Everything Is Medicine: A Lesson From The Shamans
April 11th, 2018
By Lissa Rankin, MD
Guest writer for Wake Up World
In 2010, my soul brother Nick Polizzi dared to take eight sick people who had failed to respond to Western medicine to the Amazonian jungle to put them under the care of three shamans. They filmed what happened in his documentary The Sacred Science. The trailer for the movie recapped the results (cue dramatic music) — “Five will return with real results, two will return disappointed, and one won’t come back at all.”
Many years ago now, Nick filmed he and I talking about shamanism and what we in the West might learn from ancient healing traditions. Now he has written a memoir The Sacred Science: An Ancient Healing Path for the Modern World, about the experience of what actually happened behind the scenes with those eight patients — and very transparently — with Nick himself.
One of the many areas where Nick’s interests and mine overlap is expressed in his book in a sidebox “Everything Is Medicine.” After spending several years researching my book Mind Over Medicine, which focused on the scientific proof that the body can heal itself, I kept bumping into stories and phenomenology that I couldn’t find science to prove. I tucked these stray bits and pieces of anecdotal data away for a future book — Sacred Medicine — which has sent me far down the rabbit hole, studying with shamans in Peru, Qigong masters from China, energy healers from the U.S., Balinese healers — and in May, a trip to Lourdes, to explore what really predisposes us to disease and what really facilitates the healing process.
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