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Beyond divinity book for medical officer3/28/2024 ![]() ![]() We spent all afternoon sitting on a sunny deck overlooking the Rio Grande, comparing notes and learning about one another. The psychologist and head of the conference Robert Schwartz suggested I listen to Jeff’s lecture, and when I realized how much professional overlap we had, and how both of us were studying the intersection of science and spirituality as rigorously as we could, I introduced myself afterwards. We met at a resort on Native American reservation land near Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I was doing research for my book Sacred Medicine and he was presenting the results of years of collecting data on people with “incurable” or “terminal” diseases who had medically documented cures since 2003. Jeff ( Jeffrey Rediger, MD, MDiv to be nerdy about all his academic degrees) and I met almost four years ago at the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology conference, where I had been the keynoter a year before and Jeff was keynoting the next year. But none of those accomplishments have anything to do with why this is a love story, other than how we met. It’s about my long term friend and now romantic partner, who you all may know from his work as the medical director of the inpatient psychiatric hospital at Harvard or for his divinity school studies at Princeton or for his bestselling book about spontaneous remission, CURED. Since I’m gearing up to teach the Memoir As Medicine class with Nancy Aronie, I wanted to take a moment to write you all a love story. ![]()
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