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Revision with unchanged content. This book addresses the need for a greater delineation of the relationship between spirituality and health. Its contents are based upon the author´s research that presents a more definitive articulation of spirituality´s asso ciation with physical and mental health, especially in terms of selected personality traits, cultural perspectives, religious orientation, and spiritual ideologies as they pertain to self-healing practices that may not be adhered to by religious epistemologies. The author´s comprehensive, advanced utility for cross-cultural research takes into account the limitations of Western methodological traditions and additionally differentiates between "being religious" and "being spiritual."

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PhD, Chair of Research at PSYmore Research Institute, Inc., conducts cross-cultural human consciousness multi-discipled research. She is an accomplished, multi-faceted international speaker and author on Kouksundo, multicultural religious and spiritual rituals, shamanism, spiritualism, attentional strategies, and dreaming.

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