Guest guest Posted May 28, 2004 Report Share Posted May 28, 2004 Distant Healing by Michael Arvey Reprinted with permission Eventually the art of healing will be one of the demonstrating factors in proving the unity of all souls.(1) --Dwal Khul, Esoteric Healing Prana is present in atoms and their constituents. It is behind the energy fields into which matter is resolved at dissolution...It is an element of the universe infinitely subtle and more complex than the element we call matter.(2) --Gopi Krishna, Living With Kundalini In the early 1990's, I once wrote to Mother Meera, one of the Divine Mothers presently embodied on earth. She represents that aspect of the Divine Mother known as Durga. In East Indian spiritual lore, Durga is She who helps us to cross the ocean of samsara, or the relative world, to that state of life that is eternal, the state of enlightenment. It is said that Durga is also the one who turns the mind away from evil and establishes it in the pursuit of good. For many in India, Durga is a chief focus for worship. Mother Meera lives and is based in Germany. Each year thousands of people pilgrimage there to receive darshan, the presence of the Divine. Such visits have been known to change the courses of lives. I was living in Colorado, and since I was not in a position to travel to Germany, I chose to write and ask for darshan from a distance. Within two weeks, one night just before retiring as I lay in bed, I was stunned and mystified to feel an energy enter my legs and move up the rest of my body. I wasn't in a state of bliss or ecstasy, just wonderment at the experience. I was the recipient of an energetic blessing and hello, and I had had no idea it would arrive such as this. I fell asleep within a short time after putting two and two together; it must be the Mother! From around the world, I had been targeted by the descent of Grace. Little did I realize then that within a few years, I would myself be "sending" spiritual energy around the world. I would be calling this distant healing. Recently I broadcast a healing to a woman who had suffered a major car accident fourteen months earlier. The bones in her face had been crushed, both ulnas in her arms shattered, both hips broken, and various other injuries had been incurred. Within those fourteen months, however, she had made a tremendous comeback after surgeries, physical therapy, and much alternative healing. She was still working on the physical aspects of her condition, and also the spiritual aspects of her condition, as she had been on the path of Light for many years. She asked if I might work on some etheric and chakral healing issues for her at a distance, since there was 200 miles or so between us. We set up our appointment. In doing the healing, or clearing as I also call it, powerful energy surged in and through our bodies from head to toe. Throughout the session, it streamed to the head and brain centers, her forearms, her legs and feet, heart and solar plexus. More remarkably, the consciousness of the session was thrilling. It was deep, expansively spacious, settling down to where awareness of the physical body became awareness of the bliss and Light body, a replication of what I imagine the stillness of space to be like. The following are excerpts from her description of the experience: "You deserve a bona fide certificate in Radiance healing. There was very much heat in my head, especially the left side. Very peaceful, not discordant in the least, huge clearing of space for new space. Experienced solar plexus and legs and arms as well. Much on the emotional. Feel immensely clear and centered. Feel a huge shift with some dead static energy that has been clogging my conscious field for some time, prior to car crash. Am very thankful and pleased with the aligning and clearing and motivation. Thank you very much for this great gift that resonates beyond Time and Space. Definitely felt the clear work in the heart. There was a lot of balancing things, energy attention moving from one space to another and triggering other energy actions. VERY VERY NICE." The session achieved a much-desired effect on the client. But how exactly does distant healing work, assuming that it does? How do people like Mother Meera send their darshan? Can energy be sent? What kind of energies are these? My effort shall be to convey some possibilities within the context of my own experience and thought as well as to incorporate some commentary by other writers on the subject. EINSTEIN'S UNIVERSE How often have we heard that all the universe is an infinite sea of energy in subtle and gross forms? The gross form is that of creation, all that rests or walks in manifestation. The generally accepted view of matter in many circles is that it is compressed or crystallized energy. It is the end result of stepped-down energies from the source of all energy and creation. Depending on one's background, education and belief systems, that source might be called the vacuum state, the ground state, pure Being, pure consciousness, God, and so forth. In my experience, there are numerous stepped-down energies. Most of the commentaries I've encountered on the subject lump all energies into one but label them differently. Subtle energy has been called chi, ki, manna, life force, prana, cosmic breath, etc. Ayurvedic medicine sees the body as interrelated fields, each field and its corresponding systems being governed by a particular prana. These pranic flows are a part of other overlaying fields called doshas: kapha, pitta, vata. In yoga kundalini systems, prana is nearly synonymous with kundalini, with a subtle difference. The kundalini is the consciousness in the driver's seat, and prana is the vehicle. Another old adage puts it succinctly, "Force is the horse, consciousness is the rider."(3) [CE1] As awakened kundalini rises up from the base of the spine, it awakens and unifies the chakras and their fields and brings in its wake higher states of consciousness. What disturbs me at times is the notion that all energy is equally flat and democratic, when in fact the universe is hierarchically organized as far as energies and consciousness goes. Using a vertical model for how we might metaphorically understand the universe, the highest point in the structure would contain the finest energy, which is a reflection or expression of the consciousness behind the energy. Of what utility is any energy not directed and used in an organized manner? As we slide down the vertical scale, energy becomes less fine, grosser, less capable of expressing and holding higher consciousness, in particular pure consciousness, the ground state and foundation of all our experience in the relative world. All mystical, metaphysical, and spiritual traditions have endeavored to infuse, reorganize, and transmute humanity's energy fields and structures with higher vibrational frequencies from above. Esoterically speaking, this is known as alchemy and it works down to subatomic levels, transforming a person's energetic fields into a brilliant diamond Lightbody. At each frequency or dimension exist worlds upon worlds of beings in subtler energetic forms than ours in our 3D existence. Many traditions speak of Higher Beings. We know of them through our religions, our prophets, our secret and not-so-secret spiritual orders. We know them through subjective experience. Many know that the Higher Beings are just like us in essence, only they have evolved to a finer plane of existence. They exhibit qualities of love, compassion, mercy, understanding, intelligence, and power. They demonstrate great energy, and service to the Oneness of existence, the beingness in all of us. We are all beads on a string around the creator's neck - some of us are simply closer. In our neck of the universe (the earth is on the outer fringes) we are aided and abetted by a spiritual Hierarchy of Ascended Masters, those who have established themselves in their soul consciousness and have no need to incarnate on the planet. By virtue of its nature, that being, or Self (Higher Self, Soul, Jiva-for expediency's sake I use these terms interchangeably, though some schools of thought might make issue of this-it's really a question of degree), partakes of the highest and most powerful energy available, precisely because it is unbounded. Robert E. Cox in his book The Pillar of Celestial Fire and the Lost Science of the Ancient Seers presents another way of looking at matter and energy as it is structured throughout creation. He writes that ordinary human awareness is locked onto the various forms of matter and energy that exist within our local region of the Universe. According to the non-local vision of the ancient Seers, human beings live in the outermost of seven concentric layers of universal life that collectively form the Cosmic Egg. These seven layers of universal life are filled with subtle matter energy or celestial fire. Because they appear to be blazing with celestial fire, in the Revelations of John they were described as seven flames, and were identified with the seven universal spirits of God.(4) Cox continues to explain the Vedic tradition as identifying those seven layers as seven higher worlds of existence, called Sapta Lokas. These include the Galactic world, the astral or dream world, the Shining Heaven world, the World of Great Souls, the World of Divine Beings, the World of Evolutionary Fire, and the World of Truth. Those seven spirits of God, according to Cox, also "collectively constitute the Holy Spirit." In other traditions the seven spirits that Cox speaks of are known as the seven Mighty Archangels who preside over God's universe. This celestial fire or Holy Spirit consists of the finest energy in creation. In yogic traditions, celestial fire is often viewed as kundalini energy, sometimes referred as Divine Mother energy. The Mother of all energies, she creates the universe, the womb within which all else takes form and moves in life. The Father, or Shiva in the same tradition, is pure Being in its stillness. Celestial fire could also be termed the cosmic fire serpent as it relates to kundalini shakti, though humans have both a personal and a universal connection to it. Through experience and study, we can know of some of these graduations of energy that exist all around us. In my work with in-person and distant healing, I've noticed a huge distinction between ordinary chi, ki, or prana, and that which is governed by the soul and kundalini energies, which have enough Presence to transform basic Egg energy into Grade AAA. The universe isn't simply composed of a rolling ocean of prana; there are differing frequencies. From the relative prana to that prana which exists nearest the absolute, the energy is more refined on evolved levels of existence. How does distant healing work in my and other healer's cases? I have some ideas. DISTANT HEALING: DO SPACE AND TIME EXIST? As my healing path continues to delicately unfold and spiritual activations descend, I am awed by the internal transformations that necessarily accompany the sweet blossomings. I am also fascinated by the differences I perceive between long distance healing methods. The methodologies are based on the same broad premise, yet the methods themselves have distinct variations and magnitudes. There are levels to everything in life, and healing is no exception. For example, perhaps one method is best suited for physical healing, another for emotional healing, and another for soul healing. Also, within those parameters there may be extensive to moderate ranges of effectiveness. Prana requires a navigator to set a course of action. Who will steer the energy? How does it know where to go in the client? How does it find the client half way around the world? These pose complex questions that perhaps science will one day come to terms with, or at least endeavor to elucidate the physical laws or extra-physical laws behind these phenomena. In the meantime, I offer my own observations and notions, both as a healer and observer of this work. BRINGING HOME THE LIGHT We have noted that varying pranas exist and flow through the seven major centers in the etheric body. From the crown to the root chakra, these are vyana, prana, udana, prana, samana, apana and apana. These prana vayus, or winds, as they are called, move in different directions and are the prevailing "winds" in the subtle body that determine the body's state of health or disease. The body cannot exist without pranic life forces, just as it can't exist without food and water. In short, each chakral center conveys distinct frequencies of energy. These are borne upon different rays. The healer who utilizes his centers to heal from, in a radiatory sense of work, has an advantage over those who simply work from the palm centers unless the other centers are involved in the healing, and frequently they are not. In addition, there stands a small limitation in regard to distant healing and the use of hands. The healer generally requires a photograph of the sendee, and either holds it or beams energy through the hands at it. In some systems, symbols are required to activate and send the energy. I remember one of the favorite dictums of a guru of mine long ago: Do less, and accomplish more. In my experience, the use of symbols is a cumbersome contrivance at the soul level of energetic healing, whose innate intelligence guides, inspires, and motivates the life forces. In fact, at least one healer might agree with my view. According to descriptions in his book, Advanced Pranic Healing, Choa Kok Sui speaks of a "higher form of pranic healing," Divine Light healing, which sounds surprisingly close to what I do. He talks of Divine energy being sent down from the Holy Ones, the Masters and Archangels and such, through the soul of the healer either into the soul of the client or into the patient's etheric and physical bodies. This is seen as a flood of electric-violet or brilliant white light coming down, according to Sui, which thereby rapidly cleanses and energizes the entire body of the client.(Occasionally a client of mine will see colors in the mind, and violet, blue, green and white are most common.) He speaks of this Divine energy as having a consciousness of its own, knowing where to go and what to do. This has been precisely my experience, with a couple of modifications. One, I believe that once such energy arrives from the upper, out-of-physical-body chakral centers to the soul chakra (above the head) of the healer, that energy becomes integrated so fully with the soul that it is no longer distinguishable as energy from above. The energy can derive from the healer's own higher self, or can combine with the energy of others from above. Two, the healer in this instance does not, again, require the use of hands to send and direct energy though pictures, which Sui describes as procedural. Soul energy has its own hands. Sui says the healer should touch the pictures of the clients during the healing to establish stronger etheric links. Among other things, he says to concentrate on the crown and the ajna (third eye) chakras, and then draw divine energy from above down into the hands and project this energy to the pictures. I haven't found it necessary to follow such specific instructions. Rather, all happens naturally and spontaneously, and one need only hold the client's name in his awareness. Soul energy automatically will course through the crown and will project through the ajna if it is required. Another system declares that the energy it works with is directed by inner guides and masters, and this may very well be so. Yet some of the claims feel out of proportion to the actual results of the healings, as in for example, calling it the Christ energy, Kuan Yin's energy, and so forth. One must cast a discerning eye at what appear to be vast confusions in the healing arena. Concerning distant healing, theoretical applications are often similar, but methodologies are subject to deviations. Another fascinating aspect to this subject is how distant healing locates its intended client amid the five billion or so human bodies on the planet! WARP SPEED, MULTIDIMENSIONAL SPACE A quite recognizable name these days hails from the spiritual communities, clans and individuals who have rediscovered aspects of their multidimensional selves. Through diverse teachings and experiences, we have come to understand we are not simply the walking dead we thought we were, bound to body and doomed to annihilation at the end, that great mystery that has so plagued humanity for eons. Our awareness resides on many levels, or dimensions of awareness. Regardless, it is said that we have chakral portals on each level, and it is through this multidimensional stringing of chakras that our Higher Selves, the I Am Presence, expresses itself. That string is our umbilical cord to Spirit, and it is our Spirit that feeds us until we can stand on our own feet in the totality of our being. The entire import of the Ascension movement is to prepare and activate this descent of the Higher Self into the physical vehicle. The physical and subtle vehicles must be vibrating at a high enough frequency, and must be healed and clear enough for this vertical activity to occur. The Higher Self knows when it's time and when one is ready. Preparation is crucial. These "higher" (they're really just a shift in awareness or consciousness) dimensions can be accessed now. The fourth dimension, for instance, the astral plane, has been readily open for some time. I believe this is the dimension from whence certain magicians draw their power. There is room for caution here, too. Carl Japiske in his book The Light Within Us brings up an interesting and instructive point: "It must be understood that not all light emanates from spiritual sources. The aspirant must therefore learn to distinguish between the light of the soul on the one hand and the light of the mind and astral light on the other. Many spiritual seekers who fervently believe they are in touch with the light of the soul are in touch only with the astral light. Because this is psychically perceived, they believe they have contacted the one great reality."(5) How does one know the difference? According to Japiske, astral light "does not produce growth, transformation, understanding or inspiration," whereas the light of the soul will "inspire, inform, and enrich our awareness at all levels. It will nurture our growth and heal our inadequacies. It will transform our sense of identity."(6) In my experience, ordinary pranic or ki energies do not have the intensity, range or scope of higher dimensional energies, which have a much higher octave, although I do not mean to give the impression I am an expert on dimensional energies, because I am not. The next step on the dimensional scale is the fifth dimension. For simplicity's sake, we could call it a more truly spiritual dimension, and one must have had achieved a certain headway in one's evolution to have arrived here, or have been given a certain dispensation of Grace. The thrust now is for aspiring Ascendants to break the fifth dimensional light barrier, and thus become bearers of this new frequency. One match can light a thousand. Interestingly enough, there's a principle of dimensionality at work in all the energy healing systems. That is, the higher the source of the energy we access, the more dramatic, transformative and long lasting will be the effects. This is another of the ways to distinguish between fourth and fifth dimensional energy. Fifth dimensional and higher energies, for example, may continue to work on the client for days and even weeks. Lower fourth dimensional energy generally evaporates quickly. Client sessions are always variable in this regard. I've found that each receives what each needs and is ready for. On rare occasions, a session falls flat, and I don't wish to convey the impression that each radiatory session is magnificent, as this is not the case. But in the main, big benefits accrue, especially over a period of time. No one ever said that the evolution of the vehicles would transpire overnight. One of the differences between radiatory healing and pranic healing lies in the fact that the light energy breaks through to the fourth and third dimensions from at least the fifth, and in so doing also orchestrates fourth dimensional energy. And if time and space do not exist there, or are at least fused or collapsed into one fold, then the Higher Self aspect must have great control over its environment, whatever it may be. I suggest that it is not a picture or a symbol that locates the target, but the soul aspect of the healer through higher dimensions. A probable scenario is that there exists a universal address book of people's frequency signatures, a term coined by Robert Cox. Our names in the third dimension, for example, are frequency signatures on others. We could even refer to them as tonals, or having a sound signature. Since there is no time or space for the Higher Self, it situates the client instantaneously across time and space in this world. Mind, or chitta, is omnipresent in creation, and each of us is recorded in the etheric hall of records, sometimes referred to as the Akashic Records. They exist in the finest ethers, or akasha, which translates as space. When I do a distance session, my procedure is simply to close the eyes, assume my meditative inwardness, and let the client's name float on the surface of the mind. The energy instantly starts to flow. Most often, the energy grows quite intense through the chakral structures. As I've grown into this healing, the crown and solar plexus have been utterly activated, and in concert work as a precision team. Through etheric space, my solar plexus bonds with the client's and will pump energy. There will incur a distribution of energy either to specific centers or pathways throughout the body, the soul level awareness being always in command and knowing exactly what it is doing. The solar plexus is a clearinghouse for all the bodies, and is named solar as it channels the pranic energy of the sun. My centers will emit extremely intense frequencies of energy. Dwal Khul described this phenomenon in the first half of this century: "This directed energy...is not directed toward healing, but is the soul energy of the healer directed towards bringing some center in the patient's body under control...and reorganizing it as a center for reception of the healing energies emanating from the person's soul...The healer...uses two centers, normally speaking: his own head center and that center in his own body which corresponds to the area which is diseased and its controlling center."(7) Regardless whether this involves long distance or in-person work, the application is the same in both cases. I have found Khul's assertions to be quite accurate. Robert Cox has aptly described what he believes is happening in distance situations, which confirms my own beliefs: "Such exchanges can occur over enormous distances via subtle rays that emanate from the energy centers (chakras) located in our subtle bodies. The ray of subtle energy provides a conduit through which both subtle energy and organizing power (or cellular intelligence in the form of certain types of pranic frequencies) can be conveyed between the healer and the healed. This is basically the same thing as morphic resonance. But the natural occurrence of morphic resonance may be compared to light emitted by an ordinary bulb, whereas the morphic resonance that is consciously set up by a spiritually awake healer more closely resembles a laser beam. It is more specific and to the point."(8) A laser beam is exactly right, in my experience. The energy emitting from the chakras I use feels precisely like laser beams, and those laser beams in the etheric, subtle hands and chakral centers of the soul surgeon are the very essence of specificity and divine knowledge. Interestingly enough, one hears of healers being gifted with laser hands from the spiritual realms--a beautiful and intriguing gift, indeed. The morphic resonance that Cox mentions is the theory originally proposed by Rupert Sheldrake that all forms have "a subtle matter field that non-locally resonates with a particular type of natural system, stores information regarding past generations of such systems, and actively participates in their natural evolution."(9) Sheldrake believed that such fields could impact other fields through resonance, or subtle vibration. Cox's interest in morphic resonance is to draw a correspondence between the heavens and the earth, echoing the old adage, "As above, so below." In a similar fashion, the distant healer and the client also establish such correspondences that allow the transmission to proceed. Cox's deliberations are useful and instructive, providing another framework from which to view distant healing. How does information get transported between the high, enlightened beings in other worlds across infinite distances? Cox's view is they "send out rays of their own soul essence to various parts of the universe, and communicate with one another over distances. The speed with which the communication happens depends upon the level of pure consciousness reflected by the soul. The greater the reflection of pure consciousness, the higher the speed, and the more efficient is the transfer of matter, energy, or information."(10) In our contemplation of distant healing, then, we can assume the same principle applies. If the sender and the sendee are in resonance merely through intention, the one willing to transmit and the other willing to receive, then it will be possible to bake a fine energetic cake and eat it too. We are simply smaller versions of the Great Ones. The soul's view is Olympian-staggeringly wide, far and inclusive. From a higher dimensional perspective, the unbounded soul can work and travel at the speed of light, perhaps faster. In a similar vein dealing with the soul, Gary Zukav eloquently writes, "Energies that emanate from your soul have instantaneousness to them...Unconditional love is of the soul, instantaneous, Universal, not bound."(11) Like a hypersensitive spider on its web, it can detect the most delicate touch of another being's soul and frequency signature from afar, though this does not mean it will pounce on the soul at the receiving end! I believe that, to the soul, time and space are collapsed and pose no hindrances to transmitting energy across great distances, as we are accustomed to thinking of them. Moreover, it has been my experience and privilege to perform initiations long distance. The principle and the application are identical to energy transmission. INITIATIC RESONANCES The beauty and wonder of growing into and then out of one's inner Radiant Self is the vast array of sacred skills that unfold, sometimes as swiftly as crocuses in springtime. Evidence of this shimmers through distance initiations. Through intention and resonance, the initiator can initiate someone around the world on a particular frequency of energy. A fusion takes place on the level of the etheric chakras between the sender and the sendee through which the energy can transfer. Solar being, Archangels, Angels, Masters, Elohim-makes no difference. The initiator is used as the vehicle, and it really works. Sometimes the initiator may be a Master-Initiator, that is, one who is in his or her own right, a master of initiations. They are open enough and advanced enough to be the primary consciousness behind the initiatory experience. They, for example, don't merely transfer the energy, but are the energy. Many in the spiritual-growth communities are coming into their power and their respective talents and gifts, as each one of us have skills that are unique to us, and there are masters in many fields. MAYA HAVE THIS DANCE A broader theme can be seen emerging from all this: our perceptions of ourselves and of the world existing as separate, dog-eat-dog units is erroneously flawed. The contribution that spiritual energy healing will give to the world is the recognition, through both healing and initiations, of our essential unity at a fundamental level of existence, where we all indeed are in this together. Spiritual energy healing offers extraordinary subjective proof of our connectedness. But subjectivity is also a science--a repeatedly verifiable phenomenon of experience that occurs in the awareness and in subtle sensations. In form we are separate; in energy and spirit we are One. Soul energy healing fosters an integration of soul level energies into and with form. From this vantage point of the inner spirit, there is no separation--the world is an illusionist's trick of perception. We have been sawed in half for too long. This illusion of the physical world has been called Maya, in which we all are on stage and doing our dance of life. If it moves, then it changes. If it changes, then it isn't reality. Reality, according to Ancient Wisdom teachings, is that which is changeless and eternal. Carl Japiske distills the idea: "There is one reality; within it are many dimensions."[12] Bibliography:(1) Alice Bailey, Esoteric Healing, Lucis Publishing Co., New York, 1993, p. 657(2) Gopi Krishna, Living With Kundalini, Shambhala, Boston and London, 1993, p. 367(3) Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, Man's Subtle Bodies and Centers, Editions Prosveta, third edition, 1988, p. 57(4) Robert C. Cox, The Pillar of Celestial Fire, Pre-Print edition, 1997, p. 37(5) Carl Japiske, The Light Within Us, Ariel Press, Columbus, Ohio, 1987, p. 180(6) Carl Japiske, p. 181(7) Robert E. Cox, interview, March 14, 1998, Boulder, Co.(8) Alice Bailey, Esoteric Healing, Lucis Publishing Co., New York, 1993, p. 555(9) Alice Bailey, p. 64(10) Alice Bailey, p. 70(11) Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul, A Fireside Book, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1990, p. 96(12) Carl Japiske, p. 138. Copyright 1998 Michael Arvey To contact the author, write to Michael Arvey. ·.»§« ·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.»§« please include ss tag thank you·.»§« ·´¯`·.,¸¸,.·´¯`·.»§« © Spiritually_Speaking spiritually_speaking- : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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