"No one I know or know about so truly deserves to be termed 'pioneer' in this movement," said Willis Harmon, late president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. "When I first met Dr Loomis in the late 1950s, he had just started Meadowlark, and his philosophy and practice of holism impressed me as applying not only to medicine, but to all of life.
Willis Harmon, the former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, claimed that no one truly fits the description of a 'pioneer' in this movement. When he first encountered Dr Loomis in the late 1950s, Loomis was just beginning Meadowlark and his holistic philosophy and practices were noteworthy for their broad applicability.