lies dormant in the Amit Goswami is a the- its applications to the
subconscious for years oretical nuclear physi- mind-body problem. He
before inducing the dis- cist and member of the is the author of, among
ease. I myself treated a Institute of Theoretical other books, Quantum
patient with lung cancer Physics at the University Doctor. Goswami conwho could survive com- of Oregon, where he firms experiences that
fortably for five years taught physics for 32 demonstrate the preswith a major injury in years. After a period ence of subtle fields
the lungs. There was of distress and anguish (when he refers to the
no suspicion that the in his private and pro- chakras, we must take
injury was cancerous
into account the tradition
but the cancer gradfrom which Goswami,
ually arrived, and
who received his
when I told him
doctorate
in
the diagnosis
Calcutta) in the
of lung canhuman body.
cer, he panThis brilliant
icked. After
mind nuclenegative emotions
a month,
ar
theointerfere with the body’s
he began
ry
states
internal programming
to
cough
that negawhich affects
up
blood
tive emothe immune system
and he died
tions interthree months
fere with the
later. If it is true
body’s internal
that his mental
programming
state helped prewhich affects the
cipitate the events, he
immune system.
had to act fast. This
patient could overcome fessional life when he
his tumor, but not his was 38, he became
diagnosis.
interested in quantum
cosmological theory,
quantum physics and
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