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by Harry Edwards (Amazon Books)
Born in London as one of nine children, Harry Edwards became a spiritual healer when he attended a meeting at a spiritualist church in 1936 and was told by the mediums present that he had great healing powers. His early attempts at spiritual healing were met with success, and gradually his reputation as a healer grew. He was probably the most famous British spiritual healer of the 20th century. He founded the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary in Shere in Surrey which still thrives to this day. His biographer described him as ‘the greatest healer since the time of Christ.’
This detailed and very practical book describes the methods by which spiritual healing may be accomplished. This book will be of value not only to those who desire to heal the sick but to all who are interested in understanding the way in which healing works.
Edwards begins this work by discussing Absent healing and the Seeking of Attunement with Spirit and distinguishes it from Contact Healing. For Edwards:’ It can truly be said that Absent Healing or Distant Healing will become the most potent healing factor for the future.’ He goes on to discuss the qualifications for an Absent Healer. ‘Healing is a natural talent, and generally speaking, all those who are sick and in pain and have that deep inner yearning to heal may well possess the healing potential, which only needs developing and the opportunity for expression. Absent healing is often the way through which the gift is awakened and developed.’ A re-assuring thought. In clear non-scientific language that all may access, Edwards goes on to discuss aspects of the physical mind, the spirit mind and the thought processes involved in the act of healing both from the healer’s standpoint and that of the recipient. The seeking of attunement is paramount in this healing process.
Following these assertions, Edwards goes on to explore, in a far-ranging enquiry, from the theory of spiritual healing, the conduct of a healing clinic, the healing of specific medical conditions to the Science of Healing, in which he looks at the prevailing scientific understanding of how healing energies work including psychosomatic conditions and mental healing. The last chapter of this remarkable healing manual enquires into the cause (especially the role of the mind), the prevention and the cure of cancer.
This Guide is a fascinating read from an inspirational and gifted healer. A must-read in the annals of spiritual healing.

Caroline Myss (pronounced ‘Mace’) is an American medical ‘intuitive’, mystic and author. Many of her books have become New York Times best-sellers.
In ‘Anatomy of Spirit’, perhaps her most famous book, Myss describes our spiritual anatomy and how its dysfunctions affect the physical body. She draws on concepts from three major religious sources (Christianity, Hinduism and the Jewish Kabbalah) and fuses Eastern and Western spiritual healing philosophies into a programme for spiritual healing and personal growth.
Myss discusses the 7 stages through which everyone must pass in the search for consciousness and spiritual maturity, stages she claims which are the same in all spiritual traditions and which correspond to 7 stages for healing. Using Hindu wisdom relating to the 7 chakras or energy centres in our bodies, she links this knowledge to the spiritual wisdom of the 7 sacraments of the Christian faith and further links these elements to the Jewish Kabbalah’s Tree of Life.
Myss points to evidence that each illness we develop corresponds to a very specific pattern of emotional and psychological stress; furthermore, she claims that certain beliefs and attitudes which we hold as individuals influence corresponding areas of the human body. For example, according to Myss, lower back problems result from dysfunctions of our first or base chakra which is concerned with our “tribe” or loyalty group, be this family, friends or colleagues. Misplaced loyalties or conflicts would then manifest in the lower part of the body. Interspersed with the theory and discursive elements of the book are numerous case studies from Myss’ own experience with her clients over the years. These case studies make for powerful demonstrations of the truth of her arguments.
Myss also discuss why we do not heal and the reasons why we find ourselves in difficult circumstances which never seem to change. For Myss, as you begin to understand your spiritual anatomy, you will discover the spiritual causes of your illnesses and how to recover from an illness you may already have. You will become your own healer.
In ‘Anatomy of the Spirit’, Myss also presents three principles of energy medicine: firstly, that our biography becomes our biology; secondly, that personal power is necessary for optimal health; and that, thirdly, you alone can help yourself heal. Her emphasis is on the relationship between our conscious awareness of ourselves as spiritual beings and the effects of this awareness (or non-awareness) on our physical bodies.
“As spiritual adults we accept responsibility for co-creating our lives and our health. Co-creation is in fact the essence of spiritual adulthood; it is the exercise of choice and the acceptance of our responsibility for those choices.”
This is a fascinating, challenging and empowering book.

Jack Angelo, D. Litt., is a respected writer, healer, teacher and trainer in the field of subtle energy and spirituality. This practical guide, one of his earliest works, is suitable for those just starting out on their healing journey. It explores the human body and its subtle aspects, the aura and the energy centres, and how the energies of healing work. For Angelo, the physical body is to be seen as part of an interrelated system of other subtle bodies which comprises your whole being.
The exercises provided help the reader to understand the system and to work efficiently with its energies. The nature of disease is explored as well as the role of the mind and its emotions, how healing relates to birth and death as well as to ill-health. Angelo also provides detailed instructions and drawings on the act of healing, ways of working and how to run a healing practice. The book aims to be a self-healing manual as well as a guidance manual for healers. It has been used as a workshop manual for many years.
Your Healing Power is a step-by- step practical course for those who wish to awaken and develop their own healing gifts.

Dr. Alberto Villoldo was a social scientist by profession and became a shamanic healer through his work as an anthropologist. This remarkable and absorbing book, written as a result of Villoldo’s travels and training with Inca shamans, demonstrates the healing power of energy medicine, a tradition practised in the Americas for more than 5,000 years.
As he explores such subjects as the ‘Luminous energy field that surrounds our body, Villoldo shows us how, by learning to see and influence the imprints of disease in our aura of energy, we can discover, not only how to heal ourselves and other, but prevent illness as well.
Villoldo also explores the idea of life beyond death, navigating this unseen world with the knowledge of a scientist and the wisdom of a shamanic healer.
Classically trained a medical anthropologist, Villoldo became a foremost teacher of the shamanic techniques of the Incas. Villoldo weaves together a host of illuminating stories and exercises – with chapters such topics as Healing and Infinity, The Luminous Healers and The Luminous Energy Field – to provide an accessible, practical and revolutionary programme of healing.
Villoldo discusses the differences between ‘curing’ or fixing whatever problem arises in the body of the those seeking healing and ‘healing ‘which transforms the life of the recipient and often, but not always, produces a physical relief of symptoms or ‘cure’.
In addition, Villoldo warns against those who wish to become instant healers after a short or weekend course. He argues that this ego-driven ambition to have the power to heal or influence another, particularly for money, is akin to black magic. Only the pure in heart should undertake the journey of becoming a true healer.

Dr Michael Newton is considered a pioneer in the use of Spiritual Regression. This book was first published in 1994 and is now considered a classic in the field.
Written in the form of transcripts of client sessions, accompanied by the author’s own resultant learning and understandings from the information received at each session, the book is principally geared to demystifying the processes of death and dying at soul level and lives between physical incarnations. Each case represents a direct dialogue between Newton and the subject, taken from tape recordings of sessions with the client in a ‘superconscious’ state, revealing the connection between life and afterlife.
The main focus is on the subject’s experiences in the spirit world relating to their most recent life, including events from the time of death through to the next incarnation. They also offer information about different levels of soul, spirit guides, life selection, the purpose of a life, choosing a new body, rebirth and much more.
This book is a mix of interesting, uplifting and at times moving accounts of life after death. It describes the laws and customs of the spirit world and dispels common human myths and misunderstandings about our souls’ journeys.
The content may bring comfort to the recently bereaved, be of value to those curious about the afterlife, or help to provide the answer to anyone who has the question ‘why am I here’.

This is a gem of a book which clearly describes how mental patterns can create dis-ease in the body, relationships and even life itself.
In this global best-seller, Louise explains that our beliefs and ideas about ourselves and others are often the cause of our physical and emotional problems and, that we can change our thinking and our lives for the better. The book includes candid glimpses of her difficult personal life journey and she shares the techniques that helped her to deal with abuse, hardship and illness, which ‘makes it real’
The book contains a reference guide detailing the probable mental causes of physical problems. This list of conditions and ailments gives the reader an insight into how they themselves may have created symptoms or problem areas in their life. All parts of the human body are referenced in the book, with clear indications of how our underlying thoughts, beliefs and emotions can influence our health.
Louise offers sound, practical advice on how to change a troublesome belief or habit pattern, along with affirmations to help foster new ways of thinking and being which promote good health and wellbeing.
Her simple approach and ethos make this an easy read. The suggested, easily applied tools and techniques can create positive results for anyone who wishes to encourage joy in their life.
Covering all aspects of the human condition, this is a book anyone and everyone can benefit from reading.
About the Author:
Mainly recognised as one of the founders of the Self-Help Movement, Louise L. Hay also notably created her famous ‘Hayride’ support group for AIDS sufferers and, amongst many other things, started the prestigious Hay House publishing company in her living room!

Touched By The Light – Exploring Spiritual Transformative Experiences
By Yvonne Kason, M.D
Dr. Yvonne Kason coined the phrase “Spiritually Transformative Experiences” (STEs) as an umbrella term to describe diverse types of mystical and psychic experiences, Near-Death Experiences (NDEs), spiritual energy or kundalini awakenings and inspired creativity and genius.
She is well placed to write about these as she herself has experienced no less than five Near-Death experiences (NDEs) and other episodes of spiritual awakening. After her first, dramatic Near-Death Experience in a 1979 plane crash she was propelled, as a young medical doctor, to research and counsel people with various types of peak spiritual experiences.
Touched by the Light is a result of forty years of Dr. Kason’s research on STEs and their profound after-effects on body, mind, and spirit. Filled with fascinating, illustrative case studies, Touched By the Light uses the yogic model of consciousness and kundalini to help understand STEs and their after-effects and how to deal with them safely.
It is an excellent resource for healers, as we regularly work with people encountering STEs and experience them ourselves as we awaken spiritually. STEs are actually very common, can be rather alarming for both those experiencing and observing them and are generally poorly understood. Dr Kason’s comprehensive and accessible book provides knowledge and guidance to help those who have been Touched by the Light and those people caring for them.

You may be familiar with Abraham (the non-physical collective consciousness which speaks through Esther Hicks) on the many YouTube videos of Abraham’s wise answers to people’s diverse questions about life, the universe and everything. Even if you are familiar with the wisdom of Abraham, it is still worth reading this book. To quote:
This book is written to help you understand that you have the ability to always allow your true nature to pour through you, and that as you learn to consciously allow your full connection with the You that is your Source, your experience will be one of absolute joy. (p13)
Ask and It Is Given is certainly a book about asking and being answered by All That Is, but it is more about how to ask and how to receive. It starts by describing in detail the Law of Attraction in very accessible terms and with many clarifying examples and finishes with explaining 22 processes to help you improve your point of attraction. (The Rampage of Appreciation is a particular favourite of mine).
The book describes how the Law of Attraction works, how our emotions act as a guidance system, indicating our vibrational frequency. If we pay attention to our emotions, we can guide ourselves to what we desire. This does not only include material possessions but also health, wellbeing, relationship, etc. Abraham states:
There is an unlimited Stream of Well-Being and an abundance of all manner of things available to you at all times – but you must be in alignment with the receiving of those things. You cannot stand in resistance of them and receive them at the same time…You are a vibrational transmitter, and you are broadcasting your signal in every moment of your existence. (p35)
If you do not do something that causes a different vibrational offering, then nothing in your experience can change. (p128)
Especially recommended for those who are new to the spiritual path but it also serves, as a clear reminder for all, of the importance of the vibrations we emit to the life we lead.
Reference
Hicks, Esther & Jerry (The Teachings of Abraham). Ask and It Is Given – Learning to Manifest Your Desires. Hay House Inc. 2004

‘Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.’
The core meaning of this remarkable and influential book, a landmark modern spiritual text, is that miracles lift the veil of misperception which cloaks our understanding of our true nature and our reality. When the veil is lifted, truth and love is revealed. Life, it states, is simply a course in understanding the spiritual laws that make us happy. Miracles can occur when we are aligned with a higher power.
This book is a record of the ‘scribed instructions’ given to American research psychologist, Helen Shucman, between 1965 and 1972 from a source whom she identified as ‘the voice of Jesus’. Her scribed notes were transcribed by her with the help of her head of department and collaborator, William Thetford, and later published by the Foundation for Inner Peace which they set up. The first sentence she recorded in her shorthand notes was: ‘This is a Course in Miracles.’
This life-changing book is not an easy read. It consists of three parts, a text, a manual for teachers and a workbook for students. The latter is a set of 365 lessons (one for each day of the year which help in our understanding of the text and provide application of the ideas from it.) The language of this book is challenging with a biblical and sometimes Shakespearean flavour, not surprising given its channelled origins; the ideas and concepts presented by the book are also challenging and will give you a completely different view of the Universe. However, the effort to read and understand is worth the rewards.
A Course in Miracles is a profound set of channelled teachings based on the theme of forgiveness and challenges our received understanding of the nature of reality. It aims to set us free from all our fears – especially our fear of God. It is packed with wisdom and uplifting pages that will inspire you every time you pick it up. It is a very long read, however; you may have to read and study each lesson quite a few times before you will understand fully all of the metaphysical ideas contained within it. For the individual reader, its degree of difficulty will obviously depend on how far the reader has already advanced along the path of wisdom and self-knowledge.
A Course in Miracles covers everything from life after death, to thoughts creating the world we see, to living in the present moment (or ‘the holy instant’ as the Course calls it) and so much more. It is now a classic of spiritual literature and should be studied by anyone who is interested in the true nature of the self and our physical reality.
There are other examples of channelled writings but A Course in Miracles remains the gold standard. It has been described as ‘a bible for the new millennium’ and the comparison is not far-fetched.
For a simplified summary, It’s All Mind. The Simplified Philosophy of A Course in Miracles by Edwin Navarro, is well worth a read.

Unbound is a workbook. It is a transformational workbook based a series of channelled teachings given to the author. Reading each section will take you an exhilarating journey of personal development and spiritual awareness. Working the exercises may have life changing effects. In the section on Tradition, you will explore the power of words, the limited nature of our expectations, our beliefs and fears, the illusion of pain, guilt as a self-imposed mental punishment, depression as a form of compression of the spirit at birth, aging as a misunderstood aspect of the life cycle and death as the great illusion.
The section on Transition deals with change, giving away control and dependency, and invulnerability or the understanding that you are without beginning or end, without limit or boundaries. ‘You are no accident, life is not random, there could never be a mistake.
Finally, in the section on Transformation, there is the understanding that ‘There is a piece of God held within everything and everything is held within the peace of God’. You, the reader, will come to accept, align and attune and so become ‘enlightened’ or balanced with the universe. ‘In these Unbound teachings, you have had the opportunity to become more unlimited, more unqualified, more unrestricted. You have become a master of your own inner wisdom, reunited with the master within.’
Who could resist such knowledge, transformation and healing?

Grace Cooke was a medium who received the teachings from a spirit in the higher realms named White Eagle. He first appeared to Grace in her London suburban home when she was a child. In later life, she and her husband, Ivan, founded the White Eagle Lodge in England to promote the channelled teachings of this native American chief.
The Lodge is a present day school, based in London with branches or Lodges worldwide, whose aim is to restate this ancient wisdom in a manner suited to the modern world. White Eagle’s gentle teaching has become known to thousands of people across the world through its publication in the books of the White Eagle Publishing Trust.
What White Eagle teaches is simply a way of life: it is not a way of life that demands huge changes at the outer level, but it does imply a great shift in consciousness within. It means moving from a belief that external and material things have power over us, to an acknowledgement of our own power to create and make beautiful all that we see. It means putting first an absolute trust in spirit so that it is love, not fear, which motivates us.
White Eagle teaches that we are spirit first and body last. “You could be as kings,’ he says, ’ruling supreme over all negative conditions in your lives; but too often you can succumb to the negative forces instead of releasing, with your own master key, the power and light stored up within you to combat these forces.”
He also says that spirit has the power completely to change the body. “You are spirit. The real you, the consciousness, is spirit. As you strengthen this realisation through meditation and worship of your Creator, your spirit will begin to dominate the physical atoms, until your body becomes irradiated with life, and every particle obeys the direction of spirit, the real you.”
Wisdom from White Eagle contains ten channelled talks given by White Eagle to a small group of students over a number of years. The words are gentle, loving and clear. He offers hope, love and encouragement as well as profound insights. In this collection of talks, White Eagle gives practical advice about meditation, the other world, angels, and earthly problems too. The subjects include the reality of invisible worlds, the universal spirit, inner attunement and unfoldment, life on other planes, the divine law of love, and clairvoyance, the power of thought and how to develop the higher consciousness.
A moving and powerful book, full of wisdom for those who seek it.

Ekhart Tolle, born in Germany and now resident in Canada, is not the first spiritual writer or sage to advise that living in the present moment is the only true way to live. He is, however, an extremely powerful and persuasive writer who clearly states his message about understanding our human predicament – that the problem of humanity is that we believe that we can control our world with our mind. We believe that we are our mind. We believe in myths such as ‘Humanity has reached the pinnacle of development’ or that ‘We are completely separate from each other, nature and the Cosmos’ or that most widely accepted myth ‘The physical world is all there is’. The falseness and limitations of these myths control our life choices. We live in fear because of them. We live in the past; we project fearfully into the future.
Yet Eckhart argues that we are not our mind. He argues for a Greater Reality, one in which humanity has not begun to reach the pinnacle of its development, that we are connected rather than separate and that we have to step away from our time-bound mind in order to find our True Self, which lies behind our physical body, our shifting emotions and our analytical and ego-driven mind. In simple language and using a question and answer format, the reader is guided to access points which can be used to bring us into the Now, the present moment, where problems do not exist, where we find our joy and peace and know that we are already complete and perfect.
Reading ‘The Power of Now’ can transform your thinking and understanding. It can also bring you much joy. Now.

‘A handbook for understanding life’ is a series of Teachings given to Jane Tinworth, spiritual healer, teacher and workshop leader for many years.
These Teachings are compiled but not written by Jane Tinworth. In 1971, Jane, who lives in Devon, was made aware of her spiritual healing ability through a mystical experience and for many years she also worked widely with these Teachings by way of workshops and meetings. This collection of words is identified as the Teachings of Zed; they are the product of a collective, or level of awareness, given to Jane and a small group of friends over a period of years. Jane’s role was to record accurately, safeguard and compile these Teachings for ultimate distribution to all who seek understanding of the big questions of life.
Starting with the question ‘why am I here and what’s the point of it all?’ this truly unique book takes on the really fundamental issues of existence and weaves them into a beautiful fabric of spiritual understanding for the 21st century. This is a book for everyone, written in simple and direct language that invites the reader to examine the words against their own experiences of life and to come to their own conclusions.
“These Teachings will be simple to understand but will take a lifetime to execute.” Zed.
Jane is a member of the World Awareness Trust, a non-profit-making organisation created to promote healing and awareness, to which all profits from the sale of this book are dedicated.

Trine was an American philosopher, mystic, teacher and author. In the 20th century, he was a pioneer in the area of the transformation power of positive thinking. “Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come to the full realization of your own awakened interior powers, is to be able to condition your life in exact accord with what you would have it.”
This seminal work, a work of spirituality and great wisdom, has stood the test of time for over a century. It is one of the first and best motivational books of its kind. It is said to have been the force behind Henry Ford’s phenomenal success. It is the direct inspiration of such modern self-help classics as ‘The Secret’, ‘The Power of Positive Thinking’ and ‘The Law of Attraction’.
Trine comes to understand this eternal truth of our ability to create our own reality by examining the truths of our spiritual life: the secret, power and effectiveness of love; wisdom and interior illumination; the law of prosperity; how men have become prophets, seers, sages, and saviours.
In Tune with the Infinite contains great insight into spirit, emphasizing that we are so much more than we see. “By recognising the power of our thoughts and by harmonising our own with the Divine Will, we will attract perfect peace, love, prosperity and success.”
In Tune with the Infinite is not a book which deals directly with healing. Indirectly, it teaches how to overcome our negative thoughts, misconceptions and false beliefs and so transform our lives. This is true healing.

When this book was first published in the late 80s in America it became a publishing phenomenon. Its popularity has hardly diminished over the intervening years.
Dr. M. Scott Peck, a best-selling author, worked throughout his lifetime as a psychotherapist, a Medical Director, and a psychiatrist in private practice in Milford, Connecticut, USA.
The Road Less Travelled is a very approachable book about the often lonely road of spiritual growth. Although not directly dealing with spiritual healing, Peck deals with spiritual issues and the spiritual growth experiences with which we are all presented in our lifetimes. Peck rightly identifies that confronting and solving problems areare painful processes which many of us try to avoid. Peck suggests ways of facing our difficulties and accepting the suffering inherent in the process of change in order to reach a higher level of self-awareness and understanding. This is, in effect, the process of spiritual growth, a long journey of self- discovery requiring personal honesty and courage. This is a healing journey required of all on this planet.
The book begins with a detailed examination of our problems and pain. Here Peck examines the concept of Discipline by which he means a series of tools which help the individual to face the pain of problem-solving and so achieve spiritual growth. The tools he says are: delaying gratification or satisfying our present comforts for a future gain; accepting responsibility for our problems, our actions and decisions; the need for being open to challenges; the need for a balancing of our energies or learning to handle conflict; and the healthiness of depression. He asserts that: ‘Life is difficult.’ But that we must accept this great truth in order to transcend it. ‘Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.’
In the second part, Peck examines various aspects of love which he sees as the driving force behind spiritual growth. He examines falling in love; the myth of romantic love; self-sacrifice; the risk of commitment; the discipline of love; and the mystery of love. In the third part of The Road Less Travelled, Peck looks at world views and religion. He asks: ‘How do people’s religions or belief systems develop? What determines a person’s particular world view? And how do these views affect our personal growth? Through a process of the examination and expansion of our self–knowledge, Peck states that we can journey out of a microcosm of limited beliefs imposed by family, culture and organised religion into a macrocosm of understanding.
However, it is in the fourth part of the book, entitled ‘Grace’, that the more overtly spiritual themes emerge. Peck comes to the belief that there is ‘a single force originating outside of human consciousness which nurtures the spiritual growth of human beings.’ For Peck, this is ‘Grace’ is recognisable in the miracle of health, the unconscious and serendipity. Understanding Grace and how it operates in our lives is our spiritual journey, a lonely and often difficult road, requiring courage, initiative and independence of thought and action. Truly, this journey is a Road Less Travelled but a necessary road for the spiritual evolution of humanity. Thanks to Peck, we can journey along this road with greater insight, understanding and vision.

Arguably, this is the most famous work of spiritual inspiration of the 20th century. It has been translated into more than twenty languages. It is a treasury of counsel and comfort on human life and, as such, has given hope and understanding to millions around the world. The author, Kahlil Gibran (born in 1883) was a Lebanese poet, philosopher and artist whose visionary drawings accompany his work. He died in New York in 1931.
In the city of Orphalese, the prophet, Almustafa, is about to board a boat which will take him back home. Before he sets sail, at the repeated requests of his followers, he shares timeless wisdom on a wide variety of topics. In a series of 26 poetic essays, full of spiritual yet practical guidance, accompanied with enchanting mystical drawings, The Prophet speaks of the occupations and cares of our everyday lives: eating and drinking; work and play; possessions and crime; buying and selling; love, marriage and children; joy and sorrow; pain and pleasure; love and death; Good and Evil. The Prophet conveys the yearning for unity of Being that can only be achieved through love.
The Prophet is a joy and an inspiration to read. A gift to mankind.

This small 95-page paperback is subtitled ‘The Art of Happily Going Nowhere.’ It is inspired by the intriguing mystic saying:’ This is it; nothing happens next.’ After a lifetime on the road, Mr. Smith, a tireless speaker on spirituality and personal development, finally made the greatest discovery of his life – he learned the art of happily going nowhere.
Each short chapter of this beautiful book brings ancient spiritual wisdom alive with a simple message: ‘Relax. Be still and know.’ Each short chapter is designed to make something happen within you at an unhurried pace of learning where pausing to reflect gives time for the internal changes to happen.

Described as a compelling testimony of a hospice doctor, this book is written with quiet simplicity, humility and great sensitivity on a difficult subject. Cole’s immense capacity for love and compassion shine from every page. Apart from covering subjects like grieving, guilt and non-acceptance, the book also contains a wealth of spiritual lessons for any healer – irrespective of whether they see clients in circumstances of death and dying. It highlights ‘how easy it is to be spiritually blind and separated from our souls’, whilst recognising our shared potential for change and growth.
Author Paul Wilson says:
‘Roger Cole is a daring man. In one book he dares to link medical science with spiritual awareness, and the wonder of living with the wonder of dying. Read this book if you dare, it will awaken your soul.’
Dr Cole, originally a self-confessed ‘goal orientated, self-centred and successful high achiever’, reached a turning point in his life following burn-out and an identity crisis. This took him towards a new goal of ‘considering others’ and, after attending a workshop with Elizabeth Kübler-Ross, a cathartic experience allowed him to realise that love, peace and happiness are natural attributes of the soul; that we can reach people by simply allowing our spiritual awareness and the virtues of love and respect to be apparent in our work.
He describes this book as ‘a spiritual tapestry woven from the individual experiences of people’s lives’ and includes many reflections on his personal growth and learning from his work with the terminally ill. The final words of the book are:
‘There is no need to change anyone but yourself. Love will do the rest.
Have a good life and a good journey.
Be simple, be you.
Be sensible, be true.
Om shanti.
Wise words indeed.

Subtitled: ’Specific Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know.’ (Prentice Hall)
Dorothy Jane Roberts (1929-1984) was an American author, poet and spirit medium. She published a series of books known as ‘the Seth Material’. These books were profoundly influential in the formulation of the New Age philosophies of the late 20th century and are still highly relevant to the understanding our spiritual nature.
The books were written while Roberts was in a trance-like state and were said to be the communications of a non-human entity named ‘Seth’. These messages covering a wide range of spiritual topics were written down and transcribed by her husband, Robert Butts. Roberts does not claim to write any of these books. She claims only to be the channel for the wisdom and information of the entity, Seth, whose aim was to enlighten and instruct humanity about their divine spiritual nature and their spiritual birthright.
The theme of ‘The Nature of Personal Reality’ is to demonstrate how we create our personal reality through our conscious beliefs about ourselves, others and the world around us. Hence, when we change our belief system, we change how we experience reality. This puts us in control of our lives. “We are Gods couched in creaturehood. We are given the ability to form our experience as our thought and feelings become actualized…….Trust the miracle of your own being. Make no divisions between the physical and the spiritual in your lifetimes, for the spiritual speaks with a physical voice, and the corporeal body is the creation of spirit” (Jane Roberts speaking for Seth).
The central message of this remarkable book is that we are not at the mercy of our unconscious drives, blind fate or a disjointed deity. We can consciously be masters of our own destiny. Seth teaches that the events in our lives are created in line with our conscious beliefs. He suggests many techniques and exercises to apply to whatever difficulties we may find ourselves in. We can create our own reality, according to Seth, through our conscious awareness of our spiritual nature and the power of our creative mind.
Every self-help book that has ever been written has based its ideas on the teachings of Seth. ‘The Nature of Personal Reality’ should be compulsory reading for anyone consciously following a path of spiritual development. It is an inspirational book.

Many of those on a spiritual path have been advised by fellow travellers to read ‘A Course in Miracles’ (known fondly as ACIM). They hold the bible-like tome in their hands and open it curiously and then are met with the text which they somehow know is going to help them greatly. Then, they find that they cannot understand it… Oh no! What then?
There are a number of books which have sought to explain ACIM, amongst which are:
- The many books by Kenneth Wapnick PhD – Psychologist and President and co-founder, with his wife Gloria, of the Foundation for A Course in Miracles (whose purpose is to further the understanding and applications of Course principles through workshops, classes, publications and electronic media). Wapnick is without doubt an expert on ACIM and he provides many scholarly, in-depth explanations of its content.
- A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles by Marianne Williamson which describes SOME of the principles in an accessible and contemporary fashion.
- It’s All Mind: The Simplified Philosophy of A Course in Miracles by Edwin Navarro which lays out what it says in the title in a clear and very succinct manner, but does not portray the poetic depth of ACIM.
- The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk about Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics and the Miracles of Forgiveness by Gary Renard which provides humorous insight into ACIM via channelled messages from two Spiritual Teachers. This book is considered rather ‘off the wall’ by some.
Alan Cohen’s contribution, however, is a welcome addition to the above books. He offers a fresh interpretation of ACIM’s Christian overtones (which can be off-putting for some), describing The Course as belonging “to all religions and to none”. He combines quotes from ACIM with explanatory anecdotes, based on everyday life experiences, which help the reader penetrate the often seemingly hidden meanings of ACIM.
Aside from being an author, Cohen is a respected keynote speaker and seminar leader in the fields of personal growth, inspiration, holistic health and human relations and he brings these skills to clarify ACIM in an accessible way.
Cohen’s book would be a useful supplement to ACIM, both as a pre-read and also for those who are perhaps struggling through the poetic language of the Course.
The summary of the Course is stated as:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
However, most people need help to understand the significance of these words and Cohen’s book moves us towards this understanding.

This is a book about past-life regression and its reformatory effects on the lives of those who undertake this therapy. It is written with great enthusiasm by Mira Kelley who started doing regression on herself when she was a child of 13 years old, after reading Brian Weiss’s book Through Time Into healing. Whilst working as a corporate lawyer in New York, she studied this field further and practiced on her friends and family before finally abandoning her legal career to work as a regression therapist.
The book covers some important spiritual principles whilst providing examples from the regression of clients to support these. Each of the ten chapters is devoted to a lesson Kelley has learned through regression:
- an explanation of how she guides client through a past-life regression.
- how from the soul’s point of view, our past, present and future lives exist simultaneously.
- how the choices we make create a new reality.
- the difference between our everyday self and our Higher Self and how to connect with the latter.
- how everything around us reflects us back to ourselves.
- the importance of forgiveness.
- how to play with time.
- self-healing.
- why we have the right to love ourselves and how we are lovingly and unconditionally supported by the Universe.
- the inter-related topics of karma, destiny and free will.
Essentially, this book explains that our ‘present’ can be healed by working with our ‘past’. It is an interesting book which explains important spiritual principles in an accessible way.
Reference
Kelley M. Beyond Past Lives. Hay House Inc. 2014

This book is evidently one about Shamanism; about journeying, rituals and ceremony, power animals and helping spirits within a Western culture. Ingerman, however, touches on many issues which have a commonality with healing and energy re-balancing.
She is an experienced Shaman and talks much sense. She talks in a very loving and respectful way about us as humans, our fellow animals, our spiritual guides and the wonderful Earth on which we live.
Ingerman encourages us to be grateful and appreciative of all that surrounds us.
She uses the metaphor of us having an inner garden and that our thoughts are seeds planted in this garden, with loving thoughts allowing the garden to flourish.
Later in the book, the reason for the title of the book is expounded. In a quotation which could have been taken from our course notes, Ingerman states:
‘As we learn to be a vessel of light and unconditional love, the world around us heals. It is important to continue your practice of experiencing yourself as Source. The more you experience your divine nature and light, the more you heal and become a stronger and more potent healing presence in the world’.
Ingerman has termed this connecting with Source, ‘transfiguration’ and says that she has now evolved her traditional Shamanic work to incorporate healing with the light and power of Source. She writes:
‘I do believe that working with light will be how we heal in the future.’
Ingerman provides an example of a person for whom traditional shamanic healing did not effect the desired healing, but a change to ‘transfiguration’ practice allowed the light of Source to stimulate the client’s own radiance and extraordinary positive changes in health occurred for the client.
She expands this topic stating:
‘I also teach my clients how to experience their inner light and encourage them to create a regular meditation practice to soak in this light. This is one way to empower others in their process of healing’.
Again, this is exactly what we teach – for both our students and clients to nourish themselves in the highest vibrational power of the ‘Source Connection Visualisation’.
Ingerman also has a chapter entitled, ‘Protection, Perception and Projection,’ at which I was pleased, as this important topic of energetic protection is often not addressed. She recounts how Jesus appeared to her one night after she had been thinking about this issue. She writes:
‘Jesus said if you are filled up with light and allow that light to flow through you, there are no outside energies that can impact you in a negative way. When you are filled with light, harmful energies cannot enter into your psychic space. Keep working on experiencing your inner divine light to help you maintain your health as you engage with others’.
Again, this method of energetic protection is what was channelled to us by Source wisdom and is what we teach.
This book is wise, thoughtful and loving in its approach; one which moves Shamanism forward. The aspects of commonality with spiritual healing are very insightful.

An evidence-based account demonstrating that an energy field (the Zero Point Field) connects everything in the universe; and how knowledge of this underpins what are currently considered fringe notions: spiritual healing, distant healing, ESP and Jung’s concept of the collective unconscious. Past, present and future being connected by this vast web of energy may explain clairvoyance. She discusses various possibilities for providing coherent communication e.g., water, which is capable of carrying an imprint whether an original molecule is there or not; the human body is between 55% and 75% water. Mind and body are not distinct and separate from their environment: they interact constantly with ‘the field’.


Subtitled ‘New Choices for Healing Ourselves’, this book has been described as ‘the definitive text for energetic medicine’. This landmark book was published in 1988 and it is still very relevant today. It is an encyclopaedic treatment of subtle-energy fields: acupuncture; Bach flowers; crystals, chakras, meditation and homeopathy. It bridges the gap between science and spirituality when discussing the relationship between our minds, our bodies and our environment and how this affects our health.
In this book the reader, thanks to the painstaking research and study of the author, Richard Gerber, begins to understand the human organism as a series of interacting multidimensional energy fields. Dr. Gerber, writing in clear language perfectly accessible to a lay reader, creates a working model of the physical-etheric interface and the vibrating world we inhabit.
Using scientific evidence based on quantum physics and subtle energy technologies, Gerber demonstrates the truth of acupuncture meridians while using Kirlian photography to show holographic images of the etheric forms of matter. Gerber shows how the body reflects subtle energy systems; he demonstrates how if these systems become imbalanced, the physical body is compromised and imbalance, dis-ease and illness set in.
This model of vibrational medicine appeals both to those more scientifically-orientated health care professionals and to those following the holistic healing traditions which have existed for thousands of years. In discussing ancient approaches to healing, Gerber argues that natural healing powers as demonstrated over the centuries by individual spiritual leaders are a reflection of each healer’s inner state of harmony and love and that it is from this standpoint of their own raised vibrational levels that all healers are able to produce healing miracles.
In the final chapter of this outstanding work, Dr. Gerber offers a series of key points to reflect on. The first key point speaks profoundly of our personal and planetary evolution:
‘Human beings are dynamic energy systems which reflect evolutionary patterns of soul growth. Human consciousness is constantly learning, growing, and evolving. As spiritual awareness of this dynamic process of change becomes more prevalent, there will be a ripple effect that will shift the energetic dynamics of the human race as a whole.’
We as spiritual healers are living this process now in the 21st century as we attempt to shift the balance between war and peace, disharmony and balance, pain and joy.

Deepak Chopra is world-famous physician and author of books on holistic medicine, spiritual awareness and understanding. As a respected New England endocrinologist, he began his search for answers when he saw patients in his own practice who completely recovered after being given only a few months to live thanks to changes in their own attitudes to their recovery and with help from Ayurvedic medicine. In the mid-1980s he returned to his native India to study Ayurveda, humanity’s most ancient healing tradition.
He examines mind/body medicine from the perspectives of Western medicine, neuroscience, and physics and that of Ayurveda, the ancient life science of India. In ‘Quantum Healing’ Chopra examines the principles which underlie physical reality and, in particular, ‘the environment of our own bodies’. He argues that that the human body is controlled by a ‘network of intelligence grounded in quantum reality. Not a superficial psychological state , this intelligence lies deep enough to change the basic patterns that design our physiology – with the potential to defeat cancer, heart disease, and even aging itself.’
His central belief is that our consciousness creates our reality; our expectations influence the outcomes of our life and that ‘awareness, attention and intention should be as much part of health care as drugs, radiation and surgery.’
He points to the signs that contemporary science-driven Western medicine is at last beginning to take on board the limitations of its narrow approach to healthcare and to begin to embrace the new understandings of the holistic relationship between our minds and our bodies. Chopra is determined to show that the healing power of the mind is a science in itself. For Chopra, the healing process is ’quantum healing’.
In this inspiring and pioneering work, Dr Chopra offers us both a fascinating intellectual journey and a deeply moving chronicle of hope and healing.

Dr. Oschman is a scientist with a background in biophysics and biology. He is also a Reiki practitioner. In the late 20th century, he became interested in the field of energy medicine, a newly-emerging study. For a reputable scientist to explore mind-body medicine took a lot of courage. In his book published in 2000, Dr.Oschman explores the scientific basis for the energy-based complementary therapists, including acupuncture, Alexander Technique, Homeopathy, Craniosacral Therapy, Reiki. He noted the role of natural ‘energy forces’ within the body which help maintain homeostasis or balanced energy or normal health.
He states: ‘Energy medicine involves energy of particular frequencies and intensities, and wave shapes, and other characteristics that stimulate the repair and regeneration of one or more tissues’ and also ‘Energy medicine is based on the appreciation that living systems have energy fields inside them and around them and that these fields play important roles in physiology, regulatory biology and processes that are going on inside the organism’.
His findings echo those of Dr. Gerber in his book ‘Vibrational Medicine’ (see above). Both works show an appreciation of quantum principles in energy therapies. “Everything that we do in medicine ultimately involves energy”. In this he is at one with other leading quantum physicists who profess that all is energy – just as mystics, sages, prophets and healers have been saying for centuries in their own way.

‘One Mind’ is a tour de force of scientific references and quoted research wrapped up in a comforting blanket of accessible examples, case studies and anecdotes. The book is easy reading despite the more difficult scientific theories which are introduced to explain the ‘One Mind’ such as quantum entanglement and holographic explanation of ‘reality’.
Dossey argues for the nonlocality of consciousness – that individual minds are:
‘not confined or localized to specific points in space, such as brains or bodies, nor to specific point in time, such as the present. Minds, rather, are nonlocal with respect to space and time…the separateness of minds is an illusion.’
He describes the brain as being similar to a television set, in that it displays the electromagnetic signals which originate from outside of the set, but does not produce them itself (although it might appear to do so).
Larry Dossey states that the ‘One Mind’ explains a wide variety of phenomena such as:
- Why strangers will perform self-sacrificing acts for others – ‘how at the crucial moment the rescuer’s consciousness fuses with that of the person in need, how separateness dissolves and … oneness becomes real’.
- How people can share thoughts, emotions and physical sensations with those who can be many miles (even continents) away
- Human to animal communication and large group animal communication which allows, for example, precise co-ordination of the flight of large flocks of migrating birds
- Distant Healing
- Remote viewing
- Dreams which provide the answer to dilemmas which people are having
- Near death experiences which describe a ‘Oneness’ with All
- Communication with someone who has died
This book is very uplifting. It provides evidence that we are all connected. We are not individuals leading a life alone. We have access to another level of consciousness which is the One Mind, or our Source. Dossey postulates that if we were able to become more aware of this connectedness it would be a way of reducing the division and global destruction which is a feature of humankind’s current thinking.

The Biology of Belief 1 is a book for those interested in how science is catching up with ancient Eastern philosophies of interconnectedness and the oneness of our reality and how the influence of our beliefs and sub-conscious thought determine our health and lives.
Dr Lipton starts by writing about the cell and how it is the cell membrane which determines cell reaction, not the nucleus (which contains our inherited characteristics in the form of our genes). The protein ‘switches’ of the cell membrane control life by being turned on and off by signals from the environment (which includes the energy of thoughts), thus acting as the ‘brain’ of the cell. Lipton writes (p. 207):
The cell engages in behaviour when its brain, the membrane, responds to environmental signals. In fact, every functional protein in our body is made as a complementary ‘image’ of an environmental signal. If a protein did not have a complementary signal to couple with, it would not function. This means… that every protein in our bodies is a physical/electromagnetic complement to something in the environment. Because we are machines made out of protein, by definition we are made in the image of the environment, that environment being the Universe, or to many, God.
Lipton writes very accessibly about the theory of epigenetics (the study of the molecular mechanisms by which the environment controls gene activity):
Just like a single cell, the character of our lives is determined not by our genes but by our responses to the environmental signals that propel life.
The fact that our genes do not determine our lives is very empowering as it means that we can change our lives when we change our beliefs. Lipton warns, however, that neuroscience has established that the programming we have acquired in the sub-conscious mind shapes 95 percent of our life experiences. He suggests that these can be rewritten using techniques such as affirmations and energy psychology, such as PSYCH-K.
To survive, cells works together as communities. He writes: Using these cell communities as role models, I came to the conclusion that we are not victims of our genes, but masters of our fates, able to create lives over-flowing with peace, happiness and love.
The book is packed with detail of cell biology and referenced research. The 10th anniversary edition is updated with more current biological research and further commentary and, due to this level of detail, is not for those who do not find biological science interesting.

This interesting book is about the importance of us raising our energetic vibrations for our wellbeing – exactly what we teach at Omnes Healing. The book states that we are more than we believe ourselves to be and it is the limits of our own beliefs which confine us in our lives. Dispenza advocates that self-actualized empowerment enables us to create previously unimagined possibilities in our lives.
Dr Dispenza is a medical doctor, a scientist, mystic and teacher who crosses traditional boundaries and draws on the scientific disciplines of epigenetics, molecular biology, neurocardiology and of course, quantum physics.
He writes that the possibility to create a new reality occurs when a person enters the quantum field (which exists beyond space and time) as pure consciousness (for example, via meditation).
‘When a vibrational match occurs between your energy and the energy of that potential you select in the unified field, you will draw that experience to you’.
Specific, step-by-step meditations are described to enable people to work towards a higher vibrational frequency and more coherent energetic state. A number of case studies are included of people for whom these techniques have worked and who have reversed serious illnesses. There is much scientific detail, which would suit those who like to understand the reasoning behind any claims.
This is a fascinating book for those who wish to explore the extraordinary nature of our expanded reality, consciousness and self-healing.
Reference:
Dispenza, J. (2017) Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon. Hay House Inc. New York.
This book by Gabor Maté, written with his son, Daniel, is not a pure spiritual book but touches on embodied, practical spirituality at every level.
Gabor Maté is a retired physician with extensive expertise in addiction, trauma, stress and childhood development. He writes with compassion, understanding and honesty, regularly including his own perceived failings into the narrative.
The book is divided into five parts: Our interconnected nature, The distortion of human development, Rethinking Abnormal – Afflictions as adaptations, The toxicities of our culture and finally, Pathways to wholeness.
It covers how toxic influences in our lives, such as poverty and racism, influence our emotional wellbeing, health and addictive behaviour. Maté writes: …health and illness are not random states in a particular body or body part. They are, in fact, an expression of an entire life lived, one that cannot, in turn, be understood in isolation: it is influenced by – or better yet, it arises from – a web of circumstances, relationships, events and experiences.
The Myth of Normal contains many case study examples of the points made, backed up by scientific research and makes a strong case for how stress, within our lives and culture, impacts our health at all levels. It provides compassionate evidence of the influences of our life experiences on our wellness.
It does not stop there, however, as the last section provides a compass of authentic living towards future wellness as individuals and societies, providing a new vision of the world.
This is an important book for healers, helping us to understand the societal and cultural backgrounds which have shaped the trauma often experienced by our clients. It is not a light read, however, but one that is worth undertaking for the deepened understanding it brings.


Dr. Page is a respected medical doctor, who combines authoritative medical knowledge with sensitive insight into the human condition. Dr. Page trained in the UK in many fields of hospital medicine. She founded the first integrative health centre within the NHS. Raised among traditional healers, Dr. Page is gifted with inner sight. She is a pioneer in healthcare bringing together the physical with the non-conscious. She has written several books on self-development, self-healing and personal empowerment. She runs courses teaching medical personnel about intuitive medicine.
Drawing upon her experience as a respected doctor, and using the observations of the many patients who have been her greatest teachers, Dr Page asks us to look fully at wholeness on all levels: body, mind and spirit; in so doing, she illuminates our understanding of disease and its purpose for inner spiritual growth.
Frontiers of Health, her first major work, combines Dr. Page’s medical expertise with unique insights into the human condition. Using her medical knowledge and experience in combination with her insight as a psychic, Dr Page provides deeper ways of looking at disease and health. She explores in detail how the subtle energy bodies and chakras may be involved in disease and its causes, giving exercises for balancing each chakra.
Emotional thought processes, she points out, affect certain parts of the body and can lie at the root of certain health conditions. She also looks at how emotional issues can be the precursor of illness, and shows how disease symptoms often constitute a message from the deeper self to the everyday consciousness. ‘Illness is often a call’, she says, ‘to give up old patterns of behaviour and adopt new ones more in keeping with the path the deeper self wishes to follow.’
With many examples of how her patients have worked with emotional issues to achieve a turnaround in their physical health, and suggestions for treatment on a deeper level, Frontiers of Health is helpful for healers and therapists as well as for individuals seeking to heal the cause of illness rather than the symptoms. Being a gifted teacher and writer, Dr. Page is able to remove the spell of intimidating medical jargon making this work a friendly guide to the better understanding of the pathology of most commonly found illnesses.
If you want to understand your health better, its role in your spiritual unfolding, and take a more active involvement in improving the quality of your health, then this book could help you to do so. It is a standard text in many healing development courses.


Kelly Turner is a researcher and psychotherapist who specialises in integrative oncology. Her book provides an easy read of the results of her work with over a thousand people who have had a radical remission (people who have defied a serious/ terminal diagnosis of cancer and had a complete reversal of the disease).
Dr Kelly found that there were nine key factors found amongst nearly every radical remission survivor she studied. In no order of priority, these were:
• Radically changing your diet
o Reducing/ eliminating sugar, meat, dairy and refined foods
o Increasing vegetable/ fruit intake
o Eating organic foods
o Drinking filtered water
• Taking control of your health
o Taking an active (versus passive) role in your health
o Being willing to make changes in your diet
o Being able to deal with resistance
• Following your intuition
• Using herbs and supplements
o to help you digest your food
o to detoxify your body
o to boost your immune system
• Releasing suppressed emotions
• Increasing positive emotions
• Embracing social support
• Deepening your spiritual connection
• Having strong reasons for living
Each chapter includes dramatic stories of people’s journey back to wellness. The book sleeve states that the book is ‘for those who are in the midst of receiving conventional cancer treatment, who are looking for other options because that treatment has done all that it can, or who seemingly have no options left but still feel that the future holds the possibility of hope’.


Ruth White is the author of several books on chakras. As a psychotherapist and spiritual consultant, she worked in private practice in America.
Working with the energy system known as ‘the chakras’ has long been part of Eastern esoteric teaching. This traditional wisdom propounds that connecting with your chakras, or the seven energy centres in the body, enables growth, healing and balance to take place in all areas of your being – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. This book explains that much chakra work is of a self-help nature, and sets out to show readers how they can do a great deal to change their lives through simple exercises and creative and colourful visualizations and meditations.
There is a chapter devoted to each of the 7 major energy centres. For each energy centre, there is an inspiring case history from the author’s healing practice, a discussion of the psychological impact and developmental age associated with that chakra and a discussion of the relationship of that chakra to the physical body; there is also advice for fragrances, colours and crystals, and a guided meditation useful in working with the specific chakra.
Clearly written and easy to use, this comprehensive book brings esoteric chakra knowledge into a Western perspective. The information it contains will help you to live more fully and make more dynamic and exciting life choices.
Whether or not you channel healing, using the chakra system, this is a useful guide and reference material both for beginner and experienced students of the human energy system.


This is a book to guide you how to live in good health.
Anita Moorjani recounts how she was rushed to hospital with end stage cancer, her organs had started to shut down and she experienced a ‘near death experience’ (NDE) where she had heightened awareness in an expanded realm. She experienced ‘pure joy’, absence of the pain she had been suffering; she felt connected to everything and that she was in a state where time and space are one. She felt encompassed by unconditional love and sensed that she was ‘home’.
In this state, she received wisdom about the reason for her illness and felt she had a choice to continue in this blissful state or return to her family with the understanding that she needed to embrace who she really was, to ‘be herself’ and she would recover.
Part I of the book describes Moorjani’s background and how her experiences and fearful thought patterns had resulted in manifestation of the cancer in her body. Part II explores the experience of the NDE, with the final part covering her resultant understanding about healing and how we can all allow our ‘magnificence to shine through’. Finally, there is a section about frequent questions which Anita has been asked and which she answers.
This book which is a very accessible account of an extraordinary experience, ‘dying’ and returning to life with gained wisdom and healing.
The affirmation of our eternal spirit (that we never truly die) would be a comfort to those who are scared of dying or those who are grieving for loved ones who have passed into spirit.




In 37 original essays written for this book, some of the world’s leaders in healing explore their personal and professional experiences in order to uncover the underlying principles on which all healing rests. In simple, direct language, the contributors explore the complex nature of healing. We hear from physicians, psychologists, nurses, metaphysical healers and shamans. Each was asked: ‘What, in your experience, is the key element or golden thread that unites healing processes?’
The contributors examine a different understanding of healing in each essay: what healing really is; what to look for in a healer; the function of spirituality in healing; the role of attitudes and emotions; love as a healing force and much more.
The resulting synthesis offers a treasury of insights for all who work in the healing professions as well as those who wish to develop their own healing capacities or are interested in understanding what happens when we heal.


Subtitled ‘A Fable about Fulfilling Your Dreams and Reaching your Destiny, this is a best-seller self-help book about personality development and developing discipline in life. It is written by Robin Sharma, a writer and leadership guru.
This engaging tale is developed around two characters, Julian Mantle and John, his friend and colleague. It takes the form of a conversation. Julian, a successful lawyer, narrates his spiritual experiences on a Himalayan journey which he undertook after selling his holiday home and red Ferrari following a massive heart attack in a courtroom. His life was out of balance. His life was in crisis.
This life-threatening incident made him seek a spiritual path in Himalayan Mountains. On his journey, he received wise and practical lessons which brought drastic changes to his life. He learned to develop joyful thoughts; he learned the secrets of self-leadership and self-discipline; he learned the timeless secret of life-long happiness. He came back to his former world a man transformed in looks, health, true happiness and self-knowledge.
There are many spiritual lessons to be learned – or reminded of- in this moral tale.


Sub-titled: ’How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path.’
Jack Kornfield is a prominent Buddhist teacher, acclaimed author and clinical psychologist. He has lived and taught with many Christian monks and nuns, Jewish mystics, Hindu saints, Sufi teachers and leaders in the field of transpersonal psychology. From this rich experience, he has written a moving and fascinating work about how the modern spiritual journey unfolds, and the difficulties even the most dedicated people encounter – whatever their faith.
Most spiritual accounts end their exploration at the stage of illumination or enlightenment. But what happens after that? Does the awakened person live happily ever after? That is the assumption but is it true? What is life really like after the ecstasy?
Kornfield shows us from his experience and that of other ‘enlightened’ individuals what it is actually like to experience awakening, unbounded freedom and joy, a sense of union with the divine, and then to go on doing the shopping and paying the bills. Using the personal accounts of these unique individuals, mystics and spiritual masters from a wide spiritual community, Kornfield narrates how this spiritual freedom and knowledge is translated into our daily concerns of struggles to earn a living, dealing with difficult family relationships, sickness, betrayal by those we trust and other mundane concerns. These spiritual masters, from whatever faith tradition, struggle to translate their inner knowledge into their outer reality. They struggle to deal with the laundry.
Full of practical suggestions, and alive with compassion and humour, After the Ecstasy, The Laundry, argues that the spiritual life must integrate inner knowing and outer expression by finding ways to live the vision fully here on earth. Kornfield questions: ‘Is there a wisdom which includes both the ecstasy and the laundry?’ For Kornfield finding answers to this question is the true spiritual journey, the true path of compassion on Earth.
An easy-to read, uplifting, encouraging and very wise book.


This is a very accessible guide to some of the best in spiritual writing. It captures the diversity of spiritual journeys that have spanned centuries, cultures, continents, spiritual traditions and belief systems. It includes personal memoirs of the authors and mini- biographies and the outlines of their spiritual beliefs. Tom Butler-Bowden provides insightful and inspirational commentaries on the great spiritual thinkers.
50 Spiritual Classics provides a unique overview of spirituality which highlights the universality of human spiritual experience. The book aims to show the reader that there is nothing outlandish about spiritual experience; ‘on the contrary, it is what makes us human.’ The author seeks to demonstrate that spiritual awakening and the expansion of our awareness is the slow discovery of our true life purpose and it is a process which the great spiritual thinkers have followed in order to understand their own spiritual potential.
These 50 life-changing stories of conversion and spiritual awakening can help you achieve a deeper sense of purpose and peace of mind as well as gaining insight into humanity’s spiritual evolution


With clear, concise and immensely practical advice on how animals communicate, behave and self-medicate, The Animal Healer is ideal for anyone who wishes to understand more about how animals can be healed.
When her horse ‘Wow’ was seriously injured, Elizabeth Whiter discovered her incredible talent for hands-on healing and also observed how Wow took steps to heal himself. Now with over 1,000 animals treated, Elizabeth shares her remarkable journey, knowledge and experience. She also explains many of the theories that inform her practice including how to provide hands-on healing; sensing and aligning the energies; zoopharmacognosy; how to feed your animals. The Animal Healer shows how a remarkable experience has led to wisdom that anyone who cares about animals will find invaluable.
In Part 1 , Ms. Whiter describes her ‘Journey Home’ or the biographical details of her personal journey of meditation and spiritual development and her increasing knowledge of how herbs can aid in the treatment of animals, ‘Nature’s Medicine Cabinet’. She describes her introduction to ‘Zoopharmacognosy’ or the study of how animals select aromatic plants and plant oils, algae, clay and other natural remedies for maintaining their health. In Part 2, there are chapters on hands on healing, sensing and aligning the energies, how animals communicate as well as how to feed and care for your animals.
Ms. Whiter’s pioneering work on healing animals has led to the development of her animal healing business into a highly successful school for training graduates in animal and equine healing; she has led many international workshops on the teaching of animal healing and has introducing healing to animal sanctuaries.
This absorbing story of the discovery and development of her animal healing power is packed with heart-warming stories about successful animal healings and animal rescues. It is also an intensely practical book with advice and tips on best practice in meditation to delicious recipes for pets and humans alike.
Ms Whiter began her working life as a journalist and she has the journalist’s ability to capture your imagination and interest and fire the reader with enthusiasm for her subject.


Margrit Coates is a leading animal healer. She has been working in the field of animal healing for more than 20 years. Whether as a journalist writing a pets column for the Daily Mail, or as the author of over 12 books, or as a broadcaster, or as a university lecturer on animal health or as a course tutor on animal healing and welfare, Margrit has shared her knowledge and passion for animal healing and communication to an ever-increasing audience.
In her seminal book Hands-On Healing for Pets, Margrit writes in a clear, comprehensible style about her experience and knowledge of how to heal and communicate with pets – all kinds of pets, from cats and dogs to gerbils and reptiles. Her book is packed full of practical tips on how to treat the needs of your pet. As a healer, she understands that animals, no less than humans, must be healed at the emotional and mental levels as well as the physical. They too have energy fields which need balancing. Margrit believes that any pet carer can give healing to and communicate with their pet animal, thus making a real difference to the behaviour, health and happiness of their beloved pets.
In her book, she describes how this healing technique can be carried out. She also instructs how to use alternative healing methods such as crystal healing, flower essences and pet to improve the quality of life of pets. She also discusses why pets need healing and how to communicate with them and illustrates her many successful pet healings with absorbing case studies.
This amazing book will change the way you think about animals.