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The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion: How Feelings Link the Brain, the Body, and the Sixth Sense |  | Author: Michael A. Jawer
Creators: Larry Dossey M.D., Marc S. Micozzi M.D. Ph.D.
Publisher: Park Street Press
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A cutting-edge examination of feelings, not thoughts, as the gateway to understanding consciousness
• Contends that emotion is the greatest influence on personality development
• Offers a new perspective on immunity, stress, and psychosomatic conditions
• Explains how emotion is key to understanding out-of-body experience, apparitions, and other anomalous perceptions
Contemporary science holds that the brain rules the body and generates all our feelings and perceptions. Michael Jawer and Dr. Marc Micozzi disagree. They contend that it is our feelings that underlie our conscious selves and determine what we think and how we conduct our lives.
The less consciousness we have of our emotional being, the more physical disturbances we are likely to have--from ailments such as migraines, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and post-traumatic stress to anomalous perceptions such as apparitions and involuntary out-of-body experiences. Using the latest scientific research on immunity, sensation, stress, cognition, and emotional expression, the authors demonstrate that the way we process our feelings provides a key to who is most likely to experience these phenomena and why. They explain that emotion is a portal into the world of extraordinary perception, and they provide the studies that validate the science behind telepathic dreams, poltergeists, and ESP. The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion challenges the prevailing belief that the brain must necessarily rule the body. Far from being by-products of neurochemistry, the authors show that emotions are the key vehicle by which we can understand ourselves and our interactions with the world around us as well as our most intriguing--and perennially baffling--experiences.
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Sensitivity, Emotions and Anomalous Phenomena September 15, 2009
John Freedom (Tucson, AZ)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Anatomy reads like a scientific detective story, weaving clues and insights from neurology, biology, psychology and parapsychology, in an attempt to answer questions about some of the most puzzling aspects of human behavior. These include sensitivities, allergies, autism, dissociation, somatization and `anomalous phenomena.'
Michael Jawer began his journey as a consultant on `sick building syndrome' in Washington, D.C. While interviewing environmentally sick people, he wondered whether how much of their illnesses were due to their physical environment, and how much to their `felt environment'. He began to suspect that their issues were neither entirely `in their mind' nor entirely external. Many of these people were `sensitive', and could apparently see and feel (and react to) stimuli imperceptible to `normal' folks. Among the stimuli that these sensitives sometimes experienced were apparitions and `anomalous phenomena' (e.g. ghosts, poltergeists, `presences'). And so began his long investigation into the neurobiology of sensitivity.
Jawer theorizes that different forms of subjective experience share a common neurobiological basis. In a fascinating chapter titled "Sensitivity, Personality Traits and Anomalous Perception," he points out that anomalous talents may be associated with specific personality traits. In this regard he cites the pioneering work of such researchers as Jean Ayres with sensory defensiveness, Elaine Aron's concept of `highly sensitive people,' Michael Thalheim's concept of `transliminality,' and Ernest Hartmann's ideas re: `thick and thin boundaries.'
Jawer presents a long and impassioned argument for the central role of sentience, feeling and emotion in human experience. Building on the work of Damasio, J. Allan Hobson and Joseph LeDoux, he marshals evidence for the contention that feelings are intimately connected with the body --- and constitute the basis for cognitive thought processes. "From the physical, feeling foundation of the mind stems not only the core human experiences of laughing and crying, but all of our capacities on up to thought, insight, and advanced reasoning." He further argues that the ego itself (which he terms the `self') develops out of the sensory foundations of feeling. To paraphrase Descartes: "Sentio, ergo sum."
Extending this line of reasoning, he points to emotional arousal underlying many hitherto unexplained phenomena. Jawer suggests that the dissociation of repressed energies, combined with mental preoccupations, may set the stage for apparitions, ghosts, `presences', phantom limbs, etc. There follows a long discussion of the connections between anomalous experience and emotional energy, dissociation, sensitivity, electromagnetic phenomena, and atmospheric influences.
Anatomy is thoroughly researched, and meticulously documented and footnoted. My other concern is that the author dances fluidly from citing solid neurological research, to psychological case studies, to anecdotes, without distinguishing the relative validity of different kinds of evidence. While observations can be insightful, not all evidence is created equal.
Anomalous phenomena need to be acknowledged, and included in any truly comprehensive theory of both human behavior and consciousness. Jawer points to feelings, emotions and sentience as a Rosetta stone to understand various illnesses, psychological sensitivities and the paranormal. While I can not agree with all his conjectures and conclusions ---- much of the evidence is not in, yet ----- I admire his courage in broaching and exploring a very controversial subject.
Obviously, much more research, study, and discussion are needed. This powerful and provocative book opens the doors to that discussion.
Understanding Emotions and The Sixth Sense October 9, 2009
Lynette R. Fleming (Decatur, IL USA)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Stomach -- the organ where food is digested. Heart -- the hollow, muscular organ that circulates the blood. Intestine -- the lower part of the alimentary canal. Brain - nervous tissue contained in the skull of vertebrates that controls the nervous system. We know a lot about the organs which make us digest food, breathe, and think. But what do we know about the origin and creation of our feelings and emotions? What do we know about the birth of emotional demons, like obsessive-compulsive disorder, schizophrenia, and depression? If we understood what causes feelings and mental illness, we could probably ensure the happiness and mental stability of everyone. Perhaps there would be fewer suicides, addictions, and psychiatric institutions.
Modern scientists believe all our feelings and perceptions begin in the brain. In this book, the authors present a compelling case that it is the opposite ... that it is our feelings which determine what we think and how we live, and that they "are the product of interaction between raw sensation on the one hand and mental activity on the other."
Recently, prior to helping my company defend an unemployment claim, a business acquaintance shared her "crazy" morning with me. She was in the basement when suddenly all the buttons on her washer and dryer began turning on and off. Not knowing what to do, she yelled "Cut it out." Suddenly everything stopped. Then she smelled her recently deceased mother's perfume (which she didn't particularly like while her mother was living). Is this down-to-earth arbitrator crazy? Nope ... she is one of the "sensitive" people discussed at length in this book ... people who have perceptions and visions which cannot be explained.
Know anybody with fibromyalgia? Chronic fatigue? Migraines? Ever experience premonitions or see apparitions? Do you or one of your friends have chronic skin problems? Mr. Jawer and Dr. Micozzi share their theory of the connection between feelings, the brain, the body, and the sixth sense, a connection which can cause each of these afflictions and mysterious visions.
Beyond these topics, the book also discusses other unexplainable phenomena, such as the apparent past-life memories of gifted children, near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and even the extreme abilities of some animals. Take Oscar, the cat who lives in the advanced dementia unit of a nursing home in Rhode Island. Oscar, not a particularly cuddly cat, correctly curled up beside 25 people in their final hours, lying next to them for hours at a time before they finally died. Lest you think this is a fabricated story made up by some nut, his case has been written about in the prestigious "New England Journal of Medicine".
Recommended by Dr. Andrew Weil, this book should be on every scholar's library shelf. If you're interested in holistic medicine and the mind-body connection, this is a book you simply must read, fascinating page to fascinating page, story to story, and cover to cover. Events and experiences you have heard about or experienced may actually begin to make sense.
A fine research-based examination perfect for new age and science libraries alike October 15, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Modern science contends the brain rules the body and generates feelings and perceptions: these two authors argue that it is feeling that underlies consciousness and determines how life is lead. The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion supports this theory using the latest scientific research on immunity, stress, cognition and emotions to show how emotion leads to extraordinary perception abilities. Neurochemistry and new age thought blend in a fine research-based examination perfect for new age and science libraries alike.
incredibly comprehensive September 14, 2009
Therese Borchard (Annapolis, MD)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I was astonished at all the topics and subjects the authors provided in this very comprehensive book. I especially was intrigued by their discussions of the highly sensitive person, depression and anxiety, and about the anatomy of the brain have very clear consequences on our emotional life. Having this information accessible is empowering. Thank you!
A resource for those with emotional intensity, physical sensitivities, and spiritual strengths January 18, 2010
Jenna - Life Coach & Author of Help Is On Its Way
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a coach for people with strong emotional and psychosomatic experiences and spiritual or extrasensory gifts, I feel that this book can be very validating to my clients because of the scientific focus on what has until now not been given much attention by the field. Authors Michael Jawer and Marc Micozzi, weave various as yet unresolved questions together such as if and how environmental, electrical and sensory sensitivity, allergies, synesthesia, thin boundaries, strong empathy, chronic stress, traumatic backgrounds, nervous system related ailments, and anomalous perceptions are intertwined.
The scientific approach is warm and interesting, and the book reads like a mystery novel of the self. I found much of the reading to be refreshing and revealing. I found myself not needing the book to come to any sort of conclusion, but instead just enjoyed each page, reading about what studies have been done and highlighting important statements to return to as a reference.
From auras to electrical fields, brainwaves to body chemicals, immune function to apparitions, the experience of time to telepathy, this book covers it all in a very integrated, interesting and informative way. The Spiritual Anatomy of Emotion is a true mind, body, spirit exploration of the self and human consciousness that is not only fresh and most intriguing, also a call for further exploration of the science of our emotional lives. Very well written, easy to read and helpful as a resource for those with emotional intensity, physical sensitivities, and spiritual strengths.
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