Kimberly Balas introduced me to this book when we did a DVD on cholesterol and since I just posted an article about the topic of cholesterol, I thought I should also feature this book.  This book totally busts the notion that cholesterol is the cause of heart disease.  In fact, it clearly demonstrates that driving your cholesterol too low is extremely dangerous to your health.  If your cholesterol is less than 275 and your doctor is pressuring you to take statins, read this book and defend yourself. 

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I'm currently researching heart health for my January Nature's Field and it caused me to take another look at a book I read many years ago called The Heart's Code by Paul Pearsall.  This book discusses the phenomenon of cellular memory, the idea that all cells of the body house memory, not just brain cells. In particular, the book deals with the issue of memory transfer in transplant patients, particularly in heart transplants.  It contains some amazing stories about how people "remember" things or acquire tastes and preferences from the person who donated the heart.  I highly recommend this book, as it really shows the heart is far more than a mechanical pump.  It is actually the "emotional" brain of the body.



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I loved Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now and his new book, A New Earth is even better.  Eckhart Tolle has an incredible grasp of how our ego (our sense of separateness from God, each other and the world) caused pain and suffering in ourselves and others. He provides practical insights into breaking free of this ego self and awakening to create a new earth.  A wonderful book for spiritual development. 

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This book is absolutely brilliant.  Anybody who has taken one of my courses where I talk about the six tissues states, this is the definitive work on the subject by my friend Matthew Wood who developed the model.  Matthew explains the history of Western energetics and helps a person understand the real keys to getting food results with herbs.  I highly recommend this book.

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This book really woke me up as to how almost everyone growing up in modern society is deeply wounded emotionally because of a lack of traditional care and affection as children. Can you imagine growing up in a culture where no one ever physically punished a child? Where no one every yelled at or belittled a child? Where there a child's cry was considered a cry for help and someone was always around to help? That's how traditional cultures raised children. This book will really help you understand how wounded our culture really is and why almost all of us need emotional healing work.

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I've been studying nutrition for years and have read more books on diet and nutrition than I can count. I've tried all kinds of diets and approaches to nutrition and I can honestly say this is the most practical, useful and sensible book on nutrition I have ever read. It is based on the work of Weston Price who studied the traditional diets of native peoples who were incredibly healthy. It talks about food quality, methods of food preparation that enhance nutrition and a sensible approach to eating for health. It contains recipes, great quotes from other books on nutrition and resources for good food.  And, as its subtitle suggests, it is The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats. This is a must-have for anyone who wants to eat healthy.

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There are books that supply useful information and then there are books that cause huge shifts in your understanding of yourself and the world, and this book is one of the later. I spent a month reading it, not because it was difficult to read, but because it was so full of paradigm-shifting insights that I kept having to put it down and think about what I just read to properly assimilate it. This book explains how science distorts our perception of life and nature. As its subtitle, The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature, suggests it  helps you understand that your heart not only thinks, it communicates directly with both living and non-living things. It is through the heart that native healers were able to talk to the plants and learn how to use them. It is also through the heart that we can learn to help others to really heal. This is a must-read book for anyone who is interested in traditional plant medicine and emotional healing.
I can't believe that I just discovered this author's works. He is incredible. I've been reading some other books by him, and I'll post some reviews of them later.

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This is one of my absolute favorite herb books. Matthew Wood really helps you understand how to use herbs in a more precise way by understanding their subtle healing characteristics. He combines concepts from traditional Western medicine, Chinese medicine, Native American healing traditions and his own wisdom and experience to create deep insights into how about 50 medicinal plants work.  I consider this a must-read to understand traditional herbalism.

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This book got me started in using flower essences for emotional healing. It also helped me start learning how to read plant signatures in nature. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in flower essences, emotional healing or the herbal "doctrine of signatures."

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