While some of the text is highly technical, this is a groundbreaking and prophetic book that expands our sense of what medicine is, well beyond the scalpels of surgery and the drugs of internal medicine. Oschman believes that all medicine, including contemporary high-tech medicine, is energy medicine, even including ancient shamanic practices and recent "alternative" medicines, which he sees not as alternative but as complementary.

While shamans, reflexologists, and others have not had scientific theories to explain their powers, they have experienced in their patients (and in themselves) a wide range of healing. Now comes Oschman's theoretical framework, from the cellular level "up" through organisms and even social groups, combined with quantum physics, which gives a coherent and scientifically testable set of hypotheses that makes a grand synthesis between standard and nonstandard medicines.

Oschman has read widely in speculative approaches and has a gift for synthesizing theories and observed phenomena in scientific labs. As of this writing, he is a popular speaker at conferences and massage schools. It seems likely that his thinking will be pivotal as medicine moves from some of its more positivistic tenets to a post-Einsteinian basis that is much more inclusive of a wide range of healing techniques.