Randy Fauver - Consciousness-Based Medicine

_CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED MEDICINE: A TRANSFORMATIVE MODEL OF HEALTH CARE_What are the implications for health care if we accept converging evidence from modern physics and ancient wisdom traditions that consciousness is primary, preceding and giving rise to physical form? This talk presents a new model of medicine, which turns upside down the materialist assumptions of conventional care. We will address the limitations of conventional health care, explore evidence supporting the theoretical basis of a consciousness-based medicine, describe a relationship-based approach to diagnosis and treatment, consider the therapeutic value of recognizing people as multidimensional beings rather than as only physiological processes, and propose a seven level treatment protocol prioritizing consciousness-based interventions in which the valuable contributions of modern medicine are retained. Randy was invited to create and teach a course on this model of medicine at the California Institute for Human Science. The course is running now and has been made a part of core curriculum. DR. RANDY FAUVER is a professor and researcher at the California Institute of Integral Studies and John F. Kennedy University. After early work as a paramedic, he began practicing alternative healing modalities, becoming a massage therapist, energy healer, and spiritual healer. He opened an alternative healing center, which grew to have offices in three towns, each associated with a conventional medical center. More of his formative trainings include living in a Native American community in Colorado while serving as an apprentice to their spiritual leader, and training for the priesthood in a mystical Christian order. He returned to school as an adult and earned a double major B.S. from Bastyr University in Health Psychology and Spirituality, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Psychology. He has a certification in Mind Body Medicine from Harvard University with additional coursework and certifications in statistics, integrative medicine, and research methods and management from Stanford University. He has lectured and done NIH-funded research at Stanford University's School of Medicine, where he was founding director of the Integral Health research and education program, and is currently running a study on the possible influence of electromagnetic fields on psychic performance.