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10 Things About Healing Medical Schools Don’t Teach Doctors—But Should
I graduated from medical school in 1995, but it wasn’t until 2009, two years after I had quit my job as an OB/GYN and left the hospital to study mind-body medicine, psychoneuroimmunology, the placebo effect, shamanism, energy healing, and cutting edge trauma...
To Inner Children Everywhere On This First Day of 2020
First and foremost, you are loved and you are valuable. You are never broken or worthless, even when you make the inevitable blunders children are supposed to make while they're learning to be human. Your feelings are valid and you deserve to feel all of them—the joy,...
Sacred Reciprocity: The Indigenous Spiritual Principle of Giving & Receiving
As I referred to in my blog about Sacred Medicine in Thailand, the practice of making offerings as part of any healing journey seems to be a large part of every spiritual tradition. In Thailand, offerings come in two forms. At 6 a.m. every morning, “householders” make...
What I Learned In Thailand About Sacred Medicine
After seven years of researching my book Sacred Medicine, I’m spending the month of December in Thailand as the last pilgrimage of my nearly decade long exploration of the intersection of consciousness, science, and healing. I still have more time here, but so far,...
Is “Spontaneous” Healing A Miracle, Magic, Synchronicity, or Self Control?
During my seven year study of spiritual healing in preparation for researching and finally writing my book Sacred Medicine: A Doctor’s Quest To Unravel The Mysteries of Miraculous Healing, I had long pondered the way the hundreds of people I have interviewed talk...
5 Miracles To Open Your Mind & Heart To What’s Possible
We get so encrusted with our mental concepts of what’s possible and what’s not that when the “impossible” happens, we can have all kinds of emotions that range from fear to awe to confusion to bewilderment to gratitude to anger. Most of us don’t like having our world...