The Women's Book Of Healing (Llewellyn's New Age Series) [Paperback]

Diane Stein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 8, 1998 | Series: Llewellyn's New Age Series

Reclaim your natural right to be a healer. Bring out your abilities with color, vibration, crystals and gems for healing auras and the chakras. This book takes healing out of the exclusive domain of professionals and gives it back to the people. Woman as Mother has been a healer since the beginning of time. This book helps women get in touch with this primal psychic ability. A must for anyone who practices healing techniques.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A knowledgeable, insightful book, filled with the miracles of our bodies and powers of our mind. Gems and crystals, the gifts of the earth, are truly the trusted old friends of self-healing. Diane Stein, you have done it again! Brava!-Z Budapest --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Involved with the women's movement and women's spirituality almost from their beginnings, she is a healer, psychic, witch and priestess of the Goddess craft, and a writer whose work has been known since 1969. An activist in women's rights, gay rights, disability rights, and anti-war movements, her work has focuses on inter-relating these issues with women's spirituality and on using her quests for knowledge and education.<br><br>Diane Stein was born on September 22, 1948 and holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, and a BS degree in Education and English from Duquesne University. <br>

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications (June 8, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875427596
• ISBN-13: 978-0875427591
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #515,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

DIANE STEIN is the author of Essential Reiki, Essential Energy Balancing, and more than 30 books in the fields of metaphysics, women's spirituality, and alternative healing.

She teaches Essential Reiki and Essential Energy Balancing workshop weekends, mostly for women, in Florida (contact [e-mail] if you are interested in attending). See her website www.dianestein.net for books, handmade gemstone Goddess jewelry, antler and crystal ritual wands, workshops for women and more.

Coming up: books on ebook, and some formerly out of print books returning on ebook and in print. New in December, 2011--Prosperity and the Light from ARE's 4th Dimension Press, also coming Healing Flowers A-Z from The Lotus Press. Watch for the return of Brede's Garden Essences and the Lords of Karma video on DVD--coming soon, see www.dianestein.net.

Diane does private phone sessions for healing, karmic release, psychic reading, etc. Cost is $125 for 1/2+ hour. Contact [e-mail].

Follow her on Facebook, LinkedIn, Multiply (http://dianestein.multiply.com) and Twitter (@ednaelk).

Customer Reviews

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40 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Informative but sometimes a little irritating, September 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Women's Book Of Healing (Llewellyn's New Age Series) (Paperback)

I bought this book because it covered a wider range of crystals than the only other crystal-healing book I had, (Crystal Enlightenment by Katrina Raphaell). However, I have found I use Stein's book far less. It crams a great deal of information about a wide range of crystals: however depth is often sacrificed as she goes from one crystal to another in a few words. Because of this information-density it can be hard to find what you are looking for. There is an index but it's not uncommon to look up several entries on the same stone, only to find lots of short, not very informative mentions. Tighter structuring or indexing would have helped greatly.

I also found the women-only tone a little irritating at times. I consider myself to be a feminist but did not feel it needed to be marketed as a specifically "womens" book. I did not feel there was information in there that warrented a separatist approach. She had a tendency to generalise about the nature of women-as-healers in a utopian way, which I thought was unrealistic and also a little suffocating.

Diane Stein has improved as a writer since then: for those who are interested in other forms of healing, "Essential Reiki" is a great, ground-breaking book. (She also tones down the preachiness for that one). For a book on crystals, however, I'd recommend Katrina Raphaell's "Crystal Enlightenment" far more.

37 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finding What Was Meant For You, December 25, 1999

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This review is from: The Women's Book Of Healing (Llewellyn's New Age Series) (Paperback)

I just got the book and immediately checked out the high points, reading the prologue, bits here and there, etc. I knew this was something I could get into. Diane Stein has put into words the same conclusions that it has taken me years to reach. I have not read the entire book, but I will devour every word. The main topic, explanatory from the title, is woman's place in healing, that woman has always been a healer.

She has sections about auras and laying on of hands, of crystals and gemstones and their powers. My sister was in a head-on collision the first of June. It's a miracle she's alive. I took her a necklace of amethyst, which is a healing stone, and it is really making a difference. Diane also has a section on chakras and colors. I am not yet familiar with chakras, but I know from experience the power of color therapy. My bedroom is done in shades of blue and I have a sound-effects machine that simulates the ocean. Oh, yes, it works!

I highly recommend this book, even though so far I have just skimmed off the overflow. Another plus - she expresses herself in plain English. There is not a lot of technical jargon to plow through and say, "Say What? " If I could only keep one of my Christmas gifts, this would be it. Thanks for listening to me.

19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good book on alternative healing with a feminist slant., March 12, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Women's Book Of Healing (Llewellyn's New Age Series) (Paperback)

If you want to learn more about gemstone/crystal, aura, or chakra/color healing et. al., or just empowerment of women as healers in general, then this is the book for you. However, it does get a little over-feminist at times (especially in the beginning chapters) and almost sounds preachy in this way, so if you are not a raging feminist, take it with a grain of salt and move on as I did, the rest is worth it. The correspondence tables are excellent as are the sections on the gemstones and crystals and their healing properties, as well as what stones to use to heal or help certain ailments.