Richard Grossinger - Planet Medicine: Modalities, Revised Edition

Selected Other Works by Richard Grossinger

Book of the Cranberry Islands

Book of the Earth and Sky

The Continents

Dark Pool of Light, Volume One: The Neuroscience, Evolution, and Ontology of Consciousness

Dark Pool of Light, Volume Two: Consciousness in Psychospiritual and Psychic Ranges

Dark Pool of Light, Volume Three: The Crisis and Future of Consciousness

Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity

Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life

Homeopathy: The Great Riddle

The Long Body of the Dream

New Moon

The Night Sky: The Science and Anthropology of the Stars and Planets

Out of Babylon: Ghosts of Grossingers

Planet Medicine: Origins

The Provinces

The Slag of Creation

Solar Journal: Oecological Sections

The Unfinished Business of Doctor Hermes

Waiting for the Martian Express: Cosmic Visitors, Earth Warriors, Luminous Dreams

As Editor or Co-editor

The Alchemical Tradition in the Late Twentieth Century

Baseball I Gave You All the Best Years of My Life

Ecology and Consciousness

Into the Temple of Baseball

Nuclear Strategy and the Code of the Warrior

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Cover art by Sergei Ponomarov
Cover design by Paula Morrison

Planet Medicine is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Native Arts and Sciences, a nonprofit educational corporation whose goals are to develop an educational and crosscultural perspective linking various 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.

The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Grossinger, Richard. 1944
Planet medicine / Richard Grossinger.7th ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents: v. 2. Modalities
eISBN: 978-1-58394-729-6
1. Holistic medicine. 2. Alternative medicine. I. Title.
R733.G76 2002
615.5dc21

2002022196

v3.1

I dedicate this book to those whose vision, compassion, and acts of healing made it possible:

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Paul Pitchford

Randy Cherner

Amini Peller

Elizabeth Beringer

Richard Strozzi Heckler

Ron Sieh

Cyble Tomlinson

John Upledger

Frank Lowen

Michael Wagner

T HE PEOPLE WHO helped me the most with the material in this book are noted in the dedication and throughout the book. Here I would like to acknowledge those colleagues who contributed directly to the preparation of the text.

I acknowledge and thank Amy Champ for her research on the Practical Ethnomedicine chapter of Origins; Don Hanlon Johnson for his thorough reading and comments on the entire manuscript; Michael Salveson, Elizabeth Beringer, John Upledger, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Judyth Weaver, Fritz Smith, and Dana Ullman for their reading and comments on particular sections of the text; Kathy Glass for her thoughtful and patient editing; Victoria Baker for her exceptional index; Paula Morrison for her elegant and spirited design; Catherine Campaigne for her technical work in the preparation of the finished book; Janna Israel for her updating of the bibliography; Jay Kinney and Richard Smoley of Gnosis for their assistance in finding artwork; and Sergei Ponomarov, Spain, Kathy Park, Alex Grey, and Kathy Maguire for drawing images specifically to fit in the text.

We come from an unknown place and go to an unknown place. These do not concern me. But the trajectory of my life, which I share with this body, does.

I want us all to participate in reconstructing the temple, to heal the planet, which is a masterpiece in danger.

Jean Louis Barrault (the mime in Les Enfants de Paradis)

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Many of the illustrations in this book are used in clip-art style from a wide variety of sources. They include rock art, cave paintings, indigenous graffiti, religious woodcuts, amulet insignias, pottery motifs, codex glyphs, illustrations from herbals and old medical books, and traditional totemic designs from the different regions of the Earth. Because some of this material was collected from secondary and tertiary sources, complete citations are not always possible. The artwork in the Introduction is made up of animal motifs used in African decorations (plus an assortment of Australian kangaroo glyphs).

Psychic Energy System by Alex Grey

Congolese motif

Polar Eskimo game

Embryo by Alex Grey

Glyph by Charles Stein

The Healer by Alex Grey

Sattvic Session by Krishna Kirtana

Sattvic Session by Krishna Kirtana

Kirlian Photography by Thelma Moss

Reiki by Alois Hanslian, from Reiki: Universal Life Energy by Bodo J. Baginski and Shalila Sharamon (Mendocino, California: Life Rhythm, 1988)

Reiki by Alois Hanslian (see above)

Reiki by Alois Hanslian

Glyph by Charles Stein

Reiki motif by Bodo J. Baginski (see above)

Reiki motif by Bodo J. Baginski (see above)

Photographs of treating butterfly and dog with Reiki, from Brigitte Mller and Horst Gnther, A Complete Book of Reiki Healing (Mendocino, California: Life Rhythm, 1995)

Photograph of Reiki session, from Mller and Gnther (see above)

Cho-Ku-Rei by Barbara Emerson, from Barbara Emerson, Self-Healing Reiki: Freeing the Symbols, Attunements, and Techniques (Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books, 2001)

Hon-Sha-Ze-Sho-Nen by Barbara Emerson (see above)

Raku by Barbara Emerson (see above)

Herakhan Baba in position for forty-five days without moving (Mount Kailash, near Haldwani, 1970)

Illustration by Daniel Blair Stewart from Akhunaton: The Extraterrestrial King (Berkeley, California: Frog, Ltd., 1995)

The Ultimate Secret Society by Harry S. Robins, from Gnosis, No. 6, Winter 1988

Sacred Morphology of a Plant by Sergei Ponomarov

Merkaba Travel by Sergei Ponomarov

The Edge of an Umbilic Toroid Spirals Around in Three Loops (which are equivalent to the three layers of the Hebrew alphabet on an enneagonal pattern and with the three layers of the alphabet Rubik cube matrix) by Stan Tenen, Stan N. Tenen/Meru Foundation, San Anselmo, California

Unit Turn Tetrahelical Column as a Model for the Human Spine (showing how each of the three-face ribbons has room for the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet) by Stan Tenen, Stan N. Tenen/Meru Foundation, San Anselmo, California