Lisa Miller

“I’ve never seen a patient who needed major surgery refuse a general anesthetic because the anesthesiologist couldn’t explain precisely how it works.” 

I also thought of a continuing education symposium I’d attend at Harvard Medical School a year or two before Isaiah came. Dr. Larry Dossey, a longtime medical doctor in Dallas – a strapping, commanding man in his sixties who looked like he’d once played quarterback on his high school football team – had given a …

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Awakened awareness

When I think of awakened awareness, I think of the iconic painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel of God giving life to Adam. So are we given life, by consciousness. Through awakened attention, we’re available for surprise, for new information that turns our head. When new awareness comes, it’s like the hand of …

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