The Healing Effects of Energy Medicine

Subtitled 'memoirs of a medical intuitive' and with a foreword by Bernie Siegel, this book makes fascinating reading, especially for those in the healing professions, with its detailed case histories outlining the modalities of healing in specific instances. Shannon was born in 1938, and her medical intuitive faculties go back to her childhood where her mother and very little faith in her abilities, criticising her, for instance, for colouring outside the body when she was in fact filling in the aura she was seeing. Both Bernie and Scott have first-hand experience of Shannon, who was able to see Bernie's guides as well as heal his leg.

The book is arranged in a series of case histories illustrating more general principles. Shannon explains how healing can happen easily when we let go of resistance, which may involve forgiveness, surrender, acceptance and allowing. She sees stress as the main underlying component of dis-ease, hence the power of changing one's thought patterns and letting go of the past. The cases also show how commitment is required on both sides, leading to a state of coherence and alignment. Our negative thoughts and judgements can block the flow of energy and well-being in our systems, as many case histories show. Some are quite dramatic, for instance the healing of a brain aneurysm from a distance, where Shannon feels herself into the tiny lesion in the brain and gathers the necessary healthy cells to initiate healing. Sometimes, apparent accidents are self-inflicted and require a deep process of forgiving oneself and others. Towards the end of the book, Shannon also describes encounters with deceased relatives and the perception of a man leaving his body at 45° and being greeted by his parents on the other side. Altogether, the book provides yet another coherent narrative of how the physical world is embedded in a much larger reality than currently acknowledged by orthodox medicine.