Abstract
Journalist and freelance writer Chip Brown provides an entertaining, informative, and thought-provoking exploration of the relationship between spirituality and healing. Written in a relaxed and conversational style, this work is largely autobiographical and represents a personal journey spread over several years. At the heart of Brown's journey is the struggle to find a path between the "physical-materialist and the idealist-transcendentalist positions" on healing (p. 282). However, in spite of his many years spent exploring, the author never appears to lose his skepticism. This is unfortunate because the resultant detachedness, which some might see as an attempt at objectivity, detracts from the spirit of openness that one would expect from a genuine explorer and gives the book an unfinished quality.