Essene Apprentice Attunement

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Here are the instructions for the first attunement, which I will be conferring via distance working on Saturday, January 14, at noon, 6 pm, and midnight Eastern time. If you are planning to receive the attunement, please review the instructions below several times and follow them precisely.  Remember also that you need to have learned and practiced all the preceding material, and empowered your healing hands in the way already taught every day for at least the seven days prior to the attunement.

If you're just joining us now, you'll want to go back to the beginning of this sequence of posts and work through the whole series of posts. There will be other opportunities for attunement later on, so you haven't missed out. My plan is to get at least a few people initiated as Essene master teachers before the year is out, so that there'll be plenty of opportunities to learn and receive attunement in the future.

Got it? Here we go.

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Instructions for the Apprentice Attunement

To receive attunement as an Essene Apprentice, you will need to have learned and practiced all the Candidate and Apprentice lessons, as discussed in an earlier paper.

You will also need to choose some name of the Divine to invoke in your attunement. This may be a personal or an impersonal name.  If you have a relationship with a deity, you may choose to use the name of that deity. If not, you may use an impersonal term such as “the Divine” or “the Universe” in the relevant place.

If you have a religious or spiritual name distinct from your ordinary name, you may use this in the ritual, and there is a specific place for you to reference this in the attunement. If you intend to use your ordinary name, say your full name instead.

Approximately ten minutes before the attunement:

Dress comfortably, leaving the top of your head uncovered.  Sit in a comfortable position, with room for a person to stand behind as well as in front of you. Activate your palm centers as you have already learned to do. Then enter into meditation, using whatever method you have practiced.

At the time of the attunement:

Become aware of the initiator standing behind you. Hear the following questions being asked, and give the answers out loud.

            Question:          What is your intention?

            Answer:            To become the Healing Hands for (name of the Divine)

            Question:          By what name do you wish to be initiated?

            Answer:            (States religious or spiritual name, magical motto, or ordinary name)

The initiator then says:

            (Name) become now the Healing Hands of (name of the Divine). 

The initiator traces a secret sign on the crown of your head, and then says:

            (Name) receive now the Breath of (name of the Divine) to activate your Healing Hands. 

The initiator breathes on the crown of your head, and traces two more secret signs, then says:

            This will help you establish and support your Healing Hands. 

The initiator moves around you to stand in front of you and says:

            (Name) give me your left hand to receive the Triangle of Water and the Circle of Earth.

The initiator traces two more secret signs on your left hand, and then says:

            (Name) give me your right hand to receive the Triangle of Fire and the Circle of Air.

The initiator traces the same two secret signs on your right hand, and then says:

            In the name of (name of the Divine), I proclaim you Apprentice (Name).

This completes the attunement.

After the attunement:

Remain in meditation for a few more minutes to allow the attunement process to complete itself. For the weeks that follow, it is helpful to keep track of any new experiences you may have and to write down any unusual dreams you may recall.

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The following paper was given to newly initiated Essene apprentices:

Congratulations, Essene Apprentice!

Congratulations indeed in completing your attunement as an Apprentice.  Please review the previous lessons and continue your practices while you mature your first attunement. You can begin studying the Healer work at any time after you have received your Apprentice attunement.

You will experience several phenomenon as a result of your attunement.  Many of these will be personal and affect only you.  Some will be universal and are experienced by all Apprentice Essene Healers.

As you continue your daily practices with the Healing Breath you will begin to remember your dreams in more detail and you will find it beneficial to keep a dream journal as your dreams become more and more spiritual in nature.

 As you continue your daily practice with the Healing Breath your Third Eye will awaken more and more and you will begin to experience psychic phenomenon in different ways. Your hands will start to activate on their own without any conscious effort on your part and this is a sign you need to send somebody or something healing energy.  As you do reflexology with your own feet on a weekly basis, you'll begin to get some insights into the health and nutrition needs of your own body and you will find it helpful to act on these insights.  As you do foot reflexology with others you'll receive intuitive insights they will find helpful if you share your insights with them.

As you continue these practices you'll begin to feel them operate on a deeper and deeper level within yourself.

As you activate your hands on a daily basis, you'll find it easier and easier to activate them more and more quickly, with less and less conscious effort.  In a few weeks you will be able to activate your hands by thinking the symbols in your mind.  A few weeks later you will be able to activate your hands by an act of will without even thinking about the symbols.  Your hands will automatically activate during the day to alert you to the need for healing needed by another life-form (mineral, plant, animal or human on any plane) or by a situation in which you find yourself.

The more you work with the Essene teachings, the more of the healing energy of the Divine will flow through you.