"Am I a Healer?"

Introduction

It is my understanding that ALL people have at least some degree of healing ability.

The sort of healing which I am referring to here is what many would call spiritual healing, which includes many variants such as Reiki, Vortex Healing, shamanic healing and so forth. However, as I shall explain further below, there are very serious problems about all those variants, including what most people simply call 'spiritual healing', and I shall point to the one approach which is truly safe and effective.

Most people are unaware that they have such healing ability because either they've taken on the materialist-reductionist belief system, which dismisses such abilities as altogether fictional, or they've taken on one of the restrictive beliefs about healing that come from the religions. For example, many Christians have been led to believe that only revered teachers like Jesus can be healers, while many other Christians have been led to believe that although many people are able to give healing, to do so not in the name of Jesus is evil and the work of the devil. I'm not joking in saying the latter, for, as a great rarity among my many hitch-hiking encounters I've had such people lecture me about how I'm working for the forces of darkness in giving healing, just because I don't invoke Jesus.

There is a particular irony about the latter, because, as you would understand from Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side', to invoke 'Jesus', 'God' or 'the Holy Spirit' is actually invoking the astral ('dark') forces and not anything truly beneficial to us.

Another 'lunatic fringe' belief among a fair number of supposed Christians is that when you carry out healing which isn't in the name of Jesus you are "dabbling" with dark forces and are in great danger.

Actually, as I shall explain further below, they are almost right in a way - except I'd remove or replace that pejorative word 'dabbling' - but what they do no understand is that they themselves are being very seriously led astray by dark forces, as is EVERYONE who is doing healing in the name of Jesus or indeed in the name of or invoking any other personality, whether physical or non-physical.

In Buddhism there is a common though not universal belief that anyone doing Reiki healing outside Buddhism, and without permission from a Buddhist 'Master', is due for severe karmic consequences. Another common belief in Buddhism is that to use healing is best not done because it's a distraction from one's spiritual progress.

What such beliefs have in common is that the religions are propagating them as part of their agenda of power and control over people, being themselves covertly controlled or manipulated by astral ('dark') entities ('the forces of darkness'). They are teachings of fear and control, which is the antithesis of love. Fear seeks to hide the truth, while love is in the nature of truth.

Healing, awarely used upon yourself, can be part of a true self realization path, but with a tremendously big caveat which I shall go into further below. Indeed, provided it is used in grounding ways and grounding contexts it is a healthier practice than what I see as the gross overuse of formal meditation that characterizes Buddhism and various other Eastern religions.

In fact awarely used healing can be a great self-empowerer and dissolver of beliefs*, so assisting you in opening up to your deepest truth - the truth and innermost nature of experience itself. THAT is particularly why the religions generally seek to restrict or constrain its use. Religions do not want people discovering that they're better off, and would find their deepest truth, without religion, as tends to happen when people are on true self healing / self realization paths.

* As I point out further below, however, there is a very major problem through healers generally having taken up beliefs concerning healing and the nature of ourselves and of reality...

Healing - what is it?

Generally speaking, healing, in its usual, narrow sense, when done in the safe and effective way,  is the emanating of non-physical energies from one's own core essence (which is fundamental consciousness or 'the Ultimate' itself, and thus unlimited in its healing capacity) to bring about healing of the whole being - that is, not just the physical body but all the non-physical aspects of a person, bringing about emotional healing and some degree of advancement in the person's self realization. By the latter I mean letting go of limiting patterns and beliefs and getting in touch with and opening up one's deepest self, which is totally positive, loving, peaceful and wise.

Healing therefore, when well used, goes hand in hand with positive life change. I and many healers see the prime purpose of healing as being for positive life change and supporting self realization, physical improvements then coming about through the resultant dissolution of energy blocks and rebalancing of the whole energy system.

Healing can be transmitted by the laying on of hands, or through the hands positioned off the body (either within the person's energy system or at a greater distance), or by visualizations, breathing meditations and in fact a vast range of possible ways. The healer's intent plays a crucial role in determining that a particular method transmits healing energies. It can be given directly to the person or remotely - even the other side of the world.

Healing is commonly called 'faith healing', but I avoid that term as it implies some connection with religion, which actually it does not have despite various religions claiming healing for their own (and indeed imposing seriously distorted and problematical versions of it). That term also implies the need for belief, and that is far from the truth. Healing works best without belief, though naturally the healer would generally have a trust in the process or (s)he wouldn't be doing it.

We improve our understanding of healing if we let go of the fictitious accounts of instant healing 'miracles' in the Bible and indeed the scriptures of other religions. Teachers of real integrity do not perform 'miracles'.

N.B. I am aware of a well-known spiritual teacher of the present time who does, allegedly, perform public 'miracles'. Any such figure can be said to be working 'on the dark side', because their agenda is very much to impress people and encourage them to revere and worship them - an agenda of the astral ('dark') forces and not at all for for people's ultimate good. To set oneself up like that above other people is disempowering for the latter and thus hindering their self realization process, not helping it.

Putting healing in its context

This sort of healing is widely overrated in its importance, actually for a quite sinister reason. Our overall BIG need in our lives is not so much for 'healing' as normally understood, but for self realization, which is actually the biggest and most comprehensive healing, but also goes beyond normal notions of 'healing'. Self realization is the clearing out of all blocks, obstructions and distortions in our awareness and non-physical aspects to enable us to function as full, undistorted manifestations of our true nature, which is fundamental consciousness or 'the Ultimate'. Enlightenment is one stage in that process, and will occur naturally if people don't distort the process by striving for enlightenment as is done widely in Buddhism.

Healing on its own is not a very efficient means for self realization, yet generally in healing traditions it is regarded as more or less all one needs in order to get 'there'. However, when you look at what they think is our ultimate aim or 'target', you find that they lack a clear focus or indeed any focus at all on true self realization, which latter gets replaced by all manner of notions about entering higher realities and getting involved with higher beings, or general rather fuzzy notions of 'spiritual' advancement or 'spiritual' opening up, and evolution over very many sequential incarnation of the soul.

What those confused notions all have in common is that they have come into people's minds from extremely troublesome entities in the astral sub-reality, which are all the time seeking to interfere with people (ALL of us) to steer them away from true self realization and into taking up beliefs about higher realities and about reincarnation which are designed to ensnare us in illusory realities (astral realms) when we die, so that then we are fully captives of the astral ('dark') forces. I explain about this troublesome situation in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

You can read about my own salutary experiences with healing and some of its problematical versions such as Reiki in My Own Self Realization Path. I eventually learnt the hard way that I needed to de-emphasize 'healing' in my life and to use really powerful and effective means for self realization instead - particularly those mentioned in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way. If I had all along been using decent self realization methods like the latter, and had not tried to make various forms of 'spiritual' healing my main self realization process I would virtually certainly not have got into the horrendous and hair-raising pickle that I did with the astral ('dark') forces, as recounted in Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Beings - My Own Experience, and I'd have got fully clear of interference from astral entities years ago instead of (by the look of things) in 2008.

I have not rejected hands-on healing, but simply now regard it as a bit peripheral to the most effective means for self realization. Also, nowadays when I do use it, I do it as described in Healing From Our Core Essence - NEVER invoking supposedly higher beings nor any apparently external source of healing energy, and NEVER using symbols, crystals, wands nor sacred geometry of any kind. Where such healing comes into its own for me is in impromptu situations where I can quickly lay hands on a person who I encounter and has some health or emotional or entity problem. I don't kid myself that by doing that I've taken away their problem, but I do understand that in some way they will have benefited, whether or not they are aware of it.

It can also be very beneficial when done occasionally in one-to-one exchanges of healing with appropriate people - provided that the other people are similarly working only from their core essence, so that there is no possibility of picking up 'astral nasties' and implants from their healings (as in fact I did from various highly regarded healers who were invoking supposedly higher beings, which are actually ALL of 'the dark side', never mind how 'high' or 'Divine' they appear to be). However, this would need to be in addition to and not a replacement for one's primary means for self realization.

I have come to the conclusion that almost universally the running of formal healing practices is harmful rather than beneficial, for all involved. Healers who set up such practices are almost always not putting proper emphasis on their own self realization process and so are not able to inspire their clients to get into active self realization themselves. And all such one-way healing sessions, even if they are paid for, are disempowering for the clients, whose real need is ALWAYS to take on proper self healing and self realization methods themselves.

Those who wish to gain some income through really helping people in a healing way would do far better to give deeply aware consultations and counselling, for example, training people to use The Work and the EFT and the Alexander Technique - or indeed the methodology of Stephen and Lynda Kane. It would still be essential that such counsellors / trainers be long-standing and deeply aware users of whatever methods they intend to facilitate or train others in. It can then be that during the course of a session there is cause for giving a brief hands-on healing session - but that would best not be done without energy testing to establish whether that would really be the most helpful and strengthening thing to do at that point - and it would be done as something of a 'bit on the side' and wouldn't be the main content of a session.

Basically, healing (in the limited sense) is best reserved for the odd impromptu situations in everyday life and for exchanging between close friends and partners.

Psychic surgery - not such a big deal!

Certain healers go further than what I have described above as 'healing' and directly focus healing energy to bring about specific and often very detailed physical healings. They are commonly known as psychic surgeons. Because the ability to do this is uncommon it is often held in some awe, for its results can sometimes seem pretty well miraculous. However, such work on its own has less value than healing as I described it above, because overall positive life change and emotional and holistic healing of one's non-physical aspects is of prime importance, and indeed psychic surgery can distract people away from the broader healing and positive life change that is their true priority. It can also handsomely boost egos, and is disempowering for the recipients of such 'healings'.

You may well have the idea that a particular psychic surgeon is doing a much greater job than an 'ordinary' spiritual healer could, but it can often be the other way round. A psychic surgeon gets a lot of pressure from clients to heal pressing physical problems of theirs, and in many cases this results in the psychic surgeon effectively being only a psychic surgeon and not so much of a true holistic healer at all.

It certainly appears 'sexier' to be a psychic surgeon and held in awe by many, and always with a long waiting list of clients, but that is all too readily just an ego thing and a sidetrack from one's self realization process, and real healing power for Humanity comes through much less 'sexy'-looking ways. The mere fact of having a waiting list of clients speaks volumes about patterns of personal powerlessness which are being fed by such healers and psychic surgeons.

I'm not aware of a single healing that I've done which I'd call 'psychic surgery', nor of a single instant 'miracle' cure that I've brought about (but of course there may have been some which I never knew about). Yet I'm well aware that the amount of healing power for Humanity which I've been wielding has been prodigious, and the same could be true for you and many other healers. For one thing I always perceived myself as being an infinite source of healing energy - my true nature, like yours, being fundamental consciousness ('the Ultimate'). Also, apart from a few brief impromptu sessions on my travels, when I give healing sessions I discuss with the client the positive life changes and self healing measures which they could institute to continue their self healing process and become effective healers for themselves and others.

To me, being a healer and being a teacher and empowerer are virtually synonymous. Even when I'm not actually giving hands-on healing sessions, when I encounter people who I sense are healers themselves I normally remark on that special attribute of theirs and, where appropriate, give a suggestion or two as to how they might get into healing - but with emphasis upon self healing and self realization, and with a caution against the all-too-common desire to concentrate on healing others without giving priority to one's own self realization process..

The point here is that with minimum effort on my part, instead of just making a relatively small number of people 'better' from particular problems I'm acting as a catalyst for a large number of people's moving into self realization and in some cases themselves becoming teachers of sorts and strong catalysts for the same thing. So, through my various encounters during my outings, I leave behind me a trail of life turning points or at least positive seeds that I've planted which in many cases will sprout later on.

You yourself could operate in this way if you wished - it's nothing that peculiar to me.

And now a Red Warning about psychic surgery...

In practice there are additional and very serious problems about psychic surgery and the people who choose to practise it. The astral ('dark') forces covertly direct particular people into psychic surgery, and exploit the situation to enable them to put implants and other 'astral nasties' in clients' non-physical aspects, while believing that they are doing only beneficial things. Because psychic surgeons are at least to a fair extent using their ordinary mind to direct healing energy, they are not able to know and take into account what is truly for a client's best interest, and such a person will inevitably drain his / her own energy in doing such healing work, resulting in health problems. Also, the way they operate to a considerable extent blocks the operation through them of the one really safe, healthy and effective healing source, which is their own core essence. They are thus particularly open to astral ('dark force') interference and influence.

In short, if you're a psychic surgeon you have a very serious problem of involvement with the astral ('dark') forces, whether or not you are aware of it, and likewise, if you've at any time been a client of a psychic surgeon, you have almost certainly picked up one or more serious problems from him / her (related to connections with astral or 'dark' entities), whether or not you are aware of it at the present time.

I myself was a client of one psychic surgeon (Chris Thomas) for a few sessions, and he recounted to me how he came to have his apparent 'special' powers of being able to 'see' within people's bodies and create energy implants (he usually called them matrices) to carry out healing functions. He told me that he'd had a couple of alien beings visit him (I think he meant non-physically, or if they had seemed to be physical they would have been in an astral realm*) and ask for his co-operation in some project, and when they'd finished with that project they gave him those special abilities, supposedly as a reward. What they had actually done was to put implants in Chris's non-physical aspects, which enabled the astral ('dark') entities who'd been pretending to be those aliens then to control and manipulate his non-physical perceptions, so that he was then operating unwittingly as a puppet of the astral ('dark') forces. People like myself, who the astral forces particularly want to 'bring down' and either take over or wreck, are particular targets of people who are psychic surgeons (and indeed also those who are called lightworkers).

* For an explanation of astral realms, see Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

I'm not suggesting that Chris Thomas had anything other than the best of intentions for me or anyone else, but he was being seriously manipulated by the 'dark forces', and succeeded in leaving me with implants and other astral connections which were a step towards the tremendous troubles from astral entities which commenced for me in 2003. Also, the mischief didn't end there, because I also received harmful implants from a long-standing Reiki teacher (not a Master, as such people call themselves), who himself had learned from Chris Thomas how to create energy implants in people, supposedly for healing purposes. That healer himself was being controlled by astral entities and almost certainly a partial walk-in, and the implants he was putting into people's non-physical aspects (including my own) were not the temporary healing implants which he believed, but were relatively permanent and decidedly harmful, so further compromising the intrinsic protection of my non-physical aspects against astral interferences.

There is a book by Chris Thomas and Diane Baker called The Healing Book, in which they actually give instructions for using energy implants ('matrices') in healing. I warn that for anyone to take up such methods is courting extremely serious problems for both healer and recipients of such 'healings', and books like that would be best wiped off the face of the Earth.

"What makes you think I'm a healer?"

To some extent in everyday life but primarily on my weekly hiking outings, when I hitch-hike out to some wild place for a usually strenuous hike and then hitch-hike back within the day, I encounter people who I can sense are healers, and usually they are unaware of the fact. Often I'm moved to tell them what I've noticed, to give them the opportunity to embark on an active self realization process and thus have positive and healing effects upon others through a sort of catalytic effect.

As already noted, all people have some healing ability, but those who I describe as healers are those ones who have this sufficiently strongly for it to be worthwhile for them to do something about if that were indeed part of their underlying life purpose. Such people are invariably what mediums and psychics would call old souls (owing to extremely troublesome misinformation which they've received from 'the dark side') but are really incarnations of NEW souls or at least souls who have reincarnated very few times.

There are actually three main factors, any or all of which may catch my attention to alert me that the person is a healer:

• An impression of there being a (non-physical) silvery light or radiance around the person. This isn't a direct indication that the person is a healer, for what it really tells me is that the person is poorly grounded. That, however, generally goes with incarnations of new or very little reincarnated souls, who are intrinsically the strongest healers.

• An energy resonance between the person and myself which I feel as a beautiful love-filled 'buzz'. That indicates a relative compatibility with my own energy (I am an incarnation of a new soul) and so again points to the other person as being in a similar if not identical state and thus being a strong healer.

• The healing energy in the person's hands, which I can feel when we shake hands on introduction / parting. It feels very beautiful to me, and varies a lot in character from person to person. Sometimes with particularly strong healers I can feel a slight tingling as though a weak electric current were passing through my hand. The person's hands are often more or less hot, but by no means always. Indeed, I myself have Raynaud's disease (the cold extremities syndrome), so my hands are normally more or less cold.

  I remember one particular young man I encountered in a hitch-hike, who, on first handshake had cold hands (it was in January) but I could feel immense love in that hand that I held. I can't tell you how I knew that it was love, but I just felt and knew it. He actually became a Reiki student of mine (that was well before I came to realize that Reiki, like other healing traditions, is highly problematical).

And now, what about you?

Are you a healer? The answer, dear friend, in case you were not already aware of the fact, is that almost certainly you are. And I do mean a strong enough healer that I would notice and comment on the fact if you picked me up on one of my hitch-hikes.

How on earth can I know that? -- Well actually it's simple. Few people who are not deeply self aware or open in that manner would visit this website at all except in error, and virtually none who aren't more or less strong healers would be reading this page, wondering if they themselves are healers!

"How would I make a start into healing?"

People take many different routes into starting to practise healing, but I have to warn that virtually ALL of them bring serious problems with them, including ALL the well known versions such as Reiki. Here are a few of the problems about such methods.

• Invoking guides and other so-called higher beings including ascended masters, goddesses, angels or archangels. None of these are what the particular healers think they are, for astral ('dark') entities simply invent such supposedly beneficial beings and pose as them, to lure the healer into involvement with them and taking on their usually fairly well disguised agenda for taking control over people. I explain about this in Better Without Channelling.

• Not connecting with the highest / purest healing energies. Unless you simply allow your own deepest nature as an incarnated part of fundamental consciousness to work through you, any healing energies which you are channelling are not the purest and 'highest' and involve astral connections which may lead to your completely unawarely placing harmful implants or other harmful 'foreign' energies in other people's non-physical aspects. Your own core essence is fundamental consciousness itself and thus 'the Ultimate', and thus any apparently external energy, never mind how 'high' or 'Divine' it may appear to be, must inevitably be lesser than what you automatically get from your own core essence.  It's ironic that in pretty well all healing systems and traditions a certain superiority is incorrectly assumed through the practitioners' use of invoking guides or specific higher beings (or types of higher being) or using symbols, crystals, wands or elaborate procedures. All these are distractions from using that very purest and most effective healing source - which is, as I say, your own deepest level of being.

• Being motivated to ask supposedly external non-physical sources for guidance or other information (dowsing or channelling). As already noted, when you invoke or receive communications from a non-physical source (even just a guide of yours) you are actually getting 'information' given to you by astral ('dark') entities posing as whatever higher or beneficial being who you think you're getting. Channelling or dowsing is one of the commonest ways that people pick up major astral entity problems, and indeed it precipitated my own very severe issue with astral entities - see Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Beings - My Own Experience.

• Hazards of picking up problems with entities. Actually usually it is not so much entities themselves which are picked up, but problems or increased problems with astral entities which you already have. This can occur through the healing work weakening your grounding and also through its giving the astral entities opportunities to place thought forms and devices such as implants and energy cords in your non-physical aspects, so rendering you much more 'open' and vulnerable to the entities. 

• Use of symbols in some traditions such as Reiki. These do not connect you to or channel the highest and purest healing energies, and deliver distorted, unbalanced energies which have a disruptive and weakening effect in one's energy system. All 'sacred' and healing symbols have been given to us by the astral ('dark') forces to get us weakening our non-physical aspects and increasing the hold upon us of astral entities.

• Use of crystals, stones, healing wands or sacred geometry structures. To my understanding, a similar consideration applies. Each such object or device can channel only particular frequencies of healing energy, and that energy is liable to arrive to some extent distorted or unbalanced by the construction or configuration of the 'hardware'. I myself had been using some very powerful sacred geometry healing wands, but eventually understood that they were each distinctly limited as to what range of energies could be channelled through them in healings, and the sacred geometry constructions on those wands (mostly the merkaba configuration of two interlocking pyramids) ensured that the energy received had a 'jagged' quality about it which was significantly disruptive in my non-physical aspects and had been quite a major factor in opening me to the tremendous troubles that I fell into with astral entities from late 2003 onwards.

• Use of attunements. Attunements are given in Reiki and its many variants, and also in Vortex Healing. Such attunements ALWAYS are covertly attunements to the astral ('dark') forces, regardless of what anyone believes about their benefits and supposedly 'high' connections. In any case the Reiki attunements involve putting symbols into a person's non-physical aspects, and those symbols, as already intimated, themselves increase a person's connections with the astral forces. If you seriously want to open yourself more to the 'highest' and purest healing source, then no attunement carried out by another person will do that, and the way to go about it is simply to embark on an active self realization process - for that is what opens you progressively to that 'ultimate' healing source, which is your own deepest or core essence. That is in effect the ultimate healing attunement.

• Taking on of beliefs in particular 'spiritual realities' involving some sort of hierarchy of dimensions and higher beings, and in reincarnation. This is one of the areas where I myself got led astray as a result of my involvement in healing. It is the 'dark side' which seeks to get us attached to and believing in such scenarios, because the astral entities want to stop us reaching full self realization and total freedom from astral entities or influences. Taking on such beliefs puts a great big spanner in the works of our reaching full self realization. I don't mean at all that we should disbelieve in anything, but rather, that the healthy way forward involves our keeping an open mind about such things, with the understanding that we cannot really know what is true beyond our present-time observations of 'What Is'. You can read more about the problems arising from taking on beliefs in supposedly higher realities and in sequential, evolutionary reincarnation of the soul, in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

This all looks pretty scary, doesn't it! How, then, could anyone safely get into using their healing ability?

The answer is actually reassuring and simple, and this site puts you strongly in touch with it. The first thing is to take up active self realization methods, including energy testing (Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way) so that you can establish for yourself to what extent doing any hands-on healing would be beneficial for you to do, and, regardless of that consideration, you would be turning your life around to an extent which you almost certainly wouldn't have thought possible. And then, to take up safe hands-on healing, your best guide (that I know of) is Healing From One's Core Essence.

On the other hand, if you go to a healing group or workshop, although you may well enjoy the experience you will almost certainly pick up some highly problematical and indeed harmful 'baggage' of one kind or another, and would have got more connected with the astral ('dark') forces - so self teaching is the cool way to go about it.

See yourself not as a healer but as a catalyst for healing...

'Trying to heal' particular issues is generally problematical, and can readily lead to your using some of your own energy and so depleting yourself and in the long term causing yourself health problems. It also feeds the ego of the healer and is disempowering or at least non-empowering for the recipient. There is also the likelihood, this way, of carrying out a healing that is not for the recipient's ultimate good, and a near-certainty of passing on problems with astral entities, whether or not they get recognised.

The most effective way to be a healer is to think of yourself at all times as a catalyst for healing from the ultimate and purest source (which is actually your deepest essence - not something above you), and to always have the intent that fundamental consciousness or 'What Is', and not the will of your ordinary mind, determines the outcome of a healing. So, for example, if you are giving healing to a person with cancer, it's best that you have the intent that the healing brings or facilitates the outcome that is for the person's ultimate good - not specifically that the cancer should be cured, even though you may be focusing on the cancer during that healing. You cannot know what is for that person's ultimate good. It is the astral forces which seek to get us fixated on specific outcomes, and thus the more fixated we are on specific outcomes, the more we are aligned with the astral ('dark') forces.

Actually, having said that, I must qualify it, because any notion that a person is actually meant by some 'Highest Will' to die prematurely of, say, cancer, or such a premature death may be for a person's ultimate good, is a lie that's come to us from the astral ('dark') forces. The real reason for it being unhelpful to focus on trying to clear the particular cancer is that there is a need to clear the cancer's underlying cause(s), and focusing on the cancer itself (actually a mere symptom) would weaken the focus on what really needs to be done to clear that cancer. Because the ordinary mind would not know what work really needs to be done, it therefore makes perfect sense to allow fundamental consciousness itself to work on the person's entire being, without being constrained by preconceptions held in the ordinary mind.

In fact a small but significant minority of healers, and people in some religious factions, hold the belief that to do healing at all is dangerous for the healer, because the healer must always ask their higher guidance whether the healing they are intending to give is permitted, and to forget to do so and to give a healing that was supposedly not permitted would have severe karmic consequences for the healer. I write in some detail about this harmful, astral-sourced myth in Healing - Some Myths Exposed.

You are a catalyst for healing - now!

It is greatly helpful to your self realization process as well as enhancing and expanding your healing abilities / qualities if you build a very basic and generalized visualization into your everyday self perception, and you regularly use the set of affirmations which I give in The Guide to Complete Self Realization. The visualization is based on the core star visualization which I give in Healing From Our Core Essence. It's very helpful to use that visualization anyway, 'as is', but there is a simple adaptation to use in everyday life - and that is, to actually perceive yourself and your core star as being one and the same. So, you perceive yourself as the core star, radiating out healing and purifying energy from an infinitely small but infinitely energetic point source, and naturally catalyzing the opening out and expanding of the radiation from the core stars of people around you.

I recommend that this visualization is not made into a clear and maybe brilliant 'vision' but is more felt or 'understood' rather than being clearly 'seen'. The more you assimilate that into your everyday self perception, the more effective you will become as a catalyst for other people's healing and self realization without your ever having to do anything specific to 'give them healing'. It also greatly assists your own process of clearing yourself from astral interferences and influences.

I caution, however, against seeing yourself as a 'being of Light' as I used to recommend. Although that is to a certain extent taking you in the right direction, it is also diverting you into a seriously harmful confusion which has come to us from the astral ('dark') forces, which equates us or our deepest nature with 'light' or 'Light'.

We are actually not light at all but consciousness or awareness, and so, although you can't help but allow the core star radiation in your visualization to have some visibility for practical purposes, basically it's best not to think of that visibility as representing light at all but simply being a schematic representation of something which is invisible and could best be described as clarity. So, instead of thinking of yourself as a being of Light (highly problematical), think of yourself as a being of fundamental clarity and you will be both safe and pointing in the most healthy direction that is possible. You are thus catalyzing the opening up in others of their fundamental clarity.

Give priority to healing yourself!

I have really said this already further above, but it's so important that I'm saying it again, and no doubt yet again!

Many people who see themselves as healers concentrate on 'healing' others and pay scant regard to their own self healing and self realization process. This is problematical for healer and recipients alike. For one thing it is at best unhelpful for the healer's own self realization process and in virtually all cases results, long-term, in energy depletion and health issues for the healer. For another, the healer's outlook, transmitted to the recipients from the healer's energy system even if not stated out loud, encourages neediness and powerlessness in recipients, regardless of the strength or quality of any healing energy which is being transmitted.

The most effective healers give ongoing priority to their own self healing and self realization, so that they are good role models and thus are teachers - the latter not so much by actively 'teaching' as by example and through interpersonal induction and resonance effects. This way healers can encourage and inspire other people to become their own healers and take up true self realization methods. That is real healing!

About smoking and using other harmful substances

I am at odds with a large minority of healers in that I say openly and publicly that every healer who smokes, or uses other harmful substances such as cannabis or other so-called recreational drugs, or alcohol, is only a partial healer and cannot be fully effective without stopping using such substances. These substances in various ways have disruptive and weakening effects in people's non-physical aspects, making them more prone to attracting problematical energies and entities, and they hamper their own self healing / self realization process, quite apart from the physical harm that they do. Also, taking any such substance regularly is a habit that is helping to keep in place one or more of their emotional issues, and it encourages retention of such habits in other people. 

I know some healers who appear to be very powerful in transmitting healing energy and yet who smoke. I have to point out that if they did not smoke:

• They would channel energy still more powerfully, and it would be of higher quality;
• They would be good role models who could inspire their clients to give up their own harmful and negative habits - which I say is an essential part of true, holistic healing;
• They would have less risk of passing on problematical energies or entities to recipients of their healings or indeed picking up such undesirables from them.

And yet various healers have criticized me, at least by implication, for not having an 'each to his own', laissez-faire attitude with regard to healers who smoke. They accuse me of being judgemental, because they confuse my clear-mindedness and use of aware discernment with being judgemental.

In fact I'm not saying that smoking healers are bad, but I'm simply pointing to cause and effect. How on earth can a healer who is holding onto harmful habits himself be an inspiration and motivator to others to let go of their negative and harmful habits? Such healers are in denial of issues of their own and so are great teachers of keeping in denial, not of facing and resolving issues. Is that really what you'd accept of a supposedly holistic healer?

I thus encourage anyone who seriously wants to practise as a healer to commit themselves to letting go of smoking or any other substance misuse habits as soon as possible. I give some useful pointers for anyone wanting to get clear of addictions, habits and compulsive behaviours in Letting Go of Addictions and Compulsive Behaviours.

However, for most people who've been using cannabis regularly for a significant period the chances are that this will have damaged their motivation for positive change in their lives, and in cases where that has happened they will not use (at least properly) the truly effective methods which I give on this site for addressing their addiction, and will hold onto the latter, very likely justifying it and possibly being angry with me for having spoken out about this matter. Such people cannot be effective holistic healers, never mind how strongly they may transmit what seems to be healing energy.

Problematical or 'dark' entities ARE an issue for healers

This issue is so important that, although I have really already covered it pretty well above, I return to it here.

People starting into healing are commonly taught that "The Highest Will ensures that a healer is never presented with healing issues which (s)he is not ready yet to handle.".

Following what I've already said further above about astral ('dark') entities' almost universal involvement with healers and their healing activities, it must be pretty obvious that the abovementioned belief, rife in healing traditions, is founded on nothing better than ignorance based in denial.

As I've already made pretty clear, Humanity is replete with problematical non-physical beings! Such entities are involved in the vast majority of mental health issues that are presented to doctors or psychiatric units. Indeed, it's extremely unlikely that you yourself don't have any interference, albeit covert, from astral ('dark') entities.

The main types of troublesome conscious entities that I'm aware of are:

• Spirit attachments. These are the consciousnesses of people who have died but for some reason felt too afraid to undergo their proper transition, or who attached to the person because of a grudge arising from a karmic connection (such as having in a previous lifetime harmed or killed that person). Such attached spirits can cause massive problems for the affected person, depleting the person's energy and giving them greatly troublesome emotional feelings. They very often drive such people into addictions or even to suicide, and can seriously affect the person's physical health. Indeed it's said that the affected person stands a good chance of dying in the same manner as happened for the attached spirit.

  However, where such earthbound spirits behave in ill-willed and otherwise problematical ways in addition to energy depletion, they are generally being themselves manipulated by astral entities (see below).

• Soul fragment attachments. Much less often recognised, but I suspect also pretty common. When a person suffers trauma, commonly or maybe always a part of that person's consciousness separates off, still connected by an energy cord. It may float around close to the person or it may attach to an object or a place or another person, in the latter case causing rather similar problems to a spirit attachment. It's important that soul fragments not be sent to 'the Light' but instead be released in such a way that they can return to their owner. Emotional healing and soul retrieval for the owner of the soul fragment is the most fundamental need.

• Parasitic 'lost' souls. These are not at all the same as earthbound spirits, and almost all people who are incarnations of new souls or souls that have incarnated only a few times have some of these attached to them. They are attached at soul level. I write about them in some detail in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side'.

• Partial walk-ins. These are human souls degraded and specially programmed by the astral ('dark') forces to take over and control to various extents the individuals to whom they are attached. They are a particular feature of people who are spiritual teachers and so-called lightworkers and indeed many healers - especially those who have set themselves up as teachers of healing. I write about them in some detail in Partial Walk-ins - How the astral forces nearly nobbled me.

• Astral ('dark') entities. These, contrary to popular belief among healers, are the most widespread and indeed ubiquitous type of entity, and to some extent and in various ways they interfere with just about everyone on the planet - usually covertly. They are the primary problem in ALL healing work which is not done purely from one's own core essence, and they have an unremitting agenda of seeking control and domination over people individually and Humanity altogether. I give a lot of information about them in Astral Entities - Interference and Attacks from 'The Dark Side', Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities - My Own Experience and Night Terrors and Hearing Voices.

It is astral entities which can be a particular problem for some healers regardless of any attempts at protection, so I do recommend that all healers and prospective healers read the abovementioned articles of mine, which include important information that may be unavailable elsewhere.

I myself am aware of having got harmful implants or other energy 'devices' linking me to the astral forces, from at least four healers independently. I write more about that in Troublesome Astral ('Dark') Entities - My Own Experience.

Unfortunately most teachers of healing encourage their students to open to some sort of external-seeming 'guidance', whether by pendulum dowsing or by 'listening within', without a mention that people who do this would be opening themselves to astral entities even if they are supposedly protecting themselves, or that all non-physical sources of 'guidance' and channelled information are all highly problematical because of dark force involvement. I therefore recommend that, however safe any teacher of yours makes opening to 'guidance' sound, you don't get involved in it at all, and indeed get right away from that teacher, who is a menace. But ultimately it's your own choice...

Protection? -- Forget it!!

As for the notion of 'protection', for an extremely important reason I'd say, "Forget it!". The point is, throughout the planet healers, 'lightworkers' and psychics are using all manner of methods to supposedly protect themselves from entities. For the most part those supposed protection methods simply do not work, and it is those people's own interfering astral entities which give them the impression that their 'protection' methods do work, so that they continue to deceive themselves.

It is far better that you remain aware of your real vulnerability without kidding yourself at any point that you are protected, and also to be using proper self realization methods which are progressively 'cleaning' and strengthening all aspects of yourself, both physical and non-physical, so that you are cultivating and building up your natural invulnerability to entities (and also increasingly living a happier life, with tremendous inner clarity and freedom). That is the real protection - cultivating your intrinsic invulnerability to entities. The sort of methodology which achieves this is pointed to in Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.

In summary...

Because of my own hard experience and observations of what is going on for others, it has been necessary for me to point out the serious pitfalls and dangers in healing as almost always carried out - much as I don't want to put anyone off from cultivating and using their healing abilities.

However, as I have shown, you don't have to operate in any of the normal highly problematical manners, and provided you keep to the fully open-minded, belief-free, 'from my own core essence only' approach to healing, and put priority emphasis on your own self realization process, then it is safe (as much as anything in life is safe!) and well worthwhile to cultivate and awarely and wisely use your healing abilities. I now point once again to what is probably the best place for you to embark on what is bound to be a joyful and life-enhancing exploration: Healing and Self Realization - The Safest and Quickest Way.