Prof Lisa Miller The Awakened Brain and the New Science of Spirituality

Prof Lisa Miller – The Awakened Brain and the New Science of Spirituality


Why is the perceptual stance of awakened awareness transformative for mental health and ethics?

 

Currently our post-industrial global culture faces an epidemic of the diseases of depression (addiction, depression and suicide). The ascension of the epidemic is statistically related to a decline in the personal spiritual life and family faith observance. Over 20 years of peer reviewed science reveals that: 1) Humans are innate spiritual beings with a “neural docking station” for spiritual awareness, and 2) humans realize our fuller nature when we strengthen this innate spiritual capacity, leading to broad and robust protective benefits against the diseases of despair, 3) formation and deepening of spiritual awareness may through the process of a developmental depression, and 4) spiritual awareness leads to a more inspired stance in life, a quest, that includes greater relational ethics to fellow humans and fellow living beings.  Discussion will include consideration that over the period of the pandemic, our global post-industrial culture has faced a mass developmental depression that now may be yielding into a Spiritual Renaissance.

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About the speaker:

 

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Lisa Miller, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and her new book, The Awakened Brain. Dr Miller a Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University where she founded the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology. Dr Miller has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

Dr Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. Dr Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military, businesses (including tech, finance, HR and sales), personal development, faith-based organizations, schools and universities, and for mental health and wellness initiatives. Find out more by visiting https://www.lisamillerphd.com/.


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Wed, 17 May 2023
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7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

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  • Date: Wed, 17 May 2023
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  • Lisa Miller
    Lisa Miller
    Professor of Clinical Psychology

    Lisa Miller, PhD is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and her new book, The Awakened Brain. Dr Miller a Professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College, Columbia University where she founded the Spirituality Mind Body Institute, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology. Dr Miller has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including Cerebral Cortex, The American Journal of Psychiatry, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

    Dr Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology, Martin Seligman, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. Dr Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military, businesses (including tech, finance, HR and sales), personal development, faith-based organizations, schools and universities, and for mental health and wellness initiatives.