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Larry Dossey

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first: 2019-01-23
most recent: 2019-01-23
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, I admit up front that these studies are statistical and there's no guarantee in any case that when you pray for someone, you're automatically going to see An improvement as a result of the prayer. But if you lump all of the people together, all the cases and look at it statistically, you can show that sure enough, for the majority of people, there is an effect. I think we ought to”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm telling you that it doesn't matter. And this has been proved extensively. You know, one of the things that we draw from these experiments is that prayer works as well from the other side of the earth as it does at the bedside. There's even evidence now that it may work in retrospect, that you can pray later and affect the outcome of a person's physical condition even though you suppose that that has already happened”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It has to do with something called entanglement. And what you have in this theory is the idea that even though individuals can be far apart, they can still behave as if they're a single entity. Whereas you change one, the other one changes instantly and to the same degree. We draw on analogies from what happens in the subatomic domain here. And if it happens with distant electrons or other particles, the thinking is that this may have a corollary where humans are far apart. It gives us something, a metaphor to hang our head on about how these distant changes may occur when one person has a compassionate, loving thought, and the other person at a distance changes in correlation with that person's healing intention, thought, or prayer.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The short answer is no one knows That's a hypothesis. I think that we just ought to say out front that this is still very much a mystery. I don't feel uncomfortable saying that we don't know how it works because in the history of medicine we often know that something does work before we have a clue about how it does. You make a long list of medium aspirin, penicillin, and on.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Strangers, yes, the people doing the paraying were in Canada and Australia and the United States. And when they looked at the data, the outcomes, the women who received the prayer from these remote prayer groups had twice the successful fertility rate as the women who were not assigned prayer from these distant individuals. You know, we talk about the odds against chance in these studies. There was only one chance in 1,000 that you could explain this by saying, well, this just happened according to chance. This was just a fluke. This is one of the most careful and compelling studies that's been done, but not just in infertility. We've seen these studies now done in patients with advanced AIDS, with heart attack, and in several other”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Attempt to have a baby. Unknown to them, they were enrolled in one of these studies in which people were recruited to pray for half of them, but not for the other half. Is what we call a triple blind study, which means”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of my favorite examples has to do with infertility. This study took place in a fertility clinic in Seoul, Korea in women who really had difficulty getting pregnant. They were undergoing in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Exactly. I think No matter how compelling the data becomes for some people, they're still going to stick to their guns and say that there must be something wrong with the studies. But the medical schools have come around. And I think that that's the place to look for indication of where this is headed. If the medical schools take this on, then it's not going away. That speaks volumes for the legitimacy of this whole thing about prayer.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They have a great deal of difficulty, but there are some people who are so wedded to the physicalistic. Conception of consciousness. Only”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, we've got about 21 of those studies now. So we've gone from one to 21 studies, over half of them show statistical significance showing that prayer works. It's driven the skeptics nuts because they're dedicated basically to the proposition that we know in advance that consciousness can't operate outside the brain and the body. It's okay to talk about mind, body influences, but to talk about your thoughts, your love, your compassion operating at a distance Intercessory prayer is just over the top for so many critics and still is. But the data won't go away. It's there. It's firm and it's abundant.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Then and now, I still do. But as it turned out, the force of the data, the force of the information spoke for itself, and to my great surprise, researchers began to come out of the closet doing these additional studies which continue to show that prayer does have a healing effect. When you put it to the test in the hospital and the laboratory, you know, when you and I last talked in 1994, there was only one major large human study in prayer. But since then, Oprah, We have an explosion. We've had an explosion of these kinds of studies so that if you fast forward.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Came as a shock to me when I first discovered that information, and I felt that we were at a point in history where one, in order to be honest with oneself as a physician, had to take a stand and I decided to come forward with that. It wasn't clear to me that I could survive professionally doing that. You're”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Actually, I did come under attack. And I wasn't sure if I could withstand the criticism or not. But I knew that what I had to say was right. And I had something that believers in prayer and spirituality have not had throughout history. It's that pesky little four word letter word called data. And I knew for the first time that it would be possible to use the word prayer in science in the same sentence. And hopefully get away with it. And as it turned out, that proved to be true. It came as a shock to most of my colleagues. To discover that there were actually what we call double-blind randomized controlled experiments looking at the efficacy of prayer and getting well.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But the pace of change since that book came out, which put prayer forward. As something really powerful in the healing response.”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“because as you say almost all of those have proved to be true when I made those predictions I thought that I was probably going out on a limb to the extent that I wouldn't see those come through true in my lifetime”
2019-01-23 · Oprah's Super Soul · Larry Dossey: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source