By Celia Coates One definition of “to heal” is “to make whole.” The full account of the first healing – Shin-Ichiro Terayama’s recovery from advanced kidney cancer – is told in RADICAL REMISSION by Kelly A. Turner. Read Shin’s story in Chapter 2 and then go back to the first page – this really is…
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All Our Selves
By Mary Rentschler The theme of the Bernried Constellations Intensive that I attended this Spring was “Heimat und Fremde” – “Homeland and the Stranger.” It led us to look at all our different selves and to ask, “Who is our inner foreigner? Who is our inner terrorist? Our inner child? Inner saint? Real self?” It…
Mind, Body, and Real Healthcare
By Anoop Kumar, MD. Anoop Kumar is an emergency physician who is in love with life, people, and healing. He has written a book called MICHELANGELO’S MEDICINE because he would like us all to be involved with what he saw in the famous statue of David in Florence. There was a sense of presence and…
How To Recover From Too Much Screen Time
By Celia Coates Let’s begin with a story from Fred Hageneder: “As a teenager, a stupid but provocative remark upset me so much that, thinking I could bear life no longer, I set off on my bicycle in search of solitude. I sat down among the scattered birch trees of the wetlands, overwhelmed by despondency….
How Can You Learn to Visualize?
By Celia Coates Humans have known how to visualize for thousands of years. It’s a natural and useful ability. Paleolithic cave paintings in Lascaux provide evidence of all three of the basic reasons to use our minds in this way: * to evoke a desired outcome (a successful hunt) * to find a way to…
Research Into Healing
By Daniel Benor, M.D. I started out as a complete skeptic about healing. In medical school, I had learned of the vast natural curative capacities of the body, and of spontaneous waxings and wanings of diseases of the body which could account for many healings attributed to healers. In my undergraduate training in psychology and…
The Path of the Labyrinth
By JanMarie Sajna I went to the concert to listen to harp music. It was October 7, 2001. A woman billed as the Crystal Harpist was scheduled to perform at the church I was attending that year, All Souls Unitarian Universalist of Kansas City. Bored and finding retirement odd, I went – just for something…
Healing With Vogel Crystals
From Celia: Marcel Vogel was a great asset for IBM where he worked as a researcher from 1957 to 1984. He was a self-educated scientist who gained dozens of patents, one of them for the magnetic coating on the 24” hard disk drive systems that we still use today. During the ten years before he…
Edgar Mitchell On Balancing Reason and Intuition
By CeliaCoates Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s experience of viewing the Earth from space was so moving – and so different from anything he’d learned growing up in west Texas and New Mexico – that he became curious. He wanted to know how the brain could re-organize information to produce such a fantastic experience. After the Apollo…