Exploring the Science and Stories of Energy Healing
Join us as we investigate the incredible science and moving stories of energy healing, long at the margins of modern medicine, but increasingly showing promise for everything from chronic pain to cancer, and beyond.
Podcast Episode #1 premieres May 12
The stories are impossible to ignore. Science is now catching up.
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Real research. Real outcomes.
- Â Ep. 1: The Healer in the Lab | Studying Energy Healing and Cancer at MD Anderson
- Â Ep. 2: Reiki versus Fakey | A Clinical Trial on Chronic Pain with Harvard and the University of Utah
- Â Ep. 3: Healing as a Way of Life | Qigong, Meridians, and the Science of Qi at Harvard
- Â Ep. 4: Where Trauma Lives | Energy Healing, PTSD, and the Promise of Whole Person Care
- Â Ep. 5: There's Something Between Us | The Science of the Healer-Patient Bond at Harvard
- Â Ep. 6: Not a Machine but a Flame | The Biology of Energy at Columbia and Beyond
The evidence is accumulating. The stories are extraordinary.
Energy healing has long been dismissed as unstudied and unproven—until now.
In Episode 1, we explore the work at MD Anderson Cancer Center—one of the largest and most respected cancer research institutions in the world—where something remarkable is happening in the laboratory.
Scientists are bringing energy healers into controlled experiments to measure what happens to pancreatic cancer cells when a biofield therapist (another term for energy healer) goes to work. What they’re finding is measurable, repeatable, and difficult to explain: biofield therapy slows the ability of cancer to spread. Not in one study. In multiple, with multiple healers, multiple cell lines, and rigorous controls.
About Your Hosts
Ivy Ross has held a range of executive positions, from head of product design and development to CMO and president, at companies including Mattel and Gap. Ross co-authored the New York Times bestselling book Your Brain on Art.
Her honors include a National Endowment for the Arts grant, the Women in Design Award, and the Diamond International Award. An accomplished artist, Ross has created jewelry that uses metals in innovative ways; her work is held in the permanent collections of twelve international museums. While creating products and brands in the material world, Ross has simultaneously studied the undeniable power of the invisible. This led her to studying sound, vibration, BioGeometry, Reiki and energy medicine. She believes in the combination of art and science to bring great ideas to life.
Meredith Sprengel is currently Research and Program Director for the Subtle Energy Funders Collective & PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University.Â
She brings more than fifteen years of experience in integrative and complementary medicine research across foundations, universities, and research institutions. She currently serves as the Research and Program Director for the Subtle Energy Funders Collective and as the Fellowship Director for the Biofield Fellowship Research Program. She is pursuing her PhD at Leiden University in the PRSM Lab where she studies energy healing dyads and the psychological, interpersonal, and contextual factors that shape healing experiences.
Does energy healing really work?
If so—how does it work?
And where does evidence end and belief begin?
This podcast doesn’t assume answers. It follows them.
Because if the research holds, the next frontier of healing may not be new at all.
Join us as we investigate the phenomena hiding in plain sight.
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