Part 1 - Mystical practices are entering our Adventist Healthcare System and Hospitals, via integrative medicine, changes in our healthcare system, etc.

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

2. Holistic Healing or Spiritualism?
Exposing the Inroads of Mystical Medicine
Within the Adventist Health System

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. “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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. Alternative Medicine
Conventional Western
Medicine
Integrative
Medicine

12. An example of this
would be.

13. Dr. Leland Kaiser

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

16. 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.

17. Leanne chairs the grants committee of theVHA 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.

18. EPI educates approximately 3,000
healthcare leaders annually.
Dr.
Kaiser

19. Dr. Kaiser’s daughter

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

26. Dr. Leland (Lee) Kaiser’s son

29. An example of what a health professional who
supports both conventional and integrative medicine
might look like.