Beyond Medicine: A Physician’s Revolutionary Prescription for Absolute Health
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
From a psychiatric ward, misdiagnosed and over-medicated, to practicing a new kind of medicine: Absolute Health
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The Fall
It’s the one story that I never wanted to tell. I was scared to, because I felt a lot of shame around it all. And from time to time, I still do. When I was beginning to think about writing a book, someone in the publishing business told me that I should tell my story, that it could be helpful to others. And so, I’ve come to telling it.
That story begins when I was in my early twenties, in college, during a cold, snowy New England winter. During those crisp, frosty days which began and ended with the long shadows of dawn and dusk, I started to have out-of-body experiences, otherwise known as “paranormal” experiences or psychic openings. They included telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and psychokinesis. I wasn’t doing drugs of any sort — recreational or prescription — I was merely experiencing the drug of an expanded consciousness.
I traveled. I flew over snow drifts. Beyond my body and beyond my mind, I teleported through space, above ground, unaided by aircraft, trapezes, or ziplines. I could know peoples’ thoughts, hearing their words in the ears of my mind — all verified in sometimes embarrassing conversations. I seemed to have psychokinetic powers — bending metal, for example. Car keys changed form in my fingers, melting like objects in a Salvador Dali painting. I foresaw future events, like my physics professor’s request that I lead the class when he was away.
Other sensations emerged as well, a little less paranormal, if we’re being technical about it. I
