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Larry Dossey

lines on the record: 65
first: 2019-01-23
most recent: 2019-01-23
sittings or episodes: 1
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“You know, as we get older, I find that I have a different attitude toward this idea of happiness also. And I write about this in the book. There are a couple of ways of dealing with that. One is to get out of sorts about the fact that you're unhappy and you're suffering, which just sort of intensifies it. The other is to back off and take the position that's advocated in mindfulness meditation where you just simply observe it.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh wow I get a greatest sense of healing from doing my work and knowing that I'm on the path. Right pan, and when I Doing my work and standing up for what I think is right in spite of criticism and what people think. That's the most healing thing for me. It really is transformative. My life does not work well when I do not do that. And I've developed a very sensitive awareness of when I depart from that path.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's about Well, we really don't know, but I think it has to do with exceedingly pleasant memories that we build up in store as children growing up. and those get triggered and that stimulus does something to awaken the person this is so profound opra that i've given standing instructions to my wife that i'm if i'm ever in an auto accident carry it off to the neurological intensive care unit you know get me the best neurosurgeon you can but get those carolers in there and have them”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The going idea is that even in coma, the auditory sense never goes totally away. So the song gets through to deep parts of the brain and triggers memories. Most of us...”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's a chapter on music, and I present cases in there that are almost. unthinkable they border on the miraculous for example patients have been deeply comatose in neurological intensive cure units from Injuries They respond not at all to verbal stimuli. And in many of these cases, there are about a dozen now own record. Christmas comes around, the carolers come into the neurological intensive cure unit, and they sing these songs, and the person wakes up. There's something about the power of the Christmas carol in particular to stir memories that are really pleasant and they're practically miraculous. These patients will start trying to extubate themselves, taking out their breathing tube. In many cases, they start yanking out their IVs and they wake up. And in one case, I talk about in the book, the guy wakes up from coma.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Are the recommendations that we apply some maggots and let them clean up the wound and let it heal naturally? I think most people would choose the maggot therapy rather than have their foot amputated. These are real life examples. I think most people, even though they were repelled by this, would make that choice in favor of this outrageous therapy.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yes, they do. These usually are people who have flunked therapy from almost everything else. They're at the end of the line. And I'll tell you, if you were facing either amputation of your foot from a diabetic ulcer,”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“them these maggots? Oh, absolutely. Okay. There are situations where nothing else will work as well. Maggots will not eat healthy tissue. They will debrid dead and dying tissue in a wound where nothing else will work”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It had to shake you up, and certainly the use of maggots as is being done now in hospitals across the United States shakes people up because we're repelled by that idea. It's been bred into us that we don't want anything to do with that. No, we don't.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's why this is an outrageous idea, I'd be the first to admit. But that's one of the criteria I had for selecting a topic for these chapters. It had to be outrageous.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. Third World of Countries really are embracing this return of maggots and leeches in medical and surgical situations.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the most dramatic example of the reappearance of bugs by which I mean just creepy crawlies in general is the use of leeches and maggots and modern surgery. There are situations now where doctors are deliberately applying maggots to infected wounds To clean them up in cases of diabetic alterations, in cases where wounds will not heal because the place.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My favorite is just simply gardening and garden soil you have all the microbes that one needs to boost the immune system in these And in very important ways. And so we're not talking about not taking showers or anything like that. We're talking about deliberate exposure to the outdoors in ways that are increasingly out of style, in particular in urban environments.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I know everybody thinks this. The data do not say this, however. There's something now that has brought this to the fore. It's called the hygiene hypothesis. In a nutshell, it says that during our formative years, children need exposure to the bacteria, viruses, and fungi that are in dirt, common dirt. It challenges the immune system to develop antibodies that will protect you the rest of your life. If you look at kids who are raised on farms, for example, they do much better in terms of immune function later in life than kids who are raised in hygienic environments. And so the recommendations now from authorities who look at this field is that parents consider exposing their kids purposefully to dirty experiences, playing in sandboxes, for example, which has sort of gone out of style. You know, making mud pies.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dirt's back. Let me tell you. If you look at Children who are exposed to unhygienic conditions growing up, these kids turn out to have a more robust immune system later in life than children whose mothers throughout their upbringing try to keep them squeaky clean 24-7 They have a lower incidence of childhood asthma if they're raised in dirty environments. They have a lower incidence of infectious diseases. I thought it was the opposite.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. Those primary basic needs that have to do with whether or not somebody goes to bed hungry at night, for example, or whether they're able to finish high school, unless we pay attention to these things, these add-ons just aren't going to carry that much weight for those people.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that one of the failings of the integrative complementary alternative healthcare movement has been that we have not been attuned to the social conditions that promote either illness or health. And I think that we as a nation are in the process, hopefully as we enter this election cycle, paying more attention to that. We've got to do more than preach the virtues of acupuncture and homeopathy and diet and exercise because if people are burdened by not having adequate nutrition, even a roof over their head. And so I think it's hypocritical for us as professionals to talk about these other things without Doing what we can to help people get their basic needs met. And let's not kid ourselves, that's a huge issue in America currently.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She did it. I think probably both. I think this woman was a healer. I don't know if she knew she was a healer or not. But that's what healers do. I mean, this is a classic healer. I think lots of nurses.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of the country. That's exactly right. But that experience of that little simple act of just touch hand holding was seared into my brain and my memory, and it stayed with me ever since. And I sort of developed a thing that I think that”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it was like the switch turned in my body and brain. The pain immediately went away. So did the anxiety and fear, and I knew in a heartbeat that something had happened to me that I didn't understand. I had met a healer. At that time, healing was not even in my vocabulary. I didn't know what.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, absolutely But actually, I begin to be fascinated by the healing power of simple things quite early in my life. I had an emergency appendectomy. It was a terrible experience. I never met the surgeon ahead of time. He just didn't think it was necessary. I didn't meet the anesthesiologist ahead of time. When I woke up, I was in pain, I was alone. I felt isolated, anxious, hurting like crazy. And I had no idea what was found at surgery. No one had bothered to even tell me. And something simple happened. A nurse came by and she merely held my hand and she said, don't worry, Larry. Everything's going to be just fine.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They point like an era to religious tolerance and openness. These studies show that no particular religion is cornered to the market on this prayer stuff. And I'm happy about that. That's one of the great contributions that these studies have made, I think, to human welfare, this affirmation of tolerance and openness between faiths.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think many of them are in that rebellious stage of essentially denial. That this information is out there. You know, I think that's where patients need to take charge. And if they're under the cure of a physician who they think is not attuned to their spiritual needs, they need to shop it. And I've advised patients of this for years.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I kind of had my tongue in my cheek when I made that prediction. And I have to concede and confess that it has not proved to be true. And perhaps it shouldn't because I think that the main thing doctors ought to do is to use this information in an educational sense. And to inform patients of the power of prayer and then let the patient make up their mind about whether or not they want to incorporate this into their health. But Dr.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, that was one of the predictions I made in 1993 in the book that if the data continues to be strong and more abundant, and if prayer becomes the standard of practice in a given community and a doctor doesn't at least recommend it to his patients, that doctor could conceivably be considered guilty of malpractice.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. And then I wrote the book and I began to get letters from doctors all over the country telling me that their experiences matched mine in terms of their willingness to honor this information and to make it a part of their daily practice.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Felt terrific because I knew that I was taking a more holistic and complete approach to therapy than by just using biologically and physicalistically oriented approaches. I thought that was it. I had written other books. If I'm going to have a surgeon”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For the best outcome for my patients, I did that until I left my practice of internal medicine. So this deeply affected me in the way I”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Over the years, I've accumulated shamanic rattles of great variety. I have one of the world's greatest supplies of incense.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was rebelling I grew up in the buckle of the Bible belt. And fundamentalist Christianity, Texas, Central Texas. But I threw away all of that when I went to medical school. And at the time I came across this research, I was certainly not disposed to prayer, believe me. But I knew at a heartbeat that if that study was correct in prayer really did something therapeutic people in the coronary care unit, I better reconsider my boycott of prayer. And I did. I spent three years looking at all the research that had ever been done in the world and was totally shocked to find it so abundant. And in that time, I began to incorporate prayer in a morning prayer ritual religiously every morning because I knew that I had to in order to do justice to these findings.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. Exactly And this was just like a dagger in my heart. I looked at this study and I said, Larry, if this study is correct, then the world just changed for you. You're not praying for your patients. And at that time, I wasn't praying for my patients. I wouldn't have prayed for them on a bed. I didn't think it was worth anything. And I had patients.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Decided to use prayer as the intervention, randomized double blind study, doctors, nurses, and patients didn't know who was getting the stuff and who wasn't, and then he just simply looked at the outcomes. And the Prayed For group, not knowing they were being prayed for, did better on many clinical criteria than the people in the control group. I was stunned. I knew everyone.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Did you discover Someone sent me a copy of an outrageous study in which a cardiologist attempted to study prayer in a coronary care unit the same way you would study the effects of a new medication. You have a bunch of people with a common disease, in this case heart attack You give half of them something and not the other half, which is the control group, and then you just compare how they do. Well, in this particular study, it wasn't a drug that was being tested. This radical cardiologist, Dr. Randolph Byrd,”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I was. And I bought into this idea that You know, the major players in medicine were drugs and surgical procedures. And it came as a shock to me to discover what I eventually began to consider the best kept secret in medical research”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think so. You know, when I first begin to explore those prayer experiments, I never thought it would lead in the direction of looking at the universe in a new way. But it does.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This passage always reminds me of the statement of Einstein that The most important question of scientists can ask is the universe friendly? And I think by affirming immortality and an eternal aspect of who we are, these studies help us give them a yes answer to Einstein's famous question, is the universe friendly?”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is so exciting. What we have here is a bridge between science and theology which for generations have fought each other bitterly over turf battles and so on. But this offers an opportunity not for a total blending. I don't think we ought to try to homogenize science in spirituality, but at least a coming together, a shaking of hands, and a new dialogue. And it helps us harmonize two parts of who we are. The spiritually oriented aspect of ourselves and the rational logical part of who we are. We can be whole, more whole as a result, I think, of honoring these studies.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Total annihilation. That's the assumption of modern biology. These studies, the healing studies, point to something different.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, for me, this is the richest implication of the whole deal. I'm all for praying for people to get better, and indeed they do, statistically speaking. But this is more than just another tool in our black bag as doctors, you know? The idea that we have some quality of consciousness that is non-local is the word I love, but that's just a fancy word for infinite. We have some capacity to reach out through space and time to make a difference in the world. So these studies affirm the idea of the soul, and they point like an arrow to the possibility of survival of bodily death. I think this is the most significant outcome of this whole area of investigation. You know, our culture has been, I think, severely damaged by this assumption that it's all over with the death of the brain and body.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think you hit the nail on the head, and in many shamanic cultures, pre-modern cultures, There is a principle that you better be careful if you pray for harm for other people. Through curses, hexes, or spells, or something like that because of what's been called the boomerang effect. This can come back and harm you and leave the other person unscathed. And so in folk cultures, this is... accepted that this does rebound to the person occasionally if they try to harm the people.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's related But what most of these studies look at is whether or not you can increase the rate of bacterial growth in test tubes or harm them. You can reverse your healthy thoughts and try to harm the bacteria. And sure enough, people can work it either way. There are many of these studies on the books showing that people can influence living systems in a positive healthful way or a negative way. I think that these studies demonstrate that we should take this idea of negative thoughts and intentions quite seriously.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can't test it in people because it's illegal to do a study that looks to harm people. So that can't be done. What researchers have done is to in the laboratory explore whether or not people can have negative intentions and thoughts toward things like bacteria or plants or even animals.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you do the numbers, over 10, 12 million people out there praying to harm other people. And the question better beat is, does that stuff work?”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I think it certainly isn't. The reason I made an issue of this thing about toxic prayer or negative prayer. Was a Gallup survey in 1993 which asked Americans how they pray. And in this survey, 5% of Americans said that they pray occasionally for harm for other people.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had rather rely on a higher wisdom When I pray for people. May the best outcome prevail in this situation. May thy will be done. And I felt really comfortable about that.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Were you appeal to a higher wisdom, greater than your own? As an introvert, Unreconstructed introvert, I have real trouble telling the world what to do.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Needed, I had to put this to use in my own practice of internal medicine. And so I invented my own prayer ritual where I would go into my office earlier every morning and pray for the Patients, I was about to make round zone in the hospital, and who would be coming to my office that day, and never once, over many years, did I ever pray for anything specific, like may the heart attack go away? Or I want this cancer to be healed. I simply adopted a may thy will be done approach. And I think this captures the surrender aspect that you just mentioned.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I just really don't like gimme prayers. I've got to tell you, you know, when I first started writing about this, the role of prayer, I decided that I...”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The one and genuineness and sincerity. You know, in real life, we say we pray for our loved ones, right? Yes. That means we pray unconditionally. We will pray for them no matter what. Why? Because we care for them. And if you talk to Healer's Opera, they'll tell you this. They'll say, it's not the words you use or how long you pray. You've just got to feel it in your heart. And over and over again, this issue of depth and sincerity and love and compassion rise to the top.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, you don't. If I had to select one quality which overrides the number of people praying or even how long they pray, it would be the intensity and the genuineness and the authenticity of love that the praying person has.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source