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Revised edition PLANET MEDICINE FROM STONE AGE SHAMANISM TO POST-INDUSTRIAL HEALING tf™ / /y*-. '"J: -J • • ' - fc r « -#T 1*? RICHARD GROSSINGER PLANET MEDICINE Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/industrialtrain100mcmu PLANET MEDICINE FROM STONE AGE SHAMANISM TO POST-INDUSTRIAL HEALING RICHARD GROSSINGER North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California Planet Medicine: From Stone Age Shamanism to Post-Industrial Healing Copyright © 1980, 1982, 1985, 198" by Richard Grossinger ISBN 1-55643-019-1 Published by North Atlantic Books 1:1 Blake Street Berkeley, California 94"04 Cover Art: American Indian bear mask The Earth photographed from Apollo 17 Cover Design: Paula Morrison PlanetMedicinewas originally published by Doubleday/Anchor Books and laterrepublishedby Shambhala/Random House in a revised edition. AGer- manversion ofthe originaledition appears underthe translator's title Wege des Heilens and is published in trade paperback by Kosel-Verlag and mass market paperback by Goldmann/New Age. Planet Medicine is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences,a nonprofiteducationalcorporationwhosegoalsaretodevelop an ecological and crosscultural perspectivelinkingvarious scientific, social, and artistic fields; to nurture a holistic view of arts, sciences, humanities, and healing; and to publish and distribute literature on the relationship of mind, body, and nature. Librarv of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Grossinger, Richard, 1944- Planet medicine. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Therapeutic systems—History. 2. Healing— History. 5.Medical anthropology—History. 4. Medicine—Philosophv. I. Title. R733.G76 362.1 52-50278 InBN 1-55643-019-1 (pbk.) Contents Preface ORIGINS AND DEFINITIONS I Disease and Cure: Image and Process in Medicine 3 II The Cultural Basis oftheHolistic Cure 27 III The Origin of Medicine: The Anthropological and Historical Fallacy 36 IV The Distribution of Healing Complexes on the Earth 59 V The Psychosomatic Dilemma in Western and Native Thought 68 VI Practical Ethnomedicine: The Ancient Skills 75 VII Spiritual Ethnomedicine: The Works of the Shaman 96 VIII Darwinism, Vitalism, New Alchemy, and Parapsychology 116 IX Elements and Humors 132 X Ancient Medicine: Empiricism and Rationalism 145 Contents TRANSITIONS XI Homoeopathy: The Great Riddle 161 XII The Principles and Methodology of Homoeopathic Medicine 169 XIII The Life and Work of Samuel Hahnemann 204 XIV The Homoeopathic Tradition in America 224 XV Sigmund Freud and the Origin of Psychotherapeutic Healing 245 XVI Wilhelm Reich From Character Analysis to : Cosmic Eros 268 MODELS AND MEANINGS XVII Bodywork 297 XVIII Healing, Language, and Sexuality 312 XIX The New Medicine 330 XX The Political and Spiritual Basis of Medicine 350 epilogue The Present State of Holistic Health: How to Choose a Healer 364 Notes 403 Bibliography 419 Index 425
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