“People with a university degree fear death less than those at a lower literacy level,”according to a report by psychologist Claudia Fabiana Siracusa and colleagues at Spain’s University of Granada. The study, “Education on Death: A Study on the Building of the Concept of Death in Children Aged Between 8 and 12 at School,” sampled… [Read more…]
October 26, 2010
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SCIENCE AND THE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE: HOW CONSCIOUSNESS SURVIVES DEATH Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions; 2010 $18.95, paperback Chris Carter is a man with a mission. An Oxford-trained philosopher who is firmly grounded in the physical sciences, he is well equipped for the task he has set himself — to examine, in the course of three books,… [Read more…]
July 10, 2010
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Mind, as most people think about it, does not exist in conventional science. The expressions of consciousness, such as choice, will, emotions, and even logic are widely believed to be wholly due to the workings of the matter within the brain. This view is known, of course, as materialism. As astronomer Carl Sagan put it,… [Read more…]
June 12, 2010
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by Larry Dossey, MD You may think there is enough disease in the world already, and that no one would want to add to the diseases that we humans must deal with. But there is a powerful industry in our society that is working overtime to invent illnesses and to convince us we are suffering… [Read more…]
May 2, 2010
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On October 12, 1994, Vicky Wilmore, a ten-year-old girl in Manchester, England, complained of a headache. When it subsided she started writing letters and numbers upside down and backwards. Although Vicky could read what she wrote perfectly well, nobody else could, which caused her to cry in the classroom from frustration and the teasing of her friends. Several… [Read more…]
April 23, 2010
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The Council has the potential to be a powerful voice for integrative health care in the United States
April 22, 2010
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By Bonnie Horrigan The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590), which was signed into law (No. 111-148) in April 2010, provides many opportunities for the integrative medicine community. Perhaps most important is that the new law specifics the creation of a national prevention strategy and provides $15 billion dollars in funding for a… [Read more…]
December 6, 2010
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