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Review of Leslie Kean’s Book Surviving Death

by Marilyn Jenquin

Leslie Kean is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author. She approaches Surviving Death as an investigative journalist would: based on facts and scientific studies. She covers past lives, out-ofbody/near-death experiences, communication with the spirit world, apparitions and those that have died yet explain traveling to other dimensions. She researches to find those that would be considered experts in these fields as well as those that have actually experienced each of the topics she covers. I first learned about her when I heard her in an hour-long interview on National Public Radio.

Personally, this book made sense to me, as my father, when he was 46, had a severe heart attack and was at one point clinically dead. His description of what he saw and felt was just as explained by the people interviewed for this book. He lived to be 95, and for the rest of his life he never feared death. My father talked about that experience many times. He was dead, yet knew everything that they did to his body to revive him. While he was clinically dead, he was told it wasn’t his time to pass and he needed to return to his body. He felt no pain while out of his body and experienced immediate pain upon again being “alive”. Being a professional medium for nearly 40 years, I know those that have passed are absolutely able to communicate with their loved ones left behind after their death. I’ve brought in details that no one would have the ability to know except the “spirit loved one” and the physical person—something that happened between only the two of them. Many times those receiving a reading left with happy tears because they knew they had been speaking to their loved ones. Netflix has a series based on this book. Many of the people in the book are also in the Netflix series. This book, and the Netflix series, would be a good place to start to understand the change called death or to reinforce your already-held beliefs.

Marilyn Jenquin has been involved in spiritualism since 1980. She is a professional medium; spiritualist teacher; and founder and director of the International Foundation for Spiritual Knowledge, a 501(C)(3) nonprofit religious educational foundation established in 1999. She teaches British-style evidential mediumship, and is also available for private readings. For more information, visit her website, ifsk.org, or email her at Dependablepcf@ EarthLink.net. See ad, this page.

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Researchers followed more than 36,000 Japanese men older than 40 for an average of 13.2 years. They found that those that consumed culinary mushrooms three times a week had a 17 percent lower chance of developing prostate cancer compared to those that ate mushrooms less than once a week. Participants that ate mushrooms once or twice a week had an 8 percent lower risk. The trend was even greater for those men over the age of 50 and was unrelated to other dietary habits.

Maintain a Healthy Diet and Weight to Lower Cataract Risk

A recent study published in The Journal of Nutrition used adherence to dietary guidelines and total diet scores to assess the effects of diet on cataract risk.

The researchers followed 2,173 older Australians for five and 10 years in two phases. They found that maintaining a healthy body mass index (BMI) of less than 25, combined with a healthy diet, reduced the risk of developing cataracts.

Eat a Better Diet to Improve Gut Bacteria

Researchers at the University of Hawaii Cancer Center tested stool samples of 858 men and 877 women in Los Angeles and Hawaii with a mean age of 69—regarded as an ethnically diverse study population with varied food intakes. The study found that those with higher quality diets also had significantly better gut bacteria diversity, a factor linked to reduced risk for a variety of diseases. Diet quality and a reduced risk of developing chronic disease is strongly associated with fecal microbial diversity.

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New research offers potential paths for treatment for the nearly 20 percent of patients with high blood pressure that don’t respond well to medications. University of Florida College of Medicine researchers, testing 105 volunteers, found that the populations of gut bacteria differed between hypertensive individuals with depression and those without depression. A second study by Italian researchers found that patients with heart attacks had different bacteria in their guts than patients with stable angina.

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Train Students in Mindfulness to Reduce Stress and Improve Grades

Sixth-graders that received mindfulness training each day for eight weeks experienced lower stress levels, less depression and improved academic performance compared to their peers in a control group that studied computer coding, report Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers. In addition to that 100-student study, researchers surveyed 2,000 students in grades five through eight and found those that showed more mindfulness tended to have better grades and test scores. They also had fewer absences and suspensions.

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A. Schaeffer-Pautz, MD

Combining Traditional, Integrative and Anthroposophic Medicine for Well-Being and Balance

On the east coast of Florida, just a few blocks from the ocean, sits one of the South’s few anthroposophically oriented medical practices. The Persephone Healing Arts Center, in Jacksonville Beach, has a wonderful, natural atmosphere enhanced by the spirit and focus of A. Schaeffer-Pautz, MD. Brought up in a Waldorf school environment, Dr. Pautz is double board certified in both integrative and internal medicine and combines the best of both worlds in her treatment of patients. Her goal is to help her patients achieve their highest level of well-being and balance, using natural approaches whenever possible.

This philosophy is evident from the first view of the center: a cozy waiting room looks out onto a lovely garden area where patients can relax in the sun or rest in a spot of shade beneath the trees. Care here is particularly unique—first visits can be two or more hours of one-on-one time with the physician. Dr. Pautz takes time to learn all she can about a patient’s physical, mental and emotional well-being and then fuses her knowledge of traditional, integrative and anthroposophic medicine (a philosophy that embraces physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of the human being) to provide individual recommendations designed to work on the root of the problem. Her treatments are focused on lifestyle changes, counseling and nutrition, and this focus helps her patients not only deal with their health issues, but also maintain their higher level of wellness once the immediate problem is dealt with.

Dr. Pautz’s technique has particularly helped those with chronic disorders and diseases such as depression, autism, cancer and any other internal medical disease. Her conviction that all facets of the person must be in balance for ultimate well-being leads to personalized treatments that examine and help each individual to achieve their level of optimum health. This insightful approach often offers relief to patients who have exhausted their traditional western medical options and are seeking help in alternate methods.

Patients may also undergo extensive counseling to facilitate profound lifestyle changes and new ways of looking at things. They receive individualized nutritional guidelines in the hopes of facilitating improved health and releasing what needs to be transitioned.

The philosophy “you are what you eat” has never been as true as in today’s quick meal society, and few know the effects of dietary choices better than Dr. Pautz. Providing your body with the fuel and tools necessary for its well-being is the first building block toward total health and healing. Combining her knowledge of medicine and nutrition, she targets habits that contribute to particular disorders and advises her patients in their diets to strengthen their immune systems and help their bodies stay strong.

In treating her patients, Dr. Pautz has noticed that their nutritional habits have stemmed from a lack of knowledge about how to prepare healthful dishes. After encountering this need for education, she developed classes in the past that were focused on nutritional cooking, emphasizing the use of whole grains, tons of herbs, fresh fruits and vegetables. With a healthy diet as a base to grow from, therapies then perform better as the body becomes more receptive, receiving the aid the therapies provide. Dr. Pautz can easily suggest recipes in-session with wholesome foods that might be a first step in implementation. A. Schaeffer-Pautz, MD

Another unique remedy at Dr. Pautz’s disposal is therapeutic eurythmy, an expressive form of movement therapy. Based on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, eurythmy uses movements to express sounds and music. One of the few medical doctors to be certified in eurythmy, Dr. Pautz uses this approach to supplement the treatment of a variety of physical, medical and emotional ailments. Somewhat like its Asian counterparts, tai chi and yoga, eurythmy helps a person connect to and experience the nontangible realities of spirit and energy that are essential for all souls.

Dr. Pautz’s varied background and extensive training provide her with myriad treatment choices to draw from in her practice. Whether addressing cancer, diabetes, asthma, common cold, multiples sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, ALS or any other illness, her treatments are personalized, insightful and far-reaching. By balancing Western and integrative medicine and avoiding chemical drugs whenever possible, Dr. Pautz provides each patient with the opportunity for a road map to longlasting, deep-seated health changes through nutritional and lifestyle advice, naturopathy, homeopathy, counseling, anthroposophic medicine, and art and movement therapy.

Persephone Healing Arts Center is located at 485 6th Ave. N., in Jacksonville Beach. To learn more, call 904-246-3583, visit DrPautz.com or join them for one of their monthly open houses. Join them on Facebook. See ad on the back cover.

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See ad on the back cover. monthly open houses. Join them on Facebook. DrPautz.com or join them for one of their To learn more, call 904-246-3583, visit at 485 6th Ave. N., in Jacksonville Beach. Persephone Healing Arts Center is located medicine, and art and movement therapy. homeopathy, counseling, anthroposophic nutritional and lifestyle advice, naturopathy, lasting, deep-seated health changes through the opportunity for a road map to long- sible, Dr. Pautz provides each patient with avoiding chemical drugs whenever pos - Western and integrative medicine and insightful and far-reaching. By balancing illness, her treatments are personalized, rheumatoid arthritis, ALS or any other asthma, common cold, multiples sclerosis, tice. Whether addressing cancer, diabetes, treatment choices to draw from in her prac - extensive training provide her with myriad Dr. Pautz’s varied background and are essential for all souls. tangible realities of spirit and energy that person connect to and experience the non- parts, tai chi and yoga, eurythmy helps a ailments. Somewhat like its Asian counter - variety of physical, medical and emotional approach to supplement the treatment of a be certified in eurythmy, Dr. Pautz uses this music. One of the few medical doctors to uses movements to express sounds and the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, eurythmy sive form of movement therapy. Based on disposal is therapeutic eurythmy, an expres - Another unique remedy at Dr. Pautz’s A. Schaeffer-Pautz, MD

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