its got some ok coverage and could serve as a sufficient jumping off point for further study, but the material on its own is pretty misleading

it mashes together complicated and nuanced systems, making no effort to tease out the moments when they disagree or diverge, and has little consideration for the many divergent historical developments in these systems. it also pays little consideration to the theological doctrine or mystical practices underlying the systems, and particularly the ways in which such doctrines r often extremely contradictory and in direct conflict w each other. the author also throws out a bunch of unnecessary western pseudoscience about magnetism in order to try to make sense of energy, when energy as a scientific principle is already self-evident

5/10 for effort ( )

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Contents

Illustrations and tables
Ackowledgments
Introduciton
Part I Energy and energy healing
Energy is universal
Being an energy healer
Part II Human anatomy
The cells
DNA
The skeletal sysem
The muscular system
The nervous system
The skin
The circulatory system
The respiratory system
The endocrine system
The digestive system
The excretory system
The reproductive system
Metabolism
The immune system
The senses
Part III Energy fields
A primer on energy fields
Two unified field theories
Te natural fields
The radiant shine of molecules: Lost and found research
L-Fileds and T-Fields: The partners composing reality?
Field pollution: Geopathic stress
The power of magnetism
Hands-on and distant healing: Proving subtle fields and a nonlocal reality
Sacred geometry: Fields of life
Human energy fields
Part IV Channels of energy: Channels of light
The history of meridian-based therapy
Anoverview of the meridian system
Theories of the existence, purpose, and functioning of the meridians
The historyof meridian science
The major meridians
The basic acupunncture points
Five-phase and related diagnostic theories
The seven emotions and the correspoinding organs
Part V Energy bodies: Chakras and other 'light switches'
Energy bodies
Kundalini, the unifying force
Scientific principles meet chakra theory
Ckhakra systems from around the world
The Jewish mystical enegy system: The ancient Kabbalah
Part VI Energy practices
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration credits
Index
About the author
About the illustrator

Welcome to the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the human energetic anatomy. Here is a reference that no personal or professionals health-care library should be without - an in-depth, illustrated guide to the invisible energies of spirit, psyche, and consciousness that influence every aspect of our well-being.