Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of Osteopathy, said that our science is young, but the principles or laws that govern it are as ancient as God and as life itself. Knowing those principles and laws is what makes the difference between a novice osteopath and an elite one—between someone who treats a specific type of patient and someone who is prepared to treat all patients in the world, in any situation. That is why this book speaks much more about principles and laws than about techniques,...

Can we approach the creator of our perceptions and images of reality? Can we do it through Osteopathy? Can we do it with our hands? "Of all the parts of the body, the brain should be the most attractive one," said Andrew Taylor Still. But, What did he mean by that? The science-fiction future already inhabits the present. The future has already arrived. In this era of augmented reality, neurosciences, cyborgs, nanotechnology, biotechnology, genetic reconfiguration, and laboratories ruling t...

Possibly, this work is destined—sure as fate—to become the least read of all Osteopathy books. We already know that the world has fewer and fewer readers (and, conversely, more and more consumers of 15-second videos, promptly forgotten within the next 2 minutes). Worse still, if we were to tell those few remaining readers that the book they hold in their hands is a resounding call into the desert of reflection, of thought, and of philosophy, their interest in reading it would surely dimini...