Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sent him a volume called Quantum Healing by some sort of Indian spiritual healer named Deepak Chopra. Fuerst, a practicing internist in Hollywood, Florida, from 1955 to 1986, did his med school at the University of Pennsylvania, and Chopra's thesis--that the human spirit and the human body are intimately connected--had not been on the curriculum. He skimmed the book and put it aside...
Times have changed. Countless studies attest to the connection between psychological condition and both illness and recovery. What might be called the spirit/ body connection, although still regarded skeptically in most parts of the medical world, has conquered popular culture, the staging ground from which mind/body launched its siege of the academy. The prophets of this healing offensive are photogenic and media-friendly (enlightenment these days almost never implies asceticism), but here their common traits end. They speak in different tongues to reach different audiences. Physicians like Dr. Andrew Weil and Dr. Larry Dossey remain soberly scientific but eventually make...
...could take them. It's always struck me as paradoxical how the people I know at Harvard College could be so pre-professional in their dedication to the life of the modern bourgeois, yet so escapist in their avocations. Medicine, or law, even filmmaking, cannot satiate the spirit when they stand alone. So, like the Happy Hour revelers, we seek respite through escapism, even though we never truly escape...
Fairbanks died early, at 56, but he had already written his obituary on film. At the end of the 1929 The Iron Mask, when D'Artagnan is killed, his spirit rises and he marches in heaven with the other Musketeers, their burly bonhomie still alive. And Doug is in the middle--smiling as if he'd just won the race, the fight and the girl...
Then last week I went to a perfectly legal heterosexual Jewish wedding in Chicago, and at the end of the ceremony both bride and groom stomped on glasses. Apparently, that's done a lot these days, in the same spirit as having both parents walk down the aisle with the bride. I had simply been behind the times...