[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Prayer is Good Medicine
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- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:06:42 -0800 (PST)
Submitted:
PRAYER is GOOD MEDICINE: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer.
© 1996 by Larry Dossey, M.D.
Prayer moves into the center stage of Western medicine Prayer Is Good Medicine
acts as a modern-day prayer book as well as an ethical touchstone for healers
and seekers.
Unlike medical practitioners in the East, many physicians in the West argue
that the healing power of science is far superior to, and often incompatible
with, the healing power of prayer. Yet, physician Dossey, attentive to the ways
in which spiritual health affects bodily health, demonstrated in his Healing
Words that the capacity of prayer to heal, combined with the capacity of
science to heal, is far greater than the healing power of medicine alone. Using
evidence from scientific studies regarding the beneficial effects of prayer on
health, Dossey has here fashioned a kind of how-to manual for incorporating
prayer into the process of healing. After first defining prayer as an attitude
of the heart whose content is neither shaped by nor limited to a single
religious tradition, Dossey then proceeds to explore the infinite variety of
forms that prayer may take. Dossey's holistic vision challenges narrow
religious views of prayer as well as conventional
medical method of healing.
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James Nuttall
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