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INTUITION Ni EDICINE PIONEER FRANCESCA MCCARTNEY HAS GROWN FRON/ A NEARLY SILENT LITTLE GIRL INTO AN OUTSPOKEN PROPONENT OF ffi A ONCE.CTANDESTINE HEALING TECHNOLOGY, MAKING THE SCIENCE OF ENERGY A RESPECTABLT TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY HEALTH CARE CHOICI. '%

FOR THE FIRST r8 years of her life, Francesca day career, she founded the Academy of in Mill Valley California, in 1984. Certified as McCartney barely said aword. avocational training school, AIM offers programs whose graduates can "I was an extremely sensitive child-feeling, legally practice as medical intuitives and spiritual coaches. "What hearing, and seeing too much," McCartney I am teaching is the reinvention of ancient medi- cine," McCartney said in a phone interview. explains in her bookBody of Health: The New "This ability is an ancient ability. Traditional physicians Sci,ence of Intuition Medicinefor Energg and used intuition and as diagnostic tools to map c out where illnesses were located in patients' bodies. Ifyou go e Balance. "The impact of my inner-sensing system back to the beginning, medicine n:as meditation." n was so loud and distracting that i barely spoke." Training to be a medical intuitive requires mastering rl certain fields ofknowledge and special skills, in this case energy anatomy, karma, the astral body, mindfulness, clair- p In a dazzling epiphany during C atholic M as s one Sunday voyance, clairaudience, psychometry, and aura reading. n at age 19, McCartney realized that church traditions could "I was more or less born to see auras-which are not just no longer support her growing need to practice a religion colors and patterns but subtle energy movements, Iike the ofthe spirit. She spent the next several decades studying wa'uy pulses you see sometimes on hot asphalt," explains the Bhagavad Gita, meditation, tai chi, alrrrvedic medicine, McCartney, who also calls herself a spiritual doctor and an , , , and other energy' technician. healing traditions that had been practiced around the world "Energy anatomy is just like physical anatomy. Learning for centuries but at that time were still considered outland- to work with it is like learning to listen with new ears." ish in the United States, where they were practiced rarely. McCartney frequently aids scientific researchers and She apprenticed with iridologists and herbalists while delivers speeches at universities and conferences. That a drawing blood as a hospital iaboratory technician, earning a medical intuitive has established credibility in academic teaching credential, raising two daughters, and becoming a and traditional settings reflects "an incredible amount of pastoral minister. change" since McCartney began her metaphysical searches McCartney had found her path as a seeker, and thus her in the early rg7os. voice, as a teacher of spiritual wisdom. She used it to forge "Back then, very few people were doing this kind ofwork her own new modality called intuitive healing, the diagnosis out of the closet. They did what came naturally to them; they and treatment of mental, emotional, and physical illnesses were helping people, but theyworked under the radar. using intuitive insight. "There was no box for them to fit into." Determined to make intuitive healins a viable modern- She considers herself lucky to have trained with "very

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