About Me
Biosketch:
Marjorie Hines Woollacott, PhD, has been a neuroscience professor at the University of Oregon for more than three decades and a meditator for almost four. She also has a Masters degree in Asian Studies. She is the President of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS) and the Research Director of the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS)
Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation; and includes both research in neuroscience and testing the efficacy of alternative forms of therapy such as tai chi and meditation for improving both attention and balance in adults. In addition she has research publications in the areas of Near-Death Experiences, Spiritually Transformative Experiences and After-Death Communication.
She has coauthored a popular textbook for health professionals and has written more than 200 peer-reviewed research articles.—several of which were on meditation, the topic that motivated her to write her latest book,Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind.
She has been the keynote speaker at conferences in the North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia, and has taught courses not only in neuroscience and rehabilitation medicine, but in meditation, hatha yoga and alternative and complementary medicine.