W ounds into Blessings was first written, in 1998, as an adaptation of Fred Mitouer's doctoralthesis, White Silk ~ Black Leather. Back then the field of Bodywork and Somatics was in its nascentform, not unlike the Internet. Since then, much has changed in our socio-economic world, especially intechnology and in our scientific understanding of the relational dynamic between consciousness, molecularbiology and psychological states of awareness. Yet with all the "change" in technological literacy andsomatic awareness, one must question whether substantive transformation in the modern human's innerlife is really possible without a sincere, dedicated intention to grow the full capacity of what it means tobe human. This book chronicles this inquiry into what it means to grow one's humanness -- both as a recipient of thehands-on healing work and as a practitioner. And it is also an historical portrait of a healing artist'sinitiation into the discovery of how healing works and how it is capable of uniting the soulful and messydepths of human suffering with the transcendental heights of redemptive spiritual valence.