I believe that God, experiences life in many ways, in fact through every living being on planet Earth, but how many of us can say that we are in full bloom and expressing our full potential like the cyclamen? Or who of us are in the stillness of our own being like the cat? How many of us are aware of the essence of divine love within us or long to find more enriching avenues for our creativity?

We are not all destined to become great artists or musicians whose work inspires and uplifts, but we do all have the potential to express ourselves in uniquely creative ways. And, under guidance, we can learn to connect with and channel the ocean of divine love which encompasses all living experience. In his book Tony offers such guidance in a practical, down to Earth and concise way.

Channelling for Everyone is about our human potential, it is about consciously and safely learning to navigate the inner worlds with discipline, humility and care. Tony offers insights into subtle energies, the chakras and meditation and includes channelled thoughts from H-A. He has channelled H-A's wisdom-philosophy for nearly 50 years and brings together his profound understanding, to benefit and support anyone who wants to grow and to learn more about the subtle art of channelling safely.

I would give this book to my children, and that is high recommendation indeed!

Helen Lees.

To order Channelling for Everyone

Listen to Your Body
- the wisdom of the Dao
by Bisong Guo and Andrew Powell
University of Hawai'i Press £14.99 Paperback
ISBN 0 - 8248 - 2466 - 0

This is a book to keep by the bedside, it contains a wealth of sensible advice on good health. The authors provide a clear and simple explanation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which is a bounty in itself. Dr Bisong Guo is trained in western medicine as well as TCM in China. In addition she is an acupuncturist who has studied qigong with Daoist monks and Buddhist qigong masters.

Dr Andrew Powell needs less introduction to our readers, a retired consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist, who has given much time to complementary approaches to health and, indeed, attended our own College of Healing course. He advises the British Association for Spirit Release and is chairman of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in London.

Allow me to tantalise you with some of the chapter headings: The Biorhythms of Yin and Yang; The Art of Breathing; Water as a medicine; Eating wisely, eating well; Joints cracking - Yin lacking; A Child with Asthma; No Need for Steroids; Keeping your Home from Harm, etc….I could go on and on. Each chapter contains much sound advice with simple directions we can all follow.

This is the kind of book to give your children (grown up, of course!), or friends. To quote Dr Rowena Plant in the foreword, "(they) have managed to capture and communicate the essence of the Daoist philosophy of health in a way that is both challenging and informative……they offer the reader access to insight and knowledge previously unavailable."

I love this book and feel better for reading it and taking some of their advice. I intend to give copies to my children! What about you? After you have read it yourself, of course! A must for all healers.

Tony Neate

Integrated Cancer Care
- Holistic, complementary and creative approaches
Edited by Dr Jennifer Barraclough
Oxford University Press, 2001 £29.95
ISBN 0-19-263095-4

On first acquaintance with this volume it is quite daunting. It is a very heavy (by weight!) book and densely printed. However, after only a very short journey into the book it is obvious that it is a very valuable reference book, being very succinct. It is, just as equally, very readable. It is packed with common sense actions for and approaches to dealing with cancer. It is a 'must' for anyone involved with cancer treatment or prevention.
Although it comes with an expensive price-tag, it is well worth the money as the editor has done a wonderful job in drawing together the complex strands of various oncological treatments and the maze of myriad forms of complementary therapies that have contributed to dealing with the increasing dilemma of cancer.

It is well referenced throughout. All the contributors are pre-eminent in their field. As a result, it provides a fabulous basis for integration of the orthodox at its best and the complementary approaches. Each chapter author has brilliantly captured and encapsulated their own specific approach to their chosen speciality and integrated this into dealing with this growing problem.

For devotees of the College of Healing there is a wonderful mention in Tony and Ann Neate's chapter on page 123 (nice and easy to remember - it's as easy as ABC!) and also a mention, earlier, in the introduction by Jennifer Barraclough who completed the COH course in 19xx

Another extremely good feature about this book is the index at the end - IT WORKS !! So many indexes (or is it indices?) do not function very well. I was very rapidly and accurately led to the appropriate chapter and page every time I used the index. Above all, it is a very readable book and very reader friendly. It is a book that gives hope to: * patients *therapists *the therapies *and medicine.

Highly recommended by me.

Dr. David Smallbone

The Field
- The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
by Lynne McTaggart
Harper Collins £17.99 Hardback
ISBN 0 - 7225 - 3764 - 6

Lynne McTaggart is an award winning journalist who, with her husband Bryan Hubbard, is an executive director of WHAT THE DOCTORS DON'T TELL YOU, better known as editor and founder of WDDTY. Ouch! I thought, when I read the title and opened this book to review it. But Lynne has an easy, attention-holding style of writing and the book holds your interest straight away.

She decided to write this book because of the many paradoxes that kept confronting her. On one hand, there is the lure of "hard scientific evidence" and on the other, therapies like healing, acupuncture and homoeopathy that "upend everything we believe about our physical and biological reality."

What are these medical systems that work on 'energetic levels'? What energy? Is it something that accounts for the alternative forms of healing? She sorted out top scientists from around the world to see if and what was provable. She began to find some incredible discoveries which seemed to overthrow the current laws of biochemistry and physics.

These top scientists are finding that we are an 'energetic charge' as opposed to a 'chemical reaction'. This energy field "is responsible for our mind's highest functions, the information source guiding the growth of our bodies. . . It is our brain, our heart, our memory - indeed, a blueprint of the universe for all time." As Lynne sums up - "At its most profound, this is a science of the miraculous."

Of course, this is nothing new for us, personally - it's something we've known about ever since H-A appeared on the scene. But it's comforting to read of all these deep thinking, scientific minds working so hard to reach the same conclusions! However, I'm not laughing at the book; indeed it's well worth reading and Lynne McTaggart brings together a great deal of top-grade scientific thinking from around the world. I'd like to conclude by congratulating Lynne and quoting from the cover:
"It was like finding that there is such a thing as the force in Star Wars. This is the story of groups of frontier scientists who accidentally discovered the importance of the Zero Point Field, an ocean of microscopic vibrations which appeared to connect everything in the universe like some invisible web. The Field takes a step beyond Fritjof Capra, suggesting a plausible scientific theory which explains everything from the workings of DNA and cell communication to homoeopathy and ESP. It could even answer some of the big questions: what is human consciousness and what happens when we die."

Why not read it and find out?

Tony Neate

Dark Nights of the Soul

by Thomas Moore

Piatkus £10.99

ISBN 0–7499–2557-4

This is a book that not only helps humankind to face itself, but also encourages each individual to acknowledge the need to face their own spirituality in his or her own way. "Your dark night need not be tragic. You can see through it and beyond it." Thomas Moore is author of the best seller Care of the Soul. He lectures extensively throughout the world and having read this book, I can understand why.

This book is a must for all Aquarian age seekers. Moore examines every aspect of the dark nights of the soul including rites of passage, religion, the moral pollution of history, and love, sex and relationships: explaining that sex is not only personal but an aspect of cultural life, and that one's sexuality can be a means of connecting one to the world. One issue that he raises is that the US has never really dealt with the guilt in handling its native people so savagely. It hasn't fully owned up to and sought forgiveness for slavery - an important issue for many countries, including our own, with past issues that need to be addressed.

I resonated with his comment: "Everyone without exception, has what Jung calls 'an instinct for creativity'. You must find a way to put yourself out into the world and be present as a unique person." And near the end he says: "The best way to deal with the dark night of the soul is to use the emotional and intellectual darkness to help you see your own luminosity, to discover exactly how you shine when you are at your best."

I recommend this important book without reservation to all psychotherapists, hypnotherapists, counsellors and anyone dealing with emotional/spiritual problems on a personal or therapeutic basis.

Tony Neate