Daniel Ingram

Daniel Ingram, MD, MSPH, is the CEO and Board Chair of Emergence Benefactors that supports the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium. He was an emergency medicine physician for 12 years, primarily at major trauma centers. Daniel is author of Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book and coauthor of The Fire Kasina with Shannon Stein. The Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium’s website is theeprc.org.

Daniel describes that by having high quality data that finds the overlapping perspectives in science, spirituality, religion, clinical medicine, and mental health, of what many might call “spiritual”, “mystical”, and “energetic” experiences – referred to as emergent phenomena by the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium – there can be more beneficial outcomes for people.

00:00:00 Introduction

00:06:36 Defining emergent phenomena

00:09:00 Clinical understanding of emergent phenomena

00:14:46 What is emerging?

00:19:57 Spiritual exemption criteria in DSM

00:25:48 Ontological neutrality

00:41:36 History of pathologizing

00:53:24 High quality comparative trials

01:05:15 Evaluating emergent phenomena

01:17:52 Conclusion

New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is an intuitive healer and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com/

(Recorded on January 13, 2023)

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Published on February 13, 2023