Showing: Groundhog Day
It’s an older one but a classic. Consider the movie from a spiritual aspect and spend some time discussing it with like minded individuals.

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Throughout my 25 years of experience in dealing with energy work and the experience of healing and spiritual arts, I have found that all systems have their limitations. Almost every system of healing can be enhanced by the complementary aid of another at some point. What is important in every healing system such as Reiki and other systems that utilize life force energy, is for the practitioner not to stop there, because behind that healing energy, whether we call it Reiki, chi, or by any other name, there is a pattern. This pattern is the fundamental building block of all healing energy. Every healer, in my opinion, needs to spend a certain amount of time learning to apply nothing more than Mind to align with the underlying truth.

In Reiki we think of patterns as they relate to various forms of applying energy. But is this the last word? Chi or Qi energy is an energy that can be experienced through the various channels and meridians without our bodies. I have observed it work through many different forms of healing systems, including prayer. But what we need to understand is, that if a pattern triggers an effect, it is only because the power of the Mind energy is behind it. Without the Mind there is no energy to experience and no energy to connect with for encouraging a healing process.

We generally speak of mind energy as though we all knew what it was, and what kind of energy it emits. The fact is that no one really knows. Nonetheless, we experience its effects. When people experience themselves in spirit, and by that I mean out-of-body, as in a near death experience, one finds that mind is more than we can explain in words of what we know in the physical. Our bodies are composed of atoms, and these atoms have spaces between them. If mind moves into those spaces there is a design, a pattern of consciousness. Every physical disease of any part of the body is also composed of atoms, but if you look at the atoms of disease, then where is the disease? Where is the illness? Atoms do not change.

Years ago it was discovered that the atom was not the smallest particle. They look inside the atom and found that it had a nucleus. They opened up the nucleus and found that proton. They then split the proton and found the quark, which is the smallest particle, we know of to date. Perhaps when science moves forward we will find something smaller. But for now it is too found that the quark has its own pattern. All these things are invisible to the naked eye, and they are all energy. Ultimately, things must lead to a nothingness of energy, yet that nothing must also have a mathematical geometry to it, a pattern that creates energy and visible things from a non-material nothingness.

Intention is an ingredient of the recipe of will. Mind is a combination of will and consciousness. If mind is still, the will is not active. If mind moves, the will is active. To experience energy one must begin to know the stillness of mind, the self without the intent, without the will, without the movement. The best way I can explain it is to use the guitar string as an example. When the string is still, it is itself, and that is mind without complexity. When the string is picked, it vibrates and creates a sound, and that is mind working. But the vibrations produced by the string are as the thoughts of the mind, and this what humans believe is their real mind. Now think of this saying from the scriptures in relation and see what you understand of it "Be still and know that I am God."

In essence, everything about us is already energy, from the physical to the non-physical. If one learns to see the pattern of ones own essence, then it automatically reveals the truth of all things related to life-force energy. The question is, can man endure the fullness of such awareness without going mad? We give names to things because by doing so it feels familiar and safe. But the things that have their origin in power of spirit-mind cannot truly be defined by names. They can only be experienced.

Pure chi (Reiki) can neither be distilled nor contaminated and mind is not a machine, the brain is. People often confuse mind with the mechanisms of the brain, because mind expresses itself through the use of the brain. Mind is really synonymous with consciousness, or with universal spirit-mind, which can be at rest, or active. In astral experiences one's mind remains the same, only thing that changes that the physical body is unfettered. It is the mind that experiences consciousness, and therefore, the "bliss". Pure chi requires no special state to express its movement or its stillness. It works like a faucet of running water. Its flow depends on how open the knob is to regulate the stream. When the nadis (gate) in the meridians of the body are completely open to express the energy streams of evolved chakras, the altered states of consciousness flow naturally.

The consciousness of mind, whether active, or in a blissful state, is a vibration. "Bliss," in and of itself, is a subtle vibration and an expression of that same mind. The waves and stillness of an ocean, its ebbs and tides, depth and breadth, do not alter the fact that it is an ocean. And it is because of mind that one can say; "I experience bliss." No state of mind can proclaim its own existence without Mind's consciousness being present, anymore than a wave of the ocean can proclaim its existence without the ocean. Reiki too follows laws of life, and what we call "intent" is a directive of the mind, which is its support. Since Chi (Reiki) can affect matter, it follows that it occupies space; therefore, it is not the ultimate expression, but only one of life's many expressions.

This article was taken in its entirety from The Light Within a Reiki Handbook written by Jacqueline Chin. It can be found at your favorite on line bookstore or at http://www.authorhouse.com  in their bookstore. You can find out more about Reiki and Ms. Chin at http://www.JacquelineMChin.com 

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Kirtan Concert with Durga Das

Friday March 11th @ 8PM

Join us for an evening of ecstatic sacred music with David Newman (Durga Das) a kirtan singer and songwriter who combines traditional Indian devotional chanting with his own songs of spiritual love and devotion. David’s kirtans are joyous, ecstatic, uplifting and at times exploding with energy. Check out his new CD Lotus Feet.

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