About Isabel Bellamy & Donald MacLean

ISABEL BELLAMY was born in England in 1910. She studied physiotherapy at St. Thomas’ Hospital, London, learning the 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 having studied subjects such as massage and medical gymnastics, medical electricity, light and electro-therapy. She then taught at St. Thomas’ for a year.

After spending the war years in Trinidad and a further period in England, Isabel, her husband and three young children came to Australia. Isabel worked as a physiotherapist at the Rudolf Steiner curative home at Inala in Queensland and later helped 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, and in March 2004 she left her body peacefully having lived for 94 years.

Isabel was a member of The British Society of Dowsers, The Theosophical Society and The Anthroposophical Society. She lectured at various centres around the world, including Scotland’s Findhorn University of Light. She studied the teachings of Krishnamurti, and became proficient in Raja Yoga. Ramana Maharshi was her guiding light.

Isabel’s genius as a 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.

DONALD MACLEAN was born in Scotland during the Second World War. After school, he emigrated to Australia in search of adventure, working as a ‘jackeroo’ on a sheep station, a truck-driver, ship’s steward, insurance salesman and ski instructor. In 1981 he bought a house in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, where he lives to this day. Isabel Bellamy became his next-door neighbour in 1983.

Artistic, and widely-read, Donald contributed to alternative magazines and created anti-war and save-the-whale designs, which he produced on T-shirts. 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. He immersed himself in esoteric Tibetan Buddhist writings, and became a Rosicrucian for a while, interests remarkably similar to Isabel’s.

Using his graphic arts skills, Donald redrew the dowsing charts and teaching diagrams that Isabel used in her work with patients and in the seminars she gave. By 1999, Donald was an established desktop publisher, and Isabel asked him to produce her writings for publication.

Donald MacLean may be contacted through the publisher, Joshua Books by email. Click here.