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"Poets conceptualize "love" better than neurobiologists dissect it. religion has a place, for some a healing place. There are even attempts to study the fashion in which religion might create a therapeutic envelope. Ethnic identities, cultural norms, and social constructions all have their place in the fabric of our lives. We need our beliefs as individuals, and we need their pluralism as a global village. All can provide for beauty, caring, and comfort. All can have excesses and require close scrutiny in this regard. None of these aspects of life is supported by health insurance." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"RELIGION VERSUS SPIRITUALITY Webster's dictionary defines religion as, belief in a divine or super-human power or powers to be obeyed and worshiped as the creator(s) and ruler(s) of the universe, and, expression of this belief in conduct and ritual. Spirituality is concerned with the spirit or the soul, often thought of as the higher part of the mind; showing much refinement of thought and feeling." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"The Relaxation Response basically builds on a general technique that virtually every religion and meditative practice has used for eons, but without the religious trappings. "All the major religions use prayer, generally repetitive words in a singsong, or almost chantlike rhythm," Benson says. In fact, the early research on the Relaxation Response used repetitive phrases like Hail Mary, full of grace for Roman Catholic research subjects and Shalom or Echad for Jewish ones." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"When distinct patterns of behavior, a shared history, codified doctrines, rituals, and sacraments are built around this type of depth dimension, the resulting structure consi-tutes "religion" in a recognizable form. Organized religion generally refers to an organization of people who share a prescribed set of beliefs, ethical standards, and rituals, usually taking the form of a legal entity." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Yes, we are made into believers of new religion - the drug religion. Yes, with drugs, we believe we can solve every problem. Thus say the drug pushers. Thus say the pharmaceutical industries. But the real truth is that we are creating a population with less self-responsibility, with less responsibility for others. We are creating new diseases, which will, in turn, be fought by new drugs. Yes, we are moving into the direction of a DRUG SOCIETY. Psychoactive drugs probably have the most horrible side effects." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Spirituality sees human beings as one with God, and understands that everything is connected. religion focuses on an external power, while spirituality focuses on the power within. Spirituality invites us to understand our thoughts and feelings as reflections of the source of creation in our lives. Oddly enough, the great teachers of the religions have taught that: "the kingdom of God is within you."7 They have tried to show the way. But, religious groups have missed the point." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"After Ulfilas, the core of Gothic identity was a shared language and religion; but while Ulfilas might have been bishop to all the Christian Goths, his flock was a diverse one, and the names by which its pieces were known were inconsistently applied until the sixth century." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"I discuss how spirit lives and moves through us, bringing it into reality instead of keeping it in the abstract realm of religion. At times I found it challenging to describe the experience of spirit to you in this book. The words don't fully do justice to the spirit's magnitude, but hopefully you will understand or begin to get a glimpse of the "experience of spirit." However, one seldom fully grasps something until they experience it themselves. The good news is we all can have experiences of spirit, healing, communion, and raising of consciousness. It is our birthright." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.) "The foundation of rules and regulations that underlies the structure of the house of religion and the trappings of how to get to heaven become far more important than the spirit that dwells in the house so that, in some cases, the house seems vacant. Glenda Green interprets, "While structure is necessary to physical existence, it results only in isolation, frustration, judgment, and arrogance when given power in the spiritual realm." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"There is a lot more religion in science than you might expect. So here we find ourselves once again, lost at sea amid the crosscurrents of conflicting science. Or do we? Because it turns out we don't need to declare our allegiance to any one of these schools of thought in order to figure out how best to eat. In the end, they are only theories, scientific explanations for an empirical phenomenon that is not itself in doubt: People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Ask Your Doctor "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." —Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism" • Description of Prescription The word "prescription"—abbreviated as "Rx"—has some interesting associations when applied to the virtual realm. As in medicine, a prescription can be a cure, remedy, or solution recommended to correct a disorder, imbalance, or problem." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"Christian worship services were both frequent and, once Christianity became the official religion of the empire upon the death of Constantine in 337, virtually universal. By the end of the fourth century, churches had tended to adopt one of two architectural models. Those in the west were built in the shape of basilicas (from stoa basileos, or king's room) and were the first really large buildings for Christian worship. The typical western basilica was built around five (sometimes three) longitudinal aisles, the middle one—the nave?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "The victorious general and future Emperor Titus (whose Triumphal Arch in Rome features an image of the stolen menorah, and through which Jews have long refused to pass) had destroyed the temple in the hope "that the Jewish religion might be utterly eliminated," but he was to be denied—and not merely denied, but rebuked—as Rome's empire proved, over the subsequent centuties, essential to Jewish survival. Despite Rome's desire to obliterate the Jews' national identity (to the point of renaming Jerusalem as Aelia Capirolina, and Judea as Palestine1?" - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"I don't want to denigrate anyone else's religion, and I realize that my statement may be abrupt or offensive, but I encourage everyone to look closely at Jesus. Clearly there has never been another quite like Him. Unfortunately, many people's view of religion and church taints their perception of Jesus. Without a doubt, churches are full of people who have flaws. And the Christian faith—along with other religions I might add—has been trumpeted in the defense of some cruel and unholy practices." - Pat Sullivan, Wellness Piece by Piece: How a Successful Entrepreneur Discovered the Pieces to His Chronic Health Puzzle (Get the book.)

"It is a tapestry of ideas—a picture of many colors, drawing upon many areas: physics, biology, philosophy, religion, psychology, and personal experience, to name but some. Not all of the ideas will be new to you. What may be new is the picture that forms as the various themes weave together. Then the familiar becomes fascinating, and a new vision emerges of ourselves and our place in the Universe. In building on the contemporary scientific understanding of the world, I do not wish to imply that this worldview is necessarily correct." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Ask Your Doctor "Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic." —Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin (1973) "Science and Scientism" • Description of Prescription The word "prescription"—abbreviated as "Rx"—has some interesting associations when applied to the virtual realm. As in medicine, a prescription can be a cure, remedy, or solution recommended to correct a disorder, imbalance, or problem." - Richard, Dr. DiCenso, Beyond Medicine, exploring a new way of thinking (Get the book.)

"Eliade writes, "Such 'fire' and 'heat' are always connected with access to a certain ecstatic state—and the same connection is observed in the most archaic strata of magic and universal religion. Mastery over fire, insensibility to heat, and, hence, the 'mystical heat' . . . translates into sensible terms the fact that the shaman has passed beyond the human condition and already shares in the condition of'spirits.'" A fire vigil is an opportunity to sit with fire and learn from it, receive guidance, and be blessed by the spirit of the fire." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"Okinawans have a blended religion that stresses ancestor worship. Loma Linda centenarians are Seventh-day Adventists. All belong to strong religious communities. The simple act of worship is one of those subtly powerful habits that seems to improve your chances of having more good years. It doesn't matter if you are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, or Hindu. Studies have shown that attending religious services?even as infrequently as once a month—may make a difference in how long a person lives." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"His broad and unique approach to psychology included the application of a rigorous scientific method but also emphasized understanding the mind through exploring the worlds of religion, philosophy, mythology, and symbolism. Jung's work focused heavily on the "unconscious," which would include the subconscious as Freud defined it, plus what Jung called "the collective unconscious," a storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from man's ancestral past, including not only the history of man as a separate species but our pre-human ancestry as well, the whole history of human evolution." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "My approach to psychology not only included the application of rigorous psychological science and clinical method but also emphasized understanding the mind by exploring the worlds of philosophy, quantum physics, neurobiology, chemistry, religion, sociology, and anthropology. It was through this unique synergy of knowledge that my private clinical practice became a living laboratory of human wonderment as I continued to discover and refine mind-body methods that delivered astounding results at every level of wellbeing." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.) "In college, I began a thorough study of philosophy and world religion. By the time I hit graduate school, I had developed the heart of a religious mystic. In my private clinical practice, which began in 1976, I started to apply the objectivity of science to the unfettered vision of someone who believes in the limitlessness of human integrity and accomplishment." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"Jessen, Afhandling om de Norske Finners og Lappers Hedenske religion, p. 31. This work is included in Leem's volume, op. cit., as an shaman slowly awakes, declaring both the cause of the illness and the manner of sacrifice to be made. Then he announces the length of time it will take for the patient to grow well. "On his laborious journey," reports another observer, "the shaman has to encounter and master a number of differing obstacles (pudak) which are not always easily overcome." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"To escape this trap will require extraordinary solutions that transcend politics, religion, and individual goals. Unfortunately, history has no precedents to guide us, beyond reinforcing the belief that Homo sapiens sapiens is capable of rising to the challenge. As Otto von Bismarck remarked more than a century ago, we need to hear the footsteps of history and learn from them. Irrational Exuberance SECOND EDITION Robert J. Shiller Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford Disclosure. The author is the co-founder and principal of two U.S." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Mansikka, in Hastings' Encyclopaedia of religion and Ethics, Vol. IV, p. 628; article "Demons and Spirits (Slavic)." The cluster of articles by a number of authorities, gathered together in this volume under the general heading "Demons and Spirits" (treating severally of the African, Oceanic, Assyro-Babylonian, Buddhist, Celtic, Chinese, Christian, Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, Indian, Jain, Japanese, Jewish, Moslem, Persian, Roman, Slavic, Teutonic, and Tibetan varieties), is an excellent introduction to the subject." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"This is clearly a huge question with implications that rattle everything from the ideas of life and evolution to the basis of religion itself. Also, it spawned the hugely popular 1999 film The Matrix. Zuse was obviously a man ahead of his time. Thirty years later, he elaborated on these ideas in his book Calculating Space and set into motion the events that led to the revolution in our view of reality and everyday life.8 Commenting on how his mind-blowing insights took shape, Zuse described how he made the connection between the machines that he was building and the machinery of the universe. " - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"And then a savior will be born, named Padmanatha, to announce again the eternal religion of the Jains; the stature of mankind will approach again the superlative, the beauty of man will surpass the splendor of the sun." - Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces Joseph Campbell (Get the book.)

"In matters of spirituality and religion, we were taught to listen to the minister, pastor, priest, rabbi, or sheikh. In matters of our health, we have been conditioned by our upbringing, the media, and the pharmaceutical industry to go to the doctor because "The doctor knows best." But is this always the case? We think we are free, in control, and well taken care of, but are we really? The answer in health, as in all other parts of our lives, is to think for ourselves." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"For many this internal war of spirit killing begins at a very early age, reinforced by messages from parents, teachers, peers, TV, advertising, and religion, resulting in what is called spirit loss. In this condition the internal flame of spirit is burning low, becoming a mere flicker or perhaps nothing but an ember. When our internal vibration of peace is in alignment with our external vibration, we are in harmony and this homeostasis supports the ecology necessary for the spirit flame to burn brightly." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"PRINCIPLED LIVING THERAPY DOES NOT HAVE a monopoly on how to surmount or transcend human helplessness and emotional suffering, and in truth the ultimate solutions lie outside these professions within philosophy and religion. Emotional suffering has always been a part of human life and attempts to alleviate it go back to the earliest times and earliest literature. From the prophets in the Bible to Shakespeare, and from Plato to Dr. Laura and Dr. Phil, people with varying degrees of wisdom have propounded solutions to that suffering with varying degrees of success for varying people." - Peter Breggin, Medication Madness: A Psychiatrist Exposes the Dangers of Mood-Altering Medications (Get the book.)

"His ancestors had to conform to the religion of the explorers or lose everything. So they compromised. In a maneuver of sheer brilliance, they masked their beliefs, hiding them in the language and customs that satisfied the Spanish. In doing so, they kept their land, their culture, and their past intact. I ran my fingers over the hammered studs that held the old wooden planks of the door in place. As we stepped inside the little chapel, the sounds of the bustling pueblo outside fell away. All that remained was the still, quiet air of this 400-year-old holy place." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

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