Millions of Americans today are taking dietary supplements, practicing yoga and integrating other natural therapies into their lives. These are all preventive measures that will keep them out of the doctor's office and drive down the costs of treating serious problems like heart disease and diabetes.

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

More than one skillful physician has said that if one asks the right questions, the patient will make the diagnosis for you in his or her own words.

I've always been called "controversial." I think if I were not controversial I wouldn't be doing my job.

My personal opinion is that the neutral position on the mood spectrum—what I called emotional sea level—is not happiness but rather contentment and the calm acceptance that is the goal of many kinds of spiritual practice.

Another aspect of the psychedelic vision for me that has been very profound, is the sense that every-thing is alive or at that at least, there is no distinction between what we call living and non-living.

Most American diets, even bad ones, provide more than enough calcium for bone health, especially for men.