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Clinical studies continue to show prayer
heals. Dr. Larry Dossey revealed the results of
a second phase study at Duke University on the power of prayer.
The MANTRA project at Duke is headed up
by cardiologist Dr. Mitchell Krucoff and nurse practitioner,
Susan Craven. The results show that heart
patients who receive prayer have 50
percent to 100 percent fewer side effects
than those patients not prayed for.
If patients agreed to be part of the study
they were randomized and the "prayer" patients'
names went to prayer groups around the world. First names
only were sent via e-mail to Buddhist groups in Nepal, Hindus
in India and Jewish groups in Jerusalem. Catholic nuns, Unity
Village Missouri and Protestants in North Carolina also participated.
The full report on the study will be published
in an upcoming issue of the American Journal of Cardiology,
according to Dossey. It will be the first time a heart journal
has published a study on the effects of "distance"
prayer.
Dossey also noted hundreds of other studies
on the power of prayer that, until now, have been mostly ignored
by the allopathic, or traditional medical community. However
based on the Duke study Dossey concluded, "There's no
going back. This is a huge
transition in medicine. Medicine will not be able
to retreat from the impact."
Annual conference
of ISSSEEM (The International Association for the study of
Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine) Boulder, CO June 16,
2001
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