Transforming the Nature of Health A Holistic Vision of Healing That Honors Our Connection to the Earth, Others, and Ourselves

by Shapiro, Marcey; Golden, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781583943618
• ISBN10: 1583943617
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-14
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Summary

A provocative blend of personal memoir, new science, and philosophical treatise, this book presents a fresh model for healing by rethinking our relationships with one another, the natural world, our bodies, and our innermost selves. Dr. Marcey Shapiro focuses on eliminating us/them or friend/enemy dichotomies, shifting instead to a model based on enduring values of love, compassion, harmony, and peace. Throughout the book she reevaluates prevailing cultural beliefs about the causes and meaning of illness and offers a vision for a different type of societal understanding of health with a new view of the possible role of medicine in healing. Interweaving inspiring anecdotes from her experiences of the natural world, in medical training and practice, and with mystical exploration, Dr. Shapiro includes examples of medical advances that honor our interconnectedness and provides practical tools like breathing techniques, tips for self-examination, and methods for expanding awareness. Transforming the Nature of Healthtraces the roots of the matter/spirit split in contemporary science and medicine, evaluating its constraints as a paradigm for us as evolving beings. Dr. Shapiro presumes that we are much more than our physical bodies and asks readers to join in cocreating a new language and new science that express the whole of our miraculous existence. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author Biography

Marcey Shapiro, MD, is a family physician who has extensive training and experience in many areas of natural medicine, including Western and Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, mind-body techniques, flower essences, homeopathy, breathing techniques, nutritional therapies, and Scenar, and hands-on modalities such as Ortho-Bionomy and Biodynamic Osteopathy.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Heart of the Matter	p. 1
Language and Life	p. 11
Premises	p. 32
Respect	p. 61
Interrelationship: Bacteria	p. 72
On Conscious Co-Creation	p. 84
Maps of the Worlds	p. 101
Balance	p. 119
Trust: Viruses	p. 137
Messengers	p. 151
Cooperation/Community: Fungi	p. 180
Truth: Corporations, Big Pharma, and Me	p. 195
The Spirits of Things	p. 212
The Deva of Fleas	p. 226
Communication	p. 237
Visions of a Seer	p. 249
Appendix: Sample Guided Meditation	p. 267
Bibliography and Resources	p. 270
Notes	p. 281
Acknowledgments	p. 293
About the Author	p. 296
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