Mark Robert Waldman

How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings by a Leading Neuroscientist, with Andrew Newberg (Ballantine, March 2009)

Born To Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs, with Andrew Newberg (Free Press, September 2007)

Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Quest for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth, co-authored with Andrew Newberg, MD (Free Press, September 2006)

The Art of Staying Together: Embracing Love, Intimacy and Spirit in Relationships (Tarcher/Putnam, 1998)

Dreamscaping: Creative Ways to Work  with Your Dreams, with Dr. Stanley Krippner (McGraw-Hill/Lowell House, 1999)

Love Games: Deepening Communication and Resolving Marital Conflicts. (Tarcher/Putnam, 2000)

The Spirit of Writing: Classic and Contemporary Essays Celebrating the Writing Life  (Tarcher/Putnam, 2001)

Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious: Reflecting  American Culture Through Literature and Art; four volumes:  Lover, Seeker, Shadow and Healer (Tarcher/Putnam, April 2003)

Published Articles   (professional publications, anthologies and literary journals, partial list of 42 essays and articles) 

"Development of a Mindfulness-Based Dialogue Practice: Preliminary Data on the Effects of Compassionate Communication on Intimacy in a Workshop Setting," (M Waldman, ANewberg, Stephanie Newberg). In review. 2009

"Religious Experience: Psychology and Neurology." (Roggenkamp H, Waldman MR, and Newberg AB) In: William P. Banks, (Ed), Encyclopedia of Consciousness. Volume 2, pp. 273-287. Oxford: Elsevier, 2009

“Cerebral Blood Flow Effects in Long Term Meditators,” (with Newberg, et al). Journal of Nuclear Medicine 48: 111P, 2007

“Measurement of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow during Glossolalia: A Preliminary SPECT Study,” (with Newberg, et.al).  Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, 2006

“Science, Psychology, & Medicine: Integrating East and West,” (with Dr. J.Nelson). Alternative Journal of Nursing, August 2004

“Looking at Indians Through White-Tainted Eyes,” Preface to Hozho: Walking in Beauty, by Paula Gunn-Allen, 2001

“Chicken Soup: The Making of a Jewish Joke,” in Dancing on the Edge of the World, by Miriyam Glazer, 1999 

“A World of Dreamers: Reviews and Commentaries.” Association for Transpersonal Psychology Newsletter, Summer 1997

“Understanding Transpersonal Psychology.” Transpersonale Psychologie und Psychotherapie, Spring 1996 (Germany)

“Spirituality and Business: Preliminary Comments and Reviews." (with R. Jue), Association for Transpersonal Psychology Newsletter, Summer 1993

“The Case of Julia: Kundalini or Psychosis?” Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 24(2), 1992

“Integrating Buddhism with Psychotherapy." Mindstream, 2(1), 1992

“War Diary: Meditations on Violence and the Enemy Within." Anima (a feminist literary journal), 18(1), 1991

“Reflections on Death." Journal of Transpersonal Psychology 22(2), 1990

Conference and Speaker Presentations (partial list of 60 lectures, seminars, and workshops)

“Consciousness, Spirituality, and the Brain:” Mind Science Foundation Distinguished Speakers Series, San Antonio, TX, April 2010.

"Spirituality and the Brain:”  Church lecture/workshop series (Methodist, Episcopalian, Lutheren, Unitarian, Unity, Center for Spiritual Living, etc.) 2007-2010.

"Neuropsychology, Meditation, Communication, and Emotions:"  Nonprofit/public-service lecture series (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, psychotherapy associations,  hospital administrations, etc.) 2007-2010. 

"Compassionate Communication, Mindfulness, and the Precuneus," UCLA Speaker Series, sponsored by Mindful Awareness Research Center (MARC), Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), Center for Neurobiology of Stress (CNS), and the Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine (CCIM). September 2008.

"Meditation, Communication, and the Neuroscience of Compassion," UCLA Harbor Hospital Grand Rounds Lecture, March 2008.

"Spirituality and the Brain," Moorpark College Faculty Lecture Series, Year of Science and Religion, March 2007. 

“Intentional Communication and the Brain,” Intentional Living Conference, Los Angeles, April 2005.

“The Neural and Spiritual Transformation of Personality,” Keynote Lecture, Imagery International Association Conference, 2002.

"Advice to Writers, Young and Old,” Esalen Institute, Summer 2001 (Resident Teacher to Esalen Staff, Sept. 2001).

"The World of Publishing,” Speaker and Program leader for Willamette Writers Conference 2000, 2001.

“Spiritual Issues in Psychotherapy - A Jungian Perspective,” Los Angeles County Psychological Assn. 1995 Conference.

"Prozac: Changing Society, Changing Consciousness," Los Angeles County Psychological Assn. 1994 Conference.

"An Introduction to Transpersonal Psychology," Pepperdine University, School of Psychology (lectures, 1992-1995).

"Transpersonal Perspectives in Psychotherapy," Los Angeles County Psychological Assn. 1993, 1992, and 1991 Conferences.

Education, Supervision and Administrative Positions

Associate Fellow: Center for Spirituality and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania, 2006-present

Adjunct Faculty: Executive MBA Program, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 2009-present

Advisory Panel: Alternative Journal of Nursing, 2003-2008

Chair: Los Angeles Transpersonal Interest Group, 1990-98

Regional Coordinator: Spiritual Emergence Network, 1995-99

Director: Heartline Psychological Information and Referral Service, 1986-94

Member: Association for Transpersonal Psychology 1989-2000

Member: American Counseling Association 1992-2000

Faculty and Board Member: Stillpoint Foundation for Transpersonal Studies, 1992-93

Psychoanalytic Supervisory Study Group: Bruno Bettelheim, 1988-90

Group Supervision: Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute: 1989-90

Society for Evolving the Self-Matrix (training 1980-1987; ministerial credential 1987; board of directors 1985-1989)

Director: Centering Association (a nonprofit organization sponsoring alternative therapy and classes, 1977-1982)

University of California, Santa Cruz, B.A., 1973

Editorial Positions

Developmental Editor: Tarcher/Putnam, 1995-2002.

Developmental Editor: Lowell House/Roxbury Park, 1998-2000; founding editor of “New Visions” series.

Founding Editor: Transpersonal Review, 1994-96 (Literary review journal in psychology, religion, & medicine).

Senior Research Editor: Alternative Medicine, 1993-94 (encyclopedic reference book, Burton Goldberg Group).

Founding Editor: Special Reports: Transpersonal Perspectives in Psychology, 1989-93.