The Intimate of Your Majesty in the Works of Bathing and Healing, taken from beliefs and practices of Ancient Civilizations is well-researched and artfully written non fictional narrative. The book engages readers of any age from 8th grade to late adults in scratching their heads over much deeper than 50-cent piece questions, related to the value of recuperative powers that stimulate a human being into action toward establishing a body-mind unity. Without achieving this type of relationship, any dilemma would play a role of microbe and hinder a person from living healthy life despite that the microbe is nothing, the terrain is everything. Perusing the deeper concept of the ancient healing, modern medicine, including alternative one, utilizes old physical therapy, purification, hypnoses, temple-sleep, bathing and a variety of natural ingredients in pharmaceutics and cosmetics. Interestingly, although dreams in temples have been interpreted by priests, in Freud's view, dreams were all forms of 'wish-fulfillment' - attempts by the unconscious to resolve conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past occurred. Accepting her own dream about old times Russia healing as the direct prophecy and the foretelling of a future events, the author of this book, Dr. Goretskaya begs few questions. What the role of bathing and healing did played in the culture of the earlier civilizations at the time when nobody even heard about the global warming? How did simply water splashes used for hygiene purposes successfully posed as the learning, healing, and social institutions? Why citizens named bathhouses the churches, cathedrals, and temples of splash and had used them to celebrate all aspects of their lives from the birth to death? Ah, but if there's few more things a reader would learn from the book, it's that what made citizens to believe in the power of the mysterious, miraculous powers of deities and other supernatural beings. Why some civilizations carved symbols of animals and flowers and used them as spelling graphics to decorate their homes, while others were prohibited from using human and animal images at all? Which natural ingredients helped people to become more healthy and attractive, and when it seems to women, more emancipative. Use old recipes for the same purposes as ancient people did. Studying such oldest societies as Russia, Egypt, Persia, Greece, Roman Republic, India, China, and Japan, the author investigated the works of the world famous researchers, philosophers, natural healers, archeologists, and all those, who have dedicated themselves to the humanity department. As the result of tasting the bathing and healing influence on these civilizations and how it continued to hold meaning in the modern world, the author could not stay away from sharing her findings. To tease a reader in the way of ancient civilization was raised, the author fits in folklore, legends, proverbs, philosophies, art and adventurous scenarios, that may help a reader to forget that it is none fiction journey. Enjoy reading!