My Life and Work with Alfred Vogel

Nov 23, 2024 4:29 AM

Author:Jan de Vries

My Life and Work with Alfred Vogel is the third instalment of Jan de Vries's memoirs covering his life and career as a renowned alternative health practitioner. This volume focuses on his long and fruitful working relationship with Alfred Vogel, which prospered right up until Vogel's death in 1996. Jan de Vries was the only person to whom Vogel taught his unique healing methods and philosophies, and as a result of their close professional links they also became great friends, sharing a mutual respect and trust over a period of 40 years.

In this revealing and informative memoir, de Vries details the methods employed by Vogel and the profound influence that the Swiss naturopath had on him and his career. De Vries reflects upon the controversial, often almost impossible, situations that he shared with Vogel as they travelled throughout the world to promote their methods and practices.

De Vries also provides invaluable practical advice for daily living and stresses how, by employing old folklore methods and taking on board aspects of dietary management, long-term health and happiness can be achieved by all.

Reviews

Anyone who has an interenst in alternative health methods will adore this wonderful, gentle book

—— RTE Guide

Very readable . . . entertaining as well as highly informative

—— Yoga and Health

A searingly honest, viscerally vivid, darkly comic self-examination of the connections between writing personality and health. Once I started reading it, I didn't want to stop

—— David Lodge , Guardian

This is a crazy, wince-inducing, uplifting book... Parks has done a service to the many people who would never look at a cheesy self-help book or try anything with a whiff of spirituality about it

—— Financial Times

A movingly honest book that is about a great deal more than breathing and meditation

—— Susan Hill , The Lady

Funny, painful and quietly profound book

—— Doug Johnstone , Scotsman

Parks writes wonderfully well about his body as he is reluctantly reconciled to its existence alongside his mind... All the more moving for avoiding new age fakery. Anyone plagued by chronic aches and pains will find much to cheer them in this most unusual and engaging book

—— Jane Housham , Express

Parks is an excellent writer, capable of writing wittily and with great beauty about the near indefinable

—— Seven, Sunday Telegraph

Beautifully written and painfully honest...a fascinating, perceptive and rewarding read

—— The Big Issue

[Parks] writes with forensic precision about all he experiences, physically and mentally... Even those free of illness will find Parks's journey gives us much to ponder about the effects of modern living

—— Ben Felsenburg , Metro

Teach Us to Sit Still is a small triumph of narrative artistry, luxuriantly written and full of bone-dry humour. I'd recommend it to any man over 45 who frets incessantly about his health - which is to say, any man over 45

—— Marcus Berkmann , Spectator

Anam Cara is a radiant source of wisdom, a link between the human and the divine. This work is a blessed, rare gem.

—— Larry Dossey, M.D., author of Be Careful What You Pray For, Prayer Is Good Medicine, and Healing Words

John O'Donohue is an unassuming man with a grand sense of humor. . . charming.

—— Joy Redfield Kwapien, author of The Celestine Journal

John brightens the way for you, if you have the courage to go there--he was obviously sent here with the light.

—— Davy Spillane, Grammy Award-winning musician/composer at North Atlantic Music Studios (Ireland) and Producer of Anam Cara Audiobook

John O'Donohue's book of Celtic wisdom comes at you like a blast of fresh wind rushing above the din of modern noise and cynical contemporary conversations, revitalising the spirit to effectively face this turbulent world. Indeed we need John's wildly original and provocative voice more than ever.

—— Gail Straub, Co-Founder--Empowerment Institute, Author of The Rhythm of Compassion

From the very first sentence, Anam Cara takes us on an exhilarating journey through the human soul and its many wondrous and mysterious labyrinths, and John O'Donohue is the perfect guide to light the way--a radiant soul full of deep wisdom, true compassion, and boundless joy.

—— Andrew Carroll, New York Times bestselling author and co-founder, with Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, of the American Poetry & Literacy Project

Anam Cara has accompanied me on my spiritual journey from its very inception. I have returned to this book often, for solace, wisdom and --most of all--to be reminded that I am not alone in what I desire for myself and for our world. John O'Donohue has been my "soul friend" for years, and his brave revelations of his mind and heart have changed my life. Get ready for a life-altering journey.

—— Edward L. Beck, Roman Catholic Priest, CNN Faith and Religion Commentator

In the age of social media in which we add and discard friends with the tap of a screen, we need more than ever John O'Donohue's vital words of wisdom on how the right relationships can lift a life and feed the soul. This book is about deep love, belonging, and honoring nourishing ties that crush small-minded concepts of what friendship can be. A must read for all on the spiritual journey.

—— Sophfronia Scott, author of The Seeker and the Monk and Love's Long Line

John blew away the dust of many years of spiritual disillusionment and blessed the world with an ancient message infused with beauty, love and divine truths. This was a man formed from the wildness of clay and rock of the West coast of County Clare. It was a privilege to know John and to witness him enliven weary souls in search of the divine spark. He was and continues to be an Anam Cara (soul friend) to those of us blessed to have known him and for all who continue to walk the path through his inspired writings.

—— Áine Minogue, Irish Musician

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