From Stuntman To Electro Medicine Man

A true story with forwards by Mark Victor Hansen and Stephen Sinatra, MD As a child I dreamt of flight. As a man, my mother's gifts would indeed lead me to a leap of faith, to strap on wings and fly like the birds. I awoke relieved, happy to have escaped from a bad dream. Then, slowly focusing, my eyes made out the intravenous drip bag seemingly floating above my head, and I began to decipher that I was in a hospital room. My bad dream was no dream at all, but a nightmarish reality. I instantly suffered from the onset of excruciating pain and the flashing recall of the events that landing me here. My life had drastically changed. The day before, January 6, 1986, I had awoken to another beautiful Sunday morning in Hawaii. I lay in bed with my new girlfriend, thinking how lucky I was to live in paradise, to have a job I loved, and to have the freedom to fly at will. After a light breakfast, I went for my daily swim and a run on the beach with my two Doberman pinschers. As far as I was concerned, life could not get any better. If you can dream it you can do it From Stuntman to Electro Medicine Man is the open and honest memoir from extreme sports pioneer and Hollywood stuntman John Thorp. He candidly lays out his rise and fall; how in facing fear he found faith, and facing death he found life... Embrace the breakdown for the breakthrough is just around the corner