Essene Healing Open Post

[ecosophia]

Longtime reader and commenter Tunesmyth, who coordinates the Ecosophia Prayer List, had a useful suggestion over on this week's open post on my main blog: 

"Over in the thread on the prayer list where this discussion first came up, there have now been two MOE practitioners who have piped in with somewhat different perspectives about what is desired or needful regarding bringing healer and those needing healing together via the internet. I am certainly happy to play a part in making something happen, perhaps integrating or linked with the current prayer list in some way. But I think there first needs to a bit more of a conversation between those who are planning to do this work about what they would like to see happening, exactly, when it comes to making a site, and/or possibly adjusting the “healing” section of the Ecosophia prayer list.

"JMG, might I suggest that you might start a new MOE thread on the Dreamwidth site in order to facilitate a discussion within the full MOE practitioner community about this?"

That strikes me as a very good idea. So -- let's have that conversation. Those of you who want to practice Essene healing online, what do you need to direct healings and blessings toward people who need it? Those of you who need healing, what level of contact are you comfortable having? What other issues might need to be addressed?  Have at it.
 

Comments

[tunesmyth]

Thank you, JMG, for providing a central place to bring conversation together!

My own understanding of the conversation as it has progressed thus far:

--We've definitely established that Healing Hands is sufficiently close to prayer that anyone who has requested general prayers for healing qualifies as having given consent enough to be sent Healing Hands.

--Ottergirl brings us the perfectly reasonable point that there is a big difference between approaching the act of Healing Hands as "prayer" vs approaching it as "treatment" (with a direct two-way communication between healer and recipient assessing progressing).

--Open Space seems to suggest that in his experience, Healing Hands is more effective when approached with a treatment modality, with knowledge by the recipient of when the deed is performed. (I'd like to hear data from others about this.)

--Whether or not this is true in practice for everyone, it seems clear from what JMG has written that Healing Hands is still an effective and worthwhile technique when performed "merely" as prayer; and furthermore, that provided that no advanced MOE techniques are used in conjunction with it, normal HH will not interfere with other forms of healing and energy work, and can be performed safely and effectively even without the recipient's conscious knowledge.

So perhaps through the course of this conversation, the consensus may form that it would be good to have a system whereby sick people could arrange for appointed times where they receive HH; or perhaps not. Either way, I think it's worth making crystal clear that anyone on the Ecosophia Prayer List under the "Health" subheading qualifies as having given consent for Healing Hands. Regardless of how far you've progressed in your MOE studies, any of you can freely offer HH to those people at any time you like.

Anonymized healing hands

[jpc_w]

When you brought up your prayer circle idea, I asked my patron deity if I could perform healing hands based on "whomever in [tunesmyth's] list has the greatest need". It was deemed acceptable, so I perform one as part of my practice, after I have dealt with my own issues and of those in my family circle.

Performatively, the healing hands operate slower than normal, but otherwise feel the same.

Re: Anonymized healing hands

[open_space]

That's a great way of focusing it! I will borrow that and also add a clause, "and to the ones that have received the least".

Re: Anonymized healing hands

[tunesmyth]

That's very clever, and I'm glad your deity accepted it. Thank you for making it a regular part of your practice, jpc_w.