Presence of Angels: A Healer's Life
B Y   J. C.   H U G H   M a c K I M M I E
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Do-It-Yourself Space Clearing Kit:
A Guide to Working with the Consciousness of Nature
B Y   C H R I S T A N   H U M M E L

R E V I E W E D   B Y   K A T H L E E N   J A C O B Y   &   C H I W A H

PRESENCE OF ANGELS:
A Healer's Life

EVERY SO OFTEN a book comes along that makes you want to sit down and lose yourself in the story. MacKimmie's book, Presence of Angels, is one such book. It is filled with stories of his youth, growing years, and the chiropractic practice that became his avenue for healing work. The wit and wisdom in the book is delicious. The miracles are inspiring, and the idiocy of our humanness will make you look at where you aren't paying attention in your own life to the messages from guidance that tell you how to avoid problems or make the most of your health and your potential.

MacKimmie isn't pontificating. He lived his life as willfully as many of us. Overcoming polio, liver cancer, paralysis, and other life threatening ailments all point to a bigger reality than we think logically is available, and a more powerful healing power than drugs and surgery. The author had a link with intuition from an early age, but like many, did not always follow what he was told to do. And therein lies the rub...being human. At age 77, he is sharing his retrospective and giving us the benefit of his own experience to help us navigate this thing called life. And, being human himself, he has no illusions that we'll all sit up and do what he suggests. However, we will think about it!

One of the amazing elements of the book is the healing power that is sandwiched within its pages. When MacKimmie was guided to write the story, his guidance told him that he would touch more people with healing through the book than he did during the entire years of his active practice (and he treated well over 100,000 people). He was also told not to go through normal PR channels to promote the book - that the angels would handle the connections. And they are.

This book is a page turner, and although it is 477 pages, I was saddened when the end came. I wanted it to go on and on, so I decided to pick it up and read it again. There are enough memorable passages and side-splitting stories to make you feel you're with an old friend as you take the journey a second time.

If you want to do yourself a favor as the New Year begins, read this book. It will set you on a journey of conscious awareness that may indeed be what you've been longing for.

To enjoy a featured book excerpt from "Presence of Angels" in this month's edition of PLW magazine please click here, or go to www.knowingheart.com. To order the book, call 1-800-214-8110 between 8 AM - 5 PM central time, Monday through Friday. The book is $19.95 plus $4.55 S&H.

Reviewed by Kathleen Jacoby

DO-IT-YOURSELF SPACE CLEARING KIT:
Working with Nature to Enhance the Energies of Your Home

THE DO-IT-YOURSELF Space Clearing Kit puts energetic feng shui in the hands of the (un)common person. You! If you feel that the layout of your space should be based on direct experience rather than on a contrived system of rules, if you desire to return your home, office or acreage to harmony with the forces of nature, you'll appreciate Christan Hummel's work.

Beginning with a discussion of the benefits of space clearing as practiced in every ancient culture (and residual in ours in the form of "spring cleaning"), the author moves on to explain how the triumph of patriarchy over what were formerly earth-centered cultures has thrown the planet into distress. Explaining how the current re-emergence of the sacred feminine aspect brings an opportunity to reunite with the co-creative natural forces to alleviate geopathic stress, she offers a wide range of simple experiments including prayer, meditation, invoking and communing with Spirit, the use of sound and light, and more to give the reader direct experience of natural energies and opportunities to effect positive change in the energy field.

The spiral-bound cover of the book is inviting, its internal layout pleasing to the eye. In simple language with the aid of clear illustrations, the author brings together personal stories and methods from sources old and new to encourage the (un)common person to take action to restore harmony to his or her own space. I did not have the opportunity to listen to the meditations on the CD.

The term '(un)common' is mine. It would be common to ignore this book, or to read it and not do the practices. I encourage you to be uncommon - to read it and use its simple, easy suggestions to make a difference here in your little space on earth. If not you and I, who?

Do-It-Yourself Space Clearing Kit (ISBN 0-97-54793-0-X), by Christan Hummel, was published in 2004 by One Source Publications. The book with guided meditation CD are available for $29.95 at www.earthtransitions.com - click on 'Products' at the top of the page.

Reviewed by Chiwah, The Light Connection