Swindler's Cove

These are some  images from Swindlers's Cove, a beautiful gem of a garden in northern Manhattan.  I was lucky enough to be an Assistant Gardener here for a season in 2011.  The garden was conceived, designed, installed and is maintained by The New York Restoration Project, which renovates and maintains gardens in underserved  neighborhoods in New York City.  NYRP was conceived of and established by Bette Midler.

ML Farm Energy Report

Tuesday September 19, 2017

Cornerstone Studios
121 MacDougal Street #19
New York, NY 10012

Attn:  ML

RE:  Report for energy work for Greenwich Property (Soliphilia Farm)

Project Mission:  (composed by Jill Emerson, revised in morning group discussion 9.18.17) To improve the balance of Soliphilia Farm for the Earth, the owner and all inhabitants, seen and unseen.  To remove any blocks to prosperity that threaten the ownership of Soliphilia Farm and its lands by ML.  The Farm and its lands support ML financially and give her equity.

(Additional intent:  Bring more fun and love to Soliphilia Farm.)

The overall energy of the Farm was, prior to any work being done by Jill Emerson, quite high – 8.5 out of a possible ten.  This indicated the farm was ready to move forward.  Some energy blocks existed, however, and their details and amelioration thereof are as noted below:

                1.  The three energy processes below are generally utilized to remove darkened, stagnant energies of the past.  The energies involved are primarily human.
                                a.  Energy Cleansing (performed by Jill Emerson remotely):  This process removes accumulated energies of human thoughts and emotions from the land and sends them gently and respectfully along the path to the next step in their evolutionary journey.  It was during this process that a pink stain was spotted in the southeast corner of the property.  Pink or red typically denote animal deaths, and it was discovered that a large group of animals perished simultaneously in that area due to a fire.  They apparently ran from another part of the property to escape the fire, only to be trapped by a steep cliff, or possibly another area of flames.  (Kay had indicated in working with ML that this very area was a good place to do remedial energy work.)
                                b.  Battle Energy Release (performed by Jill Emerson remotely):  Battle energy covers the entire planet, if the word ‘battle’ is expanded to include animals being pursued by predators, vicious arguments, or divorces.  If we include these definitions, we see that there is most likely not an inch of this Earth that is free from these energies.  Soliphilia has hosted no less than:  a murder; three people being killed in a French and Indian War skirmish; and a foreclosure.  In this process, Jill Emerson showed up as a representative for humanity and worked co-creatively with the Nature Spirits to lift the burden of these energies from the soil, water, trees and plants of the Farm.
                                c.  Essences Process:  The entire northeast United States was clear-cut three times, and Soliphilia got its share  of this trauma in being clear-cut twice.  The bewildering effect this would have on the local biospheres is incalculable, really staggering.  The flower essences were used on-site to balance out and heal this trauma.

                2.  Mental self of ML:  In mentioning the indication that this process was needed to ML, she immediately knew what this referred to:  Multi-generational poverty consciousness.  ML has been actively working with this issue for some time, and a White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Process coning was opened in order to give general support to ML, but also to change a subconscious thought pattern through an affirmation given by the Nature Spirits:  I am open to releasing the Farm (three repetitions needed).

                3.  Two more energy processes were needed under the heading ‘environmental’ (meaning the atmosphere, in broadest sense of that word, on the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual levels of the Farm):
                                a.  Meeting/brainstorming – the group handled this with brilliance and love, a wonderful experience to be part of, teasing out possible meanings and solutions regarding the current state of the Farm.
                                b.  Organizing, reorganizing, or relocating – when this was mentioned to ML she knew exactly what it referred to, which is the location of the housing.  A spot almost exactly in the center of the farm is higher above the water level of the river (in case of flooding), quieter, more private, has more of a view and has much more serene energy.  It’s also nestled amidst the heart of the fields.  After viewing the area I agreed with ML that this is a far more satisfactory location for any houses. Even on a symbolic level, the current location of the living quarters means that the rest of the Farm is ‘all uphill from here’ – not a pleasant metaphor.  (ML, it just occurred to me, perhaps you could quickly assemble a symbolic ‘house’ out of sticks there to ground this process, some time when you need to retreat a bit or meditate.)  I can see a future for the land and Farm in which additional worker housing may be needed, or perhaps the B & B can take over both houses lower on the land.

And last but not least, the mandala.  This was created with the intent to balance and heal the experience of the animals fleeing from, and then perishing in, fire.  As such it was assembled in an area some of them had been grazing in when the fire appeared.  Using animal food materials found at the site was deeply moving, and grounded our intent to the land in a way nothing else could.  The location Nature wished us to use could not possibly have been more clearly indicated.  The three reindeer moss patches, in my mind, echoed the three of us there in support of ML, and the yellow feather found already sticking out of the ground, well, I’ve never seen a more dramatic exclamation point, and pointer saying “Right here”!!  I will never forget the experience of bringing ourselves, our intent, materials, love, silence, and bountiful wishes together in one heartfelt ritual.  Ending with a silent enactment/dancing of “I, Sacred Human” was pure glee.  I agree with Eeo that we summoned the cleansing rain, which led us to our bonus – wild apples.  So very rich.

I feel we accomplished a lot in a mere 24 hours or so.  It’s also great been a pleasure to work with you on this beautiful land and Farm, and I know we have left the place better than we found it.  Best wishes, our hearts will be with you.

Submitted Respect and Love,
Jill Emerson

Perennial Vegetables Hearty to Zone 5

Perennial Plants for Your Vegetable Garden:  Hearty to Zone 5

I’ve been thinking lately that gardening can be much more efficient, easier, and more fun than we currently experience it.  The graying hair on the heads of many of my gardening friends says to me that we have to emphasize efficiency, as we wish to participate in this calming, zen activity for as long as possible.  These thoughts led me to explore perennial vegetables.

American garden and agricultural practices reflect their European roots.  Perennial plants were rare in Europe when our ancestors left there, and the American settlers were resistant to learning new agricultural lore from the Native Americans.  In fact, growing systems utilized here at the time of their arrival quite possibly did not even register as agriculture, and the immense dark forests were frightening to settlers raised on lands that had been cultivated for generations.  They arrived with the grains, legumes and annual vegetables that were their staples back home – plus the livestock needed to break up the soil for planting these each year.

As our understanding of no-till soil fertility increases, as well as our appreciation of permaculture, which emphasizes efficiency, we begin to embrace perennial plants.  The labor savings of perennials is their premier virtue, but there are additional benefits.

1.        You plant it once and reap the benefits for many years:  Any gardener with shovel or hoe in hand is preparing for hard, sweaty work.  Who wants to maximize this activity?

2.       Love that low maintenance:  Perennial roots can go deeper into soil, thereby requiring less watering, and come up earlier in the season, beating out annual weeds.

3.       Extended harvest means more food, more seasons:  Many perennial plants put out tender clusters of leaves in the fall as they prepare to expand their territory or feed next season’s underground bulbs.  Their leaves sprout earliest in the spring as well.

4.       No-till systems benefit soil fertility: Leaving the soil’s crumb structure intact ensures healthier soil and plants, as well as avoiding the tragedy of earthworms cut in half.

5.       A more lush beauty can be found in the heartier growth of perennials than in most of the smaller annuals.

6.       Landscaping with these plants can save valuable vegetable garden space:  A border of daylilies along a front porch is lovely, as well as a source of food.  Some deer resistant perennials can thrive in shade, woods, streams, or wild areas adjacent to a lawn, saving valuable garden bed space for annuals. 

7.       Permaculture benefits include multiple foods from one plant:  Short-lived annuals’ brief lives typically limit their edible contributions to a single type of leaf, bulb, flower or fruit.  Some heartier perennials can be managed to create a permaculture plant - a plant bearing three or more foods in the same growing season.

8.       Perennial plants condition the soil around their roots:  Mycelia, bacteria and minerals are drawn by plant roots as needed, and a perennial plant doesn’t have to start from scratch every year.  More of its vitality can be devoted to its edible gifts.

There can be drawbacks.  More planting space may be needed for situations in which the most of the plant is harvested, for example, ramps.  Planting two years worth of ramps is the only way to let half of the patch regenerate for an entire season after some or all its leaves have been harvested.  Some pruning or thinning, even removing of aggressive perennials may be needed on occasion, as well.  Additionally, some perennials require remaining undisturbed, not harvested, their first growing season, only producing the desired foods the second year.

Perennial Vegetables Hearty to Zone 5:
Asparagus (second-year plant) :  Left to their own  devices during the first growing season, second-year plants will reward you with hearty spears for many seasons.

Comfrey, symphytum x uplandica (http://www.susunweed.com/herbal_ezine/June08/wisewoman.htm) Although the large leaves of this valuable plant need to be cooked prior to eating, they are a powerhouse of nutrients for humans and plants.  Chop some fresh leaves fine and soak prior to filtering into your watering can, and you will give all other plants in your garden a free potassium boost.  Or put them with some water in a blender and pour into a bucket of water for the same nutrient-dense effect. 

Daylilies, Hemerocallis fulva or the yellow H. lilioasphodelus (only these two) (http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/how-to-sustainably-harvest-daylilies-zbcz1307),  (deer resistant):  Thriving on sun and neglect, these permaculture plants provide edible spring shoots, flower buds that are prepared like green beans, and edible flowers and fall tubers.  As aggressive as they are hearty, they’re best used in an area outside of the vegetable garden, or in an area around which one can mow.

Garden Rhubarb (Rheum x cultorum or Rheum x hybridum)(second-year plant, deer resistant):  Beneficial as a pioneer plant, meaning it will grow in poor soils while improving them, rhubarb is also a great ground cover.  The large leaves will shade out weeds while funneling available water to its roots.  Another plant best left undisturbed the first year.  The flower heads are edible as well as the stems.

Garlic (http://www.onestrawrevolution.net/One_Straw_Revolution/Article_Garlic_Plant_Once.html )(deer-resistant): There are many varieties of garlic, some producing delicious harvestable scapes and some not.  Smaller bulbs left in the soil at harvest’s end will become next year’s mature garlic.

Garlic chives, allium tuberosum (deer-resistant): These hearty wonders can be eaten as a salad green, cooked, or dried.

Good King Henry, chenopodium bonus-henricus (http://tcpermaculture.blogspot.com/2012/02/permaculture-plants-good-king-henry.html) (second-year plant):  This is a true permaculture plant.  Good King Henry is in the same family as spinach, so its leaves are used in much the same way.  Its shoots are eaten like asparagus, flower buds like broccoli, and the seeds are an edible grain. Add its ability to grow in some shade, and this is a prince among plants.  Allow the first growing season to establish vitality prior to harvesting leaves the second year.

Groundnut, Apios Americana:  A plant utilized by the Native Americans, this vine boasts subtle purple flowers and edible tubers. A few tubers left in the ground at the end of the season will ensure next season’s growth.  A great addition placed near a trellis or nearby shrub, vines take advantage of vertical space at the edge of a garden or bed.

Jerusalem Artichoke, Helianthus tuberosus, strain Stampede (second-year plant):  These sunny wonders are very invasive, and should be grown in their own bed, one that can be mown around, in containers on a porch or in a patch of wild space at the perimeter of a lawn.  Tubers are a good potato alternative - great for pollinators, too.

Lovage, Levisticum officinale:  This hearty perennial is a great celery substitute, with leaves and stems more powerfully flavored than the supermarket staple.  Only a single plant is needed, as it can reach six feet in height, which may make it perfect for the back of a vegetable or flower bed.  Tolerates partial shade.

Ostrich Fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris:  A shade-happy camper, the fiddleheads from these highly ornamental greens are a delicacy in early spring.

Ramps , Allium tricoccum (deer-resistant):  Both tubers and leaves are edible from this shade lover.  Ramps can be naturalized under trees to save garden space.  Harvest only leaves, and only half of them, in order to ensure plants survive from season to season.

Scarlet Runner Beans, Phaseolus coccineus:  A permaculture hero:  young leaves, tubers and beans (beans both as green beans and dried) are gifts of this plant.

Sea Kale, Crambe maritime: This favorite is usually grown as an ornamental, and its pretty sea-foam or pink leaves are a nice contrast to most vegetables.

Sorrel, Rumex acetosa:  Fresh fall leaves feed new bulbs that will grow around the parent plant, so allow for some expansion space when planting.  Tolerates partial shade.

Walking Onions, Allium cepa var. Viviparum (deer-resistant):  Tiny onions are produced at the top of the stems.  This plant can be aggressive, so consider giving it its own bed. 

Watercress, Nasturtium officinale:  Grow from seed in running water, or toss a harvested bunch with roots intact into a small stream or riverbed for years of effort-free greens.  Permaculture traits include edible spring shoots, mature leaves, and edible seeds.  Growing along moving water saves garden beds for other favorites.
Wild Arugula, Diplotaxis tenuifolia (deer resistant):  This peppery cousin of the supermarket arugula is actually a self-seeding biennial, which means it still only has to be planted once if some plants are allowed to go to seed.  Mulching the woody stem over the winter will ensure years of delicious, crisp greens.

Jill Emerson
October, 2017

Healing Copper Coils for Trees and Plants

Quote from:  The Secret Life of Plants
Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird (Harper & Row, 1973, pp:  ???)

“To try to establish the cosmic origin of the energy, Lakhovsky decided to dispense with the device he had dreamed up to produce artificial rays and tap natural energy from space. In January, 1925, he picked one of a series of geraniums previously inoculated with cancer and surrounded it with a circular copper spiral thirty centimeters in diameter, its two unjoined ends fixed in an ebonite support. After several weeks he found that whereas all the control geraniums inoculated with cancer had died and dried up, the plant ringed with the copper spiral was not only radiantly healthy but had grown twice as high as uninoculated controls. These spectacular results led Lakhovsky into a complex theory as to how the geranium had been able to pick up from the vast field of waves in the external atmosphere the exact frequencies which enabled its cells to oscillate normally and so powerfully that the cancer afflicted cells were destroyed.

In March of 1928, the geranium with the spiral around it had attained the abnormal height of four and one half feet and was flourishing even in winter. Sure that by his work on plants he had stumbled upon a new therapy of unimaginable importance to medicine, Lakhovsky went on to develop a sophisticated therapeutic device for human beings which he callled “multi-wave oscillator”. It was successfully used in French, Swedish and Italian clinics to cure cancerous growths and lesions brought about [by] radium burns; goiters and a variety of diseases regarded as incurable.”

The above few paragraphs from The Secret Life of Plants were responsible for my own experimentation with copper coils.  It seemed logical that if certain frequencies could be emphasized or heightened, healing could take place.  Everything is energy, after all, and all healing methods, even pharmaceuticals, are really just bringing a new energy, a revised frequency, to weak or diseased bodies. 

A quick glance around my apartment would assure anyone that I have a green thumb, as thriving plants are in evidence everywhere.  One of my neighbors has made a habit of giving me her struggling plants, which I regularly turn into healthy specimens, quite a few of which now sport strategically placed copper coils.

My girlfriend Gina grew up with a lovely linden tree outside the front door of her family home.  She noticed that this particular linden (which was planted by her local municipality) leafed out in the spring later than other lindens on the block, and dropped its leaves earlier in the fall.  Not only that, but it had never, ever blossomed.

We installed a copper coil in the fall, just above the first branches that separate from the trunk of the sidewalk tree, as this coil had to be far enough overhead that most people would not notice it.  Following most of the steps outlined below, the coil was in the tree for a few years before coming apart during Hurricane Sandy.  After two years, the tree began to leaf out at the same time as its peers on the street, and for the first time ever in its life…. it bloomed!  I feel confident enough to recommend experimentation with copper coils just by this example alone, but certainly feel Lakhovsky’s work and musings give conceptual heft to these efforts.  I’ve used it since with other trees and plants, always with positive effects, but none so dramatic as the linden’s new lease on life.  Why copper, as opposed to other metals?  I simply don’t know - I just followed Lakhovsky.

Here’s how:
1.  Use 18 or 20 gauge uninsulated copper wire (easily found at your local hardware store), as this is stiff enough to hold itself on the tree.  Had we used this gauge on the above linden, it would probably still be there, but we had used a lighter wire.  It is also light enough to allow the trunk to grow in circumference without strangling it.
2.  Make a spiral around the tree trunk, high enough where it will not ever touch the earth, and yet lower than the lowest branch, if possible.  If both circumstances are not possible, not touching the earth is by far the most important.
3.  Form the spiral counterclockwise, holding the end of the wire at the center of the trunk, and proceeding around to the right, as though you were hugging the tree with your right arm.  As the coil circles the trunk, it should rise, so the wire after one turn around the trunk will be above the beginning terminus of the wire, not touching – you are making a spiral, not a circle.  Wind two whole times around the trunk, rising each time, with the final terminus of the wire further to the right and above the beginning of the wire, to ensure there are two complete loops.  Do not attach the ends of the wire to anything, or each other, as the spiral will have to flex for trunk expansion.
4.  Periodically while winding the wire around the tree, wrap the copper a few times around a stick or rod held in your hand, and then pulled free of the resulting spring-like shape.  This spring-like shape will further ensure plenty of growth space for the trunk.
5.  Cut the wire where described in step 3 above.
6.  You’re done!  This coil should remain on the tree for at least three seasons, and can stay permanently if you feel it will never come to strangle the tree.  It may need to be on the tree for one complete growing season before results are observed.

My own observations include the above effects on the linden, as well as new-found resistance to disease in other trees.  Others have claimed trees so treated to be more drought-tolerant.  Please let me know your own stories!

Silicon for Bone Health

Monday, June 15, 2015

I feel that nature recently gave me a massive download of understanding.  I’d like to relate the experience, as well as the information (with recipes!).

Last week, as I gazed upon a meal I was consuming, the thought that scallions must have a lot of silicon in them crossed my mind.  Scallions have a shiny, waxy finish, and are thin tubes that must resist winds that want to push them over, all attributes of plants with a lot of silicon – bamboo, whole grains, and asparagus, for example.  The skins of root vegetables can be silicon-rich, too, such as onions with their shiny sheaths.  That’s what led me to think there must be a generous amount of silicon in scallions, and sure enough, the internet did confirm that onions, therefore scallions, are high in silicon.  Anyway, the thought passed through my mind, and I shortly forgot about it.

A week or so later, at another meal, my girlfriend Gina mentioned that she liked the way the restaurant’s chef had prepared the escarole we were sharing, because she or he had taken the time to make sure the stems were soft.  Gina mentioned that she’d read that the soft parts of leaves have more nutrients than the hard parts.  I had an immediate intuitive hit that this was not true, it was that the nutrients were different, and the two parts of leafy plants had to be prepared in a manner reflecting those differing mineral profiles. The stems needed more processing, in this case cooking with heat, in order to make their nutrients bio-available.  I got that this was because stems would tend to have more silicon, and silicon requires extra processing. 

Silicon is a mineral central to the production of healthy, glossy hair, skin, nails and strong bones.  When we are born we have oodles of silicon, as our bodies will need to grow bones, skin and hair many times more massive than that of the body we arrive in.  This is one reason why children and young people have beautiful skin, hair and nails.  As we age, unless we take care to replace it, the store of silicon becomes depleted, wrinkles develop in our skin, and our hair and nails become thinner and more brittle.  The possibility of broken bones increases.

Bones, when made into mineral broth, take a long cooking time to get out all the nutrients, one of which is silicon.  That’s why stems, which actually look a little like bones, and perform a similar function, would require additional processing, or cooking.  By ‘stems’ I mean the edible parts of vegetables that have thick, fleshy uprights – think of the supporting structures of Swiss chard, broccoli, and collards.  I do not mean the inedible supporting parts of plants, say, tomato stems, or the woody stems of something like sage. 

Here’s a French tip on cooking greens and stems, hence the recipe part of this paper: Separate the stems from the dark, soft parts of the leaves, and then make a separate dish by stewing the stems in some water with sun-dried tomatoes, onions, and capers.  This little stew is really delicious.  I know that silicon is best absorbed when in the presence of salt, and the capers add that salt.  Interestingly, onions are in there too, making this stew very rich in silicon.  It’s great to have a second dish to make from a mess of greens.  The cooking time is a little longer than the soft, darker part of the leaves, so plan accordingly if you wish to serve them together.

So, Nature communicated by setting up a scenario in which I thought about silicon in scallions, and then followed through a week later with a bigger, more developed package of information:  greens; stems; cooking with more heat; bones; silicon.  The permutations just kept pouring out of me – I had to write them down.  Not a bad bonus for a couple of meals.  

Karma & Co.

Karma &  Co.

I recently developed an awful, nasty, itchy rash on my legs. My calves looked as thought I’d lost a knock-down, drag-out fight with a group of cacti. I asked my MAP team what was going on, and came to understand that I was detoxing fluoride from my system.

New York state adds fluoride to it’s drinking water, and most commercial toothpastes also contain fluoride.  Many people also rinse with mouthwashes that contain fluoride.  There’s enough information on the questionable value of fluoride ingestion online that I won’t bother going into it in this paper, but will instead discuss how I came to a place where it began leaving my system.

There are three reasons:  1. Sunwater (paper attached); 2.  Forgoing the use of commercial dental substances; 3.  Karma & Company (papers attached).  Of the three, my MAP team has indicated that the Karma & Company Processes are responsible for 60% of my body’s ability to slough off this toxic material, with the other two roughly responsible for less than 20% each.  There’s a few percentage points gleaned from an overall healthier diet, as well.

I’ve developed the Processes that I call Karma & Company over the past few years.  I felt that there were some areas where I struggled for years to make changes, with nothing to show, despite conings, telegraph tests, miasm processes, SLGs, and even the PIC focused on them.  I used every tool in the Perelandra books, and every book, lecture, meditation, affirmation, habit-breaking technique I came across outside of the Perelandra materials as well.  I just kept feeling, no matter what I tried, that there was some kind of block, some part of me that I couldn’t even access, no matter what.  If I tried very hard in meditation, I would encounter a vision that looked like an acid green sea urchin, spiny and unapproachable.  After years of this situation I asked Nature for more tools, and was inspired to co-create these Processes.  I suspected that the causes of these intractable situations were in the past, possibly even a past life, and that I had no idea what they were.  I mean that the original situations that were part of the underlying causes of these situations were forgotten.

Most of the Processes are small, focused healing techniques on areas of our spiritual bodies that have been scarred in the past, or in a past life.  Although our MAP teams would eventually be able to heal all these scenarios, we can be better team members if we initiate some of these healings ourselves. These discreet healing Processes are set up to allow us to clean our own house more, to allow new energies into places that are darkened, blocked, or inappropriate.  As most of these energies reside in the spiritual body, it’s easy to envision how even a small scar or block situated there can mute or warp light and energy coming into the system.  An even better way to envision the subtle but profound effects these wounds have is to see all energy as magnetic, attractive.  If our spiritual being is full of frequencies absorbed through outdated ideas, traumas, or past lives, similar energies will constantly enter into our current lives.  Hurtful actions, self-limiting thoughts and criticisms are still within us, whether we remember the situations that caused them or not.  I’m not implying that all the problems you have in your life are the result of hauling your past mistakes around.  Unlike Scrooge’s late business partner Jacob Marley, the chains that bind us are not always of our own forging – we do live in a challenging world.  It was too late for Marley to let go of what weighted him down. We, like Scrooge, can make changes and release ourselves from some of our outmoded past.

This time of great new energy influx can be used to great reward.  Let’s mop up some of yesterday’s dust to allow fresh air and light to flow through our entire beings.

I believe that after having performed dozens, possibly hundreds of these Karma & Company Processes for well over a year, my being shifted in such a way that the toxic energy of fluoride was incompatible with my system, and my body began to reject it.  Now, don’t get me wrong –I’m not implying that just the energy Processes were sufficient for this to happen.  Remember those other two factors – no use of commercial dental substances, and Sunwater?  Eliminating fluoride from my physical being for years was foundational to my transformation.  Sunwater creates healthier water, as the sun breaks down large molecules of toxins mixed into the water, which are then filtered out.  Avoiding commercial dental substances, with their loads of fluoride, helped the physical body initiate healing from these substances.  You certainly can’t detox from something you’re still ingesting.  And, of course, I’m talking about a PEMS system that has had the benefits of a wonderful MAP team since 2003.

I didn’t start my Sunwater, alternative dental care and Karma & Co's with the intent of ridding my body of fluoride.  I started all of these practices because I wanted to be as healthy as possible, in all PEMS levels.  After years of these practices combined I can see a very real benefit.  I also believe that the new energies are amping up all healing modalities now, bringing in more results than ever when applied over time.  Perhaps little or none of this would have even been possible years ago.

Healing is rarely fast.  True, deep healing takes time.  We exists in PEMS layers, and so does that from which we must heal.  This time that we are in, however, offers accelerated healing.  Let’s take advantage of it.

Although the nasty rash was far from pleasant, I was content to let it run its course to help my body heal.  If I can create spontaneous detoxification with these gentle, focused practices, I am most likely healing other unexpected or unnoticed systems within my total being as well.  And, I’m happy to report, of the stubborn situations in my life, one has already been healed, and healed the way Nature does.  Nature, I’ve noticed, always gives more than you know to ask for, in a broader range of healing, and with a lot more fun that you’d thought to ask for.

Karma

PROCESS ONE:  Karma

The Law of Karma is a complex and multi-layered structure delineating the place our past thoughts and actions have in determining the quality of our current lives.  Sometimes in a simplistic Western rendering, it comes to resemble a multi-lifetime version of the golden rule – you’re having a lousy day today because of a sin you committed in a past life.  In actuality, the law of karma extends through many nuanced layers of human behavior. There are more tenets to this law than this paper can explore, but there is a one facet of our own karma that we can actually heal quickly and easily, and that is what this paper will address.

Humanity has not always had this ability.   The exciting time we are living in today supports a far broader palette of healing tools than many thousands of years of history have offered, and this series of Processes could not exist without this enhanced palette.  While not all aspects of karma can be accessed by this simple Process, one can:  Seemingly permanent, cast-in-stone truths from past lifetimes are still within us, even if we’re not consciously aware of them.  Even if they do not apply today, or are even at odds with our current thinking on the subject, they may still be imbedded invisibly in our being, skewing our thoughts and actions.

If we have done some genuine harm to ourselves or other beings in this life or a past life, some serious time, perhaps entire lifetimes, must go toward balancing this debt.  Not all karmas are as easy to rid ourselves of as old thoughts are.  Old thoughts and beliefs are the only aspect of karma that can be addressed by this Process.  One of the elegant aspects of this Process is that we don’t even need to know the old thought or rule that we are releasing ourselves from.  If we wish to know we can certainly explore that information, but it is not necessary.

The first of the reasons we are able heal this particular facet of ourselves is because we are living in a very different world than in past lives.  Circumstances have changed.  Our new world supports very different energies and behaviors than the past. Humanity and our abilities have evolved. Yet, integrating new ideas does not automatically remove old ideas – our systems are capable of holding contradictory thoughts. One of the odd twists of the human brain is the ability to do just that:  We can simultaneously encompass two ideas that are mutually exclusive, and we won’t even realize we are doing so!

Truths I might have held dear as a Crusader of old, and was willing to die for, might feel undeveloped and naïve to me now, or just plain wrong. However, certain mental structures within me may still reverberate to their frequency.  Change does not imply that these past understandings were wrong at the time I thought them, but it absolutely does mean that some of these past beliefs are wrong for me right now. It’s not that they’re bad, just no longer appropriate.

These deep, older beliefs can limit or skew our current thoughts, feelings, and abilities.  Think of how a rose would look if the husk that protected the developing petals never allowed itself to swell, burst, and be shed by the blooming flower. 

Here’s the second conundrum of karma – many of the delicate ties that bind us to the past may be connected to things that we, as individuals, have resolved, maybe as many as 85 – 90%.  Just being born into a different race, gender, or religion can wipe the slate clean of certain debts.  This is why we can disconnect ourselves from some karmas - we have already changed ourselves inside and out.

Minutes after writing the above paragraph, I left my apartment for some errands and ran into my upstairs neighbor.  Some time ago she’d decided to take her a/c unit out of the window for the season.  In the process, it slipped from her fingers and plunged six stories down onto the sidewalk.  In a panic, she ran down six flights of stairs, certain she’d killed someone, only to find that not one person, pet or car had been harmed.  OK, a street tree lost a few small limbs, but otherwise it was a huge miracle.   However, the neighbor, understandably traumatized at the time, went around for weeks with a dark cloud over her head, saying “Oh my God, I could have killed somebody”.  She couldn’t let go of it. Then she ran into my roommate, a therapist.  “You have to stop saying that”, my roommate explained, “No one was hurt.  Instead say ‘I am so grateful no one was harmed by my actions’.”  As soon as the neighbor repeated that, the dark cloud cleared and only the normal, fading thoughts about the event remained. 

My neighbor was in the process of creating a kind of artificial karma for herself.  She was making herself sick over a potential disaster that never arrived, and if she had continued in this train of thought for long she could have brought upon herself real mental or emotional difficulties.  This is yet a third reason why we can disconnect ourselves from some karmic ties.  The ropes that bind us to events in our past can be as strong as steel, even though sometimes connected on the other end to something negligible as “I could have killed someone,” or “I ate something my religion did not approve of,” or “I slept with someone from a racial group my tribe despised”.  In short, these things that were serious crimes at the time are now too thin to sustain any significant karma in this lifetime.

When we consider our whole beings, physical, emotional, mental and spiritual, we might wonder where these karmas are held.  Nature tells us that they abide in our spiritual bodies.  When we consider this, it is easy to see how even the smallest of them can warp or impinge our current abilities and sensitivities, coloring the light flowing from Source with muddied frequencies.

In times past, “breaking” karmic behavior was thought to always be a difficult task, one involving much work to sway thoughts and behaviors to reflect a new ideal.  We’re certainly not a getting free pass on this entire task, as we will always have work like this to do - it is part and parcel of being on this planet. Serious harm done by you to a person, place or thing will entail far more work than this simple Process.   But, in this brew of today’s new energies and understandings, we can now lovingly release some of the artifically constricting ideas within us with relative ease.

To get started:

11.        Open a MAP coning and connect yourself to the PIC.  Have your essences & solutions handy.

22.      Using kinesiology, find out if any essences, Essence of Perelandra, ETS+  (or the PIC) are needed for general balancing at this time.  Again using kinesiology, confirm how many, and which are needed, and take them at once. 

33.      Ask out loud, or to yourself, “Do I have any karmas that are ready for healing?  If so, how many?”  While asking this question, keep in mind the definition above (second paragraph) of specific karmas that can be healed in this manner.  If there is more than one, ask if there is to be a waiting period between healing one karma and the next.  If so, ascertain how long this is to be – 2 hours?  24? 48?

44.      After you’ve ascertained how many, if any, that can be presently healed, state out loud or to yourself, “I now release myself from karma #1 (or 2., or 3…), and ask it to leave my entire system.  I ask karma #1 to go to the next step on its evolutionary path”.  In this way we gently send karmas along.  It’s not the karma’s fault that it no longer matches our vibrations, and we wish all consciousness equal access to growth.

55.      Wait ten seconds.

66.      Ask which essences (or PIC solutions) are currently needed, and if they are single-dose or to be multi-dose solutions.  If any test as multi-dose solutions, you will have to make a solution and take it as often as needed in the coming hours or days to complete the number of dosages.

77.       If no essences test as needing more than one dose, ask if any additional essences are needed, and take them at once.  Repeat this step as many times as needed to arrive at a ‘no’ answer. Go on to the rest of the karmas, if any are available, repeating steps 2 – 7 as many times as needed.

88.       Close down the coning after you’ve established when (and if) to next take a multi-dose solution, or if none are needed.  Don’t forget to disconnect from the PIC.

Allow an hour or so for the first time doing this – you may have a number of karmas to address.  After that, typically there are only one or two at one time.  I use kinesiology to determine if I have any available for healing twice a month or so.

Karma is not a rigid path that we are forced to follow, but can be a sun-filled trail to discovering the lighter, more loving world we reach for.  We can follow this path with grace and ease.