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With this lesson we reach the end of the material I was given as an initiate of the Modern Order of Essenes. Like all the teachings I received from John Gilbert, these are a little disjointed and visibly incomplete -- John had many gifts but a talent for order and systematization was not among them. Since healing isn't a major focus of my work, I don't have the kind of broad knowledge of the field I was able to put to work filling out John's Golden Dawn system to create the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose. What this means, O students and initiates of the revived Modern Order of Essenes tradition, is that the growth, development, and flourishing of this material is up to you. With this post, I've finished passing on the instructional material, and as time permits I plan on turning it all into a set of PDFs that can be hosted online and circulated freely. (This may be a while -- I'm currently doing final edits on all but one of my novels as they make the transition to their new publisher!) The material in these posts, and in the PDF version still to come, will keep you busy for a good long time -- but as you work with it, you have the responsibility and the privilege of adding to it, adjusting it, and helping it become the greater system of spiritual healing that it can be.
Also, a reminder: the next Apprentice Attunement will be this Saturday, April 8. Full instructions for preparing for the attunement can be found here. My current plan is to do the attunement working at noon and 6 pm Eastern daylight time. If you cannot be available at one or the other of these times, let me know soonest and we can try to work something out.
I will schedule a Master Healer Attunement in the next few weeks, and another round of Healer and Master attunements in the months ahead. In the meantime, I know some of you are already doing the work to qualify for Master Teacher status, which will enable you to confer the attunements yourself; once you are in the last month of the Gnostic Lessons, let me know and we'll make arrangements for the final initiation and certification.
With that, let's proceed to the instructions.
Essene Ear Reflexology
OVERVIEW
Essene Ear Reflexology is based on the fact that our right ear is a reflection of the right side of our body and the left ear the left side. The bottom of the earlobe (while sitting or standing upright) represents that side of the top of our head. The outside edge of our ear is reflected to that side of the spine. The base of our spine is all the way around our outer ear. From there reflexologists differ a great deal as to what part of the ear reflects to what part of the body.
There are many schools of thought about where on the physical body the points on the ear refer. It seems that each school of reflexology has their own opinion. The chart below is one approach to ear reflexology.
As you can see, the ear lobe is said to refer to the face, sinuses, brain and body reflexes. The ear rim is basically used to identify body warmer points and a [point for kidney stones. Using the Essene Ear Reflexology approach the ear lobe and rim is said to refer to the mental or intellectual body
Notice the points on the hard cartilage ridge include the feet, toes, heel, ankle, hands and arms. This ridge runs all the way down to the upper back, neck and forehead according to this chart. The rest of the inside part of the outer ear contains points for the kidney, liver, spleen, stomach and ears and tonsils. The Essene Ear Reflexology approach is to include all of this area as referring to the spiritual body.
That's the major difference between reflexologists who refer the ear to the physical body and the Modern Essenes. While reflexologists carry on lengthy conversations as to where which points are on the ear, the Modern Essenes see the ear as a window to the intellectual and spiritual bodies. It may be one system is correct, but in working with many reflexologists for many years, we're convinced both systems work.
Over the years, Essene Reflexologists have discovered the ear is most useful in identifying mental and spiritual issues. The mental issues all turn up in the lobes and outer rims of the ear. The outer rim is that portion of the outer ear that goes along the edge of the ear from the lobe up and over the top. Part of the outer rim is bent and part of it between the outer edge and the hard cartilage toward the front of the ear is bendable. This hard cartilage is the boundary between the mental and the spiritual.
The inner portion of the outer ear, that part between the entrance to the middle ear and the hard cartilage ridge is the spiritual reflex area. The outer portion of the outer ear between the cartilage ridge and the rim of the ear is the mental reflex area. The inner portion is an area about the size of a penny. The rest of the outer ear is the outer portion.
Advanced Essene Healing Techniques
Mastery of five advanced healing techniques is required of all Master Essene Healer candidates. These are listed here and explained below:
1. The Essene Healing Touch
2. The Essene Healing Voice
3. The Essene Healing Presence
4. The Healing Breath of Love
5. The Essene Astral Blessing Walk
THE ESSENE HEALING TOUCH
The Essene Healing Touch was part of your first attunement when you received empowerment and activation of your Essene Healing Hands of Love. You were cautioned at that time to refrain from using the Essene Healing Touch. This was done for a number of reasons:
1. Recipients may misconstrue your intentions
2. Touching tends to diminish the healing power of beginners
3. The energy transmitted through the Essene Healing Hands of Love becomes stronger as the attunement matures
4. The energy transmitted through the Essene Healing Hands of Love becomes stronger with practice
5. The Apprentice Essene Healer gains confidence in his or her ability to transmit the Divine healing energy to others with practice
Most Essene Healers, and a few Apprentice Essene Healers, eventually reach the point where they feel comfortable touching others while transmitting the Divine unconditionally-loving, healing energy to others using the Essene Healing Hands of Love technique. Doing so is to use the Essene Healing Touch. No further attunement nor activation is required.
THE ESSENE HEALING VOICE
The Essene Healing Voice may be activated by establishing yourself in the Essene Healing Breath, activating your Essene Healing Hands of Love, placing the four Elemental signs of Earth, Water, Fire and Air on your throat with your right index finger, and tapping your third eye three times with that same finger. The other symbols for this activation were placed in your energy field during your Essene Healer attunement.
To repeat, the steps to activate your Essene Healing Voice are:
1. Establish yourself in the Essene Healing Breath
2. Activate your Essene Healing Hands of Love
3. Place the four Elemental signs on your throat
4. Tap your third eye three times
To activate your Essene Healing Voice, touch the soft part of your throat at the top of your chest between your collar bones and beneath your Adam's apple. Do this after you activate your Essene Healing Hands of Love. We recommend you activate your Essene Healing Voice every morning as part of your daily routine.
To use your Essene Healing Voice anytime during the day first activate your Essene Healing Hands of Love and then your Essene Healing Voice. This can be done by clasping your hands together in any manner where your Essene Healing Jewels come together and feeling the energy flow. Then touch your throat activation point. With practice either or both of these steps can be done mentally without physically touching these points.
The Essene Healing Voice is used to calm all emotions and passions of every kind by speaking softly and lovingly with the empowering healing energy flowing through you. As you master this technique, you'll feel the healing energy flowing through your hands, heart, three eyes and mouth. Speak the words you need to speak to gain the attention and confidence of the listener. You can calm all emotions and passions even if the person is in a panic or uncontrollable rage at the time. Stay calm and speak with Divine authority.
THE ESSENE HEALING PRESENCE
The Essene Healing Presence, the capacity to heal simply by our physical or spiritual presence, is attained by using the Essene healing techniques generally, while practicing whatever other spiritual practices are relevant to our path. Ideally, the Master Essene Attunement should be taken after the candidate has attained the Essene Healing Presence quality of being. But this rarely happens. Some of us require the Master Essene Attunement in order to empower and activate our Essene Healing Presence. Most of us need more time to empower and activate our Essene Healing Presence; and this time can better be spent healing others by using the advanced healing techniques.
Therefore, the reality is most of us will achieve the Essene Healing Presence only after receiving our Master attunement and practicing the Essene healing arts.. No special benefit accrues for the fortunate few who master this technique earlier. Eventually all Master Essene Healers will attain this status with daily practice.
THE ESSENE HEALING BREATH OF LOVE
The Essene Healing Breath of Love is exactly the same process as the healing breaths used by the Essene Healer except that the unconditional love of the Divine is used in addition to acceptance and forgiveness. Please review these two techniques and apply the same principles to love.
1. Essene Healing Breath of Acceptance
2. Essene Healing Breath of Forgiveness
The Essene Healing Breath of Love is also used to empower and attune others. When you teach another person how to use an Essene Healing Technique, you may empower them to use that technique by using the Essene Healing Breath of Love. This is done by standing behind the person and physically blowing air onto the crown of their head while doing the Essene Healing Breath of Love with that intention.
The Essene Healing Breath of Love also includes the Essene Healing Breath of Acceptance and the Essene Healing Breath of Forgiveness within it. When the Essene Healing Breath of Love is used, both acceptance and forgiveness are included in the energy of unconditional love.
Daily practice with the Essene Healing Breath of Love can include any personal work desired. As an Essene Healer or Master Essene Healer we are challenged and encouraged to continue accepting, forgiving and loving every person, place, event, or thing in the creation unconditionally. We all continue this work until we do accept, forgive and love the Divine Creation in its entirety.
THE ESSENE ASTRAL BLESSING WALK
The Essene Astral Blessing Walk is the same as the Essene Blessing Walk except that it is done during the Essene Healing Breath. When you reach the highest state of relaxation and meditative awareness, imagine yourself walking out of your body into the astral plane. In all other respects the astral walk is similar to the physical walk.
There is one difference. With practice you'll find yourself actually walking in the astral plane leaving little steps behind that blossom into flowers of love. Do not fear this transition, look forward to it as part of your spiritual path. We suggest you walk in the astral several times to acquaint yourself with this part of your being. You can begin exploring it more whenever you're ready.
Our suggestion is to call in your Guardian Angel anytime you feel you want additional protection. Our second suggestion is to call in your spirit and animal guides when you're ready to start leaning more about yourself and the astral plane.
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Date: 2023-04-06 06:45 pm (UTC)I have no idea how this works, but it does work! At least I get sensations and the feeling of not budging when doing a healing hands session. That's cool.
My rational mind does get in the way, apparently it doesn't like doing things without a "how" and I wasn't aware of that.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-06 08:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-07 05:02 am (UTC)That leaves me with so many questions!
Forgive me if this is not the right place for it, but now that I think of it, when I am content with a "how" answer is because I get satisfied with having heard an explanation but it doesn't do much of anything besides the feeling that I know something or on the best scenario, that I can fit a new experience in terms of such a model but that's about as much. If I go one step further and ask what for; it seems a little useless most of the time. That's kind of a weird and somewhat arbitrary habit of thought when used blindly, but I do it all the time!
Wow. Okay. I'm showing way too clearly that I was trained as an engineer.
"How" seems like a useful question for understanding models, theorems --or their physical counterparts, machines. If I may ask, then, what is the mode of understanding that makes it possible to perceive outside the world of models and thus create such things as magical and healing techniques?
(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-07 05:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-06 08:50 pm (UTC)I received two attunements, one for aprentice healer and another for healer. In order to receive the Master healer attunement i need to complete the Gnostic lessons, and that will take me another 5 months. Then why are you scheduling a Master healer attunement in a few weeks?
(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-06 09:02 pm (UTC)0° Candidate
1° Apprentice
2° Healer
3° Master Healer
4° Master Teacher
The attunement that will be scheduled in a few weeks is for the 3°. You have to complete the Gnostic lessons before you receive the 4°.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-06 09:52 pm (UTC)And as always many thanks to you JMG.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-06 10:54 pm (UTC)I am LMT and feel very compelled to transmit this teaching once I have received all the attunments and training.
Having received training in other healing arts, I feel these teachings are one of the best I have encountered.
Once again thank you for for making this available 🙏
Overdoing It?
Date: 2023-04-06 11:01 pm (UTC)I need your advice on the intensity or scope of certain healing practices while still a novice. I have been daily practicing the healing breath meditation, healing hands techniques and the foot reflexology and/or hand reflexology daily from the time the lessons have been coming from you. I have been also picking up the bridge of love.
Each day during one of my healing hands I offer healing to myself and direct family members. So far so good. However, on Sunday, March 26, I decided to experiment with my healing hands by extending the unconditional love of the divine to a religious congregation of about 60 persons with whom I was participating in devotional singing at the time. Just to see what would happen. Nothing immediate seemed to happen. But what did happen – rather unusually for me – was to be broadsided by a highly unusual viral infection on Friday, March 31. I am still reeling from the infection which so far has been restricted almost entirely to my throat. Imagine the feeling of swallowing razor blades. All day and all night. All week. Not fun! I have used every trick in my homeopathic and herbal repertoires to surprisingly little benefit. Ordinarily on the rare occasion that I find a cold coming on I can scare it away between 12 – 36 hours after initial onset. Not this time. Maybe this sudden illness has no connection whatsoever with my experiment; but perhaps there is a connection – hence this question.
One thing that may be worth noting is that I am a strict lacto-vegetarian. I have steered away from picking up all forms of ritual magic based on your advice to vegetarians about the poor suitability of such a diet with the rigours of ritual magic (which was fine by me, as I am a mystic by temperament anyway). I had assumed/hoped that the healing techniques of the Modern Order of the Essenes would be sufficiently “high” in terms of the plane that it works on that it would not matter what one’s diet is. But I guess that now is the time for me to ask and see whether my assumption is correct.
Ron M
Re: Overdoing It?
Date: 2023-04-07 05:57 pm (UTC)As far as I know, the Essene healing system is not subject to the same issues as ritual magic, and many branches of Essene spirituality today are strictly vegetarian. (You might find the books of Edmond Bordeaux Szekely worth reading, for example -- he was an Essene and very deeply into the vegetarian diet.) So you should be fine. Well, provided you don't keep trying to lift shipping containers with your bare hands. ;-)
Re: Overdoing It?
Date: 2023-04-07 07:31 pm (UTC)Ron M
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Date: 2023-04-08 12:48 am (UTC)Also, how do you view this set of teachings in relation to Reiki? The healing hands and attunement process are obviously similar, though (as you are trained and attuned in both) I wonder about how they differ (other than the essene training being more robust.) I can save this for magic Monday if that is a more appropriate venue.
Thank you for your work in preserving and passing on this system.
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Date: 2023-04-08 02:17 am (UTC)2) Since I've never done Reiki, I don't know! I'll be very interested to hear from people who've done both, and can describe the similarities and differences.
(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-08 02:50 am (UTC)2. Oh, I mistakenly remembered you mentioning being reiki attuned in a comment thread long ago - well, I'll document my experience with both and see where it leads. :)
Question on Reflexology Sequencing
Date: 2023-04-08 01:00 am (UTC)A quick question, regarding organization and systemization: are the reflexology practices importantly linked with the grades with which they're presented? I ask because I've been saving a copy of all of the lessons, and I've given some thought to trying to clean things up and put them into a nicely-formatted pdf, and I had noticed the. . . disjointedness you mention, and tentatively started thinking about how to present things in a way that made more sense to me. One way of re-organizing things that might make sense would be by topic (here's the full progression for meditation, here's all the reflexology, and so forth), but if it's important to do first foot reflexology, then hands, then ears, I wouldn't want to lose that in any shuffling.
Thanks much!
Jeff
Re: Question on Reflexology Sequencing
Date: 2023-04-08 02:18 am (UTC)Healing Breath for Master Teacher?
Date: 2023-04-08 08:48 am (UTC)Just a quick question, planning ahead: I‘m preparing for the Master Teacher attunement. I worked with the Healing Breath mediation for a while, but went back to discursive meditation with the fourfold breath, since that works better for me.
In the text above, there is a side remark about using the Healing Breath to „attune“ others to certain things.
Will regular practice of the Healing Breath meditation be required to receive the Master Teacher attunement, or then to act as Master Teacher?
Thanks!
Re: Healing Breath for Master Teacher?
Date: 2023-04-08 06:34 pm (UTC)Thank You...
Date: 2023-04-08 04:37 pm (UTC)JPM
Re: Thank You...
Date: 2023-04-08 06:34 pm (UTC)Re: Thank You...
Date: 2023-04-09 04:36 pm (UTC)I read the first two chapters before bed last night. I love set up, the city, and Ariel getting away from her folks and the university trap to have a life of her own. Looking forward to reading the rest!
JPM
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Date: 2023-04-08 05:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-08 06:36 pm (UTC)You can repeat it at 6 pm if you wish -- there's no problem with doing that -- but you shouldn't need to.
Attunement complete
Date: 2023-04-08 10:13 pm (UTC)I just attended the latest attunement. Thank you for your work and getting this material out once again. My experience with the healing hands is "TSW". Several health issues within the family and our animals have been resolved since practicing the HH technique. What's funny about it is it seems to bring about the circumstances necessary for healing to happen. It seems to get things moving in the planes of cause which then brings about the desired effects in the lower planes (such as the material plane).
Looking forward to working on the Healer grade!
Tim PW
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Date: 2023-04-08 10:31 pm (UTC)