INTRODUCTION
Some Personal Background 5
1. THE UNIFYING LIFE FORCE
Connecting the Dots 15
Cross-Cultural Conceptions of Life Energy 25
May the Vital Force Be With You 30
2. INNATE HEALING INTELLIGENCE
A Case of Midlife Sciatica 35
Bioenergetic Defense Mechanism 38
Shooting the Symptomatic Messenger 41
Innate Capacity to Heal 43
The Intangible Nature of Disease 48
3. HISTORICAL AND SPIRITUAL ROOTS
Orthodox Medical History 53
Forgotten Medical History 56
Asklepian Healing 59
Science versus Religion 63
Lost Continents 67
4. SHAMANIC JOURNEY TO THE SOUL
Left versus Right 71
Spiritual Reality 73
Darkness and Light 78
Soul Loss 82
A Case of Narcoleptic Fog 87
Personal Soul Quest 88
5. PERCEIVING THE NATURAL ORDER
Symptomatic Hierarchy 95
The Body-Heart-Mind-Soul Continuum 97
Directionality of Disease 101
A Case of Crohn’s Disease 107
6. LIMITATIONS OF MEDICAL MATERIALISM
Normal Science 109
Science as Myth 112
A Case of a Broken Heart 115
Objectivity, Bias, and Anomaly 118
Crisis, Epiphany, and Revolution 120
Abstraction, Fragmentation, and Dissociation 122
7. THE SYNCHRONISTIC MILIEU
Numerological Considerations 131
Reconsidering Coincidence 133
Cause and Effect Defect 136
Physics and Metaphysics 139
A Hair-Raising Experience 144
Psychic Storehouse 146
Synchronicity and Science 148
An Eastern Influence 151
8. ADVICE AND DISSENT
Propaganda and Politics 157
Fear and the Denial of Death 162
Language and Professional Control 168
Education and Empowerment 172
9. THE EXTERNAL ENEMY
The Objectifying Ego 177
Symptoms as Imaginary Enemies 179
Diagnostic Distraction 181
Germ Warfare 184
Maintaining the Terrain 188
The Futility of War 193
Fictional Interlude: The Annual Checkup 197
10. CULTURAL MEDICALIZATION
Medical-Industrial Origins 201
Dissenter’s Dilemma 204
Redefining Disease 206
Commodification of Medicine 208
The Sickness of Society 211
11. THE ILLUSION OF CURE
Some Brief Case Histories 215
Conventional Iatrogenesis 219
Unacknowledged Iatrogenesis 222
Clarifying Medical Outcomes 226
The Lessons of Suppression 228
Spiritual Illness 233
A Composite Pediatric History 236
Creating Chronicity 238
12. THE SANCTITY OF SCIENCE
Medicine as Religion 243
Medical Fundamentalism 246
Sacramental Assault on the Immune System 250
Church and State Adjudicate 255
Natural Immunity 259
13. HEALING THE RIFT
Two Peas in a Pod 264
The Evolution of Consciousness 266
Strengths and Weaknesses of Medicine 270
A Case of Lyme Disease 273
Recovering the Feminine 275
Mythic Substantiation 280
14. THE DIRECTION OF CURE
Reductionism and Empiricism 287
Process and Cure 290
A Case of Asthma and Infidelity 295
The Nature of Healing 299
The Sacred Dimension of Healing 302
15. THE ALCHEMICAL KEY
Achilles Heal 305
The Mysterious Science 307
The Green Elixir 311
An Oil-Induced Itch 314
The Science of Similars 315
Liberating Essence from Matter 318
A Personal Connection 320
Nanopharmacological Biomimicry 321
The Case of the Powerful Wolverine 323
Paradoxical Parallels 324
A Case of Collegiate Cold Feet 328
Wounded Healers 329
16. RENEWABLE HEALING RESOURCES
The Electromagnetic Universe 333
Secret Knowledge 334
Pattern and Purpose 339
The Entropic Illusion 344
Tuning In 345
Honoring the Ancestors 349
Dreams and Dreamers 350
17. GREENER MEDICAL PASTURES
Old School 359
New School 365
Green School 371
Epigraphs
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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