ISHAR a library for mind/body woo

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PROBLEM: Many Institutions and proclaimed 'skeptic organizations' refuse to acknowledge or accept ongoing scientific research on integrated approaches. They disseminate negative and erroneous information about these healing methods that makes it harder for researchers, clinicians and people like YOU to get accurate information. SOLUTION: ISHAR will gather all leading perspectives on each topic covered, combined with all relevant research, and all cultural practices. Since ISHAR is a library that focuses on holistic models of mind/body health, our archive itself will be holistic, fusing science, culture, perspectives, and policy into ONE library for ALL. PROBLEM: New research and study is happening faster than the online discussion can keep up with. Many in the mind/body community - from doctors to professors to practitioners - are citing the many problems with Wikipedia around mind/body topics. Additionally, too many questionable materials are being published on the internet, both pro and con. Researchers have to scour through medical archives in too many different locations and are left unsure of what else is out there. This, we believe, has led to a cultural divide where there should be none. Integrative health, yoga, meditation and mind body practices are now the mainstream, and 40% of US hospitals have integrated practices. SOLUTION: ISHAR literally is designed as a 21st Century Library. Information online - including online discussions, Wikipedia, social networking sites, and community collective curating - is a novelty that ISHAR will have which the Library of Alexandria didn't.

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Also many woo proponents are helping like Bernardo Kastrup:



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Making it easy to find resources is important in the world of science. The scientific/academic world pays close attention to what studies are cited in other studies. Research is deemed important if it has been cited a lot. But you can’t cite it if you don’t even know it exists or can’t find it even if you do. A lot of frontier science doesn’t show up on every mainstream database. Sometimes it’s “conveniently” left out. That’s why a small army of researchers and leading thinkers support this project including: Deepak Chopra, MD Paul Mills, Ph D : Professor in Residence, UCSD Shiva Ayyadurai, PhD MIT, Systems Engineer William Bushell, Ph.D. Director of Research at Tibet HouseUS/The Menla Center, Medical Anthropology, MIT Robert Thurman, PhD: President and Founder, Tibet House Dean Ornish, MD: President and Founder, Preventive Medicine Research Institute Menas Kafatos, Phd Schmid College of Science and Technology. Physics, Computational Science and Engineering, School of Computational Sciences Lisa Miller, Ph.D. Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology Director, Spirituality and Mind-Body Institute. Columbia University, Teachers College Marilyn Schlitz, Fellow and President Emeritus, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Senior Scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute. Dr. Robert Schwarz, PhD Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology Daniel Vicario, M.D., Medical Director, San Diego Cancer Center. Director, Integrative Oncology Program. Julia Mossbridge, PhD Research Associate, Department of Psychology, Northwestern University and Inventor of Choice Compass. Kate Noble, PhD Clinical and Counseling. Professor of Consciousness, University of Washington. Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD Senior Researcher, NIMS, Adjunct Asst. Professor Michigan Technological University, Advanced Scanning Probe Microscopy group, Advanced Nano Characterisation Center (ANCC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institute of Medical and Engineering Science. Subhash Kak. Regents Professor, Department of Computer Science Oklahoma State University Dr Jack Sarfatti, PhD: Theoretical physicist Neil D. Theise, MD Professor of Pathology and of Medicine at the Beth Israel Medical Center of Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Allan Leslie Combs, Ph.D. Doshi Professor of Consciousness Studies. Director of The Center for Consciousness Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also the President of the Society for Consciousness Studies and Director of Consciousness Studies master’s degree program at the Graduate Institute of Connecticut. Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina-Asheville . Dr. Jeffrey Martin, Center for the Study of Non Symbolic Consciousness Shamini Jain, Phd. Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UC San Diego; Chair, Research Development Committee, UC San Diego Center for Integrative Medicine Meg Jordan, PhD, RN Clinical Medical Anthropologist, Chair and Professor, Integrative Health Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies Francois Demange, MA Anthropology, Indigenous Medicine James Fallon, PhD Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology, UC Irvine Ester Konigsberg, MD, CCFP Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine

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Again woo believers are uniting again. Are they so desperate??

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