Caroline Myss

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December 02, 1952 in Chicago, The United States

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Caroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.

In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed...more Caroline Myss was born on December 2, 1952 in Chicago, and grew up with her parents, and two brothers, one elder and one younger, in the Melrose Park, Illinois neighbourhood near Chicago. Caroline was raised a Catholic, and attended the Mother Guerin High School, River Grove, Illinois, run by the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana in 1974, and started her career in journalism in Chicago.

In the course of her career, she interviewed Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, M.D., the author of the famous book, On Death and Dying, which inspired her to pursue a Master's degree in theology from Mundelein College, Chicago, which she completed in 1979. She also claims to hold a Ph.D in "intuition and energy medicine", but the degree was granted by Greenwich University, a now-defunct correspondence school that was never accredited to deliver higher education awards by any recognized government accreditation authority.

She started giving medical intuitive readings in 1982 and co-founded a small New Age publishing company, Stillpoint Publishing in Walpole, New Hampshire, where she also worked as an editor in 1983, next she began consulting with holistic doctors, which in 1984, led to her extensive collaboration with Dr. Norman Shealy, an M.D. schooled at Harvard, and the founder of the American Holistic Medical Association, with whom she later co-authored, "Aids: Passageway to Transformation," in 1987, followed by "The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing," in 1988. Deriving from her practice as a medical intuitive, she started writing books, in the field of energy medicine, and healing, all of which became New York Times Best Sellers.[18] Starting with Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing (1996), which overlapped seven Christian sacraments with seven Hindu chakras and the Kabbalah's Tree of Life to create a map of the human "energy anatomy"; this was followed by Why People Don't Heal and How They Can (1998), which explored the reasons people do not heal through her concept of "woundology." Her next book, Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential (2002) dealt with the issue of finding "Life Purpose," while describing Sacred Contracts as "a set of assignments that our soul had formed around before incarnation". She has since appeared on the The Oprah Winfrey Show numerous times.

By 2000, she discontinued doing private medical intuitive readings, and instead started teaching it, through her workshops, seminars, radio shows and guided tours. She tours internationally as a speaker on spirituality and mysticism, and lives in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago. In 2003, she started the Caroline Myss Educational Institute, with Wisdom University in San Francisco.

Her 2007 book, "Entering the Castle" draws upon the writings of Saint Teresa of Ávila, a 16th century Carmelite nun, who wrote her most important work, The Interior Castle, towards the end of her life.(less)

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My love for history and mysticism are without a doubt my deepest passions. The study of military history combined with the history of mysticism has provided me with my very grounded view of human nature. Without a sense of history, the present moment is nothing more than a floating mirage disconnected from its formative events. In working with thousands of people through these past twenty-five-... read more »

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	Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing 4.09 avg rating — 3,949 ratings — published 2010 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your Divine Potential 3.86 avg rating — 2,201 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Why People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body, Mind and Spirit 3.98 avg rating — 601 ratings — published 1995 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Entering the Castle: An Inner Path to God and Your Soul by Caroline Myss, Ken Wilber (Foreword by) 3.95 avg rating — 296 ratings — published 2007 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Invisible Acts of Power: Channeling Grace in Your Everyday Life 3.89 avg rating — 239 ratings — published 2004 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Energy Anatomy [With Study Guide] 4.46 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason 4.06 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2009 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Self-Esteem: Your Fundamental Power 4.21 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Advanced Energy Anatomy 4.51 avg rating — 63 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness 4.49 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:

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“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”
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“Fate is how your life unfolds when you let fear determine your choices. A path of destiny reveals itself to you, however, when you confront your fear and make conscious choices.”
― Caroline Myss

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“I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling influences of our own psychic madness or patterns of fear. All other things—the disdain of ordinary life, the need to control others rather than be controlled, the craving for material goods as a means of security and protection against the winds of chaos—are external props that serve as substitutes for the real battle, which is the one waged within the individual soul.”
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