Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom: Psychological Healing Practices from the World's Religious Traditions

by Stephen G. Gilligan, Sharon G. Mijares, Sheldon Kramer, et al.

Book Overview

Harness the psychospiritual healing potential of prayer, meditation, breathing, and more This thoughtful anthology illuminates ancient ways of psychospiritual healing. Research has shown the healing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789017520
• ISBN13: 9780789017529
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Breath of fresh air

This book is filled with chapters which take readers back to what therapy was in its original form - spiritual expansion and exploration. Each chapter is unique and distinct, yet all of them flow together in harmony. My favorite chapter is Tales of the Goddess: Healing Metaphors for Woman. This chapter offers a perspective which empowers women to fully claim their feminine power without agression against men. I found this book to be empowering, informational, and diverse.

Ground-breaking work for 21st century health & healing arts

This is an important anthology that brings together an impressively diverse number of scholars, healers, and other practitioners to share knowledge on the cutting edge of mind-body disciplines. It could not have appeared at a more opportune time. I would readily recommend most of the selections, particularly the chapter on Taoism.

A very meaningful book

This book is very interesting. It delivers the information in an original and mind catching way. The Indian chapter was especially intriguing. I hope everyone catches the important messages that this book contains.

A book whose time has come!

If ever such a book of wisdom and understanding was needed in world, now is the time! As our personal and collective awareness have become raw with violence perpetrated upon ancient separateness and hatred, this book becomes a must read over and over again. It is a profound resource for all of our altars - a multifaceted and powerful way to focus our prayers for wholeness and for healing - for each other and for our world.

A Serious Guide

Now that we've opened our minds to alternative healing, we have found that many of these spiritual practices have always been there! Modern Psychology and Ancient Wisdom is a guidebook to the psychological healing practices of the world's religious traditions. In her introduction to the book, editor and co-author Sharon Mijares guarantees us that this is not a treatise on dogma. She's right. It's a serious guide to spiritual healing practices detailed by thoughtful scholars and teachers qualified to share the power of spirituality. The book will be extremely helpful to practitioners, but this anthology of stories, chants, dances, and meditations is not simply a guide for professionals. It's a superb collection for the body/mind/spirit of the common reader as well.