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L Dossey

Publications and source records attributed to L Dossey.

At least 19 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1998

The evil eye.

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PubMed1998

Deliberately caused bodily damage.

Meaning has the power to drastically modify our experience of pain. It also can dramatically affect our health, both positively and negatively--a phenomenon I explored previously in this column. Spiritual meanings may be the most powerful forms of meaning, because they can provoke healing responses that appear miraculous, such as in DCBD. DCBD bridges medicine, neuroscience, religion, and anthropology. Consequently, it is regarded as too sprawling by scientists who prefer to work in a confined, limited area. DCBD also carries the stigma of being "weird" and "foreign." So it isn't surprising that researchers have given it a wide berth over the years. At long last, however, this attitude is changing, and a few brave investigators are coming forward. In my imagination I see DCBD as a territory marked by bold signs: ATTENTION PROSPECTIVE NOBLE PRIZE WINNERS: LOOK HERE! Is anybody out there up to the challenge?

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PubMed1997

Lessons from twins: of nature, nurture, and consciousness.

Once accorded a high place in the world's mythologies, twins may be poised to reappear with new power in the images are archetypal patterns that shape the modern mind. On a concrete level, they are influencing how we define ourselves. As a result of intrauterine ultrasound studies, we are finding that more of us are twins than we ever imagined: a phenomenon dubbed "the twin without." We are also learning about within": our complementary "solar" and "lunar" traits of which the ancient Twin myths speak, whose integration is one of life's great tasks. Some of the most compelling messages of twins are appearing in an unexpected area: modern science. One of the great discoveries of 20th-century physics is the principle of complementarity: the idea that a subatomic particle can possess dual or twin aspects; that under certain experimental conditions it can manifest as a particle, and under others a wave. This is an expression of what could be called the "Twinship Principle" in modern science. The gene-environment relationship, which we have examined, is another. We might also add the predator-prey relationship in ecology; the alternation of day and night and the seasons; the sleep-wake cycle; perhaps even the one-and-zero relationship that is the basis of modern computer languages. In art, we find twinship in figure and ground, light and shade. Perhaps the most profound expressions of the Twinship Principle occur in psychology and spirituality: mind that is both local and nonlocal; the personal and the transpersonal; mortal and immortal; physical and immaterial; transcendent and immanent; sacred and profane. In all of these relationships, the entities illustrate the "coincidence of opposites." Like the poles of a magnet, they define each other and cannot exist without each other. Philosopher Alan Watts once said that the most profound metaphysical principle is that every inside has an outside, and every outside an inside. Is this the most important lesson of twins?

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