Quantum-Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and Human Potential (Hardcover)

by Michael Wayne (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
"For a clear-eyed glimpse of the future of healing, Quantum-Integral Medicine is a must read." -- Larry Dossey, MD, author of Healing Beyond the Body, Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

"Michael Wayne is a visionary. Quantum-Integral Medicine is an exciting and provocative journey." -- Jeff Levin, Ph.D., M.P.H., author of God, Faith and Health and Faith, Medicine, and Science

"Quantum-Integral Medicine stretches the mind and heals the body." -- Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and The Gift of Change

Product Description
Is there an innate healing system within the body, capable of facilitating the healing process? And if so, what is the mechanism that triggers this potential? Many scientists, philosophers, healers, and spiritually minded people have asked these very same questions, and Dr. Michael Wayne has begun to address the answers.

Although billions of dollars fuel the modern healthcare system, people are not getting healthier-the contrary seems to be the case. Modern medicine does not have a good track record with chronic ailments because these are more complicated, diverse, and unpredictable, and do not fit in with modern medicine’s more linear approach that requires patterns that follow set rules. For this reason our current form of medicine has problems with many illnesses, even those as commonplace as the common cold.

It was Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, who believed the full activation of a patient’s own healing system was central to healing. Yet this, along with the full development of human resources and human potential, is not fully understood, nor is it given much attention in modern medicine. This leads back to the question: Is there an infinite potential, a wellspring of healing capabilities within an individual that, if tapped, can play an important role in that person’s ability to heal?

Dr. Wayne believes there is, and in this groundbreaking book, he lays out a roadmap for understanding the mechanism of the innate healing system and how it can be activated and mobilized into action. He does so by integrating science with spirituality in such a way that it creates a new scientific foundation for understanding the nature of the innate healing system. By creating a new foundation and a new roadmap, Dr. Wayne believes, the terrain becomes easier to figure out.

In the early part of the 20th century, scientists discovered that the laws of nature were different than what they had come to believe, but they had no new laws to explain their findings. This era became known as "The Quantum Stone Age." Finally in 1925 quantum theory was fully developed and a new scientific foundation was created. We are in a similar time now. Dr. Michael Wayne’s Quantum-Integral Medicine: Towards a New Science of Healing and Human Potential will take us out of our current Stone Age and to new horizons.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 216 pages
• Publisher: iThink Books (March 18, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976679701
• ISBN-13: 978-0976679707
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,144,739 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Brilliant Book!, July 13, 2005

By	Dakota - See all my reviews

This is the book I've been waiting for - a brilliant synthesis of science, medicine and healing, philosophy, and spiritual thought. The author does a great job of weaving together what previously were thought to be disparate and unrelated topics, and fully explains the shortcomings of our modern scientific approach and how we can easily overcome it. This is a book that is on the cutting edge of understanding and explaining how we can use more of our human potential, and it should be read by every adult in this country.

8 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Another Fringe Medicine Mind Boggler, May 28, 2005

By	Robert E. Welcyng (Anchorage, AK USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

If you have enjoyed books such as Deepak Chopra's "Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine" (1989), Amit Goswami's "The Quantum Doctor: A Physicist's Guide to Health and Healing" (2004), or Gary Zukav's "Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics" (2001), then I predict you will like Michael Wayne's more-of-the-same "Quantum Integral Medicine."

I found Michael Wayne's writing style to be articulate and easy to read. He has woven his thesis using the yarns of other writers--quotations of famous scientists, mystics, doctors, philosophers, and popular writers--all properly referenced in end-of-chapter notes and in an extensive bibliography.

To clarify my remarks here, I use the word "medicine" to denote the science of diagnosing, treating, or preventing disease--with emphasis upon "science." In my opinion, Chinese medicine and acupuncture do not qualify as medicine as they are not founded upon science.

Throughout "Quantum Integral Medicine," I found myself frustrated and wondering: "Well, if it were even true, what is the point? How could these ideas apply to human well-being?"

For example, Michael Wayne argues that a serious shortcoming of scientific medicine--biomedicine, as he calls it--is medicine's stubborn refusal to embrace a worldview of complexity. He claims that because the modus operandi of viruses lies within the world of complexity, medicine will never find a cure for the common cold by applying a reductionist viewpoint. I could not find in his book, however, so much as a hint of how complexity theory might lead to a cure for the common cold. What is his point?

Michael Wayne has much to say about Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. This theorem proves that no axiomatic system can be both consistent and complete. That is, if such a system is consistent, then there must necessarily be some theorems within it that can neither be proved nor disproved. We're talking about a characteristic of formal logic systems such as arithmetic or number theory. Michael Wayne seems to have concluded that Godel's Incompleteness Theorem somehow flaws medicine's use of logic in reaching understanding and truth. That conclusion, in my opinion, is absolutely unfounded and nonsensical. Again, I fail to see his point.

Michael Wayne goes on to present his overview of Einstein's theory of relativity, quantum theory, and complexity theory. Unfortunately, only the shallowest understanding of those fields can be conveyed by words alone. True understanding requires the mathematics, the physics background, and serious study. Does it even matter whether the reader understands those theories? Michael Wayne fails to show me how any of those subjects is relevant in preserving our health and well-being. What is the point of that tutorial?

In my opinion, Michael Wayne composes extraordinary snow jobs followed by unsupportable conclusions that promote his fringe notions. In my opinion, the real purpose of the book is to attract future clients and disciples. Within his book, he has advertised himself as a practitioner of quantum-integral medicine, acupuncture, and as a Chinese herbalist. For the reader's convenience, he has included his Website URL and his e-mail address. Michael Wayne offers training, certification programs, and more.

Michael Wayne's book disturbs me. I abhor the idea of selling pseudoscience to gullible people who would be willing, at their peril, to substitute science fiction for the authentic medical care that they may need.

Ironically, I must applaud Michael Wayne for exhorting his readers to use more of their human potential capabilities and to expand their worldviews. I would add this advice: Forget the cosmic connections, plant your feet here on this familiar earth, open your eyes to the evidence around you, and educate yourself about evidence-based science and medicine.

Science-based medicine has made, and continues to make, enormous advances. Today's medicine is founded on an unprecedented understanding of the healthy human body, and how it survives, protects, preserves, and heals itself. Avail yourself! That's my point.