The Promise of Evolution

.As an avid reader and perpetual seeker on the spiritual path, I was immediately overtaken by Dr. Dacher's approach to health and happiness. It is a rare treat to pick up a book that speaks directly to your heart and soul. Integral Health touched me in a way few publications have. It articulated so many of my feelings about the human condition and the relationship between our spiritual and physical health. I am incredibly grateful for the work Dr. Dacher has done in presenting the Integral Health model and providing a step by step approach to human flourishing.

In a time of fear and war mongering, it is encouraging to find authors who are willing to point out the preciousness of every individual life. We each need to cherish and nurture our own spirits so that we can heal the planet. I believe that this book may help us in that quest.


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A Wonderful Read for Travelers on a Spiritual Journey

Dr. Dacher has given us a book with wide applicability, and will be especially relevant for readers who are interested in personal and spiritual growth.

The author uses Ken Wilbur's model of Integral Theory and relates it to human health, happiness and wholeness. It is a big goal, but Dr. Dacher offers not only a theoretical model, but down-to-earth practices and exercises to enable the reader to gain experiential glimpses of this very big picture.

The book also contains a chapter for practioners, which I found particularly helpful. The author asks doctors and other practioners to take two hours at the end of one day a week to authentically and empathically listen to one client's story. I would add from my own experience, that if doctors were to take 10 minutes to truly listen to a patient with fine attunement and an open heart, this would be an evolutionary step in the practice of medicine as we know it.

Throughout the book, the author speaks to us of loving kindness, open-heartedness and the value of authentic listening. We are cautioned that the kind of healing of which the autor speaks can only happen when we turn inward, quiet our minds, and learn to listen to what the mind/body/spirit has to tell us. Dr. Dacher also tell us that a personal guide for this journey is most important.

I highly reccommend this book for anyone who is interested in turning within to connect with his or her full being and potential.

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Health, Happiness, Wholeness - Why not?

This book goes straight to the heart! The heart of the causes of the unhappiness, suffering and pain that plague our Western culture. But more than that, this book offers a solution and a path for those willing to take the journey into consciousness and health.
Dr. Dacher eloquently tells the story of the roots of healing in the Western culture, the Aesclepian healing temples that were prevalent in the Greek world for over 1800 years. He challenges us to bring forward the wisdom and the energies of that time into what he describes as Centers for Human Flourishing.
Dr. Dacher has an incredible capacity to meld the understandings of the healing traditions of the east and the west and to make the roots of these traditions clear and accessible. He brilliantly draws from the Integral Model from Ken Wilber, applying it as a map for the journey of transformation to a whole health. But most of all it is through his personal experiences that he appeals to health care professionals, clients and patients alike to take up the understandings and the practices outlined in the book and to do the necessary transformational work that will create for ourselves an integral health, authentic happiness and genuine wholeness - a life of flourishing.


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