A book by Dr Alok Pandey, looking at the human body and its natural state of health from a spiritual perspective Introduction Preface 1.1 Health – The Spiritual Perspective 1.2 Methods of Enquiry and Research 1.3 The Human Body – a Spiritual View 2.1 The Human Body 2.2 The Human Body: A Mystery’s Workshop 3.1 A Consciousness-based Approach 3.2 The Microcosm Called Man 3.3 The Unresolved Riddle Called Life 3.4 The Mind of Matter 4.1 Health – A Dynamic Equilibrium 4.2 Illness – An Inner Disequilibrium (Part 1) 4.2 Illness – An Inner Disequilibrium (Part 2) 5. Illness, a Habit 6.1 Stress – Helps or Kills? 6.2 Facing Stress — The Ordinary Way and the Spiritual Way 6.3 Stress Management – A Different Approach 7.1 An Integrated Approach to Healing (Part 1) 7.1 An Integrated Approach to Healing (Part 2) 7.2 Manipulating Human Nature 7.3 Of Systems and Beyond Systems 7.4 Re-establishing Health (Part 1) 7.4 Re-establishing Health (Part 2) 7.5 The Elusive Magic Potion 7.6 The Healer Within (Part 1) 7.6 The Healer Within (Part 2) 8. Healing Communications (Part 1) 8. Healing Communications (Part 2) 9.1 A Programme for Health – Health Management 9.2 An Integral Model of Health – Physical and Psychological Self-Culture 9.3 An Integral Model of Health – Social Health and Man Management 10. Towards the Future – The Evolutionary Transformation of the Body “Veda of the Body” – Epilogue