Planet Medicine: Origins

652 Pages·1995·51.611 MB·English

by  Richard Grossinger

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PLANET
RICHARD GROSSINGER
North Atlantic Books
Berkeley, California
Planet Medicine
Copyright © 1995 by Richard Grossinger. All rights reserved. No portion of this
book, except for brief review, may be reproduced in any form without written
permission of the publisher.
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artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sciences, humanities, and heal¬
ing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body,
and nature.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Grossinger, Richard. 1944-
Planet medicine / Richard Grossinger. — 6th ed.
v. < >. cm.
Includes major revisions.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: v. 1. Origins— v. 2. Modalities
ISBN 1-55643-179-1 (paper)
1. Holistic medicine. 2. Alternative medicine. I. Title.
R733.G76 1995
610—dc20 95-22428
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 / 98 97 96 95
I dedicate this book to those whose vision, compassion, and acts of
healing made it possible:
Paul Pitchford
Randy Cherner
Amini Peller
Elizabeth Beringer
Richard Strozzi Heckler
Ron Sieh
Cybele Tomlinson
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
T
he people who helped me the most with the material in this
book are noted in the dedication and throughout the book. Here
I would like to acknowledge those colleagues who contributed directly
to the preparation of the text.
I acknowledge and thank Amy Champ for her research on the “Prac¬
tical Ethnomedicine” chapter of Origins; Don Hanlon Johnson for his
thorough reading and comments on the entire manuscript; Michael
Salveson, Elizabeth Beringer, John Upledger, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen,
Judyth Weaver, Fritz Smith, and Dana Ullman for their reading and
comments on particular sections of the text; Kathy Glass for her thought¬
ful and patient editing; Victoria Baker for her exceptional index; Paula
Morrison for her elegant and spirited design; Catherine Campaigne
for her technical work in the preparation of the finished book; Janna
Israel for her updating of the bibliography; Jay Kinney and Richard
Smoley of Gnosis for their assistance in finding artwork; and Sergei
Ponomarov, Spain, Kathy Park, Alex Grey, and Kathy Maguire for
drawing images specifically to fit in the text.
We come from an unknown place and go to an unknown place.
These do not concern me. But the trajectory of my life, which I share
with this body, does.
I want us all to participate in reconstructing the temple, to heal the
planet, which is a masterpiece in danger.
—Jean Louis Barrault (the mime in Les Enfants de Paradis)
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