Books

Cookbooks

My love of travel encouraged me to explore the cuisines of other cultures. Most of my cookbooks (written under the pen-name ‘Santa Maria’) have become collector’s items. They are: Indian Vegetarian Cookery (1973), Anna Yoga: The Yoga of Food (1978), Indian Sweet Cookery (1979), Chinese Vegetarian Cookery (1983), Greek Vegetarian Cookery (1984), The International Vegetarian (with Dave Scott 1986), Italian Vegetarian Cookery (1987), The French Way with Vegetables (1989).

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Growing food, cooking and eating are celebratory and can be facets of natural spirituality. Good eating, especially with friends and/or family is a ceremony. Food has to be good for us and our planet!

Books about Healing and related subjects

From 1990 my writing has been based on healing and counselling practice and research.

The Healing Trilogy

Along with other therapies, spiritual healing is evolving. The world needs healers who are aware of and can respond empathically and therapeutically to the myriad symptoms of soul malaise and their consequences for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Part of my response to this call of the soul has been a trilogy of healing handbooks. We all have the power to take action and these three books describe how to do it.

cover of Jack's first healing book, Your Healing Power

Considered by many to be the best guide on how to offer help and healing to other people and even situations, Your Healing Power (Piatkus, 1994) has become an international healing classic, providing the basic, foundational material for healing practice.




Cover of Jack's second healing book, The Spiritual Healing Handbook

The Spiritual Healing Handbook (Piatkus 2007), first published as Sacred Healing by Piatkus in 2001, focusses on the evolutionary nature of healing and how the soul underlies any healing session. Again, practical tools are provided to help you link with the Source of healing and its energies. It also serves as a guide to personal growth and self-healing as well as deepening your work as a practitioner

Cover of Jack's third healing book, The Distant Healing Handbook

In addition to dealing with mental, emotional and physical needs, forms of healing are now needed to reach out to the societal and environmental
problems that are a fact of life in the ‘global village’. This aspect of the evolutionary nature of healing is addressed with the important third book of the trilogy, The Distant Healing Handbook. This complete manual teaches you how to send healing energy when the subject is at a distance from you – to individuals, animals, your pets, the environment and local and global issues – whether working by yourself or with a group.

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