Into the Magic Shop: A Neurosurgeon's Quest to Discover the Mysteries of the Brain and the Secrets of the Heart

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The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary things
that can happen when we harness the power of both the brain and the heart
Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an
alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke.
Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research
and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a
founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve
he wandered into a magic shop looking for a plastic thumb. Instead he met
Ruth, a woman who taught him a series of exercises to ease his own suffering
and manifest his greatest desires. Her final mandate was that he keep his
heart open and teach these techniques to others. She gave him his first
glimpse of the unique relationship between the brain and the heart. Doty would
go on to put Ruth’s practices to work with extraordinary results—power and
wealth that he could only imagine as a twelve-year-old, riding his orange
Sting-Ray bike. But he neglects Ruth’s most important lesson, to keep his
heart open, with disastrous results—until he has the opportunity to make a
spectacular charitable contribution that will virtually ruin him. Part memoir,
part science, part inspiration, and part practical instruction, Into the Magic
Shop shows us how we can fundamentally change our lives by first changing our
brains and our hearts. Read more

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Product Details:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Avery; Later prt. edition (February 2, 2016)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594632987
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 83
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.6 ounces
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.72 x 0.98 x 8.53 inches
• Best Sellers Rank: #587,197 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1,150 in Medical Professional Biographies #1,356 in Cognitive Psychology (Books) #16,318 in Memoirs (Books)
• #1,150 in Medical Professional Biographies
• #1,356 in Cognitive Psychology (Books)