Luule Viilma was an Estonian doctor

Physician

A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

, esotericist and practitioner of alternative medicine

Alternative medicine

Alternative medicine is any healing practice, "that does not fall within the realm of conventional medicine." It is based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence....

. She is best known for her parapsychological book series Teaching of Survival (Ellujäämise õpetus).

Viilma graduated from the Tartu State University in 1974 as a specialist of gynæcology. She practiced in Rapla Hospital and Haapsalu Hospital. In 1991, she started a private gynæcology practice. In the same year, she became acquainted with parapsychology

Parapsychology

The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...

, which lead her to write extensively about supposed "thought healing" methods.

Viilma died in 2002 in a car crash.

Sources

• Eesti Päevaleht
  Eesti Päevaleht
  Eesti Päevaleht is a major daily Estonian newspaper, from the same publishers as the weekly Eesti Ekspress. It has a daily circulation of around 36,000....
  
   30 April 1996: Sensitiiv on süüdimatu ravitseja by Eha Laanepere

External links

• http://www.luuleviilma.ee/