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Dawson Church has edited or authored many books in the fields of health, psychology, and spirituality. He has collaborated on articles with many of the leading voices of our time, including Larry Dossey, Bernie Siegel, Caroline Myss, Barry Sears, and John Gray. He earned his doctorate in Integrative Healthcare at Holos University under the mentorship of distinguished neurosurgeon Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., founder of the American Holistic Medical Association and went on to receive a postgraduate Ph.D. in Natural Medicine.
Today he is here with us to talk about his latest book, The Genie in Your Genes.
Thank you for this interview, Dawson. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you’ve been writing?
My first pieces were revisions of the theses of other students while I was an undergraduate, which was (gulp) 30 years ago. My first published book was an anthology The Heart of the Healer, which was published by Penguin in 1987. The chapter I wrote, on the link between personal and planetary healing, was the most-quoted and most-reprinted chapter, which gave me confidence in the value of my insights.
Do you write full-time?
I wish. Writing a book is the quick and easy part. Promoting a book is the intensive and time-consuming part. I also run a small publishing company, Energy Psychology Press (www.EnergyPsychologyPress.com), and a nonprofit, Soul Medicine Institute (www.SoulMedicineInstitute.org), as well as training people in energy psychology (www.EFTPowerTraining.com). The key is less writing, than it is putting your ideas before the public eye, and these are all forms for that mission.
If you could trade places with one author who you have admired over the years, who would it be and why?
James Michener. His books give life to history. A close second would be Daniel Boorstin, the former Librarian of Congress and brilliant historical analyst.
Can you tell us a little about your latest book?
It’s a new edition of The Genie in Your Genes. I revised it completely for the paperback version. It’s a fast-paced romp through the latest research in epigenetics, the effects on genes of the environment outside the cell, and the role that consciousness plays in sending epigenetic signals.
What was the inspiration behind your book? Why did you feel a need to write it?
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2 - Cindy
This guy is a charlatan. You may not recognize that. I'll even grant that he perhaps doesn't let himself or is unable to recognize that. I am not sure exactly how the conscience operates in ordinary self-delusion. I can imagine some possibilities. Perhaps, even though he suspects what he says is not completely true, it holds some truth and since he can claim to be helping people, maybe his conscience doesn't bother him much.
As for his followers, people who are able to believe things like this are setting aside reality in the hopes that something magical really does work. Any time some person comes along with claims that things might actually work this way, there are people who may very innocently become victims.
One might want to remember this, if one day one were to find oneself not as ecstatically happy as expected.