by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Sight-seeing Day 5 September 20 (Saturday) Barbara and Virginia had made arrangements with a very knowledgeable guide to see Old Delhi. Off they went early in the morning, starting in the narrow alleyways of the spice market, densely packed with merchants hawking spices and teas, bangles and saris, all best observed […]
L anier Fly, who’s been using neurofeedback at his Newport News, Virginia practice Fly Family Therapy and Neurotherapy for 15 years, believes that he received a higher calling to use his skills to help the people of the Congo. He prepared a team of five colleagues to travel to the Bukavu in eastern Congo. Lanier […]
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Sight-seeing Day 4 September 19 (Friday) Breakfast took place in the richly appointed, cavernous dining area designed “1911” for the year that New Delhi became the capital of India. The occasion was the Delhi Durbar of 1911, which celebrated the wedding of King George V and Queen Mary. The king announced […]
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD Travel Days 1 & 2 September 16 – 17 (Tuesday-Wednesday) Thanks to frequent flyer miles that had piled up over the years, we were able to take this opportunity to fly in comfort to India via Virgin Atlantic Airways. The thought of sleeping in coach for all those hours on two […]
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD S ue and I have just returned from a sojourn to India, where we taught our training course at the Tibetan Medical Institute, Men-Tsee-Khang. Here briefly is the story of how this came about. We will be reporting on our journey in more detail in the following days in this newsletter. […]
The Shrinking Divide
by Siegfried Othmer, PhD A t the time of the storming of the Bastille in 1789, King Louis the 16th wrote in his private journal: “Rien.” Nothing. Just a few years later, he was beheaded and himself came to nothing. One could make similar judgments about our field. No one in the suites at Pfizer […]