cover image The Healing Light of Angels: Transforming Your Past, Present, and Future with Divine Energy

The Healing Light of Angels: Transforming Your Past, Present, and Future with Divine Energy

Raven Keyes. Llewellyn, $16.99 trade paper (264p) ISBN 978-0-7387-4154-3

Keyes (The Healing Power of Reiki: A Modern Master’s Approach to Emotional, Spiritual, and Physical Wellness), a Reiki healer best known for bringing alternative healing into the operating room with media personality and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, explains how she has added the support of angels to her practice and personal life. Keyes has little to offer on the self-help side of the equation: her conception of what angels’ love can do in the world is general, and her exercises and meditations aimed at guiding readers to seek angelic influence are bland. But her sincere spiritual memoir—relating her experiences of being guided by archangels Gabriel and Michael; traveling to Glastonbury, a sacred (but vandalized) English town; serving as an ambassador to the ghosts of Ground Zero; and being a surgical patient herself—presents an integrative worldview that testifies to the possibility of supplementing allopathic treatments with more metaphysical ones, both for individual patients and for a hurting world. (Mar.)