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Dr. Stacy L. Gomes, EdD, MEd, is Provost at the California Institute for Human Science. Prior to joining CIHS, she served as Vice President of Academic Affairs at Pacific College of Health Sciences.
Dr. Gomes is also the co-author, with Leena S. Guptha, DO, MBA, PhD, of Who’s on Your Board: Six Steps to Curating Your Personal Board of Directors, a book about intentionally identifying and cultivating the mentors, advisors, supporters, and truth-tellers who help guide personal and professional growth.
In this conversation, Dr. Gomes discusses higher education, integrative health, online learning, student success, artificial intelligence, mentorship, and the importance of consciously choosing who influences our lives.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:07:10 Alternative medicine under the microscope
00:09:54 Ensuring students get what they paid for
00:12:37 Teaching acupuncture and skill-based applied topics online
00:15:15 Advice for teachers: be clear about what you are teaching
00:23:31 Higher education is not for everyone
00:34:33 Mentoring the next generation of leaders
00:55:51 Why students are struggling to write
00:57:16 When AI can write better and faster than accomplished authors
01:23:10 Who is on your personal board?
Dr. Debra Lynne Katz is the founder and director of the International School of Clairvoyance, where she has trained students in clairvoyance, remote viewing, intuitive development, and energy healing since 2005.
Dr. Katz is the author of several books, including You Are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading and Healing, Extraordinary Psychic, The Complete Clairvoyant, Freeing the Genie Within, and Associative Remote Viewing: The Art & Science of Predicting Outcomes for Sports, Financials, Elections, and the Lottery. She is a former President of the International Remote Viewing Association. She has also served as an instructor at the California Institute for Human Science.
For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.
Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.
To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com
Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove.
If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.
To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.
You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)
To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to amzn.to/4aw2iyr
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Dr. Stacy L. Gomes, EdD, MEd, is Provost at the California Institute for Human Science. Prior to joining CIHS, she served as Vice President of Academic Affairs at Pacific College of Health Sciences.
Dr. Gomes is also the co-author, with Leena S. Guptha, DO, MBA, PhD, of Who’s on Your Board: Six Steps to Curating Your Personal Board of Directors, a book about intentionally identifying and cultivating the mentors, advisors, supporters, and truth-tellers who help guide personal and professional growth.
In this conversation, Dr. Gomes discusses higher education, integrative health, online learning, student success, artificial intelligence, mentorship, and the importance of consciously choosing who influences our lives.
00:00:00 Introduction
00:07:10 Alternative medicine under the microscope
00:09:54 Ensuring students get what they paid for
00:12:37 Teaching acupuncture and skill-based applied topics online
00:15:15 Advice for teachers: be clear about what you are teaching
00:23:31 Higher education is not for everyone
00:34:33 Mentoring the next generation of leaders
00:55:51 Why students are struggling to write
00:57:16 When AI can write better and faster than accomplished authors
01:23:10 Who is on your personal board?
Dr. Debra Lynne Katz is the founder and director of the International School of Clairvoyance, where she has trained students in clairvoyance, remote viewing, intuitive development, and energy healing since 2005.
Dr. Katz is the author of several books, including You Are Psychic: The Art of Clairvoyant Reading and Healing, Extraordinary Psychic, The Complete Clairvoyant, Freeing the Genie Within, and Associative Remote Viewing: The Art & Science of Predicting Outcomes for Sports, Financials, Elections, and the Lottery. She is a former President of the International Remote Viewing Association. She has also served as an instructor at the California Institute for Human Science.
For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.
Check out the New Thinking Allowed Foundation website at http://www.newthinkingallowed.org. There you will find our incredible, searchable database as well as opportunities to shop and to support our video productions – plus, this is where people can subscribe to our FREE, weekly Newsletter and can download a FREE .pdf copy of our quarterly magazine.
To order high-quality, printed copies of our quarterly magazine: NTA-Magazine.MagCloud.com
Check out New Thinking Allowed's AI chatbot. You can create a free account at awakin.ai/open/jeffreymishlove. When you enter the space, you will see that our chatbot is one of several you can interact with. While it is still a work in progress, it has been trained on 1,600 NTA transcripts. It can provide intelligent answers about the contents of our interviews. It's almost like having a conversation with Jeffrey Mishlove.
If you would like to join our team of volunteers, helping to promote the New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel on social media, editing and translating videos, creating short video trailers based on our interviews, helping to upgrade our website, or contributing in other ways (we may not even have thought of), please send an email to friends@newthinkingallowed.com.
To download and listen to audio versions of the New Thinking Allowed videos, please visit our new podcast at itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/new-thinking-allowed-audio-podcast/id1435178031.
Download and read Jeffrey Mishlove's Grand Prize essay in the Bigelow Institute competition, Beyond the Brain: The Survival of Human Consciousness After Permanent Bodily Death, go to bigelowinstitute.org/docs/1st.pdf.
You can help support our video productions while enjoying a good book. To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: Is There Life After Death? click on amzn.to/3LzLA7Y (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)
To order the second book in the New Thinking Allowed Dialogues series, Russell Targ: Ninety Years of ESP, Remote Viewing, and Timeless Awareness, go to amzn.to/4aw2iyr
To order a copy of New Thinking Allowed Dialogues: UFOs and UAP – Are We Really Alone?, go to amzn.to/3Y0VOVh
To order a copy of Charles T. Tart: Seventy Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology, go to amzn.to/4oOUJLn
