Isabel Bellamy & Donald McLean

Isabel Bellamy & Donald McLean
Isabel was born in England in 1910. Her talent first became apparent when she located water by dowsing with a forked Hazel twig at the age of nine. Later, as a teenager on a school visit to Italy, the contrast between the glittering gold and bejewelled robes of the Vatican, and the crushing poverty just outside its walls sickened her, and she vowed then to dedicate herself to helping those who suffered.
Isabel studied Physiotherapy at St. Thomas' Hospital, London, learning diet and breathing exercises that would play an important part in her later healing methods. Studies on electricity - Tesla's experiments - gave her invaluable insights into the practical application of radiant energy. She graduated as a Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists, (Chartered Society of Massage and Medical Gymnastics; Medical Electricity; Light and Electro-Therapy) after which she taught at St. Thomas' for a year.
During this period she met a medical student, John Bellamy, who was to become her husband. She spent many hours helping him study, gaining a good grounding in medicine herself.
After spending the war years in Trinidad and a further period in England, Isabel, her husband and 3 young children came to Australia. She worked as a Physiotherapist at the Rudolf Steiner curative home at Inala before moving to Queensland to help establish the Raphael Healing Research Foundation. She finally came to Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney in 1983 where she set up the ‘Living Wholeness' group to help people to live in health and harmony. Isabel retired from her active work at the age of 88, her short term memory, but not her spirit, damaged by the anaesthetics given during hip replacement surgery. She left her body peacefully, and returned to source in March 2004 having lived for 94 years.
Isabel was a member of The British Society of Dowsers, The Theosophical Society and The Anthroposophical Society. At various times she visited Scotland's Findhorn University of Light, Glastonbury in England and Aranatulla Ashram. She made two extended stays at an ashram in Bali. She studied the teachings of Krishnamurti, and became proficient in Raja Yoga, arising at 4am each morning to do breathing exercises and mental training. The shining example of Ramana Maharshi was her guiding light. Isabel's genius as an ‘alternative' healer lay not only in her ability to draw together useful material such as Homeopathic and Bach flower remedies, gemstones and crystals, geometric shapes, sounds and colours, and use them therapeutically, but in her ability to clarify and describe effective, safe and simple ways to administer these therapies. Her teachings are informed as much by her anatomical and medical knowledge and her years practising Physiotherapy, as by her wide reading and exposure to esoteric teachings. She had one foot firmly planted in the known, but with the other she strode fearlessly into uncharted territory.
She used to say that about 80% of people can dowse effectively if they train themselves, and while this can be a valuable aid to healing, it can also be a powerful tool to help us discover who we are and bring out the best in ourselves. "All is known in the realm of thought," she reminded us, "and there is nothing that we cannot ask".

Isabel Bellamy & Donald McLean
Donald was born in Scotland during the second world war. He endured boarding school life for ten years before emigrating to Australia at 18 in search of adventure. As a young man he worked as a ‘jackeroo' on a sheep station, then as a truck-driver, storeman and clerk. He tried his hand at selling encyclopaedias and insurance, sailed the oceans as a ship's steward, and taught snow skiing. This restless kaleidoscope of occupations and fleeting relationships was punctuated by trips to Britain to visit his family. Always artistic, he created anti-war and save-the-whale designs which he printed on T-shirts.
Throughout these years Donald read widely. Rebellious from an early age, he rejected organised religion becoming interested instead in the kind of religious experiences described by mystics through the ages and more contemporary writers such as Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary. At the age of 20 or 21 he had proposed to a couple of friends that they collaborate in writing an allegoric account of their adventures based loosely on Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. He attended lectures in London on the work of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, took an interest in ‘absent healing', immersed himself in esoteric Tibetan Buddhist writings, and became a Rosicrucian for a while. In 1981 he bought the house in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, where he lives to this day.
The arrival of Isabel Bellamy in 1983 as his next door neighbour coincided with a three month visit to Australia by his mother. The two women became friends, and together persuaded him to enter a program to deal with his addiction to alcohol. After some struggle, he became totally abstinent, though he gives much credit to Isabel for his successful recovery. Donald started to redraw the dowsing charts and teaching diagrams which Isabel used in her work with patients, and at the courses and talks which she gave, and which now appear in this book. He would drive her to her venue, carry boxes, clean the blackboard, and of course, take notes.
Eventually he bought a Macintosh computer, thinking it would be useful in the creation of more T-shirt designs. It led him instead into desktop publishing. By 1999 Isabel's manuscripts had been presented to a number of publishers without success. Donald was asked to bring it to a finished state which could then be printed. A limited edition of 175 copies was ‘self-published' late in 2001.
Donald continues to enable people in their self-publishing endeavours, and to take an interest in the healing of Spirit, mind and body.

Isabel Bellamy & Donald McLean
Format: Paperback  Pages: 578
The Many Paths to Personal Harmony and Planetary Wholeness.
Release date December 2005
Isabel Bellamy discovered her gift for healing after spending many years as a physiotherapist. She then passionately studied and experimented with the Energies of psychology, diet, yoga, homeopathy and radionics and used her skills with Pendulum dowsing to bring about healing for many grateful patients. Isabel believed that most of us could learn these skills and maintain our own health and she taught many appreciative students in her later years.
Radiant Healing* is a summation of the work of this gifted andgracious woman. Isabel died in 2004 and was well into her nineties.
Radiant Healing is a richly packed compendium of information covering every aspect of the subtle energies of Man. With many illustrations and diagrams, it is a fascinating, easy-to-read account of how our bodies and our world work, and how our etheric, astral and mental bodies channel cosmic and earth energies through our meridians and chakras. Our electromagnetic spiritual/physical reality, our ‘body, mind and spirit' is traced to the ageless wisdom which has existed since prehistoric times.
The history of healing is told from the use of herbs, to the development of homeopathy, Radionics, vibrational healing and healing at a distance. The reader is shown how to use a pendulum to develop intuition, and to discover what might be wrong in the body, its energy fields or its environment and to facilitate healing remedies to correct this. Charts for every purpose are included.
The various systems of the body are discussed, along with the diseases that afflict them and the recommended treatments. For the lay reader or the serious student of energetic healing, this book is bursting with valuable information on the origin of diseases, healing diets, correct breathing and posture, environmental hazards and more.
An A to Z of resources provides details on subjects from acupuncture to zone therapy, from copper coils to magnetotherapy and meditation. There are many useful references in the text to books and websites where further information can be found and a large index makes the 576 page book easy to manage.
This book is a vital resource for the student of complementary therapies and a wake-up call for all of us.
Donald MacLean was asked by Isabel to ensure that her knowledge was available to the world and they started working together on this task in 1999.
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