Spirit Medicine: A Guide to Healing in the Sacred Garden » (1st Edition)

Anthropologist Hank Wesselman, Ph.D., has worked for more that 30 years with an international team of scientists investigating the mystery of human origins in East Africa's Great Rift Valley. He has spent much of his life with indigenous people, and in the 1970s, while doing fieldwork in southern Ethiopia, he began to have spontaneous visionary experiences strikingly like those of traditional shamans. His experiences are documented in his autobiographical trilogy: SPIRITWALKER: Messages from the Future, ISBN:0553378376; MEDICINEMAKER: Mystic Encounters on the Shaman's Path, ISBN: 0553379321; and VISIONSEEKER: Shared Wisdom from the Place of Refuge, ISBN: 1401900283. He is also the author of THE JOURNEY TO THE SACRED GARDEN, ISBN: 1401901115, sold 25,000 copies.
Jill Kuykendall, RPT, is a registered physical therapist and transpersonal medical practitioner who has worked in the standard Western medical paradigm for more than 20 years. In addition to her work in many different health-care settings, she has functioned as co-facilitator for the Mercy Healing Circle, participated in the Mercy Healthcare Healing Environment Task Force as a community member consultant, and has served as a member of the Sutter Healthcare Wellness and Healing Network. She is now in private practice at the Center for Optimum Health in Roseville, California (near Sacramento), specializing in soul retrieval work.

The rediscovery that each one of us can achieve the direct, transformative connection with the sacred realms lies right at the heart of the spiritual reawakening sweeping the Western world-a phenomenon explored by anthropologist Hank Wesselman, Ph.D., in his widely read book The Journey to the Sacred Garden. In Spirit Medicine, Dr. Wesselman is joined by his wife, transpersonal medical practitioner Jill Kuykendall, RPT., to present us with a cross-cultural consideration of illness, healing, and health care from the ancient wisdom of the traditional peoples. Spirit Medicine opens a window into a universal worldview that will help you:

understand the classic causes of illness--an essential step in true healing;
work with the four levels of spiritual healing;
expand your connections to inner sources of wisdom and power; and
deepen your contacts with your helping spirits and healing masters.

Spirit Medicine will provide you with the singular key to success that energy medicine by itself lacks. It will also provide you with a perspective derived from the Hawaiian kahuna tradition in which knowledge of the soul cluster, as well as the multileveled nature of reality, forms the foundation. Included is an experiential CD of shamanic drumming and rattling to be used with specific exercises and meditations designed to enhance your healing practice for yourself and others.
Spirit Medicine reconsiders and reworks the time-tested techniques pioneered by the shamans of the indigenous peoples, providing nontribal Westerners with extraordinarily effective insights into healing and problem solving.