Okay, as comments seem to have slowed to a crawl, I'll do my duty as the official unelected Secretary to the as-yet unformed Council Of Modern Essenes, I'll take a moment to read back the notes of the meeting thus far. If I mischaracterize anyone's positions, do please correct me!
Team 1: PICTURE AND NAME ARE IMPORTANT FOR DISTANCE HEALING
1. Josh says he wouldn't even try a picture and name.
2. Cealin wants to know first name, approximate age, gender, and location, and prefers a photo. He'd also like to be able to follow up. He'd also like to be able arrange many people to be able to heal at the same time on someone.
3. Open_space splits the difference, maintaining that picture and real name are basically unimportant for general healing, but preferable for more serious or specific issues.
I have a question for Josh, Cealin, and anybody else who says that they feel they can't successfully send healing energy at a distance without a name and/or photo: Have you tried it? If so, what was your experience? (And if you haven't, perhaps you might try a small experiment before setting your mind against it.)
Also, Cealin's notion of arranging group healing sessions for special cases is worth trying out, I think, and I hope there will be some formal experiments in that direction if we soon organize a proper internet Order of Essenes group.
Team 2: EVEN JUST A HANDLE IS ENOUGH TO SEND HEALING
1. Open_space reports he was able to successfully send healing energy equally well with my name and picture, as he was with my handle. It's also noteworthy that he couldn't successfully get the energy to flow out of him when the one requesting healing remained completely anonymous.
2. Valerie also reports being able to send Healing Hands just as well to handles as to names (at least on her end).
3. Likeise jpc_w (at least on his end).
4. Likewise Milkyway (at least on their end).
5. It's true in each of these cases that we're not getting the perspective of the person being healed (or at least the healers haven't reported on it here); but it's worth noting that after handle-only Princess Cutekitten asked for healing in this very open post, two people reported that they sent healing (one of whom said it was their first experience sending to a "stranger" and it felt just like a one-on-one healing), and Princess Cutekitten reported great improvement the very next day.
There is one further "team", though it only has one person:
Team 3: COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS IS EVEN FINE
1. Breanna feels she is just as easily able to send Healing Hands to completely anonymous people for whom there isn't even a handle.
2. (But open_space has not shared this experience, and asked for more details; at the time at which I send this, Breanna has yet to reply.)
Finally: What should we do about creating an organized online MOE group, at which to pool requests, try out and share data with experiments, and keep communication lines open?
1. Open_space suggests forming a Healing Hands Council that would administer a Proton mail account, because of Proton's good security and anonymity practices.
2. Sarad suggests opening a MOE forum on the OSA website. Another anonymous (Kyle?) also offers to facilitate a permanent discussion space when they get back from their vacation.
As nobody else besides Sarad/Kyle(?) have offered or suggested other forum venues, may I put forward the motion that we take them up on the offer for now? If for some reason the facilities or atmosphere there seems insufficient, we could always make different arrangements later on, if necessary. Once regular meeting place is established for geographically diverse MOE practitioners who wish to stay in touch, I'm sure that the other notions we've talked about (an official shared mail account, various experiments) will follow quickly.
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Meeting Notes for this Open Post
Date: 2023-05-04 08:01 am (UTC)Team 1: PICTURE AND NAME ARE IMPORTANT FOR DISTANCE HEALING
I have a question for Josh, Cealin, and anybody else who says that they feel they can't successfully send healing energy at a distance without a name and/or photo: Have you tried it? If so, what was your experience? (And if you haven't, perhaps you might try a small experiment before setting your mind against it.)
Also, Cealin's notion of arranging group healing sessions for special cases is worth trying out, I think, and I hope there will be some formal experiments in that direction if we soon organize a proper internet Order of Essenes group.
Team 2: EVEN JUST A HANDLE IS ENOUGH TO SEND HEALING
There is one further "team", though it only has one person:
Team 3: COMPLETELY ANONYMOUS IS EVEN FINE
Finally: What should we do about creating an organized online MOE group, at which to pool requests, try out and share data with experiments, and keep communication lines open?
As nobody else besides Sarad/Kyle(?) have offered or suggested other forum venues, may I put forward the motion that we take them up on the offer for now? If for some reason the facilities or atmosphere there seems insufficient, we could always make different arrangements later on, if necessary. Once regular meeting place is established for geographically diverse MOE practitioners who wish to stay in touch, I'm sure that the other notions we've talked about (an official shared mail account, various experiments) will follow quickly.
All in favor, say "aye"!