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The Eclectic Metaphysicist |
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Healing and the manipulation of energy, consciousness and reality |
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by Jim Hansen |
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About me...
Two days ago I was chatting on the phone with Lonny Brown when he told me about the Meta Arts magazine, and that he was going to write a column for it. I've known Lonny for close to twenty years, and he's always into neat projects, so I decided to check it out. To shorten the story, a day later Rhonda e-mailed me a chance to do the same, with the casual comment that the deadline for my first column was just three or four days later!
My professional background is that of an electronics engineer, which is not the typical profession of those interested in metaphysical pursuits. In fact, quite the contrary. Most of us joining the engineering ranks do it because of frustration or fear of dealing with people. Engineering offers a consistent and uniform environment where logic prevails and we can hide from society, people, friends, family and ourselves. I hid behind that profession for a long time for the very reasons I just mentioned.
Most of us have incarnational safeguards that ensure that we keep our lives on track. Serendipity and synchroneity often play a role in this process, but the backup systems embedded in our physical bodies provide the absolute, failsafe means for grounding and resetting our approaches to life. These usually come under the category of medical "predispositions," and are not normally activated unless specifically needed. In my case, the mechanism employed to get my life moving again was spinal stenosis.
This is a genetic disorder that results in pain. Without surgery, it eventually leads to paralysis. In my case, surgery prevented the paralysis, but left the pain fully intact, and I was heavily medicated for chronic pain. This grounding experience lasted until I couldn't stand the mind-robbing and constant drowsiness caused by the narcotics used against the pain, some 9 years later.
In utter desperation I went to see a psychic. He talked non-stop for an hour and 45 minutes, then asked if I had any questions. I managed to ask about my back pain. "Oh," he said, "that won't last forever," and referred me to a Reiki master living nearby. At the time I'd never heard the word "Reiki," and didn't care what it was. I wanted relief. (At the time I was taking 1800 mg of ibuprofen plus the methadone daily and the pain was just barely tolerable.)
The short story is that four Reiki treatments was all it took to completely eradicate the pain. An engineer doesn't witness such a phenomenon without wanting to tinker with it. And so I took a Reiki I class and ordered a therapy table as my wife Pat said, "Oh, brother, what IS he getting into this time?" I invited members of Pat's quilting group in town to come and get healed, which many of them did. I eventually took Reiki II, then in Albuquerque a year or two later, became a Reiki master.
The goal of this column is not to show how we can use the metaphysic to avoid the physical reality in our lives, but how to discover and use insights garnered from the metaphysic to develop practical applications that improve the quality of our life experience. This is the very essence of what healing is all about, and this is a subject that we'll visit many times.
As it takes other tools besides a hammer to build a house, so I have found it takes more than one approach to perform true healing. And so in this column, I'll describe a variety of energy-based techniques that everyone, even those without Reiki training can apply. Those with Reiki or other energy training will find that using these approaches will give them more powerful results.
And fair warning, to those who practice any one of the more than 25 varieties of Reiki I recently counted on the web: I am not devoted to any dogmatic approach. If it works for me in a beneficial way, I'll use it for the betterment of my client and myself. And so I invite you to test everything you read in this column - and elsewhere, for that matter. Remain skeptical until you've tested it and found your truth in it. If it turns out to be false, have the courage to trash it and move on. Otherwise, use it to your advantage!
Please use my email address and send me your comments, experiences, suggestions and criticisms. It is my hope that this column will be driven by your questions and input, and unless I get totally swamped, I'll personally respond to everyone who writes me at www.theEclecticMetaphysicist@hotmail.com. Promise!
This month's column is largely extracted from my new book, currently under preparation with the working title of Healing the Metaphysical You: Advanced Energy Healing Techniques. I've chosen this subject to show that medicine in general and energy healing in particular, as a technique, goes back into the prehistory of civilization.
Although acupuncture as an energy healing practice has a long history, its origins are easily traced to China's Huang Di Nei Jing, The Yellow Emperor's Internal Medicine Classic, which was compiled in roughly 2690 BCE. Although it doesn't specifically mention energy healing or acupuncture, it describes using Bian Shi, or stone probes to adjust Chi. Until just a few years ago, this was thought to be the last word on the historical record of acupuncture.
And it was, until the discovery of the Ice Man, the mummified remains of a fifty-year-old male who died after being shot in the back with an arrow around 3300 BCE and subsequently frozen in a glacier. Completely untouched until discovered along the Austrian-Italian border by hikers in 1991, this man has the earliest known tattoos, all on the acupuncture urinary bladder channel, the channel used to treat back pain. Xrays and other diagnostics confirmed that he suffered lower back and hip arthritic pain, making it clear the tattoos were not placed there by chance. (Tattooing on acupuncture sites is practiced world wide and in many cultures as a means to maintain activation.)
The Origins of Medical Science
Western scientific medicine has its roots in fifth century BCE (Before Common Era) Greece. Hippocrates, who died between 377 and 359 BCE, is considered the "father" of modern medicine, but scientific medical practices can be traced back further. In Greece, the Pythagorean School at Crotona produced the most famous Greek physicians prior to Hippocrates, with Alcmaeon, who lived about 100 years earlier, being called the "real" father of Greek medicine. Among his recorded contributions were the discovery of the optic nerve and eustachian tubes, recognition of the brain as the central organ of thought and an explanation of the physiology of sleep.
The Egyptians, however, have left traces that their medical system went far beyond any of the Greek practices, and were more in line with present day medicine than most realize. The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus is named after the American Egyptologist who bought it in 1862 from an antiquities dealer in Egypt. Translation of this document waited until 1930 when it was discovered to be a medical treatise written in a totally modern structure with the same organizational scheme as today's Gray's Anatomy which is universally used in medical schools.
This papyrus describes 48 traumatic cases starting with the head and working down the body. The text consists of a concise diagnosis followed by the recommended treatment and the probable outcomes. All are described in dispassionate, clinical terms. Prescribed treatments include the first use of sutures to close wounds, bandaging with honey (a bactericide) to prevent infection, splinting and many other modern treatments. Only one case mentions use of magical terms, actually, charms as a means of promoting healing.
This document, dated to about 1550 BCE, is the earliest known medical treatise. Unfortunately, it is an incomplete copy of an earlier original, and ends in mid sentence. Based on the language and style used, the original from which it was copied is thought to date between roughly 2500 - 3000 BCE.
Physical evidence of the medical practices described in this papyrus have been discovered in the remains of workers buried near the stepped pyramid, built for Djoser (2667 - 2648 BCE) of the 3rd Dynasty. Healed leg bones following amputation show expert medical care, and there is clear evidence of broken bones being healed after splinting. This site also revealed evidence of the earliest known brain surgery when archeologists found a skull that was cut away in several locations to remove internal pressure caused by a cancerous brain tumor.
The Surgical Papyrus is obviously the product of mature medical science based on observation and reason. Given that the original is of the 2500 BCE era, it clearly demonstrates that human rational thinking was possible even at this early date. Nothing in classical Greek medicine that followed some 2200 years later compares to this achievement, and it is a pity that this knowledge didn't survive. It is generally thought, but certainly not proven, that the author of the Surgical Papyrus was Imhotep, the world's first multi-genius who was an architect, philosopher, poet, and importantly for us, a physician.
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Jim Hansen
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Bachelor of General Studies Summa Cum Laude
Healer, Author, and Reiki Master
Jim is a retired embedded systems electronics engineer and Reiki Master with extensive metaphysical interests and background in energy healing, remote viewing, and channeling. Born with latent psychic abilities, his metaphysical interests started before high school with experiments in hypnosis, astral travel, palmistry, meditation and eventually yoga that he started practicing while tracking satellites for nearly two years just 600 miles from the north pole.
His engineering background and technical training give him a strong analytical foundation for his metaphysical exploration and adventures. Always the practical engineer, his interests are in application of metaphysical principles for the betterment of those living in the physical. He has a unique way of equating the metaphysic with present day science and its ever-expanding discoveries.
This column explores a wide range of topics related to healing, but fundamentally, it is devoted to answering the toughest metaphysical question of all: How can I use what I've discovered in the metaphysic to better my present day life experience? Jim maintains that the purpose of living in the physical is NOT to become non-physical. That, he says, will come soon enough for all of us. But given that parts of the metaphysical are open to exploration, then, he says, it is entirely valid for us to use whatever we find there as a tool for living our lives to the fullest.
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