PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY:
Science, Spirit and the Eternal Soul

    Awaken to your personal spirituality!

 

       

   
    Spirit and soul inspire our lives. We may connect with our spiritual awareness in moments of communion with other people, with nature and with our higher selves. We may be touched by a human kindness or by the angels who guide and protect us - and bring us into this special awakening.

Have you had the sense of the presence of someone dear to you who has passed on?

Have you been moved in moments of compassion, danger or tragedy to sense that there is more to life than physical existence?

Have you had an Out-of-Body Experience?

Have you had a Near Death Experience?

PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY shows you that these and many related experiences are real, shared by many people and can be profoundly transformative.  

Changes in our health - which awaken us to consider our physical mortality - may open our spiritual awareness. Many healers hold spiritual aspects of healing to be even more important than physical changes. Science has been skeptical of subjects like spirituality that it cannot measure and which it considers, pejoratively, to be 'mystical.'

PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY reviews fascinating scientific research that supports many of the personal reports of ordinary people, of healers and mystics who have had extaordinary expeeriences, including out-of-body experiences (OBE); near-death experiences (NDE); reincarnation memories; encounters with apparitions, nature spirits and angels; mediumistic (channeled) experiences; possession; psychic surgery (often a very spiritual experience); mystical and spiritual experiences. Studies confirm many of these phenomena and there is evidence for survival of the spirit after death. Studies also confirm that religious affiliation and practice are correlated with better health.

Spiritual awareness and healing awaken and strengthen our personal connection to transcendent realms of being. We are all intimate parts of the All, and participate in the creation of spiritual realities. We are part of the collective consciousness that guides evolution through participatory intelligent design. This is a hypothesis that can be tested, and for which there is already considerable evidence.

Through personal spirituality we sense our intimate connection and relationship with each other - both personally and across cultural and national boundaries. Through personal spirituality we sense our part in the world of Nature - and can respond to the needs of our local and planetary environment. We can bring peace and healing to our world at all levels.

Within this collective, we can influence our world, including the processes of evolution. PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY proposes that participatory intelligent design is a scientifically testable hypothesis. 

Spirituality is often appreciated more with the heart that with the head. To help you resonate with transcendent awareness, PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY brings you a chorus of quotes that are humorous, heartwarming and heavenly.

Medford, NJ: Wholistic Healing Publications

Paperback   6 x 9 inches      600 pp (approx.)    8 Tables     11 Figures
Cover photo credit: Debbie Lerman

 

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CONTENTS

PROLOGUE

FORWARD

INTRODUCTION

1. Out-of-body experiences (OBE)

2. Near-death experiences (NDE)

3. Reincarnation

4. Apparitions, nature spirits and angels

5. Mediumistic (channeled) experiences

6.Possession                                                                                                                                                                                

7. Psychic surgery

8. Religions and healing

9. Mystical experiences

10. Quantum physics converges with the mystical

11. Spiritual healing and spirituality

12. Research on physical and emotional correlates of religion and spirituality

13. Participatory spirituality

CONCLUSIONS

GLOSSARY

APPENDIX A - Resources

APPENDIX B - Healing in the Bible

APPENDIX C - Angels in the Bible

NOTES

REFERENCES

AUTHOR INDEX

SUBJECT INDEX

 

ENDORSEMENTS

This landmark publication was written by Dan Benor, MD, a physician who has studied unconventional healing both as a researcher and as a participant. Dr. Benor addresses his explorations from the standpoint of an advocate, but one who is an open-minded explorer, neither from a religious nor a conventional medical perspective. The breadth and depth of the research reports in this volume, on the psychic, intuitive, and spiritual aspects of healing will engage even the knowledgeable reader. Dr. Benor brings an incredible wealth of detail to his discussions, taking an integrative systems approach, tying together disparate details into a coherent pattern. Western civilization does not differentiate between institutionalized spirituality and personal, individualistic spirituality, and the scientific community distances itself from both. In one of the most delightful sections of this book, Dr. Benor demystifies what have been called by many people 'mystical' experiences, suggesting that everyone can explore this area and enrich their lives as a result. This book is destined to take its place among the most influential and controversial in the field of claims, reports, and experiences of unconventional healing and spiritual awareness.

                  - Stanley Krippner, PhD
                     Professor of Psychology, Saybrook Graduate School

 
I am thrilled to see a book which explores many of the things that I have personally experienced but which many scientists and health care professionals can't accept because of their limited training. I had a near-death experience as a child, choking on a toy. I have lived a past life experience and know that because of my past life killing with a sword I am here today curing with a scalpel. I can accept that consciousness is not local - when an animal intuitive in California says she sees through the eyes of my pet, missing for weeks, and tells me where to find it and I do the next morning. I have been healed by the laying-on of a healer's hands when I was a non-believer. I have learned like astronomers and quantum physicists to accept what I can't explain. It is the nature of creation and we must explore as they do while maintaining a sense of wonder and open-mindedness. Daniel Benor's book does all that for us and I bless him for his work.
                  - Bernie Siegel, MD
                     Author Love, Medicine & Miracles and 101 Exercises For The Soul

 
For those who have ears to hear, let them hear :  there is profound empirical evidence favoring the existence of the soul.  No better guide than Dr. Daniel Benor exists for this journey.  As he shows, belief in the soul is shifting from a matter of sheer faith to involve evidence in addition.  This is a historic moment for humankind.  Don't miss out; read Daniel Benor's book.
                  - Larry Dossey, MD
                     Author: The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things,
                     Reinventing Medicine, and Healing Words

  

Science, Spirit and the Eternal Soul