May 2, 2004
Tag: Volume 4, Number 2
Teaching Healing: A Serious Challenge
Our world can be perceived and experienced as matter or as energy. Einstein suggested this early in the 20th Century in his famous equation, E = mc2 and modern physics has amply confirmed this theory. Matter and energy are two sides of the same coin. Newtonian medicine focuses on the matter side of the equation
May 2, 2004
Let It Be a Dance: Words and One-Liners
Ric Masten is an unusual person in many ways. He is a rare combination of a poet with a big heart, wry humor, intellectual insight and emotional intelligence. In addition, he has developed a form of art he calls one liners. These are drawings that are created in a continuous line, without lifting pen from
May 2, 2004
The Healing Bond: One Therapist’s Quest for Healing and the Canine Companion Who Showed Him the Way
One simple phone call changed my life. Larry, you have cancer. The words rang in my ears. I felt like I had been pushed off a cliff. I was light-headed and teary eyed. Hot and cold chills ran through my body. And my heart pounded and throat tightened. That May afternoon my urologist told me
May 2, 2004
The Conscious Internet
The Internet is a network which is spawning a quantum leap in human consciousness. The blending of digital reality with human reality blurs the distinction between electronic-based and biological-based systems. The World Wide Web of the Internet collapses distance, time and proximity in human communications and creates a unified state of constant connectedness. Casting an
May 2, 2004
Traditional, Complementary, Alternative, and Psycho-Social Modalities of Treatment, May 2004
Opioid response different in men and women with acute pain Death of a child increases multiple sclerosis risk in parents PTSD Patients benefit from transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) Bipolar children benefit from special cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) Botanicals for womens health
May 2, 2004
Jello: A Hospice Therapy Cat
Pets can be great therapists in hospice It is Sister Judy Seefeld, an Adrian Dominican Catholic nun, who has arranged transportation, food and lodging for Jello through the years and originally lined up her therapy work. From the time Sister Judy first got to know Jello, she noticed that she was especially friendly and gentle.
May 2, 2004
If We Could Talk to the Animals
Intuitive people can clarify animal communications How would we feel if, when talking to our pets, we could listen to their replies? How would it enrich our life if we knew just how our affection for them was perceived by our animal friends, and the nature of their feelings for us? How do they react
May 2, 2004