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aie, Aw REVIEWS SYNTHESIS IN HEALING: overload that can be alleviated with mineral, Subtle Energies and Natural Therapies —_—vitamin, herbal or homoeopathic supplemen- for Optimal Health tation combined with treatments involving by Judy Jacka meditation and/or bodywork. Hampton Roads Publishing, USA, 2003 Jacka's book is as much a practical guide for healthcare professionals who want to improve the quality of their treatments as it is for laypersons who want to take charge of their own health. This synthesis of physical and subtle energy approaches shows the way forward for both mainstream medicine and alternative healing in the 21st century. Profound health benefits are at hand for those who can tune in to subtle energies. ISBN 1-57174-298-0 (320pp tpb} Availability: Hampton Roads website, http://www.hrpub.com ustralian natural therapist Judy Jacka (The Vivaxis Connection: Healing Through Earth Energies; see NEXUS 8/01) has been in clinical practice for 30 years. But only in the last decade has she been integrating subtle healing techniques with her natural therapy treatments, so as to HIDDEN MEANINGS: A Study of the address both the inner and outer causes of Founding Symbols of Civilizati health and disease. From experience, she's ‘ounding Symbols of Civilization found that this combined approach shortens by Laird Scranton the treatment time normally required and Laird Scranton, Albany, NY, USA, 2002 provides a more lasting recovery. ISBN 0-89213-334-1 (239pp hc) ; Jacka's long-term interest in esoteric psy- Availability: Laird Scranton, email chology and healing has been informed and HiddenMeanings9@aol.com inspired by the teachings of Theosophy, his intriguing volume is the work of a anthroposophical medicine and especially computer software analyst with a drive Alice Bailey, whose Esoteric Healing trea- to get to the truth of ancient mysteries. In tise remains a seminal reference on the the early part of his studies in the last chakras and their role in inner emotional and decade, Laird Scranton came across refer- outer physical health. ences to the Dogon tribe of Mali in Robert SSE Temple's The Sirius Mystery and Marcel SYNTHESIS et HEALING Griaule's Conversations with Ogotemmeli, the result of a 1930s—1950s anthropological study into the Dogons' religion, astronomy, mythology and mindset. His curiosity was piqued, and soon he was exploring the intri- cacies of Dogon creation myths, symbols and linguistic expressions and comparing them with those of ancient Egyptian and Sumerian civilisations of the same era. With there being so many similarities with these early cultures, Scranton reasoned there had to be an original cultural influence or progenitor in common. But because evi- In 1998, Jacka began combining these dence for any earlier great civilisation was Bailey principles with her naturopathic scant, he couldn't help but conclude that practises so that now, at each session, most what the ancients were alluding to in their of her clients receive an energy-balancing myths was true: they had indeed received based on this approach. The idea is to knowledge and wisdom from an intelligent invoke the client's own healing essence or extraterrestrial source with advanced scien- soul to flow through all levels of their tific and technical know-how. energy field and then into and throughout Scranton has deciphered the Dogon cre- the physical body, re-establishing harmony. —_ ation myth as a code of scientific informa- In Synthesis in Healing, Jacka describes tion describing the creation of matter and the how these energy connections can be universe, superstring theory and atomic accessed through visualisation using healing __ structure, genetics and sexual reproduction, energy triangles; e.g., a healing practice for as well as the unusual configuration of the the solar plexus chakra and digestive system _ Sirius star system which was only confirmed involves visualising energy-balancing in the _ by astronomers in recent times. liver triangle (solar plexus/liver/liver minor He says the Dogon symbols were codes chakra points), the stomach triangle (solar that could be read on several levels and had plexus/stomach/stomach minor), and the counterparts in Egyptian hieroglyphs and stomach, liver and pancreas triangle. mythology and even in later Judaic symbol- As with Bailey, Jacka doesn't ignore bio- ism. He asserts there is much more yet to be chemistry in the healing equation, so she learned by studying these "founding sym- analyses physical conditions such as toxin bols of civilisation", and I'd have to agree. NEXUS +71 DECEMBER 2003 — JANUARY 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com