Caroline Myss

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Caroline Myss
Born (1952-12-02) December 2, 1952 (age 71)
Chicago, Illinois
OccupationTeacher, author
NationalityAmerican
Period1987–present
Genre
Anatomy of the Spirit
Website
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Caroline Myss (pronounced mace; born December 2, 1952) is an American author of 10 books and many audio recordings about mysticism and wellness. She is most well known for publishing

Anatomy of the Spirit (1996). She also co-published The Creation of Health with Dr C Norman Shealy MD - ex Harvard professor of neurology. Her most recent book, Archetypes: Who Are You? was published in 2013. Myss describes herself as a medical intuitive and a mystic.[1]

She was on The Oprah Winfrey Show several times including her 2002 appearance.

Oxygen (TV network), co-owned by Oprah Winfrey,[2][3] exploring the spiritual and psychological roadblocks of life in an intimate workshop setting.[4] The TV Specials "Three Levels of Power & How to Use Them" and "Why People Don't Heal & How They Can," based on her work.[5][6]

Her work has been criticized by some as being unsubstantiated and pseudoscientific.[7][8]

Biography

Caroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952,

Polish American family,[11] and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods.[12] She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.[13]

During the course of her career, she interviewed

On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979.[9] In 2008, she wrote the foreword to Kübler-Ross's revised version of "On Life After Death".[14]

She started giving

Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation".[19] She has since appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.[20]

By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and began teaching how to do them through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours.[21] She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism,[22] and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago.[10][23] In 2003, she founded the Caroline Myss Educational Institute (CMED) in Chicago, Illinois, with business partner David Smith,[24] offering weekend workshops on her books and teachings.

Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of

The Interior Castle (1577), towards the end of her life.[25][26][27][28] Her next book, Defy Gravity, Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason (2009) took the ideas further with mystical laws, the seven shadows and also seven graces inherent in all of us.[29]

Myss started hosting a weekly

Call-in Talk radio show, "Sacred Contracts" around 2005, at Hay House Radio, an Internet radio site, run by Hay House publishing, where she gave online intuitive readings to callers. Then in 2009, the show was renamed "Defy Gravity" after her book by the same name was released in October 2009.[30][31]

In June 2012, Myss appeared on a

OWN Network.[32]

Criticism

In Michael Shermer's book The Skeptic: Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, Phil Molé says "Caroline Myss offers no tangible evidence to support any of her claims. Her hypothetical energy system cannot be detected, her intuitive diagnostic abilities are unproven, and her holistic philosophy is riddled with inconsistencies and unsubstantiated judgments."[7]

Joe Nickell, a skeptic and paranormal investigator, says, "Myss provides no proof of her alleged abilities. She intuits, of course, her intuitive power, offers only hearsay testimonials and anecdotal evidence as support."[33] He has also described Myss as having "many of the traits associated with a fantasy prone personality."[8]

Books and recordings

Her first three books have consecutively been on The New York Times Best Seller list: Anatomy of the Spirit (1998),[34] Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998),[35] Sacred Contracts (2002)[36]

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ a b Sacred Contracts Caroline Myss on The Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002.
  2. ^ Oprah Oxygen The Oprah Winfrey Show website.
  3. ^ The Oxygen TV Channel Is Bowing To Tastes The New York Times, February 25, 2002.
  4. ^ Caroline Myss" Premiering Saturday, January 12 At 10 pm Business Wire, November 28, 2001.
  5. ^ Caroline Mys The New York Times.
  6. Rottentomatoes.com
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  7. ^
    ISBN 1-57607-653-9
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  8. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8131-2467-4
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  9. ^ a b c Myss, Caroline (1953– ) Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine by Jane Spear.
  10. ^ a b Caroline Myss' Journey www.consciouschoice.com, September 2003.
  11. ^ Kristin Barendsen (July–August 1997). "Why People Don't Heal". Yoga Journal. Archived from the original on February 18, 2013.
  12. ^ Luminary: Caroline Myss Archived October 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine ShiftinAction.
  13. ^ Caroline Myss profile Ken Wilber.
  14. ISBN 978-1587613180
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  15. ^ Caroline Myss Profile Hay House, I Can Do It.
  16. ISBN 978-0-89087-461-5
    , Page 324.
  17. ^ Bio Archived March 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  18. ^ Hardcover Advice The New York Times, April 1, 2007.
  19. Oprah & Friends
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  20. ^ Discovering Why You Are Here The Oprah Winfrey Show.
  21. ^ Seven Days, Six Nights, One Author; If You Liked the Book, You'll Love the Tour Guide – Page 2 The New York Times , September 5, 2000
  22. Beliefnet.com
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  23. ^ Caroline Myss Author spotlight – Random House Official website.
  24. ^ "CMED - Caroline Myss Educational Institute - Caroline Myss". myss.com. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  25. ^ Holeman, Daniel B. "Caroline Myss: Entering the Castle of the Soul". randypeyser.com. Retrieved February 16, 2017.
  26. Beliefnet.com
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  27. ^ Entering the Castle Archived February 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Integral Institute.
  28. ^ Interior Castle – Text Works of Teresa of Avila.
  29. ^ "Caroline Myss: Defy Gravity, Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason". Findhorn Foundation. November 20, 2009. Archived from the original on July 3, 2011. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
  30. ^ Show Hosts Archived December 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine Hay House Radio.
  31. ^ Hayhouse Radio, Daily Schedule Archived May 9, 2008, at the Wayback Machine www.hayhouseradio.com.
  32. ^ ""Super Soul Sunday" Full Episode: Caroline Myss on Power, Intuition and Grace". Oprah.com.
  33. ^ Nickell, Joe. "Joe Nickell Book Review". Unproven Claims of Caroline Myss. CSI. Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  34. ^ Best Sellers The New York Times, November 22, 1998.
  35. ^ Best Sellers: The New York Times, November 1, 1998.
  36. ^ Best Sellers: The New York Times, February 17, 2002.
  37. ^ "Amazon.com: Caroline Myss: Books". amazon.com. Retrieved February 16, 2017.

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