Healing Touch or The Man Who Tasted Shapes

Healing Touch: A Guide Book for Practitioners, 2nd Edition

Author: Dorothea Hover Kramer

Healing Touch is a practical guide for those interesting in training in the healing arts. The essentials of energy healing are examined through relevant theoretical and research information and case studies and reference practically reinforce material. Covers general course curriculum, the credentialing process and practical step-by-step guides to basic techniques. Includes a glossary, links to outside resources and sample client consent and intake forms. · User-friendly · New chapter on theory of energy healing cites recent discoveries · Emphasizes self-care of the practitioner

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A guide to the concepts, techniques, and applications of energy-based healing, a method that is used as a complement to other ways of treating the mind-body interconnection. Describes the layers of the human energy field and energy centers, discusses how healing touch is used in clinical settings and private practice, gives specific interventions for various problems, and offers self-help techniques and information on how to develop a practice as a healer. Delmar is rushing the 1996 copyright date. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Man Who Tasted Shapes

Author: Richard E Cytowic

Richard Cytowic's dinner host apologized, "There aren't enough points on the chicken!" He felt flavor also as a physical shape in his hands, and the chicken had come out "too round." This offbeat comment in 1980 launched Cytowic's exploration into the oddity called synesthesia. He is one of the few world authorities on the subject.

Sharing a root with anesthesia ("no sensation"), synesthesia means "joined sensation," whereby a voice, for example, is not only heard but also seen, felt, or tasted. The trait is involuntary, hereditary, and fairly common. It stayed a scientific mystery for two centuries until Cytowic's original experiments led to a neurological explanation--and to a new concept of brain organization that accentuates emotion over reason.

That chicken dinner two decades ago led Cytowic to explore a deeper reality that, he argues, exists in everyone but is often just below the surface of awareness (which is why finding meaning in our lives can be elusive). In this medical detective adventure, Cytowic shows how synesthesia, far from being a mere curiosity, illuminates a wide swath of mental life and leads to a new view of what is means to be human--a view that turns upside down conventional ideas about reason, emotional knowledge, and self-understanding.

This 2003 edition features a new afterword.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword to the MIT Press Edition
	List of Illustrations and Tables
	Acknowledgements
Pt. 1	A Medical Mystery Tale
1	February 10, 1980: Not Enough Points on the Chicken	3
2	The World Turned Inside Out	6
3	1957-Down in the Basement: The Making of a Neurologist	9
4	How the Brain Works: The Standard View	18
5	Winters 1977 and 1978: "There Is Nothing Wrong With Your Eyes"	26
6	Direct Experience, Technology, and Inner Knowledge	36
7	March 25, 1980: Blinding Red Jaggers	46
8	Down in the Basement: The History of Synesthesia	51
9	April 10, 1980: "Taste This!"	64
10	Diagnosing Synesthesia	73
11	April 25, 1980: Where Is the Link?	80
12	Painting the Ceiling	89
13	Summer 1980: Bringing Things to a Close	99
14	September 1983: "Bizarre Medical Oddity Affects Millions!"	111
15	Form Constants and Explaining Ineffable Experiences	118
16	Altered States of Consciousness	127
17	May 21, 1981: Taking Drugs	138
18	June 29, 1981: Bride of Frankenstein, Revisited	144
19	How the Brain Works: The New View	153
20	The Implications of Synesthesia	163
21	October 5, 1982: The Reverend and Martinis	172
Pt. 2	Essays on the Primacy of Emotion
1	The Anthropic Principle	186
2	Free Lunch and Imagination	189
3	Consciousness Is a Type of Emotion	194
4	The Limits of Artificial Intelligence	197
5	Different Kinds of Knowledge	202
6	The Experience of Metaphor	206
7	Emotion Has a Logic of Its Own	211
8	Other People's Experience	216
9	The Depth at Which We Really Live	218
10	Reason Is the Endless Paperwork of the Mind	222
11	Science and Spirituality	225
	Afterword	231
	Notes	257
	Suggested Reading	268
	Index	271