Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d by Candace B. Pert Ph.D

Author:Candace B. Pert, Ph.D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2010-08-10T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Assisi: Dreaming,

Spirituality, and Synchronicity

Io amo Italia! I’d attended many scientific conferences in that stylish, fabulous country, and now Mike and I were getting ready to head off to Assisi, Italy, to speak on the mind-body connection at an annual meeting of Jungian psychotherapists. Our previous assistant had booked the plane reservations awhile ago, and we were hoping to find time to play and sightsee, something we sorely needed after our productive but harrowing trip to Minneapolis.

While en route back from Minneapolis, I’d bumped into a former colleague, a research psychologist still at the NIMH, and as we stood collecting our baggage, I mentioned my upcoming travel plans. He looked at me quizzically and asked: “With all due respect, why would a group of Jungian therapists invite you to their meeting? They don’t do or follow any research, as far as I know.” Shades of the lady professor! As if the business of research was the only pursuit allowable for a “real” scientist such as myself!

But the Jungians are less interested in pursuing research than in hearing the latest that science has to offer about dreams, synchronicity, and the collective unconscious—all the areas where I’m most comfortable wearing two hats, the scientist and the mystic. As therapists, they want to bring the leading edge into their practice, helping people heal trauma, transform key issues in their lives, and explore different states of consciousness. Presenting with Mike, who is definitely well grounded in causality—what Carl Jung called “the constant connection through effect”—I knew that the therapists would get the well-organized presentation about consciousness and healing they needed, and we’d have a great time.

On the Peptide-T frontier, things started to happen when we returned from Minneapolis. No longer preoccupied with a personal need for salary support, we could step up our petitions to the government for ownership of the long-stalled license to develop our drug and the search for investments to start the next round of clinical trials. My injuries had healed, our immediate financial woes were abated, and Mike and I were looking forward to a semi-vacation in Assisi, an ancient and timeless land of hills, olive groves, and terraced vineyards.

When I opened up the tour guide Mike had pulled out of the bookcase and left on my desk, the first thing I read was: “Assisi— the place where nature and mysticism meet.” I knew that this was the city in central Italy where St. Francis had lived in the 12th century. He was the son of a wealthy merchant but had renounced all material possessions to preach a poor, simple lifestyle harking back to the Gospels. Not only was this holy man born in this region, known as Umbria, but so was St. Clare, the namesake of a branch of the Franciscan order for women called the Poor Clares. And to add to the bounty, St. Valentine, the patron saint of lovers and the heart, was also from the area. Assisi was starting to sound like my kind of place!

While

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