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Shownotes Dr. Larry Dossey is a physician of internal medicine and former Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital, who lectures around the world. He received his M. D. degree from Southwestern Medical School (Dallas), and trained in internal medicine at Parkland and the VA hospitals in Dallas. Dossey has lectured at medical schools and hospitals throughout the United States and abroad. In 1988, he delivered the annual Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Lecture in New Delhi, India, the only physician ever invited to do so. He is the author of twelve books dealing with consciousness, spirituality, and healing, including The New York Times bestseller, HEALING WORDS: THE POWER OF PRAYER AND THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE, and, most recently, ONE MIND: HOW OUR INDIVIDUAL MIND IS PART OF A GREATER CONSCIOUSNESS AND WHY IT MATTERS. His books have been translated into many languages. Dr. Dossey is the former co-chairman of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. He is the executive editor of the peer-reviewed journal, EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife, Barbara, a nurse-consultant and the author of several award-winning books. Larry Dossey's website Larry's mission: "My mission is to tell the truth and not shade the truth." Larry's one-line message to the world: "Pay Attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." - Mary Oliver The SUE Speaks Blog Post about Larry Dossey, M.D. Talking points from this episode Larry's startled by discovering statistics on the healing power of prayer amasses prayer findings in The New York Times best selling book, Healing Words personal experience of healing power main interest is the role of consciousness and healing Larry's personal prayer ritual distance doesn't matter non-locality prayer working backwards in time ancient traditions were tuned into non-locality: Akashic records, cosmic consciousness, allumination, awakening, enlightenment, Christ consciousness, Zen Samadhi, yoga EST in 1972: praying for strangers Werner Erhard the power of thought beyond prayer that affects the material world prayer strategies materialism and capitalism have overshadowed our sense of connection origins of greed and selfishness a case to be made for compassion and love for all creation understanding our interconnection would dissolve our oppositional reality Greta Thunberg and the promise from the younger generation David Bohm Physicians Untold Stories by Scott Kolbaba mind-boggling miracle healing of Barbara Cummiskey the significance of prayer coming from love we don't need to know how prayer works for it to work twins' experience as a "telesomatic" event Twin Telepathy by Guy Lyon Playfair "twin stuff" between Larry and his identical twin brother a doctor's fear about writing up a miracle cure Larry's praying for his patients contribution that spirituality and spiritual practices make to human health Larry talked about prayer on Oprah's SuperSoul Conversation. Watch it on YouTube Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver's poem, "Sometimes"