14 Facts About Barbara Brennan

Barbara Ann Brennan was an American writer, spiritual healer, businesswoman and teacher working in the field of energy healing.

Barbara Brennan then went on to spend six years working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

Barbara Brennan 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.

Barbara Brennan worked with the Pierrakos, and became a Pathwork Helper and Core Energetics therapist.

Barbara Brennan developed her own private healing practice in 1977 and then established a training programme to teach others.

Barbara Brennan had a PhD in philosophy from Greenwich University in Australia and DTh in theology from Holos University, both earned in 2001.

Barbara Brennan claimed 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.

Barbara Brennan's books contain drawings of auras and energy fields, and descriptions of how human energy fields interact with each other.

Barbara Brennan popularized a seven-layer model of the energy field, each layer being structured of differing frequencies and kinds of energy and performing different functions.

Barbara Brennan viewed 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.

Barbara Brennan was best known for taking a methodical approach to energy healing.

Barbara Brennan created a type of energy healing techniques that she called "full spectrum healing" to work on the seven layers of the human energy field or auras.

Barbara Brennan claimed that the technique she called spiritual surgery works on the fifth level of the human energy field using the power of a spirit surgeon.

Barbara Brennan School has 2700 graduates worldwide, over 224 teachers, and 188 Brennan Integration Practitioners.