23: Diane Goldner - I Didn’t Believe in Energy Healing... Until It Worked

What if pain wasn’t just a problem to fix, but a portal to something deeper?

Diane Goldner didn’t set out to become a healer. As an investigative journalist writing for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, she approached energy healing with the sharp eye of a skeptic, ready to expose what didn’t hold up. But instead, she found something that flipped her world upside down. Today, she’s an internationally recognized healer and medical intuitive, helping people unlock their body’s hidden wisdom in ways the medical field could learn from.

In this episode, Diane shares the story of her awakening into the world of subtle energy — and how she now helps others access the hidden intelligence of the body. We talk about the surprising signals our pain carries, what it means to receive shaktipat, and why the boundary between science and mysticism may not be a boundary at all.

This is a conversation about seeing differently — about tuning in to what lies just beneath the surface, and discovering that healing might be less about fixing, and more about remembering who we really are.

Chapters:

0:00 Intro: Reality is more mutable than we realize

5:06 Diane's journey from skeptic to energy healer

10:27 What is energy healing and subtle energy?

15:45 Examples of energy healing in action

26:26 How Diane perceives energy during healings

32:35 The relationship between science and spirituality

38:41 Princeton's research on mind-matter interaction