Caroline Myss - 13 Oct

Praise for Defy Gravity

It is rare that an author and teacher as accomplished and influential as Caroline Myss would, with each book, discover whole new vistas, and then report back to us with her legendary clarity and passion. With Defy Gravity she has done it again. Anyone in need of healinghealing from illness, anxiety, fear, or heartbreakwill find enormous help in this book. It is a tonic made of light and wisdom.

Elizabeth Lesser, co-founder, Omega Institute and
author of Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

InDefy Gravity,Caroline Myss offers a new
model of transformation and healing that will shift how
we perceive crisis and illness. A must-read.

Deepak Chopra, author of
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul

Caroline has been one of my most important
spiritual teachers. In her new book, she continues to
pierce both hearts and minds with arrows of truth.

Marianne Williamson, author of
The Age of Miracles and A Return to Love

Defy Gravityis a powerful look at the mystical aspects of the process of deep healing. The extraordinary Caroline Myss provides profound insights into the nature of illness and the healing miracles that can occur. What I love about Caroline is that she isnt afraid to make waves and go way beyond convention to create new paradigms of health.

Judith Orloff, M.D., author of Emotional Freedom

In this time of extraordinary evolutionary upheaval,
Carolyn Myss offers a powerful and wise prescription for selfhealing
that transforms and empowers the reader to gain sovereignty
over their physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D., cell biologist and best-selling
author of The Biology of Belief and Spontaneous Evolution

InDefy Gravity Caroline Myss goes far beyond conventional thinking to describe with precision those areas of experience, those mystical and mysterious events that ultimately account for illness. I found this book to be extraordinarily intelligent and perceptive in charting ways to go deep into the soul to glimpse those faint issues that grow into large problems.

Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul
and Writing in the Sand

"When Caroline Myss comes out with another book, like her newDefy Gravity, we always run out and immediately buy it. Why? Because like no other author, Myss invariably manages help us reach yet, an even higher level of understanding of how to heal. Run, dont walk, and buy this book.

Mona Lisa Schulz, M.D., Ph.D., author of
TheIntuitive Advisor: A Psychic Doctor Teaches You
How to Solve Your Most Pressing Health Problems

" In this book, Caroline Myss reminds us that, while we be grateful for the gift of reason, we should also be aware mystery and holiness of life cannot be found in the dim alone. AsDefy Gravitymakes clear, the mystics teach in each of us the capacity for mystical experience that transcends reason. Each chapter of this book echoes with the expansive energy of mystical awakening and offers ways we can cultivate this awakening in our lives.

James Finley, Ph.D., author of Christian Meditation
and The Contemplative Heart

"Caroline Myss is the most outstanding voice in the field ofspirituality and healing alive on the planet today. In Defy Gravityshe challenges some of our cultures most cherished myths about healing, inviting the reader to exit the prison of reason and enter the field of grace from which miracles spontaneously arise. Translating universal spiritual wisdom into modern language, Caroline illuminates the journey to empowering both psyche and soul.

Joan Borysenko, Ph.D., author of Minding the Body,
Mending the Mind and Your Souls Compass

Defy
Gravity

Defy
Gravity

Healing Beyond
the Bounds of Reason

CAROLINE
MYSS

Copyright 2009 by Caroline Myss

Published and distributed in the United States by: Hay House, Inc.: www.hayhouse. Published and distributed in Australia by: Hay House Australia Pty. Ltd.: www.hayhouse.com.au Published and distributed in the United Kingdom by: House UK, Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.uk Published and distributed in the Republic of South Africa by: Hay House SA (Pty), Ltd.: www.hayhouse.co.za Distributed in Canada by: Raincoast: www.raincoast.com Published in India Hay House Publishers India: www.hayhouse.co.in

Design: Tricia Breidenthal
Indexer: Jay Kreider

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced by any mechanical, electronic process, or in the form of a phonographic stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or otherwise be useother than for fair use as brief quotations embodied without prior written permission of the publisher.

The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Myss, Caroline M.

Defy gravity : healing beyond the bounds of reason / Caroline Myss. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includesindex.

ISBN 978-1-4019-2290-0 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Healing--Religious aspects. 2. Spiritual healing. 3. Medicine--Religious aspects. 4. Teresa, of Avila, Saint, 1515-1582. Moradas. I. Title.

BL65.M4M97 2009

203.1--dc22

2009020697

ISBN: 978-1-4019-2290-0

12 11 10 09 4 3 2 1
1st edition, October 2009

Printed in the United States of America

For my godchildren
Angela, Rachel, Eddie, Jimmy,
Basile, Lacey, Eben, and Sam

CONTENTS

B rilliance, passion, wit, forensic clarity, and a realistic unshrinking compassionthese are all qualities we have come to expect from the extraordinary work of Caroline Myss, and they are in abundant, vivid and provocative display in her latest book Defy Gravity. What is also remarkable and inspiring about Caroline as a writer, teacher and person, is that she is continually reinventing herself, constantly pressing forward to a more and more all-encompassing integration of mind, heart, body and soul. For her, this search for the unified force field of truth is never a purely individual one; it takes place in the context of an urgent and radical confrontation with our world crisis that is now threatening the survival of the human race and much of nature, and it is born out of a passionate desire for planetary as well as personal healing.

It is this menacing crisis that is at the heart of Defy Gravity. Caroline Myss knows exactly where we are in a vast disaster of our own making, a growing catastrophe engendered by our addiction to and adoration of reason and the powers of control it opens up to us and by our abandonment of the Sacred and the rigorous and exacting mystic laws that govern its application to life. Our survival is threatened on every sideby the demons our passion for domination of each other and of nature have unleashed, by our flawed and tribal understandings of religion that fuel instead of resolving conflict, and by our continuing refusal to face the personal and collective shadows of our greed, fear, cruelty and unacknowledged despair at our untransformed human nature.