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IVY ROSS

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.

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About the Phenomena Podcast

Phenomena is a documentary-style podcast series, hosted by artist and business innovator Ivy Ross, that investigates this and other quietly urgent questions at the intersection of modern medicine and ancient healing.

Join Ivy as she shares the latest research findings and the incredible, inspirational stories of energy healers and those who have found relief with them from conditions ranging from chronic pain, PTSD, even cancer. 

Together, we’ll explore answers to questions like what is energy healing? How does it work? And how do we separate hard facts from hopeful fictions? Because if the answers are what the research suggests, the next frontier of medicine may turn out to be something we've known in our bodies all along.

Meet Your Hosts

Ivy Ross 

 Ivy

 Ross 

 

 

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.

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Meredith Sprengel 

 Meredith

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Meredith Sprengel is currently Research and Program Director for the Subtle Energy Funders Collective & PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University. 

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Sounds True is a mission-driven learning and media company and a leader in wellbeing and spiritual development. Through partnerships with world-renowned teachers and authors, it reaches millions globally via programs, digital experiences, and events. Its platform, Sounds True One, serves a global community across 125+ countries. Sounds True is a Public Benefit Corporation and home to the Sounds True Foundation.

Meet Your Hosts

Ivy Ross 

 Ivy

 Ross 

 

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.

Full Bio

Meredith Sprengel 

 Meredith

 Sprengel

 

Meredith Sprengel is currently Research and Program Director for the Subtle Energy Funders Collective & PhD Candidate in Cognitive Psychology at Leiden University.                                                                                                                

Full Bio

Sounds True is a mission-driven learning and media company and a leader in wellbeing and spiritual development. Through partnerships with world-renowned teachers and authors, it reaches millions globally via programs, digital experiences, and events. Its platform, Sounds True One, serves a global community across 125+ countries. Sounds True is a Public Benefit Corporation and home to the Sounds True Foundation.

EPISODE ONE

“The Healer in the Lab | Studying Energy Healing and Cancer at MD Anderson”

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. 

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“SAMPLE TEXT | Studying Energy Healing and Cancer at MD Anderson”

At MD Anderson Cancer Center—one of the largest and most respected cancer research institutions in the world—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.

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Guests

DR. Leslie Morelli

Head of Awesome

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Augustus Pence

Healing Master

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DR. Emile Schaffhausen

Head of the Schaffhausen Institute

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John Lavack

Remote Energy Healer

 

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Lorenzo Cohen, PhD

Director of the Integrative Medicine Program

University of Texas

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Additional Research

Biofield Model
Biofield Intervention Study
Effects of Biofield Therapy on Pancreatic Cancer

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Coming soon

  •  Ep. 2: Reiki versus Fakey | A Clinical Trial on Chronic Pain with Harvard and the University of Utah
  •  Ep. 3: Healing as a Way of Life | Qigong, Meridians, and the Science of Qi at Harvard
  •  Ep. 4: Where Trauma Lives | Energy Healing, PTSD, and the Promise of Whole Person Care
  •  Ep. 5: There's Something Between Us | The Science of the Healer-Patient Bond at Harvard
  •  Ep. 6: Not a Machine but a Flame | The Biology of Energy at Columbia and Beyond

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Phenomena Healing was created by the non-profit Merraki Media and the  Subtle Energy Funders Collective to thoughtfully explore energy healing, using rigorous scientific inquiry, in an endeavor to help reduce suffering and promote wellbeing. "Merraki" is a Greek word that means “doing something purely for the love of it."

 

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