Joseph Pierce Farrell

Joseph Pierce Farrell is an American religious writer actie in the field of alternative medicine.
Spirituality and healthcare
Farrell currently serves as a Director of Research of Spiritually-Based Interventions in Clinical Care at the Institute for Spirituality and Healthcare, Princeton, New Jersey. He is currently collaborating with a multidisciplinary team that is conducting research on the efficacy spiritually-based practices to achieve benevolent treatment effect in both soft and hard tissue. His research has been featured in mainstream media, scientific periodicals, and books.
Healthcare influences
Medical influences
Farrell was exposed to western medical care while serving as a student Medical Corpsman during his four years as a Midshipman in the US Maritime Administration at the State University of New York Maritime College.
In 1988, while Joseph P. Farrell contemplated enrolling in medical school, he was invited to trail Dr. Paul S. Burgeson, M.D., Professor of Anesthesiology at New York University School of Medicine Farrell observed surgeries and attended Grand Rounds and post-op visits. and James Samuel Gordon, M.D.'s book, "Manifesto for a New Medicine: Your Guide to Healing Partnerships and the Wise Use of Alternative Therapies".
Farrell worked with John E. Mack, Professor of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, and founder of the John E. Mack Institute, whose mission is to "explore the frontiers of human experience, to serve the transformation of individual consciousness, and to further the evolution of the paradigms by which we understand human identity."
Farrell worked at the Hale Clinic, which was established in 1987 by Teresa Hale and officially opened by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales in 1988. Joseph P. Farrell was influenced by the Hale Clinic's cutting edge philosophy on complementary health care. Hale is a major proponent for complementary medicine, catering to a star-studded clientele. The Clinic's aim as "to attract the highest caliber of practitioner to help further the acceptance of complementary medicine throughout the community and to offer the public a different approach to health care." who started the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai's first curriculum in alternative and complementary medicine and founded the Association of American Medical Colleges' first initiative in curriculum development in alternative and complementary medicine. Patricia Carrington, at that time she was a faculty member at Princeton University. met Farrell in 2001, introduced him to frontier research on the human biofield and then in 2006 they collaborated Beverly Rubik, a biophysicist and president and founder of the Institute for Frontier Sciences, "a nonprofit institute for scientific research and education on the mind-body, subtle energies, and complementary medicine."
Spiritual influences
Farrell began the formal study of theology, belief systems, and sacred texts (primarily the Judeo-Christian texts) as a student at the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary. Professor of Sociology, Religious Studies and Psychology, and Frederic A. Brussat, who is the author of "Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life" and the Founder of Spirituality and Practice, which seeks to find spiritual solutions to the world’s issues.,
From 2005-2011, Farrell served as an advisor to multiple UN NGO working groups.
Publications
Farrell is the Author of "Manifesting Michelangelo", (published by Simon & Schuster with Atria in 2011).

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