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Summary: Incredible Healing Book.
Review: I read this book first as a Doctorate Student. It disappeared on a move. I was devastated because it had become my encyclopedia for healing. Amazing book!! It gave me additonal insight into alternative healing. I learned the most basic yet prophetic lessons on human existence and made so many notes and studied observations in this book. This book has had the most profound impact on my thought patterns as a Doctor (much more so than any required school text). I have spent my years studying human healing. It dosen't stop at any certain persons defintion of healing. I find each unique human has some new meaning to add to this process. This book will start you on your way to understanding and loving all of man kind.
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Summary: The beautiful truth of the creation of the Human Being
Review: I read this book several years ago. Thank goodness as validation for things that I had been experiencing for decades was finally explained in full detail, with scientific research and support. I have been a practicing Registered Nurse for 20 years now. These talents are owned by all...I say all and here Ms. Brennan, with her talents realized, unabashedly and in a lovely way explains the magnificent "protoplasm" the, "human being" as one of totality, a triad if you will, mind, body and spirit. Alive, its own hospital, diagnostician, dietician, mentor, psychologist, nurse, doctor, laboratory...and for goodness sakes all you have to do is be quiet for a moment and listen to the movements within and about ones self and see the most gorgeous elements of yourself. She gives dignity and credence to all this...enjoy. I started healing 'self' the moment I stopped for a nanosecond and held myself in the quiet to listen. Now to stop for that second is not enough....life walking in "listening" I share purely with myself and all.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I was very disappointed with this book. Here is one example of my disappointment: Brennen describes the "universal energy field", and claims that through her high-sensory perception she can see "orgone". But her description of orgone (little tranlucent globules that come down from the sky) sounds a lot like the little bits of crap that float in the liquid on your eye. (You normally don't see the crap floating on your eye because your brain, quite rightly, ignores them). So, either her great ability to observe ('high-sensory perception') is just really poor observation or she doesn't adequately describe what she is observing. Either way, the book is misleading.I suspect what Brennen is actually observing through her 'high-sensory perception' is really optical illusions.
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Summary: The best book on spiritual healing I've located
Review: I'd recommend this book to anyone seeking a greater understanding of how the human energy field actually functions and how this directly relates to our health and well being.
The author's extensive scientific background and knowledge are helpful in articulating complex spiritual concepts in a clear and concise manner. This allows the reader a greater intellectual understanding of some of the more esoteric aspects of spiritual development by providing a scientific basis for these mystical concepts.
Unlike many books on spiritual healing, this work doesn't rely heavily on faith or religious belief in order to understand the nature of personal healing. The intelligence and healthy skepticism of the reader are actually helpful in understanding these views. Many people including myself may prefer to understand spiritual concepts rather than accept beliefs based on faith.
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Summary: Unsubstantiated
Review: I'll just write a few words on Brennan's esoteric anatomy: As I see it, Barbara Brennan made numerous unsubstantiated and confusing claims ( higher intellect, lower emotions,..), bizarre ad hoc suppositions ( "template body" etc.) . Without going into much detail, one can pretty safely conclude: 1. Various parts of the body, when concentrared on or meditated upon, can induce/produce transformations of consciousness. In some traditions ( Hindu ), they consider these parts or centres as self-subsistent or, "real" vortices of esoteric physiology. Other traditions, while working with them, are in an equivocal position: their medicine is based on "reality" of them, while spiritual practice admits they're imaginary and just meditative props along the way of consciousness transmutation ( Tibetans, Taoists ). In the majority of "high doctrines" ( Tibetan Tantra, Zen, Vedanta, probably Kashmir Shaivism ), the supreme enlightenment ( nirodh, nirvikalpa samadhi, satori ) occurs in the heart. One can dissect further, but, the polarity remains: for one school, centers are real self-subsistent ( probably dormant, at least some of them ) parts of "spiritual" physiology; for the others, chakras/centers are just convenient props for meditative practice. All other dubieties ( psychology, physiology,..) are of secondary interest. 2. Also, it seems pretty much obvious that nadis, or lines with centres in bioplasmatic/etheric body are connected with the health, well being etc. These things are susceptible to electrophysiological and voltage difference measurments, high voltage photography, and probably, in near future, various scans. As for New Age mishmash with lotuses on the front/back side of the body ( etheric "flowers" etc. ), there is no single strong evidence, be it spiritual-traditional, medical or independently clairvoyant that such things exist at all. The New Age healing is a complex phenomenon, with many psychological, subjective, unconscious, technological etc. factors involved ( and no sci research ) that no "pulsing sensations" or "heat....(wherever)..." can be taken seriously. So, to conclude: There is a noble unifying trait in this effort ( characteristic of the Western world ), hued with proto-scientific ( or proto-rationalist ) flavor, but I think it's doomed from the outset. To put it bluntly- the planetary human spiritual experience, from Kabbalists and Sufis to Vajrayana Buddhists, Taoists, Hindu Tantrics and Aurobindo and Sant Mat, confirms the singular truth: intense absorption in a visual/auditory symbol, wherever placed, may induce/produce radical transformations of consciousness/being/body-soul. Places, colors, symbols, sounds, graphical structure, meditative form- all are completely different. Also- psychospiritual experiences, visions, auditory revelations or temptations are impossible to compare: one cannot set up even rough skeleton of psycho-spiritual "anatomy", let alone corresponding cosmography. Brennan is asking from me to believe all the minutiae of her clairvoyant escapades revealing some unintelligible things ( higher etheric, lower intellectual,..). She's just more deeply read into Theosophy and has a partial clairvoyance. Too scarce for such an etheric/astral/mental/... edifice.
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Summary: not necessarily the most accurate anymore
Review: I, like many, was blown away when I first read 'Hands of Light'. It is a very good book, even if channeling is over-emphasized (be careful just what it is you are channeling and do you really need to channel anyway...) but there are many books out there now that include things left out of 'Hands of Light'. For example, I have found that 'Energetic Anatomy' by Mark Rich (hard to find; energeticanatomy.com is the only way I found) is just as mind-blowing and has details that other books like Hands of Light leave out. So, this book is good, but it is not the be-all end-all. Multiple sources is the best way to go in this field.
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Summary: No book or person like this on earth
Review: If there was ever anyone that combined all of spirituality into an accurate wholeness, it is Barbara Brennan. There is no human being with the knowledge that she has. Consider yourself privledged to have read this book.
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Summary: What should be on a healer¿s bookshelf
Review: If you are a healer or want to be healed, these books should help. You may also want to put two of these books in your doctor's hands: The Power of Divine: A Healer's Guide, and Hands of Light. I read many books on various forms of healing, and alternative medicine, and I have found wonderful insights and practical how-to in each of these books. The Healing Touch: A Guide to Healing Prayer for Yourself and Those You Love--- Norma Dearing, Francis MacNutt The Power of Divine: A Healer's Guide - Tapping into the Miracle---Tiffany Snow Hands of Light: Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field---Barbara Ann Brennan Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal---Richard Gordon Healing Light---Agnes Mary White Sanford
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Summary: Revolutionary Classic in Modern Medicine
Review: If you are interested in self-healing of ANY part of your person or are involved in the medical field, alternative medicine, hands on healing...etc, then buy this book! (Buy "Light Emerging" also!) Most books on healing using the human aura are flaky nonsense. In fact, most (not all) "New Age" books are nonsense in my opinion. This book is a strong exception. I honestly believe that this book will one day be considered a revolutionary text in modern medicine - that the techniques outlined in this text will one day become standard practices in modern medicine. I might add, I'm a very skeptical reader when it comes to non-traditional thought. I'm not some flake running around with crystals on my neck "sucking up bad energy." I'm a practicing mechanical engineer with a strong traditional educational background (incl. grad degree) in critical analysis. I should also mention I've attended one of her healing workshops and saw things that completely amazed me and also some things that seemed a bit odd. However, overall I would certainly recommend going to one of her workshops. If interested, you may wish to search for her web site under "Barbara Brennan School of Healing"
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Summary: Revolutionary Classic in Modern Medicine
Review: If you are interested in self-healing of ANY part of your person or are involved in the medical field, alternative medicine, hands on healing...etc, then buy this book! (Buy "Light Emerging" also!) Most books on healing using the human aura are flaky nonsense. In fact, most (not all) "New Age" books are nonsense in my opinion. This book is a strong exception. I honestly believe that this book will one day be considered a revolutionary text in modern medicine - that the techniques outlined in this text will one day become standard practices in modern medicine. I might add, I'm a very skeptical reader when it comes to non-traditional thought. I'm not some flake running around with crystals on my neck "sucking up bad energy." I'm a practicing mechanical engineer with a strong traditional educational background (incl. grad degree) in critical analysis. I should also mention I've attended one of her healing workshops and saw things that completely amazed me and also some things that seemed a bit odd. However, overall I would certainly recommend going to one of her workshops. If interested, you may wish to search for her web site under "Barbara Brennan School of Healing"
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