Hands of Light

by BRENNAN, BARBARA ANN

• ISBN13: 9780553345391
• ISBN10: 0553345397
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1988-05-01
• Publisher: Bantam

Summary

With the clarity of a physicist and the compassion of a gifted healer with fifteen years of professional experience observing 5,000 clients and students, Barbara Ann Brennan presents the first in-depth study of the human energy field for people who seek happiness, health and their full potential. Our physical bodies exist within a larger "body," a human energy field or aura, which is the vehicle through which we create our experience of reality, including health and illness. It is through this energy field that we have the power to heal ourselves. This energy body -- only recently verified by scientists, but long known to healers and mystics -- is the starting point of all illness. Here, our most powerful and profound human interactions take place, the precursor and healer of all physiological and emotional disturbances. Hands of Lightis your guide to a new wholeness. It offers: A new paradigm for the human, in health, relationship, and disease An understanding of how the human energy field looks, functions, is disturbed, healed, and interacts with friends and lovers. Training in the ability to see and interpret auras Medically verified case studies of healing people from all walks of life with a variety of illnesses. Guidelines for healing the self and others. The author's personal and intriguing life adventure which gives us a model for growth, courage and possibilities for expanded consciousness

Author Biography

Barbara Ann Brennan is a healer, therapist, and scientist who has devoted more than twenty years of research and exploration of the human energy field. Following an advanced degree in atmospheric physics from the University of Wisconsin, she worked as a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She trained in bioenergetic and core energetic therapy at the Institute for Psychophysical Synthesis and at the Community of the Whole Person in Washington, D.C. She was in the first graduating class of Dr. John Pierrakos' Institute for the New Age, now known as the Institute of Core Energetics in New York City.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Part I LIVING ON A PLANET OF ENERGY
The Healing Experience	3	(6)
How to Use This Book	9	(4)
A Note on Training and the Development of Guidance	13	(8)
Part II THE HUMAN AURA
Introduction The Personal Experience	19	(2)
Parallels Between How We See Ourselves and Reality and Western Scientific Views	21	(8)
History of Scientific Investigation into the Human Energy Field	29	(8)
The Universal Energy Field	37	(4)
The Human Energy Field or Human Aura	41	(20)
Part III PSYCHODYNAMICS AND THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD
Introduction The Therapeutic Experience	59	(2)
Human Growth and Development in the Aura	61	(10)
Psychological Function of the Seven Major Chakras	71	(10)
Chakra or Energy Center Diagnosis	81	(8)
Observations of Auras in Therapy Sessions	89	(12)
Energy Blocks and Defense Systems in the Aura	101	(8)
Aura and Chakra Patterns of the Major Character Structures	109	(24)
Part IV THE PERCEPTUAL TOOLS OF THE HEALER
Introduction The Cause of Illness	131	(2)
The Separation of Reality	133	(4)
From Energy Block to Physical Disease	137	(10)
The Process of Healing, an Overview	147	(6)
Direct Access of Information	153	(4)
Internal Vision	157	(12)
High Auditory Perception and Communication with Spiritual Teachers	169	(8)
Heyoan's Metaphor of Reality	177	(10)
Part V SPIRITUAL HEALING
Introduction Your Energy Field Is Your Instrument	185	(2)
Preparation for Healing	187	(14)
Full Spectrum Healing	201	(36)
Healing with Color and Sound	237	(6)
Healing Transtemporal Traumas	243	(12)
Part VI SELF HEALING AND THE SPIRITUAL HEALER
Introduction Transformation and Self Responsibility	253	(2)
The Face of the New Medicine: Patient Becomes Healer	255	(10)
Health, a Challenge to Be Yourself	265	(8)
The Development of a Healer	273	(10)
Bibliography	283