Description
If modern medicine is to be a healing art, it must embrace three ideas it has too long ignored. It must address not only our bodies but our minds and spirits as well; it must deal not only with the mechanism of illness but with its meaning; and it must recognise that our power to heal and be healed extends beyond our physical bodies.'Best-selling author of Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine, Dr Larry Dossey is one of the most influential spokespersons for the role of consciousness and spirituality in medicine. In these writings, he explores the relationship often documented in extensive research between science and 'unscientific' topics such as prayer, love, laughter. work, war, creativity, dreams, and immortality.Does the mind produce consciousness or transmit it? Can machines detect love? Why has job stress become a worldwide epidemic? Why do objects sometimes seem to have minds of their own? Could war be a biological condition? Why is fishing good for your health? How can science study the effects of prayer? Why did the Apaches believe that only when we learned to laugh were we fit to live? Some essays are funny, some sober, some inspirational. Each in its own way challenges us to examine ourselves and our health in a new and different light.
