Beverly Rubik was born in Chicago and graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology with a B.S. in chemistry, summa cum laude. She earned her Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of California at Berkeley in l979 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She conducted postdoctoral research and supervised graduate student research at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory while she also served as a faculty member at San Francisco State University from 1979 to 1988.
In l988 she relocated to Philadelphia to become founding director of the Center for Frontier Sciences at Temple University. The Center facilitated global information exchange, networking, and education on frontier issues of science and medicine. These included novel ideas and discoveries that go beyond the dominant scientific paradigm of mechanistic materialism. Two important foci of the Center were alternative/complementary medicine and the matter-mind-spirit interrelationship. The Center was the first of its kind in the world linked to a major university and has spawned sister centers at the University of Guadalajara, Mexico and the University of Milano, Italy. A journal, Frontier Perspectives, was founded in 1990 by Beverly Rubik and was published and distributed semi-annually to over 3,500 affiliates of the Center in 58 countries.
Unfortunately, the academic environment in the mid-90s has not been conducive to exploring the links between science, medicine, and spirit in a highly visible manner. In late 1995 Dr. Rubik left Temple University to continue her work as an independent scholar and consultant and founded the Institute for Frontier Science, a nonprofit corporation. She is presently writing a book on the frontiers of science and medicine.
Beverly Rubik's interests lie beyond conventional science in frontier areas of science not yet mainstream. She has published research papers and some popular articles on topics including subtle energy and energy medicine, healers and other complementary medical interventions, and on the history and philosophy of discoveries in science and medicine. Books edited by Dr. Rubik include The Interrelationship between Mind and Matter (1992) which addresses aspects of mind-body medicine and other topics, and Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons (1995), a National Institutes of Health (NIH) report published by the U.S. Government Printing Office, for which she served on the 11-member editorial board and was a contributing author to 2 chapters. She was also technical editor for The Heart of Healing (1993), a popular book on the powers of mind and spirit in healing published by Turner Publishing Co. as the companion volume to the TBS television series. A popular lecturer, she has presented many invited lectures and workshops to a variety of audiences nationally and internationally. Two of her most recent invited lectures are (1) new developments in energy medicine at a Dec. 1995 San Francisco conference hosted by the International Inst. of Research on the topic of integrating alternative medicine in managed health care; (2) how the emerging scientific world view might affect the future health care industry at an Oct. 1995 meeting of the World Business Academy at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.
From 1992 to 1994, Dr. Rubik served as a member of the Advisory Panel to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Alternative Medicine and was Panel Chair on Bioelectromagnetics. She presently serves on the editorial board of several journals, including the Alternative Health Practitioner; Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine; and the Journal of Complementary Therapies in Medicine (UK). She is a member of the advisory board of the Journal of Subtle Energies and the European Journal of Classical Homeopathy. She is also an advisory board member to the John Templeton Foundation, the Society for Scientific Exploration (a professional scientific society), among several other organizations. She is listed in Who's Who in Science and Theology and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. She has served the MacArthur Foundation as a nominator of fellows. Her membership in several professional societies reflect her breadth of training and diverse, interdisciplinary interests.
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Lisa Jobs, B.A., M.J., author of Sensational Stevia Desserts (9/05) is President of Healthy Lifestyle Publishing LLC. She operated her own stevia business, @Stevia LLC (purveyors of fine stevia products and books) for 10 years. During her tenure, she developed a unique stevia packet blend under her company name. At the same time, she created hundreds of stevia dessert recipes for her family’s better health, the best of which are collected in Sensational Stevia Desserts. In addition to currently working on a second book, Jobs is a contributing author in an upcoming book entitled 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Health with Dr. Joseph Mercola, Gary Craig, and et.al. Lisa’s been interviewed by radio and television stations, newspapers, health magazines and online health-related websites.
Wendy Strgar is the owner and founder of Good Clean Love, manufacturer of all natural love and intimacy products. Wendy is a sex educator focusing on Making Love Sustainable, a green philosophy of relationships which teaches the importance of valuing the renewable resources of love and family. She has learned that physical intimacy is an important component of sustaining healthy loving relationships through her own marriage of over 23 years.
Wendy has studied natural health care and has used homeopathic remedies, aromatherapy and energy healing techniques with her four children, family and friends for the last 20 years. She formulated her Good Clean Fun products to meet a personal need for healthy lubrication products after the births of her 3rd and 4th child. She researches and advises on a range of healthy products for enhanced intimacy and provides information on the negative health impacts of many of the petrochemical ingredients found in common over the counter intimacy products.
She believes that healing the sexual relationship in her own relationship has transformed her marriage and her life. Medical studies confirm that an active sex life leads to a longer and happier life: Benefits include stronger immune response, better heart health, reduction in chronic pain and lower incidence of depression.
She studies physical intimacy across history and cultures. Her educational efforts are aimed at creating a culture which allows for normal, healthy sexual drive and exploration to flourish. Physical love is the glue that holds relationships together. Opening to and experiencing intimacy and sexuality carries a potential of loving transformation to your relationship.
Wendy has a Masters degree in Organizational Development and Training and has taught personal development/career workshops for many years. She spent years in education reform and was a founder of two alternative educational charter schools. Most recently, the project to start the first publicly funded Children’s Peace Academy in Oregon inspired her to start a for profit business to fund the work of teaching peace to children.
Wendy lives in Eugene Oregon with her husband, a psychiatrist, and their four children ages 8-17.
Martin Sussman, president and founder of the Cambridge Institute for Better Vision and developer of the world's #1 Best-selling Program for Better Vision, is also co-author of Total Health at the Computer. Mr. Sussman is a firm believer that different vision problems require different solutions. You can see everything he believes is helpful to the eyes by visiting www.bettervision.com
Richard Miller's teachings come out of his direct experience of living truth as echoed in the timeless teachings of nondualism found in Advaita, Zen and Chan. He is recognized as a leader in the field of nondualism, honored by Yoga Journal and featured in American Yoga and Will Yoga and Meditation Really Change My Life?
Richard is the founder and director of the non-profit Center of Timeless Being, co-founder and co-president of the Institute for Spirituality and Psychology, and co-founder of The International Association of Yoga Therapy.
Richard is the author of Yoga Nidra: The Meditative Heart of Yoga as well as numerous articles including "Welcoming All That Is", in The Sacred Mirror: Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy. Richard's website is www.nondual.com.
(December 20, 1914-January 10, 1995)
A pioneer in humanistic psychology and the originator of Trust Level theory, Jack Gibb's distinguished career as a psychologist and consultant spanned five decades. Often referred to as the grandfather of organizational development, he applied TORI theory to all forms of organizations, from corporations and governments to schools, churches, and hospitals. He was the original proponent of the importance of trust in team dynamics and organizational behavior, and the effect of trust on creativity.
He was an early innovator at the renowned National Training Laboratories in Bethel, Maine, where behavioral scientists performed the pioneering work in team dynamics, communication, sensitivity training, and leadership training in the 1940's and 1950's. Jack was one of the first and most highly regarded T-Group (training group) leaders at NTL, served as Director of Research, and co-authored two books with the three NTL founders: T-Group Theory and Laboratory Method and The Laboratory Method of Changing and Learning. His seminal book was Trust: A New Vision of Human Relationships for Business, Education, Family, and Personal Living.
An internationally acclaimed consultant, Jack consulted for IBM, AT&T, General Motors, Dow, DuPont, the State Department, the IRS, TVA, YMCA, and the National Council of Churches. He held a doctorate in psychology from Stanford and has taught at Brigham Young, Michigan State, and the University of Colorado, where he also directed the Group Process Laboratory.
Jack is past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, a diplomate of the American Board of Professional Psychology, and a fellow of the APA, ASA, the NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Sciences, and of the International Association of Applied Social Sciences.
He contributed chapters to 26 professional books on management, organizational development, group dynamics, human potential, communication, and education, and over 350 articles to professional journals on those subjects and on learning theory, therapy, and counseling. His classic article "Defensive Communication," written in 1960, continues to be the standard in the field. Over one million copies of the article have been distributed to staff of various corporations.
Jack received numerous international awards for his contributions to the fields of psychology, education, communications, organizational development, and world peace. His work focused on capturing and translating a new vision of a more trusting world.
