“It’s strange, how bypass surgery changes you. I’ve done many, but in the heart, it has a completely different meaning. You don’t see the heart; you don’t realize it’s getting sick. With a heart attack, everything stops and everything resets” says a patient at the end of his hospital stay.

“The disease helped me understand what is important in life…now I’m a new, better woman…” says Anna, a young lady returning home after hospitalization for bypass surgery.

Selene Calloni Williams is an Italian writer, teacher and researcher born in Milan in 1950. She graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Milan and subsequently obtained a master’s degree in Transpersonal Psychology at the Esalen Institute in California.

In the 70s she lived in India for a long time, where she studied Indian philosophy, yoga, and meditation. Later she deepened her knowledge of other spiritual traditions, including Tibetan Buddhism, Sufism and Kabbalah.

Selene Calloni Williams is the author of numerous books on spirituality, personal growth, and esotericism, many of which have been translated into various languages. Among her best-known books we can mention “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success” (1994), written in collaboration with Deepak Chopra.

Selene Calloni Williams is a leading figure in the panorama of Italian and international contemporary spirituality, and her work has inspired thousands of people around the world in search of a more conscious and meaningful life.

Daniel Lumera is a naturalist biologist, professor and international reference in the area of ​​well-being sciences, quality of life and the practice of meditation, which he studied and deepened with Anthony Elenjimittam, a direct disciple of Gandhi. He is the bestselling author of The cure for forgiveness (Mondadori, 2016), co-author of Twenty one days to be reborn (Mondadori, 2018) and The way of lightness (Mondadori, 2019) and, together with Immaculata De Vivo, of the trilogy dedicated to the “biology of values”: Biology of kindness (Mondadori, 2020), The lesson of the butterfly (Mondadori, 2021), Inner Ecology (Mondadori, 2022). He is the creator of the My Life Design® method, the conscious design of one’s personal, professional and social life, a methodology applied internationally in public and private companies, to the school, penitentiary, health system and in accompanying the dying. He is also the founder of the My Life Design Onlus Association which uses the method in projects with a high social impact, such as the International Day of Forgiveness, which in the last three editions has received the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic, and the Movimento Italia Gentile and the its international expression, the International Kindness Movement, aimed at promoting the values ​​of kindness, peace and cooperation on a global level.

Immaculata De Vivo is a scientist of Italian origin, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health. She is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of molecular epidemiology and cancer genetics. She is also a leading exponent in the study of telomeres: the biological clock of our body. Her studies, published by the most prestigious scientific journals, have been cited by various international newspapers including “The New York Times”, “Forbes” and CNN. With Daniel Lumera you wrote Biology of kindness (Mondadori, 2020).

Julian Jaynes (February 27, 1920 – November 21, 1997) was an American researcher in psychology at Yale and Princeton for nearly 25 years and best known for his 1976 book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind.

His career was dedicated to the problem of consciousness, “…the difference between what others see of us and our sense of our inner selves and the deep feelings that sustain it. Men have been conscious of the problem of consciousness almost since consciousness began.”: 2  Jaynes’ solution touches on many disciplines, including neuroscience, linguistics, psychology, archeology, history, religion and analysis of ancient texts.

Norman Anderson was born on October 16, 1955, in Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating from North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., Anderson earned master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

He received additional clinical and research training at the schools of medicine at Brown and Duke Universities, including postdoctoral fellowships in psychophysiology and aging at Duke.

Anderson also received training in Mindfulness Facilitation from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, University of California at Los Angeles. In addition, Anderson is trained as a Certified Executive and Professional Coach through the College of Executive Coaching.

In 1998, Anderson was elected president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine, becoming the first African-American to hold the position.

He was the founding associate director of the National Institutes of Health , where he was in charge of social and behavioral science, and was the first director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.

While at NIH, Anderson facilitated behavioral and social sciences research across all of its Institutes and Centers.

Research in the behavioral and social research was under his purview in areas such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, children’s health, mental health, minority health, aging, and oral health. His special focus at NIH was in sociocultural determinants of health, and in advancing an integrated, trans-disciplinary, bio-psycho-social approach to health science, health promotion, prevention, and health care.

Anderson was also a tenured associate professor of medical psychology and of psychology at Duke University and as a professor of health and social behavior at the Harvard School of Public Health.

In 2012, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine), which is part of the National Academy of Sciences.

He has published dozens of scientific articles and authored and edited several books. He served as editor-in-chief of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior (2003) and as co-editor of Interdisciplinary research: Case studies from health and social science (2008). For over 12 years he was editor-in-chief of American Psychologist, the APA’s flagship journal.

With his wife, P. Elizabeth Anderson, he wrote a health book for the general public, Emotional Longevity: What Really Determines How Long You Live, which was released in 2003.

Joe Dispenza D.C. he is a lecturer, researcher, business consultant, author of books translated into various languages ​​and distributed throughout the world, and an internationally renowned trainer.

As such he has been invited to speak in over thirty-two nations on five different continents. As a teacher and trainer, he is firmly convinced that in every individual there is an authentic potential of infinite capacities. With clarity, simplicity and inspiration, he has trained thousands of people on how to reprogram the mind and body in order to create permanent transformations.

As a New York Times best-selling author, Dr. Joe wrote “Evolve Your Brain” where he explains how brain circuits work and how, thanks to it, we can learn how it works and how to use the most powerful and versatile laptop in the universe; “Placebo Effect”, in which he explores the ability to heal without drugs or surgery, using only thought, and “Change the habit of being yourself”, where he talks in depth about neuroscience, transformation and epigenetics. In “Become Supernatural” he clarifies how ordinary people manage to do extraordinary things.

Dr. Capra says that physicists don’t need mysticism and that mystics don’t need physics, but humanity needs both. It is a message of timeless importance.

Fritjof Capra

(born February 1, 1939) is an Austrian-born American physicist, systems theorist and deep ecologist.[2] In 1995, he became a founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California. He is on the faculty of Schumacher College.

Capra is the author of several books, including The Tao of Physics (1975), The Turning Point (1982), Uncommon Wisdom (1988), The Web of Life (1996), The Hidden Connections (2002) and The Systems View of Life (2014).