ISSSEEM
The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine
ISSSEEM promotes understanding, exploration, research and
application of the energies of consciousness.

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Charles T. Tart, Ph. D.

The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) is an international non-profit interdisciplinary organization dedicated to exploring and applying subtle energies as they relate to the experience of consciousness, healing, and human potential. ISSSEEM is in a unique position, acting both as a bridge builder between communities and a leader in the field, offering a community with a widespread appreciation of the energetic component within many disciplines including quantum physics, therapeutic modalities, healing, psychology, consciousness, psi and the understanding of our multidimensional existence.


Board of Directors

Lilly Coniglio, MA
Kate Hastings, ThM, Chair
Christine Hibbard, PhD, Treasurer
Gilah Yelin Hirsch,BA,MFA
Karen L Malik, MA
Patricia A Norris, PhD, Vice Chair
James Oschman, PhD, Past President
Beverly Rubik, PhD
Claude Swanson, PhD
Lynn Van Buran
Bernard O Williams, PhD


Wisdom Council

Bob Nunley, PhD, Chair
Wanda & Herb Blumenthal
Steven Fahrion, PhD
Elmer E Green, Founding President
David Hibbard, MD
Jeff Levin, PhD, MPH
Karl Maret, MD
Ann Nunley, PhD
Maurie Pressman, MD
Carol Schneider, PhD, Founder
C. Norm Shealy, MD
T M Srinivasan, PhD, Founder
Jerry E Wesch, PhD
Leonard A. Wisneski M.D.

Chief Executive Officer

Denise Lewis Premschak


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Bridges, our members magazine, creates an open forum for the diverse membership of healers, teachers, researchers and pioneers to exchange information and discuss new discoveries.

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To stimulate broader interest in ISSSEEM community activities and to discover new opportunities for information exchange and collaboration with others committed to similar or complementary goals, ISSSEEM encourages and supports networking, education, preliminary research presentations, and development of meaningful collaborative research.  

Members of the Society and other local persons who have a personal or professional interest in subtle energies and/or energy medicine will be welcomed 

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Greetings!

Greetings ISSSEEM Community! 

Tart and Oschman
 President James Oschman with Incoming President Charles Tart
at the 2009 Conference in Westminster


Charles T. Tart, Ph.D.: On Becoming President of ISSSEEM

When I was asked to become President of ISSSEEM, I was hesitant.  Why me?  What could I contribute?  I'm not someone with great social skills or a natural leader, and the ISSSEEM Board was already doing a fine job guiding the organization.  I wouldn't have to be an operational leader, I was reassured, but more of a symbolic leader: my own professional career demonstrated the central theme and mission of ISSSEEM, namely to be open to unusual, "psychic" or "spiritual" aspects of reality, "subtle energies," especially in their relationship and application to healing, and to use the best methods of science and scholarship to clarify, refine and develop this knowledge.  OK, I thought, I could go with that. 

I've spent my career working at several frontiers of knowledge, such as altered states of consciousness, parapsychology, and the science and spirituality interface, and my work been driven by a personal dynamic of being curious and open on the one hand, while hating to be fooled (by others or, even worse, myself!) on the other.  Abraham Maslow, the principal founder of both humanistic and transpersonal psychologies, noted how science can be used as an open-ended personal growth system or as a highly prestigious neurotic defense system.  I've tried to work in the first mode, and it's been a fascinating and satisfying career.  Anyone interested can get an overview of it as my website, www.paradigm-sys.com/cttart/.

My second source of hesitation was the uneasy feeling that there's a lot of far out people involved in ISSSEEM, and a distant knowledge of what they were doing sometimes exceeded my boggle threshold.  "Uh oh," I thought, "I'm reacting just like the establishment authorities who have irrationally rejected my own work and interests!"  Identification with the aggressor syndrome?  Too much acceptance in the mainstream?  Acting as President of ISSSEEM will be a personal growth opportunity to actually practice what I preach about being open and forming opinions on the basis of study and evidence, rather than socially conditioned reactions.  Practically, I can't possibly study all the many streams flowing under the ISSSEEM umbrella adequately, but where I can't do so, I can still suspend both belief and disbelief and encourage people to keep using the best scientific methods to develop their ideas and treatments.  This will be interesting....

What finally convinced me to accept the honor of being President was the chance to set the theme for our 2010 conference.  Last April I published what will probably be my magnum opus, "The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together," bringing my studies of consciousness, the paranormal and spirituality together.  It's primary aim is to help the many people who have spiritual inclinations or have had spiritual experiences, but believe that science has shown that all spirituality is nonsense, so they can't accept their own inner knowing.  They worry that they must be crazy or stupid to go against Science. 

It's true, of course, that lots of nonsense and pathology have been promulgated and rationalized in the name of spirituality and religion, but that's true for all areas of human life.  If you apply the basic methods of science to looking at psychic and spiritual experiences though, you find that humans sometimes show the kinds of qualities we would expect a spiritual being to have, so the idea of spirituality has not been shown to be all nonsense by proper science.  It's scientism, a rigid philosophy of materialism pretending to be essential science that rejects all spirituality.  The book argues that actual evidence shows it's reasonable to be both scientific and spiritual. 

But that's just the start.  Where do we need to go, what do we need to study to make our spirituality more evidence-based or evidence-enriched, so the spirituality and religion of the future becomes more in tune with reality and more effective?  That's the theme we'll have for our coming conference, and I'm looking forward to see what directions we come up with!

Charles T Tart



Ph.D. COMMITTEE MEMBER NEEDED

A Ph.D. committee member is needed for one of the students at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (ITP), Richard Knowles, whose research on potential brain wave entrainment to the Earth's Schuman resonance has ground to a halt with the unexpected death of one of his committee members.

Please follow the link to our Archives of a past eSEEM for further information or email Richard directly at  [email protected]

Bulletin Board
News from Board of Directors and Members

Beverly RubikISSSEEM and the Board of Directors is honored to welcome Beverly Rubik, Ph.D. as our newest Board member. Beverly is a frontier scientist renowned for her pioneering research. She holds a Ph.D. in biophysics (UC Berkeley, 1979) and has dedicated her career to pursuing research on subtle energies and energy medicine, and has published over 80 papers & 2 books. She is adjunct professor in Integrative Health at Cal. Inst. of Integral Studies as well as Saybrook; consultant to the Anodos Foundation; and president/founder of the Inst. for Frontier Science, a nonprofit laboratory in Emeryville, CA. Thank you Beverly for coming on Board.



Karen MalikWe are pleased to announce that Karen Malik, Ph.D. will be staying on for another term. Thank you Karen for your continued support of ISSSEEM.





Ann Nunley
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Annual Awards
Presented at the 2009 Conference

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DOUG BOYD WISDOM KEEPER AWARD

Shin-ichiro Terayama was the recipient of our 2009 Doug Boyd Wisdom Keeper Award.
To a true cross-cultural, universally accepting soul who brings people together, empowering and healing us all through his stories of love and joy and personal transformation.

This award, in honor of Doug Boyd, is presented to selected individuals who exemplify the spirit of gathering and sharing ageless wisdom through stories, books, presentations and gatherings in an effort to raise consciousness, cultural preservation, serve humanity and make the world a better place in which to live.


ALYCE AND ELMER GREEN AWARD


Beverly Rubik, Ph.D. was the recipient of our 2009 Alyce and Elmer Green Award.

This award was established by ISSSEEM in 1993. The Green Award, given annually for the past 16 years, is the preeminent prize in new-paradigm science. It recognizes excellence, innovation, and career achievement in subtle energies and energy medicine, the emerging scientific field developing at the interface of applied psychophysiology and biofeedback, physics, biomedical and electrical engineering, parapsychology, and complementary and alternative medicine.

For more about the Alyce and Elmer Green Award and to view past recipients: http://www.issseem.org/greenaward.cfm



Conference Photo Gallery
2009 - Sacred Synthesis: Science with Heart
Held at The Westin in Westminster, Colorado


A special thank you to Photographer, Kim Conrad who volunteered her time and incredible talent. She captured our 2009 Conference with these beautiful photos. We have many more that we will be sharing in the future.


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Puran and Susanna Bair, Friday Gala Dinner

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Rustum Roy and Deepak Chopra at Town Hall

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James Oschman, Presidential Address

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Beautiful Glass Orbs in our Bookstore

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Members Choice Forum with equine guest


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One of our Community Sessions

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Old Tibet Singing Bowl Sound Therapy
Masters from Nepal


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Panel Presentation at Research Day

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Lynne McTaggart Presentation



Comments from Attendees:


Liked starting sessions with touch from the heart. Suggest it for future conferences. More group touch as offered by Lynne McTaggart as a break and to stand up and connect

Amazing. Transformational, synchronistic. I love how the energy shifted from Saturday to Monday, we became one, a family. I love meeting people of this kind.

What an amazing conference! You had so many stellar speakers & offerings - well balanced. It was truly incredible. It all flowed so easily and gracefully like a dancer at peak performance. Thank you for all the dedicated efforts to make it so.

It was wonderful - well planned programming - Leading from more familiar to new. Chopra was perfect.

The Program is outstanding and very helpful. I have been impressed with all areas of this conference. The Westin Hotel is an impressive facility. I thank you all for the hard work and creativity!



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Conference Recordings

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Did you missed this years Conference? Do you want to listen again to your favorite presentation? Or pass them on to friends and colleagues? We have the Community Sessions and many of the Elective Sessions recorded for purchase. They are available as a CD, DVD or mp3s on a flash drive. Workshops are not recorded.


The Recordings are available on-line.

Recordings of past conferences are also available on our website.
For Your Viewing Pleasure

ISSSEEM Conference Interview:

Dr. Christine Page
"Healing and Knowing Your Body"

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Upcoming Conference

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Thursday, October 15 - Sunday, October 18, 2009
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For more information: www.tcmconference.org
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"There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.
The immense fulfillment of the friendship between those engaged in furthering
the evolution of consciousness has a quality impossible to describe."
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We welcome contributions to the eSeem Newsletter and encourage Members to participate in this,
your newsletter.
Do you have a special event, favorite new book, short article, or other piece of information
that would be of interest to the ISSSEEM Community?


Deadline is the first of each month for inclusion in that months newsletter.
Please keep your article to 500 words or less. If longer provide a link to the article.

Send your submission to  [email protected]

Linda Block
eSEEM Editor

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