For 20 years, Alan Mesher has been working with clients as an energy healer and spiritual counselor. In his latest book, ‘Just Who Do You Think You Are?: The Power of Personal Evolution’ (Sirius Creations, $19.95), he outlines his program for clearing negativity, finding true purpose, and heading towards self-discovery. His process helps people develop a strong center and find inner stability. Mesher will speak about his book at Village Books, 1049 Swarthmore, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 29. This is Mesher’s fifth book, which he wrote at his ‘office’ at Starbucks. ‘Most people don’t have a clue who they are,’ Mesher says. ‘They define self by their roles’mother or husband, etc.’ His book is written to help people accelerate the process of self-disovery. At Village Books, he will speak about the principles he has developed for this process: how to clear emotional toxicity, how to remove inner roadblocks to personal success and fulfillment, how to become the person you were meant to be, and how to develop and increase your personal power. A native of Boston, Mesher graduated from Hobart College and thought he would go to law school or return to school for a Ph.D. But his path was altered when he met a New Hampshire woman named Eleanor Moore, who had a well-known gift for healing. ‘I had heard that she changed lives,’ Mesher recalls. ‘A friend introduced me to her. She started to tell me things about my life that were dead-on right. She said, ‘What I do, you’re going to do. You can go be a lawyer but it’s not your destiny.’ She put my hands between her hands and a hot, electrical energy went up my spine and made a popping sound in the center of my forehead. I saw a golden light. It was remarkable, ecstatic.’ Mesher ended up studying with her for three years. He performed his first healing, a year later, on a poodle he was taking care of for a friend. A St. Bernard had bitten the poodle in the diaphragm. Mesher took the dog to the vet, but worried, ‘How can I help this poor animal?’ He meditated. With his hands two feet apart, he called the dog’s spirit to come to him. ‘I felt something come between my hands, the space filled with tremendous energy, then it stopped. This was at 10:10 p.m.’ The next morning the vet said the dog was fine and I could pick him up. ‘He said that the wound had sealed up in front of his eyes at 10:10 p.m.,’ Mesher says. ‘I realized this is real, I have a gift.’ Another example of his healing work involves a woman who came to him with a sharp pain in her stomach, after traditional and alternative practitioners couldn’t help. She lay on a table and Mesher put energy into her by lightly laying his hands on the area where the pain was. ‘An emotional blockage came to the surface, and memories started coming up,’ he says. She started crying and thrashing around, remembering being abused at 9 months old. After 45 minutes of this, she became peaceful and felt as if she was floating in golden light. Her stomach was healed after the burden she had been carrying around was released. In Mesher’s three zones of personal evolution, the first step is clearing toxic emotion. ‘If you can’t do that, you can’t grow,’ he says. ‘You need to face the pain.’ He outlines a simple process for this in his book, although he also urges people to get professional help from a healer or therapist. ‘If we don’t deal with the toxicity, it’s never put to rest.’ This can include toxicity from past lives. This toxicity can also lead to health problems. In addition to his healing work, Mesher has hosted radio programs in San Francisco and Austin, and has been a regular guest on the Art Bell radio show. He is also a former publisher of the Yoga Journal, and has his own publishing company, Sirius Creations. His book not only refers to inner work, but also discusses history and politics, and how small numbers of people can bring about changes in social consciousness and behavior. He also discusses how to integrate psychology, social change and Eastern philosophy. Mesher and his son Matthew, a Malibu High School junior, have lived in the Highlands for three years. ‘Mesher can be contacted at 459-9007.
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