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Lifting the Veil: Fear of the Paranormal

3 August 2011, 8:32 am

As a hypnotherapist, I have worked with psychic and spirit phenomena for nearly thirty years. I have also read hundreds of books and reports and first-hand accounts by people involving a whole range of paranormal phenomena and experiences. I waited for many years for the scientific community to study the evidence and acknowledge the high probability that other dimensions of reality exist beyond our senses and ego-consciousness. That moment still hasn’t arrived.

The evidence for the existence of these other dimensions is overwhelming. From my point of view, I don’t see how anyone could honestly study the evidence and conclude otherwise. Yet, they do. No matter how convincing the evidence, paranormal phenomena and events are still dismissed by the scientific community as though there’s nothing to them; like they didn’t really happen; or it’s all somehow an illusion. I’ve watched this denial happen more times than I can remember. So many times, in fact, that it was the denial itself that began to interest me.

Something powerful was happening here that so many rational, intelligent individuals would deny what the evidence was telling them. It’s like they are all seeing the emperor’s new clothes, and no one dares yell out and break the spell. The spell we live under is materialism, the belief that matter is the ground of all reality. It’s a belief that science can eventually break everything down into its tiniest pieces. This includes everything mental as well: visions, dreams, thoughts, memories… All is to be reduced in the end to neurons, cells, and synapses. Nothing’s real unless you can touch it and test it.

Paranormal phenomena, if real, would certainly break the spell. Communication from a deceased loved one, for example, would break the spell. So too would precognitions that accurately predict the future, or memories of different lifetimes, or the power of prayer. Any of them, if true, would dispel the idea that matter is the only thing in play here.

These phenomena contradict our laws of matter and space-time. They contradict what the materialist says is true. If realms of discarnate beings do exist, and if some of them, under certain conditions, make direct contact with humans, then the materialists’ framework collapses. If these phenomena are real, the ground will disappear beneath their feet. It cannot account for such phenomena, and the same is true for so many paranormal phenomena. They cannot be made to fit.

I would argue that the denial of paranormal realities by science and by our culture in general is a defense against these fundamental contradictions and the threat of collapse that they imply. I would also argue that this denial is operating on several levels, each of which needs to be addressed on its own terms.

In the next essay, I’ll discuss these different levels of defense and what drives the denial of the paranormal.

 

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Thandie Newton: The Essence at the Heart of Many Selves

26 July 2011, 8:33 pm

This talk by the actor Thandie Newton was just released by Ted.com. It’s an inspiring story of a bi-racial woman who struggled to define herself and in the process discovered her essence. It’s what I call soul. She talks about connecting to her essence in her art — her dancing and her acting. It’s where she could let it be free and express itself so powerfully. She talks about her unfree selves: trying to fit in, trying to be what others wanted or expected. She was trying to create a “self” and it didn’t work until she connected with her essence. She’s telling her own soul story, and telling us that we each have our own. It’s an engaging story, and she tells it well.

Tom Z

 

 

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Talking about Soul

19 July 2011, 9:45 am

The following essay by Nicholas Schmidt is from my archives. It resonates with me just as strongly today as it did several years ago. I don’t agree with every statement, but there’s a lot more agreement than not. The essay offers a basic language and perspective for thinking about ourselves as souls. It is certainly a challenge to the ego-centered perspective that dominates our Western culture. Nicholas also has a website with a wealth of material on metaphysics and the whole spectrum of nonordinary phenomena. You can find it here: http://www.fromthestars.com/ 

Tom Z

What is a Soul?

“First of all, a soul is not something you have.
It is what you are… Now: The soul is not a finished product”Seth Speaks
~ Channeled by Jane Roberts

Have you ever wondered about your soul? What it is, why it was created, what it might be doing now, what its purpose is, and what it will be doing for eternity?

As I now understand it, before the material world (universe) was created all that existed was the incomprehensible mind of All That Is. In this state, God knew all there was to know, but could not experience or feel it. The reason was simple. In the Absolute, there are no opposites to compare things to, just the purest love, joy and bliss imaginable.

There is a big difference between having knowledge about something and experiencing and feeling that same thing. For example, one can know about joy, but only if there is sadness to compare it to. One can also know about love, but experiencing and feeling it is something quite different.

Without opposites in the Absolute, we could not compare or relate to anything, nor could we have emotions. One cannot experience and feel hot unless there is cold, health unless there is sickness, joy unless there is sorrow, love unless there is hatred, forgiveness unless there is anger, compassion unless there is bitterness, maleness unless there is femaleness, and so on. These kinds of opposites do not exist in the mind of God.

God recognized this dilemma and decided to solve it in two ways: create us (souls) and then create a physical universe in which all that existed had an opposite.

As extensions of our Source, we would then enter the universe and be able to experience and feel for ourselves and for All That Is. Another way to say this is that when we smell a rose, God smells a rose. When we experience love, so does God. The relationship is that intimate. The entire experience allows God and us to learn more about ourselves and, in the process, both of us become grander versions of who we are.

Although your soul exists in a realm of higher vibration, it is constantly connected to you. It has its own consciousness and awareness, part of which extends into your reality and becomes the source of your consciousness. It also has feelings, is very much alive and it is continuously expressing itself.

Your soul also thinks, possesses a vast repository of knowledge, is curious, makes choices, sends projections of itself into different realities simultaneously, is creative beyond belief, and is highly responsive.

Your soul also has infinite potential, never loses its certainty that it is a part or fragment of God, remains intact as you pass from lifetime to lifetime, inspires your poetry, is the part of you that laughs and cries, communicates with you through feelings and, most importantly, knows it is an intimate part of All That Is.

Within all of God’s creations, there is nothing that is neither more sacred nor highly valued than a single soul, of which you are a very important part.

There is one book that is my all-time favorite: “Conversations with God” Book 1, by Neale Donald Walsch. In it God has a lot to say about the soul.

Here are some excerpts and some insights for you to think about. See if it has the right feel and makes some sense for you…

God speaking…

The soul – your soul – knows all there is to know at all times.

There’s nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.

It is your soul’s greatest desire to turn its grandest concept about itself into its greatest experience.

Your soul is the sum total of every feeling you have ever had (created). Your awareness of some of these is called your memory. When you have a memory, you are said to re-member. That is, to put back together. To reassemble the parts.

When you reassemble all the parts of you, you will have re-membered Who You Really Are.

The soul is very clear that its purpose is evolution. That is its sole purpose… and its soul purpose.

The first thing you might do is to get clear about what the soul is after. What the soul is after is… the highest feeling of love you can imagine. This is the soul’s desire. This is its purpose.

The soul is after the feeling. Not the knowledge but the feeling. It already has the knowledge.

The highest feeling is the experience of unity with All That Is.

This is the great return to Truth for which the soul yearns. This is the feeling of perfect love.

For the soul to experience perfect love, it must experience every human feeling.

Walsch’s Question: You mean that my soul is creating all of my experience, including not only the things I am doing, but the things that are happening to me?

God speaking…

Let us say that the soul leads you to the right and perfect opportunities for you to experience exactly what you had planned to experience. What you actually experience is up to you. It could be what you planned to experience, or it could be something else, depending upon what you choose.

The function of the soul is to indicate its desire, not impose it. The function of the mind is to choose from its alternatives. The function of the body is to act out that choice. When body, mind and soul create together, in harmony and unity, God is made flesh.

The purpose of the human soul is to experience all of it… so that it can be all of it.

Every feeling you’ve ever had resides in your soul. Your soul is the sum total of all your feelings.

The job of the soul, of course, is to cause us to choose the grandeur… to select the best of Who You Are… without condemning that which you do not select.

This is a big task, taking many lifetimes… your soul seeks the highest feeling. It seeks to experience – to be – perfect love.

It is perfect love – and it knows this. Yet it wishes to do more than know it. It wishes to be it (love) in its experience.

The soul has come to the body, and the body to life, for the purpose of evolution. You are evolving, you are becoming. And you are using your relationship with everything to decide what you are becoming. This is the job you came here to do.

Doing is the function of the body. Being is the function of the soul.

Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living… and when your life is over neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you are being while you are doing what-ever you are doing.

Walsch’s Question: What is the soul seeking to be?

God speaking…

Me

Walsch’s Question: You?

God speaking…

Yes, Me. Your soul is me and it knows it. What it is doing, is trying to experience that.

Right now, in this moment, your soul has again created opportunity for you to be, do and have what it takes to know Who You Really Are.

Your soul has brought you to the words you are reading right now – as it has brought you to words of wisdom and truth before.

What will you do now? What will you choose to be?


As mentioned, your soul is a part of God and, as such, is incredibly powerful. Ancient mystical wisdom and newly channeled information share the same theme about one of the soul’s unique abilities: The power to fragment itself and lead many existences, in different dimensions, at the same time. You are one of your soul’s fragments.

Dr. Eugene Jussek, a psychiatrist, published a book called, Reaching for the Oversoul. He describes how he learned about soul fragmentation while talking to the spiritual teacher of a patient he was regressing when delving into the patient’s past lives. Here is what the teacher had to say…

Dr. Jussek: If a single soul is composed of different aspects (fragments), could not these aspects separate and inhabit different bodies on this plane at the same time?

“Teacher”: Yes, as we have said before, if you would look upon yourself this evening you would see part of the whole. The encompassing wholeness, the complete soul, once spiritual evolution on this planet has taken place, comes to be by the joining of its dissected (fragmented) parts. Each such part being an individual entity in itself which also goes forth to learn and grow.

One part of soul, with its own individual personality, can reach a level of spiritual evolution far exceeding that which its counterpart is able to reach. One might be a very spiritual being while the other might be embedded in the worldly sphere (planet).

The evolved part might then leave and continue its evolutionary process in other spheres of learning. In time, through communicating with each other while in transitory state, and, during times of stillness, each soul learns where the other resides, and the God force within one can speak to the God force in the other.

Only when all soul parts have mastered their difficult tasks can the soul complete its mission on this planet, and go on to other levels of learning. Let us just say: totally different ways of life and rates of growth may be experienced by counterparts of the same soul, yet ultimately the soul will be united.

Although not mentioned specifically by the teacher, the concept of twin souls and soul mates is suggested within his explanations. He describes soul mates as being different souls. Counterparts of the same soul can be taken to mean a number of male or female fragments originating within the same soul. You are one of your soul’s counterparts.

When one of the soul fragments is of the male energy, and the other fragment is of the female energy, and both vibrate at the same frequency, then that specific pair would be twin souls. This is explained in more detail in the soul mate andtwin soul section of this web site.

Dr. Jussek: Are there ways to recognize counterparts of one’s soul? Surely it must be easy to be misled by emotion. Is there a certain technique?

“Teacher”: As an individual achieves a certain level of development, it becomes possible that a counterpart (twin) be brought into its life pattern on this plane. Recognition would take place, though, yet on a spirit and soul level. It would be subconscious contact with much love and understanding between the individuals involved.

Dr. Jussek: Would you distinguish please, between the counterpart (twin) of one’s soul, and a soulmate?

“Teacher”: Certainly. Soulmates are not parts of one’s own soul. Souls who have traveled through many, many periods of time have gone through similar circumstances in the life experience and have become very, very close are soulmates.

Dr. Jussek: So, you say that parts of the same soul will join together one day after they have worked out all their karma – how long will that take?

“Teacher”: Countless lifetimes are necessary for this, and much depends upon the swiftness of spiritual evolution within each part of the soul before it can be unified. At one time, there might be twelve parts of your soul all experiencing living, learning. Ultimately these forms of your soul are brought together in total balance.
Information about the soul really touches a very deep part of me. I hope it has made you think and wonder a bit about who you really are and how you are intimately connected to your soul in a most sacred way. It’s a wise thing to do because that relationship will go on for eternity.

Finally, there is a lot of excitement among people of all ages today as they consider the extraordinary concepts of soul mates and twin souls. These kinds of cosmic relationships can be very powerful and fulfilling when looked at from the level of soul.

I often wonder how many of us who dream about and yearn for soul mate or twin soul relationships know something about our own souls. After all, how can we have these kinds of sacred partnerships without an understanding of our soul and what it is up to during its profound, cosmic journey?

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Spiritual But Not Religious

4 July 2011, 9:33 am

This short essay by Philip Goldberg offers some encouraging news. He says that underneath all the political brouhaha by the fundamentalist religions in recent years, there is a subtler, larger movement occurring in our culture. He says the fastest growing category of American religion, especially among young adults, is “spiritual but not religious.”

Tom Z

America the Mystical: Oh Beautiful for Spacious Minds

Philip Goldberg - Interfaith Minister, author of ‘American Veda: How Indian Spirituality Changed the West’

When contemplating the history of religion in America from a certain perspective (say, the perspective of Bill Maher, Sam Harris or Christopher Hitchens) it would be easy to crack up over its absurdities, sneer at its defiance of logic and science, or fume over its hypocrisies and authoritarian dangers. All true enough, sadly. But there is another strain of American spirituality, one that is more attuned to the enlightened thinking of the Founders and the freedom we celebrate on Independence Day.

Fundamentalists, Christian supremacists and biblical literalists have made so much noise in the past few decades that they would appear to be in the ascendancy. In truth, quieter, subtler and more pervasive forces have given the nation a religious makeover. If you look at surveys from reputable pollsters like Gallup and Pew, you can see it gathering strength over time, especially since the baby boomer generation came of age and started searching for meaning outside the borders of both conventional religion and conventional secularism. Those studies point to these trends:

  • Independence: To a greater extent than ever, people make their own choices and think of spirituality in individual terms rather than as a matter of membership in a particular organization or tradition.
  • Direct experience: Inner spiritual awareness and personal transformation have become more important; adherence to a doctrinal belief system has become less appealing.
  • Pluralism: Respect for traditions other than one’s own has never been higher. Belief that one’s own religion is the best one for everybody has never been lower.
  • Fluidity: Eclectic seeking and spiritual experimentation has risen; exclusivity has declined.
  • Intellectual freedom: Fewer and fewer people read scripture as literal truth or believe that religious dogma trumps the findings of science and history.
  • Oneness: The separation of human and divine, or of the individual and the cosmic, is increasingly rejected in favor of an incontrovertible connectedness.

A skeptic might ask how these assertions square with surveys showing that more than 90 percent of Americans believe in God. Those polls seldom ask the obvious follow-up question: What do you mean by God? In fact, most Americans see God — if they use the G word at all, and fewer and fewer do — as a nonpersonal energy or universal intelligence, more of an It than a He, and more like the Force of Star Wars than the human-like deity of medieval paintings and fundamentalist sermons.

If this seems more like Eastern spirituality than conventional Western religion, it is no coincidence. The core teachings of Hinduism and Buddhism have helped shape our spiritual landscape ever since the first English texts on Asian religion found their way to folks like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. That our founding thinkers — and countless open-minded citizens after them — saw something of value in those teachings says as much about the true spirit of America as it does about the East. In researching my own book on the subject, I was struck by the remarkable compatibility of ancient yogic insights and the American values of individual autonomy, freedom of inquiry and pragmatism. That’s why Swami Vivekananda, the first Indian guru to impact the West, wrote a poem called “To the Fourth of July.” (That he died on that date — as didSwami Prabhavananda, who mentored Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood and other influence makers — is fitting to mention on this occasion.)

Americans are romantics and idealists who abhor stagnation and never settle very long for complacent certainties. At the same time, we are practical, evidence-based problem-solvers. Those qualities apply to matters of the spirit as well as to worldly affairs. It may not always seem that way amid the desperate raging of fanatics, science deniers and theocratic thumpers of Bibles and Qurans, but those values eventually prevail.

No fact summarizes my argument more succinctly than this: The fastest growing category of American religion, particularly among young adults, is “spiritual but not religious.” That the land of the free gave birth to such a designation makes perfect sense, and those who identify with it should not be dismissed as frivolous or noncommittal, as certain critics have contended. They are, for the most part, serious questers who are not inclined to take on faith either religious dogma or facile secularism. They are mystics and idealists who also happen to be rational, pragmatic and independent. What could be more American?

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/philip-goldberg/america-the-mystical-oh-b_b_886422.html

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Healing and the Multidimensional Self

30 June 2011, 8:44 am

by Thomas Zinser Ed.D.

“Psychosomatic medicine” recognizes that the mind often plays a part in one’s health, and sometimes a very powerful part. Up to this point, though, Western medicine limits itself, generally speaking, to the physical level of diagnosis and treatment. In the last thirty years, it has also begun to recognize that emotional and psychological factors can play a significant role in some people’s health and well-being. (In the scientific world, these forces are still treated as suspect and vague.) Medical science and modern psychology limit their vision of the person to these three dimensions. It would view a person like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A soul-centered approach to healing would agree that these levels – physical, emotional, psychological – are real and valid, but it also acknowledges other levels of the self as well. I talked about these in an earlier post and called them the energetic, psychic, and soul levels. Expanding on these levels, I would visualize it something like this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From a soul-centered perspective, each person is a multidimensional being, and in terms of healing, each of these dimensions of the self would be considered a potential source of a person’s symptoms or complaints. It also assumes, like other esoteric approaches to healing, that causality runs in both directions – from body to soul, and from soul to body.

Is it possible, for example, that depression has a psychic or spiritual component? Could a psychic conflict lead to depression and, in turn, create a chemical imbalance, rather than the other way around? Yes, it can. From a scientific point of view, we just don’t understand how that works. We can’t explain it. I think Western medicine will open up to these levels, but it will mean a major shift in paradigms.

In terms of treatment, how strongly each of these levels should be considered depends on the specific symptoms or problems the person is presenting. The diagnosis and treatment of a broken arm, for example, would obviously be treated at the physical level. In addition, it might be treated at an energetic level with acupuncture and healing touch. It might also require emotional and psychological  treatment if the person was so traumatized by the event that it interferes with his or her healing and well-being. At a spiritual level, the injury may be treated with prayer, a healing ceremony, or a request for help from spirit guides. While the focus with a broken arm is on the physical level in this example, these other treatments can support and foster that healing as well. Sometimes it is one of the other levels that is the focus of treatment.

We don’t have a unified vision in our culture yet of the person as a multidimensional being. I believe this vision is beginning to take form and will eventually emerge. In some ways, it is still the unfolding story of East meets West. The eastern traditions have a great deal to teach us about these subtle levels of consciousness and energy. They have a great deal to teach us as well about the spiritual dimensions of the self, and about spirits and other entities that can interfere with human consciousness.

We also have a great store of knowledge  in our own culture about these other levels of healing, but it has been kept underground. There are many esoteric schools and traditions, for example, that recognize these other dimensions and address them in their different ways. There are several phenomena where the research is so extensive that the evidence appears incontrovertible. These include near-death-experience, past-life memories, and communication with discarnate entities or spirits. (It can even be embarrassing the way science ignores these phenomena and the evidence for their validity.)

What we don’t have is a unified vision of a person as a multidimensional being, and we don’t have that yet because it will require a leap. It will be a leap for medicine, for science, and for our culture as a whole. Sometimes I think we’re on the threshold of that conversion, other times that we’re still approaching it. In the field of healthcare, though, the emergence of alternative methods of healing is one sign that the shift is happening.

*Chakra image courtesy of Josian d’Hoop.



 

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The Day the Veil Lifted: The Story of Jonas Elrod

25 June 2011, 2:43 pm

Jonas Elrod is one of those people who was suddenly able to see behind the veil. He’s also someone, like the two young women I talked about in an earlier post (Psychic Abilities – Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell), who is most afraid that people will think he’s crazy.

Tom Z

Jonas Elrod was leading an ordinary life until he woke up one day to a totally new reality. He suddenly could see and hear angels, demons, auras and ghosts.

The documentary movie Wake Up follows this fascinating story of an average guy who inexplicably developed the ability to access other dimensions. Physicians gave him a clean bill of health and were unable to provide an explanation. What was it? Why was it happening to him? One thing was certain for this 36-year old man – life as he had known it would never be the same.

With his loving but skeptical girlfriend by his side, Jonas crisscrosses the country as he searches for answers and delves deeper into this thrilling world of the phenomenal and spiritual. Along the way, he encounters an amazing group of religious teachers, scientists, mystics and spiritual healers who help him piece together this intricate puzzle.

The film shows how all of us can search inward for our own peace and happiness while contributing towards a positive shift in global consciousness. Wake Up is a call to consciousness to everyone who sees it; an invitation to accept that there is more to this life than meets the eye. From The Daily Grail

See original website here: http://wakeupthefilm.com/

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Medical Science Meets Mind, Heart, and Soul

24 June 2011, 8:07 am

This article is from the Atlantic Monthly Magazine. I look at this as a companion piece to the one I posted on Deepak Chopra. Freedman doesn’t really address the paradigm shift that will be required by modern medicine in order to accept many alternative methods and approaches to healing. The article does give a good picture, though, of where things are at right now between scientific and holistic medicine.

Freedman, like Chopra, points out that drugs and surgery are the treatments of choice in modern allopathic medicine. He goes even further—and it’s an extremely important insight—he suggests that in the practice of modern medicine, physicians often must wait for the patients to get sufficiently sick or debilitated to a point where drugs and surgery are then finally required.

This article has stirred up a very positive debate about this meeting, not just between cultures, but between metaphysics as well. You can follow the debate on the Atlantic Monthly website. The couple essays I’ve read were quite good.

Tom Z

 

The Triumph of New Age Medicine

Medicine has long decried acupuncture, homeopathy, and the like as dangerous nonsense that preys on the gullible. Again and again, carefully controlled studies have shown alternative medicine to work no better than a placebo. But now many doctors admit that alternative medicine often seems to do a better job of making patients well, and at a much lower cost, than mainstream care—and they’re trying to learn from it.

By DAVID H. FREEDMAN

I MEET BRIAN BERMAN, a physician of gentle and upbeat demeanor, outside the stately Greek columns that form the facade of one of the nation’s oldest medical-lecture halls, at the edge of the University of Maryland Medical Center in downtown Baltimore. The research center that Berman directs sits next door, in a much smaller, plainer, but still venerable-looking two-story brick building. A staff of 33 works there, including several physician-researchers and practitioner-researchers, funded in part by $35 million in grants over the past 14 years from the National Institutes of Health, which has named the clinic a Research Center of Excellence. In addition to conducting research, the center provides medical care. Indeed, some patients wait as long as two months to begin treatment there—referrals from physicians all across the medical center have grown beyond the staff’s capacity. “That’s a big change,” says Berman, laughing. “We used to have trouble getting any physicians here to take us seriously.”

The Center for Integrative Medicine, Berman’s clinic, is focused on alternative medicine, sometimes known as “complementary” or “holistic” medicine. There’s no official list of what alternative medicine actually comprises, but treatments falling under the umbrella typically include acupuncture, homeopathy (the administration of a glass of water supposedly containing the undetectable remnants of various semi-toxic substances), chiropractic, herbal medicine, Reiki (“laying on of hands,” or “energy therapy”), meditation (now often called “mindfulness”), massage, aromatherapy, hypnosis, Ayurveda (a traditional medical practice originating in India), and several other treatments not normally prescribed by mainstream doctors. The term integrative medicine refers to the conjunction of these practices with mainstream medical care. Read the entire article here.

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Fred Alan Wolf – Shamanic Physics and Vibrational Medicine

16 June 2011, 9:50 pm

Theoretical physics is in the vanguard of bringing the concept of “consciousness” into science. Fred Alan Wolf is one of the leaders in that vanguard. In this video, he talks about the vibratory nature of reality and the creative power of consciousness.

The implications of this are profound. Keeping the focus on healing and medicine, it will open up a whole spectrum of questions and possibilities. First and foremost among them: what role does consciousness play in a person’s healing? Can it dissolve a cancerous tumor? Can it speed up the healing of an open cut? Can it protect us from the flu?

This spectrum is not new to the esoteric schools of healing. They have always recognized that healing can go from the bottom up, and from the top down. Fred Alan Wolf talks about this as a physicist at the top of his field.

Tom Z

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Inelia Benz: Interview with a Lightworker

10 June 2011, 8:15 am

In an early dialogue with my friend Gerod, he said there are people among us who are “Light carriers.” He said most aren’t even consciously aware of their role, but that they help anchor Light here in the world and bring Light to others just by being present when needed.

My friend Christina sent me the link to this video interview with Inelia Benz. She said that, given the work I do, she thought I would find it very interesting. What an understatement! Inelia Benz is certainly one of those people Gerod was talking about. The fascinating part is that she retained her consciousness of psychic and spirit realities when she entered the body. She remained “soul aware.”

Inelia describes her own mission as an “energy worker.” Her job, she says, is to be a direct channel of Light and, when instructed, to bring that Light to specific persons and situations in order to assist. Inelia readily admits she usually has no idea why or how the Light is operating in the particular situation. She says she usually doesn’t need to know that.

This is a two-hour interview. In our Internet culture, I hesitate to recommend even a 10-minute video, let alone two hours. I know time is precious. I can only say that this woman will give you many glimpses into these other levels of yourself and the reality in which we exist. Her story itself is fascinating, but her deeper message is that what is true of her is true of all of us. We are all beings of Light, and we can all develop within ourselves a greater awareness and sensitivity to these realities and, if we choose, live in greater accord with the Light.

Professionally, this video is one of the most significant I’ve seen in a long time. Inelia describes the different realities, entities, and dynamics so often involved in Soul-Centered Healing.

Most important, though, beyond the context of healing, she is describing the multidimensional reality in which all of us live, whether conscious of it or not. Inelia keeps pulling back the curtain for us all through the interview. If you watch it, I welcome your comments.

Tom Z

Here’s the interview. It may take time to load depending on your bandwidth speed. You can find Inelia’s website here.

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Western Medicine: On the Brink of Expansion

8 June 2011, 9:02 am

Deepak Chopra’s essay does a nice job at framing the conflict between western medicine and alternative methods of healing that are beginning to come out from under the covers. Western medicine, he says, has come down to surgery and drugs and that there are many other ways to look at people’s’ maladies and different ways to approach their healing. For western medicine to “get it”, though, it will mean a whole different way of thinking. It’s not one that excludes scientific medicine and what we have learned about the body—and still are learning. It’s a way of thinking that incorporates western medicine into a wider spectrum of healing modalities.

Tom Z

Medicine’s Great Divide—The View from the Alternative Side

Deepak Chopra, MD

I might as well begin by being blunt. There is no love lost between the medicine I was taught in medical school and the kind I practice now, which used to travel under the name of mind-body medicine. It acquired ayurveda (the traditional medicine of India) along the way and now incorporates influences from many other strains of healing. The relationship between conventional and alternative medicine is like a bad marriage, only in reverse. It began with a divorce, has moved to the stage of wary mediation, and holds some prospects of reaching a shy courtship some day in the future.

The grounds for the divorce are bitter. Conventional medicine is offended that alternative medicine even exists. For the average physician, to hear that an allergy patient is taking extract of nettle to treat his symptoms or that a breast cancer patient is being treated with coffee enemas and a macrobiotic diet arouses scorn. Over a decade ago, when the New England Journal of Medicine reported that Americans pay more visits annually to alternative practitioners than to MDs [1], the attitude of the editorial writer was barely disguised dismay and disbelief. It was as if the whole country had turned its back on jet travel to return to the horse and buggy.

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