Esoteric Healing: A Practical Guide Based on the Teachings of the Tibetan in the works of Alice A Bailey Paperback – April 11, 2004

Almost sixty years after her death, Alice A. Bailey remains a controversial figure. Although often said to represent the next stage of a teaching initiated by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, her books represented a radical evolution from the highly complex and coded works of her predecessor. Today, the majority of books on chakras, auras and healing borrow heavily from the Bailey materials, though not all the authors realize it, or know how many alternative systems exist.This book by Alan Hopking is one of the best on the form of Esoteric Healing taught by Alice Bailey and her teacher "The Tibetan." Before I continue with my review, let me declare two conflicts of interest: the original book entitled "Esoteric Healing" by Alice Bailey fell off a shelf at my local lending library and hit me when I was a seventeen year old: I spent the summer reading it, and it colored my own work for years. Second, one of the author's most significant teachers - Brenda Johnson - also taught me.Alan Hopking is the founder of the White Ways Group in England, that has over the last quarter century been studying and developing methods of group healing that are based on the work first of Alice Bailey and then of Brenda Johnson, with whom he began studying in 1984. Brenda is the founder of the International Network of Esoteric Healing. After graduation, Alan began teaching for the Network and later became the first director of the faculty of Healing in the University of the Seven Rays. He is a busy and dynamic individual, who also founded the Global Academy of Esoteric Healing in the United Kingdom and currently teaches in the Academy.This book is a substantial revision and enlargement of the first edition of the Practical Guide that came out in 1991. Alan and his collaborators and students have garnered an enormous amount of practical experience over the last 25 years and this book is an extraordinarily clear exposition of a notoriously difficult and sometimes vague field.Alan Hopking provides us with a unique guide to spiritual healing drawing from current research in medical energetics and the Alice Bailey interpretation of the Ageless Wisdom. He explains sets of healing circuits known as triangles, and arranges them on a basis of clinical diagnoses relating to particular systems.The book is full of clear explanations, well-chosen case histories and a great many helpful diagrams describing more than 40 circuit triangles and discusses a new understanding of disease.Among the many topics covered are chapters on the purpose of disease, future healing techniques, how to use the triangle circuits of esoteric healing, how to heal from the soul level and work within the subtle bodies. It also discusses distant healing and self-healing, group meditation and healing mantras. The book runs to 361 pages including an extensive index and bibliography.I highly recommend this book not only as an excellent resource for practitioners and also for general readers with an interest in natural healing.

If you want to start to understand Alice Bailey's work, you should read this book first and than read the originals booksIt's a easy and practical way to understand this incredible woman

Fantastic book! I am hoping for more books in the future by this author.

This is an excellent introduction to the world of esoteric healing. Unfortunately for the vast majority of people it is highly esoteric and virtually incomprehensible. But for those few who are students of the esoteric it may prove of help, especially for those who study the internal psycho-spiritual centers known also as chakras, both the major chakras and the minor chakras. And for those few who work in esoteric healing or wish to do so. For these few I can highly recommend this book.

In depth explanation regarding healing. A great book for beginners or advances healers. I guarantee you will read this book over and over.

Alan is another researcher who takes a strong view that life serves a purpose and as such the methods presented here works. Honestly I had trouble grasping the views behind his reasoning as they didn't sound practical in some ways. Having said this, it is a good resource to appreciate various techniques with many healing modalities.

If you study the Bailey books, this work is a valuable tool

A very interesting, though difficult book. It would only be interesting for an esoteric reader. It is well written and has diagrams.