William Bengston PhD declares something very profound in his energy healing training course, Hands On Healing. He asks for everyone in his audience to be "skeptics." To Dr. Bengston, skeptics are individuals who are not attached emotionally to an outcome. They are open-minded to whatever the data shows and continue to ask questions. He contrasts this with "believers" who have an egoic-based need to be "right" or to prove others "wrong." Science is full of this paradox: profes

In medicine, we often shy away from speaking about matters of spirituality. There are good reasons for this. Science does not necessarily rely on Spirit to make important discoveries and advance medicine. In addition, we as physicians usually try not to impose any beliefs onto our patients, recognizing the huge diversity within the populations we treat. While understandable, our lack of time to explore the unseen is another persistent gap. I suspect this limitation ultimately