I've called myself a "holistic" nurse for decades, simply because I so clearly see that the mind, body and soul (or energy life force, as I've come to see it) are all parts of each other and inseparable in reality. My disenchantment with ordinary western medicine springs from the fact that, all too often, these entwined entities are treated as completely different species instead, seldom giving people what they need to become whole and truly healed.

In the last few years I've been privileged to learn whole new galaxies of supporting material, and meet many who have both learning and practice far beyond my puny efforts. I've learned that this inner connection is not just a desired or natural state - but an inescapable fact of all life, and we ignore it to our ultimate peril.

While each person, tree and rock is uniquely itself - and even individual molecules of water or air differentiate - they are all connected somehow as well.

And now, through the gift of a dear friend (who knows who she is), I've been reading something that gives flesh and life to that conviction. It's called "Energy Medicine - The Scientific Basis" by James L. Oschman

Marvelous, challenging, thought provoking, and, since much of what he reports was well known as far back as 1950, I'm mad as a wet hen at the total inadequacy of my college chemistry and physiology, biology and other "science" courses which failed to even hint at any of it!!

Old too soon, wise too late... but I'm running as fast as I can to catch up! I'll have to live to be 200 just to read all the other books referenced! :)