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Chapter Nine
Minding the Body:
Significant Mind-Body Experiments |
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Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.
Dr. Robert Sapolsky Professor of Biology, Stanford University |
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Let knowledge grow from more to more,
Yet more of reverence in us dwell;
That mind and soul, according well,
May make one music as before. . . .
Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
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Throughout history, from the earliest of times, communities of people have recognized certain individuals in their midst who possessed a special gift of healing. In ancient Egypt, healers became revered advisors to the Pharaohs; in other cultures, they became founders of the world's great religions. Gautama Buddha, Jesus of Nazareth, and the prophet Muhammed were all known to be gifted healers.
1 The Hebrew prophets Elijah, Elisha, and Isaiah were acknowledged as healers as early as six or seven hundred years before Christ, and it is told that Moses healed many in Israel from serpent bites before that.2 The first generations of Christians functioned primarily as a healing community.3 Throughout Africa, Asia, and the Americas, tribal peoples have held their medicine men and healing shamans in highest esteem. As we look back in history, we see that the progression of thought in the Western world has not incorporated the broad range of knowledge, |
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