The Aha! Factor

August 24, 2015
Radio host Cooper—who bills herself as, among other things, an angel therapy practitioner—mixes down-to-earth self-help and heady New Age spirituality in this guide to what she calls the energetic communication system, which allows communication with the infinite self for guidance and fulfillment. This involves tapping into the collective unconscious and developing skills such as intuition, telepathy, and channeling, while heightening extrasensory perceptions via clairvoyance. Cooper encourages living an authentic life centered around one’s own “natural gifts” and offers help with visualizing such an ideal life. She outlines the process and benefits of automatic writing and stresses the importance of maintaining a clutter-free space, physically as well as mentally and emotionally. She also provides an expansive list of spiritual signs, symbols, and synchronicities and a recipe for a detox bath. Perhaps her most useful advice involves avoiding negative influences, particularly self-criticism, and comes complete with a list of ways of differentiating between the inner critic’s voice and that of the infinite self. Non–New Age adherents may balk at other suggestions, such as those involving clairvoyance and telepathy.