This lecture was given in conjunction with Dr. Edwin Noyes, M.D. Please take the time to visit

his website spiritualisticpractices.com

Holistic Healing or Spiritualism?Exposing the Inroads of Mystical Medicine

Within the Adventist Health System

According to Wikipedia, “Integrative medicine or integrative health is a neologism

coined by practitioners to describe the combination of practices and methods of alternative medicine with conventional

medicine.” Today, more than ever, universities and

hospitals have integrative-medicine departments.

Welcome to the new age of Integrative Medicine or IM. Integrative Medicine is making

efforts to explore new ways of treating the mind, body and spirit -- all at the same time.

For example - At age 68, Karen has had her share of health woes: breast cancer, high cholesterol, clogged arteries,

osteoporosis, and scoliosis. Once a year she journeys from her home in Georgia to Duke University; Medical Center in North

Carolina where an internist, endocrinologist, and other specialists monitor her with blood tests, X-rays, bone scans, and other tests. But Karen knows that she’s more than the sum of her illnesses. When her checkup ends, she heads for the Duke Center for Integrative Medicine [IM], where she has learned about nutrition, fitness, yoga, tai chi, meditation, and other

practices she says have helped her to live better.

“I became an avid tai chi person,” she says. “I’m a type A personality. I knew I had to do something

about my lifestyle. I had to bring myself down to a type B.”

Many Americans have never heard of IM, but this holistic movement has left its imprint on many of

the nation’s hospitals, universities, and medical schools. And both doctors and patients alike are bonding with the philosophy of IM and its whole-

person approach. The goal being to treat the mind, body and spirit, all at the same time.

Today, fewer people have concern whether there may be any reason one should question the value or

spiritual safety in accepting or using a particular healing method.

The use of alternative and complementary medicine (a.k.a. IM) is rapidly increasing and being accepted as if it

were part and parcel of conventional or general medicine. Within western medicine, there is a great

movement to mesh conventional medicine with integrative medicine. Therapies that were once only

found in naturopathy and chiropractic practices can now be found in mainstream medicine. They can now be

found to some degree in many hospitals, even in prominent medical schools that have adopted and are

experimenting with various healing disciplines.

Across the nation, medical clinics are now integrating the conventional with the non-

conventional (or IM) style of medical treatment.Already, many health insurance companies now

include alternative health coverage in their policies. E.g. - yoga, meditation, crystal and gem

healing, Reiki, craniosacral therapy, etc.We will briefly look at what is currently taking

place within Adventist hospitals and healthcare, in the area of IM.

Alternative Medicine

Conventional Western Medicine

IntegrativeMedicine

An example of this would be.

Dr. Leland Kaiser

Dr. Leland (Lee) and his son and daughter.Together the Kaiser’s have founded “Two World’s Wisdom”,

“Kaiser Institute” and “Kaiser Consulting”.

Dr. Kaiser is a pioneer in many emerging areas of health care, and an acknowledged authority on the changing American healthcare system. Dr. Kaiser is founder and

president of Kaiser Consulting, a health care consulting firm in Brighton, CO. He also is co-founder of Kaiser Institute, a postgraduate educational program providing advanced

training in integrative medicine, intuition, and philanthropy. Dr. Kaiser is a dynamic motivational speaker known for his ability to change the way organizations think. He is

an associate professor in the graduate program in health administration at the University of Colorado in Denver. He has previous professional experience as a

hospital administrator, trustee, R&D director, graduate program director, and professional psychologist. He holds a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and

Medical Care Administration and a doctoral degree in Social Psychology and Higher Education. Dr. Kaiser is involved in the design of new communities and state-of-the-art hospital architecture. He differentiates spirituality from religion, and teaches (what he considers) core spiritual values useful for managing healthcare organizations, discusses how spiritual values can be translated into organizational norms, and suggests the role

of spirituality in solving pressing organizational problems.

Leanne chairs the grants committee of the VHA foundation which is funding innovation across healthcare--from organizations as

large as the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins, to an array of small and rural organizations. She has reviewed the innovation

strategies in hundreds of hospitals, and funded novel prototypes. Leanne continues her growth through exposure to the scientific fields, deep exploration across spiritual traditions, etc. Health

systems seek her out to think in new ways and create paths to a preferable rather than a probable future.

EPI educates approximately 3,000 healthcare leaders annually.

Dr. Kaiser

Dr. Kaiser’s daughter

The Kaiser’s are highly sought after as evidenced by their fee.

Dr. Leland (Lee) Kaiser’s son

An example of what a health professional who supports both conventional and integrative medicine

might look like.