Healer, The

"The Healer" presents a life changing philosophy that incorporates Zen Buddhism within a romantic story. It is a new age novel that openly explores the disappointments, excesses and arrogance that can befall a guru as well as the heart warming, healing interactions and profound, positive thoughts that are found within new age movements. This is a thought-provoking story about a young man's transformation from a mundane life to that of a healer and ultimately his starting a new religion. Yet, at the pinnacle of his success, his life is shattered through arrogance and personal tragedy precipitating the painful rebuilding of his new life and new self. In "The Healer", Simon Brown delicately mixes in the feminine, intuitive, nurturing side of healing as a series of amazingly insightful women deliver much of the philosophy as well as romance.This book will appeal to anyone who longs for change, seeks to expose themselves to unimaginable possibilities, and get back to the realities of what makes humans happy.