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Summary: Possibilities for Humanity
Review: All these reviews are curious. Most comment on Dean's healing practice, and not on the book. Why does amazon allow this?The negative reviews mostly lambaste Dean for not helping them. But do such people have any idea of how overwhelming it must be to have thousands of people begging for help? I know a healer, and she has to work hard at not being totally drained by people and their needs. Jesus had the same problem. Dean may be gifted, but he's only human. As for the outrage over what Dean charges (purportedly $750 a session), this is peanuts as compared to what a hospital stay might cost...or death. I'd gladly sell my house to be healed from a painful, debilitating illness. And in a day and age when TV stars and sports figures receive tens of millions, $750 seems even more like peanuts for the gift of healing. For those who Dean couldn't help, (he admits to not being able to help heal everybody), I wonder how anger impedes such a process? Many of reviews are so filled with anger! I cannot imagine anything more destructive to health. Reviewers denounce Dean for working only two weekends a month. If true, so what? Perhaps that's all he can do at this point in his life (his book repeatedly states how draining healing can be for the healer). After twenty-five-years of helping others, I suspect that Dean needs the down time. Better he be available four days than no days. In the wonderful movie RESURRECTION (with Ellen Burstyn, 1980), Burstyn portrays a healer who flees from humanity in order to protect herself. She still does healings, but totally anonymously. People have no idea of who she is, or of her gifts. All they know is that they've been mysteriously healed. I can appreciate such a struggle, and wonder if Dean will grow to feel the same way. Anyway, back to the book. I recommend it for several reasons, but perhaps most because I like the IDEA that hand-on-healing is possible. In a world increasing gone mad, this book offers wondrous possibilities for humanity.
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Summary: Possibilities for Humanity
Review: All these reviews are curious. Most comment on Dean's healing practice, and not on the book. Why does amazon allow this? The negative reviews mostly lambaste Dean for not helping them. But do such people have any idea of how overwhelming it must be to have thousands of people begging for help? I know a healer, and she has to work hard at not being totally drained by people and their needs. Jesus had the same problem. Dean may be gifted, but he's only human. As for the outrage over what Dean charges (purportedly $750 a session), this is peanuts as compared to what a hospital stay might cost...or death. I'd gladly sell my house to be healed from a painful, debilitating illness. And in a day and age when TV stars and sports figures receive tens of millions, $750 seems even more like peanuts for the gift of healing. For those who Dean couldn't help, (he admits to not being able to help heal everybody), I wonder how anger impedes such a process? Many of reviews are so filled with anger! I cannot imagine anything more destructive to health. Reviewers denounce Dean for working only two weekends a month. If true, so what? Perhaps that's all he can do at this point in his life (his book repeatedly states how draining healing can be for the healer). After twenty-five-years of helping others, I suspect that Dean needs the down time. Better he be available four days than no days. In the wonderful movie RESURRECTION (with Ellen Burstyn, 1980), Burstyn portrays a healer who flees from humanity in order to protect herself. She still does healings, but totally anonymously. People have no idea of who she is, or of her gifts. All they know is that they've been mysteriously healed. I can appreciate such a struggle, and wonder if Dean will grow to feel the same way. Anyway, back to the book. I recommend it for several reasons, but perhaps most because I like the IDEA that hand-on-healing is possible. In a world increasing gone mad, this book offers wondrous possibilities for humanity.
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Summary: Remarkable , a real genius. someone you want to meet
Review: Dean Kraft is a one of a kind healer. He is truly gifted. This book is a must read for those who are unable to fathom the gift this healer has. His search for truth and his own unanswered questions about how his magnetic power in his hands and body came about is fasciating. Follow with him his road of discovery and doubts, but mainly follow his long ihistory of healing the unhealble. Dean Kraft does not use any religious schools to bring about his energy. It's based on touch, and touch alone. A Touch of Hope is exactly that, he brings hope to the hopeless and cures 80% of those he touches He welcomes scientific experiments and doubting Thomas's. The books screams out to you to want to meet him and talk to him, let alone send anyone you might know who is suffering to him for help. Never before have I read a more compelling and heartwarming account of love and giving by one human being. Mr. Kraft has spent more than half his life in the service of healing others, many times at risk to himself. Through reading his book, I had occasion to meet with Dean and Rochelle Kraft. They are devoted not only to one another but to healing and finding answers so that others might be able to heal. Mr. Kraft is sure that there are others out there who do have his ability and don't know it. Throuth this book, I've seen some of his patience, and saw firsthand their recovery. One an ALS patient that was given a death sentence upon diagnosis. My husband. We now know he will not die, of ALS. Even non belivers will walk away from his book, questioning their own disbelief.
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Summary: Not the only Healer out there
Review: Dear Readers.
Although I have read other reviews and money always seems to be brought into the picture, however there are those of us healers who do not use our gifts for making big bucks. I like so many others do have a gift and want to help others heal and find there way in life. Blessing to everyone Bruce Whittier
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Summary: please help, my brother is dying
Review: For those who feel uncomfortable in the face of the new and inexplicable, this book will provide an ample opportunity for upset, ranting and raving. For those who love the fresh breeze blowing through the doorway into a new paradigm, this book will gently and persistently blow your mind. Try on a spirit world that found the only way to get his attention was by controlling the clicks from an electric car window. How's that for going outside the nine dots? Dean Kraft writes large across our world, "We are infinitely more than we know and even than we can imagine."
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Summary: Kraft invites us in to a new paradigm for healing.
Review: For those who feel uncomfortable in the face of the new and inexplicable, this book will provide an ample opportunity for upset, ranting and raving. For those who love the fresh breeze blowing through the doorway into a new paradigm, this book will gently and persistently blow your mind. Try on a spirit world that found the only way to get his attention was by controlling the clicks from an electric car window. How's that for going outside the nine dots? Dean Kraft writes large across our world, "We are infinitely more than we know and even than we can imagine."
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Summary: Ridiculous and a big yawn,save your money!
Review: I am a big fan of all "new age" healers and a dedicated reader of every autobiography of every concievable kind of healer that comes into print, and there are many. However, I don't remember ever being so turned off by a self-proclaimed "master" healer. I don't doubt Dean's abilities, as he makes sure the reader knows that his "powers" have been proven time and time gain, and in case we don't get it, maybe we'll believe him if he lets us know , by name, all the famous celebrities he has had the pleasure of healing. Unlike other responsible healers being spotlighted in the media currently, Dean doesn't bore us with details of the mind body connection, or his take on how people can feel more empowered by taking responsibility for their own healing, he just has some unexplainable magic power, and "poof". I could probably forgive all of these shortcomings if he author left out the part ,in the beginning of the book when he is just starting to realize he is "special". His car is also "magical", one day all four electric door locks begin clicking rapidly up and down, eventually advancing to a stage where Dean and his buddy, "Buddy" begin a kind of morse code-like exchange with the car spirit. The car spirit lets him know in no uncertain terms that he can no longer carry on a normal existence, he has all powers and to use them carefully. Give me a break!
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Summary: You Don't Need to See Kraft for Hands on Healing
Review: I am a reiki hand on healer. I purchased this book because I was interested in learning about Mr. Kraft's version of hand on healing, and to judge his claims for myself. I found nothing unique about Mr. Kraft after reading the book. His techniques mirror what reiki practitioners do every day around the world. Reiki practitioners can increase and decrease the flow of energy at will, just like Mr. Kraft claims. Reiki practitioners treat all types of illnesses and obtain profound results, just like Mr. Kraft claims in his book. The results of healing claimed by Mr. Kraft can and have been duplicated by many reiki practitioners, including myself. Thus, this book is really quite a disappointing read. You don't need to spend $750 cash to see Mr. Kraft when you can see most reiki practitioners for around $40 to $80 per hour throughout the world (and certainly in the United States). Plus, we reiki practitioners can send healing through distance, so you don't even have to be in the same room with us to reap the benefits of reiki. If anyone wishes to explore reiki, anyone reading this can feel free to contact me (I live in Las Vegas, Nevada), and I would be happy to work with you (although I'm not permitted by Amazon.com to leave any contact information, so you'll have to search me out on your own). I agree with many other reviewers that the book seems to be a lot of hype, and contains many inaccuracies. The timeline of Mr. Kraft about world events seems off. The book also reads like "it's all about me," or "look at me, look at me!", and there is so much ego in Mr. Kraft's writing that it really takes away from this man's message, which I do believe is important, but could have been delivered in a much more humble manner. Hands on healers are supposed to be humble people, and Mr. Kraft, although he thinks he is trying to be humble, comes off exactly the opposite. Simply put, the book reads like a written TV infomercial. Please, people, do not think you need to contact Mr. Kraft for healing yourself or your loved ones. Search out a local reiki practitioner, since this is all you need to experience hand on healing. In sum, I recommend that you pass on this book. Instead, go to your local bookstore and find a good book on reiki. An excellent read of a gifted reiki healer is "Tapestry of Healing," by Jeri Mills, M.D., a doctor who incorporated reiki into her practice. Another good read is "Traditional Reiki for Our Times" by Amy Z. Rowland, another gifted reiki healer. Both of these books are probably still available from Amazon.com, or you could locate a used copy. Furthermore, once you learn about reiki, you can find a local practitioner to perform the attunement process with you, and then you yourself can use reiki everyday in your life. You will then, in all likelihood, start to see the same healing results as those claimed by Mr. Kraft. Thus, I reiterate, you do not need Mr. Kraft! In all, therefore, I agree with one statement made by Mr. Kraft in his book: We all are born with the power to heal ourselves; we just need to tap into that energy. I have found that reiki is that healing energy. Go find a reiki practitioner, or go learn reiki!! Marc S. Cwik
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Summary: You Don't Need to See Kraft for Hands on Healing
Review: I am a reiki hand on healer. I purchased this book because I was interested in learning about Mr. Kraft's version of hand on healing, and to judge his claims for myself. I found nothing unique about Mr. Kraft after reading the book. His techniques mirror what reiki practitioners do every day around the world. Reiki practitioners can increase and decrease the flow of energy at will, just like Mr. Kraft claims. Reiki practitioners treat all types of illnesses and obtain profound results, just like Mr. Kraft claims in his book. The results of healing claimed by Mr. Kraft can and have been duplicated by many reiki practitioners, including myself. Thus, this book is really quite a disappointing read. You don't need to spend $750 cash to see Mr. Kraft when you can see most reiki practitioners for around $40 to $80 per hour throughout the world (and certainly in the United States). Plus, we reiki practitioners can send healing through distance, so you don't even have to be in the same room with us to reap the benefits of reiki. If anyone wishes to explore reiki, anyone reading this can feel free to contact me (I live in Las Vegas, Nevada), and I would be happy to work with you (although I'm not permitted by Amazon.com to leave any contact information, so you'll have to search me out on your own). I agree with many other reviewers that the book seems to be a lot of hype, and contains many inaccuracies. The timeline of Mr. Kraft about world events seems off. The book also reads like "it's all about me," or "look at me, look at me!", and there is so much ego in Mr. Kraft's writing that it really takes away from this man's message, which I do believe is important, but could have been delivered in a much more humble manner. Hands on healers are supposed to be humble people, and Mr. Kraft, although he thinks he is trying to be humble, comes off exactly the opposite. Simply put, the book reads like a written TV infomercial. Please, people, do not think you need to contact Mr. Kraft for healing yourself or your loved ones. Search out a local reiki practitioner, since this is all you need to experience hand on healing. In sum, I recommend that you pass on this book. Instead, go to your local bookstore and find a good book on reiki. An excellent read of a gifted reiki healer is "Tapestry of Healing," by Jeri Mills, M.D., a doctor who incorporated reiki into her practice. Another good read is "Traditional Reiki for Our Times" by Amy Z. Rowland, another gifted reiki healer. Both of these books are probably still available from Amazon.com, or you could locate a used copy. Furthermore, once you learn about reiki, you can find a local practitioner to perform the attunement process with you, and then you yourself can use reiki everyday in your life. You will then, in all likelihood, start to see the same healing results as those claimed by Mr. Kraft. Thus, I reiterate, you do not need Mr. Kraft! In all, therefore, I agree with one statement made by Mr. Kraft in his book: We all are born with the power to heal ourselves; we just need to tap into that energy. I have found that reiki is that healing energy. Go find a reiki practitioner, or go learn reiki!! Marc S. Cwik
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Summary: Very Disappointing From the Start
Review: I had high "hopes" for this book but right from the start there were obvious fabrications in Kraft's autobiographical story. Having lived in Brooklyn I very quickly noticed references to non-existent places such as a "tunnel running from the Prospect Expressway to Ocean Parkway." I overlooked these as possible artistic license. But when Kraft tells the story of how, in 1973, his friend Buddy tries to get him to profit from the "talking car" by going to Atlantic City to "hit the jackpot" I drew the line. Kraft says he "knew intuitively" that his gift should not be used in such a manner. Well, Mr. Clairvoyant, your spirits should have told you that casino gambling didn't even exist in Atlantic City until 1979! What a disappointment!
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