Janis Hunt Johnson Explains Scientific Prayer

Nov 22, 2009 from 3:00pm to 4:30pm UTC-08
Location: Havurah Shir Hadash
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Local Healer Explains How Scientific Prayer Helps Us Overcome the Healthcare CrisisAt a time when many Americans are struggling with the fear of disease, lacking health insurance, and wondering how to pay for healthcare, Medford-based spiritual healer Janis Hunt Johnson contends that scientific prayer works to keep people healthy — and to bring healing when we do get ill or injured.“All people deserve healthcare whenever they need it, no matter what. There is an alternative that works wherever you are, 24/7. It doesn’t cost anything to turn to God in prayer,” said Johnson.Johnson’s book, Five Smooth Stones: Our Power to Heal without Medicine through the Science of Prayer, offers a practical guide to spiritual healing that includes many real-life examples of healing by scientific prayer alone — from the common cold to terminal illness and everything in between. She explains that a radical reliance on God (Infinite Good) can heal and transform, even in life-threatening situations.Based on her own experiences since 1991, when she suffered from chronic carpal tunnel syndrome and all medical treatments failed, “I had a full physical healing through prayer alone. Over the years I’ve learned that no matter what your problem is, you can heal anything with scientific prayer — which, rather than requiring a leap of faith, is based on a true understanding of the unchanging laws of the universe. Science and spirituality don’t have to be in conflict.”Rabbi David Zaslow, founder of The Wisdom Exchange, the Ashland publisher of Johnson’s book, met her in 2005 after she attended a Passover Community Seder meal. She started taking his Talmud and Torah classes, began studying Hebrew, and eventually edited Zaslow’s seminal interfaith work, Roots and Branches: The Jewish Roots of Christianity.Johnson told him about her own book, and ultimately he offered her the opportunity to publish it. They also discovered they had a musical background in common: Before becoming a rabbi, Zaslow was jazz concert producer for Jazmin’s, Ashland’s premiere jazz club; before becoming a healer, Johnson was a singer/songwriter/recording artist in Chicago and Los Angeles.“I believe that people of many faiths will benefit from this book, which looks destined to make a significant contribution in our hurting world,” Zaslow said.For the second year in a row, Johnson will be a writer featured in the Spirituality Section of the annual Southern Oregon Book & Author Fair including over 50 Pacific Northwest authors (www.southernoregonbookfair.com), held 10:00-4:30 at the historic Ashland Springs Hotel, 212 E. Main, in the 2nd-floor Ballroom and Conservatory on Saturday, November 21, 2009. The following day, Sunday, November 22, 2009, she will give a free book talk with time for Q & A and book signing, at Ashland’s Havurah Shir Hadash (www.havurahshirhadash.org), 185 N. Mountain, from 3:00-4:30.For more information contact:Janis Hunt Johnsontel. 866-732-8201 (Media Contacts: at Main Menu, press 4)email janis@csrenewal.comwww.csrenewal.comFive Smooth Stones: Our Power to Heal Without Medicine Through the Science of Prayer, ©2008.ISBN 978-0-89411-019-1. US$15.00.Spirituality & Science/Mind-Body-Spirit/Spiritual HealingBIO: Janis Hunt Johnson has been a professional writer/editor since 1983. In 1995 she completed formal instruction in spiritual healing with annual refresher courses since then. Since 1997 she has written about practical spirituality for such publications as The Christian Science Monitor and www.spirituality.com. Five Smooth Stones is her first book. For more information about her public spiritual healing practice, CS Renewal Healing Center, visit www.csrenewal.com.

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