The Sacred Promise:
Science and the Role of Spirit in Healing
Gary E. Schwartz, PhD |
The belief in a greater spiritual reality
and its healing role in our individual and
collective lives has been held by vast
numbers of people and religions throughout
recorded history. On the other hand,
conventional Western science traditionally
has assumed the opposite; that Spirit does
not exist, and that the explanations for
healings observed in the context of
spiritual practices must be the result of
spontaneous healing or of
mind-body/belief/placebo effects.
But now Gary E. Schwartz using conventional
methods of science has collected a wealth of
new evidence that directly addresses these
issues. He will present provocative new
material from his forthcoming book The
Sacred Promise that will summarize some
spontaneous experiences from his own
personal life, some exploratory
investigations where the scientists test new
procedures using themselves as the subjects,
and finally some formal laboratory
experiments that follow university approved
protocols as appropriate.
 This
material and its implications will be of
special interest to the scientists and lay
public who regularly attend Rhine
activities. And there will be ample time for
audience interaction and reaction.
Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D., is
a professor of psychology, medicine,
neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the
University of Arizona and director of its
Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and
Health. After receiving his doctorate from
Harvard University, he served as professor
of psychology and psychiatry at Yale
University, director of the Yale
Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of
the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before
moving to Arizona in 1988. He has published
more than four hundred scientific papers and
co-edited eleven academic books. He is the
author of The Afterlife Experiments, The
G.O.D. Experiments, The Energy Healing
Experiments, and the forthcoming The Sacred
Promise
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