spirituality/health and well being/reiki/healing/poetry
Chrysalis
by John Patrick Davis
Audenreed Press
A Division of Biddle Publishing Company
One person's journey from crippling, incurable dystrophy to healing and wholeness through reassessing and integrating the various aspects of his life: mind, body, emotions and spirit. It is attitudinal healing personified in the author's struggle and triumph. Illustrated.
ISBN: 1-879418-86-x
©1997
$18.95 US
Softcover
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EXCERPT
For we have touched, and in that touch
I see you new again
and reach to ease the hurt
and catch the tear
and cherish the you
I see so fleetingly
looking out through pain
I am caught up in this Song
that fills my soul
- with life - with love that
echoes and reverberates
the pulse that is within -
that tells me I’m alive
and I shall see tomorrow
He breaks through the...
isolation of survival,
He is
Thompson’s Hound of Heaven
and he has chased me
down the labyrinthine ways
of my own mind
to tell me that
He
loves
me
ENDORSEMENTS
"You are a very special and precious human being and so is your 'poem'. We all need to write poetry--the whole world--so we can feel and heal. I loved your pain--humor--wisdom. The butterfly helped out of the chrysalis dies. You made it on your own."
Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.--author of Love, Medicine & Miracles
"John Patrick Davis comes from the very center of his soul. He shares his innermost feelings in the form of the music of poetry that will help every reader who is struggling to transform sickness into health."
Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D.--author of Love Is Letting Go Of Fear
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
John Patrick Davis graduated from Holy Cross College with honors, received his Masters Degree from Harvard University, and then completed four years of religious studies at St. Mary's University in Baltimore.
John's own healing of a serious chronic illness led him to further his education in various complementary medicine modalities, and he is now a Certified Usui Reiki Master, a Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner, and a Registered Massage Practitioner