Douglas W. Morrison - How We Heal: Understanding the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:

Morrison, Douglas W., 1960
How we heal: understanding the mind-body-spirit connection / by Douglas W. Morrison ; foreword by David J. Pesek.Rev. ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.

1. Healing. 2. HealingNutritional aspects. 3. HealingPsychological aspects. 4. HealingReligious aspects. 5. Health attitudes. 6. Health. I. Title.

RA776.5.W94 2006
615.53dc22

2006002028

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Dedicated to my wonderful parents,

Beverly and Archie Morrison;

to my beloved children, Meghan and Andrew;

and to the God Within All Life.

In Grateful Memory of John Whitman Ray (19342001)

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcomings, who knows the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows in the end the high achievement of triumph and who at worst, if he fails while daring greatly, knows his place shall never be with those timid and cold souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

I WISH TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO J OHN W HITMAN R AY, FOUNDER OF Body Electronics. Many years of close study with this pioneer have been a wonderful opportunity for me. Certainly my understanding of many of the principles expressed in this book has been greatly influenced by my studies with John. I admire and applaud his dedication and pursuit of truth over many years.

I am also grateful to the many authors who have taken the time to write the wonderful works quoted or referenced here. In particular, I would like to offer thanks to the late Dr. Weston A. Price, author of the monumental work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, and also the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation for helping keep the research of Drs. Weston Price, Francis Pottenger, and Melvin Page available to all of us. Thanks also to Sally Fallon for her wonderful Nourishing Traditions. Thanks to Anthony Collier and the National Enzyme Company for their permission to reprint the Condensed Summary and Conclusions from Food Enzymes For Health and Longevity by Dr. Edward Howell. Thanks also to the late Dr. Bernard Jensen, Dr. Ellen Jensen, Art Jensen, Dr. David Pesek, and Harri Wolf for their kind permission to include their iridology charts, and to Dr. Jack Tips for his permission to include his sclerology chart. These folks have all made wonderful contributions to the twin disciplines of iridology and sclerology, and it is an honor to feature their excellent eye charts.

Thanks also to David Pesek for his kind foreword to this new edition of How We Heal. Thanks to Tom Quackenbush, who liked my first book Body Electronics Fundamentals enough to recommend me to his publisher, North Atlantic Books. Thanks also to Richard Grossinger at North Atlantic Books. And thanks to Michele Chase for a wonderful job editing the first edition of this book, and for all her helpful feedback during the process. Thanks also to Sergie Ponomarov for his fine illustrations, and to Paula Morrison for her excellent design. And thanks to Yvonne Crdenas, my project editor for this revised edition, for all her efforts. Thanks also to Mark Ouimet for his assistance and input, as well as to everyone else at North Atlantic Books. I would also like to give thanks to each of the following for taking the time to review various writings which have made it into this present work: Graham Bennett, Peter Brotherton, Andrew Duffy, Louis Frick, Kyle Grimshaw-Jones, Jim Guither, Peter Hinde, and John Whitman Ray. Thanks to Wayne Slack for his assistance and suggestions on the section concerning the work of Johann Grander. And thanks to Johannes Koppelsteiner for his assistance with revising this section in this new edition. Many thanks to Alan Meyer for his assistance with those parts of the book dealing with microbes and with the Grainfields products.

I would like to thank all who have organized Body Electronics seminars for me over the years, as well as all who have attended. It has been my pleasure and privilege to work with each of you. Thanks to Eleanor Butler and her staff at Enzymes International for their support over the years. Thanks also to Alan and Kate Meyer and the staff at AGM Foods for the same. And thanks to Dan Stewart and his staff at Water Revitalization Ltd. as well. Thanks to Dr. Roy Kupsinel for his encouragement and advice over the years, as well as his kind endorsement of my book. Thanks to Dr. Eric Wruck and Dr. Camilla Griggers for their kind endorsements of How We Heal, as well as to Mark Victor Hansen for his generous endorsement. Thanks goes to Louis Frick and Kris Limont for distributing Body Electronics Fundamentals since I left the United States in 1996, as well as since my return in 2001. This book has also benefited greatly from the opportunity I have had over the past few years to discuss many of these ideas with others. I would like in particular to thank Danielle Ryan, Peter Hinde, Kyle Grimshaw-Jones, Jim Guither, Louis Frick, Peter Brotherton, and Graham Bennett.

And a very special thanks to my parents, Beverly and Archie, who provided me with a good set of values by their actions as well as their words. And many thanks to my beloved children Meghan and Andrew for being their delightful selves.

Douglas W. Morrison
January 19, 2006

A new truth is a new sense, for with it comes the ability to see things we could not see beforeand things which cannot be seen by those who do not have that new truth