Healers & Healing

I would like to practice true Psyche-atry.

Psyche is from the root BHES – to breathe. The Greek psukhein, to breathe gave us psukhe, soul. (The Latin halare, from the same root, gave us inhalation and exhalation – and halitosis.)

The word safety comes from the Latin salvus and it means to be healthy, whole, uninjured therefore without fear, without stress. When you feel safe, you have no fear and therefore no stress.

This relates to meditation, in that it has been said that the feeling of meditation is like the feeling of going home: a

Psychoanalysis, and all the other psychologies, are concerned with what I call the superficial unconscious of admixed love and hate. All the effort is to reduce the hate and so increase the love.

But always there will be some hate remaining, never only love. Never transcendental.

They do not Know that there is a Deep Unconscious

Hindu sages speak of finding “the Unseen through the seen” — looking past the physical to perceive the divine, cosmic reality that lies behind it.

As with sages, so with healers.  The Unseen within us is the Soul and the task of every healer is to find it within every sufferer.  The true healer is a

No martial arts warrior has ever been as skilled in self-defense as the sufferer who does not dare to look inside.

He defends with wondrous, instantaneous, almost reflexive katas, deflecting every attempt to help. He misprocesses them all as attacks – and then, lightning-fast, he counterattacks.

And all to guard against the Truth – that he is

It is love that banishes all the negative emotions. It is love that invokes the spirit and activates the life energy. It is love that balances our brains and makes us creative. And it is love for our true self, for the self that we can be, that drives us on to want to be

It’s said that the basic intention behind all spiritual endeavors is reconciliation with God.

I can’t directly reconcile you with God – but I can with your mother.

And to us all, our mother is God – as God on earth. For she was, and still is, our holiest intimation of the Divine.

The way to God is

A healer is like a magnifying glass, concentrating and focusing the rays of the sun so as to cause the sufferer’s heart to burst into flame.

And he must always remember that the glass is never the sun.  And also that the cleaner the glass, the better it functions.

And he must be constantly aware of

I believe in distant healing: that a sufferer can be helped by a healer directing Spirit to him, however physically separated they may be.

And I believe that the healer is but a channel for the Spirit: invoking It into himself, concentrating It, then focusing It and directing It out into the sufferer.

And I believe

The saint says that the secret of life is Love, and our task, as was his, is to learn the secret.

But why does he tell us – for telling goes only to our brains? He didn’t learn by being told, and neither will we.

There is, however, another telling –