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BANGALORE, INDIA, July 8, 2002: Dr. Mitchell W. Krucoff, Director, Interventional Device Trials and Ischemia Monitoring Lab, Duke University Medical Center, is in the middle of a project MANTRA, which can change the way cardiologists look at cardiac care. In Bangalore en route to the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Puttaparthi, he shared some details of his hypothesis that is being tested in the US. “In 1994, we formed the Monitoring and Actualization of Noetic Trainings (MANTRA), a project to systematically study the role of spirituality and human interaction in clinical outcomes for patients undergoing cardiac procedures. Noetic therapies include any methods that purport to engage human or divine life force, spirit or energy without the use of a tangible drug,” he explains. MANTRA involves subjecting serious cardiac patients to additional therapy with prayer, energy healing, relaxation therapy and imagery, besides conventional treatment. Doctors and institutions in the US are showing interest in Dr. Krucoff’s project. “The American College of Cardiology commissioned a consensus paper on spirituality that we were asked to author and the National Institute of Health (of the US government) requested for applications for clinical studies examining the role of prayer and spirituality in clinical outcomes,” he says.

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