For Dr. Belinda Anderson,
acupuncture is a way to learn about the interaction
between the scientific and the spiritual.
Belinda J. Anderson genetically
engineered vaccines and crops. She worked at an
advertising company representing the pharmaceutical
industry. She researched brain biology at Memorial
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
And then, after more than two
decades as a mainstream scientist, she put her
professional credibility on the line by telling
people what she really thinks.
"I always felt like science could
never connect with humanity, that there wasn't a
connection between people and their experience and
their emotions and psychological and spiritual
aspects in science," said Anderson, in her native
Australian accent. "It seemed that ... these things
were really separate. And I saw alternative medicine
and spiritual practices as a way of kind of bringing
the two things together."
