Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine: SWEDENBORG STUDIES
Autor JOHN S. HALLERen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2010 – vârsta ani
Complementary and alternative healing encompass a wide range of practices that share a common ground: the belief that our physical well-being is inextricably linked to an unseen world beyond our physical senses. Our view of that world can be traced to two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer.
Who were these men, and what shaped their thought? How did their ideas capture the public imagination? How did they speak to movements as diverse as utopianism, Spiritualism, psychic healing, and homeopathy? Historian John S. Haller traces the threads of Swedenborg’s and Mesmer’s influence through the history of nineteenth-century medicine, illuminating the lasting impact these men have had on concepts of alternative healing.
Who were these men, and what shaped their thought? How did their ideas capture the public imagination? How did they speak to movements as diverse as utopianism, Spiritualism, psychic healing, and homeopathy? Historian John S. Haller traces the threads of Swedenborg’s and Mesmer’s influence through the history of nineteenth-century medicine, illuminating the lasting impact these men have had on concepts of alternative healing.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780877853305
ISBN-10: 0877853304
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 18 b/w illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
Colecția Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
Seria SWEDENBORG STUDIES
ISBN-10: 0877853304
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 18 b/w illus
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
Colecția Swedenborg Foundation Publishers
Seria SWEDENBORG STUDIES
Recenzii
Medicine can go further than simply alleviating a problem. Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine delves into the philosophies and practices developed by Swedenborg and Mesmer as they developed their ideas of complementary medicine, and alternative practices such as spiritual healing, psychic ideas, and other ideas that have evolved into today's new age and alternative medicine. Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/Body Connection is a riveting read of the pioneers of this train of medicine thought.
--Wisconsin Bookwatch: June 2010
--Wisconsin Bookwatch: June 2010
Notă biografică
John S. Haller Jr.,emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has written a dozen books on subjects including race, sexuality, and the history of medicine. He is former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine and the Health Sciences and, until his retirement at the end of 2008, served for eighteen years as vice president for academic affairs for the Southern Illinois University system.
Extras
A short step in any direction from Western science’s reductionist approach to knowledge is a meditative world that includes ghosts, demons, angels, saints, divinely inspired dreams, remote viewing, electromagnetic fields, distant healing, and a host of psychic phenomena and occult activities that defy the epistemological tools of “normal” science. Starting with the Kabbalah in Jewish mysticism and continuing through the apocalyptic literature of the pre-Christian era, Gnostic cosmology, and German pietism, to name but a few, there have been centuries of challenges to conventional thinking regarding mind-matter interaction that operates beyond the ordinary senses. As a generally accepted theory of knowing, this meditative world first fell in arrears as Baconian empiricism cast a long shadow over the acceptance of paranormal events. Hastened along by Descartes’s view of life as automata, the emergence of the empirical sciences during the Enlightenment, the mechanical triumphs of the Industrial Revolution, and later by Darwin’s dysteleology, this rationalist worldview found itself challenged by a universe whose existence and complexity demanded neither a designer nor a purpose. The product of chance, Earth plied the ether with blind indifference to the thoughts, hopes, and feelings of its myriad of creatures. Yet “God,” “immortality,” “duty,” and “judgment” were earnestly sought by those who objected to the cold indifference of the night sky. From Emanuel Swedenborg’s visions and Franz Anton Mesmer’s magnetic fluid to Walter J. Kilner’s human auras, Ralph Waldo Trine’s thought forms, Charles W. Leadbeater’s chakras, and Barbara Brennan’s High Sense Perception, a more mystical worldview remains an integral part of mankind’s perceptual set.
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“From Emanuel Swedenborg to the New Age movement, Haller’s thorough scholarship and incisive analysis ranges across a diverse historical landscape populated by visionaries, mystics, and idealist reformers who influenced some of the greatest minds of the past two centuries. . . . Approaching his subject with an honest objectivity and fairness that runs throughout, he has provided scholars and interested lay readers alike with a clear and engaging study of crucial intellectual currents that have navigated generations then and now toward new horizons and new worlds. This is an important book.”
— Michael A. Flannery, Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Complementary and alternative healing encompass a wide range of practices that share a common ground: the belief that our physical well-being is inextricably linked to an unseen world beyond our physical senses. Our view of that world can be traced to two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer.
Who were these men, and what shaped their thought? How did their ideas capture the public imagination? How did they speak to movements as diverse as utopianism, Spiritualism, psychic healing, and homeopathy? Historian John S. Haller traces the threads of Swedenborg’s and Mesmer’s influence through the history of nineteenth-century medicine, illuminating the lasting impact these men have had on concepts of alternative healing.
— Michael A. Flannery, Professor and Associate Director for Historical Collections, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Complementary and alternative healing encompass a wide range of practices that share a common ground: the belief that our physical well-being is inextricably linked to an unseen world beyond our physical senses. Our view of that world can be traced to two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer.
Who were these men, and what shaped their thought? How did their ideas capture the public imagination? How did they speak to movements as diverse as utopianism, Spiritualism, psychic healing, and homeopathy? Historian John S. Haller traces the threads of Swedenborg’s and Mesmer’s influence through the history of nineteenth-century medicine, illuminating the lasting impact these men have had on concepts of alternative healing.
Descriere
Our ideas of complementary and alternative healing are the legacy of two key thinkers: Emanuel Swedenborg and Franz Anton Mesmer. This book traces the influence of these two men through the nineteenth century as their ideas were embraced by utopians, psychic healers, spiritualists, homeopaths, and ultimately by the modern inheritors of those traditions.