Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason

In Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason, Caroline Myss writes with clarity and groundedness about spirituality, mysticism and consciousness. Chronic and long term illness are not logical conditions, and yet for centuries men and women have attempted to find answers using intelligence alone. Myss demonstrates how illness can be resolved spiritually, by connecting with the Divine. This book touched my heart and my spirit as Myss tapped into traditional and esoteric spirituality and linked illness with destructive passions and health with relationship with God. I have seen the truth of Myss' work, eliminating the symptoms and need for medication for systemic lupus in my own life this year. Discovering God and the power of grace and reverence has transformed my life. I highly recommend Defy Gravity to spiritual seekers and all those interested in health and healing.

Caroline Myss has an established track record of identifying "what works and what doesn't" when it comes to the mystery of healing. She now challenges the cherished belief that healing can be produced by the mind alone. And while the technologies of visualization and affirmation play a respectable role in healing, these mind-based methods have failed to restore health to many dedicated adherents. In DEFY GRAVITY, Caroline envisions healing as ultimately a mystical experience ... transgressing the bounds of reason and its rudimentary techniques, venturing into the intriguing realm of the seven dark passions and the seven graces. Indulging in the "dark passions" of pride, avarice, luxury, wrath, gluttony, envy, and sloth sabotages opportunities to heal. Profound healing, however, is advanced by engaging the transformational power of the seven graces: reverence, piety, understanding, fortitude, counsel, knowledge, and wisdom. The truth that every thought and action is motivated by either a dark passion or a grace reveals that we're constantly making choices, either consciously or unconsciously. But real healing is powered by conscious choice, whether it's healing of the body, mind, or soul. An illuminating interpretation of mystical laws and recommended wisdom practices for building a healthy life complete this extraordinary book from a brilliant and innovative spiritual teacher.

Folks looking to connect with their soul who need a qualified guide to lead them need look no further than DEFY GRAVITY, Caroline Myss' new book. This is the most focused tome I've ever read on personal and spiritual transformation, surpassed only by Myss' previous works-ENTERING THE CASTLE, ANATOMY OF THE SPIRIT and SACRED CONTRACTS. Myss is my all-time favorite teacher--one workshop with her gives you all the lessons you need to make radical shifts toward becoming more conscious. I've read all her books and have practically every word she's ever recorded in my private collection and I was fortuante enough to be part of her CASTLE program at CMED, so I speak from the stance of complete awareness when I say that this is Myss' most clear and succinct prose yet. Every page is an invocation to connect to the soul, every sentence she writes will land in your heart. The clarity in her words is simply astounding. I saw her present this material at Kripalu last spring and Myss is certainly on a mission to help people connnect to the Divine and she's pulled out all the stops! We are all very fortunate to have her in our midst--she is indeed a true mystic and one of the few genuine teachers who recognizes her greatness, but is also humble enough to to recognize that she is, indeed, just as human as the rest of us. DEFY GRAVITY is one of the best books of 2009 and, quite honestly, one of the best books ever!

Upon serious reflection of Dr. Myss' contributions to global body-mind-spirit education, I recalled how Caroline opened my sixth sense many years ago with her insights into archetypes, myths, and symbols of the soul that our collective consciousness systematically employs to create our sense of self: the ego that is but the fractal, self-similar, extension of the Word Made Flesh: God. In fact, Dr. Myss nearly singlehandedly brought respectability to the spiritual concepts of energy medicine in the academic circles two decades ago alongside such notables as Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Wayne Dyer, and so on. Thus, not surprisingly, she has done it again in this masterful book; teaching what reawakened mystics, shamans all, have known: It is through surrender of the personal sense of separation, our false ego, from the Creator that opens our heart to the great mystery of being one with the universal fractal flow of life force energy, ch'i, prana, Tao; or simply, The Holy Spirit. Now bookmark my word: This book will Defy Gravity; to become the new gold standard for integrating quantum paradoxes into protocols triggering the sine qua non, "without which there is nothing," of the magic in the mystic: Spontaneous Remission. Dr. John Jay Harper is a Community Health Education Specialist, CEO, American Delphi Academy, and author of international bestseller Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century - Second Edition Revised and Updated for 2012.

Another outstanding work by Caroline Myss! If you are a "mystic out of a monastery" with the desire to serve God in both visible and invisible ways, then this is the book for you, added to the shelf with her other great works: Sacred Contracts, Invisible Acts of Power, and Entering the Castle. A must read for any spiritual sojourner intent on transforming our Earth with grace and divine power. Caroline, with her practical, "no nonsense" approach to spiritual service, takes typically esoteric stuff and grounds it for the ordinary person to apply to their day-to-day life.