C. Norman Shealy - Blueprint for Holistic Healing

Blueprint for Holistic Healing

Your Practical Guide to
Body-Mind-Spirit Health

C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD

Copyright 2016

by C. Norman Shealy, MD, PhD

1st Printing, August 2016

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Disclaimer

The material in this book is not intended to replace conventional medical advice. You should consult your physician regarding any general or specific physical symptoms. The author and publisher disclaim any responsibility for adverse effects resulting from information in this book.

During Edgar Cayces life, the Edgar Cayce readings were all numbered to provide confidentiality. So in the case of 294-1, for example, the first set of numbers (294) refers to the individual or group for whom the reading was given. The second set of numbers (1) refers to the number in the series from which the reading is taken. Therefore, 294-1 identifies the reading as the first one given to the individual assigned #294.

Edgar Cayce Readings 1971, 1993-2007
by the Edgar Cayce Foundation.
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Cover design by Christine Fulcher

... Norm Shealy

... Georgianne Ginder

Bodyphysical, chemical, emotional, metaphysical

Mindpersonality, mood, attitudes and emotions, beliefs, cultural, social, ethnic

Soul vs. Spirit

There is no meaning unless you make it.
There is no step unless YOU take it.
Not one goal you cant achieve
But first you must roll up that sleeve...

Always has been graft and greed
Dont let that stop you.

You can be freed

Be the exception
No matter how
Make the meaning.
Do it NOW.

Georgianne Ginder
2006

Although I grew up knowing that I was more than my body and mind and never doubted that there was another me that somehow existed in an ineffable time/space, the real understanding of myself as an entity separate from my body took place in 1972 during my first visit to the A.R.E. when I had my first out-of-body experience. To the entire Edgar Cayce work and Association and to Joel Andrews, the trance medium harpist, I owe the sense of being beyond body and mind. Indeed, although my intuition has always been active, I believe that that one event opened me to many developing psychic events. Thank you! And thanks especially to Kevin Todeschi for suggesting I write this book!

Of course my parents were responsible for outstanding nurturing and encouragement to explore the world.

My wife, Mary-Charlotte Bayles Shealy, provided fifty-two blessed years of total support for thinking outside the box of conventional society, as well as the foundation for grounding our children in the same expansion of consciousness that is so essential to real life.

Henry Rucker, Robert Leichtman, MD, and Caroline Myss have been the most outstanding intuitives I have known. They have further nurtured my ongoing curiosity about the physical and spiritual worlds.

I have also been remarkably blessed by numerous outstanding teachers, friends, and associates. Having known many of my past lives, several of which I am not proud, it is again the A.R.E. where I had my first past-life experience. These continue to amaze me, especially reconnection with the reincarnated St. Francis and my three brothers/companions from our lives with Francis. These have provided the most remarkable living love of my ongoing life. Thank you Peter, Mark, Patrick, and Sergey!

I am grateful to Georgie Ginder for contributing the wonderful poem you have just read.

To all who read this book, I wish for you the bliss of knowing yourself in the broadest possible wayphysically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually!

Love and hugs,

Norm

Holism

The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Basically, it is virtually impossible to discuss body, mind, and spirit as individual entities, as they are intricately interwoven and interdependent. Mind is the builder and body is the result. It is the soul incarnate that provides human life. Spirit is the connection of soul with the divine or God. In medicine, Ren Descartes is credited with the scientific separation of body, mind, and soul. He felt that the body is materially present in a physical sense and that the mind is essentially immaterialit has no physical manifestations. To a great extent this is the philosophy of science and of modern medicine.

In 1929 Jan Smuts, general and prime minister of South Africa, introduced the word holism in a masterpiece book, Holism and Evolution. From early 1900 until 1945, Edgar Cayce laid the foundation for the remarkably broad field of holistic medicine. I was introduced to the Cayce material in 1972, and it changed my life forever, awakening my interest in all aspects of health and mysticism. In 1978, with the founding of the American Holistic Medical Association, www.holisticmedicine.org, I envisioned that at least 10% of physicians would become holistically inclined within ten years. Actually, the number of out-of-the-closet holistic physicians has changed little through the ensuing thirty-six years, but it has been the main source for truly holistic medicine! Despite having the American Board of Holistic Medicine, AHMA membership has not kept up with the actual growth in total physicians. Now, to my surprise, the current leadership of AHMA has decided that the word holistic will never be accepted by the Establishment and voted to drop holistic in favor of integrateda word already highly polluted by hospitals pretending to be inclusive. The Establishment is the problem, not the solution!

Most physicians are too brainwashed by the PharmacoMafia and remain sheepishly oblivious to the broader human perspective. In 1978, I was excited at the need for holistic medicine. Initially, my sense of great need was the result of being appalled by the barbarian approaches to chronic paincordotomy, cutting the front half of the spinal cord, and frontal lobotomy, destroying the personality forever. In 1971, having introduced Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Dorsal Column Stimulation (DCS), I was overwhelmed with four hundred patients each year. I selected only 6% at most for the DCS and most of the rest were much too complex for TENS. Almost all were iatrogenically addicted to Valium and Percodan. They had had an average of five to seven unsuccessful surgeries; they had an average of forty-nine symptoms. Clearly the system had failed them.

Between 1971 and 1978, I added acupuncture, biofeedback, past-life therapy, music therapy, massage and exercise, nutrition, and gradually a wide variety of self-regulation techniques. I sensed the broad spiritual crisis that many patients had endured. Thus was the need for a return to spiritual healing at all levels. I naively thought that we would have several thousand physicians join the holistic movement within a few years. The AMA rejected the concept from the beginning. Then a few hospitals paid lip service and started mentioning the very word. However, the