BearCY's introcution to Hands of Light part 1 of 9

After promoting this book on this site for 11½ years, I received this letter from the publisher:

June 2, 2008

Dear Mr. Yawnerson,

I was doing a web-search today (June 2, 2008) and came across your website, http://www.bearcy.com/handsoflight1.html. We are flattered that you enjoyed Dr. Barbara Brennan's book, Hands of Light, but it is illegal for you to have her book and pages listed on your website without our permission. We kindly ask that you delete her book and the pages from her book on your site immediately. We understand that you most likely were not aware of this so we are going to give you 24 hours to take this information off from your site ( http://www.bearcy.com/handsoflight1.html ) before we take further action.

Please feel free to email me if you have any questions. I wish you the best of luck in your journey of healing and self discovery. Thank you for your time and cooperation.

Warm regards,
Mary Morrisey
Marketing Coordinator
Barbara Brennan School of Healing
(800) 924-2564
mary.morrisey@barbarabrennan.com
www.barbarabrennan.com

After sending my reply, asking permission to be allowed to continue promoting this book on this page, I got this response:

Dear Mr. Jaspersen,

This is not a personal matter... Taking pages from Barbara's book (or from any one's book) and putting them on your website is illegal. You are expressing to me in your email that it will take time to do this so I will give you until the end of this week to do so.

You do Not have permission from us or from Barbara's publisher to put pages from Hands of Light on your website or any of my information on your site. We understand that you were not aware of this and because of that we are kindly making you aware of this and giving you 5 days to remove the information from your site.

Again I thank you for your time and cooperation and wish you all the best.

Warm regards.

Mary Morrisey
Marketing Coordinator
Barbara Brennan School of Healing
(800) 924-2564
mary.morrisey@barbarabrennan.com
www.barbarabrennan.com

After asking again, and mentioning that I've got numerous letters from healers around the world, thanking me of making them aware of this fantastic book—so that they could buy it and use it in their daily work—she just sent me the above letter repeatedly, without any other changes than less and less days before she threatened to prosecute me, and thus shutting down my website.

Because of this, I felt that I just had to comply, and move the rest of these pages into the password protected part of my site. This content page is the only one I've kept outside the password protection. But only for integrity-reasons with the rest of my site. It contains only the table of content from the book, a description of the author and the artist, and the ISBN-numbers and how to get the book.

The Norwegian version of these pages, that I translated from the Danish book, «Det usynlige i helbredelse – en bog om healing og energier» (The invisible in healing—a book about healing and energies) by Helen Gamborg, the author has permitted me to keep on my pages; in order to promote it for her. But I guess the Americans is just a bit too paranoid to function properly and share information freely to use by anyone? Everything just has to be about money to them. And since this is a pay free site, I guess it's not up to their standards. Well, well! Them about that!

Inside the password protection, I've copied this text rather than just translating the Danish text from Det usynlige i helbredelse («The Invisible about Healing») into English. It wouldn't make much sense translating the Danish text to promote a Danish book to English-speaking readers!

Although the text I've copied here contains more or less the same topics as the Norwegian text does, the English book «Hands Of Light» is much more comprehensive than «Det usynlige i helbredelse», and thereby more difficult for me to extrapolate from. I have translated the corresponding parts of the Danish book into Norwegian to promote it while using it, since my Norwegian-, Danish- and Swedish-speaking readers will have no problem understanding and reading a Danish book. You can see that the Norwegian text takes up much less space; this only means that «Hands of Light» is extremely thorough.

A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field
This book is a must for all aspiring healers and health-care givers, an inspiration to all who want to understand the true human being.
BARBARA ANN BRENNAN
ILLUSTRATED BY Jos. A. Smith
This book is dedicated to all travels on the path homeward

CONTENTS (of the text part of the book; separate contents for illustrations and List of Exercises, not copied here) The book is quite large, in A4-format, with two columns on each page. This is the reason why there are so few pages to each chapter. I've made hyperlinks to all the copied text. I am not going to copy any more of this book, so if you want to read on (something I hope you'll do), please provide yourself a copy!
	Part I LIVING ON A PLANET OF ENERGY
Chapter 1	The Healing Experience	3
Chapter 2	How to use this book	9
Chapter 3	A Note on Training and the Development of Guidance	13
	Part II THE HUMAN AURA
Introduction	The Personal Experience	19
Chapter 4	Parallals Between How We See Ourselves and Reality and Western Scientific Views	21
Chapter 5	History of Scientific Investigation into the Human Energy Field	29
Chapter 6	The Universal Energy Field	37
Chapter 7	The Human Energy Field or Human Aura	41
	Part III PSYCHODYNAMICS AND THE HUMAN ENERGY FIELD
Introduction	The Therapeutic Experience	59
Chapter 8	Human Growth and Development in the Aura	61
Chapter 9	Psychological Function of the Seven Major Chakras	71
Chapter 10	Chakra or Energy Center Diagnosis	81
Chapter 11	Observation of Auras in Therapy Sessions	89
Chapter 12	Energy Blocks and Defense Systems in the Aura	101
Chapter 13	Aura and Chakra Patterns of the Major Character Structures	109
	Part IV THE PERCEPTUAL TOOLS OF THE HEALER
Introduction	The Cause of Illness	131
Chapter 14	The Separation of Reality	133
Chapter 15	From Energy Block to Physical Disease	137
Chapter 16	The Process of Healing, an Overview	147
Chapter 17	Direct Access of Information	153
Chapter 18	Internal Vision	157
Chapter 19	High Auditory Perception and Communication with Spiritual Teachers	169
Chapter 20	Heyoan's Metaphor of Reality	177
	Part V SPIRITUAL HEALING
Introduction	Your Energy Field Is Your Instrument	185
Chapter 21	Preparation for Healing	187
Chapter 22	Full Spectrum Healing	201
Chapter 23	Healing with Color and Sound	237
Chapter 24	Healing Trans-temporal Traumas	243
	Part VI SELF HEALING AND THE SPIRITUAL HEALER
Introduction	Transformation and Self Responsibility	253
Chapter 25	The Face of the New Medicine: Patient Becomes Healer	255
Chapter 26	Health, a Challenge to Be Yourself	265
Chapter 27	The Development of a Healer	273
Bibliography		283

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.

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.

Barbara Ann Brennan is a practicing healer, psychotherapist and scientist. She was a research scientist for NASA at the Goddard Space Flight Center following the completion of the M.S. in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Wisconsin. For the past fifteen years she has been studying and working with the human energy field and has been involved in research projects with Drexel University and the Institute for the New Age. She was trained in Bioenergetics Therapy at the Institute for Psychophysical Synthesis, Community of the Whole Person, and in Core Energetic at the Institute for the New Age. She has studied with both American and Native American healers.

Barbara is currently teaching courses and giving workshops on the Human Energy Field, Healing and Channeling. She has given workshops in many areas of the United States, Canada and Europe. She conducts a private practice in New York City and East Hampton, New York. Barbara is a member of the Path work Community, Phoenicia, New York.

Joseph A. Smith has contributed illustrations to Time, Newsweek and Harper's. He illustrated the book Witches written by Erica Jong. A painter and sculptor, he is Professor of Fine Arts at Pratt Institute in New York.

HANDS OF LIGHT
A Bantam Book
Simultaneous hardcover and
trade paperback editions in June 1988

Buy it and read it—you'll probably keep it for life as a reference- or guide book!