 |
Larry Dossey, MD
Keynote Fee : Call For Quote Travels From: NM |
Topics
- Mind-Body-Spirit Medicine
- Personal Change
Events
- Award Banquets
- Community Outreach - Health Fairs
- Corporate Health - Wellness Forum
- Employee Wellness Programs
- Fundraising
- Galas / Anniversaries
- Women's Conferences
Products
* Click on the Product to Order
Programs
Recovering the SoulFor 300 years, Western science has assigned the soul and the mind to oblivion. The soul has been considered a fantasy, and the mind has been identified as a byproduct of the brain's chemistry. Thus, when the brain and body die, the mind dies right along with them. Dr. Dossey explores evidence that this is not the case, that some aspect of the human psyche is nonlocal, not confined to points in space (such as a body) or in time (such as the present moment). This evidence further suggests that there is something about us that is omnipresent, infinite, and eternal, something related in Western thinking to the concept of a soul and to the idea of the Absolute. Dr. Dossey addresses the concept of a Universal Mind, for if our minds are, at some level, unbounded in space and time, they must in some sense be connected to one another as well. Dr. Dossey's conclusions, not merely philosophical speculations or mystical insights but supportable truths, offer a true bridge between scientific and spiritual thought.
Mind & Medicine: What the Fuss is All AboutHistorically, illness and health have been viewed as "physical" issues: disease is due to malfunctioning atoms, molecules, cells, and tissues; health is due to their proper functioning. The mind and the body are seen as fundamentally separate. Dr. Dossey explores the flaw in this logic, presenting scientific evidence to show that not even common diseases can be understood without taking into account the manifestations of a patient's mental state, emotions, thoughts, attitudes, and perceived meanings. Consciousness does, in fact, occupy a significant place in the origins of health and illness. This model coheres with good science and substantiates humankind's persistent conviction that there is "something more" than the physical.
Meaning & MedicineAccording to many practitioners on the modern medical scene, illness is merely the result of a problem in the physical system of the body. Illness holds no intrinsic meaning. By extension, the meanings that people perceive in life -- what life-events represent to them -- play no part in their health and illness. Dr. Dossey critiques this belief system and provides decisive evidence to show that meaning is a critical part of wellness. Developing the idea of "meaning therapy," he shows how new meanings, as potent as drugs or surgery, can be formed to facilitate health.
Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of MedicineIn his New York Times bestseller, Healing Words, Dr. Dossey uncovered one of the best-kept secrets in medical science: the enormous body of data showing that the act of prayer can greatly affect the practice of medicine. In this presentation, he examines the evidence of prayer's efficacy, the role of the unconscious in prayer, how prayer manifests through dreams, the relationship between methods of prayer and one's personality, and the negative side of prayer. He addresses the complex relationship between spiritual understanding and physical health. The primary function of prayer, Dr. Dossey asserts, is not only to help eradicate illness or increase longevity, but to simultaneously remind us of our essential nature. Ignored for much too long, this information is changing the way medicine is practiced and revolutionizing our ideas about healing.
Spiritual Achievement & Physical Health: What is the relationship?It is currently fashionable to believe that if one is "spiritual enough," one won't get sick. Or that if one does get sick, one fell short spiritually. This assumption that there is an inviolable, one-to-one relationship between spiritual achievement and physical health is a misconception, having no support historically or clinically. While correlations do exist between psychological, spiritual, and physical health, they are never constant nor rigidly replicable. Failure to understand the complexity of the mind-body-spirit association sets the stage for the current epidemic of what some call "New Age guilt," the sense of failure and self-blame when one gets sick. In this presentation, Dr. Dossey discusses this unfounded dispensation of guilt, re-imagines the negative experience of illness, and arrives at an empowering view of the role of spirituality in health.
Reinventing MedicineFirst there was the body, followed by burgeoning recognition of the undeniable alliance between mind and body. Now an invigorating new understanding is welling up, one that pulls consciousness fully into the synergy of body and mind. What would modern health care be like if we actually applied, in the real world, all the data that demonstrate the benefits derived from nonlocal effects of consciousness? In this lecture, Dr. Dossey elaborates on themes set forth in his 1999 book Reinventing Medicine (HarperSanFrancisco). He discusses how frontline evidence increasingly affirms the reality of distant healing and the efficacy of intercessory prayer; how nonlocal perception can be used in medical diagnosis; how dreams inform health care; and how we can change our approach to death by replacing our morbid views of dying with scientifically validated new images. Dr. Dossey shows how this revolution in medicine is being inaugurated in hospitals and clinics across America and in our nation's medical schools.
Speaker Information
This tall and distinguished Texas physician, deeply rooted in the scientific world, has become an internationally influential advocate of the role of the mind in health and the role of spirituality in healthcare. Bringing the experience of a practicing internist and the soul of a poet to the discourse, Dr. Larry Dossey offers panoramic insight into the nature and the future of medicine.
Upon graduating with honors from the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Dossey worked as a pharmacist while earning his M.D. degree from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, 1967. Before completing his residency in internal medicine, he served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, where he was decorated for valor. Dr. Dossey helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association, the largest group of internal medicine practitioners in that city, and was Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital in 1982.
An education steeped in traditional Western medicine did not prepare Dr. Dossey for patients who were blessed with "miracle cures," remissions that clinical medicine could not explain. "Almost all physicians possess a lavish list of strange happenings unexplainable by normal science," says Dr. Dossey. "A tally of these events would demonstrate, I am convinced, that medical science not only has not had the last word, it has hardly had the first word on how the world works, especially when the mind is involved."
The author of nine books and numerous articles, Dr. Dossey is the executive editor of the new journal, EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. He is also the former Executive Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine, the most widely subscribed-to journal in its field. The primary quality of all of Dr. Dossey's work is scientific legitimacy, with an insistent focus on "what the data show." As a result, his colleagues in medical schools and hospitals all over the country trust him, honor his message, and continually invite him to share his insights with them. He has lectured all over the world, including major medical schools and hospitals in the United States --Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, the Universities of Pennsylvania, California, Washington, Texas, Florida, Minnesota, and the Mayo Clinic.
The impact of Dr. Dossey's work has been remarkable. Before his book Healing Words was published in 1993, only three U.S. medical schools had courses devoted to exploring the role of religious practice and prayer in health; currently, nearly 80 medical schools have instituted such courses, many of which utilize Dr. Dossey's works as textbooks. In his 1989 book Recovering the Soul, he introduced the concept of "nonlocal mind" -- mind unconfined to the brain and body, mind spread infinitely throughout space and time. Since then, "nonlocal mind" has been adopted by many leading scientists as an emerging image of consciousness. Dr. Dossey's ever-deepening explication of nonlocal mind provides a legitimate foundation for the merging of spirit and medicine. The ramifications of such a union are radical and call for no less than the reinvention of medicine.
Testimonials
"Must see, must hear this speaker no matter what your preconceptions / current world view."
- Evergreen Hospital Medical Center