Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

topic posted Sat, April 5, 2008 - 4:40 PM by  Tanemon
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Greetings to all here. Many of us have experienced healing through energetic or spiritual means. By “healing” I mean not only healing of our moods and emotions, or our sense of self-worth and wellbeing, but also our physical bodies. I have. And many of us on the Tribe.net spiritual, metaphysical, and bodywork tribes are healers ourselves, in some sense of the word.

After a couple decades of Zen and yoga-meditation, I was attuned to Reiki (back in 2000) and within three years had been attuned to Reiki III. Like many of you, I’ve experienced energy healing and derived great benefit from it at the emotional, connective, and mood levels… and also considerable benefit at the physical level.

Life and identity, skills and abilities all involve levels.

After a lot of communication with spiritual people and healers, after hearing some absolutely astounding & true stories from people I’ve known personally, and after a lot of reading I’ve come to the realization that there are healers practicing at levels far in advance of what I and my friends have generally been involved with. I feel – without any shame or sense of inferiority - like I’m sort of “in the foothills of the Himalayas” but not really up in the heights. So I’m starting this thread because I feel there will be many of us who have arrived at the same realization.

Life is a matter of evolution. There are further heights. There are energies or levels more advanced, more powerful, more effective. I’d like to discuss this on this forum, just because it cannot hurt to be better informed, and because I believe many of us wish to progress a lot in this life.

I’m not a guru, and not on any high horse. I’m an aspirant and a learner, as we all are. Anybody looking for a couple of illustrations of what I’m talking about may go to my profile page and read my blog installment about miraculous healing.

Please do participate in this thread…

Love & Light,
Tanemon
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  • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

    Mon, April 7, 2008 - 10:36 AM
    hi, Tanemon --

    I think it's a great topic, and I really hope folks will jump in, too, to whatever discussion evolves.

    America is an interesting place, because we are truly a melting-pot of infinite spiritual paths, possibilities, healing systems, etc. (by "America" I mean the continent, at large, including Canada... *grinning*)

    my experience is that many of the energy systems, while beautiful and useful and helpful to people, are beginning steps into the possibility of understanding deeper mechanisms of healing and energy. (I was a Reiki master, myself, doing many healings for people and attuning many Reiki healers. it was great -- but it was incomplete.)

    after I met a healing master who demonstrated miracle healings -- dissolving terminal cancers completely in a few minutes -- I definitely got the lid blown off of what I thought healing was all about.

    the thing that struck me -- more than anything -- about that kind of approach was that he knew, exactly, what he was doing with a person's physical system, energy system, and karmas.

    what bugged me about Reiki healings was that they were often successful, or partly successful, and they seemed unpredictable at best. I'd go to heal someone's foot and their digestive problems would go away. stuff like that. interesting, powerful -- but imprecise and not at all exact.

    in my experience, soul healing is the real healing. if the soul is happy and healthy, the physical system and the emotions and everything else falls into line as well. how to recognize and access the soul -- and whatever its disturbances are that are causing the physical/emotional condition to express -- that's a real study.

    Alx

    • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

      Thu, April 10, 2008 - 10:15 AM
      Good post, Alx. Lots to consider in it.

      I've had scattered personal-message and thread conversations with a number of people, over the last five months or so, about powerful and advanced healing abilities and methods. I think some of these folks are a littler shy, but they don't need to be.

      Come out, come out, wherever you are...

      Tanemon
      • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

        Sun, April 13, 2008 - 7:30 PM
        Aloha Tanemon and Alx,

        Thank you for bringing the subject of energy healing not only on the spiritual level, but the energetic level as well and how emotionally they are connected. I’ve been drawn to this topic heavy…especially lately. I am a Massage Therapist. I specialize in Lomi Lomi Hawaiian Massage, which is extremely beneficial with cellular release. Experiencing this type of healing first hand has directed me on my discovery to understand how our emotions/traumas create the poisons/diseases in our bodies and how we can heal them.

        I am anxious to understand and learn any methods we find that are beneficial to beating and curing the diseases we unconsciously create ourselves.

        I have experienced first hand a healing method that I know now I will study this summer. This healing method is called Holographic Memory Resolution. I am curious if anyone else has experienced this and their results. The creator of this is Brent Baum. I just spent the day with him today, learning about Crystal and Gems and their healing purposes. What an amazing man! A year ago, I had an HMR session with him. In just one 90-minute HMR session I am cleared of trauma I have carried from years past. Trauma I could not clear up with years of talk therapy. I know I am giving a vague explanation of this type of healing…but I want to put it out there and that it is another energetic method of healing that is extremely powerful.

        Another form of healing that I’ve only read about yet have not experienced is called, “The Journey”. This is another method, where we can heal the poisons in our bodies we have created. I hope to study this in the near future. I am anxious to hear from anyone who has studied either of these methods and their experiences. I of course would love to hear/learn of any other methods I may not be aware of.

        Alx: I would love to hear and learn more about your mention of: “after I met a healing master who demonstrated miracle healings – dissolving terminal cancers completely in a few minutes – I definitely got the lid blown off of what I thought healing was all about.” This fascinates me. Please explain more.

        Thank you Tanemon for getting this conversation growing… I am anxious and open to learning and sharing about all that is out there.

        Blessings,

        Sarah
        • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

          Mon, April 14, 2008 - 12:13 PM
          Hi, Sarah. Thanks for your post. Among other things, you wrote: "I am anxious to understand and learn any methods we find that are beneficial to beating and curing the diseases we unconsciously create ourselves."

          Well, we could have a very lengthy discussion about just how broad is the idea of "the diseases we unconsciously create ourselves". Some of the things that powerful healers can treat successfully are things that are usually called "injuries" rather than what are commonly termed "diseases". I mean, examples are given on my Tribe profile page, one (in the blog entry "Miraculous Cures") is about a guy who was in a car accident and had a persistent back injury. Another story (about a Powerful Healing by a yogi) involved the dissolving, in a few moments, of extensive and painful blistering of the palm of a man's hand.

          Of course, every sort of healing is important -- improvement of self-image and mood, erasure of residual emotional pain, restoration of self-confidence and energy, elimination of cellular poisons, etc.

          As Alx has said, it is amazing how aware and precise some healers can be.

          L&L,
          Tanemon
        • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

          Mon, April 14, 2008 - 2:19 PM
          hi, Sarah & Tanemon --

          you (Sarah) wrote:

          "Alx: I would love to hear and learn more about your mention of: “after I met a healing master who demonstrated miracle healings – dissolving terminal cancers completely in a few minutes – I definitely got the lid blown off of what I thought healing was all about.” This fascinates me. Please explain more."

          well, I came into contact with a spiritual master, a young healing saint from India, in 1999, and saw him do things that made me recognize that I knew NOTHING about energy or healing, even though I thought I did (and had had many interesting experiences in Reiki and other genres of healing that had come through me to help people).

          I could tell many stories but essentially, I saw this saint (he was 27 at the time) manifest ash from his fingertips -- whole piles of it! sometimes it would shoot out of his fingertips like snow, covering people in the room with healing, fragrant ash -- to cure terminal cancer and other intense physical conditions.

          in my own case, seeing the manifestation like that relieved me of the burden of heartbreak -- another major disease on our planet, and the root cause of huge suffering/physical diseases, in my opinion -- as if whole chapters of my traumatic life-history were de-fanged within minutes.

          when I then went to India in 1999, I saw this same master demonstrate even wilder miracles -- completely out-of-the-box, in-your-face expressions of the divine operating through the supernatural and into the natural world -- that created healing for hundreds of people who also witnessed and participated in the same miracles.....

          that was enough for me. I started studying the techniques he was teaching, in earnest, and began seeing more deliberate miracle healings happening in the lives of people around me.

          I moved to South India in 2000, and lived there for five years, doing nothing but that study.

          during that time I saw many many many many miracles of healing and beauty -- really helping tons of people wake up and recognize their own divine capacity as healers and spiritual people.

          I also learned a lot about the inner mechanisms of healing -- particularly as it relates to the soul. the real healing is on the soul level, transforming karmas into high divine awareness. healing the body is easy compared to that kind of inner movement.

          the miracle experiences really help the soul get there faster -- they're like short-cuts to help the soul remember its divine capacity.

          since returning to America in 2005, all I do is help heal people and teach the systems I've learned (and continue to learn) from that Indian saint, many of which were written by the ancient saints thousands of years ago.

          I feel that what I saw and learned in India, and teach today, is like a quantum leap forward in an understanding of what healing is and how it really operates in people, and how to create (with god's grace) that kind of lasting peace and healing in people's lives.

          I could go on and on but I think I'll leave it here for the moment.

          Alx




          • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

            Wed, April 16, 2008 - 4:23 PM
            My guess is that this man, this saint you refer to - don't know his name - not only knows techniques, but draws upon a great development of soul. After a while, I'd guess that technique is pretty well forgotten about and the ability is simply on-tap.

            Soul development... Seems to me that even with Reiki, there are people who achieve more with a given level of attunement and use of the standard techniques. Again, I feel some people are born with more aptitude... though I also feel that Reiki attunements help virtually everybody who gets them, and that using Reiki (practicing) contributes to one's evolution as a Reiki healer.

            Yet having said this, I suspect that their are some healing paths that are simply higher paths. Which is another way of saying what I said at the beginning.

            Anyhow Alx, I look forward to your comments on this stuff: the levels of paths, and technique (on the one hand) and soul development (on the other).
            • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

              Fri, April 18, 2008 - 1:12 AM
              hi, Tanemon --

              well, it doesn't hurt to have a hugely developed soul capacity, you're right about that.

              but it is -- at least to a certain point -- about technique, and even then a more refined level, certain angles of how to approach the cosmic energy. how to bend certain elements of the divine energy in a certain way -- so that, for instance, one can manifest a physical object as well as effect a healing.

              there's another mechanism at play, too, regardless of technique -- it's taking the negative karma of a person into your own (connected to the universal energy) system, washing it there, transforming the high negativity into high divine positivity, and 'giving it back' to the person, for want of a better terminology.

              in my teacher's case, it's knowing precisely how much of what karmas to relieve someone of, when -- and in what way.

              there was one time where he came into a room full of healers, in Marin County, and looked around at everyone, about 40 people assembled there, waiting. he had a rose-bud in his hand -- and suddenly, without any warning or anything, he ignited the rosebud spontaneously in his hand. it burned to ash in his hand, while everyone was watching, jaws open -- and then he took that ash and put it on the people's Third Eyes. unbelievable miracle healings of super-intense physical ailments and diseases happened to the people in that room.

              he took the negative conditions, lit the rose on fire with sheer intention, burned those negativities all at once, and then used the purified, transformed remains of it all -- the ash -- as a high divine healing tool for everyone to receive that transformative miracle energy on the spot.

              now, that's a highly deliberate miracle -- as are the resultant healings.

              and his name, by the way, is Kaleshwar.

              Alx

              • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                Fri, April 18, 2008 - 8:55 AM
                It seems, as I read you accounts of your teacher's work, that the form of healing you are describing is something that takes place in proximity to this very gifted, very advanced and accomplished healer.

                Alx, you are an apprentice in this approach, as I gather. Is it like Reiki in the sense that it can be used in-person and at a distance? I think I understand that physical contact - such as touching fingers/ash to the third eye - MAY be used. But is touch, or some immediate physical medium like sprayed-out ash, always used?


                T.
                • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                  Sat, April 19, 2008 - 2:19 AM
                  hi, Tanemon --

                  that's a great question. no, physical presence is not at all necessary -- not even for the miracles to occur. my teacher once started a fire in a firepit in Los Angeles -- when he was physically in South India. a dozen or more people saw it.

                  moreover, for a saint, their consciousness is so immense that they can simultaneously send healing energy to hundreds of thousands of souls at once. maybe millions of souls -- I'm not sure -- but it's a huge number. that's the kind of capacity my teacher has and demonstrates daily.

                  Jesus healed crowds of thousands, all at the same time. he obviously didn't need to touch each person to accomplish that. it would've taken forever to do that.

                  so, yes, distance healing is a vital part of these systems.

                  I once called my master for help -- it was late at night in America and I was experiencing an incredible heart-break and sadness and didn't know what else to do. in those days, he still answered his own phone... I asked for help and he told me to get off the phone and meditate, that he would send the energy. I hung up the phone, and I was sitting on my kitchen floor, thinking, 'Okay, I'll meditate.....' when the wave of energy hit me -- really, like a wave from the ocean -- and I sort of oozed face-forward down onto the ground and went out into the cosmic. I came back to normal consciousness about three hours later, still face-down on the floor, realizing that I felt a lot lighter in my heart and that I'd been the recipient of an incredible healing from 15,000 miles away.

                  as for being an apprentice in this approach, well, yes, I guess one could call it that. I've been a dedicated student since 1999, when I first met him in a photograph that came alive and, uh, spoke to me. I met him in person in Seattle in October '99, and was visiting India for the first time six weeks later.

                  I've been working hard ever since, and only in this one modality (which encompasses a whole range of mechanisms about how this creation operates, and how the souls operate) -- because it blew everything else I knew (including Reiki) out of the water. I moved to India in 2000, and lived at his ashram there until 2005, meditating 10-12 hours a day for periods of several months at a time, developing the miracle energy channels to bring this healing into the world.

                  since 2005, all I do is teach this knowledge and do healings.

                  it's pretty unbelievable.

                  Alx

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                    Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                    Sat, September 13, 2008 - 9:06 AM
                    Alx, I'm curious... have you undergone any noticeable changes in your personal (psycho-physical) energy system since you began your training with Sri Kaleshwar?

                    I'm thinking along the lines of subjectively obvious kundalini, or nadi clearing... that sort of thing? If so, has it been comfortable or uncomfortable?

                    Tanemon
              • Alx,
                <<there's another mechanism at play, too, regardless of technique -- it's taking the negative karma of a person into your own (connected to the universal energy) system, washing it there, transforming the high negativity into high divine positivity, and 'giving it back' to the person, for want of a better terminology>>

                This makes no sense to me, but it is probably because I don't beleive anyone should do this, anyone who is in karma has to resovle that karma themselves. What would the point of karma be if we could just get in line at the local guru shop and have the guru clear it for us? Then this would be a very useless experience, being human on planet earth. And I have a problem with the labels of 'negative' and 'positive' in relation to karma. Please try to explain this in some other terms if you can.
                Thank you.
    • Alx, you wrote (above): "the thing that struck me -- more than anything -- about that kind of approach was that he knew, exactly, what he was doing with a person's physical system, energy system, and karmas.

      "what bugged me about Reiki healings was that they were often successful, or partly successful, and they seemed unpredictable at best. I'd go to heal someone's foot and their digestive problems would go away. stuff like that. interesting, powerful -- but imprecise and not at all exact."

      Okay. Now with the Sri Kaleshwar/Sai approach to healing, does the distant-healing form also deal with specifics? Can it be directed to specific problems and intended healing?

      I'll mention one of the reasons I ask about this. As I said in my original post in this thread, I am a Reiki III... and I know that each of the others who have been participating in this thread also have advanced Reiki attunements and training. Yet in my experience, in-person Reiki sessions have been somewhat more specific than distant sessions... at least in the sense that you can put your hands on or over the place where a person reports a physical 'symptom' (and you can also 'scan' the person with your hands, looking for hot or cold zones, and then you can work on those using Reiki). With a distant treatment, one is reluctant to try to visualize too specifically, because one must - with Reiki - remain a conduit only, and not try to force Reiki to go somewhere or do something.

      So I'd appreciate your comments on this question about distance and specificity. Thanks...

      Namaste,
      Tanemon
      • hi, Tanemon --

        yes, this approach can be quite specific, even at a distance.

        for instance, my husband did a healing for a friend's wife who was having severe endometriosis -- really bad bleeding, requiring multiple blood transfusions a week -- and he did one in-person healing and 3 days of long-distance healing. on the 3rd day, the woman's bleeding completely stopped and never came back. the doctors recommending a total hysterectomy were stupefied.

        Alx
    • Alx,
      Reiki is not intended for the kind of specifics you are looking for. Reiki is up to the receiver to heal, not the person giving the reiki. The unpredictability that you mention in relation to reiki is a misunderstanding of the purpose. Just because someone comes to you for a reiki healing for their foot does not mean that is the real purpose of the healing, which is between the requestor and his/her higher self. In my opinion, when something like a digestive issue is healed it will have effect on the other issues, it is more basic and could be the root of the issue with the foot. All things are connected in our bodies and the symptoms are rarely an exact indication of the system that is actually malfunctioning or needing energy.
      • I guess I will qualify what I just said about symptoms not being a true indicator of which system is malfunctioning. If you know chinese medicine, the symptom is easier to identify as an indication of a certain system (i.e. excessive anger really does indicate a 'hot' liver).

        Foot problems can be an indication of many different things depending on the type of issue, an infection that will not go away could indicate pancreas issues, swelling can indicate heart issues, tight muscles or cramps could indicate mineral deficiencies or excess. Etc.
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    Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

    Thu, April 17, 2008 - 1:04 PM
    Tanemon,

    Thank you for the invitation to join in this conversation. I was just dreaming about "advanced healing practices" or meditating on the very subject a few days ago. I believe it was a dream...

    First, and foremost, there is always something to learn, new ways to grow and new vista's that lead to new peaks yet to be discovered. I started as a child massaging mom's sore back and feet, I moved into blessings and crystal healing in my adolescence. I discovered hands on healing through witchcraft, then Reiki in 1994, second in 1995 (or was it 1996) mastership in 2003... and yet, the possibilities are endless. I still have lots of study ahead of me and even now I feel that there is more to learn about healing.

    Personally I am involved in my own healing process, which I have blogged about extensively at lifencompass.org. The power of blood (Kekki) and my connection to ancestors, healing family, and past lives. All revolving around a Chiron moment leading up to that "Healer! Heal theyself!" moment in my life.

    The world of herbs and essential oils, the power of plants and even trees... beautiful trees is blooming in my mind. I've found study on Reiki that is beyond what I was taught and discovered healing through the great cosmic goddess and god powers and their many forms. I'm even adding a return to the study of the body.

    I organize my list, I embrace each set of lessons and integrate them into the whole.... all of me, heals.

    In and throughout it all, what I find is that there is a Healers Consciousness that develops and eventually takes in all of these lessons, the information, experience, etc. Then, after this stage of taking in, there is practice. how is the method different, the energy, the practice? how are they used singularly and then how are they used in an integrative way? In many ways I still allow the Reiki to guide all the principle healing sources, allowing the greater universal intelligence provide for the healing... and that Healers Consciousness grows, it buds, I think it is blooming.

    I suppose, what I am saying is that, for me it isn't the level of healing but how integrated I am to my healing sources and how I utilize them in my practice, my daily interactions and my most personal relationships and private thoughts; because, to me, unless I am a healer of the highest order in my own self, in my own life, in the very relationships I am in, I am not a healer of the highest order at all!

    Lately I've been working with allot of divinity, the Goddess through Our Lady of Guadalupe. HA! And I'm not even Catholic (as if that makes a difference); Quan Yin and Athena, or just universally the Great Cosmic Mother/ Feminine.

    Lastly and most importantly to me is -in the development of the Healers Consciousness- is the discovery that healing can happen anywhere, at any time and in any way. I could speak healing, hear healing, create healing in art, at the office, or stapling a document. Healing is not limited to my hands on your body, or my eyes beaming, or praying or any of those things. It is more and beyond me, it is a movement that all of us are part of and, when we become conscious of that great living, healing, life affirming movement, it not only strengthens the flow but provides a new channel for that love in the world today.

    As I write this, I am sitting near a conference not 10 feet from me with some very divisive people who generally have issues, problems, sometimes even arguments.(they are definitely on good behavior since the owner of the company is here). I work in this space every day. I have created the crystal grid. I provide the essential oils for scent (and more), I spend each morning checking in on that grid and charging, blessing the office, being a "Culture Guardian" for the office culture. It may be a real estate office but undoubtedly this is a healing place.

    In short, healing is in all things.

    These are my thoughts as rough as they may be.

    Be well.

    Scott
    Lifencompass.org
    • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

      Fri, April 18, 2008 - 1:26 AM
      hey, Scott --

      you wrote this: "Lastly and most importantly to me is -in the development of the Healers Consciousness- is the discovery that healing can happen anywhere, at any time and in any way. I could speak healing, hear healing, create healing in art, at the office, or stapling a document. Healing is not limited to my hands on your body, or my eyes beaming, or praying or any of those things. It is more and beyond me, it is a movement that all of us are part of and, when we become conscious of that great living, healing, life affirming movement, it not only strengthens the flow but provides a new channel for that love in the world today."

      and I think this is really beautiful. you're right, I think, about healing happening anywhere, any time, and not at all being restricted to what people think of as 'healing' at all -- it's not a formal process, it's an organic unfolding between energy beings.

      these days I define healing as 'any situation in which two or more people participate in an energy exchange when someone ends up feeling relieved.'

      think of an audience at a live music concert -- relaxing, unstressing after a tough day, enjoying, opening the heart if the music is really good -- aren't the performers, then, really healers? they're causing -- through their music -- relaxation and an opening of the heart in the people listening. that's a HUGE energy exchange (and unfortunately most performers don't know how to de-charge that energy properly, so they run to the bars, to drugs, or to sex to try to blow it off and rebalance themselves).

      just an example of an energy exchange and how people are engaged in it every day. mothers with their kids. school teachers with their students. work colleagues telling one another their stories after along day -- stuff like that.

      it's all healings.

      Alx
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        Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

        Fri, April 18, 2008 - 9:38 AM
        Thank you, and here you wrote:
        "it's an organic unfolding between energy beings." and I cannot agree more.Like the symphony or music you were speaking of, when we (you, me, anyone) reach the level of acknowledging the healing as it occurs, I believe then we are not only witnessing and experiencing the healing... I believe we are magnifying it because we are participating in it simply by witnessing!

        I have to thank Tanemon again for the invitation to this group! Such a great discussion!

        Scott
        • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

          Sat, April 19, 2008 - 12:15 PM
          Well, I'm glad you came into this discussion, Scott. And, of course, I say the same to Sarah.

          I've never been in a position to communicate with someone who has Alx's experience. And I've met yogis and Buddhist masters, been taught meditation by them, etc. I've always sensed that this high level of healing phenomena, of consciousness and capability existed... and I've met people who HAVE been miraculously healed (but who are acquaintances, but not my next neighbours, and who were healed by people living far away, in other parts of the world). And of course I've read widely, avidly, and thought about these things. That's why I put the stuff I did on my blog & profile page, because of my interest in it.

          To actually be able to exchange in a dialogue with someone who has Alx's experience, training and devotion is a real joy. I consider that all of us in this little chat are blessed! And I mean it deeply...

          Love & Light,
          Tanemon
          • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

            Sat, April 19, 2008 - 12:23 PM
            hi, Tanemon --

            I want to clarify why I'm telling these stories and sharing my experiences here -- it's not to say that I'm so fortunate to have had direct contact with and teaching from a miracle healing saint (although I am grateful to have been blessed in this way, of course), but it is to say that every human being is eligible to learn how to do these kinds of miracle healings if they are willing to do the hard work to achieve this knowledge. the hard work means -- being willing to let existing belief systems shatter, belief systems about who we are and what we're capable of, or what our limitations are, beliefs about life and death and the reality underlying this planet, beliefs about what spirituality is about.

            if we want the truth of this creation, really, deeply -- we can receive it. along with knowing the truth, it's important to approach the mechanisms of the miracles in a systematic way.

            my teacher's role in this creation is to de-mystify these mechanisms and restore the birthright to every soul; not only to know who we really are and where we really came from, as souls, but also to be supernatural, high-level healers for one another and humanity at large.

            so -- I'm sharing these experiences to (hopefully) inspire anyone reading to want to develop these capabilities and experiences in themselves.

            Alx
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              Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

              Sat, April 19, 2008 - 6:25 PM
              but I just want to say, that you ARE so fortunate to have the experience, and so... we are.

              So, as Anni Difranco sings, "face up and sing!" embrace it because we see it through you.

              It's gorgeous!

              Scott
              • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                Thu, April 24, 2008 - 10:38 AM
                First I want to thank Tanemon from the depths of my heart for inviting me to this discussion. The invitation came as exactly the perfect time, as these things often do.

                I've been struggling with the incompleteness of my own healing practices. I work as a 'holistic healer', and have - as you all have - experienced and witnessed amazing things. The healing I've experienced myself has literally saved my life, brought me back from a certainty of death for this body -- but the healing is not complete, nor will it be until I learn more. It's been a good start, in other words, and while I have tremendous respect and gratitude for the healing connections I've been given, I'm ready to take the next steps... whatever steps are necessary.

                I loved what Alx wrote, that healing is "any situation in which two or more people participate in an energy exchange when someone ends up feeling relieved." This reflects my own belief/experience that 'healing' is an act of balance that isn't limited to the body, mind and spirit but that also involves the context in which the body, mind and spirit exist. So as Scott said, all actions - including stapling papers together - can be an act of healing when they bring balance.

                And so I have to view the circumstances of the past six months or so of my life, during which I became quite ill on all levels (body, mind and spirit) despite my own efforts and healing connections, despite too my continued ability to help others, as a necessary process in the balancing (healing) of my own life. It's shown me where my understanding is seriously lacking.

                I woke this morning feeling more clear-headed than I have in quite some time, and I know it's because I finally asked for help. I belong to a small group of Reiki practitioners who occasionally request long-distance assistance for themselves and/or the people they're working with; a friend of mine asked me if I'd asked for help from the group, and I had to admit it hadn't even occurred to me to do so. I'd taken a kind of 'lone wolf' approach, thinking I just wasn't working hard enough, it was all my fault I was sick and so I should bring myself up out of it... an approach that obviously wasn't working for me. The healing energy has come; I'm finally starting to feel better, more connected; but it's been quite apparent to me for some time that there's something missing here.

                In the best response I received to my request, Tanemon sent me an email inviting me to this discussion. Quite frankly, I'm here because I need help; I need a direction in which to focus my personal discipline. Spiritually I've benefited tremendously from speaking with others who have shared their own experience of spiritual reality - hearing their experiences has had the effect of turning a light on in my own space where I can see my surroundings more clearly. And I believe hearing the healing experiences of others, how they have moved forward in their own processes, will provide similar illumination. So I'm looking forward to exploring the posts and blogs of those who've posted here... and I hope this discussion continues as well.

                Thank you all for your participation in this discussion; it's done me a world of good!
                plur
                • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                  Thu, April 24, 2008 - 1:51 PM
                  hi, all -- and Plur --

                  so glad you brought up the question of healers getting sick. it's a big topic.

                  as one small aspect of it, I really have to talk about the principle of decharging -- it's a huge missing link in terms of spiritual healing and understanding how the human energy system really works.

                  decharging is one simple technique I picked up in India from my master teacher, and is the often over-looked side of meditation & healing.

                  (I used to wonder why most meditators were fairly cranky, often irritable people. same with yogis, ie, Hatha guys and Iyengar yoga practitioners. I thought they were supposed to be calm and balanced, ha, ha!!!!)

                  in meditation, we CHARGE the soul -- which starts purification running in us. once the purification is running, it means, whatever blocks and crap we have in our astral and causal bodies (storehouses of karma) gets shaken loose and unless we decharge it, we act out of it and get stuck with it and digest it all over again!

                  for healers, the situation is even more dire. many healers believe (because their tradition states it) that they DON'T need any form of 'decharging' or 'grounding' -- after they've spent a day working for hours on peoples' bodies, hearts (like psychotherapists, for example) or souls (like energy healers).

                  this is why most healers get sick after a few years of doing really inspired, charged, wonderful healings -- they're taking on the stress and strains, the illnesses, and fatigues and worries and karmas of the people they're healing. whether they notice it or not. it's like the principle of fire -- whether you 'believe' fire will burn you if you stick your hand in it, or you don't believe it will burn, guess what? if you stick your hand in a roaring blaze, you'll get burned. it's the nature of fire.

                  same with healings. whether we believe as healers that we're taking on stuff or not, we are. (I was a Reiki healer and master for many years, and didn't think I was susceptible to all the energies I was receiving and processing for other people. nonsense.)

                  not only formal healers per se, but many people in responsible positions at work (ie, being a shoulder to cry on for colleagues or the person everyone unloads on) burn out really fast because they're absorbing all the negativity and stress of the people around them. not only their OWN stress, which as you know is more than enough, but everyone else's, too.

                  if you guys wanna know some decharging techniques to try -- it's crazy simple, I'm happy to share them.

                  Alx
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                    Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                    Fri, April 25, 2008 - 11:46 AM
                    Thank you, Alx -

                    I knew the issue was related to a need to release; my lymphatic system is completely out of whack, and I have to be really careful with my diet because my digestive system is very sluggish as well... I've understood that these ongoing issues are, at least in part, physical manifestations of the need for energetic clearing.

                    With Reiki, in my own practice - and I teach this, as well - I never take on the other person's energy but rather act as a conduit for the energy to be focused for the person's healing. However, it makes sense that if I am intuitively given information regarding the state of health of the person I'm working with, there must be some energy coming in. I didn't think that counted. ha

                    Beyond Reiki, being a 'sensitive', yeah. If I'm not right on top of things my mood can change dramatically just from incoming energy from my surroundings. And I do not have a regular release routine. I do ground and center on a regular basis - clear out excess or imbalanced energy, balance the energy that remains after the clearing and then energize - but that's not been sufficient.

                    So: Yes, please, I'd really like some pointers for clearing and releasing. Thank you for your kind offer!
                    plur
                    • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                      Tue, April 29, 2008 - 11:23 PM
                      hi, Plur --

                      yes, I think that's the tricky part about energy healing. there's a mechanism in this creation -- whether we think we're taking on the energy of another person, or we don't think we are, we still are taking on some small percentage (even while 98% of it goes to the cosmic because we know we are just the conduit). but still -- wires can overheat (although it's just the conduit for the electrons that are providing my lamp with power enough to light up).

                      the conduit itself gets stuck with an energy residue that really needs a proper decharging -- not just an idea of decharging, but a physicalized transfer of energy into the elements of Nature. (like the water, the earth, the fire.)

                      whether or not I believe that a fire will burn me, chances are likely that if I stick my hand into an open flame, I'm going to get burned. the fire's property is that it burns, whether or not we believe it.

                      energy is the same -- we're using our five-element structure, the body, as a vehicle through which the divine energy can impact another person's system (five-element structure). in the elements, some residue will stick around. over time, it will build up -- again, whether or not we believe it.

                      that your lymph system and digestion are troubled only underscores the point.

                      I think I put an actual decharging technique in the post, above, about decharging with the water element? or it's on the blog page I linked to.....?

                      Alx
                      • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                        Tue, April 29, 2008 - 11:24 PM
                        oh, I didn't add the links -- but here is some basic decharging info & a couple solid, simple techniques --

                        alxindia.blogspot.com/2005/06...comments

                        Alx
                        • Belated thanks for the link, Alx!

                          Some time last year my attention was drawn to the massive bundle of cords surrounding me. As a 'sensitive' I tend to hang on to those energetic connections, much to my detriment. I really hadn't even been aware of their presence. It was a long and difficult process to break through the whole mess and release all those cords, and I find I have to do a much shorter, easier version of that process on a very regular basis.

                          Still, that is different from hanging on to the 'residue' of healing work and miscellaneous contact with others in the healing process, and I am grateful that you've brought this to my attention and have so generously provided such useful information.

                          Many, many thanks!
                          plur
                      • Alx & Plur,
                        Reading what you are saying about reiki has made me realize how extraordinary the woman who attuned me to reiki is. She is one of m y dearest friends as well, but she never taught reiki without including instructions on keeping ourselves healthy energetically and physically (using a lot of Mantak Chia's books and teachings about energy and the physical body). Another reiki master I studied with later was trained by a japanese master and the teachings are totally different. I suppose it is basically that most american teachers are americans, needing everything to be quick and easy and leaving out anything they don't undrestand, thinking it is unessessary, so somehow we are left with the impression that reiki is lacking in some way.

                        Saying this, I also acknowledge that we always get the teachings we are prepared for, need and in the way that will move us to our next destination of experience.
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                    Alx,
                    <<same with healings. whether we believe as healers that we're taking on stuff or not, we are. (I was a Reiki healer and master for many years, and didn't think I was susceptible to all the energies I was receiving and processing for other people. nonsense.) >>

                    I don't understand this, the point of reiki is that you are not the healer, you do not process anything for anyone, you are a conduit of energy, and being that conduit also gives you access to the energy for your own healing. This has been my experience with reiki and this is what I was taught. If it had been taught any other way I would ahve walked to the nearest exit and not looked back. I am not a healer in any sense that I can heal anyone but myself. I have the ability and have been attuned to act as a conduit for Rie Ki to anyone who wants to plug in. What you express is what I think is the biggest mistake of reiki practitioners, to think they are healers or to aproach reiki as if they are healers able to heal any one besides themselves with reiki.

                    Now the guru that you mention, that is different, the attitude is different, the purpose is different. I have no experience with anything like that and though I find it interesting, it also causes me concern. It is too easy to give him credit for something that he didn't do, make him responsible for something outside his realm of control. It doesn't sound like you are doing that (except to when you call him a saint, but that is my rebellion against religion and religious terms that I recognize, you can call him anything you want). Anyway. My purpose, that I know why I am here, is to question authority, any authority including my own, and in doing that it often sounds like I am against something. I understand how energetically miracles can happen, do happen, often unnoticed because we are trained to ignore them, and I know that any miracle you or your saint facilitate is really performed by the person who experiences the change/miracle.

                    Thank you for sharing and again, Tanemon, thank you for this thread.
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                    • hi, JahaRa --

                      <<same with healings. whether we believe as healers that we're taking on stuff or not, we are. (I was a Reiki healer and master for many years, and didn't think I was susceptible to all the energies I was receiving and processing for other people. nonsense.) >>

                      you replied: "I don't understand this, the point of reiki is that you are not the healer, you do not process anything for anyone, you are a conduit of energy, and being that conduit also gives you access to the energy for your own healing."

                      yes, and this is my exact point -- this is a kind of misunderstanding about the mechanisms of the Five Element structure (the body) we inhabit. we are of course the conduit -- no one heals but god, or the universal energy, or however you want to reference the Source.

                      however, in the process of being the conduit, we are subjecting our Five Elements (body) structure to the energy exchange with another Five Elements structure -- someone else's system. there is a transfer of energy, and whenever there is a shift in energy (ie, a healing), some negative energy or karma or illusion moves, or is transformed -- where does it go? it has to go somewhere, during that shift. a person is relieved of the karma, let's say, of a tumor. some of that high negative energy, some old karma or interconnected series of karmas, has been relieved and transformed. in the transformation, some of the energy has to go somewhere. when a piece of wood burns, it releases some energy as heat and flame, and also some smoke.

                      even if I KNOW without a shadow of a doubt that I am only the vehicle for the divine energy to flow and heal someone, and that the divine source is the real healer -- 98% of the karmic relief goes straight to the divine source. but that other 2%, the backwash, you might say, comes through and into our energy systems, whether we know it or not. over time, without effective decharging, that residue builds up.

                      I was a Reiki healer and master, myself, and loved it -- really loved it -- for a few years. and I did observe that the Reiki healers and teachers I knew were getting sick in droves. so were the massage therapists. so were the acupuncturists. it was a real mystery to me.

                      then you wrote:
                      "Now the guru that you mention, that is different, the attitude is different, the purpose is different."

                      actually, the purpose is the same -- but way expanded. he is healing the souls, waking them up en masse, often through effecting miraculous healings in their physical systems.

                      you also wrote: "I have no experience with anything like that and though I find it interesting, it also causes me concern. It is too easy to give him credit for something that he didn't do, make him responsible for something outside his realm of control."

                      I've seen him manifest objects out of burning hot ash, I've seen him make 5-foot square solid wood crosses bleed blood, I've seen him raise dead animals back to life, I've seen him create crystal objects out of crushed rose petals, I've seen him manifest items in OTHER people's hands (not his own), and have drunk wine that was water a few moments before.

                      for sure -- there is no 'false credit' or magical belief that he is responsible for something 'outside his realm of control.' to the contrary -- it's been in my face for years, that the miracle energy, like that, is real, and palpable, and operating in this world -- especially by people who understand the vibratory structure of this creation... having witnessed this for years, and seen my teacher's students also create miraculous healings and manifestations, I can say without the shadow of a doubt that learning that kind of control over the Five Elements (earth, fire, sky, water, air) is not only possible but necessary if we want to understand the truth of who we really are, where we really came from, and where we're really going after this life.

                      to define the term 'saint' -- thanks for your mentioning your resistance to that term, from all the religious conditioning -- I don't use the term in a 'religious' sense. to me, a saint is someone who has dedicated their lives completely to serving god in this creation -- someone who 'wears the clothing of god.' that's all. it's not about any particular tradition, or religious ideas -- many many anonymous human beings in our history have been saints, as well as formally accepted holy souls and everywhere in between.

                      the miracle facilitated by myself, or by my teacher -- it's not 'really performed by the person who experiences it' although they're also a player in the drama -- miracles on the level I'm talking about are really performed by the divine operating in both characters, the 'healer' and the 'healee.'

                      when Jesus turned the water to wine, as he is reputed to have done, at the marriage at Qana, his first 'public' miracle -- it wasn't really done by the people attending the wedding, or by his mother, who was asking him to do it. his channels to the cosmic energy -- his understanding how exactly to bend the illusion of reality -- taking the water element and components in the exact vibration of 'water' and turning it, by an act of divine sankalpam (intention), into a substance that is still predominantly composed of the water element but in a different configuration -- that's what performed that miracle.

                      do you see what I mean?

                      Alx
                      • <<however, in the process of being the conduit, we are subjecting our Five Elements (body) structure to the energy exchange with another Five Elements structure -- someone else's system. there is a transfer of energy, and whenever there is a shift in energy (ie, a healing), some negative energy or karma or illusion moves, or is transformed -- where does it go? it has to go somewhere, during that shift. a person is relieved of the karma, let's say, of a tumor. some of that high negative energy, some old karma or interconnected series of karmas, has been relieved and transformed. in the transformation, some of the energy has to go somewhere. when a piece of wood burns, it releases some energy as heat and flame, and also some smoke. >>

                        I suppose you could use my analagy of a lamp recieving electricity from an electric wire, if the lamp is malfunctioning the electricity is not going to go back into the wire; maybe in the olden days that happened if things weren't compatible and the wire would be burnt up. The reiki attunements are the safty swithc (breaker) to keep that from happening. But if you want it that way, ok. I have never experienced that with reiki. No excess negative energy goes to me, if you think it has to go somewhere then think of it as being transmuted. I am sure that our miscommunication stems from your 'negative/positive energy' outlook and my 'all energy is energy' outlook. And in my reality, there is no way someone else's karma can effect or affect me, without my choosing that. But then we may have different definitions of karma as well.

                        <<then you wrote:
                        "Now the guru that you mention, that is different, the attitude is different, the purpose is different."

                        actually, the purpose is the same -- but way expanded. he is healing the souls, waking them up en masse, often through effecting miraculous healings in their physical systems>>

                        No, it is different, people are looking to that guru to save them. Even you put him above yourself as a healer. They are receiving healing from him (or rather, think they are). That is not the way of reiki. The healer is the person receiving the healing and it is all about the attitude of the participants (giver and receiver). The attitude of the guru is "I can do this", and "I will teach you". The attitude of reiki was not taught that way to me, it was "I can facilitate you healing yourself if you choose" No attachement to outcome.

                        <<I've seen him manifest objects out of burning hot ash, I've seen him make 5-foot square solid wood crosses bleed blood, I've seen him raise dead animals back to life, I've seen him create crystal objects out of crushed rose petals, I've seen him manifest items in OTHER people's hands (not his own), and have drunk wine that was water a few moments before.>>

                        So what! it is magic until we know how he did it, then we can all do it. He has understanding you don't, or some technology you can't imagine yet. I see no point in raising animals from the dead, or creating objects out of other stuff, alchemy. What is the point of all that besides showing off? How much does he charge to do his magic? What does he require of you? All these things sound like the same things people said Jesus could do, and these things are not important, any of us could do them if/when we understand reality. You have proof that is only proof for you.

                        In some ways you and I are saying the same thing. Reality is not what we think it is and we have more power than we are told we do, but no one can heal anyone else energetically, give them a miracle, they can facilitate it and give credit to the person who received the miracle for allowing it.. That is my biggest peeve about reiki masters taking credit for healing others. It is not what was taught but somewhere it got changed because of people's need to be special and other's need to be taken care of. So, we have people who will claim responsibiltiy for something someone else refuses responsibility for. Not a pretty picture sometimes. That's where the religions get off track and the cults (political/religious/scientific) get their power. It would be better if we all accepted our uniqueness without wanting it to be better than someone else's uniqueness or without worrying about whether it measures up to someone else's.

                        As for turning water into wine, yes I get the concept that you present. I have contemplated that before and I understand that you are saying that turning water into wine is the same as 'healing' a tumor for someone. The thing is, yes, I see it as the same, and no, it is not the same because the water has already committed to allow us to do what ever we will, it is the most obvious of matter that can/will be changed; removing a tumor from another human involves the other human, who may or may not have committed to that change. If the commitment is not there, the tumor will return. So, who is really creating the miracle?
                        • Hi. I'm glad and grateful for this lively discussion among experienced spiritual-healing folks. A few thoughts...

                          JahaRa wrote: "No, it is different, people are looking to that guru to save them. Even you put him above yourself as a healer. They are receiving healing from him (or rather, think they are). That is not the way of reiki. The healer is the person receiving the healing and it is all about the attitude of the participants (giver and receiver). The attitude of the guru is "I can do this", and "I will teach you". The attitude of reiki was not taught that way to me, it was "I can facilitate you healing yourself if you choose" No attachement to outcome."

                          Seems to me that some VERY advanced souls have dwelt here on Earth, and do still. I believe that the human race has needed them. Yes, we can think of Gautama Buddha, Jesus, Lao Tzu, and numerous others. In some way, and at some level, people like Mikao Usui are on some upper tier. And obviously he is someone who endeavored to help others on their way (we could say, he strove to bring them up to his level). The intervention - the personal presence, ethical example, teaching, healing & compassion - of the most advanced souls who've incarnated as humans helps to move segments of the human race forward, perhaps thereby moving ALL of our species forward.

                          I can't understand why instances of spiritual action at a high, mind-blowing level would be bad. If these instances involved very powerful & astonishing healing, again I can't see the detriment.

                          "Healing" of course can be viewed at various dimensions, from physical and emotional (and relating to the individual) to the social, national, planetary. It's a commonplace of the news and commentary in the world's TV & radio casts, newspapers & magazines that we are in a pickle here on Earth - a "real fix" that has social, economic, technnological deimensions and is manifesting in problems in the atmospheric and biological dimensions. At root, I'd say it's a spiritual/psychlogical impasse. Again, I don't see why we would deny the importance of direct spiritual inputs from highly advanced beings who may live and move amongst us.

                          I grant that there are "gurus" who have been self-indulgent, who have shown vanity & conceit, who have exaggerated, wh have abused power... and that these have often had cult followings. Yeah, that is a danger. But I could more or less apply this sad description to some university professors - and that doesn't mean that university professors have no role, no value, and shoudn't exist.

                          Tanemon
                        • hi, JahaRa --

                          my exposition of the miracles I've seen was in response to this comment from you: "It is too easy to give him credit for something that he didn't do, make him responsible for something outside his realm of control."

                          I was merely pointing out that in fact I've not given credit of any kind, simply observed that my teacher was clearly responsible for stuff very much within his realm of control.

                          I think earlier on I mentioned that the role of a healer is to transfer energy enough to another soul so that the soul itself can fix the system it's living in. not sure where that cropped up, but going back to read the posts here, I'm sure it's there.

                          if healers aren't taking on the negativity from their patients, how come so many get sick, depressed, addicted, etc.? I'm just asking what your observations on this subject are.

                          I thought this was a little interesting: "No, it is different, people are looking to that guru to save them. Even you put him above yourself as a healer."

                          people are looking to that guru to save them. hmmmm. I couldn't disagree more. I'm not even sure what "save" might be, or how that expresses in the lives of folks interested in learning advanced energy healing techniques -- which is what I went to my guru to learn, and have learned. I'm not sure where that generalization comes from, but I can say for myself and many of my colleagues, the idea of being 'saved' wasn't at all a motivator.

                          in terms of putting him above myself as a healer -- that's an interesting phrase, too. for sure he's a powerful healer and has had many more direct and exact healing successes than I have had -- so I would say, from anecdotal evidence, he's a more powerful healer than I am, for now.

                          if I go to university to learn French from a professor, there's no shame in admitting that the French prof is more advanced in terms of that language than I am! and the potential is that I can equal, or exceed, my professor, as my studies and capacity and experience increases.

                          certainly it doesn't mean that my French professor is a more profound being than I am, or should be put 'above me.' I really don't perceive it that way, am interested that you've reacted as though I have that perception.

                          about the miracle abilities I described, you wrote a lot of things, including this: "What is the point of all that besides showing off?"

                          what might you think the point, the deeper point, frivolous accusations aside, might be? why did Jesus show miracles, especially healing miracles? why are they still talked about, 2000 years later?

                          what is the capacity of human beings, at the deep level?

                          and this: "So what! it is magic until we know how he did it, then we can all do it. He has understanding you don't, or some technology you can't imagine yet."

                          I was only offering that things clearly IN the control of this character are things that I've seen. I'm not at all suggesting that these are magical things that no one else can learn -- quite the contrary, if you read my earlier posts.

                          I would agree that he has an understanding that I don't -- for now -- and some technology. (however, I'm quite familiar with the technology after nearly 10 years of study, and can very well imagine, and implement it.)

                          you bring up some beautiful points about the participation of healer and healee in the process of healing -- I completely agree that it needs both, and that the soul of the healee is involved in miraculous healings -- but if the responsibility, energetically, for a miracle healing ONLY resided on the shoulders of the healee, why on earth would anyone consult a healer? I mean, if I'm healing myself, really, anyway, what do I need your intervention or participation for?

                          Alx








                          • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                            Wed, July 30, 2008 - 11:03 AM
                            <<you bring up some beautiful points about the participation of healer and healee in the process of healing -- I completely agree that it needs both, and that the soul of the healee is involved in miraculous healings -- but if the responsibility, energetically, for a miracle healing ONLY resided on the shoulders of the healee, why on earth would anyone consult a healer? I mean, if I'm healing myself, really, anyway, what do I need your intervention or participation for? >>

                            The big lie is that we need healing in the first place, actually that is not the big lie, but rather a symptom of beleiving the big lie that we are separate from God.
                            • These sorts of discussions can become very abstruse, and even wander into the realm of the impractical.

                              Whether or not we are (or in WHAT way we are or aren't) "separated from God" people still feel that things need healing. If I get a bad bruise on my shin, and it heals, I'm pleased. But if instead the big lump and painful discolored swelling lasted for a month, I'd be pretty concerned. Another example... let's say I split up with someone I'd been deeply involved with for 10 years, and the split was emotionally rough and hurt profoundly. Maybe I'd feel I could use some healing from that emotional pain, confusion, frustration.

                              If I can heal myself without intervention from 'another person', then great. If not, I might like some help - and would feel grateful for it if I got it.

                              Being healed means you are better enabled - enabled to, say, be a friend, be a parent, go to work and do your job, enjoy yourself in your free time, and so on.

                              There are countless sorts of conditions - physical, emotional, percpetual, etc - that one might wish to heal.

                              Where is "the big lie" in all of this? More than a "lie", I see "the human condition" in the felt need to be healed and the appreciated in getting healed.
                            • People are wounded or hurting or ill sometimes in this dimension we live in. Some people seek help from others. Healing occurs. we are not pure light beings living in a disembodied state. We are flesh and blood and energy and feelings and thougts and are afeected in each of those areas by things we experience or have experienced as a human living on the earth plane. You don't have to beleive you are seperate from God to require or ask for assistance from another being embodied or disembodied. We are not seperate from god. we are one with the source and guess what, that don't make everything perfect.
                              • well, it's a great point that the root cause of all suffering is the illusion that we're separate from god.

                                that being said -- is it enough to just say, "I'm NOT separate from god!" and then we know it and it's true in all aspects of our lives, we're automatically enlightened from that point on, and ACTING like we're not separate any more?

                                (doubtful.)

                                so how to bridge the disconnect between knowing we're not separate and actually experiencing it?

                                my experience is that this is where healing comes in.

                                Alx
                              • There is no reason not to ask for help, I'm just saying that no one is healed solely by someone else's work, gift or what ever. The person receiving the healing has to accept it.

                                And my earlier comments (except the separate from god thing) were in relation to reiki/Reiki. If it is beleived that the 'reikist' as Tanemon calls us (a good word, I think) is the healer, in other words the person giving the reiki is the healer rather than the person receiving then there has been a miscmomunication. The person receiving the reiki energy is the healer. That is the way it is taught and that is the way it works. You can be a conduit to give reiki all day long to someone, but if they don't choose to heal or participate in the healing it will not heal anything, except perhaps anything the conduit chooses to heal in herself while giving the reiki.

                                For other energy healing I can only say from my experience, that giving your energy to heal someone else is very difficult and dangerous - sets you up to become someone's enemy if the outcome is not what they expected for one thing. Also sets you up to never have any peace as there will always be one more person in need or a person who has one more thing they need healed. There is no balance in that, if you turn them away you are the enemy, if you don't you get run down and become ill yourself. And if it is in your beleif system you need to protect yourself from negative energy before, during and after the healing.

                                I have no experience with any guru that was not operating from a large ego so I can't speak for what Alx talks about, only state my opinion about how energy works on this planet with humans.

                                Some people have healed miraculously from following a MD's ordrers, or taking an herb, and some from a psychic surgeon, I heard about a woman who jumped in the swimming pool 10 times a day to cure her cancer, and it was cured. I still think that the person being healed has to take credit for the healing, how else could you explain why none of those things give the exact same result to every person with the same symptoms or illness?
                                • JaHaRa --

                                  "I still think that the person being healed has to take credit for the healing, how else could you explain why none of those things give the exact same result to every person with the same symptoms or illness?"

                                  simple word: karma.

                                  Alx
                                  • Yes, and whose responsibility is the karma? Who created it?
                                    • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                      Fri, August 1, 2008 - 8:34 AM
                                      JahaRa,

                                      we are all here to help each other when possible and many of us seek help at some time. i am a reiki practitioner and i also was taught that i don't do anything but transmit the reiki. it has it's own intelligence and the client is a self healing organism but you can't deny that i am somehow participating in the process by being there and channeling the reiki. Karma is not always negative and if someone finds a healer or a teacher or some help that appears to come from outside that also is karma. We attract that which we have a resonance with and that is also karma and what I resonate with is my responsibility. it comes out of myt houghts , beleifs etc. I 'm going to put this isn the basest way possible. if you camer to me for help and you needed it would a good answer be "well your responsible for it, you deal with it alone on your own" ? Or would you accept help ie someone else participating in your process? I'm getting the feeling and i could be wrong (I admit that) that your resistance to people having a guru or teacher etc is coming from someplace deeper that none of the rest of us are privy to. No one in my opinion needs a guru if they don't want it. No one "needs" to see healers if they don't want to or feel they need to. There are just many ways of being and many choices in how we choose to go about life.
                                      • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                        Fri, August 1, 2008 - 10:35 AM
                                        Ganesh,
                                        I never said anything about 'dealing with it alone'. We are all connected, I am addressing the issue of responsibility and how some reikiists beleive they are healers, when in fact they are not, they are conduits or facilitators. We all need help, we all need hugs, we all need to know we are not alone, but we also need to take responsibility for ourselves, including the responsibility for asking for help and genuinely accepting that help when we ask. There can no longer be any "Please Save Me!" perspective, no one is here to save anyone else. We are here to support each other, and I don't care if you think karma is positive or negative, that is irrelevant. If I thought everyone should take care of themselves without any help from anyone else I would never have had anything to do with reiki.

                                        I think words are something we need to look at and redefine, or at least define in a way to better communicate with each other. This thread is about discussing advanced spiritual healing, which to me has very little to do with the physical body, but that is the perspective many are taking when they talk about healing. The ultimate transition from this plane is death and that is not a 'bad' thing, that is the way it is. Ascension is not about taking your current physical 'reality' where ever you think you will ascend to, it is about releasing attachments to this current physical perspective. And that is the advanced spiritual healing I understand.
                                        • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                          Fri, August 1, 2008 - 10:44 AM
                                          I realize that some of the miscommunication comes from the strong words I use, and that is something all of us need to look at. What trigger words do you have? I know some of mine and I recognize when I am reacting to them. In this thread I recognize trigger phrases that I have reacted to, "reiki healer" is one example.

                                          I think most of us in this tribe have similar understandings but our language is nebulous and confusing often sounding contradictory, so that when someone asks for clear communication it gets misunderstood as disagreement or 'negativity'.

                                          There is also a bad habit people have of shying away from what they think is 'negative'. A polarization is a polarization and does not serve us any longer no matter which way you go. Look at it like a stick that you are choosing one end of to be right and one to be wrong. What about the middle, the acceptance that your fears and guilts have more to do with your decisions about what is 'good' and 'bad' than any thing substantial. If you ever can get to a point of looking at that, then you have stepped up to begin advanced spiritual healing.
                                        • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                          Fri, August 1, 2008 - 8:26 PM
                                          Just wanted to address one point: JahaRa, you wrote "This thread is about discussing advanced spiritual healing, which to me has very little to do with the physical body, but that is the perspective many are taking when they talk about healing."

                                          I expect each and all of us here can agree with you that "advanced spiritual healing" affects subtler levels than the 'gross physical body' which is directly experienced by the five senses. If one has experience with Reiki, for instance, one knows the subtler energetic levels to be fact.

                                          Nevertheless, "advanced spiritual healing" may also have a great deal to do with the body when the healing is directed to incarnate human beings. And I mean that in this sense: there are thousands of reports scattered here and there of people seeking and getting healing or cure of the physical body through the agency or facilitation provided by/through powerful, advanced healers. My blog discussion (on my profile page) about a couple of people who I've known who have been blessed with this sort of single-session healing of physical ailments provide merely a couple of examples.
                                          • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                            Sat, August 2, 2008 - 8:26 AM
                                            I know of such a person with this advanced healing gift from birth. The ability to heal hands on or long distance through thought alone. I'm struggling to understand where this ocmes from and how someone who has never worked at it can not only have the ability but seems to be evolving and getting stronger with the ability. This is someone who doesn't meditate, doesn't work at spirituality but is "spiritual". They seem to have been born awakened.

                                            It is a mind blowing phenomenon.
                                    • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                      Fri, August 1, 2008 - 11:01 AM
                                      hi, Jahara --

                                      yes, that's precisely the question. who created the karma in the first place?

                                      when the souls were created from the cosmic, as pure souls, at what point did we start mis-identifying with the cosmic source that is in us, and think ourselves independent from it, and start performing actions based in our egoism and kama (desire)?

                                      it's a huge set-up from Nature -- a big cosmic game of hide-and-seek.

                                      undoing the karma of gajillions of lifetimes, however, is no joke, and in my experience of dealing with more than a thousand people, now, in terms of healing over the years, with god's grace, my primary observation is that no human being, singly, can wade through the mountains of karmas (both negative and positive) that are added up in their soul's bank account.

                                      the soul itself is affected by our karmic debts. healing means dissolving some of those karmas.

                                      if a healer has a huge open channel, like a river rather than a stream, to the cosmic, they can dissolve mountains of karma with one look, rather than a year's worth of healing after healing after healing.

                                      in that sense, then, we did come here to 'save' one another -- it's really another word for support, in the highest sense.

                                      I think it's tough to acknowledge that there are souls with that kind of capacity, who really only act for the benefit of humanity at large, and not from any selfish desire of their own. Jesus was one such, Buddha another. over human history, there have been thousands of divine souls with an ocean of capacity -- and our karmas, our illusion blocks, are like piles of salt when they come into contact with an ocean like that -- they simply start to dissolve rapidly.

                                      that's my experience, and it's what I witness daily in terms of doing 'healings' with god's grace.

                                      Alx
                                      • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                        Mon, August 4, 2008 - 11:58 AM
                                        and the point that Jahara made that healing isn't really about the physical body -- the body is a kind of afterthought, the dense matter product of the soul's experience on this planet.

                                        to me, the real healing occurs at the level of the soul and then filters down to the emotions and the physical body. but it's the soul itself that needs the influx of more power, more light, more energy, more strength, to fix the house it's living in.

                                        Alx
                                        • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                          Mon, August 4, 2008 - 3:06 PM
                                          Hmmm... I don't quibble about the fact that the soul does need more power, more light, more strength.

                                          Yet the healing brought about in the body by those confident virtuoso healing channels (a.k.a. "healers") who can really do it, seems unconscious to the recipient or patient. And quite automatic. And very rapid.

                                          What I mean by "unconscious," automatic, and rapid is illustrated in the three healing stories on my profile page.

                                          So yes, it may indeed be a virtually instantaneous healing proceeding from soul level to emotional to physical.

                                          The recipient in these instances most often seems to be quite unconscious of his/her role in the process (though I do not say that the recipient has no role).

                                          Tanemon
                                          • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

                                            Tue, August 5, 2008 - 3:04 AM
                                            well, Tanemon --

                                            I would say that most people are blithely unconscious of what the soul is doing, or is up to at any given moment -- both in general and in relation to the receiving of healing. we're not that conversant with the soul, with its level of functioning, or its reality, in the day-to-day world.

                                            we feel the soul when we hear a beautiful piece of music and it brings tears to the eyes -- or we see a scene in nature that is so breath-taking it makes us feel emotional, or thrilled -- it's touching the heart, which is feeding the soul. in moments like that we are experiencing our soul's energy.

                                            I would definitely say that in my experience of healing, most people are, on the surface level 'unconscious' of the specific transaction that is happening. however, at the soul level -- message received. some people are more open to this receiving than others, and some souls are more capable of acting to heal whatever's out of balance in the overall system than others.

                                            healing, from healer to healee, is also mostly soul to soul. not so much about the personality, or the mind stuff, or even the emotions, really.

                                            Alx
            • One thing I've always wondered about - and this is with ANY sort of spiritual/energetic healing - is whether some recipients are more energetically ready to receive and make use of the healing energy. Another way of saying it is perhaps some individuals are more amenable to getting the most from a spiritual healing session (amenable spiritually, energetically, emotionally & physically). Perhaps some people, inwardly, are just more prepared, whether they are conscious of this or not... and some may be very inwardly prepared, even if on the mental level they are skeptical.

              Perhaps this is why some of us with experience in Reiki and other common (in North America) energetic healing methods find that some people with some conditions respond so much more quickly and easily to healing sessions, why results are noticed more clearly or emphatically with some people. ??

              And of course karmic factors would be involved.

              I do not mean by this that a person's inward receptivity cannot be altered, uplevelled. But I'm thinking that it might take many sessions, sometimes, simply to work through the conditions within certain recipients in order for the most significant results to then occur. What do you think?

              Namaste,
              Tanemon
              • K
                K
                offline 140

                Namaste.

                I began working with classical, "high-powered" yoga ( in a small, crude way ) back in 1980. Mainly for self healing and self development, not for reasons of religious faith.

                Three things that work are kundalini yoga, buddhist tantra ( sometimes known as "Tibetan Buddhism" ) and chi kung ( Buddhist energy yogas in kung fu and also Taoist chi kung ).

                I was initiated into these ( 3H0 Sikh kundalini yoga with Yogi Bhajan, Sakya Tibetan School Mahakala deity yoga with HH Dagchen Sakya Rinbochay, and Wu style chi kung with sifu Laurel Nudelman ) in 1980. These practices saved my life a couple times. Literally. As recently as two years ago.

                There are other things that work. I also have taken a course in Sufi healing practices, and have seen numerous Sufi teachers, but completely abandoned all association with Sufis in 1983. There is also Native American healing and yoga, for which I received teachings from the Cherokee teacher Ven. Lama Dhyana Ywahoo. Her stuff works too.

                I have completed ten thousand hours of Buddhist mantra recitation ( a very small amount, but still worthwhile ), and have been doing a broad array of breath practices ( Sanskrit: pranayam ) since 1980. These include breath modulations in kung fu, Buddhist tantra, Hindu yoga, 3H0 Sikh yoga. A large amount of legitimate teaching for all these has been published, but much or most of what I do is restricted to tantric lineage and I cannot discuss it with any but a very very few.

                There are several primary keys to advanced spiritual healing. These include
                1) breath practices ( pranayam and chi kung )
                2) mantra recitation
                3) visualization ( of points of light and/ or energy flows )
                4) hand gestures and physical postures
                5) tantric empowerment
                6) study of basic texts in Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine
                7) abandonment of negative-trending thoughts, behaviors ( including smoking, drug abuse, alcohol ), people, and situations
                8) continuous inner listening and self criticism
                9) continued reliance on wisdom lineage and high-level teachers as formal guru yoga and as personal guidance
                10) commitment to universal service
                11) fresh air, sunlight, green environments, lots of rest, times of solitude
                12) an integrated approach to life on all levels.

                A primary tantric Buddhist practice for inner purification is Vajrasattva. You can see that described in my tribe.net profile ( for "k t" under "hundred syllable mantra" photo posting ). I have received sixty three full Vajrasatta authorizations as different tantric empowerments, soon to be sixty four.

                Very deep forms of healing are available in Hindu and Taoist practices. If you need more than that, there is the Buddhist tantra. It is available in substantial ways throughout the Western world. It is a new day, and a new world.

                That pretty much covers the subject in a nutshell.

                Best,

                K T
                inner medical tantrika and dharmapala-guru


    • <<Scott said: I suppose, what I am saying is that, for me it isn't the level of healing but how integrated I am to my healing sources and how I utilize them in my practice, my daily interactions and my most personal relationships and private thoughts; because, to me, unless I am a healer of the highest order in my own self, in my own life, in the very relationships I am in, I am not a healer of the highest order at all!>>

      Yes, I resonate with that.
  • Tanemon,
    Thanks for inviting me to this tribe. I feel the same way you do, that there is a lot more to learn and a lot more to share. My healing had to start with my thinking in order to even get to the rest of it and because I am an avid reader, I found books that had phrases, ideas and triggers that caused me to consider changing my thinking. Once I was primed by that, people came into my life and I came into others lives to support the changes I needed to make and they needed to make. It has never been a one way street for me, always everything is flowing both ways. Sometimes one person is a catalyst, just passing through and gone, but the effect is so amazing and rarely is the catalyst noticed as the change bringer, but no matter, it is a position we have all unknowingly embodied for the moment that is needed.

    Every one of us has similar experiences, but different filters/perceptions/focus that may cause the inability to understand how similar our experiences are.
    • One more thing, I would like to mention that I have found Hatha Yoga to be extremely helpfuil in keeping the lymph system and organs clear, and the muscles strong, the energy gates are opened. Any kind of moving your body and acknowledging your muscles that you take for granted (or didin't know existed) is an excellent way to discharge excess or bound energy from your body.
    • JahaRa wrote: " Tanemon, Thanks for inviting me to this tribe. I feel the same way you do, that there is a lot more to learn and a lot more to share. My healing had to start with my thinking in order to even get to the rest of it and because I am an avid reader, I found books that had phrases, ideas and triggers that caused me to consider changing my thinking."

      You are certainly welcome.

      My interest in all this is partly explained by the sorts of 'miraculous' healing described on my profile page. Some of these incidents are described in a blog entry (first portion of that entry shows up on my page), and another (on my profile page) is an incident described in a quote from one of Doug Boyd's books. (By the way, these are not my personal experiences and, although I've been a Reiki III for five years, I consider myself merely an apprentice healer.)

      The Reiki community in North America is a wonderful community. Still, I've met enough people and read widely enough that I've been aware there are healing and effectiveness realities (indeed, including on the physical-condition level) that go beyond what most "Reiki masters" have any experience of. I do not say it to belittle Reiki masters, by any means; rather I say this to point in a direction that I believe we Reiki-ists should be aware of.

      I'd say we each have a path ahead of us, things to learn and actualize, and the need to go beyond our present understanding.

      Tanemon
      • hi, Tanemon -- I thought this was a great and beautiful and important inquiry --

        "Perhaps this is why some of us with experience in Reiki and other common (in North America) energetic healing methods find that some people with some conditions respond so much more quickly and easily to healing sessions, why results are noticed more clearly or emphatically with some people. ??

        And of course karmic factors would be involved."

        yes, absolutely, it has to do with helping them, energetically, unwind their karmas. when you're transmitting energy, when you're the agent of that energy blessing and healing coming to a person, your soul is really transferring that infusion of energy to their soul. in the best circumstance, that energy starts to ignite the healee's soul to heal their own system.

        what I can say, from my studies in India, over years, of healing work and research, is that a lot of healing success -- both for healer and healee -- depends on how open the hearts are of the people involved.

        if a healing patient doesn't have an open heart, either to the healer, or to the process of healing, or to the divine (however they think of that), they won't experience the healing as rapidly or as deeply as someone whose heart is wide open.

        that's a key point about healing.

        and Tanemon, I really appreciate your position, both as an experienced Reiki healer and also as someone who's researching what is possible beyond the Reiki practice.

        I can say for myself that I adored Reiki and honor it still as a step toward my current understanding of energy, healing, karma, souls, and the divine source. but there is a LOT beyond it.

        Alx



        I do not mean by this that a person's inward receptivity cannot be altered, uplevelled. But I'm thinking that it might take many sessions, sometimes, simply to work through the conditions within certain recipients in order for the most significant results to then occur. What do you think?
        • Re: Care to discuss advanced spiritual healing?

          Wed, July 30, 2008 - 10:01 AM
          Hi, Alx. I realize that you are pursuing a particular path and are involved with a specific teacher/exemplar and a specific center (asharm system) in South India.

          Too, at this point, you've recently leapt from California to theat place in S. India and back again. I find myself wondering what new perspective you may have right now on the unfoldment of the spiritual/energetic domain (realm, sphere, community) in N. America.

          Over the years, via numerous teachers, traditions, lineages, and methods we seem to have been witnessing - and personally experiencing - a broadening and in some ways a deepening of the energetic-healing scene in N. America. But I'd rather hear what you have to say and what you intuit, at this point...

          Namaste,
          Tanemon
          • hi, Tanemon --

            well, what I know from my studies in India is that a whole new generation of saints, of avataras, of divine souls, however we want to call people who are carrying enlightenment channels and miracle healing abilties, and a direct connection with the divine source that they can impart to others, experientially, is about to come into being. it's already happening, actually -- and among hundreds and hundreds of 'unlikely' candidates -- Western people, from Europe and North America, who until quite recently never really thought that this was possible in their own lives.

            so -- given that I have a particular background, bias, tradition, etc., what I know is that America (esp the US) right now is really going through a huge labor pain of negativity, corruption, power struggles, aggression, causing a lot of pain and suffering to people both domestically and abroad. we see it every day in the news, in the fluctuations of the stock market, news of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and so on, as well as in the faces of the people in the nation. (dunno how Canada is doing at this point, so I won't comment.)

            but -- what I've learned is that before the enlightenment channels come, all the negativity needs to be surfaced first -- it comes up, automatically, to be purified, whenever there's any high divine goal being undertaken.

            there's a great story from the Vedas about the origin of this particular creation, where the demons and the gods come together to churn the ocean of milk at the dawn of creation, in order to get the amrutha from it -- the 'nectar of immortality.' so they're churning and churning, and unfortunately, the first thing that comes out of the ocean of milk isn't the nectar, the amrutha, it's this heinous, corrosive substance, a poison called 'alahala' that is acrid and burning and threatens to destroy the whole creation.

            oops. no one can do anything about it until Shiva (the god the father character, also the Tamo guna, the 'destroyer' in the G-O-D, generator-operator-destroyer) shows up and he drinks the alahala. that's a HUGE story, how and why he does that, and that he doesn't actually swallow it down into his system but rather holds it in his throat, this burning, horrific negative susbtance that is actually all the previous karmas of previous yugas.

            anyway, once Shiva drinks the poison, then the churning resumes and all kinds of high divine things come out of the ocean, including the amrutha, the nectar of immortality.

            this is a huge metaphor for spiritual life -- and a real commentary on the nature of sadhana (spiritual practice) and the purification it stimulates in the human system. any time we're meditating, or involved in a high supernatural energy process, if it's a good technique and is really accessing the divine Silence, then immediately the purification starts in the human system. we might experience it as crazy thoughts, or emotions surfacing, or physical illness or symptoms like nausea or diarrhea -- but it's really just purification.

            the alahala is coming up, before we get to the amrutha.

            anyway, I think America is churning -- a lot -- and right now we're seeing a lot of karmic poison being spewed in many directions simultaneously. at the same time, the ground is being laid for an incredible renaissance and divine shift in terms of powerful healers, like hundreds of Jesuses, coming into the world. and eventually America will lead the world in terms of spirituality, and re-enlivening ancient knowledge and enlightenment understanding that was previously mostly lost or kept secret.

            so, it's an exciting time, and I'm grateful to be part of this upliftment that's coming to our continent, and to the world at large.

            those are a few of my thoughts.

            Alx



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