Molecules of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine by Candace Pert, Ph.D. ~ A Book Review

~Deepak Chopra, in foreword to Molecules of Emotion ~

There is a revolution taking form that is significantly influencing how the Western medical community views health and disease. Candace Pert’s contribution to this revolution is undeniable, and her professional integrity in the pursuit of scientific truth, where ever it had to take her, regardless of its personal or professional cost, underscores the feminine potential of science at its best.”

Candace Pert, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor. She speaks to mixed audiences of mainstream professionals, alternative practitioners and seekers of wholeness about the exciting world of biomedicine, molecular theory, and psychoneuroimmunology. As she puts it, “I do what most scientists abhor, I seek to inform, to educate and inspire all manner of people”. For Candace Pert, science is a search for truth and she is creating a new paradigm in the science arena. “The science I have come to know and love is unifying, spontaneous, intuitive, caring–a process more akin to surrender than to dominion. I have come to believe that science, at its very core, is a spiritual endeavor.”
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A Review and Excerpt: Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind by Candace Pert, Ph.D.

“Your brain is not in charge.”

This revelation by Dr. Candace Pert challenges conventional science – and everyone interested in total wellness – to reconsider how our bodies think, feel, and heal. As the leading pioneer in a radical new science of life, this bestselling author and world class neuroscientist gives us an inside look at the molecular drama being staged within every cell of the human body – and a glimpse into the future of medicine. In this two-cassette series with study guide, Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Pert describes in her own words her extraordinary search for the grail of the body’s inborn intelligence with
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The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Bookk by Don Miguel Ruiz

Don Miguel Ruiz, a shaman of the Toltec tradition, shares in his lovely book, The Four Agreements some wonderful lessons on the Path to Freedom–how we can change the Old Dream of the planet into the New Dream (the Toltec equivalent to the Promised Land, Nirvana, Heaven).

The Four Agreements are simple but not easy to implement. They require letting go of our prior “agreements” or beliefs about what life “should” be. They bring about transformation for anyone willing to experience the discipline of the Warrior. A final chapter addresses the “Initiation of the Dead: Embracing the Angel of Death”. It is an accelerated path of transformation, taking Death itself as our teacher.
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