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Volume 8: Number 1: Article 3
Healing and the Mind: Is There a Dark Side?
Larry Dossey, Co-chair, Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, Office
of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health
Although intra- and interpersonal influences have long been acknowledged
in medical science to affect an individual's health both positively
and negatively, the impact of non-local, transpersonal influences are
generally denied in contemporary medical science. The present paper
examines anecdotal, ethnographic, anthropological, clinical, and experimental
evidence suggesting that non-local, transpersonal influences may exist,
and that these may exert a negative and even fatal impact on human health.
The possible relationship of these negative influences to scientific
findings in other anomalous areas, such as the studies in human/machine
interaction at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory,
are discussed. The author concludes that the evidence favoring the existence
of non-local, negative, transpersonal influences is considerable, and
that the implications for medical research and clinical practice are
profound.
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