Kingston, NY (1888PressRelease)
May 01, 2009 - Stephen Larsen, PhD, award-winning author and Psychology Professor Emeritus from SUNY Ulster, New York, will be interviewed by Michael Jon Kell, MD, PhD, on the Mind, Brain, Body program Friday, May 1, 2009, 8-9 am PT, 11 am-12 noon ET, live on the Internet at mindbrainbody.com and on Voice America Health and Wellness network. They will discuss some of the ideas put forth in Larsen’s latest book The Fundamentalist Mind: How Polarized Thinking Imperils Us All (Quest Books) which won Foreword Magazine’s Best of the Year Award.
In the discussion, Dr. Larsen will provide a glimpse into the psychology, neurology and mythology of fundamentalism and its pervasive and destructive patterns of thought. His investigations conclude that when human beings recognize these patterns in themselves, they can free themselves for a new beginning.
When Dr. Larsen was on the faculty at Ulster, 1968-1996, he directed a program in consciousness studies and biofeedback that gave students a hands-on opportunity to train themselves and to research the health benefits of biofeedback. In 1990 he opened Stone Mountain Counseling, PC, for psychotherapy, biofeedback and training where he continues to serve as its director.
Radio host Dr. Michael Jon Kell is a medical scientist, psychiatrist, inventor, engineer, narrative poet and “free-thinker”. He has conducted scientific research on a diverse number of subjects - quantum physics, polymer chemistry, artificial kidneys, drug addiction, pain management, longevity medicine, and herbal medicine, to name a few. He holds 11 U.S. patents for his discoveries, and is the author of ten books and over 50 scientific publications. He is also the founding Director of the Institute for Conscious Evolution and Human Development, an esoteric mystery school, which provides dogma-free instruction on “how one can become a cosmically significant individual capable of laboring for the betterment of all life and mind.” Dr. Kell’s web site is mindbrainbody.com.
In addition to The Fundamentalist Mind, Dr. Larsen wrote the widely acclaimed The Healing Power of Neurofeedback: The Revolutionary LENS Method for Restoring Optimal Brain Function (2006). He has also written The Shaman’s Doorway, the Mythic Imagination and with his wife Robin Larsen he co-authored, A Fire in the Mind: The Life of Joseph Campbell. Larsen was a Joseph Campbell friend and protégé.
More information on Dr. Stephen Larsen and the book The Fundamentalist Mind can be found at stonemountaincenter.com.
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