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BiogenealogyDecoding the Psychic Roots of IllnessBy Patrick ObissierIn Biogenealogy: Decoding the Psychic Roots ofIllness, therapist Patrick Obissier explores theradical but ultimately logical idea that illness is aphysical response to a past emotional trauma.Further, that the illness can be either a result ofa person’s own trauma, or, of a trauma experiencedby an ancestor and passed down in thatfamily’s genetic code. This unresolved psychicdistress, says Obissier, can become part of the cellular memory inheritedby their descendants. Until the issue has been settled successfully,it will continue to trigger illnesses in the generations that follow. Hisinvestigations show that—far from the adversary conventional medicinepurports it to be—illness is an ally, the body’s protective response tosevere emotional shock or excessive amounts of stress. Understandingillness in this way, the author says, directs us to look for the psychicconflict which underlies it in order to eliminate the disease, rather thanmerely treating its symptoms.Healing Arts Press. Paper, $14.95.Advanced Chakra Healing:Heart DiseaseThe Four Pathways ApproachBy Cyndi DaleAdvanced Chakra Healing: Heart Disease presentsan entirely new approach to healing heart disease,treating it as an opportunity to love the ailing heartand allow the heart to love. Using her revolutionaryFour Pathways energy mapping method, which wasfirst presented in Adeanced Chakra Healing, bestsellingauthor Cyndi Dale integrates practical wisdom, cutting-edgescience, and metaphysical concepts. She explains how to determinethe underlying cause of your cardiac illness and guides you throughtech-niques for intuitively activating the chakras to restore your health.Crossing Press. Paper, $17.95.Fulcanelli and theAlchemical RevivalThe Man Behind the Mysteryof the CathedralsBy Genevieve DuboisFulcanelli, operative alchemist and author of TheMystery of the Cathedrals and The Dwellings ofthe Philosophers—two of the most importantesoteric works of the twentieth century—remains himself a mystery. The true identity ofthe man who allegedly succeeded in creatingthe philosopher’s stone has never been discovered,despite ardent searches by many. Working from rare documents,letters, and archival photos, Genevieve Dubois suggests thatFulcanelli may have been a composite fabricated by several individualsworking together. Beyond its attempt to reveal the actual identityof Fulcanelli, this book also presents an explanation of the alchemicaldoctrine and reveals the unsuspected relationships among theimportant twentieth-century truth seekers it highlights.Destiny Books. Paper, $14.95.A Psychonaut's Guide tothe Invisible LandscapeThe Topography of thePsychedelic ExperienceBy Dan CarpenterJourneying into the invisible world revealed byhis use of the dissociative psychedelic DXM(dextromethorphan), Dan Carpenter found thatwhat he experienced was not simply subjectivesensations and psychological states but anobjective world of familiar if inordinately oddlandmarks and characters. The running diary hekept of these voyages recounts impressions of alandscape charted by other travelers into this inner space and includesdescriptions of many of the same phenomena recorded by such mindtravelers as Terence and Dennis Mckenna, Alexander and Ann Shulgin,and others who have experienced the Hive Mind—the pool of all consciousness.Into this territory where expression is like chaos theory, whereoddly symmetrical order manifests out of the seemingly anarchic swirl ofimages and events, the author ventures with the mind-set of a naturalist,accepting whatever might be rather than what he hopes he might find.What emerges is not a location crafted by subjective experience, but alandscape that embodies the Other and that represents a conscious statein which the barriers between the self and the not-self dissolve.Park Street Press. Paper, $12.95.Magickal ConnectionsCreating a Lasting and Healthy Spiritual GroupBy Lisa McSherryThrough Magickal Connections, author and practicingPagan Lisa McSherry provides guidance to those seekingto form or join a magickal group, as well as to thoseseeking to maintain healthy relationships as members ofone. Within each chapter McSherry discusses differentaspects of the group dynamic and provides readerswith exercises pertaining to each. Some of the areasMcSherry delves into are: Making contact with a magickal group; Thestructure and roles within; How to recognize and resolve various forms ofconflict; and What it means to be an effective leader for your group. WithinMagickal Connections Lisa McSherry gives insight, and possibly a differentperspective, into the everyday emotions of human beings, and how to recognizeand cope with those emotions in a positive manner.New Page Books. Paper, $14.99.Live Free from Asthma and AllergiesBy Ellen W. Cutler, D.C.Live Free from Asthma and Allergies is a breath of fresh airfor those who suffer from respiratory problems. Dr. Ellen WCutler introduces a self-treatment regimen known asBioenergetic Sensitivity and Enzyme Therapy (BioSET)—aholistic health care system based on energetic medicineand meridian therapy —that is simple and easy to use. Dr.Cutler reveals the causes of food and environmental allergies and asthma,and outlines a do-it-yourself approach to overcoming them. She detailsmore than thirty room- and allergen-specific tips to get rid of mold, dustmites, and other potential allergens. In addition to prevention, she outlinesbasic acupressure techniques for self-clearing, and includes a resourcesection cataloging enzymes to reduce inflammation in the lungs and supportthe immune system against allergens.Celestial Arts. Paper, $19.95.APRIL / MAY 2007 EARTH STAR 71