Altered States and Healing
· 6:30 PM
Patrice Keane · Executive Director, ASPR
ASPR Library · 475 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10115
People with different ways of life often share certain healing practices. Ritual and belief play an important role in both traditional and non-traditional medicine. In this presentation, Patrice Keane examines rituals that are used to induce altered states which may be considered conducive to healing.
She discusses how research in parapsychology, psychoneuroimmunology, psychosomatic medicine, and energy medicine may offer us some understanding of the possible mechanisms of healing.
About the speaker
Patrice Keane, Executive Director of the ASPR, is interested in healing research and practices from a variety of scientific disciplines and perspectives. She was formerly a research associate at Maimonides Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Division of Parapsychology and Psychophysics, where she conducted experiments investigating the physiological concomitants of altered states and ESP. She did research at New York University’s Research Center for Mental Health and at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, in NYC, with schizophrenic patients. She became interested in Dr. Bernard Grad’s healing research while conducting physiological research at NYU. In recent years she has been investigating healing practices among indigenous peoples in Australia, the Caribbean, Indonesia, South America, Africa, and India.