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Could you point me in the direction of some literature you have read/uncovered pertaining body energy. This would be most appreciated. I will do my own research on the web, but any direction would be most appreciated.

I really wish I could point to a book and say here you go. But the truth is that my views have been formed over a lifetime of study and do not follow any particular tradition. What I have always done is read everything, filtered out that which is human sillyness, mixed them with my background in traditional physics, and tested them with experience. Not only my own personal experiences but those of my Students. When someone comes to you and asks for help with their lives you cannot make mistakes, trust is fragile and this has always been a responsibility I take very seriously.

But you have an advantage that I did not have when I was first learning about these subjects: The Internet. Granted there is much that is wrong, but there is even more that is not. You have to apply the same sort of filters, test everthing new against what you already know to be true.

This is without a doubt the most complex subject in the human sphere, compared to it everything else is easy. Partially this is because you are studying the very thing that you use to study, ie yourself. To understand some aspects you have to first retrain yourself, remove preconceptions that get in the way. Something to be very wary of is the natural human tendency to substitute superstition for fact. There is great wisdom and truth to be found in materials that pre-date Science. But mixed in with these truths are a lot of plain old human stupidity.

Something that many may not know is that in times past anything that was written down was protected in some manner. False information would be mixed in and without a guide to tell you how to read the material you will end up with a lot that is just not correct. I once read a very old manuscript where the proper way to read it was to skip every other paragraph. If you did not know to do this then what you would read would be so confused as to cause you to dismiss it entirely.

Sadly as these materials have been read and written about some of this false information has been accepted as fact. Even more annoying is that people have used what was meant to be ignored as the basis for attempts to prove all of this information is false.

I would suggest that you search on variations of the following: Energy Work, Human Aura, and EM fields.

There is in fact only one book that I ask all my Students to read at the very start. It does not matter if they wish to learn Wicca but it gives a solid beginning into how to learn about these things and has a strong emphasis on safety for the worker:

Positive Magic: Ancient Metaphysical Techniques for Modern Lives by Marion Weinstein.

It is available at Amazon and in many libraries.

A.T
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[edit on 8/8/05 by Alexander Tau]