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Five Spirits: Alchemical Acupuncture for Psychological And Spiritual Healing |  | Author: Lorie Eve Dechar
Publisher: Lantern Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 66050
Media: Paperback
Pages: 424
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 6.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 1590560922
Dewey Decimal Number: 610.951
EAN: 9781590560921
ASIN: 1590560922
Publication Date: November 30, 2005
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The Five Spirits are the Taoist map of the human psyche. The system provides a mythical view of the nervous system and forms the basis of Chinese medical psychology. It also describes a precise and efficient technology for spiritual transformation, the process through which a human being rediscovers their essential wholeness and innate connection to the divine. The Five Spirits can be understood as the Taoist version of the Chakra System of Vedic India. Like the chakras, the spirits exist as centers of consciousness in the subtle body rather than as structures in the physical body. Just as each chakra relates to a particular level of consciousness, each spirit relates to a particular aspect of human awareness, a particular vibration or frequency of psychic energy. An understanding of the Five Spirits is the key that opens the doorway to the mysteries of Taoist psycho-spiritual alchemy. By taking advantage of the discoveries of Western archetypal psychology and new discoveries about the mind and nervous system, we can decipher the Five Spirits and reorganize the system in a way that has proven to be clinically invaluable in treating psychosomatic, emotional, and psychospiritual distress.
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 The One Five Element Book to Have ! July 1, 2009
Monkey Business (New York)
I have been practicing 5 Element Acupuncture since 1994 and this book is fantastic !! The only book on the subject that is equally applicable to both laymen and practitioners. Bravo Lorie !
Truly Transformational! March 29, 2009
Richard Borutta (New York, NY, USA)
As someone who stumbled upon the alchemical process in his own therapy I find Ms. Dechar's book to be focused, knowledgeable and inspirational.
Since reading "Five Spirits" they visit me in my dreams, my waking life and in meditation.
I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in their own holistic or spiritual growth.
Excellent! November 21, 2008
M. OMalley (NY, NY)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a beginning student, I got a lot out of this book. If you are an advanced student, you might be familiar with most of the material. I thought it was great!
 A book that in the display the wealth of the human soul according to the Taoist vision of the Chinese Traditional Medicine. October 23, 2007
Daniel M. Netto (São Paulo, Brazil)
13 out of 15 found this review helpful
This book, "Five Spirits", it is indispensable the all that that works with psychology and acupuncture. Being more thoroughly known the five spirits, Shen, Hun, Yi, Po and Zhi, we can understand the disturbances psychic, spiritual, mental, emotional and physical better that so much afflicts us, still more in a life so afflicted that the modern times impinge us. It is an easy and fluent reading, of great value to all searching of the human knowledge. Every acupuncturist and psychologist should read this book, and even the veterinary doctors that work with disturbances of animal behavior. It is a good book!
 not what I expected.... August 3, 2007
munay
22 out of 23 found this review helpful
I'm an acupuncture student and was looking for a more in depth discussion of the mystical aspect of acupuncture...The title is beautiful and implies insight into the spiritual and alchemical aspects of acupuncture, yet it does not do that. Instead we are given case histories and few acupuncture points used, but no background info as to why those points were chosen. There was nothing alchemical or spiritual about the book. Although it does give a good example of the interview process of the patient.
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