Barbara Ann Brennan's bestselling first book, Hands of Light, established her as one of the world's most gifted healers and teachers. Now, in her long-awaited new work, she continues her ground-breaking exploration of the human energy field, or aura - the source of our experience of health or illness. Drawing on many new developments in her teaching and practice, she shows how we can be empowered as both patients and healers to understand and work with our most fundamental healing power: the light that emerges from the very centre of our humanity.

In a unique approach that encourages a cooperative effort among healer, patient and other health-care providers, Light Emerging explains what the healer perceives visually, audibly, and kinesthetically and how each of us can participate in every stage of the healing process.

Presenting a fascinating range of research, from a new paradigm of healing based on the science of holography to insights into the 'hara level' and the 'core star', Light Emerging is at the leading edge of healing practice in our time. You'll discover:

* How each of us can tap our innate power to heal ourselves and others

* A complete patient's guide to working with a healer: how a healer's technique and goals differ from those of a physician or a therapist and how these professionals can best cooperate to facilitate healing

* The seven layers of the healing process: how to meet your needs on each level, plus step-by-step instructions for creating your own healing plan

* Startling new information about energy interactions in relationships and how to break through negative patterns to new, positive contracts with those closest to us

* The crucial connection between healing, creativity, and transcendence

* And much more

Complete with case histories, exercises, and both black-and-white and full-colour illustrations, Light Emerging offers a new path to healing, wholeness, and expanded consciousness.

With the clarity of a physicist and the compassion of a gifted healer with fifteen years of professional experience observing 5,000 clients and students, Barbara Ann Brennan presents the first in-depth study of the human energy field for people who seek happiness, health and their full potential.
Our physical bodies exist within a larger "body," a human energy field or aura, which is the vehicle through which we create our experience of reality, including health and illness. It is through this energy field that we have the power to heal ourselves.
This energy body -- only recently verified by scientists, but long known to healers and mystics -- is the starting point of all illness. Here, our most powerful and profound human interactions take place, the precursor and healer of all physiological and emotional disturbances.
"Hands of Light is your guide to a new wholeness. It offers:
- A new paradigm for the human, in health, relationship, and disease
- An understanding of how the human energy field looks, functions, is disturbed, healed, and interacts with friends and lovers.
- Training in the ability to see and interpret auras
- Medically verified case studies of healing people from all walks of life with a variety of illnesses.
- Guidelines for healing the self and others.
- The author's personal and intriguing life adventure which gives us a model for growth, courage and possibilities for expanded consciousness

Barbara Ann Brennan, founder of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and best-selling author of Hands of Light and Light Emerging, is one of the most influential healers and spiritual leaders of the 21st century. Now, in her latest book, Core Light Healing, her work continues with revolutionary new information on working with the creative process and the fourth level. The fourth-level, or astral, world bridges the creative pulse from the physical to the higher levels of reality and manifestation. Core Light Healingalso chronicles Barbara Brennan's life journey and personal experiences. In Core Light Healing you will discover: * The nature of the creative process from the Human Energy Consciousness perspective * How each of us creates blocks in our energy fields; how blocks look, interact, and ultimately cause dysfunction in our lives; and the process involved in the clearing of blocks and releasing our creative potential * How to develop and work with High Sense Perception and its role in facilitating the clearing of blocks in our energy fields * The nature of fourth-level reality and its vital role in the creative process * The fourth level as it relates to healing relationships and the cord connections that underlie those relationships * And much more Complete with full-color and black-and-white illustrations, Core Light Healing offers to take you on a journey to create the life you have always imagined.

It is 1960, and 14-year-old well-behaved Mary Margaret Ryan has suddenly and unexpectedly become an orphan. Her mother's death-never discussed by the family or even touched upon in Mary Margaret's own thoughts-brings about a series of rapid changes. The family of her long departed father comes to live with her, and they are a quirky lot to say the least. There is Grandmother, whose moods can be predicted by whether she has completed her daily crossword puzzle and whose concerns reflect the fact that characters on her favorite soap operas are more real to her than her own family. Aunt Sunny is a night nurse, whose life is completely out of synch with the rest of the family simply because she spends her entire daytime sleeping. Uncle Frank has no apparent job but spends his whole day mysteriously "doing research" at local libraries. Cousin BJ seems to come from a completely different world than Mary Margaret's-she is sarcastic and openly belligerent to her parents. She seems to do well at whatever job she is in, but is inclined to change to a different job every few weeks. We follow Mary Margaret and her best friend Mary Ellen through their high school years. They encounter any number of hilarious situations and eccentric characters, including the nuns and friends at school, as well as family. In Dreaming of Ricky, Ann Brennan transports us to a very believable time and place: a Maryland suburb in the early 60's. Every detail in her story, including the way her characters think and speak, is meticulously crafted to reflect that unique time in American history. It is a time when the repressive beliefs of the 50's are just starting to give way to a more free-and potentially scary-world view. Mary Margaret is coming of age while her entire world is itself in tumultuous adolescence. Brennan's Maryland suburb wears a cheery and often foolish facade under which some terrible darkness keeps forcing its way to the surface. This is well reflected in Mary Margaret herself, the "good girl" who is eager to please and ever so sweet, but who cannot seem to contain those recurring nightmares of an unnamed horror just below her in the basement. Dreaming of Ricky shares much with the genre of an Irish novel. The tone here is a deft mixture of sweetness, despair, horror, and hilarity. This is both a dark and a comic novel that captures a genuine Irish sensibility. Anyone who has been or has known a good Irish Catholic girl will recognize Mary Margaret and will be helpless to keep her out of their heart.

The human soul reflects in nature and nature reflects in the soul: these poems shimmer. There is a mythological depth to some of these poems and a sly humor to others. This is poetry you will go back to again and again.

This is poetry inspired by cats, magical, rich, poignant, and funny. Anyone who loves cats will love this little book.