About The Author

Don Gerrard was born in Houston, Texas in 1939. While in college at Austin he first entered the book business, working part-time at the University Co-op bookstore.

In 1964 he moved to San Francisco, where he worked in a bookstore on Union Square. In 1965 he became manager of the trade paperback department at a local book and magazine wholesaler.

In 1968 he founded and became general partner of Book People in Berkeley, California. In addition to a complete line of trade paperbacks, Book People distributed The Whole Earth Catalog series, How To Keep VW Alive, Shambhala Publications, and the works of a number of other innovative California publishers. In 1971 he sold his interest in Book People in order to devote his energies entirely to publishing.

In 1970 he founded and became general partner of The Bookworks©, a Berkeley publisher of back-to-the-land and alternative health handbooks. Among their successful titles were Grow Your Own, Living On The Earth, The Tooth Trip, The Massage Book, The Well Body Book, Getting Clear (Bodywork for women), Total Orgasm, Living Your Dying, Massage & Meditation, The Well Dog Book, The Well Cat Book, Roots Of Consciousness, The Zen Of Running and Seeing With The Mind's Eye. Altogether 38 titles were published between 1971 and 1976.

In 1974 he published his first written work, One Bowl, a small book about food awareness.

In 1976 he withdrew from active publishing to study the principles of alternative health care. By 1978 he began to develop a theory of natural healing, one which sought to go beyond health maintenance - to raise the level of a person's health. His concept relied on individualized techniques using non-toxic remedies to stimulate the natural healing abilities of the organism. At that time, the only remedies which could fulfill this demand were either homeopathic (difficult for lay people to learn and use) or flower essences (did not cover many common physical complaints). In 1979 he taught his concepts at Friends Of Health in Berkeley, but had no satisfactory remedies to recommend to the students.

Between 1980 and the present he conducted the research which lead to the development of the magnetic patterns presented in this book. He also developed the simplified instructions which make these remedies an easy-to-use form of vibrational medicine. In 1990 he tested, then published this book. He is now working toward a complete home health care system based on the Paper Doctor Remedy Cards.

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