I studied 2 years at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (at 51-53), and it has created the most incredible growth in my life. Not only did I shake (or process) the psychological effects of 4 years of an undiagnosed blood clot, I also achieved a greater and solid awareness of who I really am. I am now so much more grounded in my reality today, than I would have ever been,if I had not gone to this school. I have done healings upon healings on myself and others. Among other things, I recently had a major breakdown, due to another health issue (trigeminal neuralgia from a pinched nerve in my brain). I filled my bathtub with water, and did 2 hours of spiritual self-healing, while tuning into Barbara Brennans channeled healings and harp music, and I completely healed within 24 hours. Otherwise I would have been sitting in a group home today, being fed antipsychotic drugs for the rest of my life. If these are not amazing results, I do not know what you call it.
I have read the other entries about BBSH on this site, and my comment is that the Barbara Brennan School of Healing is what you make of it. You can choose to make the program the object of your critizism, or you can choose to work hard to benefit from what is being offered. You can choose to critize the program for being too academically oriented, or whatever (then maybe this school is not for you ..), or you can choose to make it benefit you. I decided to go the latter, and it benefitted me beyond measure. Maybe this program is not for you, which is perfectly okay, but to post negative comments on the internet to advise others NOT take this program, due to your negative experience (which, by the way, is entirely yours), is not fair at all.
This program is so incredible, and students, who come with an open mind, and have decided to take responsibility for their own personal growth, will benefit tremendously from this program. 23 months ago
I got the impression from the prespectus you are expected to maintain yourself at peak fitness and health at all times.
Forgive me if I’m wrong, but does that mean turning into a bit of a droid? I mean, if you took my defects away I’m not sure I’d be entirely human, perhaps it would be more evolved, but I’m not sure there would be any of “myself” left.
The other thing I find about it….to be frank, is that there seems to be a strong slant towards academic acheivement in the school when I would have expected a more religious philosophy. The entry requirements are academic, although I was expecting something like “following spiritual path” or “on a journey of self-development”, “strong interest in spirit”.
There is a comprehensive list of therapist who are suitable for supporting your self-processes. I was surprised that very few of those were purely spiritual, but seemed to be more psychological, including seeing someone with a degree in education, with focus on counselling. Does that really qualify someone to work with you on a spiritually based healing process? The Ridwan School was at the very most bottom of the list. 3 years ago
I spent the last three years at BBSH, and I cannot honestly recommend this school to anybody. I had a teacher yell at me before for asking a question. She made me feel ashamed of myself that I even asked. I felt so terrible I ran to my room and cried. The healing skills they teach are helpful but I have not figured out yet how many of them work, even though the teachers keep telling me I am doing the skills correctly and they keep smiling at me and make me feel like I know what I am doing and I just smile back, and I wonder if this is even real or not? I have had a painful foot for a while, and the energy healings did not help it much. It does feel nice to get a healing, but I do not know if it really helped me heal.
I saw during a time called, “process group” which sometimes students work through some difficult feelings, a teacher tell another woman to end her marriage. And I was angry at this because she had small children and I did not feel it was the right thing to advise. They have the teachers who run this psychologically oriented process groups who are not trained appropriately to do the job, so sometimes they make mistakes, and people get bad advice like I said.
I do not know exactly what they are teaching at the school because every teacher had a different opinion on the healing skills. What was really frustrating was how one of my teachers kept withdrawing when I would ask her questions, it was like nobody was there.
While they teach some fun things to do, I really question the motivations of this school, and it is so uncomfortable to be in a school in a big city next to the airport.
The program seems really mismanaged because so many students quit the school after the first and second years. Now I see, why, the school does not really live up to its promises. 4 years ago
