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107 of 109 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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197 of 206 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not just a book, but an experience, May 19, 2001
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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108 of 113 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A new way of seeing..., July 26, 2004
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Reconnective Healing is real. I am grateful to have recently encountered it, finding it to be the most direct, powerful, and all-encompassing level of energy work I have encountered yet in all my years of exploring and using various healing modes such as: Reiki, Chi Gung, NLP, Hypnotherapy, Past Life Regression, Conscious Breathing, Body Talk System, Emotional Freedom Technique, Medicine Ways, channeling, crystals, chakra balancing, and others.
Some folks may have misunderstood Dr. Pearl's suggestion that reading the book may be the beginning of a process of opening to a new level of consciousness and energy for some people. He never promised that reading the book would allow someone to perform miracle healings.
In Reconnective Healing trainings much time is given to techniques and exercises for each person to become sensitive to feeling the flow of energy that is already within us and all around us, and to fine tune it. By feeling these subtle energies they become activated - reconnected - in you and in those you connect with while in this awareness. It is the energy itself in you that does the healing while you 'get out of the way' by letting go of your ideas and expectations.
The simplest ideas are often the most difficult to accept; and the healing approach described in this book is pure simplicity. In fact, it works better the more we let go of our preconceptions.
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