Coyote Healing: Miracles in Native Medicine

Native American healers expect miracles and prepare in all ways possible for them to occur. Modern medicine has only a dim awareness of this possibility of healing. Miraculous patients are discarded from studies as anomalous cases that will taint the otherwise orderly results. Yet this small group of "miracle" patients has everything to teach us about healing and survival. COYOTE HEALING distils the basic principles of miracle cures to help people start their own healing journey. Looking at hundreds of cases of individuals who experienced miracle cures, Dr. Mehl-Madrona found the same preconditions present that Native American healers taught are necessary in order for miracles to occur. The author reveals what he learned from both his own practice and the hundreds of interviews he conducted with survivors about the common features of their path back to wellness. Survivors found purpose and meaning in their life-threatening illness; peaceful acceptance was key to their healing. COYOTE HEALING, also, tells of another kind of miracle-finding faith, hope and serenity even when a cure seems impossible and what is impossible, so we can never know the limits of healing.