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"I was taught that, long before stained glass windows were made as works of religious art, the use of Color Therapy was commonly practiced in churches. Some churches even held small booths or enclosures constructed of stained glass panes that people would go into and pray for healing. Indeed, the stained glass windows we now enjoy viewing in churches and cathedrals were originally inspired by the practice of Color Therapy. In 2006,1 was in Spain touring a number of churches with an architect friend." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"As an example, researchers at Johns Hopkins University partnered with sixteen Baltimore churches to investigate the impact of various nutrition and physical activity strategies on African American women aged forty and over. The big winner, after a year, was the on-site program at churches. Compared to a self-help group that registered little gain, the church-based group made significant inroads in weight loss, blood pressure, and waist girth reduction. "Urban African American women over forty bear a marked excess risk of obesity and death from heart disease," commented Diane M." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Besides, various churches have always attributed special healing powers to their particular tools. Roman Catholic churches have Holy Water and other healing elements (Easter wafers, Saint Glaize Candles, Scapulars, and so on). Other religions use prayer clothes, prayer oils, and various pieces of string for which healing benefits are commonly prescribed. Nearly all churches recognize prayer as an effective form of healing." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"Indeed, the stained glass windows we now enjoy viewing in churches and cathedrals were originally inspired by the practice of Color Therapy. In 2006,1 was in Spain touring a number of churches with an architect friend. As we walked through one church, she noted that in her historical research she had found that Color Therapy was done in churches before the rise of stained glass windows. A study had even been done on the apparent spontaneous healings of people while attending church." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"She told the women she had gone to Buena Vista University, a centerpiece of this town of quiet, leafy neighborhoods and more than a dozen churches. Ms. Hillmer also told them she knew so much about insomnia that her colleagues had dubbed her "the sleep queen." "I work for a pharmaceutical company," she said, "but I'm not here to push any medication." She did not mention Ms. Ambien, who was sleeping in the poster back by the soda pop. As the women munched their potato chips and oatmeal raisin cookies, Ms. Hillmer spoke of the ills that could befall them if they did not get their sleep." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In 1966, America's other great preacher, Billy Graham, stood up before representatives from the National Council of churches and told them, "I don't know anyone who has done more for the kingdom of God than Norman and Ruth Peale."45 It is hard to imagine a more striking acknowledgment of the mainstreaming of positive thinking, at least in American religious culture. The medicalization of positive thinking Peale brought the gospel of positive thinking into the mainstream of American religious culture. But he did not succeed in bringing it into the mainstream of American medicine and science." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"The ancient tradition of faith or spiritual healing has been embraced by many different religions, and in modern times has been associated with Christianity. Most churches have some form of healing ritual, whether it be simple prayers for the sick at weekly services or special individual bedside services. Religious systems such as Christian Science preach spiritual healing as part of their creed." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"The Greek Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches celebrate the same mystery in the Feast of the Assumption: "The Virgin Mary is taken up into the bridal chamber of heaven, where the King of Kings sits on his starry throne." "O Virgin most prudent, whither goest thou, bright as the morn? all beautiful and sweet art thou, O daughter of Zion, fair as the moon, elect as the sun." 37 3. Woman as the Temptress The mystical marriage with the queen goddess of the world represents the hero's total mastery of life; for the woman is life, the hero its knower and master." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"MY TRUTH, THE SHOULDS, AND YOUR HEALTH My Truth may run in opposition to all the social directions and demands we receive from the media, our loved ones, our churches, and our jobs. These shoulds are other people's truths, but they may not be right for us. If you drop the shoulds that are not in alignment with your own personal truths, you save yourself from the negative physical effects of untruth. In fact, you will have the Brilliantly Healthy sensation of clarity, independence, and well-being that comes from telling the truth. r Tar State your Truth about your health." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"This formula is, of course, not precisely that of the common Christian teaching, where, though Jesus is reported to have declared that "the kingdom of God is within you," the churches maintain that, since man is created only "in the image" of God, the distinction between the soul and its creator is absolute—thus retaining, as the final reach of their wisdom, the dualistic distinction between man's "eternal soul" and the divinity." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"For children who are not yet in grade school, churches, synagogues, and community groups can be vital sources of help. Do some research on the Internet for specialized playgroups, day-care centers, camps, and advocacy organizations in your area. If you find that your community doesn't offer this type of help, consider creating a group yourself. After all, ADD/ADHD affects a shockingly large portion of the population, as we know by now, and it's likely that people close at hand are facing many of the same problems." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Peale had trained as a Methodist preacher but imbued with the larger "therapeutic" impulse that was beginning to dominate in American churches in the postwar era, he had grown dissatisfied with the fundamentalist Christian doctrines he had learned in seminary.36 In 1937 he had conspired with a Freudian psychiatrist, Dr. Smiley Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993), Blanton, to set up a psychotherapy photographed August 23, 1946. clinic in the basement of the Marble ©Bettmann/Corbis Collegiate Church, where Peale was the pastor." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Miedema taught and lived in Orange City, a town in northwestern Iowa that is home to 5,600 people, a private Christian college, and a dozen churches. A resident of a nearby town had arrived home to find Coach Miedema in his kitchen. At first Miedema explained he was looking at paint samples. Later he confessed to searching for pills. Police said Miedema also confessed to breaking into another home several times to steal medication. In August 2005 he pleaded guilty to burglary, theft, and possession of a controlled substance without a prescription." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Disciples of St Paul, a fervent believer in the Holy Spirit, prompted the evolution from more traditional churches of Pentecostal, Charismatic and Revivalist denominations, with their emphasis on the power of faith. Such charismatic groups hold prayer meetings and services to deliver healing. The power of faith and prayer cannot be underestimated. Faith can move mountains. 'Right' thinking, or the power within, puts the potential to heal within the reach of us all. Discovering the power of faith and prayer has changed the lives of many people." - Dr Ron Roberts, Asthma Controlled Naturally: Techniques That Work (Get the book.)

"Constantine's fusion of empire with Church demanded a similar diversion of capital—witness the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem—but the great churches of late antiquity seem to be rooted more in politics than economics. The Christians of Constantine's New Rome, his city of God-and-Emperor, needed a leader, and the church's leader needed a cathedral—from cathedra, originally the name of the seat occupied by a bishop. The first cathedral built by Constantine was the Hagia Irene, north of the Hippodrome." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The squares, churches, and palaces of Constantinople are quite properly revered as the city's architectural jewels, but by far the most historically important construction in the city's history were the first things seen upon arrival: its walls. The walls sealed off the peninsula on which the city was built, turning it into a fortress that would stand, unbreached, for eleven centuries." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Those churches that were not rectangular basilicas were typically built in the round, though examples of circular or octagonal structures in the grand size are fewer; the most prominent fourth-century versions are probably the Church of San Lorenzo in Milan, and the Golden Octagon in Antioch, described by the early Christian historian Eusebius as "a church unique in size and beauty . . . raised inside to a great height in the form of an octagon surrounded on all sides by two story spaces. . . ." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "In the former Vandal territories, not only had all antiorthodox Christians been banned, but the region's synagogues were rapidly being turned into churches. High walls and determined resistance combined to make Naples impregnable, until one of Belisarius's private soldiers discovered that one of the aqueducts that had formerly supplied the city's water was no longer in use, and as a result was unguarded and accessible outside the city's defensive perimeter." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"In another program, it paid to screen members of urban African American churches for glaucoma. There was a good chance that any churchgoer found to have signs of the eye disease would be prescribed Xalatan, Pfizer's high-priced prescription eyedrops. The pharmaceutical companies had also become among the biggest advertisers in the spiritual magazine called Guideposts, which was founded in 1945 by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale. The magazine attracted millions of readers with stories of hope and divine guidance like one entitled "What Prayer Can Do." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Other organizations in your community you might approach for volunteer opportunities: ?local churches or faith-based groups ?local charities ?city hall and community affairs representatives Should you be unsuccessful in your own community ... In the late 1990s an initiative called Civic Ventures was founded by John Gardner and my friend and colleague Marc Freedman. Civic Ventures is an organization that is reframing the debate about aging in America and redefining the second half of life as a source of social and individual renewal." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"The big winner, after a year, was the on-site program at churches. Compared to a self-help group that registered little gain, the church-based group made significant inroads in weight loss, blood pressure, and waist girth reduction. "Urban African American women over forty bear a marked excess risk of obesity and death from heart disease," commented Diane M. Becker, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Promotion. "This study demonstrates that church-based interventions can greatly improve their cardiovascular health." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The promotion of prescription drugs in churches and in spiritual publications gave the pills a kind of holy endorsement from above. One of my mother's friends gave me a copy of Guideposts published in the summer of 2005. Tucked among stories about "finding hope in tough times" and "a young girl's moment of truth" was a four-page spread advertising the heartburn drug called Nexium, including an offer for a free seven-day supply. "The healing purple pill," the ad proclaimed, "has some very healing news." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"By 1918 Douglass was using a special core borer to sample ancient pueblo beams from Anasazi structures and old Spanish churches. It took another decade for him to bridge the gap between historical tree rings and his "floating chronology" from Anasazi pueblos like Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Canyon. The missing rings came from a large pueblo lying under a Mormon barnyard at Show Low, Arizona, where a charred log bore rings that dated back to A.D. 1237 and linked the two ring sequences." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"A Conversation on the Bridge with Bishop Alden Hathaway Alden Hathaway, retired Bishop in the Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh, is the director of Solar Light for churches of Africa (SLFCA; www.solarlight forafrica.org). He is a visionary who has worked tirelessly to put his faith into action for the betterment of others. Alongside Uganda's retired Bishop Masereka, now chairman of SLFCA, Bishop Hathaway has championed an ongoing effort to bring solar energy to orphanages, churches, and other facilities in Africa." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"A working group at the World Council of churches, for example, called upon churches and Christians "to build partnerships with civil society, people's movements, small scale farmer groups, and Indigenous Peoples in opposing the science, philosophy, and practice of genetic engineering in agriculture."20 But religions largely remain the sleeping giants in the debate, since they have not yet wielded their enormous consumer clout. Any one of several could immediately force GMOs off the market simply by encouraging their members to avoid them." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"In earlier times, the churches dominated the picture. Then the banks came and the insurance companies. Today the drugstores are everywhere. Money, money, money. We all know that the effort to make medications cheaper for the American citizens failed. The results? Today 23% of what Americans spend out of their pockets goes to health care (Health & Human, Services Department study, in Jan 2004). In other numbers, $155 trillion (Yes, Trillion!) were paid by people in the USA, or $5,440 by each individual person paid to Big Pharma and Associates. These are simple facts." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In 2006,1 was in Spain touring a number of churches with an architect friend. As we walked through one church, she noted that in her historical research she had found that Color Therapy was done in churches before the rise of stained glass windows. A study had even been done on the apparent spontaneous healings of people while attending church. It found that the individuals who had experienced this phenomenon had one thing in common—they were all sitting in the light pouring through the stained glass windows." - Tom Woloshyn, The Complete Master Cleanse: A Step-by-Step Guide to Maximizing the Benefits of The Lemonade Diet (Get the book.)

"Roman Catholic churches have Holy Water and other healing elements (Easter wafers, Saint Glaize Candles, Scapulars, and so on). Other religions use prayer clothes, prayer oils, and various pieces of string for which healing benefits are commonly prescribed. Nearly all churches recognize prayer as an effective form of healing. Yet the FDA chose to single out Scientology's E-meter machine, likely because it perceived the device as presenting a genuine threat to psychiatry's monopoly over mental health treatment. On January 04,1963 a group of U.S." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"All of the different churches of New Thought saw themselves as Christian in spirit and essential doctrinal orientation; many of them were established by dissident onetime followers of Mary Baker Eddy. All recognized Phineas Parkhurst Quimby as their founding father, and all insisted that Christian Science had failed properly to acknowledge its own equally deep debt to Quimby's mind-cure system. Some went so far as to accuse Eddy of taking ideas straight out of Quimby's manuscripts and putting them into Science and Health." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

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