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Can Meditation Cure Disease?

A Tibetan lama believes he cured his gangrene-stricken leg by meditating for a year. Now scientists are studying his brain, hoping to discover a medical miracle.

Maureen Seaberg
Maureen Seaberg
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Maureen Seaberg

Maureen Seaberg

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