The number of spiritual teachers and teachings is staggering. Close to half of the spiritual books, are fiction. Many are selling some brand of blamour and yet most have an underlying core, of similar basic truths. The trick is how to separate the wheat from the chaff, the baby from the bathwater, and find the proverbial needle in the haystack.
Having utilized muscle testing for 20 years as an integral part of my healing practice, as well as every other aspect of my life, it was relatively easy for me to integrate David Hawkins’ interpretation of the “Levels of Consciousness” as a valid and now indispensible tool in my understanding of reality.
There is a video about a well known enlightened teacher who is now departed. The narrator did a wonderful job of explaining some seemingly cryptic words spoken by this teacher. At the very end there was one quote which although visually displayed in its entirety, was truncated in quoting by the narrator. This gave a totally different meaning from the original statement. It also had the effect of perverting the essence of a true spiritual teaching.
Someone else, who had also spent much time with this teacher and had himself transcended linear reality to a high level of consciousness, and perhaps was the source of that self-serving misinterpretation, used it to justify a non-integrous action. That action in a person of lower consciousness might be considered a slip; in that particular enlightened being, the consequence was a “fall from grace”. A student, who was present at the time, reported a deep wounding and sense of betrayal, for himself as well as many of his fellow students.
Over the years I have wandered from one teacher and teaching to another in search of truth and healing. Many were the times when something lured me, only to show up as less than advertised. As a reaction, I let go of many healing practices, which contained elements which did not sit well. As I began to surrender my anger and judgments of these teachers, certain insights resurfaced in a new light. In my surrender I was shown the essence of truth which underlay the distortions and also a much higher option in utilizing these revelations.
My time spent teaching for what became a cult-like organization, gave me a deeper perspective on entities and their various forms and nuances. Some of the observations about human behavior are very astute while some explanations appear to be nothing more than glamour with the effect of hooking people into specialness, all the while denying that hook. Using muscle testing, to show me where the line between truth and falsehood lies, I am benefitting greatly from my past experiences.
The practice of soul retrieval has been a great gift to the therapy community. Traditionally, the healer is the one who journeys to find the fragment, often going into lower realms and then relating the story; with luck triggering an integration of the fragment back into the recipient. If instead of using one’s intuition to retrieve the fragment, one were to use it, with muscle testing as a confirmation, to guide the client into a retrieval and self integration, the experience can be much more empowering, truthful and consciously expansive. One can take a giant leap forward by turning the whole process into a prayerful request, invoking an even greater power. By using the same principal as the 12-step programs, surrendering one’s own personal will to a higher power (God, Divinity, etc.) the healer and the client can step out of self-importance and invite the highest expression of Divinity to come forth in assistance. It is tapping into the levels of consciousness, which makes these programs successful, where all else failed.
I readily admit that it has taken me some time to let go of the negative energy I carried about some of my past journeys. A lot of it was tied up in the hurt and resulting judgments I carried, from betrayals of spiritual trust on the part of the various leaders. Often the betrayal is hidden and when it is exposed, can prove devastating to an innocent aspirant. Even those experiences, over the course of time, have a positive aspect. I now have the memories of those traits as examples of what I choose not to be. They are indelible markers as to the boundaries of the straight and narrow path of integrity and consciousness.
David Lowell has been working with energy and healing for 30 years. He aintains a professional consulting practice, both in person and by phone, on a global level, for 19 years. He is the author of “The Struggle to Surrender: Love, Consciousness & The Quantum Field” and publishes “Perspectives” an irregular free Ezine. To see more articles by David and find out about his work go to =>
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