Reinventing Medicine: Beyond Mind-Body to a New Era of Healing Paperback – September 1, 2000

Having recently read and strongly recommended Larry Dossey's latest book, I have been re-reading some his earlier books. This one is similarly excellent.Medical models are strongly determined by the way in which people see the world: traditional Chinese medicine is a fruit of a Taoist world view, and classical Greek and Roman medicine was informed by the philosophical models of the day. Beginning roughly in the middle of the 19th century, Western medicine began to adopt an approach based on concepts drawn from the classical, mechanical, Newtonian concept of the Universe. Therefore medicine developed a mechanical view that is still the predominant model today. Dossey calls this Era I or mechanical or physical medicine. In the middle of the 20th century, it began to be realized that thoughts, emotions, attitudes and beliefs can impact the body, which led to a radically new perspective: what we now refer to as mind-body medicine. Dossey calls this Era II. We are now living in an extraordinarily interesting and exciting time, when empirical evidence, like the research on distant healing that we just mentioned, is forcing us to recognize the emergence of Era III or nonlocal medicine. Unlike the first two Eras, the nonlocal perspective acknowledges that thoughts and intentions may affect the functioning of other individuals, at any distance, and with or without the awareness of the recipient.The concept of non-locality is exceedingly important, and it is certainly true that it is not universally accepted. But with the passage of time, more and more evidence seems to be supporting its existence in the day-to-day physical world. If, as I suspect, it is accurate, the practical implications are stunning.One of the reviewers raised some good points about the importance of evidence, and Dossey has always been very careful about the data that he cites. As an example, I do not think that he was one of the people taken in by the Hundredth Monkey Hoax. It is interesting that over the last five years, 75% of the studies published in peer-reviewed parapsychology journals have passed the most stringent design and analysis criteria for experimental studies, which is around twice as high as the figure in the top ten medical journals.A highly recommended book by one of the most important authors in the field.

Larry Dossey's new book is a splendid, generous and inspiriting appeal to revive the ancient arts of dream healing. He focusses attention on open secrets that I believe will be central to our medicine - and our way of being in the world - in the twenty-first century: that mind is nonlocal, so we can be anywhere (quite literally) that we can picture; and that the body does not distinguish mental or emotional events (if deeply believed) from physical events, so we can heal ourselves - and others - through imagery. Best of all, he is fully alive to the ways in which dreams teach us what our bodies need to stay well, often us showing us possible problems long before physical symptoms manifest, and how our spontaneous dream imagery offer fresh and vital keys to self-healing and recovery. Larry Dossey is an exemplar of what the best doctors of the coming century will be - healers and teachers who operate with mind, body and spirit. He has given me inspiration on my own path of teaching and practicing dream healing, as reflected in my books CONSCIOUS DREAMING and DREAMGATES (and the forthcoming DREAMING TRUE). He gives all of us courage for the journey on the path of heart and soul. I hope he will find many readers in our medical community, because we urgently need this antidote to approaches that reduce the patient to a collection of body parts to be mended or sustained by pharmaceuticals and invasive surgery. We need to marry the best of our medical science to a way that honors the individual as a whole person and encourages her to ask for help from a deeper Source and bring all her spiritual resources into play. Larry Dossey shows us how.

This is a wonderful book for anyone- lay person or professional- who is interested in cutting edge research on the power of the mind and heart in healing. "Non-local" mind encompasses prayer, good wishes, healing practices like Therapeutic Touch, the laying on of hands, intuition, premonition,Love,and all benevolent practices used to facilitate the healing of others. Larry Dossey talks about how we communicate with one another over distance, like the Aboriginal and many other cultures, and how we can cultivate this human potential. It is a book that takes the 'woo-woo' out of near death experience, deja vu, telepathy, etc while not taking away from the extra-ordinariness of those experiences. READ IT!

Larry Dossey delivers an impressive book on how to change the mind body connection with simple to follow steps. Change your mind and the body follows. Your mind influences your blood pressure, sleeping patterns, and hormones to a very large degree. Exercise and diet play key roles, along with prayer and mindfulness. Larry's message is never dull or boring. He is clear and bold in his message. Read all his books!

Arrived on time and in the condition I ordered, happy. I haven't read it yet. I ordered three of Dossey's books as I am seeking a solution to chronic pain that Doctors have been unsuccessful in eliminating.

Very thought provoking and nice to see more scientific evidence of what I already believed to be the case. Well written.

Great condition and an addition to the classes I am taking. Thank you

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