The
message sings with optimism: "If I can recover, others can too."
We learn of difficulties with physicians who prefer passive patients,
unexpected reactions of children and husband, incredible love and support
from family and friends, and help from alternative therapists - even spiritual
healers.
Alice
grew up in a medically oriented household with no religious traditions..
Her father, Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr., was the
renowned surgeon who invented the heart-lung machine and performed
the first heart bi-pass surgery. So why does Alice go to spiritual
healers?
Because she is an anthropologist. She immersed herself
in an anthropological study of the healers' unseen energies and
Brazilian psychic surgeons. She
was fascinated and her spirit soared. We learn the
beliefs and practices of spiritual healers when she herself begins
to treat clients. |
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| Are
you surprised that she can now walk with only canes for support,
and sees her illness as a gift? |
Folk dancing before
being paralyzed. |
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