Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D., M.A., is a social anthropologist, master teacher, and accomplished author. She has published 7 books, including Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life; Consciousness and Healing: Integral Approaches to Mind Body Medicine; Death Makes Life Possible and its companion film, as well as and hundreds of scholarly and popular articles. She is President Emeritus at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Professor at Sofia University, and Visiting Scholar at the University of California, San Diego. She is a highly regarded researchers who has pioneered work in the areas of consciousness, healing, and transformation. Working with a multi-disciplinary team, she developed a naturalistic model of transformation that has been applied to aging through this Alef Trust Certificate Programme on Grateful Aging (Schlitz, 2018).
