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Healing States: Spiritual Healing and Shamanism by Stanley Krippner PDF
Healing States: A Journey Into the World of Spiritual Healing and Shamanism is a colorful and compelling examination of evidence for the mind's ability to heal, taking a step into the fascinating world of psychic healing and shamanism.
Review on Goodreads:
....a chronicle of Villoldo and Krippner's personal engagements with, mostly, South American shamans. While fascinating, it didn't have the qualitative rigor I'd hoped for in a book that was billed (at least on Amazon.com) as a look into altered states and shaministic practices. This is more of an anthropological perspective which is fine, but not what I needed for my project. Note that some of the comments near the end by Krippner and Villoldo are outdated since more recent research, and subsequently expansive investigation into transpersonalism, has shown a more correlation between shamanism, neuroscience, altered state studies, and quantum physics.
From Publishers Weekly
Although the authors of this provocative exploration into the spiritual realms of healing are trained in the orthodoxies of Western medicine and psychology (both have doctorates and are researchers and scientists in San Francisco), their inquiries into "mind over matter" phenomena have led them to conclude that science alone is inadequate in treating human illness. (On this subject, they note the question put to them by a Peruvian shaman: "In the training of your healers, what steps do they take to attune Mother Earth and the Great Spirit?") By observing diverse parapsychological and metaphysical methods of mediums, spiritists and others following "indigenous" healing from ancient to contemporary societies, Villoldo and Krippner enhance our concept of health by incorporating ideas that are ignored by allopathic medicine, a process advocated by the World Health Organization. The freshness of their approach results in a steady level of stimulation.
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