Product Description

After a shattering near-death experience, Joyce Whiteley Hawkes left her career as a biophysicist and embarked on a study of indigenous healing practices.

Living and working with priests and shamans in the Philippines, South India, and Bali, she explored the previously uncharted territories that divide biology from spirituality -- and discovered that emotional, mental, and spiritual feelings can have a profound and positive impact on our bodies at the cellular level.

Cell-Level Healing shows how our thoughts change the functioning of our cells to repair and renew the body. With profound yet simple exercises, this book provides a guide to tap your innate healing abilities by showing that healing is a basic part of human nature.

Filled with thought-provoking stories and photographs, free of jargon, and thoroughly grounded in Dr. Hawkes's decades of experience in laboratory science and practical, hands-on healing, Cell-Level Healing invites you to explore your intrinsic powers of transformation and regeneration to attain new levels of spiritual and bodily health.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31454 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 176 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781582701462
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Review
"Cell-Level Healing is a remarkable bridge between conventional cell biology and the far reaches of self and spiritual healing. Dr. Hawkes skillfully combines her solid scientific grounding and experience in mainstream biophysics with personal insights gained from a near-death experience and extensive training in the alternative healing arts. Hawkes beautifully demonstrates how science and spirituality can peacefully coexist and inform each other in beneficial and refreshing ways."-- Dean Radin, Ph.D., senior scientist, Institute of Noetic Sciences

"Cell-Level Healing is quite simply the whole exciting truth about how and why our consciousness is key to our physical health and well-being."-- Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of Mother-Daughter Wisdom, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom

"Cell-Level Healing is a remarkable book. It provides the reader with a poetic and visual text on self-healing and demonstrates how science and spirituality need not be opponents but can serve as allies in the reader's transformation. Dr. Joyce Hawkes has created a delightful user-friendly volume that can be read, savored, and re-read -- one that is both simple and profound."-- Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, co-editor of Varieties of Anomalous Experience and author of Extraordinary Dreams and How to Work with Them

About the Author
Joyce Whiteley Hawkes received her Ph.D. in biophysics from Pennsylvania State University in 1971 and was a postdoctoral fellow with the National Institutes of Health at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center. She subsequently published thirty-six manuscripts in scientific journals and worked as a supervisory research scientist with the National Marine Fisheries in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Hawkes's work was honored with a U.S. National Achievement Award, and she was elected to the position of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Following a near-death experience that inspired her to change careers, she earned a master's in pastoral ministry from Seattle University and extensively explored indigenous healing traditions throughout Southeast Asia alongside renowned native healers. Dr. Hawkes continues to share her gifts as a healer, teacher, and writer by presenting seminars nationally and internationally. She can be contacted via www.joycehawkes.com.

Customer Reviews

The Essence of Healing.
Cell-Level Healing beautifully and clearly describes how to bridge the gap between logical, linear, scientific thought and the fluid energy of spiritual healing. This book should be read not only by those who seek an expanded spiritual path, but also by all physicians, scientists, and students of healing seeking to fine tune their intuition and find explanations for many of the "mysteries" of healing. Joyce Hawkes brilliantly shares with the reader her clear understanding of cellular structure and function and how that blends with the essence of the dynamic vital energy that animates all living things. Another important message in the book is that all who seek wellness need not yield to a specific protocol or theory, but instead should honor their uniqueness by taking personal responsibility for their own healing. I encourage the reader to read and re-read the entire book, to take no phrase or picture out of its unique context, and to contemplate their meaning. I am a medical doctor and I pray that the information in Cell-Level Healing be integrated into the core curricula of all medical schools.

More on energy healing than cellular healing
Joyce Whitely Hawkes is an especially compassionate and effective healer. In her small book (both in dimension and pages - 158 including photos, appendix and index) she shares wonderful stories and great visualisations. For this reason I gave the book a general rating of 4 stars. I was disappointed however; for me personally, the book earned only 3 stars. This was because the author chooses to share very little of her expertise and experience as a cell-biologist, explaining that she could not bring her scientific thought processes into healing. She maintains that intuitive processes are more appropriate. Fair enough. But the book is promoted on the strength of her scientific credentials, not her NDE, which has influenced her healing practice far more.

In my view, the author's intuitive approach to healing need not mean that cellular description and explanation must be excluded from her account; in fact it is what would make her book unique - and very different from other faith/energy healing texts written by non-scientists. Here is a woman who, for years, observed the inner universe of the human body! More than just giving brief references, could she not have taken us on that journey with her in some way? Writers such as Candice Pert, Bruce Lipton and Carl Simonton combine both scientific and intuitive paradigms very ably.

Some readers, not wanting the intrusion of "academic" ideas, may prefer this approach, needing only the reassurance of Joyce Whitely Hawkes' biography and credentials, impressive as they are. But I wanted more: specifically to gain some understanding, in the healing process, of what I am actually co-operating with - not only energy and spirit on which the author concentrates, but also the tangible, cellular community that is my body. An illustrative 'map' of some sort would be a great asset.

References to meridian-based therapies such as EDMR are frustratingly brief (unless the reader is already familiar with them). EFT, the ultimate in energetic self-help (and growing exponentially on an international scale) is not mentioned at all.

Having said all this, I should add that I found a number of valuable pointers - for example, the idea that not everyone responds positively to the traditional colours of the chakras - something I have found arbitrary in other energy healers' explanations. I like the author's concept of a personal "soul signature" and it makes sense that its manifestation as colour can be as unique as our fingerprints.

If short on information, this book is worth reading - and keeping - for its affirmative value alone.

Way beyond "New Age"!
Attracted to this book since I was in the medical field and have been involved in energy healing for years. Could have included more medical facts, but nonetheless, author gives "practical" exercises anyone can do, along with adequate explanations of "why" they work. I dog-earned, underlined, and copied some of the colored pictures with affirmations on them to post where I could see them. Having received just prior to another back surgery, I reworked some of her visualizations/affirmations to personalize for my situation. Had such a minute amount of blood loss during very long surgery, the doctor was astounded. Lots of applicable information in this beautifully illustrated and profound book. Cellular memory and consciousness has been around for some time but maybe the credibility of the author will put this book into the hands of medical professionals who can best utilize this information for their patients for more dramatic healing results.