| Barbara Ann Brennan | |
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| Occupation | Energy Healer, Teacher, Author |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | Late 20th Century - Early 21st Century |
| Subjects | Energy healing |
| Notable work(s) | Hands of Light |
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www.barbarabrennan.com |
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Barbara Ann Brennan (born 19 February 1939) is an American author, spiritual healer, businesswoman and teacher working in the field of energy healing. In 2011, she was listed by the Watkins Review as the 94th most spiritually influential person in the world.[1]
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Brennan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and two years later received her Masters in Atmospheric Physics from the same institution. She then worked as a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.[2] From 1970, she researched and worked with the "human energy field". She completed a two–year program in Therapeutic Counselling at the Community of the Whole Person in Washington, D.C., followed by a three-year program in Core Energetics at the Institute for Core Energetics in New York, New York in 1978 and a five-year program in Spiritual Healership at the Phoenicia Pathwork Center in Phoenicia, New York in 1979. She was strongly influenced by Eva and John Pierrakos, who founded a system for self-transformation called the Pathwork, drawing on the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and Alexander Lowen. Brennan worked with the Pierrakos, and became a Pathwork Helper and Core Energetics therapist.[3] Brennan also took seminars with and was influenced by Rev. Rosalyn L. Bruyere.[3] She developed her own private healing practice in 1977 and then established a training programme to teach others.[4][2] Brennan claims Ph.D.s in philosophy from Greenwich University and theology from Holos University, both earned in 2001.[5] These universities are unaccredited.[6]
Her first book, Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, is considered a "classic"[7] in the field of spiritual healing, with reputedly over one million copies in print in 22 languages. Brennan claims to receive intuitive information about her clients during sessions, and to see repetitive patterns in the energy fields of her clients indicating common roots underlying their difficulties.[4] Brennan's books contain drawings of auras and energy fields, and descriptions of how human energy fields interact with each other. She has popularized a seven-layer model of the energy field, each layer being structured of differing frequencies and kinds of energy and performing different functions.[8] Brennan views the chakras as transformers that receive and process universal energy, as well as enabling expression and healthy functioning of the individual's own consciousness and psycho-physical make-up. She is best known for taking a methodical, scientific approach to energy healing.[4]
Brennen has created a type of energy healing techniques that she calls "full spectrum healing" to work on the seven layers of the human energy field or auras.[3]. One of these techniques she calls spiritual surgery works on the fifth level of the human energy field using the power of a spirit surgeon.
In 1982, she closed her private practice in New York City and established the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, designed to train professional healers. The school is now located in Florida, and is licensed by the State of Florida Commission for Independent Education.[9] In 2003, Brennan opened the "Barbara Brennan School of Healing Europe", originally in Mondsee, Austria which then moved to Bad Neuenahr near Bonn, Germany in 2006 and moved back to Austria to the small town of Bad Ischl in 2008. In 2007, a new branch opened in Tokyo, Japan. Barbara Brennan School of Healing is a nonaccredited school.[10]