In China they call it Qigong.  Nurses across North America call it Therapeutic Touch.
Clerics call it the laying-on of hands.  Scientists call it energy medicine.  They are all
describing the healing power of the spirit.

In The Uncommon Touch, Tom Harpur investigates the astounding phenomenon of spiritual healing and provides us with startling evidence of how it actually works.

     In  The Uncommon Touch, Harpur investigates the religious roots of spiritual healing and looks at the remarkable work and ideas of modern healers.  He also describes the many scientific studies that demonstrate clearly the healing and nurturing power of the this astonishing phenomenon and verify that something more than the power of suggestion is a  work.  These include experiments showing increased growth in yeasts that have received the laying -on of hands and documentation of the effectiveness of Therapeutic Touch on patients, a technique used by more than 30,000 nurses in North America.

     Using the spirit to help heal the body's ills is an old idea - one whose time has come again.

 The Uncommon Touch is distributed in the United States by St. Martin's Press, in the United Kingdom by Fourth Estate Ltd., and in Australia and New Zealand by Allen & Unwin.
 

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