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Body Language

By Derrick Jensen

When Marc Ian Barasch was thirty-five years old, he had a series of vivid and startlingly detailed dreams about cancer. Though he had no physical symptoms, he went to see a doctor, insisted on medical tests, and was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. At the time, Barasch was the editor of New Age Journal and thought himself “quite knowledgeable about the realms of healing.” But it was one thing to read and study and write about disease, and another thing to experience it.

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