perception theory of attitude formation, social psychology, physics William Bengston energy healing, sociology, research methods and statistics Dick Bierman consciousness and quantum physics, artificial intelligence Stephen E. Braude parapsychology, philosophical psychopathology

James Carpenter parapsychology, clinical psychology Deepak Chopra consciousness, mind-body medicine, endocrinology Allan Leslie Combs consciousness, neuropsychology, systems sciences

Larry Dossey internal medicine, Explore, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Brenda J Dunne PEAR laboratory, consciousness, psychology

Peter Fenwick neuropsychiatry, near-death experience, consciousness Àlex Gómez-Marín behavioral and cognitive neuroscience, theoretical physics, biophysics Bruce Greyson near-death experience, psychiatry, neurobehavioral science Stuart Hameroff consciousness, microtubules, anesthesiology

Robert Jahn PEAR laboratory, physics, aerospace engineering Brian Josephson Nobel Prize in physics, tunnelling effect in superconductivity

Menas Kafatos computational physics, astrophysics, consciousness Bernardo Kastrup metaphysical idealism, reconfigurable computing, AI Stanley Krippner consciousness, psychology, dream research

Pim van Lommel near-death experience, cardiology David Luke altered states of consciousness, transpersonal psychology, parapsychology

Lisa Miller clinical psychology, mind-body medicine, spirituality in children Marilyn Monk molecular biology, epigenetics, methylation of DNA, deprogramming Alexander Moreira-Almeida spiritualily and health, mind-brain problem, mediums, psychiatry

Roger Nelson Global Consciousness Project, experimental psychology, psychophysiology, Kathleen Noble consciousness, clinical and counseling psychology, early university entrance

Adrian Parker the ganzfeld technique, psychical research, clinical psychology J Kim Penberthy mindfulness, psychiatry, clinical psychology Gerald Pollack the fourth phase of water, medical and biological engineering Diane Hennecy Powell consciousness, autistic savants, neuropsychiatry, clinical psychiatry

Dean Radin consciousness, psychology, physics, electrical engineering Beverly Rubik biophysics, consciousness, spiritual healing, energy medicine

Marilyn Schlitz mind-body medicine, parapsychology Gary Schwartz spirit detection, life after death, dream precognition, mediums Stephan A Schwartz remote viewing in archaeology, nonlocal consciousness

Rudolph Tanzi Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's, genetics and aging, neurology Russell Targ lasers, remote viewing, Stanford Research Institute Charles T Tart transpersonal psychology, altered states of consciousness, dreaming, hypnosis Neil Theise multi-organ adult stem cell plasticity, pathology, theoretical biology, complexity Jim Tucker psychiatry, neurobehavioral science, children who remember previous lives

Cassandra Vieten IONS, mindfulness, addiction, mind-body medicine

Harald Walach consciousness, homeopathy, complementary medicine, clinical psychology Marjorie Woollacott meditation, near-death experience, human physiology, neuroscience