Caroline Myss Prayer And The Reality Of Evil

Caroline Myss: Prayer and the Reality of Evil

August 30, 2011

Caroline Myss: Prayer and the Reality of Evil

Caroline Myss — August 30, 2011

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Tami Simon speaks with Caroline Myss, a leading voice in the fields of energy medicine and human consciousness. Caroline is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Anatomy of the Spirit and Sacred Contracts. Her latest audio release from Sounds True is The Power of Prayer: Guidance, Prayers, and Wisdom for Listening to the Divine, which is a training course on what Caroline calls “the ultimate tool we have for sparking our spiritual evolution.” In this episode, Tami speaks with Caroline about faith and divine intervention, who or what hears our prayers, how to work with prayer in the face of illness, and why prayer is a force that counteracts evil in the world. (51 minutes)

Caroline Myss is a five-time New York Times bestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. Her many groundbreaking books include Anatomy of the Spirit, Sacred Contracts, Invisible Acts of Power, and Why People Don’t Heal and How They Can. She holds degrees in journalism, theology, intuition, and energy medicine, and in 2003 established her own educational institute: CMED (Caroline Myss Education). For more information about workshops and seminars with Caroline Myss, please visit myss.com.

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Posted August 30, 2011

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