February 15, 2000: Consciousness and Healing - Dr. Larry Dossey

Dr. Larry Dossey, a physician and researcher, explores the non-local nature of consciousness and the scientific evidence for distant healing and prayer. Dossey challenges the conventional materialist view that mind is confined to the brain, presenting data suggesting consciousness can transcend space and time. He discusses double-blind studies at Duke University and other institutions demonstrating that prayer produces measurable healing effects regardless of the patient's awareness or the religious tradition of those praying. Prayer worked equally well for Christians, Buddhists, Muslims, and other faiths, raising profound questions about the mechanism behind these effects. Dossey argues for reinventing medicine to incorporate this evidence rather than dismissing phenomena that don't fit mechanistic models. His work examines remote viewing, premonitions, and dreams as further examples of non-local mind. The conversation explores how consciousness might insert and acquire information beyond the brain, challenging fundamental assumptions about the nature of reality and human potential.