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Come kindred spirits!
Share Stories of Humane Moments in Medicine
at our Montreal Weekend Gathering
For further information:
contact Dave Elpern or see Program PDF: Download c2s_promo.pdf
This program will appeal to all Cell 2 Soul readers and contributors. Students are encouraged to join us. Scholarships are available for those still "in training."
"Jill Bolte Taylor (JBT) was a neuroscientist working at Harvard’s brain research center when she experienced nirvana.
She did it by having a stroke.
On Dec. 10, 1996, Dr. Taylor, then 37, woke up in her apartment near Boston with a piercing pain behind her eye. A blood vessel in her brain had popped. Within minutes, her left lobe — the source of ego, analysis, judgment and context — began to fail her. Oddly, it felt great."
The New York Times Journal of Medicine had a fine piece about JBT on Sunday, May 25, 2008. You can access this article here: JBT NYT
In addition, TED has a presentation by JBT on their web site. It is 18 minutes long, but it is fascinating and worth listening to: My Stroke of Insight
What are your thoughts about this? This is controversial. It touches on the connection between Cells to Soul which is a concern of ours.
after Nadine Gordimer
“grief is speaking a language that reaches no one’s ears”
language is not enough, is not capable
of expressing grief or enough feeling
to speak what one wants to … needs to … say
that will reach inside the grievers’ hearts
or one’s own soul reaching out
past ears and eyes into the depths of grieving.
words cannot not fill the void no one
can explain or speak.
language fails both lips and ears,
but one cannot trust a silence to reach far enough.
grief is the heart broken
in a language only understood by those
who are left with still so much more to lose.
Author: Joyce Kessel is a professor of writing and literature at Villa Maria College in Buffalo NY. A longtime member of the Earth’s Daughters writing collective, her poems have been published in Black Mountain II Review, Reader’s Quarterly, WNY Poets Waging Words for Peace and other publications.
For a more pleasing format, go to: Download alles_verloren.pdf
* "No Worst There is None" is a G.M. Hopkins sonnet: Download no_worst.pdf
Herminia L. Arenas, a Curandera, uses herbal medicine and prayers in the treatment of her patients.
In California's vast farmlands, illegal immigrants, because of cultural bias and lack of access to health care, receive a lot of their care from traditional healers: Curanderas. A fine video and article are on the NY Times site which address this subject. You will need 8.5 minutes to view for the video, but if you have the patience, it will be worth the time. See "Seeking Cures with No Prescription"
and read:
Illegal Farm Workers Get Health Care in Shadows
By KEVIN SACK
Published: May 10, 2008, New York Times
MADERA, Calif. — The curandera is weary from work. Three, four, five times a day, the immigrant farm workers knock on her apartment door, begging her to cure their ailments.
They complain of indigestion, of rashes, of post-traumatic panic attacks. Then there are the house calls that compel her to crate up her potions and herbs and drive across town, often after midnight, to escape the notice of immigration police. Go to: Permalink.
1)
"It is not discipline.
It is devotion.
There is a great difference" - Luciano Pavarotti
This quote explains my life's work as a healer. I started by being devoted to my children enough to want to heal myself for their sake. The knowledge I acquired while healing myself turned into devotion to others as I came to understand that the search for love and safety motivates each one of us in all our actions. And through loving my fellow human beings I am increasingly finding devotion to something much deeper that loves me back: Love in Oneness.
Sophie Lhoste
Kinesiologist, Empath, Matrix Work Healer, Reiki Master-Teacher
Healing Light Therapies
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Mahalo to Ginny Tanji. On her morning walk around Diamond Head on Oahu, Ginny finds the peace that surpasses understanding. Recently, she took this photo of a community garden on Diamond Head Road which is maintained by Locals.
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
Virginia "Ginny" Tanji, MSLS, MEd
Director, Health Sciences Library
School of Medicine, University of Hawaii at Manoa
“In 2004, the National Endowment for the Arts created Operation Homecoming to help U.S. troops and their families write about their wartime experiences. Through this program, some distinguished writers conducted workshops at military installations and contributed educational resources to help the troops and their families share their stories. In addition to those works published in the anthology, all of the writing submitted by the troops will be preserved in an open, national government archive.”
I saw the DVD recently, Here are some notes I took: Download operation_homecoming.pdf Operation Homecoming does for soldiers what we are trying to do for patients and their families: to give "the guy at the bottom a forum for his insights and epiphanies."
You will enjoy the DVD and the Book The DVD is also available from NetFlix
Fumiko Sakata M.D., Ph.D. (1916-1998) is remembered as a warm and humorous mother, wife, doctor and friend. For more complete biography: Download Sakata.pdf
