Ryan Castle is the founder and director of ISHAR (pronounced "eye-shar") Online, the largest private database of Integrative Studies in the world and a Chopra Foundation Initiative. ISHAR hosts the collaborative Integrative Scholar's Hub, detailed statistics on dozens of major topics, and tens of thousands of peer-reviewed studies on everything from Ayurvedic medicine to consciousness theories.
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