Steve Gooch
Editor of The Voice of Humanity Healing
Ambassador, House of Healing

From an early age Steve Gooch's passionate desire has been to pursue a career as a writer. Sidetracked whilst in his teens into following a career in his other great love; art, he went on to spend a number of years working as teacher of art in schools and colleges in the UK and in Egypt, before going on to teach on a Creative Arts degree course back once again in the UK.

As an artist he has worked professionally on a number of high profile projects over the years, including a limited edition publication of the work of French poet; Paul Eluard, illustrated by the likes of Graham Sutherland and worked alongside sculptor Richard Deacon on some of his most astonishing and accomplished sculptural works. He has also assisted the British artist Joe Tilson with the production of a series of prints that are now housed in the Tate Gallery in London. His own art has been shown widely across the UK and is held in collections world-wide.

During a fallow period in his teaching career Steve went on to study Reiki in the UK and became a Reiki Master in 1997, at which point he began to teach this spiritual discipline and healing therapy in the UK and then later on in Cairo, Egypt. Steve was the first person to take the tradition of Reiki Jin Kei Do to Egypt and is still one of only a handful of Reiki Masters trained in this tradition teaching in the UK.

As a writer Steve has always 'kept his hand in' and worked on a variety of minor projects over the years. It was not until 2005 however that he finally decided that it was time to pursue his primary passion and get a book published. Initially daunted by the difficulty of the task as outlined in every text on 'how to become a published writer' Steve simply reverted to that which he had been taught whilst studying Reiki: 'trust your instincts'.

Three months into its writing, he had sold his first book in under 24 hours to the first publisher that he approached. The book 'Reiki Jin Kei Do: The Way of Compassion and Wisdom' is now regarded as a classic text on the subject and is the only book to have been written on that tradition of Reiki. He now receives many calls to teach this discipline from around the world and is considered by many to be one of the foremost Reiki teachers in the world today.

Other non- Reiki books are now in the pipe-line along with a second book on the lineage of Reiki Jin Kei Do for which he is the editor, that explores in-depth the historical roots of the system, spanning some of the ancient civilizations of the world over many thousands of years.

Steve is very much an adventurer when it comes to the subject of his life and travels with a yearning to unlock the mysteries that he encounters along the way. Whilst his home base is in the UK, there is really no telling where he will be from one year to the next as the adventure unfolds and new projects are given life.

Steve is the editor and main contributor to Humanity Healing's "The Voice of Humanity Healing" blog and podcast and a contributor to a number of other websites and blogs.