Jonathan Cohen

Cohen argues that healing shifts begin when intention is set, well before a session takes place.

“It also makes me think of shifts start to happen as soon as you set the intention or make the commitment to do something that it's not simply in the room itself it's the process leading up”

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Cohen, citing Ellen Langer, argues a prognosis is a statistical average that cannot account for an individual's variables.

“a prognosis is simply a mathematical probability based on everyone else. They're not able to consider all the multiple variables of that individual”

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Cohen argues the systems influencing us are far more complex than a machine model allows, in part because many operate beyond the five senses.

“but it is far more complex than we're able to deduce simply from our understanding of how a machine operates, right? It's not simply... command in and and result”

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Cohen concludes that May is right that not everyone can access psychic ability on demand, while still holding that the ability can be reawakened.

“But I think what Ed is right about is that not everyone can just open up that channel at any time, anywhere”

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Cohen argues that people can train themselves to become more receptive, even if not everyone can become a strong remote viewer.

“But I do feel that people can train to be more receptive than not”

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Cohen relates the conversation to people with complex PTSD who feel broken, arguing they can access an aspect of themselves outside their experiences.

“This notion comes up across people, especially who have complex PTSD, that they're broken in some way, that their experiences have marked them”

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Cohen recounted discovering somatic body work at 17 and experiencing an unexplainable sensation in his hands after a four-day workshop.

“I began to have a sensation in my hands that someone could call energy, but I didn't understand what that would even mean. But it was fundamentally unexplainable and profound”

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Cohen argued that people are conditioned from a young age not to address their emotions in order to fit in, which makes therapy feel unnatural.

“I believe that we are taught from a very young age not to address problems. whatever emotion or issue that is going on with us so that we fit in”

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Cohen proposes a medical intake form that assesses where a person is on their life's path rather than only medical history.

“Imagine the form that helps you understand where you are in achieving your life's goals, whatever those may be”

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Cohen argues that a practitioner who holds faith and intention for a patient has a physiological impact.

“I think having a practitioner, whether it be a doctor or someone in what's considered an alternative field, really hold that space and intention for us has a physiological impact”

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