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.
 

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Meeting Notes for this Open Post

[tunesmyth]

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.

All in favor, say "aye"!

Re: Meeting Notes for this Open Post

[(Anonymous)]

I just wanted to clarify that with „handle“, I meant anything I can focus on.

If this is just a post/comment by an anonymous person, then I‘ll focus on the person who posted it.

So I‘m in camp 3.

If it works the same, better or worse, for a completely anonymous recipient, I can‘t tell at this point - but it doesn‘t make a difference to me (and it doesn‘t seem to have an influence on how well the energy is flowing or not), and I trust that the divine will be able to make the connection even if I can‘t.

Thus an anonymous comment will do. The „handle“ is purely for me to have something to spell out and focus on, I can easily create that from the content of the request (like „for the person who had the such-and-such surgery recently“).

Milkyway

Re: Meeting Notes for this Open Post

[tunesmyth]

I see! Thank you for the clarification, Milkyway. If we do manage to get this conversation moved to its own forum, I'll repost the "meeting notes" there and edit that part to reflect what you've just said.