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Title: Recovering the Soul : A Scientific and Spiritual Approach by LARRY DOSSEY ISBN: 0-553-34790-X Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book!
Comment: Dossey, who is an accomplished scientist and knowledgable expert on this topic, melds spirituality and science like no other. Although there are many books that attempt to integrate modern science and spirituality, this book is one of the most well-written and most convincing. The only other book that is just as good as this on this topic is Toru Sato's absolutely amazing book called "Ever-Transcending Spirit". These are books that positively transform your understanding of life!
Rating: 5
Summary: A terrific book along the lines of "The Holographic Universe
Comment: Another great book by Dossey. This book is on my top tep list. Dossey does a great job of offering evidence for the non-locality of consciousness. Much like the Holographic Universe (above).
Rating: 4
Summary: Speculative but sound
Comment: This is a fine book and it's held up well since its initial publication in 1989. In fact I suspect it's probably Larry Dossey's best, although I haven't read _all_ of his books.
What Dossey sets out to do in this volume is very straightforward: he wants to show the reader that there is reason to believe reality consists at bottom of a single "nonlocal" Mind that deserves to be identified as God. (By "nonlocal" he means "unlimited by ordinary space and time.") That claim probably sounds a little strange to modern ears, but by the time Dossey is through, it will be a very closed-minded reader who still thinks there is nothing to be said for it.
For Dossey is pretty thorough. He takes a largely empirical approach and invokes experimental results from a broad range of specializations --- medicine, psychology, biology, physics. And while his exposition isn't always as complete as I might like (he gets a lot of mileage, for example, out of Bell's theorem, but he never actually explains what it _is_), he still provides a well-rounded overview of all the stuff scientists have said that supports the nonlocality of mind. The reader will get short overviews of (the relevant portions of) the thought of, e.g., Erwin Schrodinger, Kurt Godel, Henry Margenau, David Bohm, and Rupert Sheldrake.
By way of wrapping it all up, Dossey devotes his closing chapters to outlining just what all of this suggests about religion and theology. In some ways this is the real meat of his book and it's probably the strongest portion of his work. There will be few surprises in it for the reader who is already familiar with the philosophical/spiritual literature in this area, but Dossey is as good an introduction to it as any.
What sets Dossey's book apart is not so much its conclusions -- which are properly tentative and at any rate common to pretty much the entire range of mystical/idealistic tradition and "perennial philosophy" -- but its broad overview of the support these conclusions receive from (some) science and scientists. Lots of other books focus in on this or that area (quantum theory, say, or parapsychology); Dossey tries to cover the whole spectrum. As a result his presentation is a little thin in some areas, but after eleven years this is still one of the very few books one can consult to get introductory information on _all_ of them.
Good stuff. And if you've read any of Dossey's other books, this one will give you the theoretical/speculative underpinnings of his other work on e.g. the medical benefits of prayer.
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Title: Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine by Larry, Md. Dossey ISBN: 0061043834 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Space, Time and Medicine by Larry, Md. Dossey ISBN: 0394710916 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: 01 April, 1982 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer by Larry Dossey ISBN: 0062514245 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Healing Beyond the Body: Medicine and the Infinite Reach of the Mind by Larry Dossey ISBN: 1570629234 Publisher: Shambhala Publications Pub. Date: 11 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Be Careful What You Pray For...You Just Might Get It by Larry Dossey ISBN: 0062514342 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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