The author explores the major themes of illness, health, and the practice of medicine. Deftly examining Jungian synchronicity, alchemy, the I Ching, and the Law of Similars, he hints at a healing principle unifying organism, planet and cosmos - one inscribed in the stars and in all sub-molecular particles. In challenging the myth of mechanical medicine he provides a clue as to how we might heal ourselves and the planet. Read on...!