The Core Spiritual Component
to Cultivating the Living Life Energies - Part 1
There is a path of cultivating skillfulness in developing the way of healing, that utilizes non-material means. On this path, sometimes the healing is instantaneous. This is because of the Life Spirit. Otherwise, most of the time as the skillfulness is developed, healing will work like it does in other healing therapies, over various amounts of time.
The path begins with the investigation of Truth, of spiritual big “T” Truth. A starting place are the writings of the founders of the world religions. But note that it is what They themselves said that points to this Truth, not what was added after their passing.
Non-material Healing…
Three types of energies are involved in spiritual healing, or healing by non-material means. The first is chi, the body’s own expression of life energies. Next is mind strength and the power of concentration, or what is called shen. Finally and most significantly, there are Powers that are outside oneself that are connected to us by the spirit of faith and the development of loving (spiritual) consciousness.
1. Chi is the weakest of the three components of spiritual healing. Despite this it can still help with tissue rebuilding and can be used as a way of practicing concentration as a basis for developing mind strength. It can also trigger the body’s immune body rhythm pattern correction and tissue rebuilding components by utilizing the body’s inherent energy system (the surface and internal meridian fields).
2. Mind strength itself which is developed through concentration is the second component. Mind strength, which though not the strongest component of spiritual healing, when fully developed, is much stronger than chi. Mind strength when combined with faith is a fairly potent healer and it works very well with chi as a conduit of higher powers.
3. Connected faith: A key factor to the deepening in the strength base of non-material healing is the most spiritual component itself. It is the development in one’s own character of a strong loving consciousness. Why is it necessary for this development? Because you cannot make yourself a significant instrument of healing if you do not embody the very energy of Goodness. This is accomplished by not cancelling out this Life Energy connection, or contradicting it within your own being, by being negative. What retards this development of healing? It is selfishness and self-importance over others and a lack of goodness in one’s heart, exhibited through behaviour, thoughts and actions.
Developing goodness in one’s own being is key. This means the elimination of characteristics and habits that are unloving and selfish, and the development of loving actions, thoughts and feelings. Embodying loving ways of being, doing and holding onto Goodness even in difficult or contradictory times is necessary. It is through loving consciousness that the real power that does what appears as miraculous, due to connection with the Life Source Energy.
Training in Direct Perception is the beginning of this higher training. One’s use of subconscious connects so well to the formations of life the that Life Force can be influenced directly. This involves creating a relationship with what some people call God. I know there is a lot of resistance in the world to the concept of God. For the most part it is the concept of God that people object to. They do not know the reality of God because they believe in false concepts regarding God, so they veil their minds, their being to the reality of this Power through their prejudices.
I do not believe in a God that “lets bad things happen” to good people or that “does not answer prayers for help.” For me, that is not what God is. To me, God is the Living Life Energy itself. God is the fundamental basis of all life and physical existence. I myself do not think that God is a being that grants wishes (prayers unskillfully performed or of self interest). I do not believe in a God that lets a lot of evil or harmfulness happen in the world. I do believe that it is people who do the harmfulness and evil, and that there are a lot of negative things that happen in the world that we don’t seem to have any control over or even understand. This is part of the bigger picture of karma. Some of it caused by selfish or evil humans. Some of it not.
I envision God as Living Sacred Energy that can be tapped into, something that can aid skillful people in life. It is not a wish granter. It is something that can be learned about and worked with. It works somewhat like the force in Star Wars. However, it is much more than that. How would anyone know of this with all the misunderstandings there are of this Greatness?
God is the essence of Goodness. I’ve spent decades learning about this. God is in Itself the source of pure Loving Consciousness. Loving consciousness is a true basis of fulfillment, but you have to leave behind self importance and ego. You do this leaving selfishness behind by abandoning what is not good in your character the best that you honestly can. Character change is achieved a little bit at a time, remembering to hold onto what you are learning of the Living Life Energy as the goal and source of connection to the Beauty in Life. You purposely develop a kinship with life. This Energy grows within you as you cling to remembering it and stay committed and focused upon it. You must be the goodness you want in your life.
Healing skill development is dependent upon levels of skillfulness that must needs be acquired. Why levels of skillfulness? Why even develop anything at all? Why doesn’t it just work when I want it to? You would not go to a mechanic who had read a couple of books or who took a few weekend workshops on fixing cars. You certainly would not go to someone who made it all up and then began advertising themselves as an expert. Expertise requires experience to build and tangible evidence to be real. You will know the skillfulness of mechanics by their abilities to do the work and clearly explain the how to to anyone wishing to learn or work with them. What we are talking about here is not wishful thinking or visualization. It takes the investment of one’s own time in life, focus of attitude, and energy to develop any level of true skillfulness.
Healing work often proceeds in ways that are not anticipated at first. Healing in general tends to be directed by an idea of what needs to happen. This can be without any idea of how it will actually happen. Sometimes there is only an inkling of what needs to be done. Often when it is turned over to this Greater Power it just seems to happen. At these early stages of developing healing skills, the what and how healing happens can be a complete surprise, or a even a mystery.
Getting to this place requires an investment into functional basic skills in spiritual healing. Preceding this is the development of the ability to emanate various chi energies themselves, accomplished through concentration and the cultivation of the base of power of intention. All of this necessarily and inevitably proceeds from loving consciousness, which requires a mind not dwelling on negativity, nor selfish wanting, and certainly not being emotionally reactive.
There are four levels of spiritual strength that begin from non-reactiveness.
More on this to follow…