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  • The Science of the Sacred

  • Bridging Global Indigenous Medicine Systems and Modern Scientific Principles
  • By: Nicole Redvers N.D.
  • Narrated by: Essie Bartosik
  • Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (12 ratings)

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The Science of the Sacred

By: Nicole Redvers N.D.
Narrated by: Essie Bartosik
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Indigenous naturopathic doctor Nicole Redvers pairs evidence-based research with traditional healing modalities, addressing modern health problems and medical processes.

Modern medical science has finally caught up to what traditional healing systems have known for centuries. Many traditional healing techniques and medicines are often assumed to be archaic, outdated, or unscientific compared to modern Western medicine. Nicole Redvers, a naturopathic physician and member of the Deninu K'ue First Nation, analyzes modern Western medical practices using evidence-informed Indigenous healing practices and traditions from around the world - from sweat lodges and fermented foods to Ayurvedic doshas and meditation.

Organized around various sciences, such as physics, genetics, and microbiology, the audiobook explains the connection between traditional medicine and current research around epigenetics and quantum physics, for example, and includes over 600 citations. Redvers, who has traveled and worked with Indigenous groups around the world, shares the knowledge and teachings of health and wellness that have been passed down through the generations, tying this knowledge with current scientific advances. Knowing that the science backs up the traditional practice allows us to have earlier and more specific interventions that integrate age-old techniques with the advances in modern medicine and technology.

©2019 Nicole Redvers (P)2020 North Atlantic Books
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"Redvers illuminates the common ground that underlies both traditional and conventional healing practices. Each chapter identifies and analyzes the different cultural assumptions that can keep healing practices separate from one another, while the depth of the author’s knowledge allows us to see the ways in which these different practices can be rooted in the wisdom of the body. A call for the holistic healing that integrates multiple traditions for healing of mind, body, emotion, and spirit." (Robin Wall Kimmerer, PhD, author of Braiding Sweetgrass)

"Drawing on her own unique upbringing and total lived experience - melding wisdom received from her Dene elders of Northern Canada and lessons learned from witnessing illness, poverty, despair, and environmental degradation in various parts of the world - Redvers provides unique insight that only a First Nations person and practicing integrative medicine doctor can bring. The Science of the Sacred is a compass pointing toward a much-needed rebellion in healing. The revolution of the self begins!" (Alan C. Logan, coauthor of Your Brain on Nature)

"Nicole Redvers neatly ties together her cultural Dene roots and stories from other Indigenous cultures in an evidence-informed manner to look at medicine, the health of our planet, and the health of humans as individuals and societies. She poses questions and solutions that deserve exploration and will keep you thinking long after finishing this, her first work." (Paul Saunders, PhD, ND)

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Beautiful, crucially important

Remarkable integration and synthesis of world traditions with profound implications for how we can restore the world and ourselves.

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Beautiful encapsulation of the interconnectedness of all beings. This explanatiom could help any muggle to understand the way we weave together. The science is oddly in depth in some parts, down to discussing specific genes, but in others there may be one anecdote shared. i would love to have heard more about indigenous healing practices & traditions, because that is why I bought the book & those that were shared were so fascinating & beautiful. A delightful & illuminating read overall.

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