Fernando Camacho MD.

A great book that shows us how to work on our feelings so we can heal ourselves. It is a new radical view of seeing our illnesses, that is difficult to accept it by first hand. If you can have access to the work of Dr. Rycke Hamer which is the basis of this approach you can understand it better.

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Deceptive packaging

I would have been kinder in my rating of this book if the author had not made so many unsubstantiated claims. For one thing, the use of the term "biogenealogy" in the title is highly misleading. There is nothing scientific about this book: it provides absolutely no scientific research or references to back the author's claims, a significant ommission. While I am always interested in new hypotheses, I object to opinions being presented as fact - as this author does, repeatedly.

I not only find Obissier didactic, I find him pessimistic. If anything, he has us looking over our shoulders in fear of what our ancestors may have passed on to us. This smacks of negative motivation. Obissier ignores the fact that a predisposition to a particular pathology does not automatically mean it will manifest itself in one's lifetime. For example, you don't have to die of heart disease simply because your father did. Your current lifestyle choices have far more relevance, and can even override your genetics. The same applies to the emotional legacies that Obissier refers to. Candice Pert, for one, has shown the effects of mind (here and now) on one's physiology in "Molecules of Emotion" In fact, current research is showing that even DNA is not static - and while modified by our ancestors' stressors, is nevertheless subject to our own mental influence. I am therefore concerned to see little reference in this book to mental and physical choices we can make now, or specific strategies we can employ.

If Obissier is entering the nature-versus nurture debate, coming out on the side of nature, his argument is unconvincing if not prejudiced. Even if his theories are intended to be an extension of the Buddhist spirit of acceptance, they are very negative (which Buddhism is not). What is more, the few positives (which can be found in most generic, motivational books) tend to come across as platitudes - especially the inference that acceptance will allay our fears. That's not acceptance; it's fatalism.

My major issue with this author is that, for all its claims of innovation, his theory is just a variation on the established psychotherapy theme - focus on fixing our pathology (Obissier just posits a different source) rather than on activating our power. If you really want to find mind-body solutions, cell-biologist, Bruce Lipton's book, "Biology of Belief" is a good starting point, and is far superior.

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Groundbreaking

This is a great read!
Table of Contents read:
Part One - Illness
1. The appearnace of the illness principle
2. biological conflict is the cause of all illness
3. understanding illness
4. the sameautonomic processess exist in teh plant and animal kingdom
5. halting the illness and returning to health
6. Why illness? Why not angel kisses?
7. Cancer explained
8. friendly Germs
Part Two - Destinay
9. the whims of destiny
10. the destiny ofchildren is the guarantee of the species' survival
11. the programming
12 trangenerational programming
13. the unknowing parental projection
14. where, when and how?
part three - Imagine
15. a therapeutic path
16 some hopeful perspectives

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