"BALTIMORE – At one of the nation's top trauma hospitals, a nurse circles a patient's bed, humming and waving her arms as if shooing evil spirits. Another woman rubs a quartz bowl with a wand, making tunes that mix with the beeping monitors and hissing respirator keeping the man alive.
They are doing Reiki therapy, which claims to heal through invisible energy fields. The anesthesia chief, Dr. Richard Dutton, calls it "mystical mumbo jumbo." Still, he's a fan.
"It's self-hypnosis" that can help patients relax, he said. "If you tell yourself you have less pain, you actually do have less pain."
Alternative medicine has become mainstream. It is finding wider acceptance by doctors, insurers and hospitals like the shock trauma center at the University of Maryland Medical Center. Consumer spending on it in some cases rivals that of traditional health care."
Then, there comes Dr. Allan Hamilton with his book, "The Scapel and the Soul," published in hardcover in March 2008 and in softcover in April 2009.
You may never have heard his name in metaphysical or spiritual circles, but let me share this with you: Dr. Allan J. Hamilton, a Harvard Medical School trained neurosurgeon, is a deeply spiritual guy!
As for his book, "The Scapel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural and the Healing POWER OF HOPE," Dr. Hamilton delivers spiritual insights of all the pros.
The only reason we may not have seen or heard this book being promoted as pervasively as others on all the major talk shows is probably because it is SO PROFOUND, SO REAL, that many hosts and others may have been SCARED to touch it.
It's THAT HOT!
Plus, it would inspire REAL fear in many, because the events are real. Indeed, some of the experiences, Dr. Hamilton recounts seem "surreal."
Then, they simply may have been INCREDULOUS! A REAL MEDICINE MAN, who once looked like a fully qualified "nerd," now sprouting things about the supernatural? Picture him!
Then, too, this is the first-time book by a guy who is still on staff as a professor of neurosurgery, as well as a clinical professor in the departments of Radiation Oncology and Pscyhology at Arizona Health Sciences Center. Hamilton also is a script consultant for neurosurgery for the television show, "Grey's Anatomy." "They" probably are still waiting to see his next step: into Metaphysics full-time and completely out of field of Medicine?
His Soul will dictate. But meanwhile...
"Profound" is not the word I would use to describe this book by Dr. Hamilton, which of course, came to me TOTALLY by happenstance. A better word would be "breathtaking!"
This book certainly took me by surprise.
I'd had it sitting for more than two months after purchasing it, "new" but at a discounted store for $2.99. I figured the title made it interesting to read "sometime."
Well that sometime came a few weeks ago, and once I started the book, I couldn't wait to get to my next reading session. It's one of those books that captivates your Soul.
First, you read that a psychic, for less than a dollar, had predicted that Hamilton would become a prominent doctor when he was a boy, even though he'd shown no signs of brilliance or medical inclinations. As you continued to read about his IMPROBABLE background in the military, and even as a janitor, you found his eventual rise into a stellar medical career truly fascinating...and yes...the work of the Supernatural!
Then, the first thing that strikes you is the refreshingly candid insights offered by Dr. Hamilton, throughout the book. He writes with a clarity, freshness and purity that comes from being TRULY committed to a key rule in Interpersonal Commuunications: "Become Other Oriented."
In case by case, Dr. Hamiliton shares with us the intimacies of the surgeon's thinking as he approaches the operating room, the fears and confidences he has, the practices...even SUPERSTITIONS...he follows before beginning surgery.
He held nothing back.
Allan Hamilton bares the SOUL of his work as a neurosurgeon, his passion and fears in surgery, the lack of sensitivity that often accompany the development of "muscle" to become a surgeon while a resident in medical training. With a candor that is surprising and absolutely rare, Dr. Hamilton does not spare his views of the insensitivities, arrogrance and grandiose behavior of his profession.
Because of this candor, you get the full picture of Dr. Hamilton as being truly authentic!
He gives some breathtaking accounts of delicate cases he worked on and recounts all the details that led up to the surgery, the drama surrounding the event, then, in some cases, the demise of the patient (s) after surgery.
At the end, you get a TOTAL picture of the details required to perform or not perform certain surgeries.
This is an IMPORTANT book!
Even though, as Hamilton clearly states, he has no training in spiritual matters, we cannot refute the EVIDENCE, the tremendous amount of evidence, that piles up in case after case recounted by Dr. Hamilton: life is more than meets the eye and there are realms beyond our current level of consciousness operating FULLY in our lives.
From the book cover:
1. A doctor discovers he can predict when a patient will die.
2. A clinically dead patient later recounts extraordinary details about the proviate lives of her caregivers.
3. A young burn victim remains in a coma until a ghost appears.
4. A physician needs the help of a Navajo shaman to exorcise the spirit of his dead patient.
These ALL sound like a book of Science Fiction.
And Science it is...as the illnesses and circumstances need Scientific guidance. But Fiction, it isn't... as ALL the stories are REAL and recounted by Dr. Hamilton in full details of how, why, when and where the incidences occurred and to whom.
Based on more than 30 years' experience, in the "The Scalpel and the Soul," Dr. Hamilton recounts these stories in vivid detail and also demonstrates the "elusive , evanescent powers of the soul."
In promotional materials for the book, the stories and the happenings would be recounted by many as "foolishness," or even "outright madness," but Dr. Hamilton saw the TRUTH in the details, he believed and shared them.
In this wonderful, powerful book, not only do you learn about the "delicacies" of neurosurgery and the medical profession, you also get real insight messages of your Soul.
Take a look!
Namaste',
Che'
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