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Borglum, Dale - Healing and Dying
Serious illness provides an opportunity for individuals to get in touch with the part of themselves that is not dependent upon social status, wealth or physical appearance. Dale Borglum, Ph.D., is director of the Living/Dying Center in Fairfax, California. He suggests that healing is most possibl...
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Dawkins, Peter - Francis Bacon and Western Mysticism
Francis Bacon played a critical role in the development of the western intellectual tradition. Peter Dawkins, an architect and Cambridge scholar, is the president of the British Council of the University for Peace and founder/president of the Francis Bacon Trust. According to Dawkins, Bacon left ...
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Fiore, Edith - Past Life Regression and Spirit Depossession
Edith Fiore, Ph.D., fascinating author of You Have Been Here Before and The Unquiet Dead, discusses her transformation from a conventional behavior therapist to a specialist in the application of spiritualist principles of reincarnation and spirit possession to psychotherapy. In particular, she t...
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Grossinger, Richard - The Mystery of Incarnation
To truly understand our spiritual origins we must look to nature -- for our most intimate relationship is with our own biology. Richard Grossinger, Ph.D., is author of Planet Medicine and Embryogenesis. Social and environmental problems, he says, are the inevitable result of our biology. However,...
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Luce, Gay Gaer - Conscious Aging
In other cultures we can find models in which old age is a time for great spiritual opening. Gay Gaer Luce, Ph.D., is author of Longer Life, More Joy. She proposes that the aging process need not occur in the manner prescribed by cultural stereotypes.
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Mindell, Arnold - Working with Comas
Arnold Mindell, Ph.D., an innovative psychological theorist and therapist, discusses the unique methods he has developed for working with individuals in comatose states. Using the techniques of "process psychology" he is able to find channels into the minds of comatose individuals that allow him ...
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Remen, Rachel Naomi - Living with Illness
ndividuals can learn to live fulfilling lives in the face of serious chronic illness. In this moving interview, Dr. Remen speaks eloquently about the loneliness and pain of illness as well as the opportunity for spiritual deepening which it affords.
Rachel Naomi Remen is author of The Human Pat...
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Sheldrake, Rupert - The Presence of the Past
Were there any "laws of the universe" at the time of the "big bang?" Oxford trained biologist Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D., author of The Presence of the Past, says that all laws developed as "habits" over time. Thus the universe and its laws can be seen to be continually evolving. In this view the th...
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Sogyal Rinpoche - Tibetan View of Death
Sogyal Rinpoche, author of The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, discusses the Tibetan view of mind as a clear space encompassing the entire universe. He describes how the experience of deep compassion is cultivated in Tibetan Buddhism. Then he presents the Tibetan view of rebirth and the afterli...
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Vaughan, Alan - Spiritual Channelling
The late Alan Vaughan, one of America's best-known and most thoroughly tested psychic intuitives, was the author of Patterns of Prophecy, Incredible Coincidences, Dream Telepathy and The Edge of Tomorrow. In this exciting program he first describes the chanelling process. Then, as Vaughan goes in...
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Edith Fiore - The Unquiet Dead
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What connection do we really have with the souls of those who have lived here before? Psychologist Edith Fiore describes how, working with her clients, she has come to diagnose and treat cases of apparent spirit possession. She demonstrates an actual depossession technique, a method entirely diff...
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W. Brugh Joy - Healing and the Unconscious
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The unconscious, says Dr. Brugh Joy, is composed of multiple, autonomous personalities. These personalities affect our state of health -- from allergic response to disease states such as diabetes and cancer. He suggests that the unconscious mind is far more extensive and powerful than is generall...
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Stephen Levine - Conscious Living, Conscious Dying
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Genuine healing occurs when we take ourselves mercifully into our own hearts and accept the totality of our lives. This healing of the soul or spirit, says Stephen Levine, is independent of bodily healing. We harden our hearts when we fail to forgive ourselves of our own pain. In this sense, one ...
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Sukie Miller - After Death
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Dr. Sukie Miller reports on the wide variety of cultural approaches to existence after death. Her research suggests that there are four stages to the after death journey that can be found in the myths of virtually every culture�the waiting stage, the judgment stage, the exploration stage and th...
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Raymond Moody - Life After Life
1 season
What is the Character and quality of the near-death experience? Do such experiences represent an authentic encounter with a world beyond, or are they an artifact of our brain's activity? The common qualities of the near-death experience include feelings of profound peace, out-of-body sensation, m...
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Rabbi Zalman Schachter - Spiritual Eldering
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The model of the spiritual elder is an appropriate one for individuals experiencing an extended lifespan. This process can be facilitated through the application of transpersonal and humanistic processes. A major part of this work involves an examination of one's life and an understanding of how ...
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Therese Schroeder-Sheker - Music and the Art of Dying
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Therese Schroeder-Sheker describes her pioneering work in the application of palliative music during deathbed vigils. She also discusses the medicinal uses of music, pointing out that ancient traditions refer to music as a bridge between the earthly plane and the various celestial spheres through...
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O. Carl Simonton - The Healing Process
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Within each patient is a wisdom that can be accessed to facilitate the healing process. In the first part of this two part program Dr. O. Carl Simonton discusses in a very moving way his own personal struggle with the illness and death of his father. He suggests the need to distinguish when it is...