Philip GoldbergYou may have read that a major study concluded that prayer has no effect on the health of the person being prayed for. Many scientists greeted the findings with cheers. They hope findings will finally put to rest all this ooga booga about the...
Dr. Judith Orloff MDI'm a psychiatrist who specializes in intuition in Los Angeles. What I do isn't my job. It''s my life's passion. With patients and in workshops, I listen with my intellect and my intuition, a potent inner wisdom that goes beyond the literal. I...
As a psychiatrist who specializes in intuition I encourage parents to honor their children’s dreams and listen to their own dreams too. For me, dreaming is a direct line to a place where magic abounds and nothing is without meaning. It is a pristine...
What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe thrust of our New Year's issue this month is that the way to health is not a superhighway on which all of us can motor in the same direction, but a dirt road that we have to navigate to and tread along single-file. The incalculable contribution...
For eight years, I’ve been on what you might consider a rather foolhardy quest: to understand the true nature of the universe.
Reader's Corner
I was on a radio talk show to speak about the role of spirituality in dealing with chronic pain. In preparing for the interview, I spoke to some medical experts and to colleagues who are familiar with the research on spirituality and health outcomes...
Daniel J. Benor MDThere are layers of processes involved in intuition including, Automatic responses from previous experiences and memory. When we learn a skill such as driving a car, we initially have to practice each component of turning on the engine, releasing...
Intuition is the inner knowing that comes without outer sensory stimuli. It is the modality that senses most deeply, yet one that our society has valued least. We invest most of our efforts in educating our children to use their outer senses...
Alternative medicine is the term most commonly used for therapies that have been outside the spectrum of conventional medical care. These include therapist-administered treatments such as acupuncture and massage, as well as the self-healing...
