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Russ Mason, M.S. In a nearly identical way, Jay Caliendo, because I worked very hard at it. As I got
of Phoenix, Arizona, is able to "read" older, I became interested in the nutrition-
people and to discern problem areas— al side of it and eventually helped to train
whether they are physical or energetic in people. We had the fitness club and that
Introduction nature. In 1973, when Mr. Caliendo first was my primary job for a while. Then, in
received this gift, as he terms it, several 1981,1 joined the Phoenix Police Depart-
the early part of the twentieth cen- aspects of it baffled him: Why was he cho- ment. I felt that I would like law enforce-
and publisher, went public with her rare views begin with Jay Caliendo, the medi-
ability, identifying herself as a "medical cal intuitive. RM: So, there was no frozen duck
intuitive." Like Mr. Cayce, Dr. Myss was pond?
able to "scan" and diagnose anyone, JC: No, mine was simple. In 1973, I
whether the person was in the same Interview with Jay Caliendo became a Christian.
room or thousands of miles away. All
that was necessary was for her to be told Russ Mason: Are you a native of RM: Did you join any particular kind
the person's first name and age and that Phoenix? of church?
she had the person's permission to scan Jay Caliendo: Yes. I grew up here. My JC: Just a nondenominational Christian
him or her. Dr. Myss later formed an earliest memories are of my dad and the church up in Flagstaff [Arizona]. It was
association with a Missouri neurosur- horses he raised. I was just a normal kid. in the woods and we loved the preacher.
geon, C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D. After high school I started a business with It was all very personal. On Wednesday
founder of the Shealy Institute for Com- some members of my family—a weight- nights, we went to group meetings and,
prehensive Health Care, Springfield, lifting and racquet-ball club. This was the after several of those, I decided that, if I
Missouri, and, as a result, was able to first of its kind in Phoenix that was open had the guts, I would walk down the
bring a rare diagnostic insight to many to the public. aisle and give myself to the Lord. The
of Dr. Shealy's patients. Together, Drs. preacher was inviting people to do this
Myss and Shealy wrote The Creation of RM: Have you been interested in and finally I got up the nerve and walked
Health: Merging Traditional Medicine with health and fitness for a long time? down also. Then, a month later, I had a
Intuitive Diagnosis* JC: Yes. In fact, in 1972,1 was a competi- public baptism; and it was after the bap-
tive power-lifter and was ranked 21st in tism that I began to see images of people,
the top twenty-five in the world, by health images. I could see cancerous
you are now as far as diagnosing people use. A few of the members of my Chris-
from all over the world? tian group told me that I should stop
JC: When it first started, after the bap- doing it, that it was the work of the devil.
tism, I began to see images in people, usu- I told them I was not doing anything, I
ally at random. I would be standing in was just seeing things. Yet, for about 20
line at the grocery store and notice that years, I had to endure people looking at
there was something abnormal about the me strangely. If you ever saw the movie
person ahead of me. Of course, I didn't Phenomenon ' with John Travolta, you
say anything, but I could see things. I would understand a little of what I went
shared what was happening with my through. He was misunderstood and
JayCaliendo and Abraham C. Kuruvilla, family and close friends. I told them that I people looked at him like he was weird.
M.D., M.D.(H), Maricopa County Health Cen- had these "sights," that I had this ability And that is how I felt for so long. But
ter. to see people and it was kind of. .crazy. I
. then, in 1995,1 was getting my back treat-
wasn't sure what it was that I had and ed in a clinic by a practitioner who did
what it was I was supposed to do, so all I Rolfing.™ I struck up a conversation
could do was experiment. with him and he told me that—despite
am not a particularly good Christian. But At first, I was like a kid with a new toy. his best efforts as a therapist—he was
for some reason I have been blessed with I tried it in my police work to see if I unable to help his wife, who had chronic
this gift. could solve crimes. .1 was able to pain. As he said this, I suddenly had an
describe a house some people had lived
. .
maybe a couple of hundred people. But, RM: How long does it take before you
1995 was the first time I read a stranger, get an image of a person?
someone in a public situation. And that is JC: Instantly. Someone has barely fin-
when I realized: "Wow! There are some ished saying their name and age and I
people who really want me to do this for see that person. But, as I said said, seeing
them!" And the director of the clinic the images is easy. The challenge has
asked me to come in on my days off, so I always been defining what it was I saw.
went in twice a week and read her kids For example, if I read an energy block-
for her. Before you know it, I was reading age, was I seeing calcification or scar tis-
all of the staff, and eventually they all sue? If I saw a fatty tumor, I could not
told me: "You've got to go public with tell if it was benign or malignant, or if it
this, and write a book, and here—take was a cyst. It could be a million things.
this tape home!" Now, after doing this for nearly 30 Mr. Caliendo and Dr. Kuruvilla work on a
They had me going! But, if that thera- years, for those people who really do patient at the Center.
pist had not told me about his wife and have cancer, I'll tell them exactly where
her pain, I would never have mentioned it is located, how bad it is, and where
it. The enthusiastic reactions of all these they're headed with it. I can probably
people led to my founding Inner Insight, even tell them how they got it. RM: Is the process of doing the "read-
Ltd., in Phoenix, to do readings for people ings" tiring for you?
on a part-time basis. I hope to do this RM: You can tell how a person actual- JC: Very much so, especially doing
work full-time after I retire from the ly got a disease?! readings for people over the phone,
police force next year. JC: Yes. I can see why someone came because I have to remain focused for so
down with cancer. But how helpful is long. I have to write everything down or
RM: How does it work for the average that? The person already has the disease. else I will forget it. As soon as the reading
individual who wants a reading? is over and I hang up the phone, I forget
JC: I send the person a disclaimer to fill RM: But what you are saying implies the reading. Part of the gift is having the
out, and that person sends it back with a that you can see into someone's past. ability to forget, so I don't dwell on people
check for $115.00 and we set up a time for Isn't that so? or their problems for any length of time.
a 1-hour phone conversation. Once the JC: Oh absolutely. I read someone's
person is on the phone and has given me entire biography, and I flip through that RM: In working with Dr. Kuruvilla, it
their age and permission, I do a reading. In person's history in microseconds. For seems you have formed a great partner-
the course of it, I write down everything. example, one man was suffering from ship. Tell us about that.
cancer of the prostate. I saw that the cause JC: This is very much so. First of all,
RM: What do you see? Can you was exposure to certain kinds of chemi- we like each other, so it's easy for us to
describe it? cals. When I asked him about this he work around each other. He is a com-
JC: It's like a series of black and white replied that he had worked for many fortable person to work with—there's
X-rays. It's kind of a blotchy negative years with industrial dyes. The soft tissue not a drop of arrogance in him. And one
image, and those blotchy spots are, to me, had absorbed some of the chemicals, and of his biggest assets is his versatility in
abnormal. This means the normal person was the source of the problem. You see, combining Traditional Chinese
has not been born with them. For me to everyone has strong points and weak Medicine with Ayurvedic and, of
see those images is very easy, and all I points in their bodies—you have yours course, Western medicine. I mean, if he
need is the person's name, age, and per- and I have mine. So, when we get sick, it's were strictly an allopathic doctor, 50
mission to see them, and the images because the weak part of our bodies were percent of what I say would make no
appear immediately in front of me. attacked. sense to him. I mean none.
334 ALTERNATIVE & COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES—DECEMBER 2000
"Jay came to the center and I had him read a patient, whom I
knew well, and he read the patient correctly—100 percent correctly."
Diane, I have your name and your age. in the United States. I did my residency in
What is your question?" Diane might pediatrics here in Phoenix and became
Contact the answer: "Well I have been coughing a lot board certified in pediatrics, neonatal
Diagnostic Team lately and I don't know why." I read medicine, and family practice, between
Diane and say: "OK, here's what I think is 1977 and 1997. As I was getting into fami-
Jay Caliendo
Inner Insight, Ltd. going on. and I tell her what I see.
"
RM: Do many of your allopathic col- blood tests. However, if they all come ACK: I feel that way. But again, this is
leagues know that you're working with back normal, then—by all appearances— an unusual gift and I am fortunate that I
a medical intuitive? there is nothing wrong. However, in Tra- came across Jay. The skill he brings is
ACK: Yes, and they are skeptical. But I ditional Chinese Medicine, blood is the certainly rare; my job is one of interpre-
have a good reputation in Phoenix, plus solid form of chi; and the circulation of tation. In fact, the blood deficiency is an
all the background training, so they are the blood is through various organs, in excellent example. Acupuncture was
somewhat gentle about it. However, they which there can be stagnation, which able to restore movement to the blood
simply cannot understand this and they could produce a symptom. That is what in a very real way when, by allopathic
keep reminding me that I have to tell the Jay is talking about, and this is not neces- standards, the blood count remained
patients that medical intuition is not a sarily something that would show up in a the same. And yet, the patient was
tested form of anything. So, as far as my conventional blood analysis. fatigued and traditional methods of
allopathic colleagues are concerned, what diagnosis revealed nothing. Yet, with
Jay does is close to voodoo. But we take RM: How long have you been work- Jay's reading and the application of
one patient at a time and we always ask ing with Jay? acupuncture, the patient was restored to
for permission. In fact, in the grant setup, ACK: Not quite a year and a half. We healthy activity.
Jay's services are free. began in August of 1999. We plan to con-
tinue to see patients and then publish our RM: And yet, many allopathic doctors
RM: It must have been quite a revela- findings. Jay and I are putting together a don't want to hear about meridians or
tion for you to work with someone with history of the cases we have worked on, acupuncture. How do you feel about
Jay's abilities. and will do a chart analysis to explain the this?
ACK: Yes, I was also very skeptical. outcome. We are being as professional as
ACK: Well, if Traditional Chinese
Even after he did the first reading and got possible, with the slant of alternative Medicine turns out to be consistently right,
it right, I was still skeptical. Most people medicine, for the journals that publish that means what allopathic physicians
would be. But the more and more I work such reports. have studied is not really complete and
with Jay, the more I develop greater
that they will have to do more training. So
respect for his ability. RM: Do you still use conventional
it's easier for allopathic doctors to put this
diagnostic tools, such as an MRI§? stuff down than to acknowledge it. I spent
RM: Has Jay ever been wrong? ACK: Oh yes. We never replace an
5 years studying alternative medicine and
ACK: If he were to describe his reading MRI with Jay's reading alone. Besides,
I am more and more convinced that this is
to an allopathic M.D., with no insight we want as much information about the
where medicine is going.
about Traditional Chinese Medicine, or patient as possible. What is slightly frus-
other forms of alternative medicine, the trating, however, is that allopathic doc-
tors—those who would regulate this RM: Would you say that a combina-
M.D. would find what Jay reports diffi-
tion of allopathic and Traditional Chi-
cult to interpret or even to understand. kind of thing—would not be able to
nese Medicine is the future of medicine?
understand what Jay does. We have to
RM: Can you give me an example? work at it and publish our results in a ACK: Very much so. But we could use
more medical intuitives like Jay Calien-
ACK: Yes. Jay will look at a patient and careful and methodical way. Maricopa
do. D
say: "There's something wrong with the County has requested a research proto-
blood." In allopathic terms, this means col to incorporate Jay's work and we are
the doctor should conduct a series of doing that. To order reprints of this article, write to or call:
Karen Ballen, ALTERNATIVE & COMPLE-
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team-up makes diagnostic work-ups Inc., 2 Madison Avenue, Larchmont, NY 10538-
§MRI magnetic resonance imaging.
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