Reiki is an ancient and profoundly simple system of "laying on of hands" healing derived from Tibetan Buddhism. In the West, Reiki has been kept highly secret for many years. ESSENTIAL REIKI presents full information on all three degrees of this healing system, most of it in print for the first time. Teaching from the perspective that Reiki healing belongs to all people, Diane Stein breaks new ground in her classic guide to this ancient practice. While no book can replace the directly received Reiki "attunements," ESSENTIAL REIKI provides everything else that the healer, practitioner, and teacher of this system needs.

In this guide, author Diane Stein presents a complete system for clearing, healing and re-patterning of energy, based on ten processes that take the participant on a spiritual adventure.

"By the study, experimentation and practice of natural healing, women are changing and charting the future of health care. Despite heavy resistance or lack of recognition from patriarchal medicine, they are nevertheless making positive changes that will continue and increase. Women's emphasis on one-to-one work practiced in mutual agreement and participation is very different from mechanized and big-money medicine, and has results and successes far beyond expectations. The emphasis on self-healing returns health care to the consumer, to women's lives and bodies, for the first time in centuries. The medical system cannot control a movement held in the hands of women, though it may try. Women are taking control again of healing, our daughter-right, for the first time since the matriarchies and the Inquisition."--from the Introduction

Magic is afoot and Rachida is determined to find it. Follow her on a journey to meet Goddesses and dolphins, houses standing on chicken feet, talking cats and wise coyotes, volcanoes and giant pearls. Rachida is looking for magic and will fly on eagle-back, ride a bubble boat under the sea, and walk around the world to search for it. The Goddesses of several cultures help her in her quest. Russian Grandmother Baba Yaga, Hawaiian Pele, African mermaid Yemaya, and Native American Spider Woman show her their homes and teach Rachida about magic and how to find it. And the best surprise is at the end.

In ESSENTIAL ENERGY BALANCING and RELIANCE ON THE LIGHT, best-selling author Diane Stein taught readers how to heal and cleanse their souls of the negative karma suffered on Earth. Now, in ESSENTIAL ENERGY BALANCING II, she explains how to continue the process of releasing the karma through 24 individual processes, including "Connection with the Light" and "Vibrational Sealing." Readers learn to let go of karmic baggage, not just here on Earth, but throughout the Universe, in order to enjoy the full potential of their soul'�'s energy. Rich with encouragement, ESSENTIAL ENERGY BALANCING II guides readers to an empowering place of healing and growth.

Psychic Protection with the Lords of Karma and the Goddes-offers instruction on how to achieve psychic protection - now at the leading edge of metaphysical inquiry. Written for intermediate to advanced healers, Diane Stein's latest book explains how to identify negative interference and create psychic protection in daily life through meditation and visualization. The author also explores spirit possession, karmic release, and other topics. Stein believes that darkness has engulfed the world in the form of violence against humanity, ecological destruction, and a prevailing hopelessness. Her teachings are designed to help people gain access to "the Light" - the radiant energy of goodness and understanding. Achieving the psychic protection of this energy creates a collective healing process that promotes positive energy and hope.

We all want to know what will happen to the earth and to those who come after us, our children and our grandchildren. Diane, seeking an answer, has gone to women visionaries and seers: women who channel the future and those who bring it to life in their writings: Sally Miller Gearhart, Sheri Tepper, and Marge Piercy. This is the time, Diane avers, for women to define what needs changing and begin to do the work. By women's power of thought and creation, we together can make a better world.

A collection of writings on ritual by women who are reclaiming Goddess centered spirituality - Z Budapest, Starhawk, Carol Christ, Uzuri Amini, Shekhinah Mountainwater, Penina Adelman, Jeannine Parvati Baker, Claudia L'Amoreaux, Marion Weinstein, Norma Joyce, Jay Goldspinner, Antiga & Caridwyn Aleva. ..".this collection will be greatly appreciated by women looking for guidance in making their own rituals and will stimulate discussion among the growing number of readers interested women's spirituality." - Booklist "Rituals and commentaries sure to spur others to join the fun and profundity of Goddess religion." - WATERwheel "This is an enjoyable and insightful collection full of information and creative ideas useful to anyone working with rituals." - Elisa Robyn, editor Owl Feather Diane Stein is author of All Women Are Healers: A Comprehensive Guide to Natural Healing, Casting the Circle: A Women's Book of Ritual, Essential Reiki: A Complete Guide to an Ancient Healing Art and several other books. She also recently released a children's story entitled Rachida Finds Magic: A Girl's World Tale. She is a strong voice in the women's spirituality and health movement.

The author of "Essential Reiki" transforms pendulums from a party game into a serious psychic and healing tool that works with the light to help one's everyday life.

Legendary healer Diane Stein shares her extensive knowledge of gemstones in this concise agate-to-zircon reference. Each listing includes the stone's common name, its corresponding colour and chakra, and a concise resume of its healing properties. Stein suggests ways to use stones to support physical and psychic well-being, by simply carrying one in a hand or pocket, wearing it as jewellery, or engaging in more advanced practices like the "laying on of stones." She also presents a glossary of terms designed for beginning students of alternative healing practices, and teaches how to clear, dedicate, and maintain crystals to maximize their beneficial effects.

Diane Stein demystifies, explains and teaches the ancient skills, such as aura and chakra work, creative visualisation, meditation, laying on of hands, psychic healing, crystals, and gemstones, that women have traditionally used to prevent and transform ailments.

Author and healer Diane Stein brings to the layperson psychic healing techniques once assumed to be too esoteric to use without highly specialized knowledge, years of training, and a paranormal gift. ESSENTIAL PSYCHIC HEALING helps us tap into the potent healing power of our own psychic energies. For the beginner, Diane offers theory and instruction in basic meditation, visualization, kundalini energy, chakras, and auras. Those at the intermediate level will learn to utilize spirit guides and angels, and how to use healing crystals, hands-on healing methods, emotional release work, and remote healing. An advanced program discusses healing karma and past lives, soul retrieval, releasing entities, spirit attachments, and understanding and aiding the death process. Whether you are new to or well acquainted with these principles, ESSENTIAL PSYCHIC HEALING is an indispensable primer.