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Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and The Practice of Medicine Hardcover – January 1, 1994

by Larry DOSSEY (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 253 ratings
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Explores a subject that has for too long been overlooked by much of science and medicine. I recommend it to everyone. Read Healing Words and be open to the excitement of consciouness studies, prayer, and human potential. The answer to a prayer, the most thoughtful, eloquent, and interesting book on prayer, health, and healing that I have ever read. In this age of shifting paradigms and interconnected consciousness, Dr. Dossey points bravely to a future in which science and religion can find a prayer a common ground for dialogue. Larry Dossey is a consummate physician, storyteller, and scholar-perhaps the most seminal thinker of our time.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B006SRZTO6
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper; First Edition (January 1, 1994)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 320 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0062502522
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0062502520
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
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Amira Safiya
5.0 out of 5 stars Medical Dr. Proves Scientifically The Power of Prayer
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2023
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Intriguing and Affirmative account of the science proof that prayer works
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Janet Thomas
5.0 out of 5 stars Validates your own path to healing.
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023
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This is a wonderful book on healing and prayer. Best of all it puts the patient in the driver seat as it validates the path we feel compelled to follow. I can not recommend this book enough!
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Robert Doc Barham
4.0 out of 5 stars Another Good Book On Prayer
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2023
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I’ve read at least two of Larry Dossey’s books on prayer. This was the first book I read and I enjoyed it enough to read a second book of his on prayer. Browsing Amazon one will find many book about the practice of prayer, but I have not come across very many that discuss research and experiments on prayer and its effects on oneself, others and the world. If you’d like hear Dr Dossey’s thoughts on the subject and his writings about the surprising number of experiments and the outcomes and conclusions then I recommend you download the Kindle sample, read it and decide for yourself. I found his book fascinating and enlightening.
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Karen Schaffner
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!
Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2020
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Easy read and book of hope and introduction to a wider view point.
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Rodney P. Dempsey
5.0 out of 5 stars Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Meditation
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2012
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I am a Larry Dossey fan. My Maantra is God is LOve, Attitude is everything. I have overcome stage four cancer (by surgery),a five bypass heart surger that included 52 days in the hospital, in addition, I earlier had a widow maker heart attach, and an Histoplasmosis of the eyes, that nearly blinded me. ALL of my Doctors attribute my recovery as a miricle. I attribute much of it to my attitude. Dr. Dossey is an M.D. I am living proof that his thesis works. I could not live without Faith in God, and believing that God is love and Attitude is Everything .
Rodney P. Dem;psey
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Joyce Mcwilliams
5.0 out of 5 stars A Book for Clergy,Chaplains and Parish Nurses
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2014
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The book is well written and well researched, especially for those who are health practitioners and well versed in healing modalities. Prayer is part of my practice as a parish nurse. I gleaned much from his insights and explorations.

Joyce McWilliams RN PN
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Barbara McDanel
5.0 out of 5 stars this is so helpful-- esp for times that need some thought....
Reviewed in the United States on December 30, 2012
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very helpful for situations that require heartfelt words and you do not have anything you can think of to say or write to people you care about! i have used this book numerous times- just to read for my own comfort and to comfort others- well worth what I spent on this book---I use it often! i should buy more for gifts!!!its' like the Ann landers for healing words!! :}
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Bobbananda - Dr Bob
3.0 out of 5 stars A Review of Prayer and Healing
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2012
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Dr. Dossey's book is a mixed bag. He brings up many good points on Prayer related to medicine and healing. There are numerous useful and telling stories.

Still, he admits he never asked a patient if he/she prayed. Since Prayer is/was important to him, the omission seems strange to say the least.

People in Prayer studies are never interviewed to find out what prayer means to them or how they pray.

That said, his review of the literature and personal studies suggest that prayer may be effective, useful around 20 percent of the time.

Prayer is free, readily available, and may be helpful. Why not use it? What is there to lose?
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Veronica A. Manders
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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Elle
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read
Reviewed in Australia on August 14, 2015
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I enjoyed the first few chapters got bogged down a bit scientifically in the second part of the book. But well written and researched.
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Dr. H. A. Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Healing and Prayer - an overview
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 24, 2009
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Healing Words: The power of prayer and the practice of medicine, by Larry Dossey, HarperCollins, New York, 1993 (p.b.), 432 ff.

Healing and Prayer - an overview
By Howard A. Jones

In this book, Dr Larry Dossey, a physician with a practice in Texas, explores the healing power of prayer. In the Introduction, the author expresses his difficulty in defining precisely what we mean by prayer, because the word `prayer' tends to be associated with religious petitions to God. But Dr Dossey takes prayer out of a specifically religious context and makes it serve as a description of non-local mind communing with cosmic spirit, in any form in which we want to regard it, to envision the love and healing of others.

The author sees medicine over the past couple of centuries as having developed in three stages or eras: the first in the 19th century reflected physical medicine with the development of synthetic drug therapy and surgery with effective anaesthetics. The second phase developed after WWII and acknowledged the role of the mind of the individual in aggravating or healing their physical illness. The third era, which is the focus of this book, has emerged in recent decades as evidence has grown of the effect that one individual's mind could have on the mind and body of another - what Dossey calls `non-local mind'. He cites evidence that he believes shows that mind is not exclusively associated with the brain, as brain chemicals are found also in other tissues like the blood and gut. Then there is further evidence that mind is not even restricted to one individual with the effects, not only of prayer, but of telepathic or telesomatic events between empathic individuals.

The book describes numerous anecdotes of instances where prayer and healing thoughts have proved to be effective and some instances where they have not, with possible reasons for this. It also gives the results of many scientific studies into the influence of prayer. There are few practical details of the experiments in most of the book - simply the results. Details are confined to the third and final section on The Evidence; and there is more on that, together with possible explanatory scientific theory, in an earlier book, Recovering the Soul. Dr Dossey points out that nothing physical, not even a measurable energy, passes from meditator to recipient. Such events are comparable to those in particle physics where interaction between related particles occurs instantaneously, at a distance, regardless of separation in time or space.

I doubt that this book was written specifically as a self-help book, but Dr Dossey gives examples of what he considers to be effective methods and limitations of prayer so I'm sure that many readers will find the book not only helpful but inspirational: for if mind is not to be confined to the body in life, then there is the potential for non-local mind or soul to continue its existence in the discarnate. If the individual unconscious does indeed form part of Jung's collective unconscious, it is not incoherent to suggest persistence of non-local mind in a Communal Soul after mortal death. This is a very informative and encouraging book.

Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.
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Jock
5.0 out of 5 stars The Power of Prayer.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2003
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Summary : An astonishingly thought-provoking book. The evidence cited by the book suggests that prayers can actually work.
The author is an American medical doctor, who had a hunch that prayer might help some of his patients. So he searched the medical literature for all the scientific studies about prayer, healing and medicine.
He was amazed to find so much research on the topic.
In half of 300 experiments, prayer positively affected blood pressure, the healing of wounds, heart attacks, headaches, anxiety, illness generally etc., all living things including animals, bacteria and viruses; and electronic equipment.
The author advocates praying not for a specific outcome for a particular person but that "God's will be done" for that person.
Prayers work at a distance. That they work is taken by the author as evidence for the existence of the soul and God; that the mind can exist separate from the brain.
References to all of the studies cited are listed in the book.
It was such an exciting read, I couldn't put the book down. Brilliant!
13 March 2003.
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Julia Morgan
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
Reviewed in Germany on June 10, 2016
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I found this book very disappointing, though others might find it okay. I already believe in the God of the Bible and know that he answers prayer. This book is written by someone who, by his own admission, doesn't know God. He sees prayer as some kind of "spiritual" exercise which may, in some inexplicable way, effect circumstances.
The book is esoteric rather than Christian. Some people may want that kind of book, but it is not for me.
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