I wanted to like this book, and I did at first. I am in my last year of acupuncture school and hoped this would be a valuable resource to share with patients as an introduction to subtle energy. But nearly everything she says about acupuncture and Chinese medicine is wrong. She uses terms that would be obscure to a non-acupuncturist, doesn’t define them, and flat-out gets them wrong more often than not. It seems like she probably interviewed one acupuncturist and then wrote the whole section from her own memory, filling in what she didn’t understand with nonsense jargon. I am not an expert in the other fields she covers, so I can’t comment on them. But if she was this clumsy with the Chinese medicine sections, I don’t trust any of the information in this book. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality Mostly, a scientific approach to the otherworldly subject of subtle energy. It is a well put together textbook to the class I always wanted to take, but was never given the choice to. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality Pas facile à lire car plusieurs concepts différents y sont expliqués. Une lecture par chapitre facilite l’expérience. Plusieurs sujets sont étudiés en surface mais avec suffisamment d’informations pour permettre au lecteur d’avoir une compréhension de la matière et avoir en mains des informations utiles .
Cyndi est reconnue dans le monde dit des énergies subtils entre avec son systèmes des 12 chakras qu’elle a développée comme sa théorie à travers ses expériences et études.
C’est un livre intéressant qui couvre un vaste terrain de la médecine bioénergétique. Il faut donc s’attendre à retrouver dans ce livres certains aspects ésotériques et spirituels.
Je le recommande comme livre qui touche à plusieurs sujets et comme références.
Pour approfondir les sujets selon vos différents intérêts, la bibliographie est impressionnante, toutes les références sont également répertoriées et sont sources d’informations pertinentes. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality A reference book with vast amounts of information that is not developed in a profound or systematic manner but rather gives a glimpse of the several subjects. To deepen on each of the number of subjects referenced in the book it is necessary to dig way deeper into other souces. A bit difficult to read as it lacks order and structure. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality Hands down a must read book by any and every energetic worker! Thoroughly explains several branches of study for discerning and working with the energetic body. Gives numerous resources and visual figures to assist in retaining the information. A truly wonderful resource and jump off point into any direction you want to go into regarding the energetic body. I have gained so much wisdom and insight from just reading this and many things I have added to my awareness have already healed my subtle body. An absolute must-read! Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality
Welcome to the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the human energetic anatomy. Here is a reference that no personal or professional health care library should be without—an in-depth, illustrated guide to the invisible energies of spirit, psyche, and consciousness that influence every aspect of our well-being.
Whether you are looking for the complementary medicine to enhance your own healing practice, seeking perennial wisdom about your body's energetic nature from world traditions, or exploring the quantum edge of intention-based care, The Subtle Body is an indispensable companion for exploring virtually any facet of holistic healing.
Created for healing professionals and patients alike, this volume provides a lexicon of terms, illustrations, and detailed entries about our energetic biology and how it relates to our physical being. This invaluable information will help you enhance any form of health care, giving you the knowledge you need to develop an integrated approach for your clients' well-being or your own.
Compiled by energetic healer and scholar Cyndi Dale, The Subtle Body examines:
Energy-based therapy principles from the world's healing traditions, including Ayurveda, Qigong, Reiki, Quabalah, and many more
• The science of subtle anatomy—the ancient models and the newest research on the unseen fields that determine our physical condition
• True integrative care—how combining Eastern energetic modalities with Western scientific rigor yields optimum results
• The meridians, fields, and chakras—detailed information and diagrams about the role of these energetic structures in our overall health
• The role of intention in healing—how the beliefs of a healer, patient, and everyone involved affect the outcome of a treatment
What is it that distinguishes good healers from great ones? Today it is clear that the most successful healing occurs when we take into account every level of our physical and energetic selves. With The Subtle Body, you now have an unprecedented resource for understanding the physical, energetic, and spiritual elements of human health, providing an informed, complete approach to healing.
The Subtle Body has received the following awards:
2010 Gold Nautilus Award—Health/Healing/Energy Medicine
• 2010 Silver Living Now Award—Health/Wellness
• 2010 Bronze IPPY—New Age (Mind-Body-Spirit) The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
Basically, it's not a book to be read from cover to cover - it's a reference book. You need something and you get it. At the same time, it's not really an encyclopedia - this book is something *between* a non-fiction manual and a dictionary/encyclopedia. The author did a lot of research so the value of the book is great when it comes to knowledge, although I've noticed minor mistakes and flaws - thus, no reader should trust the content of the book completely. Let's say that it's 80% worth of trust, and you should research the other 20% on your own :).
Still, if you're a person interested in alternative therapies or energy healing, this book is one of those mandatory for your bookshelf. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality I got this for my husband, who wanted to explore alternative healing. He never got around to reading it.
But I picked it up recently, as a reference for a short article I'm writing about chakras. The information on this subject is all right, but diffuse; it's hard to tell where to look, exactly, without reading a hundred pages just to get a basic grasp on the topic. I was not loving this book, but as a reference, I wasn't hating it either.
Then I made the mistake of sitting down to read a chapter. People occasionally come into the store asking about sacred geometry, and I don't know which end of a merkaba is up. This book has a chapter on the topic of reasonable length. So I lugged it out onto the porch for a little evening reading.
Ugghh! Phaghhh! Turns out this is one of those metaphysical books that throws out a bunch of obfuscational prose, including great fistfuls of unexplained jargon, in an attempt to sound deep. What I want is something that makes complicated topics clear, not something that makes me feel like I'm drowning in a petri dish of pseudo-science.
I wonder if this kind of writing may stem from the author's ignorance and insecurity. If she doesn't understand the topic, she may be tempted to mish-mashe verbiage together from a bunch of sources, then edit it to try and make it sound comprehensible. I used to work for a lawyer who wrote briefs by doing this with law books (before she got fired for incompetence, that is.)
A snippet:
The body, which is 70 percent water, has been compared to a crystal. Water itself has been analyzed at the crystal level through interaction with magnetism, and the results suggest that form is determined by thoughts and intention.
Got all that? Somehow we got from your body being mainly water to your shape being determined by your thoughts, with only the barest reference to the steps in between. Maybe this is all very scientific. Maybe it's all logical. But the paragraph doesn't give you logical steps, just a few incontrovertible facts tied together with a string of unsupported speculation and (my own personal favorite fallacy of logic) bald assertion.
Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality I really wanted to like this book, which was given to me by a dear friend with the best of intentions. I did get out of it an outline of the Chinese meridian system and the Hindu Chakra system, and a passing acquaintance with a few other popular beliefs.
Unfortunately, the writing was sloppy and the thinking was sloppier. Instead of simply outlining various belief systems, critically or uncritically, the author engaged in the worst kind of pseudoscience to prove various ideas. She started out with a review of basic science that showed a pretty poor understanding of some of it. From this she segued into conclusions that in no way followed from the premises. She constantly cited experiments, but when I'd look in the endnotes for the studies, I would find that she only mentioned the secondary source she had read about the study in, such as a popular magazine, another pop pseudoscience review book, or a URL for a product website.
The concepts of control, randomization, and double-blinding were apparently unknown to her, let alone replicability, elementary statistics, or simple logic. Yet she persisted in her pseudoscientific approach, like a parody of a high school science textbook. I had a very good time complaining about it to my mate as I slogged through it, turning the air over the breakfast table blue with explosions of horseshit! puh-leeze! oh, give me a break! and for Chrissakes! The sad thing is that there undoubtedly is some truth behind some of the concepts she presents. She's just not presenting them in any credible manner, and her attempt to dazzle the reader with science just fizzles. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality I’ve been listening to the audiobook version and was so flabbergasted at the quality of information about the meridien system that I ordered the physical book. OMG! As a therapist, healer and advocate of the scientific analysis of energy medicine, this is a bible for me.
In such a book, the illustrations and descriptions are vital. Cyndi Dale delivers. I will be using this book as a reference guide for my client work and a recommended textbook for my students. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality This is encyclopedic knowledge of the subtle body across time and belief systems presented thoroughly with no trace of bias. If you enjoy reading encyclopedias and become engrossed in the finer details of a subject, you may enjoy this book as much as I did. As required reading for yoga teacher training, I was eager to delve into the subtle body and its foundations in ancient yoga. I discovered that the subtle body has been studied by most cultures throughout time, except our western culture dominated by necessary skepticism has kept this information from being absorbed into the mainstream.
My skepticism, cultural biases and need for proof did interfere a bit with reading this material. A gentle change in attitude allowed me to view this knowledge as legitimate myth, giving it the legitimacy of guiding wisdom; therefore not requiring scientific evidence. Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality
