Brother Michael Sky

I feel your concern for these marines. The Lord's " man on the job " is you. They have the benefit of one who DOES care, in that they are better off than many. You cannot take their pain, but you may share this pain with them, and perhaps lessen it that tiny little bit which will allow them to keep marching on... You must trust the Lord IS guiding these souls to where they need to be. May the Lord bless you, and keep you safe, for the work you do....

It may seem like a very small difference, however the difference between " wish for " and " belief in " is something I have tried to grasp for quite a long while.... At first it seems like a trivial distinction, and in the beginning the difference hardly mattered, however I began to feel a very distinct difference. One of the hardest things for a healer to do, is to allow the healing to take place with no creative input from themselves... It is a very difficult thing because we are creating unconsciously at all times... Too frequently I am introduced to " healers " who have made no effort to reign in their subconscious. Who have done no work on themselves in preparation for the activities they see themselves doing.... I have seen healers whose energies are more confused than the one to be healed... I do not want such an individual " believing " in what they are attempting to do to me.... I would much rather that they " wish " for my best and highest good... They WILL be a conduit anyway, and I would much rather minimize the chance of their ego participating. Because it will.... and it will attempt to rearrange the subjects energies to match the healer' own. I would much rather a healer acknowledge, on a very fundamental level,that the energies are NOT coming from them... that there is a guiding intelligence which will do the work.... and this basic undestanding must exist firmly to keep the meddlesome monkey-mind from interfering... The words we use to teach this understanding can be very important for it is a very hard habit to break. When you give the monkey-mind free reign, it will run amok.!!!! Meditation and much introspection are simply a MUST for the aspiring healer. I know i go on about personal responsibility - however one has a responsibility to first do no harm. There is work to be done to be assured of this.....

I have had reason to notice - that when dealing with some people - certain things which would at first appear to be cultural icons have a very strong effect on their energy levels and frame of mind. For instance, for a few people I have met, focusing on a buddhist mandala while having a healing session results in a much more effective session, or soft flute music and the sounds of nature for another, yet another feels invigorated by the muslim call to prayer... These are not just personal preferences, their energy levels change in a substantial way during these specific circumstances... My idea is that the soul resonates with certain practices from memorable lives.... Just the presence of these cues is enough to raise energy levels and stimulate the bodies systems. This is part of the reason I am so adamant about the harm certain beliefs and practices do - not just in this life, but probably continuing... Imagine the hang-ups inherent in the experience of a life as a subservient partner to a domineering fundamental religious zealot....... and yes I MAY say this because I have felt the perversion of energies in an individual in this experience.... It is NOT a simple thing to assist in rectifying..

It bothers me as well...... for those who do not know : the opposite of Love is Fear !!

very good points for this topic..... though the bubble thing is a newer perversion of a different teaching... everything benefits from being immersed in the Christ Consciousness ( White Light ). Though it is meant a a general tonic with no expectations..a wish for the highest good for the soul.. merely lending assistance in concentrating energy....

I wonder at times if we would meet these writers today, would we consider them psychics? did they " get a word from the Lord " the same way? Does that, knowing what we know today about psychic phenomena, allow us to view scripture in an entire new light? Does it explain and excuse seeming conflicts within the text? so many questions...... However, ........ Infallible..... such a definite, concrete word.... Is anything in this world infallible??? Is it supposed to be? That question seems more apropos.... yes i agree with the idea here...

there are common themes within the belief systems of secluded peoples that I find verrry interesting... Seems when people are left to their own beliefs they find certain truths... With the mixing of belief systems comes confusion and those common themes are replaced by adopted customs... The "why" behind the customs of generations gets lost when adopting a foreign belief system leaving nothing but the "fact" that must be obeyed... Personally, I get much more excited about these traces of lost belief than I do about whats left..... It's unfortunate, but if you have studied many of the belief systems that we are losing forever ( or have lost ) there is a common handful of belief and practices that lead to a completely different set incarnational experiences..... the systems in place in our world that teach a solitary soul how to approach a series of incarnational experiences are disappearing at a frightening rate.... It gives me goosebumps each time I find remnants of TRUTH.... OK, I'm sufficiently embarrassed...... how could I forget he was a Kahuna....... After all the Jokes my mind was making up after hearing his title and before my respect started blossoming.... I mean, the dude WAS the BIG KAHUNA.... he was stereotypical... and he was COOL ! ....Thanks Sky...

you guys......!!! I listened to a Huna Priest ( is that correct? - shaman?? )speak in yorktown, va. probably a little over a year ago, and was very interested in what he had to say.....

yes, most assuredly... you? Performed healing at a distance as well... I've also had my focus on someone who needed healing, just as someone began distance healing, and yes, it was immediately apparent.

The Spirit Never Leaves You When you feel your Heart is Broken, and Your Dreams are leaking out, You feel noone is watching, Or cares what you're about, When you wish you had a hand to hold, Or someone to light your way, Or a hug from a friend, to sooth your soul, Or a smile to brighten your day, Stand in front of a Mirror dear Heart, and look behind your eyes. The Love you seek, and dearly need, Is there! It's giant size!!! The Spirit is with you, at all times, With Glue to mend that Heart, Not a single dream may escape you, When you let The Spirit do it's Part. The Love you seek is all around, The folks here will hold your hand. We'll always have a word for you, So come to us to make a stand...

I cannot tell you how many times throughout my life I have apologized to my guides... however in my most contrite moments, in meditation, I have gotten the distinct impression that there is no such thing as failure, merely a divergance from one focus to another. I picture life as a series of forks in the road... no roadblocks or dead ends... and every road leads home... and I'm beginning to think that most all roads will be taken before the end of the journey... One of the hardest things to do is to picture yourself with a different personality, doing things for different reasons, with different motivations, but the personality is not really the true soul.... the personality is a garment for the soul - it is slightly different for each incarnation and we tend to judge our rights and wrongs by our present personality... perhaps these things we feel guilty about ( for the most part ) will not seem so terrible when viewed against the actions of past incarnations... yet another reason to get to know your TRUE self through introspection and meditation... the above scenario was not meant to indicate failure - more of a change of focus where the person steps away from the hearler plan, and resumes work on another aspect of life and living... It would not cause a problem with the "Help", because there is no time on the other side, so no waste..... merely a change of mind by the incarnated one, who after all is the PRIMARY focus...

a friend just dropped a Ro-Hun deck on me..... anyone wanna play some reincarnation cards??? and some literature about this idea....... hmmmmn, I'm havin a hard time reading it....

sensed I left that vague on purpose, huh? Sure, what I meant was that there is always at least one soul who is riding shotgun for the soul in body. A guardian angel, spirit guide, totem animal, etc. This soul has agreed to try to guide you, and try to help keep you on track for the physical incarnation. This is usually a soul who has incarnated with you before, is a member of a " soul group " which you belong to, is a companion soul,or any variety of individual which would have a " personal " interest in you. This soul will either assist with the healing or notify another who can help. Others who can help is where people usually start looking at me funny... Sometimes ( possibly frequently ) when a soul has planned healing abilities in this life, they are accompanied by a soul who is part of the plan ( as guide or as one of the many souls who come in assistance at difficult portions of our lives ). A Master Healer on the other side, who REALLY makes the individual look like a Master Healer in their own right... this not always the case.. sometimes due to wrong living and thinking, a healer will completely lose the ability - this is usually when the high-powered help steps back and leaves the soul to it's own devices... Also in the line-up are Great Beings, Angels of numerous type and ability, Intelligences from other dimensions, and other unidentifiable entities. An experienced healer will have no doubt when these latter types of being are present, and I have seen more than one healer burst into tears from the contact... it is overwhelming and greatly satisfying... But dont start looking for extraterrestrials immediately, you are much, much more likely to have a soul of recent affiliation who is still hanging about for whatever reason who will step in and make the contact, because of recent familiarity Yes, I am a Reiki practioner, and i wholeheartedly recommend it as a method to begin to learn to sense energy patterns. also of much use to me were: Donna Eden's book - Energy Medicine and Hands of Light by Barbara Ann Brennan The thing is.... the training is much more satisfying to one who can feel the energy flows from the beginning. In the class for my second level initiation there were a majority of people who could feel nothing whatsoever when they first attempted to distinguish the energy. There were also a majority who still could not at the end of the classes. However that did not make much difference in the reports of individuals who received sessions. A few of the strongest positive reactions were involving brand new students. And I am assured that it is frequently the case... there were those who I was learning with who had no success in class feeling the energy, still weren't feeling it after months, and only gradually started feeling the energies, and probably never will have the same ability to follow along during healings, as one with a gift for healing... this does not make them any less of a healer, and at times the extra faith required will indeed assist in the healing....

I'm starting to feel like the pusher man here, but if you liked that - do try " The Bad Popes " by E.R. Chamberlin And I'm still poring over " The Dead Sea Scrolls " - Wise, Abegg, & Cook

I will gladly share all I know about Reiki. I was dubious at first but I found it to be a system which teaches the necessary basics to begin the process of unfolding the latent healer with all of us. Usui Reiki History here's a link to the Reiki.org page.. there are many reiki programs offered over the net, but I don't possibly see how one could learn what they need to know, to be a serious healer, over the net... Theres so much help an experienced healer can offer... the word Reiki originates from the words " Reku-Kei " Reku - vertcial energy flows in the body and Kei - the horizontal flows in the body. Reiki - the art and science of spiritual self improvement based upon origins which go back to ancient tibet. Dr.Mikao Usui is the originator of the Reiki system. He discovered Calligraphs depicted in the Sanskrit Sutras of Tibet and used them as the symbols used in Reiki. Originally these calligraphs were meant to be a focus for creating Mantric workings. It was the Tibetans belief that these symbols, when concentrated upon enough, would be implanted upon the consciousness, raising the consciousness and heightening awareness, while at the same time purifying the body/mind continuum. After an experience in meditation on mt. Kuriyama, Dr. Usui felt he had been given a method of healing which he immediately implemented in the poorer districts of Japan. He was very successful healing the poor but was dismayed to find the people stil begging for a living because it was easier than working... upon further meditation he was " given " the Five Principals of Reiki. they are: Just for today... I will give thanks for my many blessings I will not worry I will not be angry I will do my work honestly I will be kind to my neighbor and every living thing there are three levels of Reiki first degree - initiate recieves first set of attunments, learns all hand positions and how to work on self and others, learns energy sensing exercises, and practices. second level - initiate receives second series of attunments,which involves further methodology through symbols to increase Reiki energy, learns distance healing techniques, and practices much more. third level - Master level is a major commitment for service and training of others, Initiate receives Master attunements, learns attunement procedures, and continues their pracice. there are many " attunements " which the initiate goes through, where the Reiki Master is channeling energy into the initiate and inscribing the Reiki symbols into the itiniates aura to increase the initiates ability to channel Life Force Energy. In my opinion Reiki gives the aspiring healer a method to practice, which will eventually - if practiced enough, lead one to a place where one begins to feel the energy and get ever more sensitive to the direction and strength of the energy flows as well as the ability to immediately sense serious illness. As a secondary effect and , IMO a very important one, one begins to feel the energies which are always present. The energies of people which surround you, the energies intrinsic to certain places which affect people, the interplay that goes on amongst the energies of people in close proximity. once these energies are felt and experienced over a period of time, you find yourself responding to the thoughts and feelings of others almost subconsciously, laying a hand on a shoulder here, waiting for minutes for the proper moment to say a kind word there, approaching people with no forethought or really an understanding why, only to find the person needed you for a minute or a few seconds. When your intention is to do good, the situations where you may do just that will fall right in front of you.

Most assuredly Fawzo, however, until the majority realize they need not suffer from accidents and unplanned illness, there will be souls who come to show the truth. Some will know what they are about, and some will not, but they will come in greater and greater numbers until a change takes place. Tis the way things work....

I apologize if I offended.. of course you will follow your path exactly as you should.. It's just that for the empath, healing can be dangerous. My experiences have shown me that even when I most desperately want to help another, if the healing does not come, there is a reason that I do not understand, and by shifting and moving energy patterns around you can cause other problems to surface... thereby earning yourself negative Karma for interfering... It meant the difference with being worn out after a healing, and being energized when I made my personal discovery... And I hope you are not offended when I say that there is ALWAYS someone to direct the healing if you let them... In my experience, there is no easier healing than an animal, they have no interfering Karma and just a request and the energy flows...

and pile onto that the fact that some conditions are Karmic, and we don't have anywhere near the vantage to understand why this person chose to have a serious illness in this life, and a healer's job tends to have thankless periods......

I also am an energy healer. I have always had a natural gift to facilitate healing. This led me to gain my Reiki certification in the Usui Shiki Ryoho Lineage. I felt my instructor was experiencing the same intuitive and physical understanding of the energy patterns as i was, and his experience helped me greatly. However I am not a reiki fanatic - the symbols involved, to me, point to the symbolic nature of communication with the subconscious. I could relate pages of personal experience with healing, pointless i think, not really convincing second hand.... I WILL say however, that I AM convinced. I feel the energies on my skin, and after lots of practice, i can successfully determine disturbances in ones energy field. I can feel the activity , height, spin, and health of the major chakras. I can trace the energy pathways in the body to find related conditions ( some which may not be presenting themselves at the moment ). I have experience with energy workers, who after years of practice working with energy flows, begin to see the colors and shifting movement of the energy field surrounding their client. Though this is rarely something the healer wishes, yet , to be very verbose about... If you don't mind, I could offer suggestions from personal experience.... please don't take this harshly but - you don't heal anyone... you are able to open yourself to THAT WHICH HEALS ( which most folks call God... it's his ability alone... ) but it IS a GLORIOUS THING to have planned that for yourself this time.... if you have ever heard that saying " Let go and Let God ", that is exactly the mindset which will free you from ever having another facilitators headache... when you realize that with no effort of your own, mental or otherwise, healing will be effected as fast, if not faster and probably much more effectively. What you do not see is the help a healer receives when doing their thing... the healer's main job is to bring the energies into the physical, being the conduit - so to speak, those energies will be directed much more skillfully and to much greater effect if the job is left to the individual's spirit guide or one called in for the task. I am not saying you shouldn't experiment to feel the energies, and target trouble spots, because proximity does help an "in person" healing... just that you shouldn't be thinking to yourself " ok, now i'm gonna fix this here ankle...little tweak here, little smoothing there....". The idea should be concentrating to be as open a conduit as possible - meditation is best, but simply clearing your mind or concentrating on being a conduit is acceptable... not trying to steal your thunder, but you HAVE given yourself a gift others would steal for......

Anyone want a thread about energy healing, i'll be happy to participate......

well Fawzo, that answers itself..... 3-D glasses.... when have you ever seen a pair, and not put them on to see if they really work? actually yes.... if you have a genuine question, there is a reason Reiki practitioners are starting to be found in hospitals..... the studies allow them to be there, because of the positive differences noted.... very striking effects at times too....

beautiful explanation of the Law of Karma.... and for the efforts to bring us that Dispensation of Love - Thank You Jesus !

The whole idea of whether to call myself a christian or not is rather clear to me. In my metaphysical view I don't call myself a christian because I believe Jesus walked the planet, and neither do I because of his teachings.... I do because Jesus was the one to bring this world the CHRIST spirit.... a dispensation of LOVE, a change from the old paradigm. I see, understand, and wholeheartedly wish to live in the true meaning of the CHRIST SPIRIT. I am not there yet, but as do the buddhist's - I PRACTICE my belief... I do REALLY like that about Buddhists... they never claim they have been " saved " - they PRACTICE their beliefs all their life... wouldn't it be humorous to get to classical christian heaven and find the place filled with Buddhists..... ( now that's funny, I don't care who you are....) no halos just saffron robes everywhere..... whew, sometimes i amuse myself....

Just as individuals have Karma, so do groups, institutions, and countries..... We are of the generation when Karma comes home to roost with the Catholic Church.....

It is pointless to interject with anything but my opinion at this point.... As Creators ( adolescent God, as it were ), where we direct our thought consciously, is where the power of the Lord is directed. Our wish for succor for another is always effective. The barrier of death is an open window for the power of Love. It is best to remember however, that a souls path is theirs alone to walk, our grief and our pain at the loss of a loved one is best kept as much to ourselves as possible. But by all means relive the love shared with that soul, send them your best wishes on their path, and know that you will meet again. The Creative power of Love is THE most powerful force in existence, with it, miracles are commonplace... The second part of this is that we DO create our own realities... our creative abilities are amplified when we cross over, and as a result, we may find ourselves EXACTLY where we BELIEVE we'll be. This is potential trouble for many who have strong, orthodox beliefs... we may find ourselves on a cloud with a harp.... floating pointlessly ... until we wonder - why isnt there more to this experience?? Or for many : not such a harmless little scenario.... souls have closed themselves off into a spiritual coma after passing over, out of shame, fear and guilt, based on a lifetime of strict teachings which they carried with them at death... The current majority teachings surrounding death are a cause of a lot of work and effort on the other side. All these strict harsh teachings, with no basis in fact, are also a source of endless guilt for those " Teachers " who pass over.... Imagine being the cause of so much misunderstanding and pain, in so many individuals, as a consequence of devoting your life to GOD.... unintentional Karma still stings the soul....