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What medicine keeps getting wrong about spirituality, and what 16,000 papers finally proved

Based on the Harvard Divinity School panel: Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health, featuring Dr Tracy Balboni, Rev Gloria White Hammond, Anna Gosline, Rev Ali Jablonsky and Dr David Rosmarin.Hello, hello! I’ve been abstaining from my opinions on purpose during this series of articles because I want you to focus on the science of spirituality….

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The science of spirituality in healthcare

What medicine is finally beginning to understand about meaning, suffering, and healing Note of attribution: All data and claims referenced in this article are drawn from Dr Tracy Balboni’s lecture for Harvard Divinity School on spirituality and Health Care. Modern medicine has mastered the art of treating the body. But when it comes to treating…

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Science and spirituality: why modern neuroscience points to ancient wisdom?

With rising distress in post-industrial culture; science has been exploring spirituality Attribution note: All data and claims referenced in this article are drawn from Dr Miller’s video on neuroscience, spirituality, and mental health. This piece presents a neuroscience frame with a cautious interpretation of the evidence. There has never been a time in post-industrial global…

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From woo-woo BS to something that changed my life

The spiritual circus I was born into I grew up in a very confusing environment, spiritually speaking. Spirituality and mental health were never a subject on my family’s table. My father’s mother was a ferocious Catholic. My father’s father was a priest who impregnated my grandma twice and ran away with her sister. My grandmother…