The "New York Times" bestselling author of "Proud Spirit" and "The Eagle and the Rose" teaches us how to unleash the spiritual force within us.

As spiritual beings having a human experience, each of us comes into this world endowed with breathtaking gifts. We may have the power of intuition...the power to sense the invisible world around us...the power to create healing energy. All that we need is a wise teacher to turn the handle, so we can open the door to what lies within us.

Rosemary Altea is that teacher. She has guided thousands of students in their quest for self-empowerment. Now she shows all of us how to unblock and develop our gifts through simple, effective, and proven exercises. We learn how to release stress and find peace, locate our energy and build it up, and tune in to our sixth sense. But this groundbreaking work of self-empowerment is more than a how-to manual: woven into its fabric are miraculous stories of the spirit world, including the author's coversations with those who have departed this sphere. And it contains the wisest lesson of all: before we can communicate with the invisible forces around us, we must first learn to communicate with ourselves.

Reviews

The popularity of charismatic healer and spiritual medium Altea, who wrote the bestsellers The Eagle and the Rose and Proud Spirit, rests on her comforting vision of death and afterlife and her empathy for the sick and bereaved. With help from her spirit guide, a part-Native American named Grey Eagle, Altea claims to have made contact with countless spirits of the deceased and transmitted their loving messages to those who have survived them. Promising no miracles, this time around she advises readers to develop their own connections with the spirit world (i.e., their sixth sense) by honing the other five senses and developing self-knowledge. In addition to meditation and relaxation techniques, she offers exercises based on imaginative forms of positive thinking, such as building and decorating a metaphorical home. Many readers will be fascinated by her tales of communion with the spirit world (whether they believe them or not), although she often refers to or repeats stories from previous books. One anecdote that's likely to garner attention is her claim of contact with a victim of the TWA Flight 800 plane crash. However, skeptical readers may find it inappropriate that this messenger of God's love uses her book to settle scores with her former husband and Italian Catholic priests, and to plug her other products. Agent, Jan Miller. 13-city author tour.(Feb.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.

"Rosemary Altea is not only a gifted medium and healer but a master teacher as well. "You Own the Power" gives readers a chance to develop their own abilities and helps demystify some of the more mysterious aspects of energy and spirit communication."-- Carol Adrienne, author of "The Purpose of Your Life""Once again the renowned spiritual medium and healer Rosemary Altea offers us a beautiful and enlightening book, filled with inspiring stories and very practical advice and techniques. You will greatly enjoy and benefit from "You Own the Power.""-- Brian L. Weiss, M.D., author of "Many Lives, Many Masters"