Brennan - Hands of light: a guide to healing through the human energy field: a new paradigm for the human being in health, relationship, and disease

BANTAM NEW AGE BOOKS

This important imprint includes books in a variety of fields and disciplines and deals with the search for meaning, growth and change. They are books that circumscribe our times and our future.

Ask your bookseller for the books you have missed.

CREATIVE VISUALIZATION by Shakti Gawain

THE DANCING WU LI MASTERS by Gary Zukav

DONT SHOOT THE DOG: HOW TO IMPROVE YOURSELF AND OTHERS THROUGH BEHAVIORAL TRAINING by Karen Pryor

ECOTOPIA by Ernest Callenbach

EMMANUELS BOOK by Pat Rodegast and Judith Stanton

FOCUSING by Dr. Eugene T. Gendlin

I CHING: A NEW INTERPRETATION FOR MODERN TIMES by Sam Reifler

IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM! by Sheldon Kopp

THE MINDS I by Douglas R. Hofstadter and Daniel C. Dennett

SHAMBHALA: THE SACRED PATH OF THE WARRIOR by Chogyam Trungpa

SYNCHRONICITY: THE BRIDGE BETWEEN MATTER AND MIND by F. David Peat

THE TAO OF LEADERSHIP by John Heider

THE TURNING POINT by Fritjof Capra

ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE by Robert M. Pirsig

HANDS OF LIGHT
A Bantam Book
Simultaneous hardcover and
trade paperback edition / June 1988

New Age and the accompanying figure design as well as the statement the search for meaning, growth and change are trademarks of Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

All rights reserved.
Copyright 1987 by Barbara A Brennan.
Author photo copyright 1988 by Susan Oristaglio.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
For information address: Bantam Books.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Brennan, Barbara Ann.
Hands of light.

1. Spiritual healing. 2. Aura. I. Title.
BF1275.F3B74 1987 615.852 87-31840
eISBN: 978-0-307-78941-9

Bantam Books are published by Bantam Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Its trademark, consisting of the words Bantam Books and the portrayal of a rooster, is Registered in U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and in other countries. Marca Registrada. Bantam Books, 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036.

v3.1

PLEASE NOTE THAT HANDS OF LIGHT IS DOCUMENTARY AND REFLECTS THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE OF THE AUTHOR. THE BOOK IS NOT TO BE INTERPRETED AS A GUIDE FOR SELF-HEALING. IF YOU INTEND TO FOLLOW ANY OF THE EXERCISES OR SUGGESTIONS OF THE BOOK, DO SO ONLY UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A MEDICAL DOCTOR OR OTHER HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL.

This book is dedicated to all travels on the path homeward.

Love is the face and body of the Universe. It is the connective tissue of the universe, the stuff of which we are made. Love is the experience of being whole and connected to Universal Divinity.

All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness.

You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a terminal illness.

The only real terminal illness is simply being human. And being human is not terminal at all, because death is simply transition to another level of being.

I want to encourage you to step out of the normal bounds of your life and to begin seeing yourself differently. I want to encourage you to live your life at the cutting edge of time, allowing yourself to be born into a new life every minute.

I want to encourage you to allow your life experience to be lightly dusted with form.

All colored plates appear as an insert between .

Figures and tables are listed in order by chapter:

The Effect of Lapis on Plants Aura

Check of Phantom Leaf Effect

The Normal Aura (Colored plate)

A. Three Layers

B. Seven Layers

Location of Chakras

A. The Seven Major Chakras

B. The Twenty-one Minor Chakras

The Seven Major Chakras, Front and Back Views

The Seven Layer Auric Body System

Major Chakras and the Area of the Body They Nourish

Metabolic Path of Incoming Primary Energy

The Etheric Body (Colored plate)

The Emotional Body (Colored plate)

The Mental Body (Colored plate)

The Astral Body (Colored plate)

The Etheric Template Level (Colored plate)

The Celestial Body (Colored plate)

The Ketheric Template Level (Colored plate)

Aura Around Fingertips

Normal Aura of a Baby

Adult and Childs Chakras

Major Chakras and Associated Psychological Functions

Dowsing Chakra with a Pendulum

Energy Center Diagnosis

Intensive Retreat Case Study Chakra Readings

Auras in Motion: (Colored plate)

A. Normal Aura

B. Musician Performing

C. Man Lecturing on His Favorite Subject

D. Man Speaking with Passion About Education

E. Woman After Core Energetics Class

F. Man Who Often Wears a Shirt This Color

G. Woman Meditating to Increase Field

H. Pregnant Woman

Auras Seen in Therapy Sessions (Colored plate)

A. An Eleven-Year-Old Child Playing

B. A Woman Experiencing Strong Feelings Associated with the Death of Her Father

C. Anger Being Expressed

D. Anger Turned Inward

E. Etheric Mucus Caused by Sniffing Cocaine

F. Man Who Had Taken Many LSD Trips

G. Man Who Always Held Head at an Angle

H. Aura Appears to Have Weight

Dissociated Thought Form

Man Working on Bioenergetic Stool

Woman Defending by Creating a Pink Cloud of Energy (Colored plate)

Types of Energy Blocks:

A. Blah Block

B. Compaction

C. Mesh Armor

Types of Energy Blocks:

A. Plate Armor

B. Energy Depletion

C. Energy Leak

Energetic Defense Systems

Major Aspects of Each Character Structure, Personality Makeup

Major Aspects of Each Character Structure, Physical and Energetic Systems

Major Aspects of Each Character Structure, Interpersonal Relations

The Aura of the Schizoid Character

The Aura of the Oral Character

The Aura of the Psychopathic Character

The Aura of the Masochistic Character

The Aura of the Rigid Character

Planes of Reality in Which We Exist

Expression of Consciousness in the Auric Levels

The Creative Process of Health