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Coyote Medicine: Lessons from Native American Healing Lewis Mehl-Madrona (1997) 299pages

Inspired by his Cherokee grandmother's healing ceremonies, Lewis Mehl-Madrona enlightens readers to "alternative" paths to recovery and health. Coyote Medicine isn't about eschewing Western medicine when it's effective, but about finding other answers when medicine fails: for chronic sufferers, patients not responding to medication, or "terminal cases that doctors have given up on. In the story of one doctor's remarkable initiation into alternative ways to spiritual and physical health, Coyote medicine provides the key to untapped methods available today. (Fireside / Simon & Schuster)



The Heart"s Code: Tapping the Wisdom and Power of Our Heart Energy
Paul Pearsall, Ph.D. (1998) 288pages

Science has recently discovered three startling new possibilities regarding how we think, feel, love, heal, and find meaning in our life. This research suggests that the heart thinks, cells remember, and that both of these processes are related to an as yet mysterious, extremely powerful, but very subtle energy with properties unlike any other known force. If the preliminary insights regarding these prospects continue to be verified, science may be taking the first tentative steps to understanding more about what shamans, kahuna, priests, spiritual leaders, and healers from ancient traditional medicines have been teaching about for centuries - the energy of the human spirit and the coded information that is the human soul. The research and true life stories presented in this book will introduce preliminary documentation that is offering clues about the heart's code, the phrase I will use throughout this book to represent a proposed subtle life or "L" energy "cardio-cryptogram." This heart's code is recorded and remembered in every cell in the body as an informational template of the soul, constantly resonating within and from us, sent forth from our heart. - from the author's Introduction: The Spirit's Energy and the Soul's Heart (Broadway)



Migraine (revised & expanded)
Oliver Sacks (1992/99) 338pages

The chief features of migraine - its phenomena, and how these are experienced by the patient, its mode of occurrence, the triggers that may provoke it, the general ways in which one may live with it or combat it - none of these has changed in 2,000 years. Thus a vivid and detailed description of these matters is always relevant, and cannot become obsolete.... Migraine, of course, is not just a description, but a meditation on the nature of health and illness, and how, occasionally, human beings may need, for a brief time, to be ill; a meditation on the unity of mind and body, on migraine as an exemplar of our psychophysical transparency; and a meditation, finally on migraine as a biological reaction, analogous to that which many animals show. I think these wider considerations, of migraine as part and parcel of the human condition, also retain their relevance -they constitute the unchanging taxonomy of migraine. - from the author's Preface to the Revised (1992) Edition (Vintage)



Sex, Health , and Long Life: Manuals of Taoist Practice
Translated by Thomas Cleary (1994) 111pages

"The human body," according to an old Taoist book, "consists of vitality, energy, and spirit." In Taoist health science, vitality, energy, and spirit are called the Three Treasures, and their care and cultivation are considered the basis of health, happiness, and long life...The five texts translated here were part of the famous Mawangdui finds of 1973-74. The first three, Ten Questions, Joining Yin and Yang, and Talk on Supreme Guidance for the World, deal specifically with physical health and sex lore, including diet, exercise, sleep, and lovemaking technique. The last two, entitled A Course in Effectiveness and A Course in Guidance, concentrate on the psychological factors of good health and well-being, especially the reduction of stress and cultivation of wholesome social relations. - from the translator's Introduction (Shambhala)


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