About the Author

Larry Dossey, M.D., is a former internist and chief of staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital and the former cochair of the Panel on Mind/Body Interventions, National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. He is the executive editor of Explore- The Journal of Science and Healing and the author of nine other books on the role of consciousness and spirituality in healing, including the New York Times bestseller Healing Words- The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine. Dr. Dossey lives in Santa Fe with his wife, author Barbara Montgomery Dossey.


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Reviews

“In this elegant, thoughtful, and profoundly useful book, Larry Dossey reminds us of the healing power of the life around us and offers us the gift of new eyes. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things vindicates anyone who has looked beyond drugs and surgery in search of their own ability to heal.” —Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom

“Larry Dossey’s insights into the ordinary illuminate a path to happiness and help us see ‘the universe in a grain of sand.’” —Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., coauthor of YOU: The Owner’s Manual

“Delightful, human, funny, poignant, and surpassingly wise, Larry Dossey’s essays are a national treasure.” —Joan Borysenko, author of A Woman’s Journey to God

“One of our most original thinkers on the nature of consciousness and its role in healing.” —Michael Lerner, president of Commonweal

“Larry Dossey’s words of wisdom have inspired and challenged me for years.” —Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom

“In his quirky, brilliant, and passionate book, Larry Dossey offers us the quintessence of a lifetime’s search and conveys his message with the lucid grace of a born writer and the authority of a sage. In a hundred years, he will be remembered as someone who, in a grand way, assisted a shift in how we perceive the magic and mystery of our world and our place within it.” —Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path

"In this elegant, thoughtful, and profoundly useful book, Larry Dossey reminds us of the healing power of the life around us and offers us the gift of new eyes. The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things vindicates anyone who has looked beyond drugs and surgery in search of their own ability to heal." -Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom

"Larry Dossey's insights into the ordinary illuminate a path to happiness and help us see 'the universe in a grain of sand.'" -Mehmet C. Oz, M.D., coauthor of YOU: The Owner's Manual

"Delightful, human, funny, poignant, and surpassingly wise, Larry Dossey's essays are a national treasure." -Joan Borysenko, author of A Woman's Journey to God

"One of our most original thinkers on the nature of consciousness and its role in healing." -Michael Lerner, president of Commonweal

"Larry Dossey's words of wisdom have inspired and challenged me for years." -Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom

"In his quirky, brilliant, and passionate book, Larry Dossey offers us the quintessence of a lifetime's search and conveys his message with the lucid grace of a born writer and the authority of a sage. In a hundred years, he will be remembered as someone who, in a grand way, assisted a shift in how we perceive the magic and mystery of our world and our place within it." -Andrew Harvey, author of The Direct Path

Dossey (executive editor, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing) has written numerous volumes on the subjects of mind-body medicine and the role of consciousness in healing. For his first book since the best-selling Healing Words, he has collected scholarly research, experience and phenomena, and historical references on remedies or interventions for common, everyday illnesses. Easily acquired by anyone and available within our natural world, these remedies include optimism, forgetting, novelty, tears, dirt, music, risk, plants, bugs, unhappiness, nothing, voices, mystery, and miracles. For each, Dossey begins the discussion in terms of its use in history or with a scenario of someone's life experience with a corresponding illness, where the remedy was used or would be useful. Many of the claims made regarding the healing sources are based in empirical research, with citations listed in the notes section at the book's end. Because the text is written in a smooth narrative fashion, the reader's interest is engaged and held. Recommended for public and consumer health libraries.-Beth Hill, Univ. of Idaho Lib., Moscow Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.