We’re in Melrose Park, west of Chicago, a suburb of Italians, Poles and Irish. Caroline Myss, a sheltered 15-year-old, has just bought a book on palmistry. A friend asks her to read her mother ...

But in the scheme of things, that's the small stuff. At least that's how energy healer and bestselling author Caroline Myss sees things, and her TEDx talk on this subject rocked my world.

This is not what I'm expecting. "See, you don't understand or you would not have said that," snaps Caroline Myss, tilting her head back as she stares at me through the glasses perched on the end ...