Neurophilosophy, Self & Brain
ABSTRACT
The last 5-10 years have seen huge steps and the vast mobilization of multidisciplinary competences “toward a Science of Consciousness”, as clearly illustrated in the recent international conference on that topic held in Stockholm under the patronage of the Center for Consciousness Studies of the University of Arizona and of the Perfjell Foundation, with the collaboration of the postdocs of the Karolinska Institute.
At the same time that Science, and especially the Neuroscience and the Physics of consciousness progresses, tools and new understanding have been developed that will allow for the transfer of much of that basic Science into clinical practice. This transfer doesn’t only concern the clinical practice exclusively with mental disease but also the regular clinical practice where a patient, using his, or her, mind, can influence the progression of disease, becoming what one could rightly call a therapeutic partner.
The need to establish connections between Medicine, especially in the therapeutic aspect (healing), and all the information already obtained from the mind-matter phenomenology has led to much experimentation and theorizing in this border area, which is summarized in the excellent book by Marilyn Schlitz et al (2005) (4) "Consciousness and Healing – Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine" and also addressed in another excellent book by Pamela Heath, MD “Mind-Matter Interaction -a review of Historical Reports, Theory and Research”.
There are also multiple scientific papers published in journals such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration (Society for Scientific Exploration, USA), Journal of International Society of Life Information Science (Japan), and by many authors who are also speakers in Bial Symposia.
This paper aims to describe the work conducted by LIMMIT, as both clinical and experimental research.
At the same time that Science, and especially the Neuroscience and the Physics of consciousness progresses, tools and new understanding have been developed that will allow for the transfer of much of that basic Science into clinical practice. This transfer doesn’t only concern the clinical practice exclusively with mental disease but also the regular clinical practice where a patient, using his, or her, mind, can influence the progression of disease, becoming what one could rightly call a therapeutic partner.
The need to establish connections between Medicine, especially in the therapeutic aspect (healing), and all the information already obtained from the mind-matter phenomenology has led to much experimentation and theorizing in this border area, which is summarized in the excellent book by Marilyn Schlitz et al (2005) (4) "Consciousness and Healing – Integral Approaches to Mind-Body Medicine" and also addressed in another excellent book by Pamela Heath, MD “Mind-Matter Interaction -a review of Historical Reports, Theory and Research”.
There are also multiple scientific papers published in journals such as the Journal of Scientific Exploration (Society for Scientific Exploration, USA), Journal of International Society of Life Information Science (Japan), and by many authors who are also speakers in Bial Symposia.
This paper aims to describe the work conducted by LIMMIT, as both clinical and experimental research.
