Infinite Grace

On assignment for a magazine, Goldner got to know four prominent subtle energy healersRosalyn Bruyere, Barbara Brennan, Jason Shulman and Amy Skezaswho have earned recognition in alternative health circles for their successful treatment of heart disease and cancer, and for their life-extending ministering to AIDS patients. She studied their methodology and techniques, reviewed the results andafter benefiting from successful treatments for her migraines and mental outlookconverted from a skeptical investigator to an unconditionally enthusiastic advocate of spiritual healing. Her reservations about the profit motivations of these healers cast a small shadow on her tribute, however. All of her subjects appear to be adept at business and operate lucrative four-year training programs that graduate hundreds of practitioners a yearone leader reputedly nets more than a million dollars annually. Although establishing the legitimacy of auric healing in the mainstream medical community is Goldners foremost concern, her logic is hard to follow. For example, when she intersperses excerpts from interviews with scientists and secondary sources to set up a comparison between electromagnetic frequencies and the love frequencies used for healing, the arguments are discontinuous. She is on the mark, however, when she quotes quantum physicist Max Planck, who wrote that science progresses funeral by funeral, and cites some of the great scientific discoveries that were first condemned and later accepted, long before they were ever proven. Statistical graphs not seen by PW. (May)