Known as "Dr. Love" through her website AskDrLove.com — the web's first and immensely popular relationship advice site since 1995 — Dr. Jamie Turndorf talked about how to reconnect with deceased loved ones, during the first half of the show. She recounted her own unusual communications with her husband Jean, who died from an accident, after they'd been together for 27 years. Just after he passed away, she felt his hand touch her spine. At numerous times, she heard his voice, and there were also strange incidents involving electronic equipment, scents coming out of nowhere, and animals behaving oddly that she connected with his spiritual presence.
Out of this experience, she developed Transdimensional Grief Therapy, which diverges from traditional Western therapy (grieve, let go, move on). "Instead, my method shows the bereaved how to say hello and not goodbye, and how to do it without the assistance of a medium, channeler, or psychic." And this technique allows not only for re-connection but the chance to make peace over unfinished business, she said. Communicating with the deceased is an ability we all have, and involves tuning your brain into the spirit channel, she continued.
Turndorf's deceased husband showed her that heaven is a state, not a place, and is always here with us-- the deceased co-exist in what could be thought of as a parallel dimension and interact with us as guardian angels. People should overcome the belief that we're not supposed to contact the dead-- our loved ones in spirit act as gatekeepers and protectors for us, she maintained.
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Social Psychology
Third hour guest, social psychologist Prof. Timothy D. Wilson has investigated unconscious processing and happiness, and discussed why many approaches in the self-help industries as well as some social programs not only don't help, but produce outcomes which are the opposite of what they claim to fix. For instance, the Scared Straight programs, in which convicts tell teens about the horrors of prison life, actually do more harm than good, he cited. He also reported that if people are able to modify or tweak their own personal narrative or story about themselves (what he calls "story editing interventions"), this can sometimes lead to positive, long-lasting changes in their lives.
The last hour of the show featured Open Lines.
News segment guests: Ryan Mauro, Catherine Austin Fitts