Death Grip on the Pommel: A Warrior’s Journey to Grace

Summary

John Myerson is a powerful shamanic healer whose patients know him as a calm and protective presence. What they don’t realize is the long struggle he’ s had to overcome an instinctive tendency toward violence and rage. This book tells the story of his work as a warrior, to attack only wisely, to overcome the fear he faced in dealing with himself, and to achieve an evolving understanding of the balance needed in order to love as well as to strike out. As his story unfolds, he shares what he’s learned about discipline and recounts the stories of others he’s worked with and learned from along the Way. Finally, he tells of facing his own nature and fear that leads to being given what some might call grace. Fascinating as his own story, Death Grip on the Pommel also offers insight and suggestions to others who seek to learn their own nature, both the light and the shadow sides, to achieve balance, and to move toward connection with an energy and Way of Being beyond themselves.

Reviews

John Myerson has given us a gift with this book, Death Grip on the Pommel. In it he traces his own journey from dark warrior to lightness and ultimately to balance and acceptance. This journey is one that we all should–and with Myerson’s guidance–can take, even if we start from what he calls the light. The case studies and his personal experience can help us through our own journeys toward acceptance of who and what we are–just as we are.

–Sandra Waddock, Galligan Chair of Strategy Professor of Management Boston College

Death Grip on the Pommel is the riveting Odyssey of a gifted shaman-warrior-healer learning the power and relationship of warrior energy and loving energy. Discovering the balance between Doing (Yang) and Being (Yin). Learning how to love and release from a posture of strength, not weakness. Refining the path of Discipline and realizing how to transcend Resistance. This book, illustrated not only by the author’s amazing story but also by actual case files, is a gripping read that is bound to keep you fascinated to the end.

–Paul Gallagher, author of Drawing Silk: Masters secrets for Successful Tai Chi Practice

Voices from the Other Side of the Couch: A Warrior’s View of Shamanic Healing

Summary

There’s a big couch in my office, forest green with dark gold stripes. People who come to see me usually sit there to talk and tell their stories. But I don’t hear only the person sitting across from me. I am always amazed at how many other voices are present when I am talking to people. Some talk to me as you would, others seem to come from visions, still others just appear in my mind. They seem to come from the other side of the couch, hovering in my mind just out of normal means of perception. They come from another world, a real world, but different from the ordinary reality of two people just sitting and talking. Learning how people connect to this other world, this greater world of the Universe, is what this book is all about. From the Introduction

Reviews

“There are few doctors who are as billiant as they are soulful, as powerful as they are compassionate. Dr. John Myerson is the most gifted shaman I’ve every known and the only person I’ve ever encountered who can create a healing alchemy that can completely transform a life. I’ve experienced his power directly and watched him cure “incruable” problems with his astonishing spiritual intervention. Dr. Myerson is also a master teacher whose book is a gold mine of case studies and explorations of consciousness. Read it and allow John’s wisdom to expand your ability to access your own spirit and to know the healing power of love.”

–Amelia Kindade, best selling author of “Straight from the Hourse’s Mouth” and “The Language of Miracles: A Celebrated Psychic Teaches You to Talk to Animals.

“How does a gifted shaman-healer actually work? This question is answered in this fascinating and sometimes dramatic book. “Dr. Myerson not only shows various archetypes or patterns by which people connect to the power of the Universe but also demonstrates ways in which those paterns either can be disrupted or can enrich our lives with unlimited insight and creativity. He also describes the energies he sees around people and shows how we can become aware of them and use them beneficially. “In a powerful last chapter he gives an account of his own spiritual and healing journey from an accomplished martial artist to a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and of Western psychology to a Shaman-healer. “An exceptional book which I highly recommend.”

–Paul Gallagher, author of “Drawing Silk: Masters’ Secrets for Successful Tai Chi Practice. 

Riding the Spirit Wind: Stories of Shamanic Healing

Summary

What stops so many of us from transcending our fears, realizing our hopes, and reuniting our physical and spiritual selves to become whole? Riding the Spirit Wind, an often surprising and invariably uplifting look at the practice of shamanic healing, offers important clues. Shamanic healer John Myerson and co-author Robert Greenebaum point to the wide range of emotional and spiritual roadblocks that can impede our life journey and hamper our growth as individuals. Just as revealing, they describe the paths Myerson‚s many clients have taken to surmount such obstacles. Listen to Tracy, a vibrant woman who couldn‚t get pregnant but then did. Find out how Alethea‚s torment from a long-recurring nightmare was finally quelled. And consider the power of a „call‰ on an aging man‚s soul that led to triumph against illness and depression. With Myerson‚s help, these and other seekers tap into the unseen forces that act within and upon each of us. His patients not only discover the transformative power of dreams, visions and prayer, they also conquer a host of afflictions˜rage, fear, pain, shame, isolation, hopelessness˜that too often throw our lives out of balance. Riding the Spirit Wind’s accounts of John Myerson‚s shamanic healing offer us tantalizing hints that there is indeed a spiritual plane at least as rich in answers for the soul as those found in the physical world. In short, Greenebaum and Myerson have given us all a gift. Their book is an awe-inspiring and compelling portrait of shamanic healing. It is comprehensive. Often confounding. And, ultimately, profoundly comforting.