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The Source
Tshisimane
The Story of an Indigenous Healing Center
in Remote South Africa
"'The Source: Tshisimane is the
thrilling account of surgeon David Cumes’ encounter
with the indigenous medicine of South Africa, his birthplace.
Initiated as a sangoma or native healer, Cumes learned
to integrate ancestral insights with modern medicine.
I know of no more fascinating personal journey among modern
medical practitioners than this—a blend of courage
and wisdom that are rare in any age. Cumes is
equally at home with leopards stalking his wilderness
retreat, and the halls of a modern hospital. David Cumes
is a modern hero—someone who has ventured into unknown
territory, faced great challenges, and who returns to
share his hardearned wisdom. For anyone interested in
psychological and spiritual growth, this is a must-read.
But it should come with a warning: This book may change
forever your idea of how the world works."
Larry Dossey, M.D.
$18.00
Available at fine bookstores,
Amazon.com
and through Dave's office at 805-964-6771
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The Spirit of Healing
Venture Into the Wilderness to Rediscover
the Healing Force
"'The Spirit of Healing' is a compelling
book that demonstrates how nature is a profound teacher
of our own nature."
Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., author of
The Four-Fold Way and Signs of Life
"Dr. David Cumes has studied healing around
the world. He writes wisely about the most basic elements
of health and illness. This book is a return to ancient
wisdom seen through the eyes of a skilled surgeon, and
a penetrating glimpse of the medicine of the future."
Larry Dossey, M.D., author of
Prayer is Good Medicine and Healing Words
The Spirit
of Healing is out of print, though recycled copies are
still available through Amazon.com and other sources.
This revised edition below can be downloaded as a PDF
by
clicking here. |
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Healing Trees and Plants of the Lowveld
by David Cumes, M.D., Rael
Loon & Dries Beste
Struik Books,
South Africa
"This book describes the medicinal
properties of many of the trees and plants in this incredibly
biodiverse area."
Dave Cumes |
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Inner Passages Outer Journeys
Wilderness, Healing, and the Discovery
of Self
"This is an important book with fresh
and powerful insights into human nature, and the vast
lattice of nature that embraces all beings."
Joan Halifax, author of
The Fruitful Darkness; Reconnecting with the Body of
the Earth
"Inner Passages, Outer Journeys
adds another level of healing wisdom to
the merging paradigm of health. (The author) reminds us
that the environment is our extended body and that when
given the opportunity, Nature is the ultimate healer,
returning us to wholeness."
David Simon, M.D., Medical Director of the Chopra Center
for Well Being
"We have preserved wilderness areas,
like books in a library--but 'reading' them will require
more spiritual sensitivity. This book will help."
Roderick Frazier Nash, Professor
Emeritus and author of
Wilderness and the American Mind
Inner
Passages Outer Journeys is out of print, though recycled
copies are still available through Amazon.com and other
sources.
This revised edition below can be downloaded as a PDF
by
clicking here. |
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Mpofu's Grandmother's Loving Lessons:
and the wisdom of her ways
As told to David Cumes, M.D. & Maryellen
Kelley
These stories come from the "other
side" of the veil between the worlds. The teller
of the stories is Mpofu, a woman who lived many years
ago in South Africa. Mpofu was a sangoma (Zulu word for
shaman). Sangomas use divination, trance and dreams to
heal those who come to them for help. They are the medicine
men and women, prophets and priests of the Bantu people.
The lessons were taught to Mpofu by her grandmother when
she was a child to help her along life's path. Mpofu is
now a special guide to Dave Cumes.
$11 (add tax for CA)
To purchase:
call (805) 964-6771 |
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Africa in My Bones
A surgeon's odyssey into the spirit
world of African healing
"This is a thought-provoking book
written by someone who walks along two roads, who is on
the one hand a surgeon of note and on the other a sangoma.
The world needs such people who see Africa through two
eyes, the African eye and the Western eye."
Vusamazulu Creda Mutwa: Zulu High
Sanusi
"This (book) shows the interconnectedness
of life, balancing modern and indigenous, people and nature,
the physical and the spiritual. His testimony turns the
so-called African 'superstition' into reality as his devotion
and trust allowed him to surrender to the uncertain initiatory
process of sangoma. Everyone should read Africa in
My Bones with respect and reverence."
Malidoma Patrice Somé, PhD, West
African diviner of the Dagara people of Burkino Faso,
author of Of Water and the Spirit, The Healing Wisdom
of Africa
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Out of print
May be available through Dave's office at 805-964-6771, or amazon.com |
For further video information on Dave's
journey into the world of African indigenous healing
click
here. |
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Messages From The Ancestors:
Wisdom For The Way
As received and compiled by Maryellen Kelley
& David Cumes, M.D.*
The teachings in this little book embrace
love, compassion, joy and gratitude. They express the
oneness - though not the sameness of us all. They celebrate
diversity and heal divisiveness. They discuss spiritual
principles that include the power of love, the nature
of free will, the significance of surrender, the play
of light and dark and the dynamics of joy. They also offer
insights as to who we are, encouragement for aspiring
and help with becoming. The messages give assurances as
well as guidance.
*The real authors of this book are the
ancestors. Above all, the text celebrates the wisdom available
to us from the other side of the veil between worlds,
and how we as sentient beings can benefit from spirit
guides or ancestors.
$14 (add tax for CA)
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