Praise for The Tao of Piercing

"In many respects, this book is really the Tao of Life. In addition to common-sense information and appropriate guidelines for using body piercing as part of a spiritual journey, Jeanne shows us that DNA holds a wealth of ancestral memories. Unleashing those hidden memories, and utilizing that wisdom, is her fascinating message."

"Forget HMOs and dangerous prescription medicine. Jeanne is a master healer. Her new work reveals ancient methods for fine tuning the mind, body and soul. She encourages us to heal ourselves, and shows us how to achieve the natural balance that leads to good health."

"Our earliest ancestors knew how to use body piercing and other adornments to orchestrate the body's energies, enhancing health and vitality. Jeanne Blum has mined these traditions and produced a wonderful guide for managing your energies with this time-honored approach."

"Not just a social comment or a peer emblem, piercing can be used as a powerful instrument of healing and life enhancement. Based on the ancient principles of acupuncture, Jeanne Blum explains, clearly and professionally, the exact points and even, times of day, to attain the desired effect. If you are contemplating piercing, do yourself a favor and read this book!"

"This is an amazing book! Once again, with the same mix of scholarship, humor and sanity she showed in Woman Heal Thyself, Jeanne Blum brings to light the profound impact of just a little piercing. Herself a muse, Jeanne Blum provides a healthy way of eroticizing your life."

"Jeanne Elizabeth Blum has followed her impressive and necessary Women Heal Thyself with another book that is just as solid and smack-on timely. Indeed, this latest book might save much of an entire generation of street coutoure piercers from wretched health (not cool to have) and point them to superhero health (just by adjusting their piercings) if it is given the mass web dissemination/buzz the Pierced Generation sometimes accomplishes for other vital data. As someone who has edited many alternative health writers in my career, and who knows the field pretty well, I like the book's thoroughness and range, its easy-moving intelligent writing. I particularly admire the brazen smarts of introducing Tao thinking and acupuncture healing to the hip-hop tattoo tribes. Beyond this, for the rest of us, the preventive medicine argument is so well done, you might start musing on what part of your body is going to look good with a gold or silver ring or stud. Or not look good—but cure some of what ails you."

"A marvelous, well-informed and much-needed spiritual guide for piercers, the pierced, or anyone contemplating the experience. Jeanne Blum writes with authority, humor, and insight on the benefits of conscious body piercing. She blends history, oriental medicine, personal anecdotes and cautionary advice to provide the informed, intelligent and spiritual way to get pierced. Filled with delicious historical facts, anecdotes, and the understanding of the deeper spiritual significance of piercing this book is intensive and thorough, combining all the aspects of conscious piercing. This is a spiritual guide to the practical aspects of getting pierced."

"A sophisticated arrangement of probabilities for the masses to ponder. The Tao of Piercing brings to the forefront the age-old tradition of "body art" and "metal augmentation." Whether for functional or medicinal purposes or artistic enhancement, this book has something for everyone-if not for enlightenment, maybe for entertainment. Whatever your fancy for reading, The Tao of Piercing it is bound to change your life."