Mind Body Conspirators Infiltrate Radio

Mind-Body Conspirators Infiltrate Radio

November 20, 2003

For many years, groups of people have been promoting connections between the mind and body. These groups of people range from many-thousand-year-old ancient religions to modern Volvo-240DL-driving alternative health advocates, and they possess varying levels of credibility. Today’s two links exhibit a couple of examples from this diverse crowd, but briantroutman.com makes no claims as to the validity of the content on the featured on the linked pages.

From 1992 to 1998, alternative health specialist David Essel entertained legions of listeners (including yours truly) with his Saturday and Sunday evening Westwood One radio program, David Essel: Alive! Even though his show was suddenly canceled by the Westwood One brass in 1998, David Essel (the man) is still alive, and he maintains his self-named website, davidessel.com, where he posts a FAQ on mind-body connections as well as other alternative health issues. He covers several interesting items, and they include music therapy, aroma therapy, Feng Shui, and a Duke University study which indicated that those study participants who did not pray or meditate during the study were 50% more likely to die during the study.

Moving from the evening radio shift from the overnight radio graveyard, we come upon Art Bell and his eerie, infamous, and ubiquitous Coast to Coast AM radio program which is heard on hundreds of radio stations by millions of listeners (again, including yours truly) from 1AM to 5AM Eastern. A recent guest of the paranormal AM show was author Matthew Alper. During his appearance on the program, Alper made claims that a person’s spiritual experience of God is part of a genetic link, and that a true mind-body-spirit connection exists as part of this link. Alper also spent a good deal of time plugging his website and newly-released book, The “God” Part of the Brain.

Of course, taking either of these items, mainly the latter of the two, seriously may be hazardous to your mental health. They do provide some entertainment value, so read at your own risk.

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