The Fear Cure: Cultivating Courage as Medicine for the Body, Mind, and Soul by Lissa Rankin M.D

Author:Lissa Rankin M.D. [Rankin M.D., Lissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2015-02-23T23:00:00+00:00

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“THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING”

Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, Ph.D., author of Extraordinary Knowing, was a professor and researcher in the psychology department of the University of California at Berkeley and at the University Medical Center in San Francisco. Lisby, as she was known to her friends, was a skeptical scientist, not inclined to pay much attention to “woo woo” ideas. Then something unusual happened. In 1991, when her 11-year-old daughter Meg’s handmade harp was stolen from the theater where she was playing, Lisby spent two months trying to recover the harp. The police got involved. She contacted instrument dealers all over the country. A CBS TV news story aired. But nothing worked. The harp was gone.

After she had given up hope, a friend of Lisby’s said, “If you really want that harp back, you should be willing to try anything. What about calling a dowser?” Lisby had the kind of eyebrow-raising response most legitimate scientists would have to such a suggestion. From what she knew, dowsers were odd people who walked around with forked sticks telling you where to drill wells. But Lisby’s friend told her that really good dowsers could find not just underground water, but also lost objects. Lisby didn’t believe a dowser could find the harp, but with nothing to lose, she contacted the president of the American Society of Dowsers, Harold McCoy, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She explained that a harp had been stolen from Oakland, California, and asked Harold if he could help her locate it.

Harold said, “Give me a second. I’ll tell you if it’s still in Oakland.” He was silent for a moment and then said, “Well, it’s still there. Send me a street map of Oakland and I’ll locate that harp for you.”

Lisby overnighted Harold a map of Oakland. Two days later, he called to give her the address where the harp was located. Lisby passed the information along to the police, who shook their heads. They couldn’t issue a search warrant based on a hunch. So Lisby decided to drive to the address Harold had given her, where she posted flyers for two blocks around, offering a reward for the return of the harp.

Three days later, her phone rang. A man said that his neighbor had recently showed him the exact harp the flyer was describing. He said he would arrange to deliver it to her in the parking lot of an all-night Safeway. Lisby showed up at the appointed time and place, where a young man loaded the harp into the back of her station wagon.

Looking at the recovered harp, Lisby concluded, “This changes everything.”

Lisby began asking colleagues and clients about their own “This changes everything” moments. What she discovered was that many people had had similar experiences of

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