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BRIDGES Magazine
Volume 20, Number 1
the ISSSEEM magazine, explores leading ideas in the fields of subtle energies and energy healing.
Its interdisciplinary focus creates an open forum for healers, teachers, researchers, pioneers and all interested and involved – within
the ISSSEEM membership and the world at large – to exchange information and discuss new discoveries.
Published and delivered to subscribers in digital format three times a year , Bridges Magazine presents articles, reports,
reviews, and interviews with a personal, clinical or experiential perspective in order to further our understanding of the
great range of human capacities and to expand our inquiry into the subtle realms of existence.
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Editor
Associate Editor
Managing Editor
Design Editor
Celia Coates, [email protected]
Lucia Thornton, [email protected]
Denise Lewis Premschak
Justin Block
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OF
DIRECTORS
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President, Berkeley, CA
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Treasurer, Boulder, CO
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Vice Chair of the Board, Willits, CA
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Director, Kansas City, MO,
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Past President, Dover, NH
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Editor, Subtle Energies & Energy
Medicine Lawrence, KS,
MESSAGE
FROM THE
EDITORS
from Celia
Lucia and I have heard many times that reading an article in Bridges Magazine has helped
someone confirm their own subtle energy experiences and encouraged them to keep on
exploring. Every issue is designed to present articles that expand our understanding of
consciousness, healing, and subtle energies. In five very different ways the articles included this
time discuss what might be called “information and transformation.” The authors write about
light, frequencies, seeing and not seeing, spiritual bodies, and healing ourselves or healing the
earth.
Bridges Magazine welcomes what you have to say about your own personal or professional experiences of subtle energies.
You may submit an article to be considered for a future issue, or join the on-line discussion to add your own perspective
and commentary. http://www.facebook.com/pages/ISSSEEM/106965623412.
Mind-body medicine is becoming mind-body-spirit medicine (or, mind-body-subtle energies medicine) and we are
discovering a great deal about how disease begins and what can be done to end it. Surprising and wonderful recoveries
from advanced cancer have been carefully documented. They are real. But we do not know enough yet about healing to
be able to tell everybody exactly what they should do to become well. Along the way to fully understanding healing, our
incomplete knowledge has caused some harm, especially for people diagnosed with cancer.
I’d like to tell you what happened to a dear friend who developed cancer several years ago. She was told that she had to
have a positive attitude in order to heal herself. Although she did her very best to be optimistic and to develop an upbeat
approach to life, her disease continued to advance. She felt as though she had failed. Some well-meaning people also
advised that she ask herself, “What did I do to cause my cancer?” Her suffering was increased. She had to struggle with
a sense that she had caused her own illness and then had been unable to cure it. She had been given some early clues to
the path for healing, but she did not have the whole map. We have discovered that emotions do have a role in causing
illness – and in recovering from it. But we do not know enough yet about how to work with the many levels of subtle
energies that are involved.
We also assume that curing an illness is always the best outcome and that death is a defeat. How often do we hear that
someone has “lost their battle” with cancer? It may be, at the spiritual level, that death is a healing. As we continue to
make discoveries about the complex nature of healing, we will be able to combine our knowledge of physical reality with
what we learn from our explorations of subtle energies and energy medicine in ways that can truly help people. But until
we know more, we would be wise to avoid advice based on premature conclusions.
from Lucia
The article by Dr. Deepak Chopra was excerpted from his community address given at
ISSSEEM's 2009 annual conference. In introducing Deepak to the audience, Jim Oschman, the
immediate past president of ISSSEEM, recognized the contributions that Dr. Chopra has made
as the "poet prophet" of alternative medicine and how his pioneering efforts have been a gift to
ISSSEEM and its members.
While Dr. Chopra's article represents only a portion of his presentation on "Explorations in
Consciousness," it is a very useful article in helping us to explain many of the phenomena associated with subtle energies
and healing. We are delighted to share Deepak's original thinking and spiritual knowingness with you. Enjoy!
EXPLORATIONS IN
CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING
Deepak Chopra
“I’m not in the world, the
world is in me. I am not
in the body, the body is
in me. I’m not in the
mind, the mind is in me.
The body, the mind, and
the world, they happen to
me as I curve back within
myself and I create again
and again. I create the
mind. I create the body.
I create the world. I create
the universe. And everything comes and goes.
I’m always there.”
- The Upanishads
As scientific evidence emerges, it
becomes very apparent that our
consciousness is not created by our
bodies. It’s the other way around. Our
bodies are created by our consciousness,
and consciousness is the ground of being
that conceives, constructs, governs and
becomes everything that we call physical.
EVERYTHING – including clusters of
nebulas and starscapes and all that you
see out there as the universe. And when
we examine it a little bit everything that
we call a structure – particularly a
biological structure – ultimately turns
out to be a process. My physical body
appears to you, to your senses, as a
structure. But if we look a little deeper,
we’ll see that it is a very dynamic process
that’s part of the universe.
What is the real nature of the universe?
The real nature of the universe is that it’s a
vibration. It’s vibrating energy. And if we
really get to the bottom of it, it’s the energy
we call light, electromagnetic energy. Of
course, there are other forces that are part
of that – the strong interactions, the weak
interactions and, hopefully, one of these
days the equations will include gravity.
But according to all the mathematics we
have, the forces of the universe will
ultimately be the vibration of light.
Light goes on and off at the speed of
186,000 miles per second. This on/off
phenomenon, at the most fundamental
levels of the universe, is called a
discontinuity – as opposed to a
continuity. My experience of the
universe is that it’s “on” all the time.
When I see you, you are there all the
time. But actually, if I could pierce
through the mask of my perception and
see you as you really are, I would first of
all see that you are proportionately as
void as intergalactic space and secondly,
I would experience you going on and off
at the speed of light, a huge emptiness
We appreciate Deepak Chopra's permission to publish this extract from his community address at the 2009 ISSSEEM Conference.
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with a few scattered dots and spots and
some random electrical discharges.
This is not speculation – this is our
science today. Everything that you take
for granted (radio, television, or e-mail)
is based on a very fundamental premise
of science and that is that the essential
nature of the material world is not
material. The essential nature of the
physical world is not physical. The
essential stuff of the universe is non-stuff.
And the word for this vibrating non-stuff
(or energy, if you will) is
discontinuity.
Our perception relies on
discontinuity even though we
have the experience of
continuity. When you go to see
a movie, for example, it is a
series of still images that go on
and off at 24 frames per second
so that you cannot see the “off ” and you
believe that you are seeing a continuous
picture. Right now photons are going
into your eyes on and off. Air molecules
are bumping into your eardrums on and
off. Our senses do not perceive the
“off.” It is the same as when you go to
the movies and you think you are
perceiving something that is continuous,
that is just “on.”
The question in science is not what’s in
the “on.” Everybody knows that it’s
energy and information. That is the
basis of all our technology. The
question is what is in the “off.” Between
every on, there’s an off. Many years ago
we had a conference at the Chopra
Center on science and consciousness,
and Rustum Roy, my friend and teacher,
was there with other extraordinary
scientists. At the end of it we spoke
about the “off ” – discontinuity. There
are five things that everybody agrees that
we know about discontinuity:
The first thing that we know about
discontinuity is that there’s no energy,
there’s no information, there’s no spacetime, and there are no objects. So what
is there in discontinuity? The most
palatable answer coming from brilliant
scientists like Amit Goswami, is there
are infinite possibilities and that
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D EEPAK C HOPRA discontinuity is a field of pure
potentiality. It is the immeasurable
potential of all that was, all that is, and
all that ever will be.
The second attribute of discontinuity is
that it is a realm where there is non-local
correlation
(not
non-local
communication) non-local correlation,
which means that everything is
correlated with everything else, and this
correlation is unmediated, unmitigated,
and instantaneous. Unmediated means
“...the essential nature
of the material world
is not material.”
there’s no signal that is responsible for
the correlation. Unmitigated means that
the robustness, the strength of the
correlation, does not diminish with
distance in space or time. The
correlation is therefore instantaneous.
When you look at biological organisms it
becomes obvious that our bodies behave
locally and non-locally at the same time.
A human body, for example, has one
hundred trillion cells which is more than
all the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Every cell in your body is doing a
hundred thousand activities every second
and every cell instantly knows what the
other cells are doing and instantly
correlates its activity with every other
cell without sending a message.
How does the human body think
thoughts, play a piano and remove
toxins all at the same time? And while
it can do that, it can track the
movements of stars and planets because
your biological rhythms are part of the
symphony of the whole universe. We
are now discovering rhythms upon
rhythms upon rhythms so that your
body is non-locally correlated with
everything that is happening in the
universe – instantly.
Let’s say you go outside and you look at
some star that’s fifty million light years
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away. That means it takes fifty million
years for light to come from there to
your eyes, so when you are looking at
that star, you’re looking not at the star
as it is now, but as it was fifty million
years ago. Maybe the star exhausted its
thermonuclear energy and disappeared
into the heat death of absolute zero
twenty-five million years ago. We on
planet earth will continue to see it for
another twenty-five million years, but
we are seeing the past.
When you are looking at me,
you are also looking at the past
because by the time you’ve
looked at me and interpreted
who is there, I’ve gone on and
off a few million times. So our
perception never allows us to
see things as they are. We see,
through the filter of memory,
things as they were. If this
correlation is across space-time, it
means that at this level past, present,
and future are infinitely correlated. By
knowing any one point in this
continuum, you can know all the other
points because it is all correlated. If we
were not using mathematical terms, we
wouldn’t call it non-local correlation, we
would call it omnipresence,
omnipotence and omniscience. That is
the second attribute of discontinuity.
The third attribute of discontinuity is
that it proliferates with uncertainty.
The more you begin to understand it,
the more uncertain it becomes. I won’t
go into detail about this here, but it was
originally described as Heisenberg’s
uncertainty principle. Whether it is a
wave or a particle depends on how it is
observed. That’s the basis of Einstein’s
famous remark, “God doesn’t play dice
with the universe.” Recently Stephen
Hawking said, “Not only does God
definitely play dice, but He sometimes
confuses us by throwing them where
they can’t be seen.” So it’s a realm that
proliferates with uncertainty.
The fourth attribute of discontinuity is
what I call quantum leaps of space-time
events. A quantum leap is when a
subatomic particle moves from one
location to a new location without
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D EEPAK C HOPRA outside. We are members of one
breath. We are members of one energy
field. We are members of one
information field. We are members of
one matter field, if you will,
because we are members of the
same body – we intimately
“Everything that we call separation in share molecules with each
other. Everything that we call
space or time or between objects is a
separation in space or time or
perceptual artifact. It is not reality.
between objects is a perceptual
And healing is the return of the
artifact. It is not reality. And
healing is the return of the
memory of this wholeness.”
memory of wholeness.
going through the space in between. So
it is here, then it is there. In between it
was nowhere – like when Captain Kirk
says in Star Trek “Beam me up, Scotty,”
and he goes from the planet
to the spaceship without
going from here to there.
The fifth attribute is
something attributed to John
Wheeler – the observer
effect, which basically says
that before you look at the
universe, it does not exist.
Before a conscious being
looks at the universe, it
remains a continuum of possibilities.
As soon as you observe it, through the
filter of memory, then you create a
space-time event and it appears.
Just as you cannot have an electrical
current unless both a positive and a
negative terminal are in place, you
cannot have a physical universe unless on
one side there are these possibility waves
and on the other side there’s a conscious
observer to collapse those possibility
waves into what we call space-time
events. These events are thoughts in our
mind and objects in the universe.
Here is what I was getting to: these five
attributes of discontinuity are the five
qualities of your own consciousness.
Your consciousness is not a thing, nor is
it information or energy. Your
consciousness is the field of potential
from which energy, information,
objects, and space-time arise. That is
the first thing to understand.
The second thing is that your
consciousness is right now non-locally
correlated. The third thing is that while
your mind craves certainty, your
consciousness recognizes that it is in the
proliferation of uncertainty that there are
quantum leaps of creativity, because all
creativity is quantum in character. You
cannot program creativity into a
computer. You can simulate creativity
with computer programs, but it is not
real creativity. Real creativity means you
take information and you create new
contexts and new meanings. And that a
computer cannot do. A computer is
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based on algorithms which are
mathematical formulas of mathematical
logic. True creativity is not based on
logic.
If mathematical logic is punctuated by
quantum leaps of creativity, that
completely alters our whole idea of
biological Darwinian evolution.
Darwinian evolution is based on
random mutations and natural
selection, but there is no room for
creativity. If you understand that
quantum creativity is an expression of
the laws of nature itself, then you might
conclude that nature is imbued with
creativity, and that nature takes leaps of
creativity – that the transition from
amphibians to birds was a creative leap.
The transition from primates to
humans was a creative leap. And when
we transit to angels – that will be a
creative leap. As when Rumi says,
“When I die, I will soar with angels,
and when I die to the angels, what I
shall become you cannot imagine.” You
would need the imagination of an angel
to do that - quantum creativity,
quantum leaps of imagination.
These are the five attributes of your own
consciousness. Your consciousness is a
field of infinite possibilities. Your
consciousness
is
omnipresent,
omnipotent, and omniscient. Your
consciousness embraces uncertainty. Your
consciousness proliferates in uncertainty
and constantly takes quantum leaps of
creativity, and your consciousness cocreates the entire universe with that
mystery that we call God.
We are all contained in that one
consciousness. We are not outside it.
The fatal flaw of science is that it is
looking at the universe as if from the
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To return to the Upanishads,
“Everything comes and goes. I’m always
there.” It is all a whole. This is also the
nature of healing. We need to
remember our wholeness, to know that
we exist in a state of being that includes
all that comes and goes, that is on and
off, and we are in the whole field of
potential that is consciousness.
Deepak Chopra is
the author of
more than fifty
books translated
into over thirtyfive languages,
including
numerous New
York
Times
bestsellers in both
the fiction and
nonfiction categories. Dr. Chopra is a
fellow of the American College of
Physicians, a member of the American
Association of Clinical Endocrinologists,
Adjunct Professor at Kellogg School of
Management and Senior Scientist with
The Gallup Organization. He is founder
and president of the Alliance for a New
Humanity. Time magazine heralds
Deepak Chopra as one of the top 100
heroes and icons of the century and credits
him as "the poetprophet of alternative
medicine. Deepak Chopra’s newest book
on the nature of healing is Reinventing
the Body, Resurrecting the Soul: How to
Create a New You.
www.deepakchopra.com
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watching my funeral from the ceiling.
Many people were there to see me off.
Just before the lid of the coffin was
closed I yelled, “No! I am still alive!”
Then I woke up. It was a very strange
dream, unlike any I had ever had
before, and I think it was the
beginning of my spiritual journey.
The next day I told my wife what I had
dreamed. Although she understood
that my life would last no more than a
few months because other tumors had
already been found and I was almost
unable to walk since my legs were just
skin and bones, she cried and said, “It
must be a good dream.”
Right after the dream, my sense of smell
increased dramatically. I could not bear
to stay in my hospital room because of
the smell of other people’s bodies. It
was as though I had become a wolf or
some kind of wild animal. I needed to
find a place where I could avoid the
terrible smells, and finally I found it. It
was on the open rooftop of the hospital.
MY STORY OF
HEALING FROM
CANCER
Shin-ichiro Terayama
IN 1985
EVEN
THOUGH I HAD
RECEIVED THE FULL
RANGE OF
CONVENTIONAL
MEDICAL
TREATMENT, I WAS
IN THE TERMINAL
STAGE OF KIDNEY
CANCER AND I LEFT
THE HOSPITAL TO
DIE AT HOME.
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Three and a half years later the cancer
had disappeared. A natural, and
surprising, process of healing had
taken place.
I was a solid state physicist by training
and had been working as a professional
management consultant when I was
diagnosed with cancer in the spring of
1984. Four months after being treated
with surger y, chemotherapy, and
radiation I was getting weaker day by
day, and six months later I reached the
final stages of illness. One night while
I was sleeping in my hospital bed, I
had a strange dream. In it my body
was lying in a coffin and I was
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One cold night at the beginning of
March, just after the door was closed at
nine o’clock, I escaped to the rooftop
carrying my blanket. It was routine for
the night nurse to check on the
seriously ill patients like me. She could
not find me in my bed at midnight, and
a search was begun. Finally she and
another nurse reached the roof and saw
me lying there. They thought that I
was going to jump off the roof and kill
myself to end the suffering of my
terminal cancer.
I did not want to return to my room,
so finally five nurses had to come and
take me back. Early the next morning a
very angry doctor arrived at my bedside.
He did not prevent me from
discharging myself from the hospital
even though my white blood cell count
was only 1000 and my immune system
was very weak.
I thought I was only going home to
die, but I preferred that to being in the
hospital. I also felt as though I had
been saved. The conventional medical
treatment was wrong for me and I
believed that the strong side-effects of
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radiation and chemotherapy had
harmed my body. I was discharged
from the hospital only with some
painkillers, but I did not want to use
them because they kept my
mind from being clear and
I felt that they disturbed
my immune system.
Instead I placed my hand
on my chest above the part
of my lung where the pain
came from and I said to my
cancer, “I created this
cancer by myself and I am
sorry, but this is still part of
my body.” I said, “It was
my mistake, so please
forgive me.” I said, “You
are like my baby, so I love
you.” I sent deep love to
my cancer and the pain
decreased so I could sleep at night.
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BY
S HIN - ICHIRO T ERAYAMA was still alive. Then, it turned out that
it was not my last day after all! I began
to watch the sunrise – even when it was
cloudy – as a way to start each new day.
Because of my experience of the healing
power of these treatments I founded
the Japan Holistic Medical Society
along with several medical doctors
whom I had met at a
holistic health center in
1987. I began to work as its
executive director. In
October 1988 although my
tumor was still there, I was
invited to Findhorn to
present at a conference. My
family was worried about
my travelling to Scotland
because it was so far away
from Japan, and the climate
was so much colder.
However, I knew intuitively
that I should go there.
Visiting Findhorn was
another turning point in my
healing, and it directed my life even
more toward spirituality. During my
visit, from morning to night, many,
many people gave me hugs. That had
a wonderful effect on my emotions and
spirit. After my trip to Findhorn, I
returned to the hospital for a CT scan,
and was told that my cancer had
disappeared.
“...he noticed a light in the
audience and saw that it
was coming from me....”
I was very thirsty but I had developed
another problem with the way
something smelled: tap water had a
very strong and unpleasant odor of
chlorine. I tried to find water that I
could drink and eventually found
some good mineral water. In the
hospital I had been unable to eat and
was sustained with intravenous
injections. At home, without those
injections, I could only take in the
mineral water so it meant that I was
fasting. It was a surprise to find in a
few days that I was beginning to
recover without any medical
treatment. That was my first
experience of the healing power in my
body.
Then I realized that since I had created
the cancer I needed to do something
about that. I had worked very hard
from morning until night at my job
and I ate too much meat and drank
more than ten cups of coffee a day. I
worked until midnight and had very
little time to sleep. I felt a great deal of
stress from my job.
The day that I thought was my last day
on earth I wanted to be the whole
person I really was. I wanted to watch
the sunrise and to say to the sun that I
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While I watched the sunrise I knew
that I was still breathing, and if I
stopped breathing, of course, I would
die. Then I realized that death is
natural – that we are all going to die
someday. So I stopped worrying about
dying. I began to change my way of
being alive, and I started to enjoy living
each moment. It was very different
from the way I had been living.
A few months later I started to practice
the cello again. I had played the cello
when I was a child and I loved it, but I
had stopped playing twenty-five years
earlier because I did not have time to
practice once I began my professional
career. Once I started to practice again,
I enjoyed playing every day, and I still
do. The cello was a perfect healer for
me because of the beauty of its sound,
and because of the vibrations. The
music was so beautiful and the sound
activated all of my body. I felt that
every cell was detoxified by the
vibrations. I felt that it was a beautiful
massage of every cell in my body. After
practicing the cello I felt refreshed. I
was using my own intuition to choose
energy medicine methods such as
acupuncture, shiatsu, massage, and
healing hot springs. My recovery
continued and the natural treatments
had no bad side-effects.
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In March of 1989 I attended the
American Holistic Medical Association’s
conference in Seattle as a representative
of the Japan Holistic Medical Society.
One of the keynote speakers was Dr.
Andrew Weil. Even though my English
was not very good at that time, I found
myself understanding what he was
saying and nodding at many of his
remarks. After his speech, Dr. Weil
found me and asked me to have lunch
with him. He told me that while he
was speaking he noticed a light in the
audience and saw that it was coming
from me, and so he had wanted to meet
me. He listened to my story of
recovering from cancer, and since then
we have been good friends. Five years
after we met he published his book,
Spontaneous Healing, which includes
the story of my recovery from cancer.
In 1995 I went on to found the Subtle
Energy Association of Japan because I
had come to know the importance of
subtle energy in my own life.
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I believe that I was able to recover from
cancer because I took responsibility for
having lived in such a way that I created
cancer in my body, I paid attention to
what my body needed, and I began to
live in a new way. I became more aware
of the present moment and I was filled
with joy. I had faced the need to
change, and also many fortunate things
happened. The dream of my funeral
began to give me the chance to live in a
new way.
The holistic approach to illness is very
different from conventional medicine,
and it was right for me and my body. I
did not want to kill my cancer with
chemotherapy or attack it with radiation.
My experience with healing from so
much illness made me realize that
consciousness exists at many levels. This
led me to explore deeply those many
levels – body, emotion, mind, spirit, God,
FROM
C ANCER
BY
S HIN - ICHIRO T ERAYAMA and the universe. In 2005 I established
The Beyond Consciousness Research
Institute which teaches people to develop
their own enlightened awareness.
Love, Shin
Shin-ichiro Terayama is a holistic
management consultant, physicist, cellist
and writer. He delivers healing workshops
and counsels clients in private practice.
Shin is Chairman of the Board of
Directors of the Subtle Energy Association
of Japan, Vice-President of the Weller
Than Well Association of Japan for cancer
patients, and a fellow of Findhorn
Foundation in Scotland since in 1988.
2009 was the 12th annual ISSSEEM
conference Shin has attended at which he
received the Doug Boyd Wisdom Keeper
Award. Shin can be contacted at
[email protected]
Photo of Shin by Masao Kumano
Shin will be playing his cello at the
ISSSEEM Conference in June.
www.scientificexploration.org
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SEEING THROUGH
DEVOUT MATERIALISM
Anne Wotring
MY
FIRST
UNUSUAL
ENCOUNTER
CAME OUT OF
NOWHERE,
UNBIDDEN,
AND SCARED
ME TO MY
CORE.
One morning in April, in 1996, I was
taking a break from my work and
meditating when suddenly the full-sized
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face of a man materialized a few inches
directly in front of me. I recognized
him as Ron Brown, the U.S. Commerce
Secretary under President Clinton, who
had been killed in a plane crash in
Sarajevo one or two days earlier. Staring
into my face with wide eyes, he
implored, “Help me, I don’t know what
to do. Help me I don’t know what to
do.” I held his gaze with effort and
concentration, and without a clue about
what to say or do, I just said: “Let go
and trust. Let go and trust.” He said
again, “Help me I don’t know what to
do.” I repeated, “Let go…and trust.”
This exchange continued for about 90
seconds and took on a cadence as we
repeated these refrains to each other.
Then gradually his face faded and he
was gone.
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I quickly ended my meditation and sat
in wonder, and fear. I knew from
studying wisdom teachings that the
spirits of people killed suddenly have no
time to prepare and can become
disoriented. Had Ron Brown’s
disoriented spirit found its way back
from Bosnia to his hometown of
Washington, D.C. where I live, and
locked in on me, the only person attuned
to that plane of consciousness at 11
o’clock in the morning? What had I
done to make this possible? What could
I do so that it would never happen again!
Did this really happen or did I imagine it
after reading about the tragedy in the
morning paper? Did I conjure him up?
The more I thought about it, the more
afraid I became. I did not meditate alone
for the next six months.
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A NNE W OTRING Before that morning I had been a devout overactive imagination. I did not know anyone
materialist although I was fascinated with the I respected who had experienced this, and that
occult. Ten years earlier, in 1986, I had taken a made it easier to dismiss it all as fiction. One
chance and scheduled an expensive reading thing I couldn’t dismiss as easily was that when
with a psychic who seemed legitimate since I I looked at digital clocks or highway exit signs
knew she worked with the local police they would often read 143, the time of my
department on difficult cases. Three minutes birth, and I entertained myself thinking that
into the session she told me that someone this was my mother’s way of reminding me of
her presence. Otherwise, I
named Ellen or Ellie
lived a very busy “normal”
wanted to be known to
life in the “real” world
me. I was dumbfounded
“I started to laugh
while
occasionally
- my mother’s name was
because it seemed so
exploring the metaphysical
Eleanor and sometimes
one. I visited psychics and
she was called Ellie. I had
crazy on the material
took trainings to develop
not expected that I
level to be talking to
my own psychic ability. I
would encounter anyone
found I could receive
that day, and certainly
someone who was
accurate information in
not my mother who had
invisible.”
answer to other peoples’
died in 1975. I firmly
questions about their lives
believed my mother was
but I continued to be
dead and gone, wasn’t
that what death meant? Tears welled up in my skeptical and assumed that it was mainly my
eyes when I heard the psychic say her name. mind’s imaginative construction.
How could she know? (My husband decided,
when I told him what had happened, “She In the spring of 2009 I had a chance to
must have researched you before your session.” experience something extraordinary that
This would have been quite a feat in 1986 in challenged my disbelief. I had a session with
Jack Stucki, a music therapist and biofeedback
the days before Google and web searches.)
practitioner who takes photographs of people
Then the psychic went on to ask what was while a device called the Luminator is running.
causing Ellie’s throat to restrict her breathing It changes the resonance of the area around it
and speaking. I told her my mother had died in a way that allows various anomalies to
from multiple sclerosis and in her last years appear on Polaroid prints. Sometimes faces
she had been unable to speak. The psychic show up that can be seen around the person
began to relay many things that my mother being photographed, and that’s what happened
wanted me to know, such as why she had to me. One picture revealed the face of a
been in a coma for sixteen months before she kindly woman with a pug nose and spectacles,
died and how sorry she was for the stress that and although I did not recognize her I could
her illness had caused our whole family. As definitely see her image. There were other faces
the psychic spoke, so much information came too, more difficult to see, including one that
so fast it seemed as though my mother was caused me to feel a jolt in my upper body
very excited that I had finally visited a when I held it in focus for the split second
medium and she could communicate with before his eyes merged back into my own in
me. It all made sense given what the situation the photograph. Seeing the pictures Jack took
had been. Could it be that she was “alive” in of me as well as those he took the same
another dimension of reality and that she weekend for some of my friends, brought me
wasn’t dead and gone as I believed? Could it another experience of something that is
be, as she told me through the psychic, that beyond what I thought could be real. The
she and her own mother actually had watched photos allowed me to see another dimension.
over me and my children for many years?
I was also deeply impressed last spring by
I liked the idea but I did not really believe it, Lucia Thornton’s Bridges Magazine article
and the information went to sleep in me. about her son, “David’s Story.” After his
Sometimes I would think of my mother and death she demanded that he manifest himself
then feel her presence, and although it was to her so that she could actually hug him. Just
comforting, I thought it must be a trick of my feeling his presence when water droplets fell
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BY
A NNE W OTRING “I am so grateful that now I am able to have encounters
with the invisible realms. I am grateful for my new
understanding of what really is real.”
on her arm while she was hiking his
favorite trail hadn’t been enough for her.
So, I did what Lucia had described - I
insisted that my mother appear.
Even now it seems crazy, incredible, and
difficult to explain - but my mother did
appear. It was in a much more
embodied way than my previous
sensing of her had been. I did not see
her with my physical eyes but with my
mind’s eye – in the same way I “saw”
my “imaginary playmates” when I was
six years old. These friends were twins,
a boy and girl. I still remember the girl’s
name - Jeanine. We pushed each other
on my backyard swings, and when I
told my mom about them, she told me
they were imaginary, and other children
my age had them too. Fast forward and
there I was having lunch at my kitchen
counter with my mother after she had
been invisible to me for thirty-five
years. How grateful I was to Lucia for
her article because otherwise I would
never have demanded that my mother
show up. As we shared the meal my
mother and I laughed about how
amazing it was that we were actually
together after all these years. She too
recognized that this was different from
our previous encounters.
After we talked for a while about the
kinds of things that mothers and
daughters talk about, we decided to take
a walk down the slope to what appeared
to be a lovely garden. It turned out to
be a labyrinth, a natural place outlined
in stones, shrubs and wild flowers. I
walked in first and after twenty steps or
so I glanced back at my mother who
had followed me and, “Lo and behold!”
behind her were my grandmothers – her
mother, Myrtle, followed by Elsie, my
father’s mother. I had not thought of
them at all, and there they were. It was
so sweet. I was elated. I walked on and
we talked. They shared difficulties they
had had in their lives that I hadn’t heard
about before.
I am not a devout materialist now and,
playing off the word “matter,” earthly
life does not seem so material, it doesn’t
matter so much, it isn’t so heavy and it
doesn’t carry so much “gravity.” My old
sense of the world was narrower and
more concrete. Beginning with that
frightening experience in 1996, my
materialistic view has expanded to
include new dimensions. I am so
grateful that now I am able to have
encounters with the invisible realms. I
am grateful for my new understanding
of what really is real.
Anne Wotring,
Ph.D., is a
leadership and
life coach, group
facilitator,
speaker, and
writer. She loves
tennis, animals,
her friends and
family, and peanut M & Ms.
[email protected]
The more I work with realizing that
dead people are with me, the more
experiences I have. A few days ago my
mom joined me as I was sitting on a
bench overlooking a hillside and a lake.
I greeted her out loud. No one was
around and I realized I wouldn’t care if
they were. I started to laugh because it
seemed so crazy on the material level to
be talking to someone who was
invisible. It was just completely
wonderful to be sitting there with her.
She laughed too about how funny it
must look - we seem to laugh a lot
when we are together.
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is sanity.” She had a heartfelt
recognition that this held knowledge
that the world needed.
The light and energy Elizabeth became
aware of that day she later discovered
was related to Light Beings. Their
incredible, refined energy has a
luminous quality and carries the
consciousness of absolute peace,
absolute safety, and of beauty. She has
since visited with powerful healers, who
also work with Light Beings, and the
energy is of similar quality and light.
LIVING IN LIGHT
A Conversation with
Elizabeth Frediani
M
any of us recognize that
energy and consciousness
are inseparable. Elizabeth
Frediani first learned this
through her interaction with Light
Beings. Through their presence she was
introduced to expanded states of
consciousness in which she came to
know that the physical world is not the
only reality.
One afternoon as Elizabeth was
walking near a lake, she fluidly passed
from the material world into an ocean
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of light that was filled with a refined,
vitalizing energy. What happened that
day was profound for her: something
had changed and she knew she would
never go back to her former way of
seeing things. She had experienced a
total awakening of mind, body, and
soul. While she was walking her eyes
were open, she was not trying to
meditate, nor was she trying to have a
special focus. It was an absolutely fluid
and natural transition into a light space
and a new awareness. When Elizabeth
came out of that dimension, she felt
tremendous peace. She thought, ”This
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What Elizabeth experienced long ago
was connected to the simplicity and
beauty of her life in British Columbia.
In the 1970’s she was living close to
nature on land where First Nations
people once lived and in a community
that included spiritually aware people.
The postmaster, who also worked at the
fire lookout station for many summers,
told her amazing stories about being up
on the mountain. He once shared with
her that he had seen a cougar sleeping
next to deer. When he told her about
his many experiences of the mountain,
Elizabeth
would
just
nod,
understanding that this was a blessed
and rare place.
That natural environment provided a
container for Elizabeth’s experiences. It
was womb-like and protective: it held
her and made what she was discovering
safe.
For many people, these
experiences open up in an environment
that does not support them, in
communities with others who are not
open to new ways of perceiving what
surrounds us. This is so unfortunate.
Many feel threatened by what is
happening to them. And once they
become frightened and anxious, they
often shut down or try to block learning
more.
Elizabeth recognizes that the universe is
ultimately consciousness in and of
itself. She says that when we talk about
Light Beings, we are talking about
different dimensions of consciousness.
Even though there are differences
between their consciousness and ours,
interactions are possible. The most
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distinctive of these differences is that
humanity does not reflect a singular,
recognizable intention or focus. Light
Beings are more unified in terms of
their collective awareness. Each
community of Beings shares a
common, coherent focus, which we feel
as clarity of consciousness and we
experience through their higherfrequency energies. It is also important
to know that there are different types of
Light Beings and each
community has its own
intentions. The Light Beings
Elizabeth works with
explained to her that other
Beings often focus on specific
aspects of human experience.
There are some that are very
driven by science, unlike the
ones she works with who are
heart-centered and concerned
with the growth and
evolution of consciousness.
Light Beings that operate on
a more intellectual and
experimental level want to
learn about humanity from a
scientific perspective. We
often experience these Beings
as cold or intrusive.
WITH
E LIZABETH F REDIANI maintain this new way while she was
peacefully settled with like-minded
people in British Columbia. However,
it was harder to feel as whole and
connected in the more densely
populated places she lived in later. One
of the ways that Elizabeth helped
herself was to become a teacher of
what she had been discovering about
energy. After spending 10 years
studying to gain an understanding and
transcendent states of awareness. Using
the heart chakra also awakens an
individual’s ability to be present, to
evolve, and to heal – and to become a
committed spiritual steward of their
own lives.
Although Elizabeth no longer asks the
Beings questions, she did at first and she
was shown many things. Part of what
they showed her was the energy field of
the Earth. She saw that it
has become energetically
mired in our belief
structure.
The image
revealed a dense, low
frequency surrounding our
planet that blocks the
Earth’s field. The Beings
conveyed that this is also
true for individuals - that
our fields often become
dense, weighed down by
limiting beliefs and
unresolved life experiences.
The Light Beings told her
that they were here to help
us clear this congestion and
to re-awaken our higher
vibratory rate. They shared
that they, and others, value
the Earth and are
particularly focused on
supporting humanity’s
transformation. Elizabeth
says that since that time
their consistent message has been that
an on-going transformational process is
taking place. We now see this
intensifying at a global level through a
process of breakdown, clearing, and recreating. Our consciousness is
transforming, our frequency changing.
Long ago the Light Beings provided a
view of what all the healing efforts
would ultimately bring about: we will
raise our collective frequency for the
sake of the Earth.
“...their (the Light Beings’)
consistent message has been that
an on-going transformational
process is taking place.We now
see this intensifying at a global
level through a process of
breakdown, clearing, and recreating. Our consciousness is
transforming, our frequency
changing.”
Beginning with that first
encounter information passed
back and forth between
Elizabeth and the Light
Beings, but not in the way that you
might expect. It was neither channeling
nor any ordinary kind of
communication. Information came
through energetic contact and telepathic
transmission.
Through these
experiences she became aware of subtle
energies, of the life force that is in us,
beyond us, and connects everything.
Everyone has the capacity to sense this.
It is an experience of fluidity, of a very
subtle movement that can feel almost
wavelike at times. It is as though we are
in a very gentle ocean, a kind of flow
within the body, around other things,
around everything.
In the days, months and years that
followed, Elizabeth discovered a more
integrated way of being as a result of
her energy awareness. It was easy to
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context for her experiences in British
Columbia, she turned her attention
inward to bring what she knew to the
surface. In doing that she not only
strengthened herself, she also found
deeper clarity and a tremendous new
grounding that became the foundation
of the healing work she continues to
practice and teach today.
Drawing from the sense of unity
Elizabeth gained through her contact
with the Light Beings, she developed
exercises and healing techniques that
are heart-centered and integrative.
They not only serve to strengthen our
physical bodies, but also profoundly
and gracefully transform our
consciousness. Many of these practices
focus on using the energy system, and
especially the heart chakra, to awaken
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About this Elizabeth once wrote, “In a
profound way, and at an accelerated
rate, we are now fulfilling this purpose.
We are aiding one another and being
aided in realigning to an original
universal consciousness. We are not
only opening to our true human
potential, but to sources of
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E LIZABETH F REDIANI “As we evolve, we are establishing
a clearer relationship with these
dimensions of intelligence.”
consciousness that exist far beyond our
planet. These constellations of beings
and energies have protected the Earth
and have been part of her evolutionary
journey. As we evolve, we are
establishing a clearer relationship with
these dimensions of intelligence. We
are energetically and spiritually
opening to the universal heart and
consciousness.”
“Our energy systems serve as receivers
and transmitters to all levels of this
current planetary process. Our
thoughts, emotions, and ways of being
reflect this for us. As part of this
adjustment to a higher frequency, we
are discovering that our daily activities
must be modified to accommodate the
energetic shifts that are now occurring.
Rest is critically important – as is
turning inward. Inner awareness reveals
now that past wounds and karmic
patterns are emerging to seek resolution.
We have work to do and new choices to
make…. Collectively and individually
we are being called to grow and evolve.
It may be very difficult to go through
this process, but this is a time of hope.
The present and the future beckon us to
rediscover our true nature and the
commonality we share with all Life.”
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We need to re-orient ourselves to
know that we are, in fact,
transformational beings, that energy is
a transformational medium, and that
consciousness is, by its very nature,
fluid. This is what the Light Beings
conveyed to Elizabeth a long time
ago. They told her, “You do not need
to channel our words – others do not
need information. You only need to
bring our energy through. It is the
frequency of the energy that awakens
healing.” And this is the direction
Elizabeth has always followed. She has
also discovered that it is not the
energy of the Beings that has the
greatest impact on our experience. It
is how we focus, use, and care for our
own personal energy that tr uly
awakens, transforms, and empowers
us. Once we become aware and awake
to the fluidity of our own
consciousness, we step into our true
spiritual potential.
Elizabeth wrote about her experiences
during the 1970's in Bridges Magazine,
Issue 2, 2009.
Elizabeth Frediani is an author, teacher,
and practitioner, whose work with subtle
energy spans three decades. Her book,
Where Body Meets Soul: Subtle Energy
Healing Practices for Physical and
Spiritual Self-Care, presents the energetic
exercises described in this article and offers
extensive support for integrating this
transformational work into daily life.
Elizabeth lives on Whidbey Island in
Washington and works with individuals
nationwide. She can be reached at
[email protected].
This article was drawn from a
conversation Elizabeth had with Celia.
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one and a half years I was healed of
most inflammatory processes and the
symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome.
It may be helpful to describe some of
what I had studied for many, many
years before I met Nicolai. My uncle
was a bohemian artist who lived in
Greenwich Village where he was friends
with people like the cartoonist William
Steig. The whole group was very taken
with the work of Wilhelm Reich, and
when my uncle came to live with my
family after the war, he brought books
by Reich with him.
STUDIES WITH
NICOLAI LEVASHOV
Richard A. Blasband
I first consulted the healer
Nicolai Levashov in 1992
for
chronic
fatigue
syndrome which had
already been diagnosed by
two skilled homeopathic
physicians. Although I told
Nicolai only of my fatigue,
he made the same diagnosis
within ten minutes, and he
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named the same specific areas of
pathology as had my medical colleagues.
Then, with the first healing session, I
knew that Nicolai possessed remarkable
abilities to move energy. I experienced
currents running like electricity through
my body, followed by a sense of being
heavy as my body took on the healing
“load” that Nicolai placed upon it.
Within six months, with sessions two to
three times a week, I was healed of the
frequent, intermittent cardiac
palpitations from which I had suffered
for the previous three years, and within
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In time he also brought in an orgone
accumulator which is a box-like enclosure
invented by Reich. It is constructed of
alternating layers of metallic and nonmetallic materials with the metal on the
inside. (See Figure 1) Through
experimentation Reich had found that a
kind of energy he called orgone was
absorbed from the atmosphere by the
outer, non-metallic layer. The energy was
then attracted to the metal layer, then
instantly repelled from it to be absorbed
by the next non-metallic layer. When
someone is in the accumulator the
energetic charge that has been established
also involves the body. I didn’t read the
books, but I tried sitting in the
accumulator because it looked
interesting. I felt the kinds of sensations
that Reich described - prickling and
tingling sensations, feelings of relaxation
and then, after emerging from the
accumulator, a sense of well-being.
After trying it, I took the directions for
constructing an accumulator in to my
high school biology class. My teacher
enjoyed laughing at Reich, and at me by
association, ridiculing the accumulator
as quackery. After the class I went up to
him and said, “You know, Mr. Lance,
when we started this class you said a
true scientist keeps an open mind until
proven otherwise. I don’t think you are
a true scientist.” He paused for a
moment and then he said, “You know,
Blasband, you are right.” I’ve had
experiences like that related to Reich
many times over the years.
I didn’t think much more about Reich
and orgonomy until I was attending
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BY
R ICHARD A. B LASBAND my residency in psychiatry at Yale, I
taught there for a year and also
established a practice in New Haven
using psychiatric orgone therapy, as
Reich named his therapeutic discipline.
Since Reich was no longer training
psychiatrists, I studied with Elsworth
Baker who had been appointed by
Reich to train psychiatrists. Along with
a few other students and colleagues of
Dr. Baker’s I helped him found the
American College of Orgonomy and
The Journal of Orgonomy. Following
Dr. Baker’s death I became president of
the College and editor of The Journal.
Figure 1. Orgone Accumulator: ORAC
Schematic (DeMeo 1989)
Cornell University. I first studied civil
engineering and found that was not
really what I wanted to be doing. Then
I tried psychology for a while and it was
really dull – I had no interest in
running mice through mazes. So there
I was, floundering. I spent some time
at home after my sophomore year and I
found Reich’s books, still on the shelves.
So I picked one out at random (it was
The Cancer Biopathy) and started
reading. Here was someone writing
about life energy and the origin of life
and backing it up with experiments that
anyone with a scientific inclination and
training could do. I was fascinated. I
decided that I would become a research
biologist and work with Reich. Then I
heard that he would only train doctors.
So I said to myself, “Well, OK, I’ll be a
doctor then.”
Psychiatric orgone therapy is a treatment
for emotional disorders that is a
functional integration of the analysis of a
patient’s chronic “character” – how he
walks, talks and presents himself – and
manual, physical softening through deep
massage of the patient’s chronic muscular
tensions. The character and the muscular
tensions are complimentary systems that
form an “armoring” that protects the
patient but at the same time blocks
spontaneous natural expression. The
goal of the therapy is to remove the
armoring so that the patient recovers
choice in his expression. (Reich 1949)
It was in California, where I have been
in practice for many years, that I met
Nicolai. I had known several worldclass healers through my friend Bernard
Grad who had also studied with Reich
and with whom I shared an interest in
healing and healers. Nicolai was a force
beyond anything I had known before,
and he was a theoretical physicist who
knew what he was doing as a healer and
could explain it to others.
Nicolai and I became friends and
scientific associates, and I wrote the
foreword to his first book. I referred
some of my clients with severe health
problems to Nicolai and found that
they improved rapidly under his care.
They also began to move through their
orgone therapy more quickly than they
had before. It was as if their organisms
had become “lubricated,” so that their
bodily movements were far more facile
and less armored. Not only that, they
began to develop a blue glow around
their bodies which I could see in my
dimly lit therapy office. I thought,
“This healing is a great help, and I want
to add it to my therapeutic abilities.” I
was accepted as a student in the next
class, and I have now been studying
with Levashov for eighteen years.
My experience of “life energy” with
patients and in my research was not all
that I brought to my work with Nicolai.
For several years I had been active in
experimental investigations in the then
nascent discipline of consciousness
research (Jahn and Dunne 1987) and I
had learned of the extraordinary power
of mental intention in manifesting
objective changes in physical reality
(Blasband 2000). Nicolai’s method of
healing depends in large part on the use
The formal, initial six-week training
period was the most intensive, exciting
time in my entire professional life. Our
group of twenty students – physicians,
psychologists, business people and
others – met five times a week for three
hours. Nicolai lectured for the first 2
When I went back to Cornell I enrolled
and ¾ hours on his findings about the
in pre-med and then finished medical
nature of man and the universe. The
school at the University of
final fifteen minutes was devoted to
Pennsylvania. One summer during that
Nicolai’s “transformation” of our brains
time I worked in Reich’s laboratory in
and spiritual bodies
Maine and had the
through the use of his
chance to meet him and
conscious intention on
see what kind of research
“...I had learned of the extraordinary power each of us individually
he was doing. I also did
some experiments of my
of mental intention in manifesting objective and as a group. One’s
spiritual body, according
own. When I realized
changes in physical reality.”
to Levashov, is made up
that nobody would ever
of one’s etheric, astral,
fund the kind of research
and in some cases one or
that I wanted to do, I
went to Yale to become a psychiatrist of heightened mental intention to more mental bodies. (Levashov 1997,
with the thought that I would finance diagnose and effect changes in human 2000) Within six weeks of beginning
training I could heal people in a
my own experiments. After finishing cellular structure and physiology.
rudimentary fashion. That is, when I
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intended specific, simple changes in a
patient’s anatomy or physiology, these
changes would take place sometimes
right away and sometimes within hours
or days. I had not expected this.
Nicolai was teaching a new, exciting,
coherent paradigm. The didactic
material, derived from his knowledge as
both scientist and clairvoyant, included
information from physics, biology and
his own understanding of the role of the
spirit in its interaction with the physical
world. His concept of a “vital energy”
as the basis of life functions and as
operative in the healing process readily
resonated with my personal belief
system, professional training and
practice. Despite my mechanistic,
reductionist, traditional medical
education I learned that subtle energies
were real.
The transformational work was hard to
objectify when I first experienced it. I
perceived a marked increase in
sensations of energetic currents
throughout the body which felt like
electricity, especially in the brain. At
the end of each class I felt light-headed,
and while driving home my focus was
sharper and I could see greater distances
into the night. Other students
described what sounded like out-ofbody experiences and altered states of
consciousness. In time, as the
transformation continued and we
became capable of manifesting certain
anomalous abilities, it seemed as though
Nicolai had inserted a bundle of
paranormal abilities into each of us
“To Reich, blue was the color of
orgone energy which he described as an
energy field around the body. You can
see this at times for yourself with the
energy exercise of putting your hands
together and moving them apart. In
certain lighting you can see a bluish
glimmer between your hands.
Although it can manifest at the
physical level, orgone energy, according
to Reich, is a mass-free energy called
prana or chi in other traditions. It
exists in an “intangible physical
domain.” (Jahn & Dunne 2001)
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R ICHARD A. B LASBAND from which we could choose what we
wanted to use when in the healing
mode. We could turn this mode on and
off at will.
In the process of transformation Nicolai
advances the student’s brain and
spiritual bodies so that they have new
“qualities.” Students acquire the ability
to detect information that was
previously not available through the
ordinary senses, and they also become
able to influence and change the
physical and spiritual bodies of others
both while near them and at a distance
(non-locally). When seeing in this way,
it appears to me to take place on a
screen that is located somewhere in the
forebrain. It is the same place where we
“imagine” – but this is not mere
imagination. Initially, however, it was
difficult to distinguish between ordinary
imagination and the newly acquired
ability to see inside the body. After all,
I was a physician and knew what livers,
bones, and thyroid organs should look
like. In time, however, I began to trust
what I was seeing in my mind’s eye,
recognizing how it corresponded to
objective reality.
By the end of the formal training, I
found that I had developed several new
capabilities. One of these was the ability
to see pathology in cells and organs
inside a person’s body. I learned to send
out a signal from my mind to a target
within the patient’s organism and then
wait for information to return. I also
became able to “program” myself for
what I wished to see. For example, I
could program myself (or ask) to see the
heart either as static or beating, with the
pathology revealed as it is either in the
present or as it was at a prior time when
the disease process was just beginning.
I can now even program the inner
screen to see the coronary arteries as
prominent, or cholesterol plaques as
yellow, or electrical impulses stimulating
the heart muscles as green and also to
see their electrical integration with subbrain structures, and so forth. It is also
possible to fast-forward the screen to
check the possible result of a healing
intervention in advance. In this way one
can “try out” possible healing programs
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without actually putting them into
action to find out whether they will
work.
In the first few years after the formal
course, my “seeing” was weak in color
intensity, two-dimensional, and fuzzy.
After utilizing Nicolai’s method for a
couple of years, I found that I was
seeing more three-dimensionally, in
more vivid color, with spontaneous
movement appearing in the organ
systems. I could see “subtle energy”
(“primary matters” according to
Levashov) moving from my hand to the
organ system in question. I could “feel”
a resistance to my hand as I moved it
near the body (or a holographic image
of the patient’s body in non-local work)
in sensing various components of the
physical and/or spiritual body of the
patient. All of these qualities fortified
my impression of a multi-dimensional,
solid structure of the spiritual aspect of
the organism working in unity with its
physical component.
I can, at will, open or close down the
healing apparatus in my brain and
spiritual bodies. When it is open, the
apparatus feels like I am wearing a large
cap of weighted energy and it appears in
my mind’s eye like a large, rainbowcolored, three-dimensional “crown” of
intertwined bands of glowing energy.
In making a diagnosis and following the
progression of a patient’s healing I pass
my hand over the body without
touching it while asking to see various
organ systems that lie beneath my hand.
Having obtained a diagnosis, I can then
ask for the kinds and quantities of
primary matters that I need to project
to that aspect of the cellular pathology
as it exists on the spiritual level. I then
ask whether I have the capability to
initiate this projection. If not, I then
have to search for alternative methods
to correct the problem.
Once a solution is found, my projection
of the correct qualities and quantities of
primary matters to manifest my
intention will, in time, bring about
changes on the physical level. For
example, given a sensitive patient with a
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R ICHARD A. B LASBAND “...spontaneous remission often occurs in people who
change their lives dramatically. The remissions occur
because of changes made at the spiritual level.”
heart problem and the correct program,
it is possible to remove scarring or
plaque throughout the coronary arterial
system, rebuild or regenerate infarcted
coronary muscle, or return a disorder of
rhythm to normal. Having effected the
desired changes, it is then necessary to
balance out the brain and any other
organ systems physiologically associated
with the “healed” organ. If this is not
done, the organism, which always
functions as a unity, will revert to its
previous pathological state.
From a review of the literature on healing
it appears that most healers work by
giving energy and assume that the
patient’s organism knows what to do with
that energy. I think this is a questionable
assumption. There is evidence that
healing changes may be made for a while,
but since the energy input can cause an
imbalance, the organism will compensate
in ways that result in other kinds of
illness. Also, after childhood, the organism
likes to remain unchanged. Homeostasis
rules, so there can be a return to the
previous, familiar state. It is absolutely
necessary, in my opinion and experience,
to balance the changes induced in one
organ system with changes in other organ
systems, the brain, and the spiritual
bodies. Using Levashov’s method the
healer effects change on many levels
simultaneously so that the organism is
completely balanced and the tendency to
relapse is at a minimum.
Spiritual phenomena definitely affect
health. They first come in on the
mental and astral levels, and if they
persist they begin to work their way
down to the etheric level which is a
blueprint for the physical level. Once
cells begin to reproduce at the physical
level, they are informed by the etheric
level and distortions will appear. Trauma
and toxins which affect the physical level
also appear on the etheric level, and that
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is one reason chronic diseases can be so
hard to cure using traditional methods
like biochemicals, antibiotics or surgery.
When you effect a change on the
physical level but no change has been
made on the subtle body level, there is a
tendency to relapse. We can see this, for
example, with cell reproduction in
cancer: processes on the physical level
follow the informational blueprint that
exists on the etheric level. This is the
reason that cancer can come back
around the time that cells normally
reproduce which averages between five
to seven years.
The corollary to this is that spontaneous
remission often occurs in people who
change their lives dramatically. The
remissions occur because of changes
made at the spiritual level. So change
goes both ways – from the astral to the
physical via the etheric and directly
from the physical to the etheric level.
Two disorders that I will not treat until
I have further developed my healing
potential are most cancers and
extremely virulent infections such as
AIDS. One reason for this is that I do
not have a strong enough “shield” to
protect myself from acquiring these
diseases from the patient if I open
myself up to them as a healer. We all
have shields made of circulating
primary matters that serve as a buffer
between the outside world and
ourselves. In chronic illness our shield
weakens, permitting the entry of a
variety of physical and non-physical
agents and agencies into our system. In
turn, these can cause havoc with our
energy metabolism, further draining us
of vital energy. In healing it is of critical
importance to sustain one’s shield as a
protection against the patient’s disease.
It is of more than passing interest that
healers often succumb to the combined
effects of their treatments of others, and
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that some physicians, such as
oncologists, have an unusually high
incidence of cancer.
Levashov has returned to Moscow, and
as far as I know, is no longer teaching
his healing methods. While it is hard,
tiring work, using what I learned with
him is very satisfying. I am effecting
changes in patients on a far deeper level
than can be obtained with the usual
methods of allopathic medicine, and
without subjecting patients to the
deleterious toxic by-products and side
effects of most drugs.
Richard Blasband,
M.D. practices in
Sausalito,
California. He
also conducts
research in
consciousness and
life energy at his
Center for
Functional
Research (www.functionalresarch.org).
With Dr. Dominique Surel he has
established the Institute for
Transformational Integration which
integrates the practical applications of
Hermetic Science and radiesthesia with
orgone therapy and healing.
[email protected]
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2. DemMeo, J. The Orgone Accumulator
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