Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #62638 in Music
• Released on: 2006-09-20
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set
• Original language: English

CD Description
'Your brain is not in charge.' This revelation by Dr. Candace Pert challenges conventional science - and everyone interested in total wellness - to reconsider how our bodies think, feel, and heal. As the leading pioneer in a radical new science of life, this bestselling author and world class neuroscientist has given us an inside look at the molecular drama being staged within every cell of the human body - and a glimpse into the future of medicine. Now, in her own words, Dr. Pert describes her extraordinary search for the grail of the body s inborn intelligence with Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind. Dr. Pert first came to prominence when she dazzled the scientific community with her discovery of the opiate receptor in 1972. But this breakthrough event was only the beginning of a uniquely productive - and often controversial - career. On Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Pert describes her efforts over the past two decades to actually decode the 'information molecules', such as peptides and their receptors, that regulate every aspect of human physiology. Her model of how these biochemicals flow and resonate, distributing information to every cell in the body simultaneously, has unlocked the secret of how emotions literally transform our bodies - and create our health. Easily shifting from a bench scientist s view to a spiritual one, she relates her research to past and present mind/body topics, ranging from AIDS and cancer to the chakra system. Dr. Pert s personal and compelling voice makes this a listening experience that is part detective story, part spiritual odyssey - and entirely irresistable. From the wisdom of the body to the wisdom of the laboratory, Your Body Is Your Subconscious Mind takes listeners on a scientific adventure of the first order, escorted by this pathfinder, iconoclast, and 'goddess' of neuroscience.

About the Artist
Candace Pert, Ph.D. is a research professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Pert is best known for her discovery of opiate receptors in the brain. She was a featured expert in the highly acclaimed Bill Moyers PBS series Healing and the Mind. In addition to her research efforts, Dr. Pert lectures and teaches about how our minds and feelings influence our health and well-being. She is the author of the bestseller Molecules of Emotion.

Customer Reviews

Paradigm buster
I first came across Candace Pert's ideas in a book by Deepak Chopra 18 years ago and only connected up properly with her again this year. Now I cannot get enough.
Why is this?
Well, like many people, I was brought up in the old school of 'The Biology of Disempowerment'.
First we had the 'Dogma' that DNA controls (determines) biology. This has been ably disproved by Bruce Lipton.
Then, there is the less often stated, but equally insidious, assertion that consciousness is a by-product of the brain and is of secondary importance in how we regulate ourselves biologically, emotionally and spiritually.
What Lipton did to the first piece of non-sense, Pert has done to the second.
Having discovered the opiate receptor in the 1970's, she suffered at the hands of her hyper- competitive, male colleagues at the prestigious NIH before embarking on her work of researching and popularizing what she calls 'The molecules of emotion'. Basically, body and mind are identical; the 'body/mind network' is one energy field in which neuropeptides simultaneously trigger receptors in all parts of the body as emotions ripple through our systems. She contrasts this 'dancing fire' view with the old 'dead body' approach of the reductionist; Cannon's 'trickle down' theory asserted that emotions are manufactured in the brain and passed down neural pathways to the periphery, whereas she shows that 'molecules of emotion' instantaneously trigger receptors in livers, skins, endocrine, immunological and nervous systems (to name but a few).
And she should know, as she was at the vanguard and centre of the action when various receptors were being located in the most unlikely of places many by herself.
So what to make of her?
Well, there are about 3 possible conclusions to be drawn, I suppose:
1. That she was a brilliant scientist who lost her way (and her marbles) and produced some very whacky ideas.
2. That she has come up with very interesting, entertaining but ultimately untestable hypotheses.
3. That she is a key figure in the overall paradigm shift (in the proper Kuhnian sense) towards a view of biological systems being fields of energy in which consciousness is the deciding factor as to outcome.

The more I listen to 'Your body is your subconscious mind' the more convinced I am that her ideas are both revolutionary and valid.
Her style takes getting use to (see my review of 'To feel Go(o)d'). I found Subconscious Mind to be less chaotic than the latter. She packs in a wealth of material at a fast rate with lots of side-eddies, but overall the impression of a giant river headed towards the ocean.

Kuhn thought that revolutionary shifts are complete not when the old school becomes convinced by the new ideas but when they retire and die out, which may take 20 or 30 years.
When the paradigm shift is complete, we should all be able to swim at last in healthy unpolluted waters.