The author not only inspires the reader and holds our attention but educates us on how to live a fulfilled life. She tries to teach us self love, a concept most of us were never taught. I liked it so much I bought a copy for my sister to help her in her spiritual journey as well.
The author's writing and life experiences were really captivating. Self-love returned light into her mind.
This is a really amazing book and I recommend this to all who are suffering from chaotic moments of their lives.
Jesse N.
Definitely worth purchasing if you are having issues with your sight. This book put things into perspective for me and made total sense as to why my sight is being affected by my thoughts. The author offers solutions to regaining your sight of you are willing to do the work.
Invasion Revealed: Healing Alcoholism, Mental Illness, & Drug Addiction
by Nancy Lynne Harris, M.A.
URLink Publishing
book review by Donna Ford
"Professionals who offer help need to understand the spiritual problem that is causing the dysfunction. Sick people must be trained to think differently about themselves . . ."
This book begins with Harris' testimony of what happened to her family as a result of not knowing the connection between spiritual influences and human illness and addiction. Her father died of alcoholism at fifty-two; her son was killed in a car crash on his eighteenth birthday. Another son, depressed at forty-eight, hanged himself, and when she divorced, her husband was experiencing alcoholic-related blackouts. After eight years of therapy, Harris was losing her will to resist interior suggestions of suicide. Sitting alone on her couch, she covered both eyes and looked inward. What happened next amazed her.
Like the man in Luke, Chapter 8, who was possessed by evil spirits, the author saw five ghost-like spirits in her mind planning maneuvers to destroy her. One saw her. They all hid, and her mind went dark. Instinctively, she did as Jesus had, demanding that the spirits "Get the * Out of My Space." They objected as she declared out loud that she believed in herself. Self-love returned light into her mind. Light was what evil could not stand.
The author is highly motivated to get this word out. She states that she lost her family but promises to do her best to help others save theirs. Harris now works as a spiritual counselor who teaches clients to shift their energy for healing purposes. She believes that a healthy energy balance requires a ratio of at least 51% positivity in order to maintain self-healing. With the skill of a compassionate teacher, Harris explains that the Book of Enoch, excluded from most Bibles, provides an insight into the origin of spiritual encounters. She clearly defines the auric light field, to which demons are attracted, and which surrounds every living person. Using a chart and poems, Harris candidly shares with both clients and readers what she has learned at high personal cost.
Invasion Revealed: Healing Alcoholism, Mental Illness, & Drug Addiction
by Nancy Lynne Harris, M.A.
URLink Publishing
Reviewed by Danielle Ballantyne
A self-help guide to healing sickness and addiction through self-love and the teachings of Jesus, Invasion Revealed is brief but ambitious.
Nancy Lynne Harris’s Invasion Revealed posits the theory that alcoholism, drug addiction, and various forms of mental illness and dementia “are caused from the individual’s unintentional neglect and/or ignorance of the spirit nature of the Self.” To bolster her case, Harris—a shaman and spiritual teacher—utilizes excerpts from the New Testament, works by other spiritual teachers and mediums, and her own experiences with overcoming depression after the tragic death of her son. The book is split into two short chapters—“Invasion Revealed” and “Attitude is Everything”—before concluding with resources to help apply their lessons, from a 12-step plan to heal mental invasion to a list of healing affirmations.
Though the volume is brief, its points meander, resulting in a disjointed reading experience that hinders the book’s success in proving its ambitious arguments. After an initial focus on the importance of self-love and counteracting negative self-talk to support mental healing, the text veers into attributing all forms of “dysfunction” to the influence of evil spirits, up to and including demonic possession. Salient suggestions on reversing negative self-talk, including using a thesaurus to find the exact opposite words, are drowned out by jarring statements linking Alzheimer’s to the mind being “completely captured by demons” and blaming demonic possession for the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting.
Harris also recounts her own experiences with suicidal ideation, closing her eyes and searching inward to find five shadowy beings plotting against her in her mind’s eye. The New Testament story of Jesus casting demons into swine is used to validate both her experiences and the conflation of dysfunction with evil spirits, reasoning that, in the Bible, the demons were cast out and the man was well again. Theological conflicts between Harris’s other beliefs—in ghosts and auras, for example—and the Bible are not explored.
Many of the book’s assertions, such as that “dysfunctional illnesses cannot be healed with medicine,” begin with the refrain “We all know,” but are not followed up with scientific evidence or citations. In some instances, statistics are said to exist that support the arguments being presented, but these statistics are never explained in detail or cited. The few sources that the book does produce do not provide illumination on these topics either, and on occasion they undermine its premise. An examination of a quote from James Van Praagh—a renowned medium—is used to explain Harris’s position that all drugs, including prescription medications, open doors for evil spirits to enter and corrupt a person. Such criticisms of psychiatry and psychiatric medication conflict with statements acknowledging the shame around seeking help for dysfunction. The result is a one-sided anecdotal and spiritual manifesto that fails to elucidate its own assertions.
A broad self-help guide to healing sickness and addiction through self-love and the teachings of Jesus, Invasion Revealed is brief but ambitious.
Invasion Revealed: Healing Alcoholism, Mental Illness, & Drug Addiction
by Nancy Lynne Harris, M.A.
URLink Publishing
This small book has a big message: You can heal yourself of anything, especially addiction and mental illness, with positive thoughts and directed self-love.
The first three-quarters of Invasion Revealed boldly state author Nancy Lynne Harris’ philosophy —that negative thinking opens one to invasion by dark entities—and details her personal experience enduring life-threatening addiction and mental illness, both in herself (depression and suicidal thoughts) and among her immediate family (alcoholism, drug use, suicide, and Alzheimer’s disease). The book’s last quarter offers an easy-to follow, practical plan to cultivate the habit of self-love and positive thinking in order to heal.
Unfortunately, readers don’t learn that Harris is a trained energy healer and shamanic practitioner with extensive experience successfully healing clients until far into the book. Additionally, while Invasion Revealed makes a strong case for Harris’ technique to “cast out the demons” (based on Jesus’ parable) using her personal healing story, she fails to draw on the extensive literature about the power of positive thinking in alternative medicine, energy medicine, cross-cultural shamanic studies in anthropology, or even her own practice in which client case studies could add weight to this argument.
Moreover, Harris often fails to cite specifics when referring to traditional medicine and science. She writes, “statistics prove that medical help is not the answer to healing dysfunction” but doesn’t cite the source(s) or specific statistics. When describing her mother’s decline from Alzheimer’s, a disease where, “your mind is completely captured by demons,” she adds that, “they maim and kill zillions of us that way every year.” This exaggeration loses readers’ trust in Harris’s accuracy. Finally, she misses the opportunity to cite the growing body of studies in natural and social sciences that offer empirical and anecdotal evidence for the power of positive thinking on health.
Harris’ writing is generally powerful and engaging, and readers will find some useful information here. However, revision and expansion to address the abovementioned issues would greatly strengthen this offering.
Also available in hardcover and ebook.
COMI: How to Consciously Overcome Mental Illness
by Nancy Lynne Harris, M.A.
URLink Publishing
book review by David Hennessee
"Mental illness is not something that happens to just a few people. It is a chronic worldwide problem that is caused because people do not know how to think correctly."
Studies show that one in five Americans are afflicted with some form of mental illness during their lives, but two-thirds do not seek treatment due to feelings of shame. It is clear that effective treatments are needed, and author Harris, shaman and spiritual teacher, offers her thoughts on the problem of mental health. Her book outlines theories about the origins and causes of mental illness as well as coping and healing strategies for sufferers. Blending spiritual and positive thinking approaches, Harris affirms that all people contain the divine; however, in moments of pain, they can be invaded by evil spirits who create emotional suffering. Not metaphors, these spirits literally possess people and create symptoms. These malign invaders cause the negative thoughts that power mental illnesses. Therefore, drugs and diet changes will only temporarily soothe symptoms, not address the root causes of mental illness—invasive, enduring, and out-of-control destructive thought patterns.
This book makes a helpful distinction between transient negative thoughts and older, more entrenched thought patterns, which Harris labels "deep rolling thoughts." Another concrete, promising strategy offered to combat negativity and foster mental health is the use of positive affirmations. Harris suggests taking control of damaging thoughts with mantras such as "I dissolve the need for self-destruction. I dissolve the need for self-persecution." Readers not invested in a spiritual mindset may find the book's attribution of mental illness to demonic beings hard to swallow. Additionally, those who believe the findings of science (that mental illnesses are often caused by chemical imbalances in the brain over which the patient has little if any control) may find the book's treatment of this topic dismissive. However, in its insistence on the power of thought, the author's book does present a strong case for the possibility of proactive, powerful self-healing.
Heal Yourself of Anything: Example Glaucoma
by Nancy Lynne Harris, M.A.
URLink Publishing
book review by Barbara Bamberger Scott
"The words you choose to think and speak most often form attitudes that move your life toward illness or wellness."
When author Harris's son Michael was born with glaucoma, she did exactly what doctors instructed, putting medicated drops in his eyes three times daily to control pressure buildup. But she was told there was no cure for congenital glaucoma. Moving to California, Harris encountered a course in healing—"Eschatology, or the Science of Last Things." She and her husband became eschatology teachers. Based on the mental exercises taught by the science, Harris curtailed Michael's eye drops. To her and the doctors' astonishment, the pressure in the boy's eyes had become completely normal. Harris postulates that her sense of "pressure," brought on by an excessively overbearing relative, transferred itself to the body and mind of her son, causing glaucoma. She outlines the ways to access such insights to help others in the process of self-healing, by emptying the mind of negative thoughts, filling it with positive messages, and reflecting on the innate connectivity of all minds.
Harris, the founder of a healing organization and a specialist in curing glaucoma, clearly and logically weaves her intimate memories—in all their painful and joy-filled aspects—into her understanding and acceptance of eschatology healing principles. She describes the power of words and their meanings as secret movers behind our actions, using the metaphor of the work of technicians behind the curtain who make live stage productions possible and plausible. She unabashedly details personal deficits that, she believes, caused her son's condition, shows how she overcame them, and offers healing affirmations for those wishing to follow her method. She links conditions like far-sightedness and myopia to personality traits, further illustrating the connection between our minds and our physical characteristics. Harris presents her healing thesis to encourage those suffering from glaucoma and their loved ones to believe that they, too, can find relief.
Miracles Master the Art: Healing Medically Incurable Illness
by Nancy Lynne Harris, M.A.
book review by Rebecca L. Morgan
"What is going on in your own mind is projecting what you are experiencing in your body and in the world, whether or not you are aware of it."
Through spiritually driven text, the power of our thoughts and their impact on our body is analyzed in this enlightening guide that provides a step-by-step solution to transforming your mental and physical health. A long-time student and practitioner of shamanism and energy healing, the author proficiently details the thought process required to manifest desired outcomes when projecting positivity. By acknowledging that thoughts create experience, the reader is presented an encouraging pathway to reverse thinking by establishing an understanding and love of one's self. This holistic approach to well-being is skillfully communicated through the author's willingness to share deeply personal experiences of loss and illness in order to impart the benefits of gaining control of your mind and body with your thinking.
The energy that surrounds words and their ability to both destroy and heal is thoroughly explored in this guide which emphasizes reversing negative patterns through the precise selection of opposite thoughts. According to the author, choosing the exact positive word to incorporate into your thinking is paramount to weakening and abolishing the negative effects that are occurring to the body. Through a systemic practice of instilling positive affirmations as a fundamental element to one's daily thought process, a greater awareness of self is revealed, and a channel to recovery is illuminated. Biblical scripture is cited throughout the book with thought-provoking examinations of the text by reviewing the meaning of select words and how they can be misinterpreted, allowing for an enhanced perspective on divine guidance. Readers seeking relief from physical or emotional pain, dysfunction, illness or disease, will find an inspirational approach to health and wellness in this contemplative narrative that reinforces the reflection of one's thoughts and behaviors in order to unveil relief from painful ailments and emotions.
Mental Illness Heal Yourself
by Nancy Lynne Harris, M.A.
URLink Print & Media, LLC
book review by Barbara Bamberger Scott
"I began to hold the word Love in my mind all day long, not directing it anywhere, just holding it there."
After the horrific trauma of the accidental death of her teenage son, author Harris gradually began to slip into mental illness, overwhelmed by pent-up emotions, nightmares, hallucinations, and depression. Over a period of years, she spent time and money on therapies to cope with her negative feelings, triggered by the loss of her son but also arising from childhood abuse including low self esteem brought on by having an alcoholic father and a mother who punished her physically and told her that she was "conceited" to love herself. The turning point came when Harris began to realize she was in control of her mind, leading to the repetition of affirmations of self-praise such as "I treat myself sweet, kind and loving." These affirmations, she points out, are free, can be self-composed, and have the same power to drive out negative thoughts that medicines have to drive out physical disease.
Harris, who now works to help those with mental illness recover from trauma and addiction, speaks convincingly from her own experience in this practical guidebook. In a useful appendix, she provides several pages of positive affirmations that anyone might use, along with twelve steps to "Healing Mental Invasion" and four steps "To Manifest Change." Her stance reflects a Christian viewpoint; she quotes from the Bible, particularly emphasizing the ways that Jesus performed healings and the statements he made about the power of the Spirit. Harris vividly characterizes mental illness as a "kind of invasion" but asserts that one's sanity is always present despite the invasion, and taking charge of one's thoughts has the power to restore it. Her writing is straightforward and logical and projects a sense to the reader that anyone can do what she did: reject and dispel negative ideations and regain a state of genuine sanity.