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The Film "Death Makes Life Possible"  Produced and Written by Marilyn Schlitz and Deepak Chopra and Directed by Mark Krigbaum 

The  film "Death Makes Life Possible" has just been awarded under the category "UNDISCOVERED (Must View)" in the Culture Unplugged film festival.

The film follows PhD chair Dr. Marilyn Schlitz, who had her own near death experience as a teenager, as she explores the meaning of death and how to live without fear.  Interviews with such luminaries as Deepak Chopra, Dean Ornish, Dean Radin and others are shared along with personal stories of people facing their own encounters with death. 

Dr. Schlitz based her winter 2017 course "Multiple Epistemologies on Death and the Afterlife" on the book and film. Congratulations to everyone involved!

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Just Published! "The Spectrum of Gratitude Experience."

Alumnus and Associate Core Faculty John Elfers, Ph.D. and former faculty member Patty Hlava, have just published their new book, The Spectrum of Gratitude Experience. 

The book extends the subject of gratitude to include transpersonal gratitude, a perspective often missing in discussions of gratitude in positive psychology and social psychology.

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Join PhD Chair Marilyn Schlitz at the IONS  17th International Conference 

Thursday July 20 - Sunday July 23rd at the Oakland Marriott City Center. 

The Institute for Noestic Sciences, IONS, will hold their annual conference with the theme "The Science of What Connects Us." Marilyn will be speaking Sunday morning on  The Emergence of Post-Materialist Science. Interested in attending but short on funds? Apply for a partial scholarship or to be a volunteer at the event.

A Move Closer to Home

For any graduate student writing a paper, or needed assistance accessing the library resources, Librarian Alexa Stoneman has been your guide. But like many of us here in the Bay Area, the long commute from the far side of Marin County to the Peninsula began to take its toll. Spending nearly 2 hours some days just to get to Sofia University made the decision to find a spot closer to home a wise choice. 

Alexa just accepted a library faculty position at Touro University on Mare Island in Vallejo. Her last day was Wednesday, February 10th. We will miss her presence, and as always, we wish her well on her journey. 
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Holistic Teaching and Learning Conference
September 14-17, 2017
Hosted by the School of Education at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon (USA)

You are warmly invited to attend and participate in this inclusive gathering of educators from many realms of holistic practice. The conference will highlight a diverse and inspiring range of approaches and presentation formats.

Presenters may approach their sessions by way of any combination of the many strands of Holistic Education.

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P S I   R E S E A R C H   S T U D Y 
Experimenters and Participants needed for Sofia U and IONS Precognition Research Study 
 
This global collaboration is 1 of 3 studies that are looking at what the expectancies about psi are to both the experimenter and participants.

32 Experimenters needed to test
16 participants each.

Experimenters will receive a prerecorded, web-based experimenter orientation and training, and belief questionnaire.

Participants will fill out a self report questionnaire and perform psi related task. Participants do not need to be local! 

Contact Nomi Shmerling to participate in this study  at  N.Shmerling@sofia.edu
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FROM THE JANUARY/FEBRUARY SOFIA U BLOG 




RESEARCH AND LEARNING BLOG

A Transcendent View of Gratitude by John Elfers, PhD, licensed Marriage Family Therapist and Patty Hlava, PhD, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist

Self-transcendent experience: A grounded theory study  by Institute of Transpersonal Psychology at Sofia University alumni Albert Garcia-Romeu, Samuel P Himelstein and Jacob Kaminker