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There is a demonstrable
link between our individual health, and the health
of our planet, according to a just-published study
by thirty-six prominent authorities. The authors,
drawn from the top ranks of medicine, education,
theology, psychology, business and the social
sciences, cite many scientific studies, medical
case histories, and personal experiences that
illuminate the connection.
One such study,
described by best-selling author Larry Dossey,
M.D., divided subjects visiting a fertility clinic
in Seoul, South Korea, into two groups. One group
was prayed for; the other was not. The study,
performed by Columbia Medical School in New York,
was a triple-blind study, meaning that the doctors
and patients in Seoul did not even know that a
study was going on. The data revealed that the
prayed-for group had twice the success rate after
in vitro fertilization as the group not prayed for.
Studies done by Dr. Bernard Grad in Canada, Sandra
Ingerman in the U.S., and Dr. Maseru Emoto in Japan
have revealed similar dramatic effects of prayer in
cleaning up pollutants in the environment, and
increasing the fertility of plants.
These ideas are
collected in a new book entitled Healing Our
Planet, Healing Our Selves (Elite Books, April
2005, $25, www.HealingOurPlanet.com).
Other contributors include Deepak Chopra, Jean
Shinoda Bolen, Neale Donald Walsch, Debbie Ford,
and actress Daryl Hannah. Dawson Church, the
award-winning editor of the anthology, observes,
"We've always suspected a connection between our
individual wellness and the health of our global
ecosystems. Healthy people can't thrive on a sick
planet. What this book does is show, for the fist
time, what some of the precise mechanisms are by
which the two are connected."
As well as drawing on some of the latest data
available, Church includes inspirational essays
from such luminaries as the Dalai Lama, Ram Dass,
and religious historian Huston Smith. Approaching
these problems from a deeply personal and intuitive
standpoint as well as a rational one, this book
celebrates an historic shift of our global culture,
showing how hard science and deep mysticism
ultimately deliver the same answers to both our
personal health dilemmas and our pressing
environmental malaise.
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