Mystical Medicine

Today many people are becoming aware of the relationship that exists between the mind body and spirit for achieving total health. As a Christian physician with many years of traditional humanistic medical and surgical training I began to awaken to the concept of the whole man. I started to study books authored by Hans Selye M.D. Nathan Pritikin O. Carl Simonton M.D. Rene Dubos Norman Cousins and James Lynch. I even dabbled for the first time into Christian books like Ministry of Healing and Medical Ministry. I perceived a common thread of world brotherhood and min expansion which could solve the tension I felt in my materialistic and technocratic surgical world. Perhaps the practice of surgery did hold more challenge than just another bypass operation which I knew from experience merely postponed death but did little to change the cause of the underlying disease condition.