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Healing Path
A guide to transforming illness into a spiritual journey presents material culled from interviews with forty individuals in search of healing to recount the symptoms, the diagnosis, the doctor, the search for medicine, the alternatives, the inner work, and the vision quest.
432 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
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September 18, 2018
This is an amazing book and a must read for anyone in despair at modern medicine's reductionist perspective on health and disease. This is not woo woo! Granted, the soul is a challenge to present but perhaps it's best understood as what might be lacking in a fully materialistic perspective.
Barasch has his own compass here; he had cancer of the thyroid which he had to heal from. However, the book includes exceptional testimony from other 'journeyers' who took the healing path and the narrative is rich here as it goes straight to the heart of how others have approached serious, life threatening disease. Also weaved into the account is a Jungian understanding and the inclusion of Joseph Campbell's hero. All in all a very comprehensive and interesting proposition for anyone trying to make sense of what appears to be a random and harsh part of life.
It is written extremely well. There are many strands that are brought together here and the balance always remains with the reader. I could not put this book down. Published in 1993 this book remains tremendously salient as medicine appears to have moved even closer to the soulless character described here.
Barasch has his own compass here; he had cancer of the thyroid which he had to heal from. However, the book includes exceptional testimony from other 'journeyers' who took the healing path and the narrative is rich here as it goes straight to the heart of how others have approached serious, life threatening disease. Also weaved into the account is a Jungian understanding and the inclusion of Joseph Campbell's hero. All in all a very comprehensive and interesting proposition for anyone trying to make sense of what appears to be a random and harsh part of life.
It is written extremely well. There are many strands that are brought together here and the balance always remains with the reader. I could not put this book down. Published in 1993 this book remains tremendously salient as medicine appears to have moved even closer to the soulless character described here.
November 10, 2017
The subject matter is superb. An essential read, I believe. The language, occasionally, seems overly complicated.
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