Anatomy of the Spirit

Well, she, uh, I mean, to me she can do no wrong.

I absolutely love her, but she wrote a book called Anatomy of the Spirit, and she talks about how certain, uh, you know, certain ailments correlate to certain energy centers in the body and organ centers that when they are, like, out of alignment can manifest in disease, and there's an emotional component to all of this as well.

So when you were saying that, I was thinking of Carolyn Myss and, like, you know, some people could open up that book... 'Cause she was a medical intuitive and she worked with a Harvard-trained doctor, uh, Norm Shealy, who was the original founder of the Alternative Medical Association.

And she worked with him while he was working with clients or patients rather that, uh, you know, he couldn't figure out what the diagnosis was, and she was able, as a medical intuitive, to get these intuitive hits to understand, you know, what was happening with some of these patients.

And she worked with thousands of people and then compiled this information, you know, over time in this book called Anatomy of the Spirit.

And I just remember reading this and thinking, "Oh my gosh, you know, when I was having all of my health issues and they were, you know, stress related, it didn't occur to me that the two might be related," even though cognitively we understand, oh yeah, stress is bad for us, but then when it comes to, like, manifesting in the body, we're like, "What? What do you mean?"

Yeah.

Wendy is an invited presenter at prominent health and education organizations, including the Academy for Integrative Health, and, uh, also the Dr. Andrew Weil's Center for Integrative Medicine.

Her research on medical intuition has been published in peer review journals, and she's the author of an award-winning book, Essentials of Medical Intuition: A Visionary Path to Wellness.

Wendy, welcome to Health Talk America.

How are you today?

Uh, so the, so this curiosity, uh, I love it.

It's, and you know, we, uh, I always say it's with a critical eye, and that's exactly the, the spirit that, that we like here on the show with our listeners, and we got a lot to cover.

We're gonna talk about what medical intuition actually is, the research behind it, her book, and what she sees for the future.

And if you've got questions as we go along today, I want you to call us at 800-606-8822.

And again, as I was saying before, this is the number one center of what is typically out of balance for people.

And in part, I think it's because, um, you know, Dr. Caroline Myss, I don't know, I just happen to have her book out here, but Caroline Myss wrote this awesome book in the 1990s called Anatomy of the Spirit, and this was one of the first things that turned me on to chakras.

Um, and she talked about, in one of her lectures I can remember her saying that the solar plexus is the part of us that we most work from.

So it's kind of like our energy out center.

Caroline's pretty famous because guess what? Oprah has had her on her show so many times that frankly, Caroline became best known as the medical intuitive for Oprah.

Caroline wrote a book called The Anatomy of the Spirit, and nine other books, co-published The Creation of Health, and has a, a background that really speaks to the idea of mysticism and wellness mixed together.

But this conversation goes from everything from talking about career advice and calling advice, to astrology, to sacred contracts, to why wisdom schools are necessary right now, to at the end, she gives me some health advice for me with my cancer journey.

I...

How did this happen? I was given a book by a friend for my birthday more than 30 years ago.

And it was called Anatomy of the Spirit.

It is called Anatomy of the Spirit by Carolyn Mace.

And she talked about being a medical intuitive.

And I thought, well, what the heck is that? Because I'd been in the hospital supply business for quite a while at that point.

... that we need in the hospital.

And one year a girlfriend of mine, I believe it was for my birthday, gave me a book called Anatomy of the Spirit by Carolyn Myss.

And I read it, and she called herself a medical intuitive.

And I thought, "Well, what the heck is that?" [laughs]

Yes.

[laughs]

Like, "Hospital this way." I thought, "Okay, good." So after reading Anatomy of the Spirit, I thought, "Okay, I'm gonna go to a bookstore, see if they have anything else on this," and I thought, "They're probably prone to have more information than perhaps my local library," and I did, and I found a book called Hands of Light by the late Dr.

Barbara Brennan, who was a former NASA physicist who parlayed very complex quantum physics principles and concepts into understandable English for the non-scientific mind.

Well, so what's really interesting, and for anyone listening who doesn't, or maybe this all is new to you, maybe this isn't new to you, I bet you've read this book.

And when you said Linda, I was like, is it her? The book Anatomy of the Spirit.

Do you know that? Oh,

no, that's like Carolyn Mace, isn't it?

Sorry.

I was like, is it

Linda? Anatomy of the Spirit is amazing.

Yes.

And so I was in the hospital supply business, not the drug side, the supply side, for probably 10 years before a friend gave me a book.

called Anatomy of the Spirit by Carolyn Mays.

And she called herself a medical intuitive.

And I thought, well, what the heck is that? I never heard that term before.

So I walked away and then I'm like, okay, well, do I just think I know like everything about the chakras or do I actually? And so I start picking up all these books by Dr.

Carolyn Miss, you know, Anatomy of the Spirit and I'm reading things and back in the day, I wasn't really a podcast listener, but I loved watching YouTubes.

I would listen to YouTubes and watch things and I would go back to yoga books and reference everything.

And everything that I referenced, read, got more educated on, I was like, oh, I already know this.