This is only one of the many centers to offer spiritual/mind/distant/quantum healing, much like Deepak Chopra is doing. A few other centers/gurus are :
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www.quantumintegralcenter.com]
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www.quantumparenting.com]
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www.spiritgrowth.com]
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www.distancehealing.net]
This type of beliefs follow from the original work of Elisabeth Targ on distant healing (West J Med. 1998 Dec;169(6):356-63). This was the first double blind study that indicated a possible effect of distant healing on AIDS patients. Elisabeth Targ became an instant hero to the healers/believers community. She was a psychiatrist from Stanford who died at the early age of 40 from a brain tumor. Ironically, one of her proposed study on distant healing involves brain tumor patients. When she became ill, distant healers began to call and tried to cure her at a distance but they failed. She died in July 2002, a few months after she was diagnosed.
She was Bobby Fisher's niece (the US chess Grandmaster). She was also the daugther of Russel Targ (a physicist) who woked with Harold Puthoff (anoher physicist and a Scientologist !) on project "Stargate", the secret CIA project (declassified in 1995) at Stanford on "distant viewing". The passage from "distant viewing" to "distant healing" is now easy to understand.
All those people share the common New Age beliefs that one can act or cure at a distance through the sheer application of will (distant viewing/distant healing).
What is remarquable is that the NIH is funding clinical trials on "distant healing" and I am not joking!!! See:
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nccam.nih.gov]
Is this Quackery or a New Medical Science? Has the NIH been infiltrated by new Age thinkers?