The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense

by Michael A. Jawer by Park Street Press

This new book, The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion, written by Michael Jawer and Marc Micozzi, MD, PhD and with a Foreword by Larry Dossey, MD.  The book's subtitle, "How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense," makes plain the focus on feelings - and how their underlying energy may help explain a variety of non-ordinary perceptions.

The authors contend that a variety of sensitivities overlap, and have a common basis in the way the bodymind processes emotion.  The book documents how chronic allergy, migraine headache, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, synesthesia, and electrical and chemical sensitivity seem to occur - at least in certain people - along with anomalous sensitivities, and from an early age.

The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion explains what this overlap might mean, with major implications for our understanding of health and illness.  Phenomena such as phantom pain, out-of-body experience, precognitive or clairvoyant dreams, and apparitional perceptions may also become better understood.   Ultimately, the book shows that the flow of feeling that literally moves us is also responsible for our most intriguing - and perennially baffling - experiences.

Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, an Autobiography

Thursday afternoon I received Huston Smith's just-published autobiography, Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine, in the mail. Friday morning I'd finished reading it, and would have done so Thursday night were it not for the ordinary life necessities of sleep, a committee meeting and a dental appointment to go to first thing in the morning. I can't remember the last time I was so fascinated by a book that I read it at a single sitting: this is good!

Huston Smith has just turned 90, and has long been my model for what I'd like to be like when I grow up. He is a gentlemen, a scholar, and one of, if not the, world's greatest authorities on the religions of the world. His classic book The World's Religions has introduced millions of readers to what's good in the religions of the world. While he has the accuracy and objectivity we expect from a professor, though, he doesn't have the dryness or too common air of intellectual superiority, because he actually spent years practicing each of the religions he writes about, to gain direct experiential knowledge of what's good in them.

Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine is a series of intimate and inspiring glimpses of a wonderful man - and his wife Kendra, who is very much a part of the story, keeping him grounded in reality - as he pursues meaning and the good life in modern times. Raised by missionary parents in China, he feels he is basically a Christian, as well as a member of the world's other major religions. When you get to the bottom line, though, his religion, like that of his friend His Holiness the Dalai Lama, is kindness....I can't praise him or his book highly enough.

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