Spontaneity in Japanese Art and Culture

This is the first comprehensive analysis of Japanese art and aesthetics in their cultural context.

Visitors to Japan are often puzzled by the resraint and high level of Japanese taste in art on one hand and the gaudy colors and noise of phenomena such as downtown advertising and pachinko parlours.

The Youngs ask us to consider how the Restrained and Exuberant traditions in Japan are not really contradictory but opposite ends of a continuum governed by rules that depend upon the circumstances.

This movement is not arbitrary, but governed by principles that go to the core of Japanese culture.

This book is a socio-scientific approach to a better understanding of some of these basic principles.

For this and other publications on Japan by these authors go to Japanese Aesthetics  Be sure to check out the excellent reviews !

The Mouse Woman of Gabriola: Brain, Mind and Icon Interactions in Spontaneous Healing

The Mouse Woman is an image of an important First Nations “grandmother” spirit with healing powers carved into a boulder on the island of Gabriola off the west coast of Canada. This book explores the factors involved in the spontaneous healing of individuals who come to the Mouse Woman for help, including the role of healers, the role of faith and meditation, mind/brain/body interactions, the placebo response, and the ability of individuals to tap external sources of healing energy such as energy from the environment.

For more information on this and the following books
go to Health and Healing

We also have authored books that have been published elsewhere:

Cry of the Eagle: Encounters with a Cree Healer
     by David Young, Grant Ingram, and Lise Swartz
        - This book was published in 1989 by the University of Toronto
           Press (Toronto, Buffalo & London)

and Coming SOON...

A Cree Healer's Medicine Bundle
       by David Young and Russell Willier
        -  Soon to be released by CCI Press in cooperation with the Centre for
           the Cross-Cultural Study of Health and Healing at the University of
           Alberta (Edmonton)
         - This is a sequel to Cry of the Eagle

 

The first documents the healing practices of Russell Wilier, Cree Healer, and the second book documents the medicines he uses in his healing practices.

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