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Category: Spirituality in Health

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms
Books

Reflection on Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms

Posted on 6 December 201530 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

I didn’t expect to find myself humming the old hymn Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise at the launch of Spirituality Demystified: Understanding Spirituality in Rational Terms. But, as I listened to Rohana Ulluwishewa talk about our inner and outer realities…

Hospital Chaplains too Christian for Nones?
Death and Dying

Hospital Chaplains too Christian for Nones?

Posted on 31 August 20157 February 2018 by admin

She sat beside the bed, tears brimming. ‘Mum’s dying.’ ‘Yes.’ We sat in silence for a bit. ‘I’ve lost my faith.’ ‘Uh huh.’ ‘When my friend died.’ ‘Mm.’ We held hands and Mum’s too, wondering in our own ways, about…

Shared vulnerability: the key to soulful & just end of life choices
Bodies

Shared vulnerability: the key to soulful & just end of life choices

Posted on 19 June 201518 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

I used to love the story of Little Red Riding Hood. There was something deliciously appealing about getting dressed up in an elegant red cape and sauntering off into the world alone. Grandma turning into the wolf didn’t bother me,…

Stories crucial to midwifing death
Compassion

Stories crucial to midwifing death

Posted on 13 July 201430 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Midwifing death is as important to the dying process as pain relief. For me, it’s walking slowly beside another person as they disengage from their dwindling life force and listening intently to the stories of their life. Stories can tumble…

Hospital chaplaincy beyond religious control?
Church

Hospital chaplaincy beyond religious control?

Posted on 27 October 201330 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Sometimes truth is so hard to stomach that even though it stares you in the face and shouts itself hoarse trying to be heard we remain oblivious to its presence. This may be because the emerging truth demands much of…

Whanganui DHB natural therapies trial courageous
Spirituality

Whanganui DHB natural therapies trial courageous

Posted on 29 July 201230 January 2018 by Sande Ramage

Warm and fuzzy media headlines are the order of the day when Police dogs or All Blacks visit hospital patients. Try introducing a trial of natural therapies like Whanganui District Health Board is doing and the headlines become accusatory and…

Death watch silences Google
Death and Dying

Death watch silences Google

Posted on 4 February 20127 February 2018 by Sande Ramage

‘Look’, he said, waving a scrap of paper in front of me, ‘the doctor’s been and this is what he thinks I’ve got.’ The phrase on the page was vaguely familiar but before I could begin untangling the words he…

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  • Much of Jung’s criticism of both religious and medical therapy, therefore, was grounded in his conviction that the modern healing arts and the mainstream Western Christian tradition had severed themselves from the healing, that is whole-making, energies of the psyche. John P. Dourley
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