13 January 2026
The
Heart and Hands and Soul of Healing
We
must begin by saying that American medicine is
conflicted and corrupted and sickened maybe more
so than other modern systems. [Read Dr. Otis
Brawley’s How We Do Harm, which he might
well have titled How Money Runs Medicine.]
The current idea of “universal health care” in the
West is an illusion. All the while Americans have
become sicker and sicker according to many
measures, there surely are better ways.
Dare we to look at the Big Picture and realize that medicine’s own name gives big clues to its penchant for prescribing drugs aka medicines. Robert Mendelsohn has written how the public has been propagandized to the point that they feel cheated if they leave a medical consultation without prescription/s in hand. And those drugs often create more problems than they solve, as both Brawley and Mendelsohn attest.
Physicians use drugs to treat and often to combat so-called pathology aka disease. Medics spend thousand of hours in school studying pathology in various guises. But, they do not take classes in Health or Care. Furthermore, they leave training without understanding life and death, birth and growth, cause and effect.
Modern medicine expends vast amounts of time, energy, and money seeking to give names to patients’ ills. Doctors seek to name human ills and thus be “inspired” to treat human bodies but not human beings.
Mr. Huxley wrote these words decades ago – he died in 1963 as the trend toward more ills and diagnoses was just beginning. Yet, Americans are even sicker now than when he lived. Sixty percent of our citizens have chronic ills, according to the CDC. Even children have their own medical conditions which are said to amount to over 30 percent of their age group. Mental ills are now considered to be epidemic.
All the while, the public has been taught to believe that we now have “scientific medicine” which produces wonders. Modern medicine leans on science for its reigning place in society but has shown only minimal benefit to humanity in the wider scheme of thing.
Early in this writer’s medical career, he attended an annual convention of the American Holistic Medical Association in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In preparation for that particular meeting, the founding president, Dr. Norman Shealy, sent letters to the deans of all (about 100 at the time) American medical and osteopathic schools.
In his letters, he asked a simple and direct question: “What is scientific medicine?” Dr. Shealy received a handful of responses, most of which were on the order of: “That's an interesting question. We ought to do some research on it.”
Those who replied to Shealy’s question were invited to address the convention on the topic. Five accepted. Yet, not one of them dared to address the subject directly. Instead, they merely concurred that it was an important issue before going off on tangents to talk of their school’s own particular interests and work. They were unwilling or unprepared to confront the issue head on.
We think we have “scientific medicine,” but we actually have “scientized medicine.” The physician, researcher, writer Lewis Thomas tellingly called his 1983 book The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher. He might as well have named it The Wannabe Science.
The medicine we have had in the West for generations has become in fact our nemesis according to Ivan Illich. In his book Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health of 1974, Illich tells how society has come to deal with more and more iatrogenic - physician-caused - ills as life has become medicalized. We now experience clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis in wide and deleterious array.
We can do better – but we will have to go beyond “medical science” to the “healing arts” of the past. Instead of doctoring – screening – medicalizing the whole of life, we can take hints from all kinds of sources to replace Medicine with true Healing which is needed more than ever.
We will have to recover the Heart and Hands and Soul which have largely left medicine and then seek the everpresent World of Healing.
Gladys McGarey and her husband William were for
decades the medical healing duo at the ARE Clinic
in Phoenix, AZ. Bill was the Head and Gladys was
the Heart of the Clinic. Dr. Gladys grew up under
the tutelage of her parents who were osteopathic
medical missionaries in India. She knew from her
early years that she would become a doctor – in
the healing mode.
Gladys watched her parents provide true care to each patient, “the kind word, the touch of a hand, the reassuring embrace… prayers, more than any rudimentary medicines, played a large part in [people] getting well.”
But, once trained in standard fashion in an American medical school and practicing her own version of the “art,” Gladys realized that, “We’ve made a god out of science, and its temples are hospitals, medical schools, scientific laboratories and even the government. There is nothing wrong with any of these except that our perception of them is all out of proportion. We think that unless a therapeutic modality comes down from one of these institutions to the physician or the public, it is not ‘scientific….’ We gave ourselves to specialists….”
Gladys practiced medicine into her nineties and passed away a year after writing her last of several books A Well-Lived Life at age 103 in 2024. Her books called out stridently to listening ears and warm hearts. “We need to create a whole new model of health care where holistic and conventional practices are brought together for the good of the patient and the physician.”
Gladys recognized that the answers lie within and can also be retrieved by the healer on behalf of the one in jeopardy. She took time and heart to listen to her patients, hear their stories, and tune into their needs. “I invariably believe the patient. What better source do I have?"
As an aside, this writer recently conferred with an old friend who practiced medicine for forty years. Dr. Joe suggested that many medical practitioners do not even look at patients these days while taking their histories. Instead of look at the person in need, the medic is likely to stare at a computer and type in the patient’s information in hopes that an algorithm will come up with a plan of action or even a diagnosis.
Would that medics spent time with people like Gladys McGarey who proudly admitted that, “Patients are my friends.” Patients came to Gladys because she talked to them and encouraged them to talk. To follow Gladys’s lead, physicians and patients alike should learn to listen not just with the ears but with the heart and act accordingly.
When Lewis Thomas graduated from medical school in the 1930s, the average income for physicians in practice for ten years was a mere $3500. Over the years, he watched medicine appear to turn into a “science.” Physicians then saw so many patients for whom little could be done. In retrospect, he pondered that practically all treatments were really placebos. One may wonder how many medicines even in the present day are little more than placebos.
Early in Thomas’s career, hospital stays were long, and the facilities were places set aside to die. The wealthy stayed home when ill. Drugs were relatively few in number and the pharmacopeia was limited to 100 pages. The modern Physicians’ Desk Reference has over 1000 drugs and more than 3000 pages. Is our health 30 times better?
“It gradually dawned on us that we didn’t know much that was really useful, that we could do nothing to change the course of the great majority of the diseases we were so busy analyzing, that medicine, for all its facade as a learned profession, was in real life a profoundly ignorant occupation.”
How much do we even know today about human health and ills, life and death in the 21st century? James Le Fanu noted in his recent book, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, that even now, “There is thus a vast ocean of ignorance at the heart of medicine.”
Thomas recognizes how technology has taken over, with it dehumanization and loss of the old art of medicine.
“The touching was the real professional secret, never acknowledged as the central, essential skill, always obscured by the dancing and the chanting, but always busily there, the laying on of hands…. The doctor’s oldest skill in trade was to place his hands on the patient…. Medicine is no longer the laying on of hands, it is more like the reading of signals from machines….The doctor seems less like the close friend and confidant, less interested in him as a person, wholly concerned with treating the disease.”
We dare not forget to point to the profession of osteopathic medicine which was developed well over a century ago by the physician Andrew Taylor Still. Hands-on OMT – Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment – was fundamental to the work of his students and graduates. There are presently 46 osteopathic medical schools in the USA where hands-on therapy is taught to students throughout their training. At the same time, it seems that now osteopathic physicians are using their hands and OMT less and less while prescribing drugs more and more.
To take up some of the slack, literally dozens of hands-on therapies have been developed and attract increasing numbers in the present day around the world. While they are generally offered by non-medical practitioners, they can be lumped under the term of energy medicine.
“The spirit is the master,
the imagination is the tool,
and the body the plastic material.”
Paracelsus
Soul and Spirit are words which are almost verboten in most medical schools. That may be in part because like the separation of church and state, medicine is taught as a physical system independent of religious aka spiriual influences of any kind. Thus medical schools graduate “physicians.” But quite paradoxically, the ancient Greek word Phusis (nature) is the ultimate source for the name of our modern physicians. Over the ages, the word physique moved from the “study of nature” to the practice of medicine which now has very little to do with nature. The word nature will be shown to be relatively synonymous with soul-spirit in the following pages.
As those ancient Greek words have evolved, orthodox medics are largely trained in “soulless medicine.” Amazingly, even the ancients appeared to struggle with issues of nature and physicians, soul-spirit and medicine. Plato complained over two millennia ago that, “You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul for the part can never be well unless the whole is well.… This is the great error of our day, that physicians separate the soul from the body.”
To find true healing requires respect and attention to whole and holy beings – which humans ultimately are. [Whole and holy, health and healing all have the same roots.] So students of true healing include body, mind and soul-spirit to view humans. We all need to turn back to nature and simplicity, magic and the divine.
Jules du Potet de Sennevoy (1796-1881) of France was not a trained physician, even while he became one of the most visible and successful teacher-healers of the 19th century. Du Potet briefly audited classes in a Parisian medical school in his early years. But more importantly, he grew up admiring and studying nature like numbers of other true healers before him. They studied nature in its common outer worldly sense but more importantly with respect to its subtle spiritual essence.
In the year 1815, Jules heard the word “magnetism” pronounced for the first time. That moment coincided with the death of Anton Mesmer who brought “animal magnetism” to light in Europe, most especially in Paris. Mesmer and Du Potet equated magnetism with /spirit and spent their lives using it to heal their fellows.
In his writings, Du Potet admitted that he was an oddball in his family and that he did not fit into school or other typical activities of the day. But as a student of nature, he came to life when he recognized its connection with magnetism. Like Mesmer, he was an “observer” and destiny charged him to look at nature in ways that few had dared to consider over the ages. Beyond observation, he was led to imitate nature.
Two centuries ago, Du Potet noted that science largely ignored nature. Therein lies “an agent superior to matter, a secret law which proves the existence of a God and of another life.” Today, nature is even more ignored when so much of medicine takes place in diagnostic investigation, laboratory testing, technological studies, and scientific protocols.
Du Potet equated nature-spirit with magic or the occult power was understood and used long times past. In more recent times, it has been equated with chi, mana, prana, nervous fluid, magnetism, somnambulism, ecstasy, enchantment, fascination, and more. The ancients called it the occult power of the soul aka spirit.
“The ancients admitted in man intelligence, natural, universal or metaphysical, ethereal and divine…. They claimed even that the soul of man, enclosed in his carnal body, could then communicate with the intelligences released from matter, and drawn by them to the most instructive lights.”
Jules du Potet recognized that currents of subtle force naturally enter and leave each individual all day long. When two humans approach each other, there is a mutural insensible penetration of their two auras. These forces go forth as if they were touched with intelligence and influence both people.
Du Potet wrote that, “Man acts on all that which surrounds him by an animistic force: physicians do not know it…. A thousand facts are there to attest to the existence of mysterious forces acting on us and penetrating us without ceasing. It is necessary to unveil some of them: it is by magic that we will arrive there.”
Monsieur du Potet likened this force to the incorporeal light suspected or seen by so many great men and proclaimed by Jesus Christ when he said: “I AM the light of the world … Ye are the light of the world.”
Du Potet taught that, “if the word of magnetism should be replaced by the one of magism, it would be more exact.” And that philosophers and sages of ancient times were magicians as well as healers.
He established the link, “the pact consummated; an occult power came to offer me its aid, it was joined with the force which was my own, and permitted me to see the light. It is then that I discovered the path of true magic.”
Du Potet was disturbed to note that simple and primitive men believe in and often work with the world spirits while scholars and scientists reject those claims because they have no devices to detect and measure them. But, an intent investigator can be brought to belief “by a serious examination of the facts of nature and of himself.”
Somewhere along the course of history we lost the gifts of “divine perception, then the faculty to act on the elements which surround [us] and on all animals.” As humans became divorced more and more from nature, our senses became blurred and blocked.
Jules wrote 150 years ago that, “Our civilization has degraded itself physically and morally, it has been rendered into a machine and killed its proud and free soul.” Then, how much more machine-like have our own lives become along the way!
Neither magic nor nature have disappeared. They are everpresent, waiting to be called upon to lift and aid, nourish and heal human being. “Magic is a means, magnetism opens all the locks, penetrates as far as the brain, and it is then only that one can recognize what belongs to matter and what is the domain of the pure spirit.”
We take as simple fact, that Soul-Spirit-Nature lies behind and within all of creation, the formation of planet Earth, and the procreation of human beings. That fact is unprovable, but anyone who dares to contemplate the vast wonders of life in and around his/her being is sure to come eventually to that conclusion.
Then, it is high time that Soul-Spirit-Nature be brought back into common discussion and medical consideration – and not be left only for preaching on Sundays. The Divine creates and dwells within all creatures – most particularly human beings.
So next time in the conclusion of this essay, we will expand upon the gleanings gained from Gladys McGarey, Lewis Thomas, and Jules Du Potet. They will lead us to recognize that the Heart and Hands and Spirit can be brought back into Healing by John Doe and Mary Smith – and even medical practitioners.
See you next time.
Dare we to look at the Big Picture and realize that medicine’s own name gives big clues to its penchant for prescribing drugs aka medicines. Robert Mendelsohn has written how the public has been propagandized to the point that they feel cheated if they leave a medical consultation without prescription/s in hand. And those drugs often create more problems than they solve, as both Brawley and Mendelsohn attest.
“The person who takes medicine
must recover twice,
once from the disease, and once from the medicine.”
Sir William Osler
once from the disease, and once from the medicine.”
Sir William Osler
Physicians use drugs to treat and often to combat so-called pathology aka disease. Medics spend thousand of hours in school studying pathology in various guises. But, they do not take classes in Health or Care. Furthermore, they leave training without understanding life and death, birth and growth, cause and effect.
Modern medicine expends vast amounts of time, energy, and money seeking to give names to patients’ ills. Doctors seek to name human ills and thus be “inspired” to treat human bodies but not human beings.
Medical science has made such
tremendous progress that
there is hardly a healthy human left.
Aldous Huxley
there is hardly a healthy human left.
Aldous Huxley
Mr. Huxley wrote these words decades ago – he died in 1963 as the trend toward more ills and diagnoses was just beginning. Yet, Americans are even sicker now than when he lived. Sixty percent of our citizens have chronic ills, according to the CDC. Even children have their own medical conditions which are said to amount to over 30 percent of their age group. Mental ills are now considered to be epidemic.
All the while, the public has been taught to believe that we now have “scientific medicine” which produces wonders. Modern medicine leans on science for its reigning place in society but has shown only minimal benefit to humanity in the wider scheme of thing.
Early in this writer’s medical career, he attended an annual convention of the American Holistic Medical Association in La Crosse, Wisconsin. In preparation for that particular meeting, the founding president, Dr. Norman Shealy, sent letters to the deans of all (about 100 at the time) American medical and osteopathic schools.
In his letters, he asked a simple and direct question: “What is scientific medicine?” Dr. Shealy received a handful of responses, most of which were on the order of: “That's an interesting question. We ought to do some research on it.”
Really?!
Those who replied to Shealy’s question were invited to address the convention on the topic. Five accepted. Yet, not one of them dared to address the subject directly. Instead, they merely concurred that it was an important issue before going off on tangents to talk of their school’s own particular interests and work. They were unwilling or unprepared to confront the issue head on.
But, really?
We think we have “scientific medicine,” but we actually have “scientized medicine.” The physician, researcher, writer Lewis Thomas tellingly called his 1983 book The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher. He might as well have named it The Wannabe Science.
The medicine we have had in the West for generations has become in fact our nemesis according to Ivan Illich. In his book Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health of 1974, Illich tells how society has come to deal with more and more iatrogenic - physician-caused - ills as life has become medicalized. We now experience clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis in wide and deleterious array.
We can do better – but we will have to go beyond “medical science” to the “healing arts” of the past. Instead of doctoring – screening – medicalizing the whole of life, we can take hints from all kinds of sources to replace Medicine with true Healing which is needed more than ever.
We will have to recover the Heart and Hands and Soul which have largely left medicine and then seek the everpresent World of Healing.
The Heart
Gladys watched her parents provide true care to each patient, “the kind word, the touch of a hand, the reassuring embrace… prayers, more than any rudimentary medicines, played a large part in [people] getting well.”
But, once trained in standard fashion in an American medical school and practicing her own version of the “art,” Gladys realized that, “We’ve made a god out of science, and its temples are hospitals, medical schools, scientific laboratories and even the government. There is nothing wrong with any of these except that our perception of them is all out of proportion. We think that unless a therapeutic modality comes down from one of these institutions to the physician or the public, it is not ‘scientific….’ We gave ourselves to specialists….”
Gladys practiced medicine into her nineties and passed away a year after writing her last of several books A Well-Lived Life at age 103 in 2024. Her books called out stridently to listening ears and warm hearts. “We need to create a whole new model of health care where holistic and conventional practices are brought together for the good of the patient and the physician.”
Gladys recognized that the answers lie within and can also be retrieved by the healer on behalf of the one in jeopardy. She took time and heart to listen to her patients, hear their stories, and tune into their needs. “I invariably believe the patient. What better source do I have?"
As an aside, this writer recently conferred with an old friend who practiced medicine for forty years. Dr. Joe suggested that many medical practitioners do not even look at patients these days while taking their histories. Instead of look at the person in need, the medic is likely to stare at a computer and type in the patient’s information in hopes that an algorithm will come up with a plan of action or even a diagnosis.
Would that medics spent time with people like Gladys McGarey who proudly admitted that, “Patients are my friends.” Patients came to Gladys because she talked to them and encouraged them to talk. To follow Gladys’s lead, physicians and patients alike should learn to listen not just with the ears but with the heart and act accordingly.
The Hands
When Lewis Thomas graduated from medical school in the 1930s, the average income for physicians in practice for ten years was a mere $3500. Over the years, he watched medicine appear to turn into a “science.” Physicians then saw so many patients for whom little could be done. In retrospect, he pondered that practically all treatments were really placebos. One may wonder how many medicines even in the present day are little more than placebos.
“Faith in the gods or in the
saints cures one, faith in little pills another,
hypnotic suggestion a third, faith in a plain common doctor a fourth.
In all ages the prayer of faith has healed the sick.”
Sir William Osler
hypnotic suggestion a third, faith in a plain common doctor a fourth.
In all ages the prayer of faith has healed the sick.”
Sir William Osler
Early in Thomas’s career, hospital stays were long, and the facilities were places set aside to die. The wealthy stayed home when ill. Drugs were relatively few in number and the pharmacopeia was limited to 100 pages. The modern Physicians’ Desk Reference has over 1000 drugs and more than 3000 pages. Is our health 30 times better?
“It gradually dawned on us that we didn’t know much that was really useful, that we could do nothing to change the course of the great majority of the diseases we were so busy analyzing, that medicine, for all its facade as a learned profession, was in real life a profoundly ignorant occupation.”
How much do we even know today about human health and ills, life and death in the 21st century? James Le Fanu noted in his recent book, The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine, that even now, “There is thus a vast ocean of ignorance at the heart of medicine.”
Thomas recognizes how technology has taken over, with it dehumanization and loss of the old art of medicine.
“The touching was the real professional secret, never acknowledged as the central, essential skill, always obscured by the dancing and the chanting, but always busily there, the laying on of hands…. The doctor’s oldest skill in trade was to place his hands on the patient…. Medicine is no longer the laying on of hands, it is more like the reading of signals from machines….The doctor seems less like the close friend and confidant, less interested in him as a person, wholly concerned with treating the disease.”
We dare not forget to point to the profession of osteopathic medicine which was developed well over a century ago by the physician Andrew Taylor Still. Hands-on OMT – Osteopathic Manipulative Treatment – was fundamental to the work of his students and graduates. There are presently 46 osteopathic medical schools in the USA where hands-on therapy is taught to students throughout their training. At the same time, it seems that now osteopathic physicians are using their hands and OMT less and less while prescribing drugs more and more.
To take up some of the slack, literally dozens of hands-on therapies have been developed and attract increasing numbers in the present day around the world. While they are generally offered by non-medical practitioners, they can be lumped under the term of energy medicine.
The Soul
“The spirit is the master,
the imagination is the tool,
and the body the plastic material.”
Paracelsus
Soul and Spirit are words which are almost verboten in most medical schools. That may be in part because like the separation of church and state, medicine is taught as a physical system independent of religious aka spiriual influences of any kind. Thus medical schools graduate “physicians.” But quite paradoxically, the ancient Greek word Phusis (nature) is the ultimate source for the name of our modern physicians. Over the ages, the word physique moved from the “study of nature” to the practice of medicine which now has very little to do with nature. The word nature will be shown to be relatively synonymous with soul-spirit in the following pages.
As those ancient Greek words have evolved, orthodox medics are largely trained in “soulless medicine.” Amazingly, even the ancients appeared to struggle with issues of nature and physicians, soul-spirit and medicine. Plato complained over two millennia ago that, “You ought not to attempt to cure the body without the soul for the part can never be well unless the whole is well.… This is the great error of our day, that physicians separate the soul from the body.”
To find true healing requires respect and attention to whole and holy beings – which humans ultimately are. [Whole and holy, health and healing all have the same roots.] So students of true healing include body, mind and soul-spirit to view humans. We all need to turn back to nature and simplicity, magic and the divine.
Jules du Potet de Sennevoy (1796-1881) of France was not a trained physician, even while he became one of the most visible and successful teacher-healers of the 19th century. Du Potet briefly audited classes in a Parisian medical school in his early years. But more importantly, he grew up admiring and studying nature like numbers of other true healers before him. They studied nature in its common outer worldly sense but more importantly with respect to its subtle spiritual essence.
In the year 1815, Jules heard the word “magnetism” pronounced for the first time. That moment coincided with the death of Anton Mesmer who brought “animal magnetism” to light in Europe, most especially in Paris. Mesmer and Du Potet equated magnetism with /spirit and spent their lives using it to heal their fellows.
“Nature is the Garment of God.”
Johann von Goethe
Johann von Goethe
In his writings, Du Potet admitted that he was an oddball in his family and that he did not fit into school or other typical activities of the day. But as a student of nature, he came to life when he recognized its connection with magnetism. Like Mesmer, he was an “observer” and destiny charged him to look at nature in ways that few had dared to consider over the ages. Beyond observation, he was led to imitate nature.
“Nothing without nature,
everything with it!!!”
Two centuries ago, Du Potet noted that science largely ignored nature. Therein lies “an agent superior to matter, a secret law which proves the existence of a God and of another life.” Today, nature is even more ignored when so much of medicine takes place in diagnostic investigation, laboratory testing, technological studies, and scientific protocols.
Du Potet equated nature-spirit with magic or the occult power was understood and used long times past. In more recent times, it has been equated with chi, mana, prana, nervous fluid, magnetism, somnambulism, ecstasy, enchantment, fascination, and more. The ancients called it the occult power of the soul aka spirit.
“The ancients admitted in man intelligence, natural, universal or metaphysical, ethereal and divine…. They claimed even that the soul of man, enclosed in his carnal body, could then communicate with the intelligences released from matter, and drawn by them to the most instructive lights.”
Jules du Potet recognized that currents of subtle force naturally enter and leave each individual all day long. When two humans approach each other, there is a mutural insensible penetration of their two auras. These forces go forth as if they were touched with intelligence and influence both people.
Du Potet wrote that, “Man acts on all that which surrounds him by an animistic force: physicians do not know it…. A thousand facts are there to attest to the existence of mysterious forces acting on us and penetrating us without ceasing. It is necessary to unveil some of them: it is by magic that we will arrive there.”
Monsieur du Potet likened this force to the incorporeal light suspected or seen by so many great men and proclaimed by Jesus Christ when he said: “I AM the light of the world … Ye are the light of the world.”
“All is magic in us, around us …”
Du Potet taught that, “if the word of magnetism should be replaced by the one of magism, it would be more exact.” And that philosophers and sages of ancient times were magicians as well as healers.
He established the link, “the pact consummated; an occult power came to offer me its aid, it was joined with the force which was my own, and permitted me to see the light. It is then that I discovered the path of true magic.”
Du Potet was disturbed to note that simple and primitive men believe in and often work with the world spirits while scholars and scientists reject those claims because they have no devices to detect and measure them. But, an intent investigator can be brought to belief “by a serious examination of the facts of nature and of himself.”
Somewhere along the course of history we lost the gifts of “divine perception, then the faculty to act on the elements which surround [us] and on all animals.” As humans became divorced more and more from nature, our senses became blurred and blocked.
Jules wrote 150 years ago that, “Our civilization has degraded itself physically and morally, it has been rendered into a machine and killed its proud and free soul.” Then, how much more machine-like have our own lives become along the way!
“All is magic in nature.”
Neither magic nor nature have disappeared. They are everpresent, waiting to be called upon to lift and aid, nourish and heal human being. “Magic is a means, magnetism opens all the locks, penetrates as far as the brain, and it is then only that one can recognize what belongs to matter and what is the domain of the pure spirit.”
We take as simple fact, that Soul-Spirit-Nature lies behind and within all of creation, the formation of planet Earth, and the procreation of human beings. That fact is unprovable, but anyone who dares to contemplate the vast wonders of life in and around his/her being is sure to come eventually to that conclusion.
Then, it is high time that Soul-Spirit-Nature be brought back into common discussion and medical consideration – and not be left only for preaching on Sundays. The Divine creates and dwells within all creatures – most particularly human beings.
So next time in the conclusion of this essay, we will expand upon the gleanings gained from Gladys McGarey, Lewis Thomas, and Jules Du Potet. They will lead us to recognize that the Heart and Hands and Spirit can be brought back into Healing by John Doe and Mary Smith – and even medical practitioners.
See you next time.
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