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Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life with Jeffrey Rediger, MD

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Rediger, MD, MDiv, is a board-certified psychiatrist, best-selling author, and popular speaker. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is on the faculty at Harvard Medical School and has served as Medical Director of McLean SE Adult psychiatry and Community Affairs at McLean Hospital for many years. He has spent years researching cases of what doctors call “spontaneous remission” and what others call “miracles.” We discuss the terribly broken medical care system that fails to see a whole person rather than a set of symptoms or diseases in “silos.” He talks about specific scientifically validated cases where people were given a terminal diagnosis and yet, lived. He focuses on the immune system and not only eliminating what is sabotaging it (lack of sleep, sugar, refined foods, and more) and what we can do to help ourselves heal ourselves. This one you won't want to miss! Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.

0:08.7

And a lot of people ask me, why do you call it the influence continuum, Steve?

0:15.0

Why don't you call it the bite model?

0:17.0

And I basically say my influence continuum talks about influence from ethical influence to unethical

0:25.8

influence. And my desire for this podcast is not just to talk about destructive cults and

0:32.8

abusive relationships, but also to offer my listeners positive things.

0:39.7

So we had one on gratefulness, who was actually a cancer survivor who was terminal, who

0:46.7

got better with the help of Western medicine and lots of spiritual practice. We did one on parenting, positive parenting techniques.

0:58.7

And when I met Dr. Jeffrey Rediker, author of this really wonderful book, which I've recently

1:05.9

read, Cured, Strengthen Your Immune System and heal your life. This is a book I'm really interested in. I read it,

1:15.1

and Jeffrey and I have actually met and talked at length. So I'm just going to, if you don't mind,

1:21.9

Jeff, I'm going to give you some, give the listeners some laudatories. So you're a psychiatrist, you're board certified.

1:31.3

You also, not only an MD, but you also have a Masters of Divinity from Princeton,

1:37.8

which is very interesting.

1:39.5

I'd love to get into your interests in spirituality as well.

1:43.5

You've been the medical director at McLean's

1:46.5

Southeast Adult Psychiatry and Community Affairs at McLean Hospital. And you've been

1:53.9

researching for your book, remarkable individuals who've recovered from incurable illnesses.

2:00.8

And you've been in the media, you've been on Oprah and a lot of other shows.

2:05.5

You've been nominated for the National Bravewell Leadership Award.

2:10.0

You've received numerous other awards for leadership and patient care.

2:15.0

And honestly, you are, in my mind, a hero because you're from the medical

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