Scientific Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine

"In this interview, Dr. Larry Dossey, author of Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, discusses the inherent wisdom of premonitions -- the topic of his third book The Power of Premonition.
"He is trained in internal medicine and is the former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, and  has lectured in medical schools and hospitals throughout the US. In 1988 he delivered the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India. He’s the only physician ever invited to do so. He has also served as the co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health.

The Re-Emergence of Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine

:In 1993, only three of the United States' 125 medical schools offered any sort of course work exploring the area of spirituality and medicine.
Today over 90 of these medical schools have formal courses where they explore randomized controlled studies and the effects of spiritual practices on longevity and health outcomes – a sure sign that what was once considered taboo is beginning to receive the discussion and serious investigation it deserves.

"I think we're opening up," Dossey says. "I'm sure you remember, about 40 years ago when meditation burst upon the scene in medicine, it was put down. It was called California Woo woo. Nobody wanted to have anything to do with it. But now nobody raises an eye about meditation and yoga, even in medicine.
We're in the same place with spirituality that we were with meditation about 20 years ago. People know you can't ignore it. The correlation between spiritual practice and health outcomes is just too strong.
For example, the data shows that people who follow some sort of spiritual path in their life… live on average seven to 13 years longer than people who do not follow a spiritual practice."

The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives

"Yes, the more we learn about energy and physics, the more impossible it becomes to avoid addressing the impact of consciousness and spirituality on your physical health.
Most ancient cultures knew this, and there are few lines dividing spirituality; the mind, and medicine in these cultures. Ironically, modern science now allows us to rediscover these ancient truths, which fell by the wayside with the advent of medical science and its narrow focus on individual parts as opposed to investigating the connections within the whole.
There are now a couple of dozen major human studies showing the correlations between healing intentions and improved health outcomes.

"The data is so strong," Dossey says. "It's strong not only in human beings but in non-humans [as well]. You can show the same effects in biological systems such as rats and mice; even in microbial cultures in test tubes.
So we have a huge spectrum of data that shows, I think compellingly, that your thoughts really matter when it comes to someone/something else getting well."

"Dr. Dossey is clearly not alone in this field. Other modern-day researchers who are having a dramatic impact and slowly but surely are helping to turn conventional dogma on its ear include Dr. Bruce Lipton, one of the foremost experts in the field of epigenetics, and Gregg Braden, a true pioneer who bridges science and spirituality with clear-spoken ease, just to name a couple.

"In 1988, Dr. Dossey wrote a book called Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach, in which he introduced the term "non-local mind." Dossey explains:

    "The old idea that your consciousness is produced by the brain; that it's confined to your cranium and to the present moment and can't operate outside your own brain and body in the present, is an idea that just doesn't fit with the data anymore.

    Studies, for example in remote healing -- where someone can affect the clinical outcome of someone else who is on the other side of the earth… are forcing us to create a new image of consciousness.

    … Non-locality is the term borrowed from modern quantum physics. It's a synonym for the term "infinite."

    If something is non-local with respect to space and time, it's infinite in space and infinite in time. Well, this is the way consciousness behaves in these experiments.

    For example, it doesn't matter how far away from the object of your healing intentions that you happen to be. Healing intentions work as effectively at the bedside and the other side of the earth. Spatial separation doesn't matter.

    We have evidence now that consciousness can work outside the present. It can anticipate things to come and it also appears to be able to work into the past."

Recovering the Soul: A Scientific and Spiritual Approach

"One of these quantum physics concepts is Bell's theorem, which shows that two 'entangled' electrons will continue to operate as one, simultaneously, even when separated by vast distances.

"Einstein is often quoted here, famously referring to this phenomenon as simply "spooky action at a distance."

"Erwin Schrödinger introduced the term 'entanglement' in the 1930s, and as Dossey states, we do seem to have ample evidence that "things cannot be separated, even though they appear to be separated in space."

"We have to go with the data," Dossey says. "The explanation usually comes later, as it often does in medicine and science in general. But we have profound evidence that there is some strange unity connecting people, even at a distance, and that unity seems to be mediated by concepts such love and compassion."

"Dr. Dossey goes on to tell a fascinating story about one woman's incredible encounter with premonition related to the health of her son that truly defies explanation. I highly recommend you listen to the entire interview so as not to miss this and several other anecdotal stories.
Premonition certainly appears to be a natural part of human consciousness, and these stories serve as vivid examples of how this 'non-local connectedness' operates within the lives of individual people."

I think that the anecdotal stories, from ancient times up to the teachings of the ascended masters as explained by Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet (www.TSL.org), are true.  It's just that it's taken science years to try to convince the sceptics.

Thanks to mercola.com

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