{"id":17243,"date":"2015-04-21T13:56:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T17:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/?p=17243"},"modified":"2026-07-19T06:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:10:48","slug":"dr-oz-accused-of-medical-quackery-while-his-new-agespiritual-quackery-goes-unaddressed-by-rick-warren-and-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/dr-oz-accused-of-medical-quackery-while-his-new-agespiritual-quackery-goes-unaddressed-by-rick-warren-and-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Oz Accused of Medical “Quackery” While His New Age\/Spiritual “Quackery” Goes Unaddressed by Rick Warren and the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

Major secular and Christian news media sources are reporting on an effort\u00a0by\u00a010 doctors to oust celebrity doctor, Dr. Mehmet Oz, from his faculty position at Columbia University for what the doctors\u00a0are calling “egregious lack of integrity”\u00a0and promoting\u00a0“quack treatments.” The ten doctors wrote a letter to New York’s Columbia University, calling Dr. Oz a quack and an endangerment to his followers for advice he gives about diet and health-related issues. A few reports are coming out stating that at least some of these 10 doctors may not be all that reputable and intentions may have more to do with Dr. Oz’s stance against GMOs and pesticides <\/a>in food than in does telling his audience how to diet and lose weight. One thing is most likely\u00a0given Dr. Oz’s high popularity, this will be a story that will stay in the secular headlines for quite awhile.<\/p>\n

Amidst\u00a0this media blitz focusing on some of Dr. Oz’s questionable medical practices, there is another side of this story that has\u00a0affected\u00a0mainstream Christianity. Rick Warren and the church seem to be totally unphased by\u00a0Dr. Oz’s New Age occult spiritual practices. Author Warren B. Smith states that for Rick Warren to invite Dr. Oz into the church (through the Daniel Plan)\u00a0is “the \u00a0inconceivable equivalent\u00a0of the first century church inviting Simon the sorcerer into the church to help it\u00a0become more healthy.”<\/p>\n

Dr. Oz has involved himself with a number of occultic practices, one being his association with\u00a0psychic John Edwards who\u00a0supposedly helps\u00a0people to talk to their dead loved ones. Oz and Edwards did one TV show together titled “Psychic Mediums: Are They the New Therapists? Find Out if Talking to the Dead Is a New Form of Therahttp:\/\/www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=17243&action=edit&message=1#py,” in which the answer to this question from both men was YES.\u00a0Oz has also written the forewords\u00a0to a number of\u00a0New Age and occultic books including Transcendence: Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation <\/em>and Quantum Wellness: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness. <\/em><\/p>\n

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What would the Old Testament prophet Daniel\u00a0have thought to know that his name is used in a diet plan that was created by New Age occultic teachers such as Dr. Oz. In the appendix of\u00a0Warren B. Smith’s <\/a>book A “Wonderful” Deception<\/em> and in Smith’s booklet Rick Warren’s Daniel Plan: The New Age\/Eastern Meditation Doctors Behind the Saddleback Health Plan<\/em>,\u00a0Warren Smith states:<\/p>\n

One can only wonder if the prophet Daniel\u2019s vision of the end days included a look at Rick Warren\u2019s Daniel Plan\u2014a compromised pastor and three New Age doctors with their psychics, spirit guides, tantric sex, necromancy, Yoga, Reiki, Transcendental and Kundalini \u201csa ta na ma\u201d meditations and more\u2014all in Daniel\u2019s name. If so, it is no wonder the Bible records that he \u201cfainted\u201d and became \u201csick\u201d for a number of days (Daniel 8:27).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Rick Warren has put\u00a0countless unsuspecting people\u00a0in harm’s way through his Daniel Plan and brought in “doctrines of devils,” which inadvertently undermines the Gospel. The Gospel message that is presented in the Bible is the antithesis of\u00a0New Age teaching\u00a0that says man is God and in no need of a Savior.<\/p>\n

Below is a reposting of Warren B. Smith’s article\/booklet titled Rick Warren\u2019s Daniel Plan \u2013 The New Age\/Eastern Meditation Doctors Behind the Saddleback Health Plan:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Zemanta<\/a>By Warren B. Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.\u2014(2 Corinthians 2:11)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Who would have believed it? Occult\/New Age doctors being invited into the church to teach Christians how to be healthy? On January 15, 2011 a fifty-two week health and wellness program\u2014the Daniel Plan\u2014was initiated at Rick Warren\u2019s Saddleback Church. More than six thousand people attended the well promoted and carefully staged event. Warren took the opportunity to announce that his own personal goal was to lose 90 pounds in 2011. The Daniel Plan website states that \u201cthe Daniel Plan envisions starting a movement so the result is better physical and spiritual health for current and future generations.\u201d1 It describes how Rick Warren \u201crecruited three best-selling authors\u201d to create and oversee the Daniel Plan Curriculum\u2014Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Daniel Amen, and Dr. Mark Hyman.2 Although these three physicians are all involved with New Age teachings, they describe themselves respectively as a Muslim, a Christian, and a Jew.<\/p>\n

On their church\u2019s Daniel Plan website, Saddleback pastor Brandon Cox tried to defend Rick Warren\u2019s indefensible decision to recruit three New Age doctors to implement a Christian health and wellness program. In his \u201cPastoral Response\u201d to the question \u201cWhy did Saddleback Church choose to use these Doctors who have been linked to other beliefs?,\u201d Cox wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cPastor Rick knows each of these Doctors personally and has the utmost trust in their ability to advise us about matters related to physical health.\u201d In a statement reminiscent of Little Red Riding Hood\u2019s \u201cgrandmother,\u201d Cox goes on to state: \u201cThese Doctors are helping us as friends, but are in no way advising our church on spiritual matters.\u201d3<\/p>\n

By repeating and emphasizing the term \u201cphysical health\u201d three times in the response, Saddleback was obviously trying to distance itself from Oz, Amen, and Hyman\u2019s New Age beliefs. But the \u201cwe\u2019re only using them for physical health purposes\u201d defense was not convincing. All three physicians are alternative medicine\/holistic health practitioners who teach the indivisibility of \u201cmind, body, spirit\u201d in achieving optimum well-being. In other words, their New Age spiritual beliefs are necessarily embedded in their medical practice, their best-selling books, and their public appearances.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mehmet Oz<\/strong>
\nDr. Oz is the cardiovascular surgeon who was featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show for five years before gaining his own popular daytime TV show. He also has a daily talk show on Oprah & Friends satellite radio and writes columns for several magazines including Oprah\u2019s O Magazine. Operating out of Columbia University\u2019s Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Oz is like a modern-day shaman as he mixes traditional medicine with a wide variety of occult\/New Age practices. In The Way of the Shaman, a \u201cforemost resource and reference on shamanism,\u201d Michael Harner\u2014an anthropologist who \u201chas practiced shamanism and shamanic healing\u201d for several decades4\u2014gives the following definition of a shaman:<\/p>\n

A shaman is a man or woman who enters an altered state of consciousness\u2014at will\u2014to contact and utilize an ordinarily hidden reality in order to acquire knowledge, power, and to help other persons. The shaman has at least one, and usually more, \u201cspirits\u201d in his personal service.5<\/p>\n

The following is a sampling of what Dr. Oz subtly, and not so subtly, incorporates into his medical practice and into his life. For instance, Dr. Oz\u2019s prominent endorsement is displayed on the front cover of self-described psychic Ainslie MacLeod\u2019s book The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended<\/em>. Juxtaposing the phrase \u201cspiritual well-being\u201d with the word \u201cpurpose,\u201d Oz writes:<\/p>\n

I recommend this book to those who seek greater spiritual well-being and a better understanding of their life\u2019s purpose.6<\/p>\n

In Oz\u2019s endorsement of another Ainslie MacLeod book, The Transformation: Healing Your Past Lives to Realize Your Soul\u2019s Potential<\/em>, Dr. Oz makes it clear that his approach to physical health is inextricably bound up with his beliefs regarding spiritual health. They cannot be neatly separated out as Rick Warren\u2019s Saddleback staff would have everyone believe. Dr. Oz\u2019s front cover endorsement states:<\/p>\n

Ainslie MacLeod is at the frontier of exploration into the soul and its profound influence on our physical selves.7<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In The Transformation<\/em>, MacLeod\u2019s spirit guides tell MacLeod\u2019s readers \u201cthat we are standing on the brink of the greatest leap in human consciousness in 55,000 years.\u201d8 Later, in a psychic reading that MacLeod gives to one of his clients, his spirit guides refer his client to Dr. Daniel Amen for help.9 Amen, of course being one of the other two Daniel Plan physicians. In The Instruction, among other things, MacLeod teaches readers how to meditate and contact spirit guides. In fact, spirit guides are referred to a whopping 175 times in the book\u201440 times before you even get to Chapter One. In his introduction, MacLeod describes how the skeptic in him used to read a book like his and think\u2014\u201cWho died and made this guy an expert?\u201d In his own case, MacLeod said the answer was his spirit guides\u2014one of them being his deceased Uncle John.10<\/p>\n

Dr. Oz\u2019s New Age affinity for psychics, spirit guides, past lives, and contacting the dead was showcased on his March 15, 2011 program\u2014just two months after the launch of the Daniel Plan\u2014titled, \u201cPsychic Mediums: Are they the New Therapists?\u201d The promo on his website read: \u201cCan talking to lost loved ones heal your grief? Hear why psychic John Edward believes you can talk to the dead.\u201d11<\/p>\n

On a January 6, 2010 Dr. Oz Show, Dr. Oz revealed what he believed to be \u201cthe most important alternative medicine treatment\u201d for his viewers in that coming year. His #1 \u201cOz\u2019s Order\u201d was to \u201cTry Reiki\u201d12\u2014an occult bodywork practice that incorporates the channeled guidance of spirit guides. Dr. Oz was reported in one press release as stating: \u201cReiki is one of my favorites, we\u2019ve been using it for years in the Oz family, and we swear by it.\u201d13<\/p>\n

On a video on Dr. Oz\u2019s website, New Age leader Deepak Chopra teaches viewers how to meditate.14 Chopra\u2019s 2009 book Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul<\/em> features Dr. Oz\u2019s back cover endorsement.15 Dr. Oz is a personal practitioner of Transcendental Meditation,16 which was founded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He has also practiced Yoga for over twenty years17 and is devoted to the New Age teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg\u2014teachings that resonate with the mystical Sufi branch of the Muslim faith that he and his wife most identify with.18<\/p>\n

Dr. Oz wrote the Foreword to US\u2014a New Age book written by his wife Lisa, who is a Reiki Master19\u2014a book that opens with a quote on oneness by New Age patriarch Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In his Foreword, Oz credits his wife\u2019s spiritual influence while also mentioning that a number of years ago he \u201cmatriculated at Oprah University.\u201d20 Dr. Oz endangers those who put their trust in him by interjecting his occult\/New Age beliefs into his medical practice.<\/p>\n

Presumably, the \u201cOpen Heart meditation\u201d given to Ainslie MacLeod by his spirit guides21 is not used by Dr. Oz before he does open heart surgery. One thing is for spiritual sure, Dr. Oz may be a skilled cardiovascular surgeon, but spiritually he is overlooking one of the most important aspects of the heart. God, speaking through the prophet Jeremiah, warns, \u201cThe heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?\u201d (Jeremiah 17:9). Multiple references in the Bible also warn about the extremely dangerous and deceptive nature of \u201cfamiliar\u201d and \u201cseducing\u201d spirits that Dr. Oz is in the process of normalizing through his extreme influence in the world and now in the church (see Leviticus 19:31; Deuteronomy 18:10-12; 1 Timothy 4:1, etc.).<\/p>\n

Dr. Daniel Amen<\/strong>
\nDr. Amen is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, best-selling author, and medical director of the Amen Clinics for Behavioral Medicine. In his book Change Your Brain, Change Your Life<\/em>, he encourages readers to \u201cLearn and use self-hypnosis and meditation on a daily basis.\u201d22 In Change Your Brain, Change Your Body<\/em>, Amen, a self-professed Christian, specifically recommends a Hindu Kundalini form of meditation called Kirtan Kriya. He instructs his readers to chant \u201csa ta na ma\u201d repeatedly while simultaneously doing repetitive finger movements.23 In a New Age world that says \u201ceverything happens for a reason\u201d and \u201cthere are no accidents,\u201d the first five letters of this Hindu meditation spell the name of Satan. The last three letters just so happen to be the abbreviated letters of the American Medical Association (AMA). Is this pure coincidence, some kind of cosmic joke, or spiritual mockery?<\/p>\n

In his book The Brain in Love<\/em> (formerly titled Sex on the Brain<\/em>), Dr. Amen recommends tantric sex to his readers. He writes that tantra \u201cis a term applied to several schools of Hindu yoga in which sex is worshipped.\u201d24 He states that \u201c[s]ome tantra yoga teachers recommend meditative practices that also share elements with Kundalini yoga, where subtle streams of energy are raised in the body by means of posture, breath control, and movements.\u201d25 He later adds:<\/p>\n

After you have agreed to safe boundaries, you can take sex to a new level by investing in a few books or magazines. I write for Men\u2019s Health magazine and it is always filled with great sex tips for couples. Cosmopolitan and other magazines have playful ideas as well. Books on tantric sex or role-playing games can also be fun.\u201d26<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dr. Amen\u2019s fascination with tantric sex and Kundalini yoga is very similar to the teachings of Indian gurus like Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and Swami Baba Muktananda. Dr. Amen\u2019s New Age sympathies are also evident in his willingness to write the Foreword to author Lucinda Bassett\u2019s The Solution<\/em>. In her book, Bassett quotes New Age leaders Marianne Williamson, Eckhart Tolle, the Dalai Lama, Neale Donald Walsch, and others. She describes Walsch as \u201ca spiritual messenger whose best-selling books and lectures profoundly touch the world.\u201d27<\/p>\n

Dr. Mark Hyman<\/strong>
\nDr. Hyman is the chairman of the Institute of Functional Medicine and author of the best-selling book The UltraMind Solution<\/em>. With its front cover endorsement by Dr. Mehmet Oz, The UltraMind Solution<\/em> offers practical medical advice while at the same time recommending a number of New Age resources to his readers. For example, he recommends the website of New Age author and guided imagery proponent Belleruth Naparstek.28 Her books and materials are designed to help people meditate, become more psychic, and connect with spirit guides. Her website describes how her materials are used worldwide by patients, hospitals, HMO\u2019s, government agencies, etc. Dr. Hyman and New Age leader Dr. Bernie Siegel are listed as two of Naparstek\u2019s \u201ccontributing health and mind-body health practitioners.\u201d29 Siegel, of course being the New Age leader Rick Warren used to introduce the idea of hope and purpose in The Purpose-Driven Life<\/em>. Like Dr. Oz and Dr. Amen, Dr. Hyman recommends meditation and yoga to his readers.30<\/p>\n

Dr. Hyman endorsed a New Age book titled Power Up Your Brain\u2014The Neuroscience of Enlightenment<\/em>. It is co-authored by shaman\/medium Alberto Villoldo and neurologist David Perlmutter. The Foreword from the publisher states:<\/p>\n

And now two men, two seers\u2014a shaman and a scientist\u2014are combining their experiences and expertise to explore the totality that includes all of the spirit world and all of the scientific world\u2014as One.31<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David Perlmutter writes:<\/p>\n

For it had become clear to us that access to the Great Spirit or Divine Energy\u2014that natural force which is called by so many names\u2014is available to all. In a sense we are all shamans, and the most advanced teachings in cellular biology are validating lifestyle activities that for centuries, have been paving the way to enlightenment through meditative practices not just for the chosen few but for all who care to learn. Our collaboration explores the implications of this not only for individuals but for all of humanity.32<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Villoldo\u2014who spoke at a 2011 Palm Springs Prophets Conference with New Age leader Barbara Marx Hubbard33\u2014 writes:<\/p>\n

During my years studying with the shamans, I learned about their belief in the Divine Mother, which we each have the potential to discover in nature. This was not the bearded old man whose image I had come to associate with \u201cGod.\u201d Rather, this was a force that infused all creation, a sea of energy and consciousness that we all swim in and are part of. I came to understand that our Western notions of the divine are perhaps a masculine version of this life force that infuses every cell in our bodies, that animates all living beings, and that even fuels stars.34<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Power Up Your Brain<\/em> includes a chapter recommending various \u201cShamanic Exercises\u201d that include an invocation to the \u201cGreat Serpent.\u201d35 Dr. Hyman\u2019s back cover endorsement of this book sits alongside New Age leaders Bernie Siegel and Greg Braden.<\/p>\n

In his endorsement, Hyman betrays his belief in shamanism and the inextricable New Age link between physical and spiritual health. He writes:<\/p>\n

The shaman and physician for millennia were the same person until the 19th century when they were split apart in the name of science. Now through the lens of 21st-century science, Villoldo and Perlmutter bring them back together, illuminating the web that links together our physical and metaphysical energy. For anyone feeling a loss of energy of body or soul, Power Up Your Brain<\/em> is your guide to restoration and rejuvenation of your deepest energies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also referring to \u201crestoration\u201d in The UltraMind Solution<\/em>, Dr. Hyman lists three New Age centers in his \u201cResources\u201d section. Under the heading of \u201cRestorative and Educational Retreats,\u201d he recommends the Omega Institute, the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health, and the Shambhala Mountain Center.36 Ainslie MacLeod\u2014the Dr. Oz endorsed psychic\u2014is a \u201cfaculty member\u201d at both the Kripalu Center and the Omega Institute.37 The Omega Institute offers a number of workshops led by key New Age leaders like Neale Donald Walsch, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, and Alberto Villoldo. Classes such as \u201cConversations with God,\u201d \u201cContacting the Spirit World,\u201d \u201cHow Shamans Dream the World into Being,\u201d and \u201cBootcamp for Goddesses,\u201d are readily available to those following Dr. Hyman\u2019s advice.38 And at the Dr. Hyman endorsed Kripalu Center, New Age leader Deepak Chopra offers a workshop on his Dr. Oz endorsed book, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul<\/em>. In case people can\u2019t make it to Saddleback Church, Dr. Daniel Amen also teaches a workshop at Kripalu.<\/p>\n

Key Scriptures Regarding Rick Warren\u2019s Daniel Plan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. \u2014(2 Corinthians 6:14)<\/p>\n

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. \u2014(Ephesians 5:11)<\/p>\n

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord\u2019s table, and of the table of devils. \u2014(1 Corinthians 10:21)<\/p>\n

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother\u2019s way. \u2014(Romans 14:13)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Shepherding the Church into a New Age\/New Spirituality<\/strong>
\nIn the 1990s, a well-known Christian leader rightly warned that alternative medicine and holistic health can provide an easy entryway for deceptive New Age teachings. He further warned that changing your diet can also end up changing your worldview. In other words, sometimes losing weight can also mean losing your soul. Speaking from his leadership role with the Christian Medical Association, Dr. David Stevens also urges great discretion regarding alternative health practitioners. He states: \u201cNot only do we have to make a choice; we also have to evaluate the trustworthiness of each messenger and the validity of the message.\u201d39<\/p>\n

The Christian Handbook to Alternative Medicine<\/em> also warns, \u201cConsider carefully not only the therapy but also the character and worldview of those offering the treatment.\u201d40 Thus, it is definitely \u201cbuyer beware\u201d when it comes to mixed-bag physicians like Oz, Amen, and Hyman. But that doesn\u2019t seem to matter to Rick Warren as he openly aligns himself with these New Age doctors and promises to make their joint Daniel Plan a worldwide phenomenon. Instead of sounding a warning trumpet and protecting the church from three New Age physicians, Warren praises them and trumpets his ungodly alliance with them.<\/p>\n

One can only wonder if the prophet Daniel\u2019s vision of the end days included a look at Rick Warren\u2019s Daniel Plan\u2014a compromised pastor and three New Age doctors with their psychics, spirit guides, tantric sex, necromancy, Yoga, Reiki, Transcendental and Kundalini \u201csa ta na ma\u201d meditations and more\u2014all in Daniel\u2019s name. If so, it is no wonder the Bible records that he \u201cfainted\u201d and became \u201csick\u201d for a number of days (Daniel 8:27).<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t make any difference in God\u2019s scheme of things if Rick Warren stands slim and trim in front of an adoring church audience after losing 90 pounds. What may be remembered is that in the midst of all the self-congratulatory statistics and frenzied media hoopla, a finger suddenly appeared on the wall behind Rick Warren and wrote the following:<\/p>\n

Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting. \u2014(Daniel 5:27)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To order copies of Rick Warren\u2019s Daniel Plan<\/em><\/strong>,<\/strong> click here<\/span><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Endnotes<\/strong>
\n1. Week 11: Re-Focusing The Daniel Plan<\/em> (http:\/\/danielplan.com\/blogs\/dp\/dp-week-11-re-focusing-the-daniel-plan).
\n2. The Daniel Plan: What Makes it Different?<\/em> (http:\/\/www.saddleback.com\/thedanielplan\/healthyhabits\/whatsdifferent).
\n3. Pastoral Response, Brandon Cox, Saddleback Church (http:\/\/www.danielplan.com\/toolsandresources\/pastoralresponse).
\n4. Michael Harner, Ph.D., The Way of the Shaman<\/em> (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 1980, 1990), back cover.
\n5. Ibid., p. 25.
\n6. Ainslie MacLeod, The Instruction: Living the Life Your Soul Intended<\/em> (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, Inc., 2007, 2009), front cover.
\n7. Ainslie MacLeod, The Transformation: Healing Your Past Lives to Realize Your Soul\u2019s Potential<\/em> (Boulder, CO: Sounds True, Inc., 2010), front cover.
\n8. Ibid., front flap.
\n9. Ibid., pp. 243-244.
\n10. Ainslie MacLeod, The Instruction<\/em>, op. cit., pp. 9, 12.
\n11. \u201cPsychic Mediums: Are they the New Therapists?,\u201d The Dr. Oz Show, aired 3\/15\/11 (http:\/\/www.doctoroz.com\/videos\/are-psychicsnew-therapists-pt-1).
\n12. \u201c\u2018Try Reiki,\u2019 Dr. Oz Tells Millions on TV,\u201d 1\/9\/10, The Reiki Digest<\/em> (http:\/\/reikidigest.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/try-reiki-dr-oz-tells-millions-on-tv.html).
\n13. \u201cDr. Mehmet Oz Declares Reiki as His #1 Alternative Medicine Secret,\u201d 1\/9\/2010, Bio-Medicine (http:\/\/news.bio-medicine.org\/?q=medicine-news-1\/dr\u2013mehmet-oz-declares-reiki-as-his\u2013231-alternative-medicine-secret\u201364270).
\n14. \u201cMeditation Techniques Demonstrated by Deepak Chopra,\u201d The Dr. Oz Show, added to videos on 2\/25\/10, (http:\/\/www.doctoroz.com\/videos\/deepak-chopra-meditation).
\n15. Deepak Chopra, Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to Create a New You<\/em> (New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, Inc., 2009).
\n16. AARP The Magazine<\/em>, May\/June 2010 issue, p. 82.
\n17. Ibid.
\n18. Lisa Oz, US: Transforming Ourselves and the Relationships That Matter Most<\/em> (New York, NY: Free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2010), p. 179.
\n19. \u201c\u2018Try Reiki,\u2019 Dr. Oz Tells Millions on TV,\u201d op. cit.
\n20. Lisa Oz, US, op. cit., p. x.
\n21. Ainslie MacLeod, The Instruction<\/em>, op. cit., p. 17.
\n22. Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Change Your Brain, Change Your Life<\/em> (New York, NY: Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1998), p. 302.
\n23. Daniel G. Amen, M.D., Change Your Brain, Change Your Body<\/em> (New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, Inc., 2010), p. 223.
\n24. Daniel G. Amen, M.D., The Brain in Love<\/em> (New York, NY: Three Rivers Press, a division of Random House, Inc., 2007), p. 144.
\n25. Ibid., p. 145.
\n26. Ibid., p. 148.
\n27. Lucinda Bassett, The Solution: Conquer Your Fear, Control Your Future<\/em> (New York: NY: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., 2011), p. 146.
\n28. Mark Hyman M.D., The UltraMind Solution<\/em> (New York, NY: Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2009), p. 402. (Belleruth Naparstek\u2019s website recommended by Dr. Hyman: http:\/\/www.healthjourneys.com).
\n29. Our Practitioner Bios, Health Journeys (http:\/\/www.healthjourneys.com\/practitioner_bios.asp).
\n30. Mark Hyman, The UltraMind Solution<\/em>, op. cit., p. 384.
\n31. David Perlmutter, M.D., F.A.C.N., Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D., Power Up Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Enlightenment (New York, NY: Hay House, Inc., 2011), p. xiv.
\n32. Ibid., p. xviii.
\n33. The Prophets Conference (http:\/\/www.greatmystery.org).
\n34. David Perlmutter, Alberto Villoldo, Power Up Your Brain<\/em>, op. cit., p. xxi.
\n35. Ibid., p. 154.
\n36. Mark Hyman, The UltraMind Solution<\/em>, op. cit., p. 403.
\n37. Ainslie MacLeod, The Transformation<\/em>, op. cit., About the Author, p. 327.
\n38. Omega Institute (http:\/\/www.eomega.org).
\n39. Donald O\u2019Mathuna, Ph.D. and Walt Larimore, M.D., Alternative Medicine: The Christian Handbook<\/em> (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001, 2007), p. 9.
\n40. Ibid., p. 123.<\/p>\n

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