Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing [Paperback]

Barbara Brennan (Author)

Book Description

Release date: November 1, 1993

Barbara Ann Brennan's bestselling first book, Hands of Light, established her as one of the world's most gifted healers and teachers. Now, she continues her ground-breaking exploration of the human energy field, or aura -- the source of our experience of health or illness. Drawing on many new developments in her teaching and practice, she shows how we can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with our most fundamental healing power: the light that emerges from the very center of our humanity.

In a unique approach that encourages a cooperative effort among healer, patient, and other health-care providers, Light Emerging explains what the healer perceives visually, audibly, and kinesthetically and how each of us can participate in every stage of the healing process.

Presenting a fascinating range of research, from a paradigm of healing based on the science of holography to insights into the "hara level" and the "core star," Light Emerging is at the leading edge of healing practice in our time. 

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Research physicist and founder of her own school, Brennan is a leading New Age healer. She provides here a useful introduction to the scientific background behind her laying-on-of-hands technique. Brennan offers an explanation of her healing perspective and its use in conjunction with medical therapy, the stages and importance of self-care, and healing relationships through auric field interaction and higher spiritual realities. She encourages taking personal responsibility for one's health through a holistic approach and consultation with nontraditional specialists as well as a physician. This self-help book may become a New Age classic. Highly recommended.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Brennan instructs on how to work with the "human energy field," which involves the seven chakras and the aura, to cure various physical and emotional problems. Readers searching for ways of healing that go beyond the orthodox will be best able to use this book and because Brennan's discussion is long and involved, at once fascinating and confusing, it may well attract the most devoted anyway. Despite a nod from Bernie Siegel, and evidence throughout that Brennan's methods can be effective, discussions of how people "grow cords" that obstruct relationships or why you should soak used jewelry in saltwater to destroy negative energy are sure to have skeptics shaking their heads. Brennan is not only a therapist and healer, but also a former research scientist for NASA, which would seem to lend her credibility. This title follows her popular Hands of Light (1988). Jo Peer-Haas

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Bantam; Presumed to be 1st as edition is unstated edition (November 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553354566
• ISBN-13: 978-0553354560
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 0.9 x 10.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (43 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,923 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #20 in Books > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Alternative Medicine > Energy Healing
  • #80 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Mental & Spiritual Healing

More About the Author

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.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 65 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars In-depth discussion about holistic methods of healing June 14, 1998

By Ernesto A. Pérez ([e-mail])

Format:Paperback

This book throughly describes health and sickness and how the human aura reflects them. It also contains discussions on the hara and the core star, the holographic view of life, creating the healer-physician team, the different stages of healing, and in-depth discussions on how to heal through the seven levels of the human energy field. I liked this book because it always describes a positive approach to healing, no matter what the sickness may be. I was amazed to learn how the same health problem can holographically show in different areas on your life, visible and otherwise; and how this very truth itself determines the different areas in which the patient, along with him/her healer-physician team, need to work on. She describes how the healing of a physical sickness can bring wellness on the psychological and spiritual sides of the self; the reverse can also happen (psychological and spiritual healing can enhance the physicial well-being). There simply was nothing I disliked from this book. The author has written another book, "Hands of Light", her first book on the human aura, and it describes the human aura deeper but left out other areas described in this book, such as the hara and the core star.

75 of 85 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Another follow up book January 27, 2005

By larry

Format:Paperback

I read Emerging Light with some high expectations, having read Hands of Light. This book was a dissapointment to me. It seems that Barbara followed the path of "I wrote one successful book, therefore I can cash in one the craze" that many authors do. There wasn't a lot of really relevant information here, though a few tidbits here and there. When she discusses the cords it didn't seems anywhere near as accurate as when Mark Rich writes about them in Energetic Anatomy. The part about the core star isn't anything I had ever heard of and didn't really resonate with me much. I think sticking with Hands of Light is probably a better idea.

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A profoundly inspiring book August 24, 2000

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I found "Light Emerging" to be a profoundly inspiring book. It delves into the complex relationships of our minds and our spirituality, to our physical bodies. But more importantly, it opens doors to new possibilities with regard to healing and self-awareness. I felt it explored and championed the idea of a team effort between physician, healer, and patient. This triumvirate is a terrific concept when you think about it; it addresses all aspects of the person--body, mind, and spirit, and it serves to give the patient a feeling of solidarity, of not being alone in their struggle for both their heart and health. And, it keeps the focus on how the two are interrelated. The book is positive, enlightening, and filled me with an overwhelming sense of hope. I highly recommend it.