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Optimistic about America's ability to confront addictive substances, Andrew T. Weil '64 urged his audience at the Institute of Politics Wednesday to revolutionize the nation's drug policy...
...leave them feeling alienated and uncared for. Many seek solace in the offices of alternative therapists and faith healers--to the tune of $30 billion a year, by some estimates. Millions more is spent on best-selling books and tapes by New Age doctors such as Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil and Larry Dossey, who offer an appealing blend of medicine and Eastern-flavored spirituality (see following story...
...more likely than are scientifically trained doctors to view prayer and spirituality as low-cost treatments that clients say they want. "The combination of these forces--consumer demand and the economic collapse of medicine--are very powerful influences that are making medicine suddenly open to this direction," observes Andrew Weil, a Harvard-trained doctor and author of Spontaneous Healing...
...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 their way to questions of medicine and the soul. Weil writes in his latest book, Spontaneous Healing, "The more you experience yourself as energy, the easier it is not to identify yourself with your physical body." Jon Kabat-Zinn has applied...
Even when people are truthful, online relationships are necessarily limited. "You're only accessing a portion of a person," points out psychologist Michelle Weil of Orange, California. "As people, we need a tactile physical presence to make a complete bond. We need to see their face, see their gestures and smell their breath." Jonathan Steuer, an Internet consultant who lives in San Francisco with a woman he courted by E-mail, agrees: "Finding someone online is great as long as you take it to the face-to-face level and have a real-life relationship...