"Each summer over the course of two weeks or so, this Nomads Clinic covers more than 100 miles on foot and horseback, at altitudes of nearly 18,000 feet. These "medical mountaineers," as they've been called, all volunteers, sleep in tents, often in freezing temperatures. But after some 40 annual trips to Nepal-Halifax is normally based in Sante Fe-she recently decided it was time to hang it up. She had just turned 80."
"In addition to bringing medical care to remote mountain villages half a world away, Halifax has ministered to the dying in hospice, worked with the homeless in New Mexico, cared for prisoners on death row, and led countless protests for peace. I don't know if Halifax has shed the last remnants of her ego-she would say she hasn't-but the selflessness she manifests in the conduct of her life is something to behold,"
"For more than 30 years, Halifax has been the abbot at Upaya Zen Center, the retreat she founded in Santa Fe in 1990. Halifax was married to the pioneering Czech psychiatrist Stanislav Grof for several years in the 1970s. Working together, they gave transformative doses of LSD to the dying."
Joan Halifax led an annual Nomads Clinic in Nepal that covered more than 100 miles on foot and horseback at altitudes near 18,000 feet, bringing volunteer doctors and dentists to remote villages and sleeping in tents in freezing conditions. After roughly 40 such trips she retired at age 80. Halifax has ministered to the dying in hospice, worked with the homeless in New Mexico, cared for prisoners on death row, and led many peace protests. She served for over 30 years as abbot at Upaya Zen Center, which she founded in Santa Fe in 1990, and collaborated with Stanislav Grof in giving transformative LSD doses to the dying.
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