Marilyn Schlitz

Marilyn Jean Schlitz, Ph.D. (born August 7, 1957) is an anthropologist, research scientist, and writer on the subjects of consciousness, healing, and mind-body interventions. She was President and CEO of the Institute of Noetic Sciences from 2009 to 2012.
Early life and education
Schlitz grew up in Detroit, Michigan and received a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from Wayne State University (1979), a Master's degree in anthropology at the University of Texas at San Antonio (1986), and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin (1992).
Career
She was a research associate at Cognitive Sciences Laboratory at Science Applications International Corporation from 1993-1994. She completed a post doctoral fellowship at Stanford University in 1994, and, as part of her postdoc, lectured at Stanford University in 1993-1994.
She has an interest in mind body health, worldview literacy, cultural competencies, consciousness studies and remote viewing and similar ESP-themes.
Schlitz has published articles on consciousness studies in both scholarly and popular journals.
She is co-editor of Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine (Churchill Livingston/Elsevier, 2005) and co-author of Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life (New Harbinger/Noetic, 2008). She is the Executive Producer, with Deepak Chopra, of a documentary film entitled Death Makes Life Possible, 2014.
Schlitz has been a board member of the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California since September 2013.
She is a senior scientist at California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco. She co-founded the defunct Integral Health Professional Network and the defunct . Schlitz founded Worldview Enterprises, LLC in August 2013. She is a contributing faculty member of Saybrook Graduate Institute. She also serves as Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she worked for 21 years.
Personal
She now calls herself Marilyn Mandala Schlitz. Schiltz lives with her husband Giovanni Mandala and son Skyler in Petaluma, California.

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