Healing for Everyone- Medicine of the Whole Person

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EVARTS G. LOOMIS, M.D., F.A.C.S. heard the words "treat the whole person" as a young dog-sled doctor while working for the Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland. After doing medical rehabilitation work during WWII for UNRRA in Algeria and the Friends Am- bulance Unit in China, he founded Meadowlark, America's first holistic health retreat. A co-founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, Evarts joins the ranks of Dr. Linus Pauling and Bill Moyers as the third recipient of the AHMA Pioneer Award. Loomis, an internationally known homeopathic physician, surgeon, lecturer, and visionary, has authored numerous articles, three books, and produced two videos. He is on the faculty of the California Institute for Human Science in Encinitas, California, and the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles.

REV. J. SIG PAULSON is a retired Unity minister and poet who enjoys sharing the adventure of living with all of humanity. His creed is put simply: "Love is my church; loving my neighbour as myself is daily worship." Sig currently resides in the city of Seattle, Washington, where he first met Janie, his beautiful wife of 56 years.

"I consider Evarts Loomis, M.D. to be the Father of Holistic Medicine." C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., Founding President, American Holistic Medical Association.

"One of the great inspirations in my life has been Dr. Evarts Loomis - himself, his wonderful, unique Meadowlark Health Center, and his book Healing for Everyone, a true jewel of example, help and inspiration." Dr. Robert Muller, Former UN Assistant Secretary- General and Chancellor of the University for Peace, Costa Rica.

Healing for Everyone: Medicine of the Whole Person focuses on the art of medicine, rather than the science. We have chosen to maintain this emphasis rather than revising the few scientific references in the book or adding scientific advances which are minimal in relation to the ancient art of healing.

It gives me great pleasure twenty years after publishing Healing for Everyone to share thoughts about medicine for the twenty-first century. Ever since studying the teachings of Ramakrishna in the 1930s, Indian thought has had a profound influence on my life. Just as Ramakrishna in his meditations on the major religions brought them to a common base, so must the many modalities of medical practice find a commonality in healing.

Today medicine is at a crossroads and in need of being remodeled toward a deeper understanding of the person who is ill. Back in 1960 on a trip around the world to obtain my own understanding of a medicine of the whole person, which includes body, mind and spirit, it was my privilege to spend a day with Sri Ramachandra in his home in Sri Lanka and query him on the nature of the healing process. The gist of his discussion was that there are three aspects of healing. physical, mental and spiritual. The first caused by physical means, and its treatment physical; the second, by mental imbalance; and the third due to spiritual starvation, which he considered very prevalent in the world.

Members of the healing professions must come to the realization that in dealing with chronic illness, we cannot disregard the realm of spirit as it flows into the body through the chakras and along the meridians and nervous pathways to the receptors in the body cells.