A scientific exploration of one of the world's greatest mysteries

What actually occurs during healing?

With special emphasis on the whole person approach to non-medical healing and its ramifications, this exciting book explores the schools and systems about which we know so little: the shaman and medicine man, the African healers, the espirita, Huna practicioners, esoteric healers.

World notables interviewed include Rolling Thunder, Josef Zezulka, Doris Williams, Dona Pachita, Fausto Valle and Juannita Sisson.

The concepts of illness, reality, ritual, and discipline are important components of this book, as are the scientist as subject and laboratory research in paranormal heaing in Canada, the U.S.S.R., Brazil and the U.S.A.

Contents

Introduction
Chapter One The case against 'Psychic surgery'
Chapter Two Paranormal healing in the laboratory
Chapter Three Three North American healers: Rolling Thunder, Dona Pachita, and Olga Worrall
Chapter Four Hernani Andrade and the spiritist 'Healers' of Brazil
Chapter Five The esoteric and the intuitive paths: Peru's Fausto Valle and Czechoslovakia's Josef Zezulka
Chapter Seven How 'Healing' happens
Bibliography
Index