Alternatives to the mainstream medicine

A review of The Corona Transmissions: Alternatives for engaging with covid-19 — from the physical to the metaphysical, edited by Sherri Mitchell, Richard Grossinger and Kathy Glas (Healing Arts Press, US $19.99, December 2020; UK & Ireland £16.99 / €22, March 2021).

This is a welcome collection of 35 fresh perspectives on the C19 catastrophe from voices excluded or ignored by the mainstream media — writers, poets, doctors, herbalists, First Nations teachers, economists, psychotherapists, astrologers, homeopathic physicians, yoga guides and others.

Healing Arts Press, an imprint of US publishers Inner Traditions, focuses on self-care through complementary and alternative medicine and holistic health, its books, says its webpage, combining ‘contemporary thought and innovative research with the accumulated knowledge of the world’s great healing traditions’.

As to the three editors of The Corona Transmissions, Sherri Mitchell was born and raised on the Penobscot Indian reservation and is the founding director of the Land Peace Foundation, which will receive all royalties from the book to serve First Nations tribes in Maine. Sherri has a Juris Doctorate and a certificate in indigenous people’s law and policy from the University of Arizona’s James E Rogers College of Law.