"Spreading the seedlings of change"

Last month a three-day conference on "Spirituality & Healing in Medicine" was held in Boston. The audience of nearly one thousand comprised physicians, psychologists, health-care administrators, nurses, allied health professionals, social workers, clergy, and people who had come simply to learn more about spiritual healing. They had come from forty-seven American states, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, and several European and Latin American countries.

The conference was sponsored by Harvard Medical Institute of Deaconess Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Herbert Benson. He explained that one of the goals of the course was to demonstrate that there are important ways in which the apparent gulf between science and spirituality can be bridged.

The Sentinel offers some observations on this ground-breaking conference.

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