Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing (Paperback)

~ Barbara Brennan (Author) "The gift of healing rests within everyone..." (more)
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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.
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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; First Edition edition (November 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553354566
• ISBN-13: 978-0553354560
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,224 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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42 of 44 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]) (Isabela, Puerto Rico) - See all my reviews

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.

43 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	larry (NM USA) - See all my reviews

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.

39 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Where's the Science?, July 5, 2003

By	Scott Knudsen (Air Ronge, Saskatchewan Canada) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book definitely adds to Barbara's first book 'Hands of Light', but as her being a scientist I ask myself where's the science in this book? She seems to just rely on her spirit guides for everything, even all the stuff she should and probably does know as a well educated person! Why all the push to get everyone involved in the New Age/Eastern Religion stuff and depending on what the spirits say for everything? Instead why not concentrate on teaching people how to do things on their own like Donna Eden does in her book Energy Medicine? If all Brennan's guides chanellings where left out of the book I would have added another star to it's rating.