Illustrated throughout with attractive photography and diagrams, The Spiritual Healing of Traditional Thailand is intended to be a visual experience, while drawing the reader into the colorful world of Thai spirituality. The photographs were taken as the author traveled the countryside of Thailand, engaging with monks, shamans, and various healers.

144 pages pdf eBook, 100 colour photographs

In the healing practices found throughout traditional Thai culture, both Buddhism and shamanism continue to play a significant role. Drawing on the author's extensive academic research and practice of those arts, this book provides an overview to the spiritual practices of Thailand, with particular emphasis on healing rituals and meditations that can be practiced in the modern West.

Illustrated throughout with attractive photography and diagrams, The Spiritual Healing of Traditional Thailand is intended to be a visual experience, while drawing the reader into the colorful world of Thai spirituality. The photographs were taken as the author traveled the countryside of Thailand, engaging with monks, shamans, and various healers.

Interspersed with the images are traditional meditations, prayers for healing, instructions for practice of Thai ceremonies, and biographies of well-known Thai healers. Resources for further reading and study are placed at the end of each chapter, along with accessible background information on the history and philosophy of Thai Buddhism and shamanism in non-technical language.

Dr. C. Pierce Salguero has a Ph.D. in the History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and is a researcher of Asian medical traditions. Dr. Salguero has authored five books on multiple aspects of Traditional Thai Medicine, which have been translated into Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, and Estonian, and have been published in English-Thai editions in Thailand. The first edition of The Encyclopedia of Thai Massage has been the number one best-selling book on Thai massage on Amazon.com since shortly after its publication in 2004. His other books include A Thai Herbal: Traditional Recipes for Health and Harmony (Findhorn Press, 2003) and Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, Ayurveda (Hohm Press, 2007). Dr. Salguero teaches advanced courses on Thai Massage and Traditional Thai Medicine at the Thai Institute of Healing Arts, where he also serves as Director of Research. (www.PierceSalguero.com)