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...spirituality in healing [MEDICINE, June 24]! For thousands of years, mystics have been saying the mind and body are one. We can surgically remove a symptom or illness, but if it remains in the mind, it will return to the body. According to physician and spiritual healer Deepak Chopra, the whole system needs to be treated. I hope that more of the medical community will take the opportunity to bridge the mind-body connection, looking to Chopra as the leader, the spokesman helping to bring medicine and mysticism closer together. JAMES SMALLWOOD Santa Barbara, California...
...this anemic woman wrapped in feathers on your cover? Is this TIME's idea of faith? Surely this is not a healthy female. Why didn't you put Chopra on the cover? TORRE P. TAGGART Ojai, California...
First, however, Chopra had to take some steps of his own. A dark anecdote in his 1988 memoir, Return of the Rishi, foreshadows some of his later concerns. Chopra's father, a successful British-trained cardiologist, was in England when he learned that his own father was taking Ayurvedic medicine, the traditional Indian herbal cure, for a heart condition. The doctor disapproved. "His success in the system demanded his belief in the system," Chopra writes, and from London he "demanded that my grandfather abandon this nonsense and call in a Western-style heart specialist." The old man did, "and died...
DAVID VAN BIEMA, who wrote the story about Deepak Chopra and other New Age healers that makes up part of this week's cover package on faith and healing, has a rare gift for writing about spirituality without cynicism or gushiness. "Faith and matters of the spirit are as important to understanding America as politics," says Van Biema, whose last cover story was about Billy Graham's son Franklin. "They're a little tougher to track, but they're immensely rewarding." Religion is by no means Van Biema's only interest. Since he came to TIME three years ago from...
...didn't know I was on a spiritual path at the time. I couldn't face the prospect of wearing a night guard to protect my teeth from stress, and the alternative I stumbled onto was meditation, which I'd read about in a Deepak Chopra book. If it could help people facing terrible things like cancer, why not my molars...