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The Challenge: Merging Our Spiritual and Social Selves
One amazing development of the 21st century is that scientists and faith-based people are beginning to agree. It's not huge right now, but it's starting. Deepak Chopra is one of many "bridges" between the two worlds: he's an American-based medical doctor and he's a teacher of Ayurvedic medicine and writes about spirituality. Elisabeth Kuber-Ross (1926-2004) was trained in the strict foundations of psychiatry, and she is also the author of many books on dying. Her best known book is perhaps On Death and Dying, and was interested in the spiritual, as well as the physical, aspects of the meaning of death. And those who already believe in the power of prayer and of intercessory prayer, are now vindicated and validated. Physician Randolph Byrd's famous 1988 tests, using the established "scientific method," proved that prayer does have a healing effect. Others have followed Dr. Byrd and have come out with similar results. I'm currently reading Nothing Special: Living Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck, and am learning (trying to, anyway) how to bring the benefits of meditation into day-to-day living. What's going on here? I'm hoping that the human race is slowly but surely starting to "get" that we can't continue to run the planet the we've been doing it. To live without a spiritual base just isn't working. I'm not talking about a strict dogmatic religion, although we can't count it out, but I'm stressing a personal and moment-by-moment connection between each individual and their (as they say in A.A.) "God, as we understand God." Even if it's just the smallest spark of light somewhere in our gut, if we can focus on it and try to live it, we might could (a Texas verb form) turn things around. continued below |
In fact, many of the world's great thinkers in physics and medicine are also leaders in spiritual thought.|
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