Sacred Healing: The Curing Power of Energy and Spirituality [Hardcover]

Shealy Norman (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 25, 2001

With faith, grace and intent, can prayer cure serious illnesses? Can healers simply lay their hands on ailing patients and make them well? How does sacred healing work and why?

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Amazon.com Review

"Today, a spiritual revival is gaining momentum and sacred healing is reaching its greatest acceptance since the Reformation," writes C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., in Sacred Healing. As managed care makes modern medicine more and more impersonal, we are driven to recapture a sense of spiritual connection with our healing, says Shealy, a neurosurgeon, founder of the American Holistic Medicine Association, and author of many alternative-medicine books. Here Shealy explores miraculous healing, which goes beyond and cannot be explained by conventional medicine. He presents a brief history of healing, healers, and beliefs about spiritual healing. Then he explains why "sacred healing should be the treatment of choice when orthodox medicine has nothing to offer," and an ancillary treatment in conjunction with surgery and drugs at other times. He describes some modern spiritual healers, such as Harry Edwards, Olga Worrall, and Ostad Hadi Parvarandeh, and the feats of several psychic surgeons who achieve healing miracles. This is not a self-help book--you won't get practical tips or guidelines for using these concepts in your own life--but it does provide a context of sacred healing, the role of spirituality and faith in healing, and related topics such as electromagnetism. This book is not an easy read: the organization and writing style are not as reader-friendly as they might be. --Joan Price

Product Details

• Hardcover: 202 pages
• Publisher: Element Books Ltd. (March 25, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1862043779
• ISBN-13: 978-1862043770
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #248,740 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The potential is there, but..., August 25, 1999

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This review is from: Sacred Healing: The Curing Power of Energy and Spirituality (Hardcover)

Although I am an avid fan and believer in spiritual healing, and sacred healing arts, this book was a disappointment to me. It is an easy read, but for anyone well read in the healing arts it offers very little new information or validation for it's subject matter ( with the exception of chapter ten and sacred water). Just prior to reading this book I finished a wonderful book called "Infinite Grace" which left me hungry for more of the same. I did not find it within these pages. God Bless Norm Shealy for his many monumental contrubutions to spiritual healing, I don't believe this book ranks among his best work.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, June 18, 1999

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Seeker (Lily Dale, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sacred Healing: The Curing Power of Energy and Spirituality (Hardcover)

This book makes the case that sacred healing is not only possible, it's real.

If you believe that sacred healing is a possibility, this book may solidify your belief. If you've challenges in your life and you're looking for hope, this book is for you. If you're skeptical about sacred healing, open yourself to the possibility that sacred healing does occur on a regular basis, then read this book.

This book IS Norm Shealy: straight-forward, honest, empassioned, inspirational, factual, hopeful. And it sounds like Norm Shealy. In fact, if I were to close my eyes, I'd swear Norm Shealy was sitting in the room with me.

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Convential and alternate medicine world-wide, September 2, 1999

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George W. Fisk - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sacred Healing: The Curing Power of Energy and Spirituality (Hardcover)

Western-trained brain surgeon travels world seeking to learn why unresolved anger leads to coronary heart disease and intense depression into cancer. If adrenal burnout is involved in every major disease, what can we do to bring healing? Having proven that biofeedback can be helpful he asks, "Why does acupunture work?' What kind of replenishing energy is "chi?" Why we must consider "healing touch," and prayer as valid parts of the healing process. Having seen lobotomies reduce pain, but leave emaciated personalities, Shealy in Sacred Healing describes his continuing search for healing of body, mind and soul.