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As was said in the discussion on
the
mystical path, much of that path remained subconscious rarely
surfacing where the author could take note of it. A notable
exception to this was when the author became very aware of the
mystical path was in an early experience as a healer. However,
although all that he experienced in the following discussion dealt
with the mystical aspects of Creation, the author never saw what he
was doing as being involved with what many individuals call the
mystical aspects of Creation. He was still of the belief that
mysticism was something well beyond what his life could, or
would, touch.
Additionally the mystical path is about working with the unseen
realms of Creation and in many ways, it is about working that world
of the unknown. In this regard, the author was not really prepared
for his first experience as a healer and to work with directly with
the unseen creative powers of Creation. He had no context in his
life, or for his life, for him to possess a healing ability or for
him to directly access the unseen powers of Creation to heal others.
He knew he could be trained as a healer within a healing profession.
But he had no context for how he could become a healer independent
of a healing profession or modality. Yet, that is what he began to
experience.
In his final year of undergraduate education he experiences a very
interesting phenomenon that at the time really didn’t mean much to
him. He just accepted it within, and part of, the context of its
occurrence. It was only when a similar experience occurred at the
time of the
Ultimate Accident did he see what happened to him earlier in
life.
A year before his experience as a healer, it came to his attention
that the University he attended expected him to complete his
undergraduate education in five years because of his major in
Physics and being a member of the Navy Reserve Office Training
Corps. His opinion was that he had four years to give to an
undergraduate education because there other things he needed to do
in life. It was the
same feeling he had as six year old when he realized he could
not afford to repeat a grade in school. He knew there was something
he was here to do and he had to get on with that task.
In realizing he was expected to take five years to get his Physics
Degree and a Commission in the US Navy, he chose to do it in four.
So he took fifteen credits at summer school and loaded his fall
schedule with twenty four credits. Because of an oversight of one
course, he took twenty seven credits in the following spring. The
normal course load was fifteen credits a semester and the
engineering and science degrees were considers hard because they
required eighteen credits a semester. Although he had little free
time, he did continued his activities in music and the University
Band. They were his primary diversion from studying.
But something happened that he didn’t expect. When he called on all
the energy and creativity he could to meet his course work, all of a
sudden his spirituality and mystical side of his life also begin to
open. He started to become very both very religious and began to get
greatly increased sexual urges. It is as thought the energy was
enthusing all aspects of his being. To find the energy to meet the
demands of the education, the other aspects of his life also opened
in ways he never before experienced. It was like one part of his
being could not expand unless all other parts also expanded.
Marriage resolved the sexual outlet but he began to look for an
outlet for this spirituality that had arisen.
Although he graduated and was Commissioned in the US Navy, he was
sent to an immediate post graduate education program by the Navy to
get a masters degree in Physics. But the flow of energy continued.
At graduate school he found a spiritual practice and tradition that
seemed to fit exactly what he needed for it channeled the spiritual
energy in a way very consistent with the beliefs he had been given
as a child. Being enthusiastic about the spirituality he was
experiencing, he jumped fully into the spiritual/religious
opportunity he found. Unfortunately time did not permit the
continued use involvement in music but there was some musical
opportunities within the spiritual/religious tradition he found.
Although the spiritual/religious tradition he found fit fully into
the standard mainstream religions of his society it was very much
focused on creating the space for individuals to rebirth their
spiritual life. Although not charismatic in the sense of the
organized Charismatic Religious practices, it was very much
charismatic oriented and look to release the individual’s charisma.
It was charismatic in the sense the practice was seeking to
spiritually endow individuals to become divinely inspirited in their
lives rather than operating from more from an earthly and ego
perspective. The practice sought to create spiritual charismatic
individuals or individuals who had the power to command and access
the unseen powers of creation.
In may ways this spiritual/religions tradition sought to release
what theologies have seen as an individual’s charisma. That is, it
sought to access and release the extraordinary spiritual gift or
grace granted to individuals for the benefit of others such as the
power to heal, understanding and the like. To some an individual’s
charisma is a unique personal power conceived as only belonging to a
group of exceptional individuals capable of obtaining and securing
the allegiance of large numbers of individuals. What this
spiritual/religious tradition sought to release within the
individual was something similar and it was often quite successful.
In this experience he routinely saw something was released within
the individuals and they did change. Most called what was releases
in the individuals new spirits of spirituality. Many who were
fearful and reluctant to step forward in leadership roles willingly
and enthusiastically embraced such roles. But, he also saw how these
spirits faired once released.
The author noticed two things when the spirit was released. The
first was that authorities always, in their own way, captured and
contained the spirit and directed it the way they wanted it to go.
They did everything they could not to let it out on its own and do
its own thing. They claimed it was for the protection of the person.
It was almost like creating spiritual slave labor - release an
energetic and enthusiastic spirit and then harness that spirit for
your purpose, not the purpose of the spirit for which it was
created. What the tradition did was harness whatever was released
into its own teachings. Nevertheless, the person was often
dramatically changed by what was released within them. But over
time, they lost the fire, the zeal and passion as the world of the
religious and spiritual mundane sapped their energy.
Second, over time, when the environment in which the spirit lived
was too much like the old environment or the spirit could not find
its proper place and way to express itself in a new environment it
withered and died. Only to be bound much harder than the first time,
since now it is afraid to come out again having been once
suffocated. The church authorities were masters at creating enough
of a new environment to keep the spirit alive but sufficiently
controlled so that it didn’t exert itself too much.
Nevertheless author was thrilled just to see and experience the
change that he saw in people. They become much more vibrant and full
of life. They became enthusiastic about their life and what they
desired to accomplish in life. There was a profound freedom he saw
in the individual. However, at this time, he did not seem to be
puzzle by how that zeal and enthusiasm would slowly ebb and die. He
just accepted it as part of the process. Although the individual’s
lives were shifted and often never went back to their old way of
being in the world. It was often more like changing one set of
clothes for another. Or, it was like moving from the ground level of
an apartment building to a higher level where they had a more
commanding view of what was happening in their life. Yet, they never
left the apartment building. But, nevertheless, the author saw the
shift as something important and he was happy to help individuals
make that shift. But something else started to happen.
Over time, individuals with whom he worked started coming back to
him and say, “You are a healer - you healed....”. At this point the
author said to himself, “I’m out of here - I am not prepared nor am
I interested to take on a battle with the authorities/elders of the
spiritual/religious tradition or the medical community.”
Consequently, he dropped any association with that part of his life
until it began to resurface masked as creativity in the workplace.
It is to be noted this was his first experience with the need to
stay on his path an not give into the temptation to try and argue or
persuade other to a different way of think as discussed in the topic
“Awareness
of the Path.”
The issue of healing and the author as a healer did arise several
times again in his life. Yet each time his attempt to actively
practice as a healer was some how thwarted. Rather than being
allowed to move into a healing role, he always ended up in a
protection role. He was pulled to be in positions where he offered
some type of kind of protection to the individuals or the public. In
many ways the charisma that was released in him was not healing but
protection. In hindsight, it is clear the healing of individuals
came only when the proper protection was offered so that they could
heal themselves. Analogously, if a wound keeps opening, in never
heals. If you remove the cause that keeps opening the wound, the
wound heals itself. Of course, at the time, the author knew and
understood none of this. He was reacting subconsciously since his
mystical path and the awareness it provides had not yet been
realized.
In time, as the author studied creativity and began to understand
how we create the experiences that we do, he realized he had no
interest in ever being called a healer. There is a quirk to how we
create the experience we do. As explained in the
creative process and
how we create the experience we have, individuals are called
into our lives to give us the experiences we desire to have. If we
have an identity of a healer, we need to create sick people to be
healed. However, if we have an identity as a creator, we heal no
one. All we do is help the individuals create the experience they
desire or need to have. It time, individuals will come to
understand, they do not have to create illness to obtain certain
types and kinds of understanding that are
now achieved through pain, illness, accident and disease or war
and the like.
From a
creativity perspective, the recommendation made for those who
work within the healing profession is to realized they are not the
one’s causing the healing. They are only assisting an individual to
have the experience they need or desire to have at some level of
their being. That is, they are only playing role for the patient
based on what the patient believes they need to experience to heal.
Similarly, the patient is only playing a role for the healer to have
the experience as a healer. Healing comes from within the
individual. What individual healers will probably being to discover
if they use the creativity perspective and hold their creativity and
those of others sacred, is that the healing modality they use only
treats a certain types and kinds of belief patterns. If they can
discern an individual’s belief pattern then they will know how
effective their healing will be.
By exploring the belief pattern of their patient the healer may come
to discover the healing modality they use will probably provide no
assistant to some patients even though all the physical conditions
appear that the modality should heal it. But this is something for
individual healers to explore. Of course, what the healer will see
and experience about their modality and their patients also depends
on what type and kind of experiences the healer desires to have.
Some are healers to satisfy their ego. Some are healers out of
compassion. Some are healers to satisfy others in their lives. Some
are healer because that is the experience their creative spirit
desires to have. Each of us are unique and all we create experiences
and assist others in having the experiences they desire to have. The
question is from where do we derive our identity and what types and
kinds of experiences do we need to feed that identity..
What the author has come to understand is that if we derive our
identity from the
intention for our life that is often seen and experienced
externally as a charisma, they will give another permission to draw
their identity form the intention for their life. In doing so each
gets to experience the magic of Creation to the depth and breadth of
their being. We each came come to see Creation is magical enough to
create Itself in such a way that each can live true to themselves.
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