Healing Moments
Academic Dr Sarah Goldingay explores the spiritual aspects of healing. She argues that healing is about more than our bodies, it is about our connection to others and to the divine.
Academic Dr Sarah Goldingay explores the spiritual aspects of healing. Sarah's research into the healing experience has led her to the realisation that the process involves far more than our bodies alone.
For Sarah, healing is about our emotions, our sense of self, the landscape and community we were born into. It's about our very soul.
In this episode of Something Understood, stories from patients Sarah has interviewed reveal the importance, when healing, of a deep connection to something other than ourselves - to our doctor, the landscape around us and to the divine.
With poetry from Christopher Southgate, who examines the feeling of loss following the death of a loved one, and readings from Navajo surgeon Lori Arviso Alvord, the programme dissects what could be called "healing moments" - moments where the connection between healer and patient becomes imbued with a transcendent power.
Presenter: Dr Sarah Goldingay
Producer: Max O'Brien
A TBI Media production for 大象传媒 Radio 4.
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Thomas Tallis
Spem In Alium
Performer: The Sixteen. Performer: The Sixteen. Composer: Thomas Tallis.- Royal Manuscripts: The Genius of Illumination - Medieval & Renaissance Music Inspired by the British Library Exhibition.
- The Sixteen Productions Ltd.
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Nils Frahm
Re
Performer: Nils Frahm.- Screws.
- Erased Tapes.
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R. Carlos Nakai
Song for the Morning Star
Performer: R. Carlos Nakai.- Canyon Records.
- Inner Voices.
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Leonard Cohen
Come Healing
- Old Ideas.
- Columbia.
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Riverboat Man
- Lovecloud.
- Bard Records.
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Ave Maria
- Unforgettable Classics: Violin.
- Classics for Pleasure.
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Franz Schubert
Ave Maria
Performer: Unknown.- Unforgettable Classics: Violin.
- Classics for Pleasure.
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Turn, Turn, Turn
- Tell It Like It Is.
- Sony BMG.
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Pete Seeger
Turn, Turn, Turn
Performer: Nina Simone.- Tell It Like It Is.
- Sony BMG.
Readings
Title: Liner Notes from Screws
Author: Nils Frahm
Publisher: Erased Tapes Records
Title: The Maxims of Medicine
Author: Suzy Kassem
Publisher: Suzy Kassem
Title: The Secrets of Happiness: Three Thousand Years of Searching for the Good Life
Author: Richard Schoch
Publisher: Scribner
Title: The Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines Western Medicine and Traditional Healing
Author: Lori Arviso Alvord
Publisher: Bantam
Title: The Source
Author: Jean Sprackland
Publisher: London Review of Books
Title: Coming to Terms
Author: Christopher Southgate
Publisher: Shoestring Press
Title: Ruth Harris
Author: Lourdes: Body and Spirit in the Secular Age
Publisher: Penguin
Title: Healing Walks for Hard Times
Author: Carolyn Scott Kortage
Publisher: Trumpeter Books
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 May 2016 06:05大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sun 15 May 2016 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4