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In 2015 Kelly Turner PhD, a onco-psychologist, published her research in a book titled Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, which quickly became a New York Times bestseller.1 She examined over 1000 cases of spontaneous remission from advanced cancer, talked to over 50 non-Western alternative healers from Brazil, China, England, and Zimbabwe, and interviewed over 100 cancer patients who had had spontaneous remission from terminal cancer. After collating all the data, Turner found over 75 healing factors, the following nine of which were mutual to all the cases and were the key to spontaneous healing:

• Deepening spiritual connection

• Having a strong reason for living

• Taking control over one’s health

• Releasing suppressed emotions

• Increasing positive emotions

• Following one’s intuition

• Embracing social support

• Using herbs and supplements

• Radically changing diet.

Turner’s research on spontaneous healing points to what ancient yogis knew thousands of years before: transformation needs to happen on all levels of human existence in order for healing to take place. Pancha kosha points to our existence on five levels simultaneously and homogenously. If we are to start healing, we need to stop looking just at the body and start looking at all levels of human existence. All nine factors mentioned by Turner correlate with the pancha kosha model: