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Summer 2010: Inner Ear & Balance - Issue #60, Vol. 15
Inner Ear as Grounding
by Nancy Mellon
Like the ancient Chinese and Indian Rishis before him, Rudolf Steiner saw the whole human form condensed within the human ear. In a lecture given in 1922, he described the tiny bony formations deep within the inner ear as a miniature person standing on an eardrum. The stapes or stirrup bone appeared to him as a version of the thighbone; the anvil he saw as a transformed kneecap, and the malleus as the lower part of the leg, its “foot” sensing the delicate vibrations of the drum of the ear much as the sole of your foot senses the ground. The curling cochlea bone deep within the inner ear he saw as a version of our intestines. “And so,” he said, “you can imagine, there inside the ear lies a human being, whose head is immersed in your own brain. Indeed, we bear within us a whole number of 'human beings', more or less metamorphosed, and this is one of them.”
Ears have fascinated me ever since I was a child. When I first learned about the bony components of the ear in school, I also was learning to play the piano. Our teacher’s name was Professor Drumm. Each time he would arrive with a loud rapping at the front door and it would seem as if the whole house gulped. The Professor had a shock of white hair and his face was always red. He boasted that his son could play every instrument in the orchestra and had perfect pitch but we never met this prodigy. My brothers did not like Prof. Drumm and seldom did what he asked them to do. Bang. He would slam the lid on the piano keys and there he would stand, ears red with musical rage as I inched into the room for my lesson, feeling the fume of his anger amidst shattered pencil points from the big noisy X’s in our assignment book where the job had not been done.
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The Power of Premonition
Walter Alexander Interviews Larry Dossey, MD
Larry Dossey, MD, whose latest book is The Power of Premonitions: How Knowing the Future Can Shape Our Lives (Dutton, 2009), has long been a champion of the reality of consciousness and power of intention in healing and medicine. Walter Alexander, contributing editor for LILIPOH, interviewed him during his book tour.
Walter Alexander: Your first book, Space, Time and Medicine, looked at the influence of worldview on matters of medicine and health, both for doctors and patients. My sense is that it showed that psychological/spiritual issues, belief systems about the cosmos and consciousness are not trivial and can literally make the difference between life and death. What have you been writing about since?
Larry Dossey: Now I’m on book number 11, and everything since the first has been an elaboration on the role of consciousness in spirituality and health. I continue to be fascinated by the subject.
WA: Has the audience evolved?
LD: It’s easier to talk about it now.
WA: But the vignette in The Power of Premonition that grabbed me more than others was the one about the epidemiologist Jeffrey S. Levin who challenged his compatriots at a major Eastern US hospital to admit to each other that they’d all had premonitions related to their patients. They’d all come into his hospital office, closed the door and privately confided to him about their experiences. But then when Levin spoke to them in a group and asked them to “come out of the closet”—they ran back into their separate closets and locked the doors. They couldn’t do it.
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Special Issue
Living with Cancer: Perspectives in the Pursuit of Health
CANCER: A POSSIBLE PATH THROUGH FOUR DOMAINS OF FREEDOM
By Gerald Karnow, M.D.
How dare you talk about something you have not experienced as a reality in your life?
I can well imagine being asked such a question, so will begin by saying that, as a physician, I encounter varied forms of cancer and varied approaches to the disease through my contact with many in whom cancer is a physical reality. I stress the word “physical” because cancer is generally considered a bodily, physical affliction. However, a little deeper look reveals that any physical manifestation of cancer is preceded and accompanied by pre-conditions, pre-cancerous states, which occur not just on a tissue level, but on a physiological level, a psychological level, and even on a spiritual level. Thoughtful physicians come to know cancer not merely as identical with the tumor, but as an illness of the entire human being. With this understanding we can explore how each dimension of the human being – body, life, psyche and spirit – is integral to the arising, the development, and the healing (or non-healing) of the illness. If we address only one dimension of the whole, we will not be facing reality.
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