The Modern Order of Essenes: Open Post
Feb. 9th, 2023 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
The first round of attunements for the Healer grade, the second grade in the MOE, are scheduled for Saturday, March 4. After that I'll begin posting the material for the Master grade. In the meantime, I'm putting up this open post so that people who have questions about the Essene material already posted have a place to do it. I've got a couple of very busy weeks coming up, so it's anyone's guess how regularly I'll be able to put through comments, much less respond to them! Still, I'll get to those tasks as circumstances permit. In the meantime, I'd encourage everyone who's interested in the Essene work to keep practicing the Blessing Walk, the Healing Breath, the two forms of reflexology, and the work with the healing centers in the hands. Given the state of the medical industry these days, getting skilled at a method of spiritual healing that requires no resources other than your own body, mind, and spirit seems rather sensible to me just now...
Essene Energy/Reiki - - - Difference?
Date: 2023-02-09 09:47 pm (UTC)I'm still digesting (or is it digesting me?) the attunement you gave in early January, and reading/re-reading the lessons prior this one. I'm happy to see that the coming attunement is a month away, as that may give me time to be ready. I don't feel I am now, even though technically I seem to meet the requirements.
Two questions, if you please:
If I remember correctly, John Gilbert was a Reiki master. I'm a level 2, and have practiced Reiki casually for several years. Ten minutes or so here and there, for friends and family. Unlike the Essene energy, which seems to just pop into my hands when it wants to be used, in my experience Reiki prefers to be called.
1) Do you know how John Gilbert viewed the difference between Essene energy and Reiki?
2) Do you know how he determined which energy to tap into/call on?
Thanks as always,
OtterGirl
Timing of Healer Attunement
Date: 2023-02-10 12:53 am (UTC)As for the Healer attunement, do you anticipate similar times on March 4th as you did for the Apprentice attunement, or is that a problem for Future-JMG to work out?
Cheers,
Jeff
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Date: 2023-02-10 11:52 pm (UTC)Re: Essene Energy/Reiki - - - Difference?
Date: 2023-02-11 05:12 pm (UTC)I'm reiki 2 myself (though reiki seems to work whenever i touch something).
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Date: 2023-02-11 05:34 pm (UTC)Terms and meditations
Date: 2023-02-11 05:48 pm (UTC)One way or another, i do love the cris/cross between the parents and their offspring being spirit above and below. A very suggesting scheme.
Re: Essene Energy/Reiki - - - Difference?
Date: 2023-02-11 06:12 pm (UTC)I will say I just did the level 2 initiation in reiki and it knocked me out for multiple weeks incl a flu for a week. Weirdly regular medicines didn't do anything on it so it was an energetic flu of some sort that hopped up my physical body.
Really did feel like a current passed through me. Feeling much more emotional balance now but the energetic sensations are still absolutely wild (and this is 4 weeks in after levelling off from week 2).
(I am told I am having an unusually intense reaction/detox thanks to reiki).
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Date: 2023-02-11 08:01 pm (UTC)I have always felt like I have always been, yet also wished or never desired to be born.
But I am not sure that is true. Perhaps the desire not to be began when at the age of 2, I was taken from the 2 adults I thought were my mother and father, by my “real parents” who then physically abused me for more than 14 years. Like I was a puppy they had bought.
I have believed in God or a God or some sort of Divine being since I can first remember.
When I was in Kindergarten I remember they asked me what or who did I think God was?
I answered the Sun.
The teacher said, that was a pretty good answer, but wrong.
I didn’t really believe her answer, whatever it was.
My favorite song at the time was. “God Sees the Little Sparrow Fall.”
At 16 I wanted to be a priest or a monk.
And then a biology teacher had me read “Silent Spring” and “African Genesis.”
Those two books messed me up.
I am sure they were not the only 2 things messing with me at the time.
I have never stopped believing in God or the Divine, but I have a hard time accepting the evil, or the suffering in our world.
I can believe that all emotions, all health are a choice of what to believe. And if I choose to believe correctly, I will feel better and be healthier.
But I cannot deny there is a lot of “not good” in the world and I don’t know what to do about it, or how to accept it?
My own brother is a cruel Murderer who, after he dies, could easily be promoted to Sadistic Torturer in Hell. I believe, to use terminology, he is a psychopath.
And his influence has distorted my whole family, who want to “worship him” and believe he is “a most successful businessman”, rather than admit the opposite. Except my now dead father, who was the only one who remorsefully saw my brother truly, and asked me, “How can he be (a murderer?). From the same mother and father? (There are 5 younger than me)
I too, in opposition to my father believed, or wanted to believe, “my brother was a success story”, “How could a murderer be related to me?” until I saw his actions and behavior up close. He could have acknowledged his wrong (the murder) and tried to atone for it and make amends for it in the rest of his life. Instead he doubled down, and became even more evil, and has I believe been guilty of several more murders. (I now say he became what he always was. Though that might not be true either.)
My brother, also sometimes seems as if he could be a model or prototype for what is most wrong with the U.S.A.
I ignore him, but I still have a problem with what is wrong in the world.
I do not understand, Why Evil even exists?
Nor can I conceive how the Divine can be separated from it. If there is Evil then the Divine must have willed it and be part of it.
I sometimes think we as humans are like a bowl which can only contain the divine and the good.
If we contain evil it corrodes and corrupts, and nothing is contained, everything leaks out, and all that is touched is rotted.
I sometimes feel like a Job who after all that happened to him believes still, but questions it.
I sometimes wonder why anything exists at all?
There is so much suffering.
And there is much Good. Every breath I take is Air that was provided me. Every drink of Water is the Good. The Fire of the Sun makes all possible. The Earth under my feet provides food and allows me to stand and be. And they were all given to me so that I may exist. As well as everything else good in the world.
I sometimes believe that everything is On/Off, on different cycles.
Some are very very fast on/off, some are very very slow.
A human life is one such cycle.
On the other hand sometimes I believe existence blinks in and out of existing so fast we can’t perceive it, a thousand million times between each breath.
I sometimes wonder if even the Divine is not sure whether or not the Divine wants to be, as if when the Divine is, the Divine wishes to not, and when the Divine is not, the Divine wishes to be.
I still believe, but like a Job with questions.
Even though I do understand, or see, how my own perceptions color everything.
And perhaps, it is possible, this is why I was born, I have been arguing this more than 50 years.
I am continuing to practice.
And re-read the lessons.
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Date: 2023-02-12 12:08 am (UTC)Re: Essene Energy/Reiki - - - Difference?
Date: 2023-02-12 01:56 am (UTC)For example, yesterday I accompanied my husband to a physical therapy appointment. Several tables away from him was a woman with an injured knee, working with a physical therapist to straighten her leg. She was clearly in distress - - - nearly in tears. My hands warmed and "buzzed" and it seemed they wanted me to get them on it, but of course how bizarre would that be for everyone concerned but me? So I sat there, turned my palms outward in her direction, my arms lying on the armrests of my chair, and hoped that helped. Who knows?
Another example: While my husband recuperates at home from a serious illness, one of his legs is in distress from edema. Home treatments like elevating the legs has made an enormous difference. Every afternoon, as I sit next to him, sooner or later my hands "buzz" and I just clap them on his affected leg. Sometimes this makes his leg twitch involuntarily. Often husband says he feels the energy travel up to his abdomen. He's banned me from doing this after late afternoon, because the energy keeps him up at night.
These are datapoints (so far) for what I hope will become a growing collection from me and others...
OtterGirl
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Date: 2023-02-13 08:03 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 2023-02-13 11:01 pm (UTC)To your knowledge, would the blessing walk, when directed toward a particular person, ever irritate the dark intentions of a malevolant spirit attached to that person enough to make the spirit retaliate? Like the way someone possessed might lash out when blessed? Just trying to get a handle on a recent experience.
Thank you for your time and knowledge.
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