Join us on Wednesday, November 13, 2024 from 12:00 - 1:00pm for The Mystery of Life Energy presented by Dr. Rick Leskowitz.

Western medicine is the world's only healing tradition that does not recognize the existence of an invisible healing energy. This talk will present evidence for the reality of life energy and the biofield model of health and illness. We will discuss the institutional forces that have resisted this new/old perspective over the past 250 years, and then look at energy's role in chronic pain (especially phantom limb pain), describe some energy-based group processes (team chemistry, fan energy, global consciousness), and outline the energetics of Mother Earth (from sacred sites and ley lines to stone circles and crop circles).

Dr. Eric (Rick) Leskowitz was a consultant psychiatrist for over 25 years with the Pain Management Program at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, where he founded the Integrative Medicine Task Force. He holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School, has studied energy healing, meditation, and hypnosis for over 40 years, and has had more than 50 articles published in leading scientific journals. He has also edited three textbooks, and his documentary film about group energies and sports, The Joy of Sox: Weird Science and the Power of Intention, was broadcast on PBS. The Mystery of Life Energy is his latest book.

All are welcome and registration is not required, you can access the lecture using this Zoom meeting link.

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