Biogenealogy: Decoding the Psychic Roots of Illness: Freedom from the Ancestral Origins of Disease

I love this book. It has really changed my understanding of the body and body intelligence. I purchased four more books and gave them as Christmas presents. Over the years, I have read thousands of books on health, wellness, DNA, nutrition, etc. This one beats them all. I highly highly recommend this book! Thank you to the author...WOW.After reading this book, I went looking for more on the topic - so then I bought the Biogeneology Sourcebook. This takes the work a layer deeper and gives practical examples and a sort of roadmap to uncover illnesses and sources. Talk about a paradigm shift - wow. Warning: be ready to shift your understanding and make sure you are sitting down so you do not fall over...;) WOW - do yourself a giant favor and buy the book(s).

Excellent book!. I bought it for my daughter and she loved it! In this book, she found out why she suffer from RA.

Excellent material giving more detail about emotional factors of illness using the paradigm proposed by Dr. R. G. Hamer and his colleagues. Other authors recommended in this area are Benarous and Flèche.

Remarkable concepts delivered with ease and certainty. This is the medical understanding we need to transform our lives.

The information in this book may seem a little far out but if you can suspend disbelief and give it a try, you may be surprised and find that it does seem to work. A bit esoteric in spots, but overall practical and honest information. You've got nothing to lose but whatever your illness is. Well worth the read.

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.

This is a very good introductory analysis of German New Medicine. It covers the main points and inspires further study.

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At first I was not sure this is the book I expected. It has been translated from French, and it seemed a little difficult to understand at first. Yet, there are some very important explanations on understanding disease patterns, and why symptoms happen.

I have been studying this are for many years and this book was not what I expected. I wanted more of a reference book. Its okay but not brilliant.

Interesting subject, but I'm not finding it an easy read.Am taking it slowly, not finished reading it yet. My immediate impressions are that anyone could agree or disagree with the claims made in this book, as it would be difficult to prove in either case that a trauma to anscestors did or did not cause trauma in descendents, especially if onsets are delayed and cases vary so much.