The Reconnection: Heal Others, Heal Yourself

First, a bit about how I found out about the book. I attended a free talk by someone trained by Eric Pearl to be a Reconnection Practitioner. She spoke about her personal experience being healed by him from a serious illness (back when he was still doing that) and then deciding to become a Reconnection Practitioner to help others. I believe her to be a sincere and honest person. I met some of the people healed of serious illness by this particular Practitioner. I got this book after my first session with the Reconnection Practitioner because I wanted to learn more about it. I don't have any serious illness myself and all I can tell you is after the session I felt slightly different (no thunderbolts!) just a gentle energy lift and a more positive frame of mind. FYI - Individual sessions are not the same as the "Personal Reconnection" which is $333. My first session was $70. See the website for more info: [...] Eric Pearl does not promise that reading his book will give you The Reconnection, but does not rule out the possibility of this happening. He does explain techniques for working with energy in the second half of the book. The first half of the book is basically his life story. If you want to be a Practitioner you have to go through the training just like Reiki or any other modality. I have had some training with other types of energy work (Reiki, etc.) and I believe it all comes from the same source of Universal Energy. (It's all good!) I use parts of everything I have learned in a way that best fits me and get results. I have not attended any of his seminars but have felt a "boost" in my energy since having this work done on me. I am a Massage Therapist and have had some interesting results with clients too. I plan on attending his next seminar in this area.

~ Reconnective Healing is real. I am grateful to have recently encountered it, finding it to be the most direct, powerful, and all-encompassing level of energy work I have encountered yet in all my years of exploring and using various healing modes such as: Reiki, Chi Gung, NLP, Hypnotherapy, Past Life Regression, Conscious Breathing, Body Talk System, Emotional Freedom Technique, Medicine Ways, channeling, crystals, chakra balancing, and others. Some folks may have misunderstood Dr. Pearl's suggestion that reading the book may be the beginning of a process of opening to a new level of consciousness and energy for some people. He never promised that reading the book would allow someone to perform miracle healings. In Reconnective Healing trainings much time is given to techniques and exercises for each person to become sensitive to feeling the flow of energy that is already within us and all around us, and to fine tune it. By feeling these subtle energies they become activated - reconnected - in you and in those you connect with while in this awareness. It is the energy itself in you that does the healing while you 'get out of the way' by letting go of your ideas and expectations. The simplest ideas are often the most difficult to accept; and the healing approach described in this book is pure simplicity. In fact, it works better the more we let go of our preconceptions. ~

Whether you're a sceptic about healing or a believer, take a closer look at "The Reconnection". I'd even say, since this book crossed your path, you might consider that it has a message for you. It certainly had one for me! I've always been a bit sceptical about New Age stuff, and healing ? - well, I thought, you had to be born with a gift or something. Then I stumbled over "The Reconnection", ordered it without knowing why and read it straight through. Eric Pearls style is direct, easy and very down-to-earth. The latter is what makes it so refreshing to read. Eric Pearl throws all your limitating thoughts about the "right technique", the "right attitude" and other "do's" and "dont's" over board. Thanks to an adventurous soul here in Norway, a friend who attended all three Reconnection courses, I was lucky to receive several Reconnective healings and the Reconnection itself. The energy or life force Eric Pearl is talking about is for real and accessible to anyone - and although it grew stronger with each step, it actually started with reading the book! So go ahead - take a leap of faith and order it!

Some of you out there who have read the book now claim to be healers! I'm skeptical. While this is a great book and I DO believe that Dr. Eric can and does aid and facilitate healing energies from beyond, I do not believe that anyone can do this merely by reading the book or by going to the seminars. I recently brought my sweetheart to a "certified" practitioner. Well it was March of 2001. Anyway, this healer was recommended by Dr. Eric's office. 3 sessions ensued in which the 1st was pleasant and positive, the 2nd felt negative and evil, and the 3rd was spectacular for the certified healer but was mediocre for the patient. In the 3rd and final sessions, she (the healer) told us that it was the most powerful and wonderful session that she had ever done and that angels or light beings had filled the room. The patient didn't notice anything. We were assured (a professional mistake--you should never promise anything) that SOMETHING good would happen in regards to her health in the next few months. It has been more than 7 months and nothing significant of any positive value has happened in the area of her health. In fact, some things have gotten worse for a time. While minor improvements have come and gone, ANYONE could experience minor ups as well as downs in the course of their life without the Reconnection. Am I to believe that these light beings appeared to the healer for her benefit only while ignoring a very chronically ill patient who really NEEDS the help??!! Did Jesus just walk by a suffering person without responding and helping?? Did the woman with the hemmorage that touched Jesus's robe have her warts healed or did she stop bleeding? (She stopped bleeding of course!) Not everyone who reads this book--and it is worth reading--will become an accomplished healer. Just getting rid of headaches, minor depression, and back pain does not sit in the same category as Dr. Eric's experience of facilitating the healing of cancer, aids, and chronic incurable viruses, immune problems, MS, and arthritic knees being miraculously rebuilt. These special gifts are still primarily for the few. I would like to see Dr. Eric and others who CAN really DO this to go back to individual healings and cut down on the group classes where few come away with the same level of ability as Dr. Eric, even if they are certified by his programs.

I read Dr. Pearl's book, straight through, in one sitting. I couldn't put it down; the story is compelling. The book is about Dr. Pearl's experience of what he calls RECONNECTIVE HEALING. RECONNECTIVE HEALING is beyond "energy" work, "faith" healing, or "spiritual" healing. It has nothing to do with "belief" or "sending" energy. It's about -- if I'm reading it correctly -- tapping into the quantum, reconnecting with "virtual strings of DNA" and having one's vibration, frequency -- whatever you want to call it -- raised to a higher level. In that higher level, writes Pearl, amazing things happen, one of them being "healings" on the physical, mental, and emotional levels.Pearl's down-to-earth narrative, his self-effacing humor, and his iconoclastic views of many New Age techniques, methods, and healing rituals was welcome and refreshing. And, as strange as it sounds, I, too, like many others, have had the experience that my hands become warm just holding the book or thinking about the energy Pearl describes. In fact, for four nights following my reading of his book, I dreamed I was offering healing to others and my hands became hot as fire. So hot, that I woke up and my hands actually were hot and pulsating with an "energy" of some sort. This has never happened to me in a dream."The Reconnection" is not just a book; it's an experience. One of the best books on healing I've read, and I've read a ton. This is a must-read for anyone with even the slightest interest in healing or energy work.