Healing Into Immortality: A New Spiritual Medicine of Healing Stories and Imagery

by Gerald Epstein

Healing Into Immortality is the definitive guide to using your mind to heal your body. Gerald Epstein, M.D. - a pioneer in the field of mindbody medicine - provides a proven program of self-healing based on 45 years of clinical practice and a lifetime of investigation into the role of the mind as the source of illness and health. Physical symptoms are only the outward manifestation of a mind and body out of synch with spirit. The major sources of ill health and degeneration - Doubt, Expectation and Denial - sap our life energies. Through the power of mental imagery (guided imagery/visualizations), will and memory we can restore ourselves to wholeness, heal virtually every kind of disease and prevent illness. Utilizing the healing stories of the Bible and western spiritual practices, Dr. Epstein has revived a tradition of healing more than five thousand years old. Complete with case histories, exercises, and visualizations this book can quite literally save - and perhaps indefinitely extend -- your life.

Genres: Health

307 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1994

Reviews

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book on spirituality and healing ever! I first read Healing Into Immortality 12 years ago and I keep going back to it, it’s like a manual on life. Gerald Epstein gives it to you straight; it’s not a popularized version of new age spirituality. He has an impressive lineage. His teacher was Colette Aboulker-Muscat of Jerusalem and these teachings go back thousands of years. Among the highlights of the book, an exploration of the ten commandments unlike any other, for example – the 6th commandment, thou shall not kill includes a discussion on depression as “self murder”. In addition, Epstein gives the remedy - mental imagery exercises to reverse depression. Other highlights: the seven keys to healing, how we become sick, how we become well, and a step-by-step guide to mental imagery including a section of exercises. Luckily, Amazon allows you to read the first pages of the book, and the first pages of this book are packed with examples of his unique and uncompromising perspective. Check out the table of contents, too. I always come back to this book - after all the years since I first read it, it still rings true. I strongly recommend it to anyone interested in spirituality and healing, I’ve never come across another book like it. In fact my copy is so beat up, at this point I think I’m due for a new one!

[Alison · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am re-reading this a second time and will probably continue re-reading. "Dr. Gerry" is a seeming sage of old; one who can deduce the true wisdom teachings of the bible and translate them into words, meanings, and practical imagery and guidance to work with the neurotic human mind that keeps us trapped. Chock full of imagery exercises for both physical and mental ailments. I had the opportunity to have a consultation with Dr. Gerry by phone and was amazed at the truths revealed to me in such as short time...such wisdom comes from those in touch with Spirit. Highly recommend.