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Publication
[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco
ISBN
0062514334 / 9780062514332
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Healing Words and Prayer Is Good Medicine comes this compelling exploration of the negative side of prayer. Larry Dossey, M.D., offers remarkable evidence that, just as prayer can be used positively to affect health and healing, it can also be used for negative and destructive purposes. With fascinating true stories, case histories and scientific analysis, Dossey explores the nature of "toxic" prayer and teaches us how we can protect ourselves from its threatening influence.
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CONTENTS:
Can prayer harm?. Curses and churches ; Why prayer backfires --Negative prayer in everyday life. Medical hexing ; The death wish ; Making demons ; The death prayer ; The evil eye ; Hexing ourselves: the power of negative belief -- The biology of curses. The biology of curses ; Curing and cursing: a fine line ; Negative prayer as ambush ; Rain man: the danger of being obvious -- The scientific evidence. Scientific studies --Protection -- Afterword: Should we clean up prayer?
Can prayer harm?. Curses and churches ; Why prayer backfires --Negative prayer in everyday life. Medical hexing ; The death wish ; Making demons ; The death prayer ; The evil eye ; Hexing ourselves: the power of negative belief -- The biology of curses. The biology of curses ; Curing and cursing: a fine line ; Negative prayer as ambush ; Rain man: the danger of being obvious -- The scientific evidence. Scientific studies --Protection -- Afterword: Should we clean up prayer?