504 of 515 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Useful and less than useful., December 30, 2008
I just finished reading The Reconnection. I debated whether to write a review and, finally, decided that I would go ahead and share my thoughts.
I am an osteopath who has been in practice for 17 years. Each of our paths is different and I would never presume to question anyone else's work. What the author describes is, I assume, his experience.
My own journey has brought me to a place where much of what is described in this book is quite familiar. I experience it daily.
I found the first half of the book ( up to page 83 in the 2001 version that I have) unhelpful. This is the autobiographical aspect in which the author describes his own development. He tells us repeatedly that he has a special gift, that he was sought out [given this gift] because he is "a master," " we [entities who speak to him] have come because of your reputation." (p.70)
The author is very, very special. He spends almost one-third of the book reminding us of this. He is not just special; he is very special.
So much for the first part of the book, the personality.
However, the second half of the book is entirely different.
It contains many nuggets which, based on my own limited but practical experience I can say ring true.
He provides many guidelines and pearls ( please forgive the unintended pun) which will prove invaluable for anyone seriously interested in entering this path regardless of whatever level that may be.
His advice on dealing with clients, length of time, follow-up visits, mind states of the practitioner, and beliefs associated with such work are spot on.
It took me many years to learn much of this on my own.
A few other personal comments:
You need not attend any class, seminar or read any book to do this work. It is yours whether you consciously know this or not. Silently ask to be taught when you interact with anyone and, I promise, you will.
Your hands are already activated. You need not seek out anyone to activate them.
There is no right or wrong way. There is just what presents.
Don't try to accomplish anything. Let It do the work.
Your trying only gets in the way.
There is no need for any entities or spirits but, if you wish to cultivate such things, you will experience that, too. However, my own experience is that this is totally unnecessary.
The author expresses his own beliefs. You need not adopt them in order to successfully experience what is described in this volume.
Trust yourself, trust the moment.
Know that All is well.
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261 of 270 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Coming down to earth, September 22, 2006
When I began reading this book, I too was carried away by Eric Pearl's exuberance and passion. His book is heady stuff. Pearl is very funny, and he is even more persuasive, making some very astute observations of the human condition. The first part of the book - which is largely autobiographical - on the whole resonated well with me, and for this, I could have given 4 stars.
As for the latter part, where Pearl begins to interpret his experiences from his own personal point of view, this was where I came down to earth somewhat. I began to question his constant assertions that his healing method is supreme. Has he tested out all the others he dismisses so readily? I doubt it. How can you understand the essence of qigong, for example, without really practising it - a whole-of-life approach that requires the same kind of paradigm shift that Pearl claims for his own method. What is more, I have seen - even personally experienced - healings that have had none of the drama of his method, but which were just as remarkable.
Healing is universal. In Roger Jahnke's "The Healer Within" you will find an account of a young woman lying badly injured in a hospital bed, who quietly and unobtrusively healed her torn liver and spleen over forty-eight hours while waiting to be fit for surgery. (How? You'll need to read the book, but I can say here that she'd had no previous training or healing experience.) The point is that no one has the definitive answer to healing; neither does any one method take precedence over all others. (Were Pearl's objections really about the methods, or the way they are sometimes misused?) It is interesting to note that Christ used a wide variety of healing methods. Surely then, how we heal will remain a highly individual experience - no matter how spiritually advanced we become.
To anyone who despairs that they can only acquire the gift of healing through hands-on contact with Eric Pearl himself, I would quote a Buddhist aphorism, "You have come here to find what you already have."
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308 of 328 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not just a book, but an experience, May 19, 2001
This review is from: The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself (Hardcover)
I read Dr. Pearl's book, straight through, in one sitting. I couldn't put it down; the story is compelling. The book is about Dr. Pearl's experience of what he calls RECONNECTIVE HEALING. RECONNECTIVE HEALING is beyond "energy" work, "faith" healing, or "spiritual" healing. It has nothing to do with "belief" or "sending" energy. It's about -- if I'm reading it correctly -- tapping into the quantum, reconnecting with "virtual strings of DNA" and having one's vibration, frequency -- whatever you want to call it -- raised to a higher level. In that higher level, writes Pearl, amazing things happen, one of them being "healings" on the physical, mental, and emotional levels.
Pearl's down-to-earth narrative, his self-effacing humor, and his iconoclastic views of many New Age techniques, methods, and healing rituals was welcome and refreshing. And, as strange as it sounds, I, too, like many others, have had the experience that my hands become warm just holding the book or thinking about the energy Pearl describes. In fact, for four nights following my reading of his book, I dreamed I was offering healing to others and my hands became hot as fire. So hot, that I woke up and my hands actually were hot and pulsating with an "energy" of some sort. This has never happened to me in a dream.
"The Reconnection" is not just a book; it's an experience. One of the best books on healing I've read, and I've read a ton. This is a must-read for anyone with even the slightest interest in healing or energy work.
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