The Psychic Healing Book

by Amy Wallace, Bill Henkin

In this classic text with a new introduction by Wallace and Henkin, the authors demystify such processes as grounding, basic psychic meditations, reading auras, understanding the astral body, and performing simple psychic readings and healings. The book is based on the idea that psychic abilities are not just the province of arcane people who study esoteric doctrines, but are the birthright of everyone. Emphasizing practical techniques for self-healing and healing others, Wallace and Henkin share their own experiences with psychic healing and provide clear and straightforward exercises, from beginning to advanced.

203 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1988

About the author

Amy Wallace is a magazine writer and author. Her work has appeared in GQ, Wired, The New Yorker, New York, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Details, The Nation, the New York Times Magazine, and Elle, and has been collected in anthologies.

In addition to freelancing, Wallace has been a correspondent at GQ, an editor-at-large at Los Angeles magazine, and a monthly columnist for the New York Times Sunday Business section. She also served as a senior writer at Conde Nast Portfolio. She spent 11 years at the Los Angeles Times as a reporter covering state politics, higher education, and the entertainment industry, before becoming the Times’ deputy business editor over entertainment and technology coverage.

Reviews

[Arash Farzaneh · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was many years ago – during my grad years to be exact – that this book caught my interest and attention and I picked it up. Back then, I read a few chapters and felt that it was just not for me. There was so much that I found hard to accept and swallow and that conflicted with my worldview of the time.

And yet, I still held onto the book, which traveled with me from place to place and crossed various borders and households over the years. Until recently when I re-discovered it in my library, and this time around, I read it with a more open mind and even stronger and higher levels of curiosity.

Although I still find it hard to accept everything - and I rarely accept things unconditionally and wholesale - the many findings and spiritual experiences not only resonate with me, but I have in fact experienced most of them myself!

So if you are curious about spirituality, psychic and holistic healing, and other modes of viewing, interpreting, and understanding the world and our lives within it, give it a try. You got little to lose but so much more to gain. And the ending with its final thoughts and reflections blew my mind!

[Lolo · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book contains several of the most useful healing techniques. The knowledge in this book is precious and rare. Real guidance to the point and without the "new age" lingo.

[Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have the 1988 version of this book. It is an oldie but a goody. I read this back in the 1990s and am overdue for a re-read. This book has some great techniques in it.

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is awesome. Even if you don't "believe" in psychic healing (and I'm not sure that I do), the way the authors talk about psychic development in the same matter-of-fact way that one might talk about planting a garden is really fascinating and refreshing. There are interesting visualizations and exercises that you can do to pass the time in, say, waiting rooms, even if psychic healing itself isn't on your life list. I've had this book forever, and it's one I periodically feel the urge to revisit. If you have even the slightest interest in extrasensory perception or psychic phenomena, you should really check it out.

[Veronica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Connecting with someone who is not present to bring calm, peaceful energy.