Transpersonal Medicine: The New Approach to Healing Body-Mind-Spirit

By Frank Lawlis

Book Overview

Transpersonal Medicine chronicles the pioneering efforts to apply a transpersonal orientation to the field of medicine. Broken into three parts, it reviews the underlying principles of transpersonal medicine. Part one focuses on ritual as a means of cross-personal empowerment. Part two is devoted to the personal ritual, the process of empowering one's inner strengths and wisdoms. Part three is dedicated to direct experiences and issues involved in medicine. The book includes interviews with leading researchers in each field of topics.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157062626X
• ISBN13: 9781570626265
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Shambhala
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A new paradigm of medicine

Dr. Lawlis works out of the PNP Center outside of Dallas. There he and his colleagues put into action the techniques described in this book. His results are little short of miraculous. The book sets forth, in a clear scientific way, evidence that methods of treatment that are thousands of years old are in fact very powerful treatment tools today. Dr. Lawlis holds that the most powerful way to treat those who are suffering is not to reach for more drugs, but to treat the whole person; body, mind, heart and spirit. In particular, the section on Rituals lays out the power rituals-like those done by shaman for the last few thousand years-have to change the lives of those suffering today. A very fascinating book about a method of treatment too long ignored by Western medicine.