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A guide to transforming illness into a spiritual journey presents material culled from interviews with forty individuals in search of healing to recount each stage from the diagnosis to healing and beyond.
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Kirkus 評論
An immensely gripping, smartly paced cross-cultural survey of stays of death and ``miraculous'' recoveries from deadly illnesses, by a writer-producer who has survived for seven years the removal of his cancerous thyroid. Barasch was writing himself ragged editing New Age Journal with hundred-hours-plus weeks, and losing his girlfriend in his workaholism, when he came down with thyroid cancer. Where was the New Age now that he needed it? First refusing a biopsy, he fled to a spiritist surgeon in Brazil, but returned before seeing him and had his thyroid removed by a Boston surgeon. The thyroid being a seat of the emotions, its removal barely offset by a daily pill that left him cranky, he bottomed out. Two questions arose: Was his cancer the expression of an illness of soul, as so many told him? If so, what might he learn from those who had already benefitted from such an admission? ``How could disease become a catalyst for profound inner experience? Had the luminosity I had sensed in my illness been merely the delirium of the shipwrecked, mistaking a lambent bit of moon on a dark sea for a white dot of sail?'' Might not his illness ``contain its own potential for wholeness?'' Barasch's bedevilment leads him into a global survey of those rare recoveries that seemed to depend upon an unknown x-factor that magically led the body into mobilizing incredible resources in its immune system, or its ``neuropsychoimmunology.'' His interviews with survivors reveal guideposts or signs that repeat on the path to self-healing. Most important: bottoming out, the darkness before dawn, when the ill person gives up fighting the illness and in surrendering all hope is granted new energy by not focusing on his illness. Mind-body thoughts by an expert wonderfully schooled both in medicine and in the Deepak Chopra school of Quantum Healing. Some overloaded similes when straight statement would be stronger--but so what.
《書目》(Booklist)評論
Barasch calls his book "field notes" on a journey inward toward healing. That journey, undertaken after his grueling workaholic lifestyle left him jobless and facing a diagnosis of thyroid cancer, found him employing alternative therapies, traditional Western surgery, and research on cultures and their medical treatments from around the world. Here, besides reporting his own research, Barasch includes the testimonies of others who have explored nontraditional healing. He likens the resulting inner journey to self-realization to the "hero quest" conceived by mythologist Joseph Campbell. He also explains psychoneuroimmunology, that combination of three formerly separate disciplines that seeks to redefine our responses to illnesses and their symptoms by encouraging inner examination of past griefs, repressions, and sorrows in order to exorcise personal demons manifested as sickness: "A symptom may represent a distorted unconscious attempt to throw off the dead hand of the emotional past before submitting to a final strangulation," Barasch says. Some may scoff at this as New Age nonsense, while others may welcome Barasch's wide-ranging, meticulously reported research. ~--Whitney Scott