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Faith Healing and Hypnosis

The Washington State Supreme Court is going to hear the appeal of two parents convicted of homicide after opting for prayer over medical care when their daughter was dying of undiagnosed diabetes. In the same state another family prayed for their son who had a ruptured appendix, rather than taking him to a doctor. Their son died. Washington State law allows treatment by a “duly accredited Christian Science practitioner in lieu of medical care,” but atto eys for the family, which belong to the Church of the First Born, argued that they were not being treated equally under the law.

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Anatoly Kashpirovsky, Supe atural Healer or Spiritual Con?

Russia, in the late 80s was under the spell of a charismatic healer who came to the country on prime time every week on their TVs. Dressed in black, fixing his hypnotic gaze on viewers as they sat transfixed in their homes, he promised to cure the entire country. He performed “remote psychological anaesthetization.” Anatoly Kashpirovsky was a self-professed mass healer and hypnotist who made his name during the collapse of the Soviet Union. He was born on August 11, 1939 in the small Ukrainian city of Khmelnitsky.

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Myths and Stereotypes Build Barriers to People Seeking Hypnotic Help

Elena Beloff is a Certified Clinical Hypnotist and Master NLP Practitioner and a filmmaker. Her first film, Zaritsas: Russian Women in America, documented true-life stories of young Russian women who come to the United States in order to dispel the overriding myths that these women were “Natashas,” ruthless, gold-digging seductresses who could be had for the price of a mail-order wedding. Elena spent years filming the women, getting inside their lives to tell their stories.

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Documentary Filmmaker Elena Beloff Editing Film on Hypnosis

Elena Beloff is a documentary filmmaker whose first film, Zaritsas: Russian Women in New York, was produced by Vincent Vincent D’Onofrio and shown at film festivals around the country. It was ultimate picked up by on RTVi and shown on Russian and Polish language channels in America, and later was broadcast in Russia, Poland, the Ukraine. She has just finished shooting her next documentary and has just begun editing it. It is on the myths and realities behind hypnosis. She is also writing a book on hypnosis for Llewellyn Press.

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Copper Baubles Are a Fashionable Way to Mix Medicine and Magic

Bauble Lady Renee Sosanna Olson Explains Why You might be able to save a few pennies on your health care with copper, and most of the time you can do it in style. Copper is one of the few metals the body needs for health. It was the first metal ever forged for use by people, going back to 6,000 B.C. And, while some recent studies suggest copper may not be any more effective than a placebo for arthritis, its wellness benefits have been touted since the age of the Egyptians.

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