Friday, March 19
Location: Faculty Club - UC Berkeley Campus
8:30 – 11:45 Models and Traditions of Healing Chair: Steven Glazier
8:30-8:45 The Gift of Life: Death as a Teacher. Rochelle Suri
8:45 – 9:00 They’re Baaack: Return of Life-After-Death Accounts in the Age of Neurobiology. Meg Jordan
9:00 – 9:15 Cultural Diversity as a Resource in Schizophrenia: An Example from Cross-Cultural Communal Psychiatry for the Mapuche People in Chile. Markus Wiencke
9:15 – 9:25 Q & A, Discussion
9:25 – 9:35 Break
9:35 – 9:50 The Effects of Sufi Healing Ripple Outward. Cheryl Ritenbaugh
9:50 – 10:05 Path of the Heart: Integrating the Wisdom of Classical Sufism into Modern Psychology. Rahima Schmall
10:05 – 10:20 Retrocausality and Real Life Miraculous Reality Shift Healing Stories. Cynthia Sue Larson
10:20 – 10:30 Q & A, Discussion
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45 – 11:00 A Health Event: A Journey through Illness, Treatment, and Recovery. M. Diane Hardgrave
11:00 – 11:15 CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine) Going Mainstream. Claudia Weiner
11:15 – 11:30 ‘Cryptic Potency’: Divination and Healing in Trinidad. Stephen Glazier
11:30 – 11:45 Q & A, Discussion
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch (SAC Board Meeting)
1:00 – 3:45 Ecological Healing: How to Practice as if the Earth Mattered.
Leslie Gray (Experiential Workshop, $25/$15)
3:45 – 4:00 Break
4:00 – 5:00 Invited Keynote Address: Edith L.B. Turner Communitas and Merging with Another: What is Happening in Healing?
5:00 – 6:30 “So What? Now What? The Anthropology of Consciousness Responds to a World In Crisis” Book Launch, and SAC’s 30th Anniversary Party
6:30 – 7:30 Dinner
7:30 – 9:30 Experiential Workshop: Healing through the Heart: The Sufi Path of Love. Cheryl Ritenbaugh ($25/10)
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photo: jacket cover of new SAC published book
