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Before leaving for the private sector in early 2006, Candace Pert, Ph.D. researched "new paradigm" healing at the Georgetown University Medical School where she was a professor of Physiology and Biophysics. Her research reveals how the "bodymind" functions as a single psychosomatic network of information molecules which control our health and physiology. Candace's work fuses Western science with Eastern philosophy to promote new ways of optimizing health.

Friday, September 22, 2006

Candace Pert wrote:

Wow! Pat--this is the VERY FIRST "fan" letter of the new book!!! It makes me feel so great that it was helpful to a sophisticated therapist like you. The truth is there is so much out there that mainstream folks are unaware of…

Is the book out in Canada already? The publish date is Oct 1(??).

How would you feel if I posted this exchange on my new blog on the website (www.CandacePert.com)? Do I have your permission?

My Best,

Candace

1 Comments:

Mona said...: Dear Candace!

I have been in search of an email address to you, to be able to contact you with my questions, but found none - and I am sorry to use your blog for this reason!

First of all I have to excuse myself for my lack of knowledge about your research and also for not having read any of your books (that I just now got to learn about). My name is Mona and I am a licenced Physical Therapist (MSc) living and working in Sweden.

For some years I have worked in the field of palliative care (onchology) and have also experienced my father's cancer disease as well as, since this spring, my own. I have noticed that many "good advice" about all kinds of alternative medicine always tend to follow in the foot steps of a cancer diagnosis. When I started my own chemo treatment this summer a friend gave me a copy of the book "the Journey", written by Brandon Bays (http://www.thejourney.com/).

"The Journey" I notice have spread in my own home country as a form of "therapy" to help cure several life threathening diseases, such as all kinds of cancer. I can not in detail explain all I've learnt about this form of "therapy" (through reading about it and talking to several practitioners here in Sweden), but in short what the therapists claim that they are doing is to release "mental blocks" caused by surpressed memories, cellular memories (that is stated to be the cause of all disease).

Many I talk to refer to your research as a proof of their own work and theories (as journey therapists). This is why I now choose to contact you in person, to learn how much you know about this and also to perhaps help me bring order in the term "cellular memory"(??).

My main distress is that many of the "Journey therapists" are very critical to "western medicine" and Brandon Bays herself claim's to have cured a cancer tumour on her own without any help of doctors. This I think can be DEADLY in some cases of severe disease. Further, many claim that (for example) cancer disese is caused ONLY by "mental blocks" and, also, if a cancer disease comes back (after treatment)this is because the person has not learnt the lesson that the body wanted to teach him or her the first time - they simply have not had the courage to go through and solve the problems that was the cause.
The sessions by these "Journey therapists" are very expensive and very many of them guarantee quick and amazing results.

I am in one sense very critical to this form of use of very ill patients to make profit - yet at the same time I am interested to learn more about the actual facts behind these kind of "therapies"/theories, as I in one sense work in the same field as a PT... but, with a different angle I'd say...

I am sorry about my poor English, but I hope you understood the main point/question in this letter : if you, through your reserach, support the "Journey therapy" and how that can be explained with the term "cellular healing"(?).

With much love & the best of wishes/
PT/MSc Mona Wolvén, Sweden; 10/04/2006 5:51 AM

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Name:Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.

Dr. Pert is an internationally recognized pharmacologist who has published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune system. Her earliest work as a researcher involved the discovery of opiate receptors and the actions of receptors. She has an international reputation in the field of neuropeptide and receptor pharmacology, and chemical neuroanatomy. Dr. Pert has also lectured worldwide on these and other subjects, including her theories on emotions and mind-body communication.