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Thanks, Jerry.

 

This book was one of my favorites when it first came out and I was learning

so much!

 

I would like to recommend your wonderful newsletter to my BB participants.

How would you prefer I do that? OR, would you prefer to do it yourself and

for me to just endorse whatever you said? I have kept the 'site

compulsively non-commercial but would be happy to make an exception for your

newsletter. A bilateral link might do as well since it would be permanently

on the 'site.

 

Keep up the good work.

 

Walt

 

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" Jerry Mittelman " <jmittelman

" Alternative Medicine Forum "

 

Sunday, July 20, 2003 5:27 PM

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> MORE ON HOW HEALING COMES FROM WITHIN

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> In his The Medium, The Mystic, and the Physicist, Lawrence LeShan, PhD,,

quotes William James:

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> " ...our personal waking consciousness, rational consciousness, as we call

it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted

from it by the flimsiest of screens, there lie potential forms of

consciousness entirely different. . . No account of the universe in its

totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite

disregarded. . . . They forbid a premature closing of our accounts with

reality. " (from Varieties of Religious Experience)

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> Dr. LeShan: " . . .the answer to my own ambivalence in adding this

material to my book is that the essence of science is that you must at least

act as if you are not afraid. You must follow where the data leads you and

abide by the results whatever your previous theories, biases, or wishes. And

if the data leads, as it did, against all my expectations and preferences

into fields hitherto left to religion, I had to follow the material and

report it as honestly as I could.

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> " The simplest and most basic statement of modern Western religion is the

statement most often ignored - or at least misunderstood.

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> " The recurring theme " God is Love " appears to mean exactly what it says:

that there is a force, an energy, that binds the cosmos together and moves

always in the direction of its harmonious action and the fruition of the

separate parts. In man, this force emerges and expresses itself as love, and

this is the " spark of the divine " in each of us.

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> " When this force is acknowledged and reinforced by the culture, it is

possible for human beings to relate harmoniously to themselves, to others,

to the rest of the cosmos, and to move toward the most unique and awesome

self-fulfillment.

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> " When this force is ignored or discouraged, the energy becomes blocked and

distorted, and in all human history has been expressed in self-hatred, a

hunger for power, materialistic greed and ultimately, as the dehumanization

of our time makes clear, the real possibility of man's so disrupting the

expression of his energy as to end his part in the cosmic design.

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> " It seems to me that the challenge to science, to man, to the human

experiment is,

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> finally and irrevocably, whether or not man can accept that he is part of

the energy of the universe and can function harmoniously within it through

his capacity to love - infinitely. "

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> The Medium, The Mystic, and The Physicist - Helios Press - is available at

your bookstore. Dr. LeShan sees precognition, telepathy, and clairvoyance as

impossible within the common-sense framework of sensory reality. Yet there

is overwhelming evidence confirming these experiences. He shows how, in

exploring the meaning of these unusual events, three radically different

groups -- mediums, mystics, and physicists -- have all been working toward a

description of reality that is essentially and strikingly similar.

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> Inevitably, as in all his books, Dr. LeShan again shows us how healing and

health is directly related to the mind.

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> Drugs fix symptoms - while creating others, and they're needed in 'crisis'

care. But fixing symptoms is not healing. Unless there's healing, when we

stop the drugs, the symptoms return.

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> We need to remember Dr. Albert Schweitzer's observation, " The good doctor

awakens the doctor within. "

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> We appreciate that health is our natural gift from the Universal

Intelligence and that 'mental noise' is what must be released.

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