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Healer

From CHAPTER THIRTEEN

Healer

Many people over the years have commented on what they call my ‘healing gifts.’

I do not consider any of these abilities to be a biased gift from our heavenly Parent. After reading this book, I hope you will agree. Remember, we are all one complete idea of God called man/woman. These spiritual ideas are created in the image and likeness of God in perfect equality, understanding, and love. No one being is more or less—nor can they be. The talents that we appear to possess are tools given to us to use in the service of God and God’s children. These talents are lent to us to learn from and to help ameliorate the suffering of our sisters and brothers. Love is the motivating factor. Compassion is the driving force. Divine Principle is the equalizer.

In my healing work, the faculties that I have used on a daily basis for many years are not from some creator who has singled me out to receive what others have not. This is not only untrue, it is altogether impossible. So much of what we are and what we do comes from the choices we make over many live.

Choices can be like a grouping of pearls strung on a necklace. Some of these necklaces can be very small, with the same choice continually encountered through repeated, similar lessons. If this is so, then we are likely challenged with changing our lives and the selections we make.

Then, there is the longer necklace wherein different lessons are confronted to teach new lessons of life and love. We may have worked our way through many lessons already, making the right choices along the way, preparing ourselves for new and exciting challenges. No way is better or worse than another. The duration of time it takes to work through the necklaces does not matter to Truth, for time is not a consideration of Reality.

But in this world of temporal matter, time and space are not something we have the luxury to ignore. Lives come and go, and whether we believe in the laws that govern our little corner of the universe or not, they are still in fine working order. The choices we make are stepping stones that can lead on an upward spiral of spiritual progression or an endless mobius loop with little progress occurring.

Love is never lost nor wasted, even if the fruits of this love are unseen in this life. No good thought or deed is ever thrown uselessly upon the shores of our transitory world—eventually they will emerge from beneath the deep waves of time and space and ascend to life.

Life is a gift from our divine Parent and is our heritage in infinite Mind. In this world of matter, we temporarily borrow particles of elements for a brief while. We are given, through the experience of birth, a pattern of cellular structure called DNA, a family heritage, an identity, a purpose, and an opportunity to further our learning experiences. We are given the blessing of choice. No one is doomed or damned, as the principle of atonement is for all.

Appearances may do their best to inform us that our life or the life of someone else is just an inconsequential waste. This falsehood could not be further from the truth. All lives are a reflection of the one infinite Life.

Each individual reflected soul is slated to be involved in significant and meaningful lessons. The same opportunity for spiritual progression and the working out of karmic obligations is existent for all of God’s children. No single life is necessarily indicative of what the accumulative lives throughout many incarnations comprise. It is the sum of all these lives that constitutes the entire picture, just as it takes all of the pearls to compose the complete necklace. While some pearls may be larger and brighter, it is the collection of all the pearls that create the total strand.

Appearances are only transitory states of the individual. They are the impermanent and provisional building blocks of this one life that we are now living. What appears to be real in this instant may prove to be totally based upon a falsehood later. This material reality is fleeting and ephemeral. It is composed of the fabric of dreams and misconceptions, loss and gain, hopes and fears, and personal desire.

Life goes on after we have completed our experience within this form and identity. We will continue on in another, more subtle plane of existence. But it is still us, all the same. The transition mistakenly called death will not elevate or transfigure us from one state of consciousness to another more exalted position. What we learn and achieve here is what we will bring with us. No more and no less.

Love is the graduate course we are enrolled in as we live this life. Love is the prescribed curriculum of study, we, as an undivided spiritual family, are undertaking to master while on earth. We are one family, one tribe of humanity, one kindred clan. In the final analysis, we move on together, or not at all. Love is the glue that holds us unified as one perfect idea of our Father/Mother God. Who we are and what we do on a daily basis is what undeniably tells whether or not we have properly comprehended this fact. All of the public impassioned words, claims and speeches, will not make up for one small single act of true compassion committed in the dark of the night when no one knows but ourselves.

Love knows what Love knows and Love knows you.
It is the long chain of our choices that make up who we are—here and now. It is those consistent choices made over lifetimes that have woven our being, our human soul, our purpose, and pointed us toward our destiny and our earthly work.

When love is the motivating factor in our lives, then it is the calling of Truth that we fulfill. When power, acquisition, position, and control, are the motivating factors in our lives, then the earth will continue on its present difficult course.
The power of one in love is never alone. This one love is the one love of God. One on the side of God is a majority. All true power is from our divine Parent. God gives dominion over all that is good and like God—to care for and to protect. God also gives dominion over all that is unlike God—to change it to be in accord with Principle.

The momentum that we create during our lives propels us forward toward a grand goal, a prize that we may know nothing about at this time, but are laboring toward just the same. It may appear that we are working just for ourselves, but one day finally, we stop looking only in the mirror and turn around and see hungry hearts everywhere. We consider—duh!—what have we been thinking about? How could we have been so myopic. It’s time to get out of the mirror (shattering it is better—shattering the sense of personal self ) and get on with the show, so to speak.

Until all are liberated, no one is truly liberated. There is a very sacred vow called the Vow of the Bodhisattva, wherein the individual soul who decides to take this vow agrees to come back again and again until the work of Love is complete in this world, and all brothers and sisters have moved onward and upward upon the path to Heaven. All will then be saved from the ravages of the misunderstandings of sickness, death, and the poverty of separation from our divine Parent.

In the healing practice, I strive to make the most of my natural abilities which are continually helpful in aiding others to become pain free and well. Several modalities are employed for healing. These include Freeing—a healing bodywork, natural herbal medicines which I design and produce, shamanic healing in Dreamtime, and pure metaphysical healing. Further detail about these modalities will be discussed in chapters to come. For now, I would like to share my experience as a healer.

Most people consider me both a healer and a medical intuitive, to use the popular term. Over the past few years, most of the work, in terms of physical healing, has been with the modality of Freeing, also known as Rapid Pain Elimination. At the time of this writing, I have practiced this form of healing continually for more than a quarter of a century. I like to say a quarter of a century. It makes me feel like a time-honored institution.

To limited degrees, I do have the ability to perceive within the body. No, it is not like Superman with x-ray vision. This natural faculty has been specifically adapted to healing work. Bones, connective tissue, thickened tissue called adhesions, misalignments, and more are envisioned; also seen are situations in which unnatural stresses occur, where bones do not articulate properly, and the best of all—how to heal these problems. This ability is not active all of the time. It is selective when and where to use it, just the way that you focus your own vision on what it is you choose to see.

The way that bones want to be gently shifted, and the way that tissue requires to be moved for healing is also felt. I endeavor to listen and hear what God is telling me about each and every person, for infinite Love is always communicating to us what is true and real about all of divine Mind’s creations.
We always start with what is correct about the person—beginning rightly. We never start with what is wrong. By knowing from the inception that each and every person is already a perfect image and likeness of God, we begin above the seeming problem or difficulty. If instead, we focus on the problem, we call it real and it can be much harder to heal. To even accept an effect (symptom) as being real is giving it credence and life. The only life that sickness and pain possesses is the life that we give it. We begin with God as the only cause and the only effect.

Many healing professionals begin with the problem and attempt to correct what appears to be wrong. We must always start with what God knows about our patient. If we know what is true, it is far easier to know what is not true. If we know the correct answer to a math problem, we can efficiently see which is the wrong answer and how the mistake occurred. To God there is no problem, since God does not recognize any creator apart from Himself. It is the best position that a healer can take to be continually effective.

When healing, power is never given to the difficulty. I start by knowing that there is no problem since there was never any cause other than God and all that God causes is good. With this understanding, one is better able to know what God knows about their patient, and that the illness or pain is not really who they are. Then the healer is in a far better position to help their patient to heal using whatever modality is best suited for the healing. To know God as cause and effect is to be above the seeming mortal dilemma that occurs in human mind and nowhere else. Begin with what God knows and all troubles can cease to be in the light of the undeniable understanding of Truth.

I believe in alleviating suffering for everyone, striving to choose for each person the correct modality to produce a healing as efficiently as possible. I do not believe that we should attempt to force our personal spiritual beliefs on another—or make it conditional to their healing. The attitude should be healer first and foremost, alleviating pain and illness, discomfort and suffering.

Healing a Broken Neck

The following is a testimonial.
“ In 1981 I broke my neck. The doctors fused C6 and C7 together, pinching a nerve. This left me in constant pain with about fifty percent rotation. Added to this injury, I was placed in a halo vest, a device to hold up my head, stabilized with four bolts inserted three quarters of an inch deep into my skull. In the spring of 1983, I met Elijah and began treatments with Freeing (Rapid Pain Elimination). After three sessions with Elijah, I was pain free and my rotation completely restored. Elijah completely repaired the incorrect fusion of my vertebrae, restored my complete neck function, and enabled me to lead a normal life. I later went on to lift weights and regained all of my strength and nerve functions and resumed my career as a carpenter. My friends and family were totally blown away. When they asked their doctors, they were told this was physically impossible.

“ Today, my neck is fine and I am healthy and fully functional as a contractor. Thanks to Elijah and Freeing.”

DANIEL O’CONNOR

When Daniel first came to see me, he was in severe pain from the cervical fusion procedure that he received after breaking his neck in a diving accident. He was in his early twenties at the time and extremely concerned he would be in pain for the rest of his life. When the fusion was complete, the vertebrae were severely out of proper alignment and compression had occurred. Because of this, there was constriction of proper blood and oxygen supply to his brain. Daniel also suffered from a severe lack of rotation where the misaligned vertebrae had been surgically fused together.

At the first visit, most of the pressure was relieved from his neck, reducing a good portion of the consistent pain. He expressed his gratitude when much of the function and mobility of the cervical column was restored, resulting in a better blood supply.

The second visit, Daniel was accompanied by a friend who had requested to watch. It has always been my general preference to not have observers while I heal, but this time it was allowed. My healing room at that time was large and spacious. The sun was pouring in the windows and everything was bathed in a golden glow. There was a certain something to the air, that indefinable feeling that goodness was all around and undeniable.

I was working with Daniel while he was sitting up, which facilitates a proper body alignment due to gravity. Sitting up also gives the neck and the cervical system its correct stacking.

This day is remembered so clearly. I said to Daniel, “Let’s unfuse your neck now.” He turned his whole body toward me, since he could not turn his neck that far and just looked at me for a moment. He blinked, and turned back. “Okay,” he said. His friend was staring wide-eyed.

I put my hands on his neck and the air filled with a rose pink light that suffused the entire room. It was a lovely shade, like the first faintest tinges of color of a beautiful dawning day.

We could all feel that something very interesting was happening. After a few moments, I simply said, “You can turn your head now.”
And he did.

And that was that.

I still know Daniel quite well to this day. He ended up marrying into our family, and I have enjoyed his friendship for many years. Daniel returned to weightlifting, an arduous sport, and built a career in carpentry which is very physically demanding.

The treatment that day was permanent, for he still has complete rotational abilities. The unfusing of the cervical bones remained, and was never a problem again.

Healing Dyslexia

Many times, people ask if a seemingly incurable problem can be healed. These questions are always welcome, and the reply is often, “There is nothing that God cannot do.”

Many years ago, while living in the Boston area, I took care of a family with three boys, the youngest around thirteen—a single mom was head of the household. Her children were very polite, well-spoken young men. The youngest had a reading problem. He was diagnosed with dyslexia. It hindered his schoolwork and recreational reading. Try as he might, his reading skills were slow and laborious.

The family had already a number of healings with me, including the older boy, who once came on crutches following a sports injury.

After an instantaneous healing, he left carrying the crutches under his arm. After this, the mom would ask me to heal her children whenever any problem might arise. She asked about the dyslexia.

I told her—“Why not.”

A healing is a healing. Why make something bigger than it is. Try thinking of it as just another street not yet walked down in a familiar town. It should not make any difference. Yet every so often, someone is met who cannot be reached and the healing does not occur. This always saddens me when this happens.
Since God has created everyone in His image and likeness, that image is already perfect. We are not trying to create something new and different. Reality is being enforced to prove the perfection of divine Mind’s ideas. We do not begin with the problem. We begin rightly with what God knows, not what the human mind may have to say about the difficulty. The seeming issue is a result of mortal thought. God only knows what is good and right. God is the only cause. Since this is true, there is no effect other than what supreme Intelligence has created. If there is no effect, there is no cause and the problem is not real. Only God as cause and God as effect is real.

So the mom was told there should not be any problem with this healing. Her son, Keith was given one of my herbal formulas for the week prior to the next appointment. For the session, I brought along a paperback novel. It was Clan of the Cave Bear.

The session commenced with having the young man, Keith, read the book. He did not do very well. We began with a form of cranial work that is a standard part of Freeing. After a few minutes, Keith was asked to read again. There was an improvement. We worked back and forth for awhile until, by the end of the session, his reading skills appeared to be nearly normal. He could now read at his age level with better ease. The seeming problem of dyslexia had almost completely vanished.

The teachers at school were amazed. However, they considered it a fluke. One teacher denied the truth. She felt Keith faked the dyslexia for attention. Altogether, we did several sessions with increasing improvement each time we worked together. The healing was permanent.

Since I could perceive Keith’s brain wave activity, it was clear to me that certain synapses were not firing in an appropriate fashion. It was not difficult to help Keith’s neural patterns create new pathways that would be free of the symptoms of dyslexia.

I heard from the family before leaving the Boston area. Keith was in an advanced reading class. Before the healing, he could not get through a single sentence without difficulty.

At the clinic, I have worked with other young people and with adults who had similar difficulties. All have enjoyed improved results that are lasting
Isn’t our Father/Mother God just so wonderful!9

From Chapter Fifteen
Freeing

Freeing, also known as Rapid Pain Elimination, is a structural science that has the capacity to literally reconstruct, restore, and re-sculpt the spine and the entire skeletal system with virtually no pain or discomfort.

This work is based upon principles that are scientific. These principles are the laws that govern space and spatial relationship. Though the principles of Freeing are the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, they are still finite and of the material universe. The techniques that are utilized in this form of healing arise from the deep understanding of these principles and are as free-flowing as the wind.

We first create appropriate space where there is not enough. Almost every pain and difficulty in the human structure arises from the problem of not having enough room to articulate and move freely.

I consider space before form, and thought before matter. Again, this is starting rightly. Many forms of bodywork regard matter first, attempting to insert tissue into a mold that does not have enough room. Freeing regards space first, restoring the lost expanse to the system. Once space is recreated, then matter—soft and hard tissue—literally can flow freely into the newly reclaimed openness. When there is proper space in the structural system, then form naturally fills it with very little or no effort. It is natural for form to fill space. Consider how water fills all available voids. When proper spatial relationship is achieved in the body, then the form is like water filling the open space.
We live and move in space. When there is not enough room, the body is squeezed into a mold that does not properly fit. As with anything that is too tight and confining, the body experiences pain and discomfort. The natural mechanism of the body that normally compensates for imbalances will attempt to correct itself. When this occurs, the body will go through a series of locking procedures to prevent further drifting out of alignment.

Freeing conveys the heart and spirit of healing through gentle touch. The healer understands that injury and pain are not permanent, knowing the true state of the body, mind, and spirit is pain free and naturally well. Freeing is used for all types of distress in hard and soft tissue—this includes bones, muscles, nerves, connective tissue, and fascia.

This work is highly effective for spinal pain, injuries, misalignments, pinched nerves, shoulder and neck problems, and more. It is for cranial and TMJ difficulties and for problems of the feet, knees, ankles, hands and wrists, including carpal tunnel syndrome and associative problems.

I love working on hands and feet. The many small bones contained within these miraculous mechanisms are a genuine delight to work upon. I enjoy helping them to regain their original abilities to hold and touch, to walk and dance.
The structural system of the body is very akin to a simple machine. It uses a series of levers, fulcrums, and pulleys. The body is able to comfortably lift large amounts of weight by using mechanical advantage. This means that the actual physical strength is multiplied by the angle that bones articulate and how they are pulled by tendons, ligaments, muscles, and connective tissue. When the bones properly articulate, then that strength can be comfortably magnified without any resultant problem. However, when bones are not in their correct placement, are rotated or dropped out of precise arrangement, then mechanical advantage is quickly lost. It is like a mechanically failed construction crane that has fallen out of alignment, trying to lift a heavy object. The whole thing can collapse in on itself and topple over as balance is forfeited and mechanical advantage is no longer available.

In the body, space becomes compressed and bones drop in upon themselves, jamming together. When this occurs, soft tissue suffers and pain results. This is often the case in problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome. In every case that I have healed, carpal tunnel syndrome was caused by a mechanical dropping of the wrist bones, causing pressure upon nerves. This is what creates the familiar pain, numbness, and difficulty in the fingers.

With carpal tunnel, the problem is not isolated to the wrist alone. The structural components include the neck, shoulders, elbow, spine, hips, head, and often the entire hand itself. All of these systems must be properly spaced and aligned to insure a complete healing. A proper framework is essential for the hands to hang on for the Freeing procedure to be a success.

When any one bone is out of appropriate alignment, it generally means that there is not enough space for it to properly be positioned in its most precise placement. If there is not enough space between this bone and its immediate neighbors, then there is likely not enough open expanse throughout the body. I have found this to be an accurate assessment of most difficulties seen.

One of the most important components of Freeing is the use of protocols. I have found this principle extremely helpful. My protocols are sets of procedures that include meticulous spacing and realignment for each part of the structural system. Think of it as a detailed tuning of the individual segments of the hard and soft tissue of the body.

When the body starts to move out of alignment, there is a drifting wherein the bones begin to dislocate away from the center of the person. This can be observed with people whose heads are positioned forward and shoulders curve in toward the chest. Similar drifting and locking occurs in other parts of the body, also. Another commonplace problem area is the hip region. This includes the pelvis, the femur, which is the long bone of the leg extending to the knee, and the ankle and foot. All go through a corresponding locking to prevent further rotation and torquing.

Restoring this condition back to its natural way of being requires a scientific unlocking of these areas. This must be accomplished in a correct order to insure that all of the affected parts can be easily and gently placed back where they belong. Forcing does not work.

This same method of making space in the body can be applied where any structural problem or pain may exist. Think of it this way— suppose we have twelve inches of dominoes and only eleven and three quarter inches of space within which to place them. No matter how we try to force them into this smaller space, they will always pop out at one point or another. But, if we reclaim some of the lost space outside the row of dominoes until we have the needed twelve inches or even more, then they will have all the space needed to lie comfortably in perfect alignment. Space in Freeing is created so gently that many people fall asleep during a session. It is non-intrusive and uses no force or cracking.

Crippled Arm Healing

“My name is Carol. I was a practicing Licensed Massage Therapist in Eugene, OR, from 1993 until I moved to the Bay Area in October, 1999. Shortly after moving here, I began experiencing limited range of motion in my left shoulder, accompanied by pain. I went to several local massage therapists, fully confident that with some professional soft tissue work, the inflammation in my shoulder would subside and I would be fine.

“ This failing and the pain increasing, I went to my MD, who put me on anti-inflammatory medication and referred me to an osteopath, who set me up with three months of physical therapy. Three months of weekly physical therapy sessions, along with daily physical therapy exercises, my shoulder did not improve. The protracted pain was increasing, becoming very wearing, and I was beginning to get concerned because the osteopath said that if the prescribed physical therapy did not correct my shoulder problem, they would have to do surgery. He scheduled an MRI, which ruled out my having any bone spurs. He said he couldn’t see any problem, yet suggested surgery. “Resisting the surgery route, I continued seeking massage therapist specialists in the field of sport injuries, beginning with specialists in the Bay Area. Nothing worked. Still resisting surgery, I went to recommended acupuncturists and chiropractors, as well, plus I made two trips back to Oregon knowing of specialists there, renowned in their field. It was nine months later and the pain in my arm was excruciating. I would wake up in the nights crying, in pain, a first in my life.

“ I was desperate. What could I do? I knew one thing for sure, that I did not want any doctor operating when he didn’t know what the problem was.

“ In the local paper, I had seen a promotional ad for Rapid Pain Elimination (Freeing) or your money back. (This was a special, one-time promotion at the clinic—author’s note.)

“ At the end of my rope and thankful that I had one more possibility, yet very doubtful, I phoned and made an appointment. At the end of the appointment, Elijah said I needed to schedule another appointment. By this time, I had spent, altogether, upwards of two thousand dollars (on other practitioners).

“ Discouraged, I later called back and canceled my appointment because I was weary of putting out money and not getting relief. Elijah called me back, and asked if I would come one more time and he assured me that if he couldn’t help me, the appointment was free. Reluctantly, I consented and, indeed, I got some relief. And when someone is in the pain I was in, ‘some’ relief feels like a lot.
“ I had several more appointments and the range of motion in my arm went from not being able to move it more than an inch to moving it about four or five inches more with each succeeding appointment. By the end of the sessions, I had full use of my arm. I am very grateful. And that’s my amazing story.”
CAROL H.

Carol came to me with a crippled left arm. It hung by her side. She could barely lift it from the hanging position. Surgeons informed her the only alternative was for a surgical procedure wherein the shoulder and the head of the arm bone (humerus) would need to be broken and rebuilt. She was told the odds of a complete recovery were not good.

Alternative structural therapists from a number of modalities did not fare any better. After trying a number of different methods, Carol came to our office. Often, people come to see me as their last alternative. Many folks do not believe the stories that they hear, so they will try other therapies first.
The first session did not yield the best of success. By the second session, I worked for a better understanding of the situation, and Carol left with a much improved range of motion. By the next session, full mobility had been returned. We did a couple of more sessions to alleviate any other structural misalignments that may have occurred to the formerly crippled arm.

What happened with Carol?

Actually it was a very simple healing, despite the fact that the situation had been quite debilitating for Carol.

Many conditions pre-diagnosed before people see me are sometimes discerned incorrectly. This is proven when a person is treated for something other than the prior diagnosis and they heal.

With my natural intuitive skills (or whatever you want to call them), I could see that Carol had a dislocated shoulder. The dislocation, along with other similar problems in that area contributed to the over-all difficulty.

The bones were gently repositioned with Freeing and that was that. Carol had been diagnosed with all sorts of things, from rotator cuff injury to bone deformity, and calcium build up to arthritis, and more. None were correct.

This is a common scenario. If the exact problem and what is causing the difficulty is not understood, then it is very difficult to know how to correct it. Starting rightly is important to consistently get the results that we would all like to see.

A couple of years later, Carol’s arm is still fine. There has been no recurring difficulty. The healing is permanent, because she was treated for the true problem.

From Chapter Sixteen
Herbs

Herbs are a specialized form of life created by nature to help heal ourselves and the planet.1 This beneficent kingdom is a true gift from the mind of God, supplying the earth with food, beauty, medicines for healing, inspiration, and so much more.

I have always enjoyed the blessing of a natural affinity with the herbal kingdom, appreciating and respecting the healing bounty that this realm has to consciously share with humanity.

It is hard to believe that a day goes by that we do not in some way ingest an herb, use one topically (on the skin), or in some other manner. Numerous vegetables are herbs and so are spices, and many fruits and grains also have medicinal qualities. Many traditional products these days are made from or contain herbs. These include: shampoos, hair conditioners, skin creams, ointments, cosmetics, soaps, perfumes, flea and bug repellents, cleansers, laundry detergents, fertilizers, candles, room deodorizers, aromathreapy, teas, medicines, and so on.

The history of herbs goes back to the beginning of the world where they were used for food and medicine by people and animals alike. As civilization developed, many herbs were recognized not only as food and medicine, but as sacred gifts from nature and were employed in healing and religious ceremonies. This practice is still alive today. In this country, several of the most widely used herbs are sage, frankincense and lavender.
Why do herbs work the way that they do?

That’s a question consistently asked. There are a number of reasons.
First of all, they are natural. The human body thrives best on natural substances. When the right ones are used correctly, they will have no side effect.

Herbs were designed by nature to help the body stay healthy. For most imbalances created in the body through devitalized and chemically grown food, stress, polluted environment, and the like, nature has already provided some form of nourishment through herbs that may prove helpful in restoring the natural state of health.

Herbs are composed of nutrients that include: vitamins, minerals, alkaloids, resins, tannins, flavonoids, essential oils, mucilage, amino acids, proteins, carbohydrates, and the elements that comprise life and keep us healthy.
Herbs absorb easily into the system while many other substances used for healing do not.

However, it is important to be aware that many herbs, including some of the most important ones that we use on a daily basis, may have unwelcome side effects if taken in too great an amount. The appropriate dosage of herbs works best.

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All of the herbal formulas I co-create and produce are tonic in nature. This means that their main action is to feed and strengthen the body rather than stimulate it. When the body is in a state of stress, the last thing it needs is to be overly provoked, attempting to make it function in a particular manner. This only leads to further strain on the body, which is the exact opposite of the desired healing environment.

If the body is stressed, the logical way to proceed is to help alleviate the tension by supporting those bodily functions which are affected. When the pressure on those organs, glands, etc., has been helped by feeding them with the necessary nutrients, then they may begin their process of healing.
All of the herbal tonic formulas I have designed do not overly activate any already-weakened organs. A tonic formula works directly on a metabolic level, seeking to strengthen the metabolism by rebuilding the affected organs or tissue through the cellular structure. This means we may use the same formula for either a hypo or hyper condition. If a formula does not work for both a hypo and a hyper condition, it is not a true tonic and only stimulates the tired organ. We will never get the same effect from an over-energizing formula as we will from one that is a genuine tonic. Tonic herbology is the basis for all of the truly great systems of plant healing from around the world.

Combined with the tonic aspect is what I call an Intelligent Formula™. This is created through the usage of a director herb combined with other synergistic components. The director herb, when placed correctly in a formula, is like the conductor of an orchestra, who tells everyone else what to do. When an Intelligent Formula™ enters the body, it will literally connect with the inherent intelligence of the cells themselves. Together, they decide what is the best action for the formula to take which will benefit the body as a whole. A good formula contains a wide spectrum of therapeutic possibilities in each of their specific categories. The director herb governs which exact action or group of actions it should take. The formulas are in the form of tinctures. A tincture is a highly concentrated extract that separates the desirable properties into an easily absorbed fluid base.

Over the many years working as an herbalist, I have been privileged to witness numerous wonderful healings, where health was restored and lives returned through the modality of tonic herbology.

Many ailments in the body are caused by nutritional deficiencies that can cause a myriad of symptoms. When enough of these symptoms are collected, they are given a name. At times, there may be totally different causes that can create similar sets of symptoms. Many times, these sets of symptoms are given the name of syndrome.

A very good example is fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia is a condition wherein the soft tissue of the body, called fascia, becomes hardened, causing pain and debilitation. This problem has been classified as a syndrome.

In October of 2003, while working with a patient who has become a dear friend, the inspiration was received for a corrective tonic formula. The story is told in chapter eight of this book.

The cause of fibromyalgia has been incorrectly understood by much of the medical community, so as a result, an appropriate remedy has not been created. The formula came to me in two parts. Initially they were called DS 1 and DS 1 Support. DS 1 is the corrective tonic formula that feeds the body with the appropriate nutrients that causes a natural softening and eventually re-absorption of the hardened tissue. DS 1 Support aids the body in correctly metabolizing while healing, supporting DS 1 in its tonic action.
These two tonic formulas do not attempt to attack or to antagonize the affected tissue at all. Rather, the formulas strive to recreate the normal or desirable metabolic balance in the body that is out of harmony. If an approach attacks the tissue instead, this would then be considered symptomatic treatment, as the effect is taken to also be the cause.
In this form of tonic healing, it is the environmental imbalance that is treated. The direct cause of fibromyalgia and fibromyalgia-like symptoms is an out-of-balance metabolic condition due to a nutritional deficiency. The proof of the validity of this approach is confirmed in the overall positive metabolic effect of the tissue as it returns to a state of normalcy and becomes pain free.

Thus, the therapeutic action is primarily not on the affected tissue. The primary direct therapeutic action is first and foremost on the environment of the body. This causes a very natural and progressive re-absorption of the hardened fascia returning it to its natural state. Once the system is brought back into balance, the affected tissue literally is softened by the very system that caused it to originally harden. My deepest gratitude to the herbal kingdom for the loving guidance they have given me in the creation of this formulation.

Over the years, working in loving relationship with the herbal kingdom, the herbs have been kind enough to help tutor me. It has been a wonderful education. The method by which they teach is far different from any other I have come across.

The speakers of the herbal kingdom provided lessons based upon the problems of people who came to me for aid. As this occurred, the herbal speakers mentally supplied the exact formula intact and complete. However, the names of the herbs were never given, nor their specific proportions, or how to manufacture and prepare them.

The formula is conveyed to me in pure thought, so that the perfect idea of the formula and I are brought together into a mutual relationship. In my teaching, this is one of the methods that will be utilized to disclose the understanding of the beautiful healing bounty the herbal kingdom shares with us.

From Chapter Seventeen
Dreamtime

Dreamtime is a spiritual realm of truth and power that native peoples have dwelt in since before the advent of civilization. Dreamtime is where all shamanic healing and genuine earth magic takes place.1 Like a river of truth, Dreamtime courses through the manifested universe, carrying in its inexorable current an authentic understanding of the higher worlds that lead to the portals of our Father/Mother God.

Before the material world became mechanized with the advent of civilization, native shamans and medicine people spiritually abided in Dreamtime. This was their world and their home. This has never changed.
Dreamtime is the true spiritual magic of this world, if magic is comprehended as the understanding of pure Truth and the elimination of all that is unlike Truth. When magic is conceived to be something different from the understanding of Truth, it becomes personal and exploited for individual power. Personal magic is a selfish force. The small wills of humanity attempt to create effective material change through the controlling use of personal magic. Then, magic is self-seeking and dangerous. Nothing could be further from the truth of Dreamtime.
Ceremony and ritual are not a part of Dreamtime. They are conceived by the mind of humanity as an aid to raise consciousness to a higher plane of existence. Since Dreamtime is always here and never away, there is no need to engage in ceremony. Entering consciously into Dreamtime is as natural as awakening in the morning after a night’s sleep.

Dreamtime may be considered a reflection of the mind of God and all of the perfection that Mind creates. God, as supreme Creator parented all of His/Her perfect ideas an eternity ago. In Dreamtime, these perfect, divine thoughts reside in their completed state of being as pure thought. These thoughts are the sons and daughters of God.

When the unfolding progression of manifestation takes place, God’s thoughts appear to clothe themselves in matter and take material shape and substance. When the child of thought forgets his/her divine heritage and mistakenly takes their identity to be the form rather than the animating life, matter is falsely construed to be real. Then error occurs.

It is the heritage of all the sons and daughters of God to return to Dreamtime. This means to live consciously in Dreamtime in all endeavors of life. Dreamtime is the home of the family of humanity. Another word for Dreamtime is heaven. Not the absolute Heaven of the mind of God, but a relative heaven wherein all of God’s grand ideas live in perfect harmony and cooperation.

Dreamtime is accessible to all. The Law of Love is the guiding light that carries one home to Dreamtime. No high-priced tickets are needed to enter into this relative heaven, other than following the eternal Principle of love. In living the Law of Love, nothing is ever lost. Rather there is the endless progression of personal self into the one, endless Self. Wisdom is its own reward and knowing God is the greatest gift of all eternity.

Dreamtime has nothing at all to do with the concept of nightly dreaming. Dreamtime is the greater reality, while the earthly world reflects the false conceptions of the human mind. The dark dreams of humanity can take the form of living nightmares that become projected upon the earth. These living nightmares bear such mortal names as war, terror, deprivation, selfishness, greed, and other undesirable traits of humanity. The dark corners of the human psyche breed legions of perverse offspring that give birth into this world where they feed upon the lives of innocents. When Dreamtime is embraced once again by the children of God, the corrupt brood of mortal consciousness will evaporate back into nothingness.
Dreamtime is where humankind dreams the eternal aspirations of love and goodness, healing and inspiration. Nightmares do not exist in this spiritual realm, for Dreamtime is not a place of fantasy, but of a deep and abiding reality, one step away from the mind of God, pure in its reflective nature as a wellspring of truth. In Dreamtime truth is not masked, but is the ever-present reality. Love is the fabric of this realm.

The path to Dreamtime is called the Beauty Way. This is because the gateway to Dreamtime lies within the deepest region of the heart. To find the way home to this metaphysical realm, one must discover the inner beauty within themselves.

Here is the story of how I became continually conscious in Dreamtime.
In my late thirties and already a shamanic healer for many years, I was living in Santa Barbara, California. During this time, my former wife, Shastina, led workshops in consciousness, called the Resurrection Principle, that offered a portal where a unified field of consciousness is accessible while still living in time and space. Over the years, she evolved a loving and powerful teaching that she shared in various formats, including a weekend experience which restores this evolutionary principle for others. Up until this time, I had never attended one of these spiritual retreats.
During our time together, I witnessed many people who had attended her workshops have exceptional evolutionary experiences, so one weekend I decided to go and see for myself what it was all about.

By the end of the final day—to my great joy—I discovered that I could now enter into this other realm whenever so chosen, rather than waiting for Dreamtime to draw me in. A doorway into another sphere of consciousness had opened for me, and it never closed again.

It was now a simple matter to enter into what appeared to be the personal, unconscious realities of other people. It was like being asked into their private homes as a guest—only with their expressed invitation, of course.
The parts of people that were damaged or not working properly were easily observed. In this spiritual sphere, I now had the ability to do something about it. I appeared to be like a metaphysical handyman who could repair the unseen damage of this lifetime and others. The damaged archetypes could be perceived and restored back to their original factory specifications—so to speak.

My early adventures in Dreamtime were like something right out of a fantasy movie. In fact, at first, I had not come to the awareness this was Dreamtime—I wasn’t sure what it was. But the truth rapidly unfolded. Dreamtime takes good care of those who are capable of finding their way home to this metaphysical realm.

Some of these early adventures would more accurately be described as mis-adventures. I would have to say this occurred because of the lack of a proper teacher to better guide me. In sharing my understanding of Dreamtime, I plan on teaching in a traditional shamanic manner. This ancient method should, hopefully, circumvent any such occurrences for everyone else.

Love is the greatest power of Dreamtime. All those who consciously enter into Dreamtime should be capable of a deep and profound love before they are can wield the healing power of this spiritual world.

But—since Dreamtime is an impersonal realm, it can be used for selfish or dark reasons other than healing. Unfortunately, there are shamans who seek to increase their personal power. Because of this, the realm of Dreamtime has moved further from the consciousness of humanity. It is the duty of all those who have returned to Dreamtime to help guard the Beauty Way and Dreamtime itself from misuse.

In Dreamtime, a healer can perceive if an archetype is damaged or intact. Dreamtime archetypes reflect the original primal thought of the Creator. If the Dreamtime reflection is damaged, then it is the job of the Dreamtime healer to restore the injured archetype to one that is intact and healthy, using the original idea of God as a guiding blueprint.

This is accomplished through a number of different means, determined by the natural proclivity of the healer. For myself, working and healing in Dreamtime has always been very natural. From the first, it felt like I had come home—to my true home.

Early on in Dreamtime, I began to understand how thought is the primary mover and that Dreamtime is a mental realm and not a form realm. Thought creates form and not the other way around.

The original dream of the Creator awaits in Dreamtime. Our natural heritage as human beings and children of our divine Parent is to awaken to this remarkable potential. The original dream is a matrix of love, light, and power that is a pathway to the perfection that the Great Spirit intended for the Earth Mother and all of her children of the world. As spiritual understanding progresses, it is comprehended that Dreamtime is not supernatural but supremely natural.

In Dreamtime, the original dream of the Creator has never been forgotten. The original dream has always ruled foremost in the hearts and spirits of all who have remembered the Beauty Way to Dreamtime.

Within Dreamtime, resides our own personal original dream, as well. This is the matrix of our personal being, sewn together with the collective energy of all our lives—past, present, and future. Dreamtime is where inspirations and hopes come from. We live in Dreamtime all of the moments of our life.

From Chapter Twenty-Two
Forgiveness

The composing of this book has been for me a culmination of the years of my life as a healer and an apprentice to angels. Writing these words has been like working on a thesis for a higher degree. Much of what I have learned is in this work.

During this time, it has been like an intensive course in reviewing what I have done with my life. There is a beautiful song that has the words, “What did you do with the life they gave you?” Whenever I listen to this song, I always ponder just what has been done with this life that has been lent to me for awhile.

Recently I put out a picture of Dana for the first time since her passing. For long periods my gaze would quietly rest upon her image beneath the glass of the carved frame. At times, I would cast my look at her while passing by. At these moments, my heart would still and my mind would quiet, as if I could perhaps catch a glimpse of the real Dana looking back out at me.
Afterwards, I would ponder if this was such a good idea or not to have her picture out where it could be seen so readily. A couple of weeks later, her loving image has softened in my heart to a welcoming presence that I can smile at. Her loving beauty is part of my home now, set before ever-present flowers as my gift to her.

Dana loved flowers. She also loved Truth and all that was good and right.
While working on this book, I learn as I write. Every word and phrase is examined for their exacting representation of divine Love and the allness of our Father/Mother God.

My work on this book has helped me to root deeper into an understanding of God, and to forever relinquish more of my longing for the past and what it once appeared to hold for me.

Freedom is our very nature to express. God never created a man or woman in bondage and slavery to something that is forever out of our grasp. The past is where it belongs—submerged in the warmth of our hearts as a memory that is subservient to the now.

I think of Dana every day. She asked me never to forget her the way that she was, before she became very ill. I think this is a very reasonable request. I have not missed a day yet, and do not plan on missing any to come.
The bitter tears of my heart that I knew so well are gone. Now there is the light of understanding and the deepest gratitude for the healing that did occur that will keep her from ever having to experience anything like this again.

I have grown more than I have given myself acknowledgment for from my time with Dana and for my sojourn as a lone wolf thereafter. She taught me much better than I could have ever imagined.

I did forgive those who appeared to trespass upon Dana. She would have wanted it no other way, and because of her, I could do no differently.
Love is the healer of all situations.

Anything other than divine Love is illusion, for Love is the keeper of all that is sacred and good. Time and matter—those highly misunderstood things that we seem to be imprisoned by are not real. This is why they are not understood. Those things that are false are not comprehended—they are negated and allowed to wither away into their original nothingness.
Love is all that is Real. Nothing else.

As we grow in our understanding of God, the world of form appears to fade away. It recedes further back from the conscious awareness of everyday life. Love is revealed to have always been present and never distant.

Love is an equation that is always correct. Love is what will finally liberate us in the end when we cease to crave freedom for ourselves and seek it instead to free those around us with all of our heart and all of our soul and never stop working to do so.

A very wise woman whom I respect more than anyone else in matters like these, told me that I would be rewarded for staying with Dana.
I told her that I did not care a thing about any reward at all. I was there because I love Dana and I gave her my word that I would always take care of her. The experience of Love—true God love—is its own reward.
It all comes around—to the good that we do when faced with extreme situations—and the choices that we make when faced with difficult decisions.

And in the end of ends, it is only Love that matters.7

From Chapter Twenty-Three
Apprentice to Angels

Time passes by. The seasons change. Birds migrate across the face of an earth that continues to spin in its concentric orbit around the sun. New lives look upon our world for the first time with eyes full of wonder. And others, so weary, close their old eyes for the final time in this life only to open new eyes once again in wonder upon another world.
Cycles continue. They go on and on.
Birth and death and birth again.
Do these cycles ever end for us?
Yes they do.

Nothing of the material realm can ever be eternal. All that is finite comes to an end eventually. Even the earth and the moon and the stars and the great systems that contain countless flaming suns will eventually all one day flicker one last time and cease to exist as physical matter.
The temporal scale which material existence is built upon may be the hours of a mayfly or the billions upon billions of years of the heart of the universe. But all will eventually crumble to the corporeal demand that the big show is over and it’s time to pull down the curtain and for everyone to go home. It will then be intermission for creation in the physical plane of existence.
And will physical existence ever be again?
Perhaps.
Or perhaps not.
It really doesn’t matter now. Does it?

We know that all spiritual ideas of God are forever. Nothing that God has conceived can ever be lost. All rests eternal in divine Mind— intact, complete, and infinite.

The condition of matter results from a state of consciousness and nothing more. The appearance of our personal reality is very dependent upon what we think it to be. It is all highly subjective according to the human senses, which are rather moody things at best.

Is it true that the Earth is a rougher place than many other worlds? In one way, I would not like to think so. In another way, I would not want to wish this place on anyone else. Surely the reason is easily understood.

Can we go somewhere else, a far, far better place than this currently sad world, peopled with a population who for the most part believe that what we see is true and there is no way out of the nightmare?

A fairy tale tells us—aim for the second star on the right and keep sailing on and on. Actually, Heaven is far closer than that. It is with us all of the time, and is never away from us. Reality or Heaven or the mind of God is here. Eternal Truth is God’s Truth and this Truth is now.

God loves us—there is no doubt.

It is only the misperceptions of human mind that veil this fact of being—of God’s being. Remember—we live and move and have our being in God. Understand this simple truth and we will find how our lives can change in accordance with this divine principle.

We remember who we are, for our very human souls are forever nestled in the womb of the one soul of God. We are kept so safe in divine Mind and this safety is eternal, even when the universe winds itself back up when its long, long day is done, and matter collapses back in on itself into one primal atom and is inhaled back into pure thought once again.
We learn about our divine Parent from the lessons of love we encounter in this world. We are all witnesses to God’s glory, infinite power, and love. To know God is our sole purpose of being.

This is our job in return for our individuality of awareness.
Did you know that?

We hired on when we were created an eternity ago to infinitely recognize Divine Omnipotence, Omniscience, and Omnipresence— God.

Love is the reason that God created His witnesses to His own splendor—so this heavenly grandeur may be enjoyed throughout eternity. It is a creation of absolute, pure Love. For the Principle of all— God—wanted something else to wonder at, to live in, and to forever experience what God knew and experienced about Him/Her Self.

As pure absolute Principle, God is self-knowing and self-revealing to God. The Truth of God is non-relative and non-subjective—the ultimate objective. But then again, God is the ultimate subjective, also.
God has many, many wondrous ideas throughout creation who can appreciate their Father/Mother of all life and love. God has done a perfect job. God as principle is not just latent in possibility, but is expressed throughout creation. Without expression, all principles go unexpressed and exist only in their potential forms—even the supreme Principle.
It all makes sense—in a divine kind of way—doesn’t it?
This is Reality.
All else is soup.

As a reporter embedded in the mind of God, I have sought to give the latest updates on what has, is, and will infinitely be the same, yesterday, today, and always.

Nothing changes. Nothing is different. Nothing can alter.
It’s all really good news, folks.

Rest assure, that Reality is Truth and that Truth is Reality. And that God is ever vigilant and on the job upholding that Reality.

Through the ages, many have sought the salvation of enlightenment. Many have dedicated their whole lives to the attainment of this deep understanding of the nature of Truth.
So just what is Truth?
In one word—Love.

Love is the reason for all of creation. There is no other purpose. This Truth is the whole Truth and the only Truth. Reality is simpler than we think.
Can we understand this Love?

An eternity should be about enough if we stay wrapped up in matter.
If we go home to Heaven, or the supreme mind of God, then it is a moot point. In Heaven we know all that God knows, for it is supreme and unchangeable law that divine Mind is self-revealing to divine Mind and all that exists within divine Mind.

On the other hand, human mind is a limited organ of perception. It collects and collates earthly experiences. Mortal thought by its very existence abides within matter, energy, time, and space. It is not mortal thought that is the liberator. The destruction of the confining walls of mortal thought releases us to go back home to God and eternity.
Love is all there is.
That’s it.

But within this principle is the Truth of all Reality. We just have to learn to read between the lines. It’s all eternally there.

This reporter is telling the truth about the Truth and nothing less, as I understand it. It is all so clear to me as I write down these words, which by their limited nature of human understanding, make it all sound so very far away and too abstract to comprehend.

Yet it is not.
It is the simple nature of Truth that makes it seem too complicated to understand.

As humans we accept mortal love instead of divine Love. We follow human laws that are constantly subject to change and interpretation instead of God’s laws. We honor mortal truths that alter and flutter instead of eternal Truth. We conceive of a reality that comes and goes instead of the one infinite, unchangeable Reality.

In Truth, we are pure awareness. Our own being is within God’s consciousness—an awareness with no beginning and no end. God is really here and now.

I hope that I have done a good job, reporting all of this. It may seem so much to comprehend. Do not worry about it. It is our nature to do just that—to understand. It is built into us. Not in our human brains, but in that special place in our hearts where Truth is always known. It is there for all of us. No one is exempt.

I have told you some about my life—my understanding, my joys, my work as a healer, my human upbringing, about my forgiveness, my love, and the sadness that I have experienced. I am no different from anyone else. I had a job—an assignment to do. Nothing more and nothing less. I made a contract sometime, somewhere, somewhen, and now that assignment is complete—or at least this segment of it. There is still so much more to do as an apprentice to angels.

For three decades, this Truth has been patiently waiting for me to mature enough to complete what I was given to do when twenty-three. I am fifty-three at this writing.

As this assignment is wrapped up, there is something that has become so very clear to me. As the willing heart unburdens itself of what it has learned, it becomes an empty vessel all over again. When this laboring heart is empty, then an even greater understanding of Truth fills it up. It seems that God never ceases to bless His/Her children with eternal love.

I have had a really good time writing this book. I felt the exhilaration of creativity, the pure love of God, the joy of completion, and wept tears when writing of my Songbird. Love was my guide, my path, and I was but the reporter who wrote down what Love showed me.

There is more to come. Another book. I can feel it in that special place in my heart where Truth is always known. Love has no ending, since Love has no beginning. Love just goes on and on in one eternal play of Consciousness.

Like everyone else, I am still and always in the mind of God. No one has been expelled from divine Mind. The nature of Reality would not permit eternal Principle to be compromised or changed. It just plain cannot occur.
Evil exists in human thought and human thought only. This is a powerful statement to ponder. The wrong ideas of human mind empower this thought known as evil or the devil, and gives this illusion the only life that it will ever have. Banish evil from human thought and it has no existence. The life of evil is only vicarious. When the last dark thought in the minds of men/women ceases, evil and all of its misconceptions will fade away into the nothingness from which they came. Dust to dust. Ashes to ashes. Nothing to nothing.

The world appears to be a pretty scary place these days. The news informs us of wars, terrorism, disasters, death, embezzlement, destruction, and then gets on to the really bad news. Fear is the product of these reports, and it is handed out in a wholesale fashion. Dread takes hold in the human mind and infiltrates into the deepest substrata of thought, coloring everything with its murky shadow. From there on, all that we think and do is subjected to the degree that fearfulness has taken hold with claw and nail.

God and God’s Love is the way to extract this terror from the depths of the human psyche. Fear, the devil, Satan, and wrong thoughts are all the same. We can view it for what it is in Truth, or pull it apart through psychology—it is the same thing—nothing!

There is much work to do in this world while there is anyone going without a home, or food, or healing, or the basics that everyone is entitled to under the divine understanding that all are equal. Everyone’s life is precious and no one is more precious than anyone else. God is no respector of individuals. God loves everyone the same.

Inequality—or the belief in it—there go those human misunderstandings again. Something must really be done about those. It is up to us.
Change begins in thought. When thought changes, the manifestation of thought, called the material reality, changes. When material reality changes, the world changes. Matter follows thought. Not the reverse.
Life here can really be wondrous. Each day is a borrowed miracle full of the beauty of the reflection of divine Mind. Love abounds so fully and completely as it always must. If everyone would just stop for the same moment on the same day and recognize this fact—then the current state of the world would just cease—once and for all.

The sense of separateness would grind to a final halt and the understanding that we are truly one family would emerge. That we are one beautiful, infinite idea of a merciful and loving divine Parent would make so much sense. Let us work toward this day with great vigor and loving presence.

When Dana was a few days away from passing, I told my Songbird that I wanted another life with her. A long, long life where we would meet early on and recognize each other for who we are in the deepest of love. I wanted to raise a family with her. This was my greatest desire.

You know what—after writing Apprentice to Angels—my mind has changed.
I believe my Songbird would understand.
My greatest desire now is for everyone everywhere to understand their divine heritage and to exercise their right to liberation over the imprisoning chains of matter that lead to sickness, pain, separation from God, and poverty of spirit.

So it goes. Well, maybe we could work on this together. Why not?
I guess its time to wind this up for now.
The path the world will take is your choice. It is all up to you, of course.
Love is really all there is.
As for me, I have come to a completion.
I am an apprentice to angels.
This chapter of my apprenticeship is over