Transpersonal Medicine: A New Approach to Healing Body-Mind-Spirit - Hardcover

Lawlis, G.Frank

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9780877739883: Transpersonal Medicine: A New Approach to Healing Body-Mind-Spirit

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ISBN 10: 0877739889 ISBN 13: 9780877739883

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 1996

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"Transpersonal Medicine" is a term coined to embrace a wide range of alternative medical approaches that recognize the role of mind, consciousness, and spirituality in healing - powers that transcend those of the limited body or personality of the individual person. This broad-based medical approach also goes beyond the personal in enlisting support from others, for the powers of love, compassion, and fellowship are important catalysts for change. The ultimate goal of transpersonal medicine is not merely to eliminate or prevent disease, but to help us realize our inherent completeness and divinity, whether in sickness, health, or even death.
Drawing on his extensive background in clinical psychology as well as unconventional forms of therapy, Dr. Lawlis explores the multifaceted ways in which human consciousness facilities healing through such means as imagery, prayer, community support, positive emotions, humor and storytelling, symbology, altered states, and intuitive diagnosis. The common denominators are ritual and the acknowledgment of "nonlocal consciousness," the fact that the influence of the human mind is not bound by time or space. Each of nine chapters is followed by an interview with a recognized leader in the field of alternative medicine, including Jeanne Achterberg, Larry Dossey, Carl Simonton, Stanley Krippner, and Dean Ornish.

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"A very readable overview of the 'new paradigm' in medicine and a beacon of hope for anyone experiencing the challenge of illness, which, at one time or another, will be each of us."-- The Quest

"An engrossing exploration of the interconnectedness of body, mind, consciousness, and spirit in human healing, and a supremely intelligent discussion of some of the more powerful tools of alternative medicine."-- Body Mind Spirit

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Transpersonal medicine embraces alternative medical practices that recognise the role of mind, consciousness, and spirituality in healing. It also goes beyond the personal to enlist the support of others through the power of love, compassion and fellowship as important catalysts for change. The ultimate goal of transpersonal medicine is not only prevention and cure of disease, but the realisation of our inherent completeness and divinity, whether in sickness, in health, or even death. Dr Frank Lawlis draws on his own extensive background in clinical psychology and alternative therapies to explore how we can heal through imagery, prayer, community support, positive emotions, humour and storytelling, symbology, altered states and intuitive diagnosis. Each of the book's ten chapters are follwed by interviews with acknowledged leaders in the field of alternative medicine, such as Jeanne Achterberg, Larry Dossey, Charles Tart and Stanley Krippner.

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