The Parabola Book of Healing

The Parabola Book of Healing – Lawrence Sullivan

A wide range of writers, past and present, contribute to this volume, which draws from many cultures, disciplines, and points of view to give readers a powerful perspective on healing. Patients with cancer, AIDS, and other diseases give their personal accounts of facing and, in some cases, conquering illness.

“It seems truly mysterious that the powers of sickness and cure, which traffic so intimately with each human life, remain, finally, hidden and obscure. The irrepressible desire to bring those powers to light accounts for the restlessness of human inquiry, wandering in search of surer knowledge, clearer signs — whether medical or mystical. That.same restless desire explains why so many religious traditions have found sickness and healing — and the impulse to care — to be the paradigm of the human condition in the world.”
– LAWRENCE E. SULLIVAN, from the Introduction

“The book as a whole comes at the question of healing from an exceptionally wide variety of perspectives. I found the conversation between Lobsang Rapgay and Dr. Keith Cohn opened some refreshing new questions.”
– JACOB NEEDLEMAN, The Way of the Physician