Category: Writings

Last year I counted the books lining the walls of my office. I found over 500 and I know I’ve gotten quite a few more since. I like books. Perhaps I don’t actually have to tell you that. I’m certain that some of this obsessive collecting is in an effort to find just the right book. I mean the truly… Read more →

Did you know that it’s possible to treat self-mutilating cockatoos by entering their energy field and having a bunch of therapists link hands in a circle around you? That’s not all. If you’re sufficiently sensitive, messages given off by animals in distress can actually be “heard” as normal human speech. Really. (For more details, read pages 242-244 in Healing Ancient Wounds:… Read more →

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) The story goes that Thomas Edison (an Ohio boy, by the way) met one day with the team… Read more →

It seemed like such a wonderful opportunity when Donna first heard about it. She could still be there when the kids came home from school most days, and the money wasn’t all that bad. Most of all, she could be a therapist again, she could try out some of the new things she’d read about on the Internet. She “lurked”… Read more →

I got into another tussle recently with one of my colleagues about the use of alternative care. I’m growing increasingly cranky about such things these days, as you can tell by the amount of writing I do about it now. I mentioned that the main problem is the amount of out-of-pocket expense incurred by sick people and their families since… Read more →

I’m often asked to provide some kind of detailed manual explaining just exactly what it is I do to my patients. People want a book full of pictures with arrows and captions. They want a protocol or a list of techniques to use in opposition to certain symptoms or diagnoses. Well, I’ve seen many books with pictures over the years… Read more →

I want to begin this essay by saying that I believe The Ohio State University Marching Band is the finest college marching band in this country, if not the entire universe. Now, I know that there are people out there who may believe something else. They might say that I’m talking about something that cannot really be objectively measured. They… Read more →

Part I I’ve been struggling with an essay about “energy medicine” for the past few weeks. After starting and stopping several times I began to wonder what the problem was. I had more than enough material, plenty of personal experience with the subject matter and those who practice in this way. But every time I put something together I found… Read more →

No matter where we are, the shadow that trots behind us is definitely four-footed. Clarissa Pinkola Estes We bought a beagle pup for my son and managed to keep it a secret clear through till Christmas morning. This required that I sleep through the previous night with a small dog draped across my throat, but the look on Alex’s face… Read more →

As long as we are alive we are always doing something. But as long as you think, “I am doing this,” or “I have to do this,” or “I must attain something special,” you are actually not doing anything. When you give up, when you no longer want something, or when you do not try to do anything special, then… Read more →