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Shares the latest evidence that links prayer, healing, and medicine, presenting examples and anecdotes, and showing readers which methods of prayer show the greatest potential for healing.
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One of the most puzzling illness in history took place some 2,500 years ago when Buddha-the Awakened One-died from food poisoning, having been fed tainted meat in what proved to be his final meal. Read the first page
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One of the most puzzling illness in history took place some 2,500 years ago when Buddha-the Awakened One-died from food poisoning, having been fed tainted meat in what proved to be his final meal. Read the first page
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I've known Larry (the author) since the old times when everyone in medicine seemed to scoff professionally at his interest in the healing power of prayer. Now, quite rapidly, science is catching up with Larry's insights, and we realize just how powerfully our thoughts, spiritual and otherwise, influence our physical bodies.
Larry's book still stands as a classic presentation of the power of prayer in healing. His text offers a very complete presentation of the large amount of research that has in fact been conducted, to prove the power of prayer. And from reading this book, you discover from the studies, what works and what doesn't, which prayer variables are active and which don't matter ... really astounding insights come from this book - plus pragmatic guidelines for how we can all use our own minds and our link with the divine, no matter our particular religious preference, for helping us gain and maintain optimum health - and helping others as well.
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Summary : An astonishingly thought-provoking book. The evidence cited by the book suggests that prayers can actually work.
The author is an American medical doctor, who had a hunch that prayer might help some of his patients. So he searched the medical literature for all the scientific studies about prayer, healing and medicine.
He was amazed to find so much research on the topic.
In half of 300 experiments, prayer positively affected blood pressure, the healing of wounds, heart attacks, headaches, anxiety, illness generally etc., all living things including animals, bacteria and viruses; and electronic equipment.
The author advocates praying not for a specific outcome for a particular person but that "God's will be done" for that person.
Prayers work at a distance. That they work is taken by the author as evidence for the existence of the soul and God; that the mind can exist separate from the brain.
References to all of the studies cited are listed in the book.
It was such an exciting read, I couldn't put the book down. Brilliant!
13 March 2003.
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Healing Words: The power of prayer and the practice of medicine, by Larry Dossey, HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (p.b.), 432 ff.
Healing and Prayer - an overview
By Howard A. Jones
In this book, Dr Larry Dossey, a physician with a practice in Texas, explores the healing power of prayer. In the Introduction, the author expresses his difficulty in defining precisely what we mean by prayer, because the word `prayer' tends to be associated with religious petitions to God. But Dr Dossey takes prayer out of a specifically religious context and makes it serve as a description of non-local mind communing with cosmic spirit, in any form in which we want to regard it, to envision the love and healing of others.
The author sees medicine over the past couple of centuries as having developed in three stages or eras: the first in the 19th century reflected physical medicine with the development of synthetic drug therapy and surgery with effective anaesthetics. The second phase developed after WWII and acknowledged the role of the mind of the individual in aggravating or healing their physical illness. The third era, which is the focus of this book, has emerged in recent decades as evidence has grown of the effect that one individual's mind could have on the mind and body of another - what Dossey calls `non-local mind'. He cites evidence that he believes shows that mind is not exclusively associated with the brain, as brain chemicals are found also in other tissues like the blood and gut. Then there is further evidence that mind is not even restricted to one individual with the effects, not only of prayer, but of telepathic or telesomatic events between empathic individuals.
The book describes numerous anecdotes of instances where prayer and healing thoughts have proved to be effective and some instances where they have not, with possible reasons for this. It also gives the results of many scientific studies into the influence of prayer. There are few practical details of the experiments in most of the book - simply the results. Details are confined to the third and final section on The Evidence; and there is more on that, together with possible explanatory scientific theory, in an earlier book, Recovering the Soul. Dr Dossey points out that nothing physical, not even a measurable energy, passes from meditator to recipient. Such events are comparable to those in particle physics where interaction between related particles occurs instantaneously, at a distance, regardless of separation in time or space.
I doubt that this book was written specifically as a self-help book, but Dr Dossey gives examples of what he considers to be effective methods and limitations of prayer so I'm sure that many readers will find the book not only helpful but inspirational: for if mind is not to be confined to the body in life, then there is the potential for non-local mind or soul to continue its existence in the discarnate. If the individual unconscious does indeed form part of Jung's collective unconscious, it is not incoherent to suggest persistence of non-local mind in a Communal Soul after mortal death. This is a very informative and encouraging book.
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.
Healing and Prayer - an overview
By Howard A. Jones
In this book, Dr Larry Dossey, a physician with a practice in Texas, explores the healing power of prayer. In the Introduction, the author expresses his difficulty in defining precisely what we mean by prayer, because the word `prayer' tends to be associated with religious petitions to God. But Dr Dossey takes prayer out of a specifically religious context and makes it serve as a description of non-local mind communing with cosmic spirit, in any form in which we want to regard it, to envision the love and healing of others.
The author sees medicine over the past couple of centuries as having developed in three stages or eras: the first in the 19th century reflected physical medicine with the development of synthetic drug therapy and surgery with effective anaesthetics. The second phase developed after WWII and acknowledged the role of the mind of the individual in aggravating or healing their physical illness. The third era, which is the focus of this book, has emerged in recent decades as evidence has grown of the effect that one individual's mind could have on the mind and body of another - what Dossey calls `non-local mind'. He cites evidence that he believes shows that mind is not exclusively associated with the brain, as brain chemicals are found also in other tissues like the blood and gut. Then there is further evidence that mind is not even restricted to one individual with the effects, not only of prayer, but of telepathic or telesomatic events between empathic individuals.
The book describes numerous anecdotes of instances where prayer and healing thoughts have proved to be effective and some instances where they have not, with possible reasons for this. It also gives the results of many scientific studies into the influence of prayer. There are few practical details of the experiments in most of the book - simply the results. Details are confined to the third and final section on The Evidence; and there is more on that, together with possible explanatory scientific theory, in an earlier book, Recovering the Soul. Dr Dossey points out that nothing physical, not even a measurable energy, passes from meditator to recipient. Such events are comparable to those in particle physics where interaction between related particles occurs instantaneously, at a distance, regardless of separation in time or space.
I doubt that this book was written specifically as a self-help book, but Dr Dossey gives examples of what he considers to be effective methods and limitations of prayer so I'm sure that many readers will find the book not only helpful but inspirational: for if mind is not to be confined to the body in life, then there is the potential for non-local mind or soul to continue its existence in the discarnate. If the individual unconscious does indeed form part of Jung's collective unconscious, it is not incoherent to suggest persistence of non-local mind in a Communal Soul after mortal death. This is a very informative and encouraging book.
Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.
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