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The Sacred Promise How Science Is Discovering Spirits Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives by Schwartz, Gary E. [Atria Books/Beyond Words,2011]
The Sacred Promise How Science Is Discovering Spirits Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives by Schwartz, Gary E.. Published by Atria Books/Beyond Words,2011, Hardcover
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First published January 6, 2011
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Gary E. Schwartz
43 books50 followersGary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona, at the main campus in Tucson. In addition to teaching courses on health and spiritual psychology, he is the Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.
Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971 and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, was director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988.
In September 2002 he received a $1.8 million dollars award from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years.
Gary collaborates with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research and serves as the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.
Publications and Honors
Gary has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and The Living Energy Universe (1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives was published in January 2011.
The Energy Healing Experiments (2007) received the Gold Medial from the Nautilus Book Awards.
Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research.
He received a Young Psychologist Award and an Early Career Award for Distinguished Research from the American Psychological Association. He served as President of the Biofeedback Society of America and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In 2004 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award for Energy Psychology from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and in 2006 a Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Psychotronic Association.
Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971 and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, was director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988.
In September 2002 he received a $1.8 million dollars award from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years.
Gary collaborates with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research and serves as the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing at Canyon Ranch.
Publications and Honors
Gary has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books, is the author of The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Medium (2005), and The Living Energy Universe (1999). His new book The Sacred Promise: How Science is Discovering Spirit’s Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives was published in January 2011.
The Energy Healing Experiments (2007) received the Gold Medial from the Nautilus Book Awards.
Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research.
He received a Young Psychologist Award and an Early Career Award for Distinguished Research from the American Psychological Association. He served as President of the Biofeedback Society of America and the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association. In 2004 he received a Distinguished Scientist Award for Energy Psychology from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, and in 2006 a Distinguished Scientist Award from the United States Psychotronic Association.
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September 2, 2014
Wow what a great story i have to tell everyone. About midway reading this book, I was thinking about giving it lowly 2 star review but instead decided to give it 5 stars. Here is what made me change my mind. Around the time I was thinking about giving it a 2-Star Review, the many sychronocities started to happen. During reading this book, I had a Sychronocity interactive in my subconsciousness. I decided to stop drinking Diet Soda for almost 30 years of daily intake of mass amounts. I started to drink Ice Tea and put in NutraSweet. Something said in my head that NutraSweet is just as bad as Aspartame in Diet Soda. I did not think nothing of it but a couple seconds later at this fast food restaurant a salt and pepper condiment fell to the ground by itself with no visible presence near it and at the same time the Ice Machine comes on and makes a loud noise. I was like OMG OMG and I though it was just a weird coincidence but sure enough it was not. While picking up the condiment stand on the floor, On the salt/pepper stand there was a Restaurant Survey Review Card. I looked at the large bold letter son the top and its said PLEASE GIVE A 5-STAR REVIEW! Underneath the card was a whole bunch o salt on the ground that look like NutraSweet. CARL JUNG SYNCHRONICITY AT WORK.
This book and the guidance has given me new hope with conquering my bad habit of diet soda daily. It has been around three days since I had diet soda but it a start for the better. Over 30 Years daily drinking the Aspartame poison, the Synchronicity (the spirits calling card) came to truly save me and help me out. THERE IS MANY MORE WONDERFUL (ALSO BAD) SYNCHRONICITY STORIES I CAN SHARE BUT I KEEP IT WITH THE STORY I GAVE ABOVE.
As my review in this book, I think Dr. Schwartz put to much faith on Spirit Healers, Mediums and Spirit Communicators. Even he open is very skeptical and knows about the wide spread fraud out there.
Since Dr. Schwartz is a member of the Consciousness and Health laboratory, I was hoping for him to share more studies and research at what exactly the control studies are saying inside the University of Arizona Laboratories, However he failed to mention any major breakthrough.
He composed the tests of test I, test II, Test III. Test I is outside of laboratory, what he is observing. Test II is same as Type I but with his co-worker are part of the test. Type III is official Laboratory results.
Many of his concepts are Point of Proof concepts. More proof is need to establish a Proof of Possibilities, Proof of Probability He did an amazing job at doing that
The two tests that look promising is the Silicon PhotonMultipler and Biophotot CCTV Plants Tests. During these test, some type of energy presence was notice.
I am firm believer that the Consciousness can live inside and outside our body when alive or dead. He mentioned life is all about the type of Frequencies we give off, I so agree. The higher Angel Sophia Angel has a higher frequencies that his friend Susy had a lower frequencies.
It appears that the higher Angels have higher frequencies and the spirits like us have a lower frequencies that can be observed in the laboratory.
There is some much write but I do not wanted to ruin the outcome.
EVEN IF THE BOOKS MAKES YOUR MIND FALL ASLEEP AT TIME, WATCH FOR THE SYNCHRONICITIES IN ACTION AND YOU WILL BE A FIRM BELIEVER AND A LIFE CHANGER.
This book and the guidance has given me new hope with conquering my bad habit of diet soda daily. It has been around three days since I had diet soda but it a start for the better. Over 30 Years daily drinking the Aspartame poison, the Synchronicity (the spirits calling card) came to truly save me and help me out. THERE IS MANY MORE WONDERFUL (ALSO BAD) SYNCHRONICITY STORIES I CAN SHARE BUT I KEEP IT WITH THE STORY I GAVE ABOVE.
As my review in this book, I think Dr. Schwartz put to much faith on Spirit Healers, Mediums and Spirit Communicators. Even he open is very skeptical and knows about the wide spread fraud out there.
Since Dr. Schwartz is a member of the Consciousness and Health laboratory, I was hoping for him to share more studies and research at what exactly the control studies are saying inside the University of Arizona Laboratories, However he failed to mention any major breakthrough.
He composed the tests of test I, test II, Test III. Test I is outside of laboratory, what he is observing. Test II is same as Type I but with his co-worker are part of the test. Type III is official Laboratory results.
Many of his concepts are Point of Proof concepts. More proof is need to establish a Proof of Possibilities, Proof of Probability He did an amazing job at doing that
The two tests that look promising is the Silicon PhotonMultipler and Biophotot CCTV Plants Tests. During these test, some type of energy presence was notice.
I am firm believer that the Consciousness can live inside and outside our body when alive or dead. He mentioned life is all about the type of Frequencies we give off, I so agree. The higher Angel Sophia Angel has a higher frequencies that his friend Susy had a lower frequencies.
It appears that the higher Angels have higher frequencies and the spirits like us have a lower frequencies that can be observed in the laboratory.
There is some much write but I do not wanted to ruin the outcome.
EVEN IF THE BOOKS MAKES YOUR MIND FALL ASLEEP AT TIME, WATCH FOR THE SYNCHRONICITIES IN ACTION AND YOU WILL BE A FIRM BELIEVER AND A LIFE CHANGER.
December 10, 2014
I was unable to read this book. The opening introduction was defensive, self-justifying, name-dropping and pretentious. Regret buying it.
February 21, 2021
Another scientific review if the possibility of spirit. I say another as this is his specialty. I enjoy the books and read them in the hope of improving my faith in anything beyond this material world in which we live.
July 30, 2015
Before reading this book you should read Gary Schwartz's book "The Afterlife Experiments." That book is more at the personal level (trying to access if mediums are really getting messages from the departed) by performing straight monitored readings where there is no connection between the medium and the person being read. The "Sacred Promise" is Dr Schwartz's scientific journey on how he can prove the existence of the energies on the "other side." This makes this book harder to follow since it deals with advanced monitoring systems and a lot of personal experiences which can not be verified.
November 3, 2012
Excellent and informative!
October 29, 2014
somewhat DRY reading at times but over all and interesting read.
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