In a desperate attempt to save his own life, a quadriplegic physicist journeyed into the Australian Outback and entered the untouched world of a remote aboriginal tribe. The Aborigines healed him and helped him discover his gift for healing others. Now, in this posthumous memoir and guide, author Dr. Gary Holz narrates his extraordinary true story. Diagnosed with chronic progressive multiple sclerosis, Holz was confined to a wheelchair and took a leap of faith traveling into Australia's far reaches to be treated with powerful, 40,000-year-old healing techniques. In Journey to the Heart at the tribe's request, Holz brings this knowledge to the Western world and reveals this secret medicine for the first time. Journey to the Heart provides a rare glimpse into the mystic life and philosophies of Outback Aborigines-one of the oldest cultures on the planet-and offers insights into an ancient system of healing that touches on physical, spiritual, and emotional wellness. This guide provides step-by-step techniques for healing the body, mind and spirit. Praise for Journey to the Heart "Gary's story inspires us to engage our own life more fully-to awaken our own inner capacity for well-being-no matter where we find ourselves."

A week later, this man who had devoted his life to physics, to logic, to hard cold facts, rolled his wheelchair onto a plane bound for Australia. My family thought I was insane. There was a part of me that thought I was insane. But another part of me was saying that this was my only chance. What did I have to lose? At the end of a grueling 18-hour flight sitting upright in my wheelchair, I was met in Brisbane by Ray. He told me that he was taking me to a village in the Outback where I would be working directly with another healer, a woman named Rose, and that he would assist her. A 7-hour drive brought us to the village where I met Rose and began the work of healing. She told me that the aboriginal people do not run a clinic out of their village. They do not treat outsiders, but they had agreed to treat me. In fact, she told me that I was the first outsider in over forty years with whom this tribe had shared their medicine. When I asked Rose why I had been allowed to come, she stated simply that the 'Big Guy' -- God -- had told them that someone was coming from the West, and that they should get ready for him. Under Rose's care, I began working eight to ten hours a day with the 50,000-year-old aboriginal system of emotional, spiritual and physical healing. Within a short time, I experienced the first miracle -- sensation began to return to my body! The following days were joyful. I first began by moving parts of my body that had been paralyzed for many years. Then I became able to stand and, with some support, to walk. As my body continued to heal, I was summoned to a meeting with Old Healer, the ancient aboriginal elder who supervised my treatment with Rose. Old Healer told me that not only was I going to recover from my illness but that I was destined to help others. Someday you will be a powerful healer, he proclaimed. You have enough power in your body to light up a small city. For the rest of my stay, he revealed, I would be learning now only how to heal myself but also how to heal others.