Trust and Forgive: The Medicine of Your Life

At five years old, Richard Grossman had a horrific accident. The injury healed. The trauma remained. The people around him lacked language for what had happened inside him. He was a child left with pain, fear, shame, and memories of something he would later understand as an encounter with another world. That accident became the beginning of a search that would shape the rest of his life. It led him through the counterculture of Berkeley during the Vietnam War, an Oregon commune, the ashrams and festival grounds of India, the study of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, a small Mexican village, and the deep jungle of the Amazon. Trust and Forgive: The Medicine of Your Life follows that search from childhood trauma into a lifetime of healing work as an acupuncturist, Doctor of Oriental Medicine, ceremony leader, musician, and guide.The path is raw, strange, and deeply human. There are teachers and mistakes, visions and humiliations, sacred songs, failed certainties, moments of terror, flashes of humor, and healings that arrived without ordinary explanation. A dying woman is reached through song. A father lost in dementia returns for a few minutes through jazz. In India, a young seeker walks through a fairground and finds himself inside a world made of light. In an ayahuasca ceremony. Grossman is taken into the memory of ancestral horror and hears two words that become the center of the book: Trust and forgive. He spends the rest of the journey trying to understand those words as medicine. This revised edition moves through trauma, plant medicine, spiritual practice, consciousness, humor, love, failure, and the strange intelligence that can appear at the edge of suffering. It is the story of a wounded child who became a healer, and of a healer who had to return again and again to his own unfinished places. For readers drawn to inner work, spiritual healing, forgiveness, plant medicine, consciousness, and the mystery hidden inside a human life. “Profound without being pretentious.” “Once I picked it up, I did not want to stop reading.” “It left me feeling a sense of hope and optimism about life.”
ASIN: B0DCCZCQ26
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Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Grossman, Richard
Binding: Hardcover
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