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Bridges MagazineBridges, the ISSSEEM magazine, explores leading ideasin the fields of subtle energies and energy healing.

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As Celia relayed, “We are all windows of God”. So take a moment and reflect upon the window ofyour own life as it relates to consciousness, healing and subtle energies. Is there a story, a discoveryor a knowing that your heart and soul calls for you to share? We welcome your thoughts, articles,and stories.

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Several years ago I received a short dream message, "We are each a window for God." Afterlistening, then puzzling over it, I understood that these few words mean that each one of us is afragment of the larger Consciousness, each with our own unique awareness, set of experiences, andperspective. We do not all see, or say, things in the same way, and that's the point.

When I told Lucia about this message, she laughed and said with her wonderful humor, “This givesa whole new meaning to house cleaners saying, ‘I don't do windows.’” In Bridges Magazine,

we do “do windows.” We welcome many views on subtle energies, consciousness, and healing. In this issue there are sixauthors - six windows - who present their individual perspectives on being alive in a many-dimensioned reality.

Each one of us is a little laboratory of direct observation, using more than the five senses to determine what lies withinand beyond our selves. Although there is a great diversity in personal explorations, we often find that we are coveringsome of the same territory. And, very often, we have shared the experience of feeling fear - fear that we are imaginingthings, fear that others will think we are at least a little crazy, and fear to speak of what we have found. Over and overagain we have also found that what is true, healing, and enlightened is centered in love.

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"No human soul is like any other human soul, and therefore the love of God for any humansoul is infinite, for no other soul can satisfy the same need in God." - Willam Butler Yeats

In the next issue of Bridges Magazine, Elizabeth Frediani will explore subtle energies and theenergy system as they influence transcendent states of consciousness. She will discuss her workwith Light Beings and this current time of accelerated personal and planetary transformation.

Before experiencingHealing Touchin 1989, I wasconvinced thatpeople who saidthat it worked wereeither charlatansor deluded.My first Healing Touch classrapidly tore my arrogance toshreds. Here was something thatdid work, and it was something Ihad been looking for in my twentyyears as a nurse. I had wanted tofind a way to relieve pain withoutcausing harm and I had found it.I floated home from that firstworkshop.

In the twenty years since then, Ihave practiced Healing Touch witha passion and, for a while, I also

studied every alternative healingpractice that came my way (crystalhealing, aromatherapy, floweressences, and more) as well asmany laying-on-of-hands modali-ties. I have gradually developed apractice that combines all of theseand goes beyond them. Over theyears, I’ve developed a kind of“sight” that the skeptical me wouldhave scorned and found unbeliev-able. I now see aspects of theenergy field and structure that Ihave not read about or hearddiscussed. What I now see leads toa different way of working that notonly removes pain, but also cancreate spiritual healing.

When I first learned about HealingTouch and knew, somehow, that itcould be explained using the lawsof physics, I began to search forthose laws. Two physicists, HoraceCrater and Pei Xiong, have helpedme to use scientific concepts andthe language of physics to describethe work I do now. I have learned

that the aura acts as an electromag-netic field and, like an electro-magnet, it has an iron core (hemo-globin) surrounded by two elec-trical currents – neurons andmeridians. Well known in biolog-ical medicine, neurons carry acurrent that is more apparent thanthe subtle electric flow within themeridians. The result of these twoelectric currents flowing aroundour iron core of hemoglobin is amagnetic field that surrounds thebody. This may be what we call theaura.

I was satisfied with this explanationfor a while, but I kept running intoa problem. Healing Touch teachesa technique called “wound sealing”in which the practitioner movestheir hands as if folding the field,the aura, over and over into itself.After months of using the tech-nique I realized that I could “feel”the wounds as though they wereholes in a tapestry. I could alsoteach others to feel these holes.

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A SPIRITUALHEALING PRACTICE

Vicki Slater


Energy leaks out through theperson’s wounds and the resultingenergy deficit can create profoundfatigue. The problem for me wasthat although I knew that what Iwas feeling was real, I could notfigure out how a magnetic fieldcould contain holes.

About eight years ago I realizedthat I was not just feeling energybut also seeing tiny blue lines thatran from head to foot, parallel tothe body. In most people, if notall, the lines that I was seeing werebroken. The holes I could feelwere in the same places as thebreaks in the blue lines. As I didthe movements that HealingTouch calls “hands in motion”which involve waving both handsover the client from head to foot, Iwould often feel a surge of energy,a slight jump in power, and then arapid flow of what I sensed as awave of something powerful gofrom the hole to the person’s headand feet simultaneously. It felt asthough an electrical connectionhad been reestablished. The holewould no longer be apparent andthe field would appear moreintact, as though a spontaneousrepair of the bluelines had occurred.

The lines appear tome as a structuredmesh that isconnected abovethe head andbelow the feet,creating a bluecocoon around each individualthat looks something like ageodesic dome. There aremultiple layers of this mesh fromthe outermost to one just abovethe skin. I can also see a duplicatestructure within the body, asthough the old adage, ”As above,

so below,” might describe thedouble nature of this structure.

When I realized that the blue linesthat I see might be the externalequivalent to the internal merid-ians, I had an answer to how holesdevelop in the aura. Both theexternal and internal meridianshave flows of current moving upand down that work together tocreate a relatively stable magneticfield. When one or more of theexternal meridians breaks, a holeis created and energy can leakfrom the broken ends of thecurrent-carrying meridian. If thehole is not repaired, it begins toopen further and the person loseseven more power and becomesfatigued. There are manydifferent causes for the externalmeridians to break: they rangefrom having surgery to hittingyour head on a cabinet, frombeing born to being around anangry person, or from roadsidebombs to loud music.

The Healing Touch wound-sealing sequence merely folds thefield over and over upon itself. Itworks to heal what has been

broken, often spectacularly. It isnot uncommon for people to seekme out years after all that I didfor them was wound sealing totell me how much their lives hadchanged for the better after thetreatment. So, I know that itworks, but how?

The physicist with whom Icurrently study (Pei Xiong) is astickler for accuracy, bless her. Shewon’t let me use the word “energy”to try to explain what I experience,so that means there is no suchthing in her vocabulary asENERGY healing or ENERGYmedicine. She sent me back to thebooks. If I can’t just say it isenergy, what is happening? Ifinally realized that it seems toinvolve “induction,” in which achanging magnetic field induces anelectric current. Imagine a numberof electric wires side by side. Youturn one on, and the electricityflowing through it will produce amagnetic field that will induce anelectric current in the wire next toit, and so on down the line. Eachwire will influence the one next toit resulting in useable power with arelatively stable magnetic fieldaround the entire structure.

My hand movements and themagnetic field of my own bodycreate a dynamic flow over theclient. That moving magneticforce induces a very tiny electricalsurge in the client that can causean arcing in a few of the broken

meridians, anarcing thatenables them tos e l f - r e p a i r .More inductionleads to furtherrepair. I havefound that withmultiple treat-ments all pain

can disappear, including physical,emotional, and spiritual pain. Itis as though the broken structurethat I see causes the pain.Interestingly, spiritual andemotional pain will heal beforephysical pain, as if the physicalpain is merely the side effect of

“I have come to realize that the string that creates ourphysical, mental, and emotional experience also

connects us with something greater than we are.”

the other pains. Perhaps it is abroken spirit that causes thebroken structure which thenresults in physical and emotionalpain.

One of themost oftenasked ques-tions when Ipresent mymodel of theblue egg-shaped meshis, “What isthe source of the power?” My ownanswer is, “God, of course.” Butthat is an inadequate answer if youare trying to explain somethingwith scientific clarity. So I wentback to “the books” but this time Iwas researching at the subtle levelbecause I am not sure that any ofour current sciences have theinformation. I asked my questionin meditation. I asked to beshown what I needed to knowabout the source of the power.The answer I received was, “stringtheory.” Many of my answers havecome this way - with just a fewwords. Then I have to figure outhow those words might hold ananswer.

After learning more about stringtheory, I went back into medita-tion and asked, “Are we a string?”The answer was, “No.” Then,“Do we as a greater consciousnessuse a string?” The answer was,“Yes.”

My next question was, “How dowe use a cosmic string to experi-ence being physical?” I was showna string that looped like ½ of apaper clip. It looked as thoughone end of the string was held andthe other curled so that it madesort of a “6” except that the upper

and lower ends of the string werestraight rather than curved. I wasshown that the source of ourpower flows down this stringwhich curves upon itself and

creates a downward flow of currenton one side and an upward flow ofcurrent on the other.

The structure appears to providethe edges of the meridian field -the aura - and creates an absoluteboundary for the physical being.This answered another question Ihad had for a long time: “Whatcreates the seemingly definitiveboundary that energy healersdescribe as the edge of the aura?” Ihave been told that magnetic fieldsdon’t have boundaries but becomeundetectable. Boundaries that maybe created by the curving of thecosmic string, which is too smallto be measured, may somehowcreate the boundary that weperceive to our physical being.The blue lines I see may be a resultof the interaction between thedownward and upward flow of thecurrent. They might be like thelines formed when iron filings arescattered around a bar magnet.

I have come to realize that thestring that creates our physical,mental and emotional experiencealso connects us with somethinggreater than we are. It is sort of anumbilical cord. I believe that thestring allows us to be filled withlove, power, light, understanding,

beauty, joy and all the good thatcan be imagined. For me it is theSource, the source for all that isLove, the Divine, or God. Whenthe string itself is broken, or those

tiny blue lines thatare inside the struc-ture created by thecurved string arebroken, we cannotreceive the flow ofLove. Once thestructure is repaired,the flow returns andour life changes.

It is simple, and yet it is not.Twenty years ago I would not havebelieved in the structures that I see,structures I have dared to tell onlya few people about until now. Iam convinced that the Divine hascreated a simple structure thatenables us to experience life andlove, and Love. It can be brokenand it can be fixed.

Vicki Slater, R.N.,Ph.D. has aprivate holisticnursing practice inClarksville TNwith an emphasison working withsubtle energies.

She is currently investigating howHealing Touch can influence thephantom limb pain experienced byamputees, and she is also completinga study of Healing Touch with ateam at Vanderbilt University.Vicki Slater was named AmericanHolistic Nurse of the Year in 2002.She can be reached [email protected].


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"Both the external and internal meridians have flowsof current moving up and down that work together to

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Oh no! I honestlythought I could do this!Thousands of peoplehave viewed Body

Worlds Exhibits all over the world,but I was finding it upsetting. Thebones, ligaments, muscles,tendons, and sometimes wholecadavers had been treated withplastic (plastinized) and weredisplayed under glass with verysimple labelsattached to eachcase such as, “Anklewith Tendons.” Atthe Bodies HumanExhibit in Golden,Colorado, nothingencouraged us toappreciate thepeople to whomthese bodies hadbelonged. In fact, we wereinstructed to look at the body withcomplete detachment and to viewit as a machine, something that ishard for me to do after working asa massage therapist for eighteen

years. The labels gave the bareminimum of information, but aflood of it came to me from theastral perspective. Years ago Ibegan having unusual experienceswhen I was working with clients,and seven years ago I decided totake what was happening seriously.I began to study subtle energieswith a number of differentteachers.

Most of the other visitors justglanced at the ankle and cruisedby. There were a couple of peoplewho studied each display withzealous attentiveness, offeringinstructional descriptions of the

mechanisms of the body to anyonewho would listen. Like an over-enthusiastic tour guide who goesinto minute detail, they made meeven more uncomfortable. Still atthe ankle case, I was riveted by thearthritis-riddled joints with degen-erative growth and fossilizeddeposits along with (her) quiteprominent hammer toe. As soonas I took a closer look, I sensedthat a stil l-present life forcewanted to have a conversation!

I had expected to have a mentalplane, intellectual experience atthe exhibit as well as being awareat the emotional level, but I hadjust been jolted by a psychic buzz,an intense one. Observationwithout connecting is possiblefrom a certain distance, but beingcloser than thirty-six inches …. !!!I could feel who she was, andknew about her grandchildren,that she was lousy at bridge butplayed every Tuesday, and sheloved to knit. All this and moreabruptly came flooding through.

Stepping back to clear my systemhelped at first, but then, as it iswhen you are feeding a smallgroup of ducks in the park, oncethe rest of the flock knows you arethere with a bag of bread crumbs,

they quickly over-whelm you withhungry demands. Iwas surrounded bythe astral bodies thatonce lived in thephysical parts now ondisplay.

I asked John, my dateof sorts, if the

brochure said anything about thepeople used for the displays. Hesaid, “No, there’s nothing aboutwho they were, but they were wellcompensated.”

SEEING BODIES,SENSING LIVESBarbara Thompson

“I was surounded by the astral bodies that oncelived in the physical parts now on display.”

“How could they have beencompensated, and with what?,” Iasked.

“Oh, I guess I mean their familieswere well compensated.” He wenton to say, “It’s already pretty weird.Why would you want their namesand storyanyway? It’skind of creepyto know thatstuff, don’t youthink?”

Still, my feelingof incomplete-ness persisted.I said, “Well,maybe theycould make up labels such as‘Mary, not her real name, was aseamstress and she passed awayfrom cancer of the spleen.’ Or atleast something in the way ofacknowledging them for the gift oftheir bodies.” I did little topersuade him.

Eventually I had to leave the exhi-bition hall. I could not tell where“I” left off and those “others”began. Their images kept flooding

my brain. Recalling that in theBruce Willis movie The SixthSense, Cole was approached by thedead wanting him to help resolvetheir issues so they could move on,I wondered whether I wanted totalk to dead people, especially thesefolks who were so upset about …

what? Oh, I see, they want to bethanked! That is what I had beenfeeling earlier.

Out on the bench that was sand-wiched between the massage chairguys and the hermit crab kiosk, Ispent the next several minutesclearing my field and taking onnourishing life energy. Once thelife force within me was clear andreplenished, I had a sense of God’sgrace. I had connected to the

bodies as a group, and doinghealing work for them I asked whatto do next and “got” that there wasa gift to receive for them fromGod. A very sweet tendernessflooded my being which was forthem, not for my personal self. Ifelt surrounded, lifted, and filled

with Love. It’s anexperience that canend up with me in apuddle of joy-filledtears as this Presencequite literally danceswith all the glee of aPeanuts’ Snoopysupper dance. I feltpleased to have beengiven an awarenessof these souls and to

be part of their receiving the grati-tude they deserved.

Viewing the physical body as a“sophisticated machine” as theplacards proclaimed, seems short-sighted to me. We are so muchmore than tissue and bone. We areliving examples of thought mademanifest in form. Even dried,soaked, dyed, and plastinized, lifeforce is still present! I believe inappreciating the beauty of ourhuman form and exploring thenature of our connection to theDivine. Then, perhaps, we canlearn to love and honor oneanother more while we are still inour bodies.

Barbara Thompsonis a massage therapistwho has had aprivate practice for18 years. Herhealing practiceincludes Holistic

Kinesiology and Flow as well as FengShui, aromatherapy, shiatsu, reiki,polarity and orthobionomy. She nowlives in Dallas Texas and can bereached at [email protected].


�� SSEEINGEEING BBODIESODIES , S, SENSINGENSING LLIVESIVES BYBY BBARBARAARBARA TTHOMPSONHOMPSON ��

“...perhaps we can learn to love and honor oneanother more while we are still in our bodies.”


In August of 1972, my family and Imoved to a home on one hundred acresat the foot of a mountain, named theMountain of Many Voices – a placewhere First Nations people oncethrived. Our land bordered no otherhome sites. Forest flanked us on threesides. At the rear of the house, the treesextended up the mountain to theclearing at an abandoned fire lookoutstation. Coyotes, cougar, pika, hawks,and ravens were our closest visibleneighbors.

I came to love the land quickly.Interested in the variety of conifers thatgrew around us, I often explored theforest on trails tamped down by deerthat I never actually saw. These windingpaths led me up the steep mountain toplaces I would not have otherwise found– tucked away shelters, hidden by low-lying branches or outcroppings of rocks.Beds of flattened grasses held the

impressions of deer that last rested there.From these tender homes I alwayscarried back small treasures like stones,matted lichen, or pinecones to set in ourrooms, so we would remember that wewere now living on their land.

When autumn came and the daysquickly shortened, I spent little timewalking the forest. Instead I concen-trated on readying our family for winter– canning the last tomatoes andpurchasing bulk food from the local co-op. It was in those crisp evenings of earlyOctober that I began to hear distantsinging stream down the mountain andlilt through the trees behind the house.The melodic voices of women and chil-dren came on nights that were excep-tionally still and when the house wasquiet. My young son was asleep; myhusband was at work. I would step ontothe porch to listen and to gaze into thestand of spruce just beyond the fence. I

never once saw anyone, but often feltpresences in the days that followed. Onthe forest path in certain clearings Iwould feel a palpable sensation of othersstanding close to me. There was acomfort in this, which I never ques-tioned. I simply accepted it as I did thesinging, and spoke of it to no one.

That same fall I had another new experi-ence. One day as I sat to rest in thesunniest room of our house, the immensequiet of this land, which I had alwaysperceived as merely an absence of noise,became subtly audible to me. As Ilistened, the hum of it drew my focus tothe center of my head, then into thecenter of my body. I began to feel simul-taneously awakened and relaxed. Theinterior core of my body felt remarkablyfluid, and if I moved even slightly, streamsof sensation would spiral around myspine. Each physical sound I heard – the

Where BodyMeets SoulElizabeth Frediani

rustling of fallen leaves, the cries of thehawks, the back door knocking from thewind – penetrated to the center of mybody and filled me with an inexplicablevitality.

The first time I hadthis experience, I satfor only half an hour.When I finished andbegan to preparedinner, I felt anamazing sense ofexhilaration thatcontinued through theentire evening. Aftersitting one or two more times over thenext week and feeling the same result, Idecided to tell my husband. Hisresponse was definitive – “Oh, you aremeditating.” I resisted his explanation. Ipreferred the experience unnamed.

My exploration of silence and the innerworld of my body heightened in 1973after we moved north to a two-thou-sand-acre farm that sat at the west endof a long, narrow lake. Five hundredmiles from populated areas, further intothe welcoming solitude of nature, thehum did not require my sitting still tohear. It was loud enough to stop myconversation at the dinner table.

Soon after settling into the new house, Ibegan a habit of taking afternoon walks.I walked, focused on the interior of mybody, through the grove of goldenpoplar trees that bordered the lake’sshore. One day I began to hear thesounds around me – the pulse of thetrees, the voices of the loons, thewhirring wings of the geese – as if theywere the internal sounds of my ownbreaths. I immediately felt the familiardeep calm and vitality fill me.

As I continued to walk, each step I tookon the Earth felt like a movement thatoriginated from somewhere beyond mybody. While walking intentionallyconnected to this sensation, I experi-enced passing from the physical world.My eyes were open and I was stillmoving; yet, the scenery had changed.

The physical world was gone. A shim-mering sea of fluid light had taken itsplace. I do not know how much timepassed before I realized that I could

reverse my depth of focus and bringmyself back to physicality. Upon myreturn, my words to myself were swift –“The world needs this.”

Within days of first walking from thephysical world, I began to see energyfields around most things and people. Mynew sight occurred spontaneously andalthough I instinctively trusted the expe-rience, I had no idea what was actuallyhappening. In 1983, after ten years ofstudy to further understand my percep-tual abilities and spiritual awakening, Icreated a whole system of energy-basedpractices and healing techniques, whichcontinue to serve as the foundation of mywork and training programs.

Every student and client I have everworked with prepared me to writeWhere Body Meets Soul. Each one ofthem has taught me the multiplicity ofways that subtle energy and the energysystem mirror our wholeness and theinterrelationship between our thoughts,emotions, actions, health, and innatespiritual connectedness.

Unwittingly, most of us have beentrained to compartmentalize ourselves.Through broad collective and indi-vidual beliefs, we have learned to sepa-rate our bodies from our thoughts andemotions and our bodies from ourspirits. We have conditioned ourselvesand been conditioned to limit ourperceptions. We have lost coherence.

As you learn to focus within your energysystem and work with subtle energy, youare literally “connecting the dots” ofyour body, mind, and soul - bringing

physical-spiritual inte-gration to the forefrontof your consciousness.This depth of self-connection can belearned or reawakened.Developing in-depthenergy skill simplyrequires practice and ashift in focus – a shiftfrom the linear mind toa subtler, sensory

connection with self.

I often refer to the physical body andthe energy system as the "equipment ofour consciousness in this plane.” I thenadd that most of us do not know howto use the equipment. The subtle energypractices I offer to students and clientsare designed to fill this void in ourcollective and individual educations.Using the body’s energy system as aguide, we can awaken to our own ener-getic natures, learn to utilize our greaterconsciousness capabilities, and moreeffectively nurture our physical-spiritualwell-being and wholeness. We all canlearn to use and care for our elegant, phys-ical-energetic-spiritual equipment.

Most of this article is excerpted fromElizabeth’s book, Where Body Meets Soul:Subtle Energy Healing Practices forPhysical and Spiritual Self-Care.

Elizabeth Fredianimoved with her familyto British Columbiain 1972. The awak-ening that began thereled her to her life’swork. She founded theTrans format iona l

Healing Institute in Boulder, Colorado in1984 and directed the school for seven years.She now lives on Whidbey Island inWashington. To learn more about her bookand her courses, visitwww.elizabethfrediani.com.


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“We have conditioned ourselves and beenconditioned to limit our perceptions.”


I was a computernerd who juststumbled intoknowing aboutdowsing andsubtle energies.For me to take an interest in somethingas outlandish as finding water under-ground given my highly technicaltraining was quite a stretch, a leap intoanother reality. It began years ago withreading a book by Kenneth Robertsabout Henry Gross, his neighbor inMaine. Henry was a conservationofficer and a water dowser with anamazing track record, the go-to guywhen anyone needed to locate a well.

In his book, Ken described a time whenthere was an extreme drought inBermuda. They were importing waterby freighter because there was no source– other than rainwater – known on theisland. Sitting in his kitchen in Maine,Henry located four sites for fresh waterwells. When Ken took his vacation inBermuda to escape the Maine winter, heconvinced someone to drag a drilling rigup to the top of a hill that was one ofthe four sites. The drill hit water asHenry had predicted, but it took Kenanother six months to persuade anyoneto look at the new well becauseeveryone believed it was impossible.

I thought, “That is very strange. Howdid he find those four sites – sitting inMaine?” I decided then and there thatif I ever had the chance to learn aboutdowsing, I would discover the answer.

So, in 1975, I took a five-day workshopat Omega Institute taught by SigLonegren and Ed Jastram, educationdirectors of the American Society ofDowsers. Ed was a retired bridge engi-neer from Massachusetts, and hebecame my teacher. When we went outinto the field to begin dowsing, hewatched me for a while, and then said,“I see what your problem is. You’reresponding to everything. You need tolearn to look at only one thing at atime.” So, he taught me the kind ofdiscrimination that allowed me to makesense out of what my inner sense wassensing.

For over 30 years I have traced waterveins, mapped water flow systems,located wells for friends, learned aboutley lines and earth energies, and discov-ered vortexes and sacred spaces. I havespent thousands of hours walking fieldsand woods studying how water andenergy form networks on and under theland. It felt a bit crazy at times, becauseI was stepping into a reality few peoplehad a clue about. I became aware of theland as living anatomy with an invisible,subtle network of forces that forms amatrix – an invisible template – out ofwhich physical topography and geog-raphy manifest themselves. Later, whenI studied acupuncture and Orientalmedicine, I recognized the concept ofchi, the subtle life force that flows inmeridians. Chi was exactly like theenergy lines, water flows and subtlemoving forces I had discovered bydowsing.

Because I didn’t know any other dowsers,I taught people on my own how to accessand use this extra sense. Most learned todetect underground water veins inminutes with some simple instructions,but a few struggled to get even a smallwiggle from a dowsing rod. I learned toidentify their difficulty as a poor connec-tion between mind and body. Some ofthem simply lacked coordination, othershad belief systems so strong theysuppressed their perceptions, but mosthad emotional conditions that closed thechannel to their inner senses.

DOWSING

AND SUBTLEENERGIESDavid Yarrow

When I was in college, I did volunteerwork with emotionally disturbed chil-dren, an experience that deepened mydiscovery of subtle energies. Thesespecial children taught me that ourbehavior andawareness are notdetermined onlyby what we think,but by ouremotions. Thechildren had wallsof intenseemotion – barriersto communicationand learning –and from them I learned that we allhave to get past our negative emotionsto find the path out of our heads anddown in to our hearts so we canconnect with the world within us,around us, and beyond us.

We also have to learn about our ownbodies. What I know now is that oursubtle inner senses are hardwired intothree basic places in our physiology: inthe pineal and pituitary glands of theendocrine system, in micro-crystallinemagnetic sensors in the frontal lobe ofthe brain, and in our organs – principallythe heart and kidneys. Kidneys are theWater organ, heart the Fire organ, andthey have a special relationship in mani-festing the primary polarities that drivebiology – and spirit.

Iron in our red blood cells is highlymagnetic, and the heart sits inside agreat magnetic field pumping magneticfluid all through our body. When weare in touch with our selves, and whenwe are focused, we can learn throughthe heart and its magnetic aura to senseother people, to pick up what they arefeeling, and to sense other energies. Itis very subtle, but we are all born withthis ability. Our natural intuitive sensegets screwed up, shut down, and cut offbecause most of us suffer emotional andphysical trauma that divorce us fromthe innate potential that is hard-wiredinto our physiology.

The physics I studied in college taught

me that electromagnetism is light, andlight is necessary for seeing. Throughdowsing, I began to realize we also havethe capacity to see darkness. The searchin physics today is to locate dark matter

and dark energy in the universe.Physicists keep looking for it out in thecosmos, and don’t realize that it is rightnext to us. There are other dimensionswith other realities coexisting with ours,but our perceptual assumptions createblocks that only allow us to see fourdimensions of spacetime. We alsobelieve that we are limited to our fivephysical senses. Once you learn to tracewater flowing deep underground, youknow there are other dimensions andadditional senses.

Light is electromagnetism – energyoscil lating between electric andmagnetic states. Electricity is the lightside of this force – visible as a spark ofelectrons which illuminates, like fire.But magnetism is completely invisible– the dark side of the force. We can’tsee it except when iron filings align toa field, or we observe other alignmentsthat reveal its presence. Very fewthings impede its passage. Magnetism

penetrates everything, passing throughalmost every form of matter, includingthe 8000 solid miles through thecenter of the earth.

Biology and medicineknow a lot about howelectricity affects thebody, but we knowlittle about howmagnetism affectsliving tissues or organ-isms. We do knowthat nearly every crea-ture needs to sense theearth's magnetic field

so they can orient themselves and findtheir way home. But magnetic sensingis far more than navigation. The pinealgland acts as your "third eye." In prim-itive animals it was an actual eye at thetop of the head that slowly sank downto become embedded in layers of neuro-logical tissue as the brain evolved. Asan external eye, its job wasn't to see thelight but to see the dark - magnetism.

Today, the main task of our pineal glandis to listen to Earth's magnetic ringingand singing - in particular, theSchumann resonance of 7.8 cycles persecond - a frequency created by oscilla-tion between the Earth's surface and thebottom of the ionosphere's electrified,ionized air, that includes the now well-known ozone (O3) layer. The pinealgland, our magnetic sensor at the coreaxis of the nervous and endocrinesystems, sees magnetism, "seeing"beyond our ordinary vision.


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“I became aware of the land as living anatomy...”

Sometimes I do work that involves facing difficult emotions. Thereis an amazing Indian mound complex in the city of Auburn, N. Y.that is now a cemetery. A white marble plaque on the central monu-ment reads, “Who is there to mourn for Logan?” Logan was the lastchief of the Cayuga tribe that lived there before they had to turn theirland over to the whites in 1794. A friend and I had a ceremony there,to mourn for Logan. We wept in grief for him and his dispossessedpeople, and for all that has been lost and destroyed. This was neces-sary to heal the land and to heal ourselves. The earth soaks up thisemotional energy when it is offered. We need to reconnect with theearth, and that is something we can learn to do.


The ancient Hindu Vedas say, "Themost powerful force in the universe isthe most subtle." With two eyes, we seethe four dimensions of spacetime. Butwhen we learn to open and focus ourinner eye, with three eyes we begin tosee other, more subtle, intangible reali-ties. Opening to our inner senses, wediscover true awareness, soul, and spirit- we go through a gateway to higherdimensions.

I believe it is our evolutionary destinyand revolutionary desire to achieve thisinner awakening. Evolutionary, becauseour physiology is hardwired for theseinner senses. Revolutionary, becauseinner awareness liberates us from mate-rial reality and external authority, and

empowers us to follow our inner guid-ance. Through this inner awareness, wecan enter the Mind of Nature. To senseand respond to the land’s invisiblemagnetic matrix – the grid of ley linesand sacred spaces – is to fully re-discover that we are all connected – andthat all life is sentient, conscious andinter-related.

I believe, for their survival, for thehealing of Nature, and to restore theEarth, the next generations will need alltheir senses – especially these subtleinner senses that have been repressed forhundreds of generations. With all oureyes wide open, maybe we can find ourway back home to the Mother Earth.

REFERENCESK. Roberts, Henry Gross and His Dowsing Rod(Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1952).

David Yarrow is awriter, journalist,teacher, healer,dowser, Taoser, grass-roots organizer andEarth advocate.David cofoundedWellspring: Syracuse

Center for Self Healing after sustainingcatastrophic injuries as a result of beingelectrocuted. His is a message of hopeand action. [email protected]

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AND... A BOOK TO READTHE SUBTLE BODY: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF YOURENERGETIC BODY BY CYNDI DALESounds True has published a wonderful, and wonderfully useful, book by CyndiDale – The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Body. It is encyclo-pedic in its range of information, but reads as easily as a fine guidebook. RichardWehrman’s illustrations add an enlivened clarity to the text. This brief excerptfrom the conclusion gives a glimpse of Cyndi Dale’s knowledge and wisdom.

“The subtle energies that compose the concrete world also create the human body.Organized into three main systems – fields, channels, and bodies – the subtle actu-ally instructs physical matter in how to operate. One could say that we are subtlebeings dwelling in the physical universe, rather than the other way around.

Knowledge of these subtle energy structures is vital to the practicing healer. By understanding the forces at workinside and outside of the body, the dedicated healer can best diagnose and resolve illnesses and problems. The subtlesensitive can determine the most effective treatment and work holistically – with all, instead of only some, of thebody’s systems. And he or she can draw on an ever-developing body of tools that can augment both Eastern andWestern treatments.

Some of these tools are legendary, passed down by our ancestors. Healers through the ages have perceived subtleenergies intuitively and proven their existence through application. These energies have been encoded in systems aswide-ranging as auric field healing, meridian therapies, and chakra balancing. Modern healers have much to gainby reviewing and adopting relevant practices. They worked yesterday, whether measured or not, they will worktoday.

SUBTLE does not mean “weak.” Logic tells us that if the subtle underlies reality, we can reshape reality by workingwith subtle energies. And even though we are thousands of years into the process of studying and applying subtleenergy knowledge, we are yet at the frontier – the place of jumping off. Will we embrace the ancient knowledgeand science’s newfound ideas – or retreat to the safety of ignorance? Will we stop asking only, ’What do we know?’and ask also, ’What do we still not know?’ Through open-minded study and practice, each of us has the opportu-nity to further the understanding of the subtle principles underlying illness and health. And each of us cancontribute to the body of knowledge that will lead to the subtle body healing techniques of the future.”

Jiho Otsuki, who has been my teacher forten years, is a spiritual healer whose prac-tice is based mainly on Esoteric Buddhism(Shingon) and Shinto, the native Japanesereligion. Buddhism changed as it spreadfrom its origins in India reaching China,Korea, and then Japan where it joined themuch older native Shinto religion.Although the two belief systems haddifferent roots, they have grown togetherin Japan and now have similar conceptsand practices. They share a belief thatspirit beings govern the natural world andhave much to do with the physical andemotional well-being of people.

Currently I am doing research for mydissertation involving distant healingperformed by Mr. Otsuki in Japan withparticipants in America who have TypeTwo Diabetes. Using a double blindcontrol design we are measuring bloodsugar levels and HbA1c counts to assesstheir health. There are six individuals inthe group receiving healing and six in thecontrol group. We have completed thefirst cycle of distant healing with signifi-cant results in the treated group.

In Shingon and Shinto all of existence isseen as filled with the power of manykinds of spirits which include angels, godsand goddesses, demons, nature and animal

spirits, and spirits of the dead and ofancestors. This hierarchy includes bothbenign and destructive forces. In theEsoteric Buddhist and Shinto view, eachperson has their own guardian spirit aswell as their own soul, or spirit energy,which can leave the body and attach toanother person in a negative or positiveway. Strong emotions can create thought-forms which go beyond the individual’sbody.

Mental disorders such as psychotic statesor severe depression as well as physicalillnesses and pain can result from theaction of destructive spirits and energies.One form of negative force is the psychicattack - a transfer of negative emotionssuch as jealousy, anger, or hatred to atargeted person; another is possession -the intrusion of a spirit on someone; orthere can be a “boomerang effect” - nega-tive emotional energy returns to thesender to do tremendous damage. Therecan also be harmful effects from past lifekarma. All of these are described inclassic textbooks such as the Tibetanmedical text, The Four Tantras.

According to Japanese mystical tradition,the power of healers comes from theirguardian spirits. These spirits are other-dimensional guides that communicate

information through songs and messagesand provide extraordinary psychic powers.The healer enters an altered state ofconsciousness in which he or she interactswith spirits whose aid may be enlisted. Inorder to heal someone, a monk or a healermust first identify the spirit source of theproblem. If it is caused by a psychicattack, they must identify the origin ofthe attack or they will not be able toremove the root cause. They use thepower of their own guardian spirit bysending it to the person who has beentargeted. In this case the effect of thehealing depends on the power-balancebetween the practitioner’s positive spiri-tual power and the sender of the negativespiritual power. The healing treatment isnot always successful. If it is a possession,the practitioner performs an exorcism toremove the intruding spirit.

In addition to their own guardian spirit,advanced practitioners can access spirits inthe higher dimensions, such as deities andangels, who have more positive powerthan entities from the lower dimensions.

After getting access, the healer consultsspirit to evaluate the energy field of aclient. This is not the use of intuitionwhere the source of the information canbe vague, but a specific interaction withspirit. It is also not the kind of assessmentof the chakra system and energy fieldtaught in most schools of energy medi-cine. Mr. Otsuki, for example, focuses onvarious kinds of negative energy that haveattached to the client and removes them.After the energy field has been cleared, itbecomes balanced which induces therepair of damaged tissues and systems.

In Mr. Otsuki’s tradition the power of thehealer depends on both the type ofguardian spirit and the strength of theconnection between the healer and thespirit. The healer’s level of spiritualdevelopment and psychological maturitydetermine both the type of spirit and thestrength of the connection. If a healer’spersonality is selfish, arrogant, anddeviant the spiritual entity behind themwill have that same nature. Or, if theyare mean and greedy, they might attractan evil spirit from the lower dimensionsbecause there is a resonance between thatlevel and the healer’s negative state of


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mind. The people who have a strongattachment to sexuality might attractanimal spirits with the central character-istic of strong sexual power.

Spirits from the lowerlevels are able toconvey some psychicpowers but they are ofa different qualityfrom those given byhigher-level spirits. Isuspect that healerswho gained theirpsychic ability fromspirits in the lower dimensions cannotperform a true healing even though they candemonstrate extraordinary psychic abilitiessuch as precognition, psychokinesis,telepathy, and at times, magical healings.These healers may correspond to the falseprophets mentioned in the Bible.

In Japan there are many healers of thiskind, and I have seen some of themmyself. In my observation, the healingeffect is temporary and the disease returnsafter a while. In addition, it is possible forthe healer to imprint false ideas on theirclients making them more misguided andstubborn in their beliefs – not unlike whathappens in cults. This form of influenceis not true healing and will not lead tohappiness. In contrast, healers whosepowers have been acquired through spiritsin the higher dimensions can producelong-lasting effects with serious diseasesnever returning. Their clients will be ledin the right direction becoming moreopen, generous, and compassionate.

The lower level healers are also morelikely to become sick themselves becausethey cannot completely remove the nega-tive energies picked up from their clients.They may be able to transfer negativeenergies temporarily to other people orobjects, but they cannot transform nega-tive energy into pure energy. True healersare able to transform destructive energyinto a harmless one because of nature oftheir guardian spirits.

In Japan, since ancient times, there havebeen people whose special task it is todiscern whether the guardian spirits ofhealers belong to the higher dimensionsor not. These specialists are called

“Saniwa,” which means “a person to judgethe spirit.” Whenever a healer wasconsulted the saniwa attended the sessionin order to assess whether the guardian

entity was at the deity level or not. To bea saniwa requires both a strong intuitiveability and great experience with healingspirits. They also make their judgmentsby observing the facial appearance of thehealer, their tone of voice, movements,and way of speaking. Today, this discern-ment is not emphasized. People do notcare about the level of spirit guidance, oreven whether spirits exist. I believe thatjudging the nature of powerful spirits isimportant considering the possible impacton clients. We must observe healersourselves to discern the quality of theirhealing. Many of us believe that spiritualhealers are naturally altruistic andunselfish, but I have seen many who aregrandiose and exhibitionistic with moreinterest in power and gain for themselvesthan in healing others.

The strength of the connection to aguardian spirit also varies. Even though ahealer may have acquired psychic powersfrom a high level entity, it is possible tolose power or become sick unexpectedly.A healer might attract a spiritual entitythat resonates with their high level ofconsciousness but if, for example, theystill have some attachment to a selfish ego,it is possible that selfish aspects of them-selves will cause inner conflict, create anunstable mental state, and cause a loss ofcontact with the guardian spirit.

In my observation of this type of healer,sometimes they can communicate with theguardian spirit and use strong psychicpowers, and at other times they cannot.They might also get sick if they treat toomany clients and exceed the limits of theirpower. A friend of mine who lives inMissouri, an old Japanese Christian lady,

used to have a strong healing power. Shereceived messages from God whichinstructed her to go to homes she had notbeen in, to see people she did not know,

and to give healings.People were surprisedby her visits, but theywere happy to receiveher healing. Most ofthe people she visitedwere remarkablyhealed. However, shesuddenly lost contactwith God and herhealing power disap-

peared. She has healed many people butnow cannot continue her work.

Although the existence of spirits is contro-versial, many indigenous religions aroundthe world believe in supernatural beingsthat may take the form of spirits. Somepeople today believe that this is all supersti-tion. Others see it as involving projectionsof the unconscious mind. What I havelearned from Mr. Otsuki has shown methat this kind of healing can be powerful.

Dr.Kenjiro Tsubono, is apsychiatrist in Japan,and a research scholar ofUniversity of Kansas. Heis currently pursuing adoctoral degree at HolosUniversity.

Dr.Tsubono completed his undergraduateprogram at Tokyo University in Japan in1997, and attained his M.D. from TokyoUniversity in 2001. He completed a psychi-atry residency program at Tokyo MedicalHospital in 2003.

His main interests have been to exploreapproaches that bridge the gap between spir-itual concepts and traditional medical (espe-cially psychiatric) techniques and to conductscientific research projects on energy medi-cine. He is currently working with aJapanese healer, Jiho Otsuki, and hasconducted several distant healing projectswith him.

[email protected]

“According to Japanese mystical tradition,the power of healers comes from

their guardian spirits”

Several weeks ago, a friendcalled me from the upperpeninsula of Michigan. Therewas a sense of excitement in

her voice. I knew before she had achance to tell me that she had finallyfound Trailing Arbutus (photo onnext page) in bloom. I had beentrying to locate this flower so that aflower essence could be made of it,and had decided that a wider searchwas necessary. My friend’s tendenciesto be both botanical and to wander innatural, pristine areas enhanced ourchances. During a walk with herdogs, she found Trailing Arbutus in awet boggy area of sphagnum moss andmosquitoes!

Trailing Arbutus grows low, under aleathery leaf, and its flowering periodis very short. We knew that this was arare opportunity. Collecting flowersin perfect condition to make floweressences isn’t always convenient, butthe challenges are far outweighed bythe unique and wondrous gifts theyhold. I was full of curiosity aboutwhat treasures Trailing Arbutus wouldhold for my body, mind and spirit.We made arrangements to meet thevery next day to prepare this essenceout in the wilderness bogs where theflower was found.

To understand how a flower essenceworks, it is essential to realize that allliving things are made up not only ofphysical matter, but also of subtleenergy or life force. I believe that thehuman energy system is made up ofthe physical body as well as subtle

bodies that are psycho-spiritual ener-getic layers, each increasing in subtletyand metaphysical significance. Thehuman form also contains the chakrasthat are energy centers spinningwithin the boundaries of the physicalbody. These move and transformenergy into the meridian system,which is an intricate web of channelsthrough which energy can flow.

In the energetic approach to healingwe address not only the physical body,but also the complete range of higher,subtler energetic systems which helpcreate and maintain the body. Floweressences are perfect for this. Theyheal the imbalances in the energeticsystems. Imbalances always show upin the energy system first and thenlater the physical body manifests theproblem. Therefore, corrections onthe energetic level automatically resultin a more balanced physical body.

The essence of a flower, according tothe Pythagoreans, is the “quintessence”or the “fifth essence.” The flower’s lifeforce can be imprinted or transferredto water and has been shown to be anexcellent remedy for literally thou-sands of health challenges includingproblems related to the cardiovascular,reproductive, respiratory, endocrine,digestive and nervous systems. It canalso be used for detoxification, trauma,back problems, addiction, insomnia,lack of energy, viruses, parasites, andprotection from radiation and manyother imbalances.1

Flower essences have been shown to

address psychological problemsincluding stored anger, abuse, depres-sion, relationship problems, self-crit-ical tendencies, fear, guilt and regret.There are flower essences for each ofthe chakras and for improving ourability to pray and meditate. Theycan help in “shape shifting,” exploringportals, improving clairvoyance,bringing more magic into our lives,attracting fairies, conducting ritualsand celebrations, encouraging joy,protecting us from negative peopleand places, and for discerning divineguidance from the voices of ourparents, our egos, our emotions or oursociety.1

To prepare for my trip to the Michiganwilderness, I packed my car with note-books, a camera, bottles of purifiedwater and some wooden tongs which Iwould use to collect the flowers. As Idrove north, I mused about how I hadcome to treasure the gifts of theflowers and how I learned about thepower they hold for our healing andour evolving consciousness.

I thought back to my childhood play-ground, a 15,000 acre tract of wilder-ness situated in the heart of theAdirondack Park and Forest Preserve,a six million acre park in the state ofNew York devoted to wildernesspreservation. Because of the isolationand pristine qualities of my environ-ment, I was lucky enough to countamong my playmates a number ofnon-physical beings – nature spirits –mostly associated with the wildflowers that grew so profusely. Those


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Elizabeth Patric


non-physical beings are morecommonly known as elementals,devas, fairies and nature spirits ofvarious sorts.

Now I know that you may think thatI must be one of those foolishungrounded types, but let me explain.There are many realms of reality thatare typically imperceptible to us. Forexample, there are colors that existoutside of our typical “seeing aware-ness.” Bees and butterflies “see” colorsthat we do not. Birds “see” some ofthe colors that humans “see” and alsoperceive some of the colors thatinsects are aware of. Scientists knowthat they are there, but if thefrequency of a color is outside of ourown spectrum of vision, in most caseswe are unable to experience it andtherefore discount its existence. Letme make this point another way: justas a radio cannot fully tune to all ofthe patterns and signals that exist inthe atmosphere, we too can experiencedifficulty tuning to realms not typi-cally thought available.

There are myriads of different flowersholding different solutions to bringingbalance back to the human energysystem. Once the flower’s imprint is“held” as an essence in a liquid, theseamplified energies can interminglewith the energetic system of thehuman body. The actual pathwaythat the essence takes as it movesthrough the physical body to the ener-getic bodies is complex. The remedy,after being dropped on (or under) thetongue, is instantly absorbed into thecirculatory and nervous systems. Thetwo systems contain quartz-like prop-erties and an electromagnetic current,especially in individuals who havebeen consciously working to improvethe energetic flows of their energyfields. The essence moves in thecurrent of the energy meridians. Themeridians are the interface or doorwaybetween the physical and etherealproperties of the body. The energy caneither move immediately into someaspect of cellular activity in the phys-ical body or move to the subtle bodiesand the chakra system.2

My musings came to an end as Iturned into my friend’s driveway. Weloaded the dogs and my collectingmaterials into her car and headed forthe wilderness bog. To us, it wasalmost as if we were making apilgrimage to a sacred temple orsecluded teacher. We would be travel-ling to a sacred plant, to sit quietlybeside it and listen to it speak to us.

You may wonder how plants commu-nicate their healing abilities. Thisquestion has fascinated humanity forcenturies. It is thought that a plantcan be “read” much as a person might

“read” the body language of anotherperson or look for tell-tale signs suchas frown wrinkles around the mouthand eyes that might give us clues tothat person’s personality. Plantscommunicate their gifts to us throughsubtle signs. The unique characteris-tics that each plant displays havebecome known as the “Doctrine ofSignatures.”3

Plants reveal their service to humanity– to careful observers – through acombination of features: shape, color,size, geometric configurations, heightand many other subtle or not sosubtle attributes. The more weattempt to communicate with theflowers, the better our intuition canbecome as we read and interpret theirgifts. An even richer range of infor-

mation is available to those who sitquietly in contemplation with theflower, inhale its fragrance or partakeof its essence. As we quiet the mind’schatter, we can connect with theplants’ energetic properties, and theplant will project onto our receptiveminds, knowledge as rich as one mightglean from an enlightened guru.

As my friend and I walked throughsquishy bogs of sphagnum and blackspruce, we found ourselves alreadyaltered by our surroundings. Our atti-tude became reverent despite our wetfeet and the mosquitoes. Most of the

flowers of Trailing Arbutus are hiddenby their leathery leaf canopies so wehad to lie down on our bellies to peakunder the leaves and interact with theblossoms.

As we lifted the leaves, a most sublimefragrance came from the flowers intheir cave-like dwelling. We requestedconnection with the deva of the flowerof Trailing Arbutus and asked permis-sion to partake of her fragrance andmake an essence of it. By inhaling thefragrance, some information wasdownloaded via the senses. Once wereceived an affirmative answer, weinquired as to the particular flowerthat we might take . With woodentongs we easily removed just the twosmall flowers that we needed fromamong the hundreds that were there.

We placed the flowers in purifiedwater and put them in the sun.

The deva of the flower holds itsenergy pattern and this intelligence iseasily transferred to water. Theamazing research ofDr. Masuru Emoto(The HiddenMessages of Water)has shown howinformation andmemory can beheld in water. Thisresearch supportsthe notion thatwater can becomeimprinted with the complex qualitiesof a flower, which can then becomeabsorbed by the human body which ismostly composed of water. Theflower’s energetic system infuses thebody with all of their positive vibra-tions, intelligence and healing.

Deva energies are a completed expres-sion of a complex order, organizationand life vitality. At first the “poten-tial” deva was just a combination ofmostly elemental energies. In thesimplest sense, elemental energiesvibrate as earth, water, fire, air, etherand star frequencies. Once theelements become organized, they takeon more “wattage” and become anarchitectural creation known as aflower. Deva energy holds thiscreation in place. The “deva of theflower” is the energetic quality thatholds the imprint or intelligence andunique identity of a particular flower.The deva energies are what wecommunicate with when interactingwith the flower.

Deva energies or personalities may ormay not look like little people withgossamer wings. They are alwaysenthusiastic energies and some have alikeness to a permanent expression ofa colorful firework. They appear elec-tric, they have “wattage,” they areindividually recognizable, can be seenconsistently by clairvoyants and theyeach have a very specific servicetowards helping the earth and itsinhabitants heal and evolve theirconsciousness.

My friend and I continued to take inthe experience of the flowers in medi-tation until we received the messagethat the essence process was complete.The bottles that held the essence hadmantras and prayers recited to them.

The bottles with the remaining waterthat the flowers were floating in weretightly sealed and taken with us aswell. Once we were home weperformed a ritual for the flowers thatgave their gift and drank theremaining water. We thanked theflowers for their service and reluctantlyleft the magic and the mystery of theplace where Trailing Arbutus dwells.

Perhaps my favorite aspect of makingflower essences is learning the specificgift the flower holds. There are manydifferent ways in which informationfrom the flower is conveyed to aflower essence practitioner. For me itseems best to take drops of the floweressence for several days and then gointo a meditative state with a note-book and an intention to “download”the information. If I am balanced andhave taken several days’ worth ofdosage of the flower, the flower“speaks” to me. Its words or symbols,“rain” into my consciousness and Itranslate them such that they can beunderstood by all.

I trust that you have become curiousabout how Trailing Arbutus can beused as an essence in the healing andevolution of our consciousness. Hereis her message:

“I speak to you from a dwelling placesaturated with the sweetness of soli-tude. I am the blessings of innersilence. I bring you the ability to quietthe noise of sensory input, to turn offthe outside distractions such that the

sweetness of solitude will not onlyprevail but will be your dominantdesire. My essence serves those whofear to be alone in their own silence.An indescribable deliciousness willprevail during your silent periods with

a soft security andcomfort. I am alsoan essence forretreats, meditationperiods and evenfor silent sanctuarywhen among many.The prevalence ofmy vibration iswonderful forsacred spaces; spray

my essence and inspiration from thesilence will reign triumphant. I amTrailing Arbutus and I am the nour-ishment of silence. There is no moreto say – your experience of silence willsay it all.”

REFERENCES:1. C. Harvey, The New Encyclopedia of FlowerRemedies (Watkins Publishing, London,2007).

2. Guradas, Flower Essences and VibrationalHealing (Cassandra Press, Boulder, CO,1983).

3. R. Gerber, Vibrational Medicine (Bear &Company, Rochester, VT, 2001).

Elizabeth Patric is aflower essence thera-pist, energy healer andTantric yoga andmeditation teacher(RYT 500) with over6000 hours ofteaching experience.She was aware of

earth based non-physical reality as a childand her service has evolved from that abilityto include the co-creation of 150 flower,gem and vibrational combination essences.Elizabeth formally studied Plant Ecologyand Landscape Architecture and was thehead herbalist for the three remainingauthentic Shakers in Canterbury Village,NH. Through her Northwoods School ofYoga she certifies yoga teachers at the RYT200 level. Elizabeth is the author of TheFlower's Speak and LaHoChi - HighFrequency Energy Healing and creator of aCD series entitled Portals in Consciousness.


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