Healing Together:
How to Bring Peace into Your Life and the World

How does a person understand the immensity of the tragic events that happened this past year on our planet and begin to heal? Dr. Lee Jampolsky, one of the world's leading experts in the field of peace psychology, opens the door to understanding and healing from such events. Reading this book is not a passive experience. /Healing Together/ requires active participation and the willingness to heal from any tragedy that has occurred in a life.

Dr. Jampolsky stresses that genuine healing must include self-examination as well as deep reflection on the current world situation. He points out that the quality of our lives has a great deal to do with our reactions to the circumstances that surround us, as well as our inner state. Using self-examination as the foundation, the book makes it possible for the reader to look beneath tragedy and brings a person to question their own identity by asking the question, who am I? This process helps bring a person out of self-centeredness and into self-awareness.

The book follows practical and direct approaches to healing. Parts one and three set up the intellectual foundation and practical exercises to understand the psychology of peace and the process of healing from tragedy. Part two presents specific steps for moving toward personal, as well as global, transformation. The emphasis is not on theory, but on experience through prayer, exercises, meditations, and stories. These provide the basis for healing with no time frame imposed.

While it may take many years for anyone to understand the why of tragedy and disaster, we are helped in the healing of self through a book such as this. While helping provide us with the active participation in changing our own thinking, it also helps us to understand that while we can't change a situation once it happens, we can very well shape our response to it and determine our future.

-Shari Sorbo

 www.spiritwalk.org

An ancient Hindu saying on the home page of this remarkable website gives us a hint of the treasure it holds. "Heaven is a palace with many doors," it reads, "and each may enter in his own way..."

One way is to click on "Enter Spiritwalk," where we are offered a rich menu of resources to whet the appetite of even the least curious. Here I found an intriguing catalog of books, magazines, and other literature to inform, enlighten, or even amuse. One link led me to "On-Site Libraries," where I discovered literally hundreds of references to articles on health and healing, classic and contemporary texts, and spiritual works. Brief biographies of the authors and samples of their writings are available with a click of your mouse.

Did you miss reading Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau? You can find the entire book (and print it out) by clicking on the "Books on Line" link, as you can such important texts as The Varieties of Religious Experience by Henry James and the Tao Te Ching. There is even a link to the "Periodical Room," where both newspapers and dozens of religious magazines and major secular periodicals are available for viewing or downloading to your printer. In short, this unusual site contains a rich vein of intellectual and spiritual gold. You're sure to enjoy mining it!

-Cliff Johnson

How to Use The Science of Mind

Ernest Holmes

Paperback, $9.95

In his foreword to How to Use the Science of Mind, Ernest Holmes declares that "there is a power for good in the universe available to everyone and you can use it."

Dr. Holmes, who gave us the Science of Mind philosophy, intended this book to teach the reader "how to pray scientifically." Now presented in a new second edition, it contains more information on the principles Holmes set forth in The Science of Mind, with an emphasis on how to successfully give a spiritual mind treatment.

Originally written with Religious Science teachers and practitioners in mind, the book offers great insight into the philosophy for everyone who desires to treat and to pray more effectively. Holmes explains the use of this scientific method of prayer to heal disease, change unwanted conditions by dissolving unconscious thought patterns, and manifest greater prosperity and creative self-expression.

As Holmes says, the law of mind in action is always operating on what we believe. We can bring this law we are always using under conscious control, for our benefit and that of others. But this requires that we work to remove erroneous thinking from our consciousness. How to Use the Science of Mind gives us the tools to begin that work.

-Jan Suzukawa

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