Michael Maliszewski is a clinical psychologist who has treated clients internationally in areas of pain management, holistic treatment interventions, and enhanced meditation techniques. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Chicago. He has held academic and research positions at the University of Chicago and Harvard Medical School, where in the mid-90s I was his research assistant, and an affiliation with Massachusetts General Hospital. While working in Chicago, he developed and directed the largest, single site behavioral medicine program in the world, treating over 20,000 headache patients annually. We discuss his early beginnings in the 70s with meditation, shaktipat initiation, vipassana vs mindfulness meditation, altered states of consciousness, and the varied stages of enlightenment.

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