Episode 1

The Healer in the Lab | Studying Energy Healing and Cancer at MD Anderson

In Episode 1, we explore the work at MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of the largest and most respected cancer research institutions in the world, where healers in the lab are reducing pancreatic cancer growth and spread by over 50%.

Episode 2

Reiki versus Fakey | A Clinical Trial on Chronic Pain with Harvard and the University of Utah

Rick Axelson spent his career teaching research methods at medical colleges. He also spent decades suffering from debilitating migraines that even his team at the Mayo Clinic couldn't resolve. Then he tried one session of Reiki with a practitioner named Natalie Dyer. Forty-five minutes. And his migraines have never come back.

Episode 3

Healing as a Way of Life | Qigong, Meridians, and the Science of Qi at Harvard

What if healing isn't something that happens to you — but something you're always doing for yourself? That question sits at the heart of Qigong, and this episode. Anne Hering has practiced every day for over twenty-five years. Her doctor told her at 22 she'd spend the rest of her life in pain. But he was wrong, and she'll tell you it wasn't a treatment that changed things. It was a practice. At Harvard, researchers Andrew Ahn and Peter Wayne have spent years trying to understand what Qi actually is — and whether the body's energy pathways, called meridians, have any physical basis. When Dr. Ahn injected fluorescent dye at an acupuncture point on the wrist, it traveled up the arm through no known vessel and arrived exactly where the ancient maps said it would. Two Harvard scientists and a Qigong teacher in the Netherlands arrived at nearly the same definition of Qi from completely different directions. What they found might change how you think about your own health.

Episode 4

No One Left Behind | PTSD, Healing Touch, and the Military's Research Into Finding Relief

Ron served in Vietnam and later underwent a successful bilateral lung transplant. But after surgery, he developed severe PTSD triggered by ICU delirium, leaving him trapped in years of relentless nightmares. When conventional treatments failed, he was introduced to an energy healer named Maggie. What happened next changed his life. Along the way, we explore military-backed research into healing touch, acupuncture, and other integrative therapies with retired Army physician and former NIH director Dr. Wayne Jonas, who has spent decades studying one simple question: if a treatment works, should we be willing to look beyond our assumptions?

Episode 5

There's Something Between Us | The Science of the Healer-Patient Bond at Harvard

What happens in the space between a healer and the person they're healing? Is it technique? Trust? Belief? Or something science is only beginning to measure? We begin with the remarkable story of energy healer Laurie Nealon and Alan Brown, whose 20-minute kitchen table healing session transformed Alan's life, before exploring groundbreaking research from Dartmouth and Harvard suggesting that the connection between healer and patient may be part of what drives healing itself. Science has found the instrument. It just hasn't found everything that plays through it.

Episode 6

Not a Machine but a Flame | The Biology of Energy at Columbia and Beyond