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.

This is one of the key works of esoteric teaching and should't miss in any decent home library.

In Esoteric Healing: A Practical Guide Based On The Teachings Of The Tibetan In The Works Of Alice A. Bailey, author and leading alternative medicine practitioner Alan Hopking provides the reader with a unique guide to spiritual healing drawing up current research in medical energetics and ancient sources of Ageless Wisdom. Esoteric Healing explains the healing circuits known as triangles, and arranges them on a basis of clinical diagnoses relating to particular systems. In addition to defining and explaining esoteric healing, Hopking writes with a practical emphasis enhanced with a profusion of illustrative diagrams, describes more than 40 circuit triangles, reveals a new understanding of disease (including how to approach cancer and other major planetary influences), shows how to heal from the soul level and work within the subtle bodies, covers the therapeutics and "pneumapharmacology" of esoteric healing, informatively discusses distant healing and self-healing, group meditation and healing mantrams. A welcome and impressively presented 361-page treatise (complete with an extensive index and bibliography) Esoteric Healing is a significant and contribution to the growing library of alternative medicine and highly recommended reading for both practitioners and non-specialist general readers with an interest in natural healing arts.