Book Excerpts:

SpiritSite.com is pleased to offer excerpts from the following books.  You may click on a book's cover to begin, or on the links below:

Selections from Dr. Larry Dossey's Healing Words:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Selections from Prayer is Good Medicine:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Selections from Reinventing Medicine:

Part One
Part Two
Part Three

Larry Dossey, M.D., is former co-chair of the panel on Mind/Body Interventions, Office of Alternative Medicine, National Institutes of Health. He has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including Dateline, Larry King Live and The Oprah Winfrey Show.  Dr. Larry Dossey's books, including the bestselling Healing Words have focused on the relationship between healing, thought, and prayer.

Healing Words

A New York Times bestseller, Healing Words (review or buy) aims to restore the spiritual art of healing to the science of medicine.  In the book, Larry Dossey explores the effect of prayer on healing, and offers many scientific case studies to bolster his ideas.  Larry Dossey's goal is a "medicine that works better and feels better."

Prayer is Good Medicine

Based on his groundbreaking work linking prayer and health, author and physician Larry Dossey offers new ways of looking at prayer and explores how we can harness its remarkable healing powers. No mater what form your faith takes, Prayer is Good Medicine (review or buy) will inspires you with a new appreciation of how prayer can bring about healthful change.

Reinventing Medicine

In his latest book, Dr. Larry Dossey provides scientific and medical evidence that the spiritual dimension works in healing. Citing the work of scientists at such well-known institutions, he demonstrates that spiritual tools such as intercessory prayer, dreams, coincidence, and intuition have measurable, powerful, and profound effects on how we heal. Reinventing Medicine (review or buy) offers a vision of the coming era in medicine.