Grow a New Body: How Spirit and Power Plant Nutrients Can Transform Your Health

281 Pages·2016·2.68 MB·English

by  Alberto Villoldo

Also by Alberto Villoldo
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Title: Grow a new body : how spirit and power plant nutrients can transform your health / Alberto Villoldo.
Other titles: One spirit medicine
Description: Carlsbad, California : Hay House Inc., [2019] | Revision of: One spirit medicine. 2014.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018049678| ISBN 9781401956561 (paperback) | ISBN 9781401956578 (ebook) | ISBN
9781401956738 (audiobook) Subjects: LCSH: Spiritual healing--Shamanism. | Shamanism. | Medicine,
Magic, mystic, and spagiric. | Health. | BISAC: BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Healing General. | HEALTH
& FITNESS Alternative Therapies. | BODY, MIND & SPIRIT Spirituality Shamanism.
Classification: LCC BF1623.S63 V55 2019 | DDC 131--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/20
18049678
Tradepaper ISBN: 978-1-40195656-1
e-book ISBN: 978-1-40195657-8
Audiobook ISBN: 978-1-40195673-8
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To Patty Gift,
with love and eternal gratitude
CONTENTS
Foreword by Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Introduction: The Gifts of One Spirit Medicine
Part I: Discovering Your Inner Healer
Chapter 1: Medicine of the Shamans
Chapter 2: Spirit and the Invisible World
Chapter 3: Dethroning the Tyrant King
Part II: Shedding the Old Ways
Chapter 4: Detoxifying the Gut-Brain
Chapter 5: Switching On the Longevity Genes
Chapter 6: Superfoods and Super Supplements
Part III: Overcoming the Death That Stalks You
Chapter 7: Resetting the Death Clock
Chapter 8: Freeing Yourself from Stressors
Part IV: From Stillness Comes Rebirth
Chapter 9: Embracing a New Mythology
Chapter 10: The Journey of the Healer: Shedding the Past and Healing Our
Mother Wounds
Chapter 11: The Journey to the Divine Feminine: Facing the Fear of Death and
Meeting the Goddess
Chapter 12: The Journey of the Sage: Becoming Still in Midair
Chapter 13: The Journey of the Visionary: Receiving One Spirit Medicine
Chapter 14: The Vision Quest
Part V: The Grow a New Body Program
Chapter 15: Preparing for the Program
Chapter 16: Grow a New Body Health Questionnaire
Chapter 17: Recipes for Inner Healing
Chapter 18: Your Longevity Plan: Practicing Prevention
Conclusion: One Spirit Medicine and Beyond
Appendix: Creating Your Longevity Spa
Endnotes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Ebook Supplemental Resources
FOREWORD
Although I had long known about the work of Alberto Villoldo professionally
and heard good things about him from trusted colleagues, I had never heard him
speak nor read any of his books until the spring of 2016. I was working out on a
treadmill in a hotel in Toronto, listening to his Hay House World Summit
interview in which he shared his experience of becoming deathly ill from many
different parasites that had invaded his liver, lungs, and brain. As I listened to
him talk about the process of literally growing a new body, I was transfixed. I
knew instantly that I wanted to learn from him. Here was the real deal: a man
who had walked through fire and remained unscathed.
Of course, I’d heard before of spontaneous remission, and I’d even had a
number of patients who experienced this sudden, unexpected healing of various
diseases. But never before had I heard anyone describe the process of going to
the underworld—quite literally facing one’s mortality and imminent death—and
then coming back out with a precise road map for this healing journey, complete
with scientific precision, understanding, and also spiritual illumination.
Most important, the lessons of Alberto’s personal journey—and the
subsequent program for rejuvenation he created afterward—apply to all of us.
While a health crisis led him down this path, you don’t need to be facing a liver
transplant or worse in order to get started on this process. The truth is that we
don’t need to undergo deterioration and sickness as we get older, nor succumb to
a chronic disease. Alberto’s work enlightens us of another way—a power that’s
innate to every one of us.
Modern medicine certainly can’t guide us on this journey. In fact, it has failed
us miserably. The average 65-year-old in the United States is on six prescription
drugs, with the focus on keeping death at bay rather than making life worth
living. On the other hand, Alberto Villoldo’s Grow a New Body program has