Advanced Chakra Healing, by Cyndi Dale

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Chakra Healing

A BOU T THE AU THO R Cyndi Dale is an internationally renowned author, speaker, healer, and business consultant. She is president of Life Systems Services, through which she has conducted over 65,000 client sessions and presented training classes throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas. Cyndi is the author of many books, including The Complete Book of Chakra Healing, Llewellyn’s Little Book of Chakras, Llewellyn’s Complete Book of Chakras, The Spiritual Power of Empathy, and Awaken Clairvoyant Energy. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Advanced

Chakra Healing Four Pathways to Energetic Wellness and Transformation

CYNDI DALE

Llewellyn Publications woodbury, minnesota

Advanced Chakra Healing: Four Pathways to Energetic Wellness and Transformation © 2021 by Cyndi Dale.

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First Edition First Printing, 2021 Portions of this book were previously published under the title Advanced Chakra Healing: Energy Mapping on the Four Pathways (Crossing Press, 2005) Book design by Rebecca Zins Cover design by Shannon McKuhen Figure illustrations by Mary Ann Zapalac; “feelings and bodily areas” image in color insert used courtesy of Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Clerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari Hietanen; all other art by Llewellyn Art Department Llewellyn is a registered trademark of Llewellyn Worldwide, Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Dale, Cyndi, author.

Title: Advanced chakra healing : four pathways to energetic wellness and transformation / Cyndi Dale.

Description: First edition. | Woodbury, Minnesota : Llewellyn Publications, [2021] | Portions of this book were previously published under the title Advanced Chakra Healing: Energy Mapping on the Four Pathways (Crossing Press, 2005). | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This hands-on guidebook contains step-by-step methods for removing internal energy blocks that manifest as chronic pain, illness, stress, addiction, low self-esteem, money and relationship problems, and depression. Cyndi’s four pathways energy mapping system is an accessible approach to determining and diagramming the causes of an energy problem and using energetic means to shift it”—Provided by publisher.

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contents

List of Exercises…xiii List of Illustrations…xvii Foreword…xix Preface: The Limitations of Our Current Healing Approaches…xxi Introduction…1

Part 1 The Four Pathways:

The Bold Healing Paradigm…7 Chapter 1: The Four Pathways Healing Paradigm........................................9 Chapter 2: The Two Universes.........................................................................27 Chapter 3: The Four Pathways of Healing......................................................43

Part 2 Basics of Energy:

Natural to Supernatural…61 Chapter 4: Scientific Understandings about Energy.....................................63 Chapter 5: Supernatural Understandings about Energy..............................79

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Chapter 6: Of Communication and Consciousness......................................129 Chapter 7: Energy Sources and Connections................................................139

Part 3 Energy Types and Bodies on the Pathways…177 Chapter 8: Categories of Energies on the Pathways......................................179 Chapter 9: Energy Types and Bodies on the Elemental Pathway................189 Chapter 10: Energy Types and Bodies on the Power Pathway.....................225 Chapter 11: Energy Types and Bodies on the Imaginal Pathway................241 Chapter 12: Energy Types and Bodies on the Divine Pathway....................249 Chapter 13: Chakras and Auric Fields on All the Pathways........................261

Part 4 Advanced Chakra Healing…267 Chapter 14: The Crystal Ball for Intuitive Mapping......................................269 Chapter 15: Protocols for Safe Intuition.........................................................277 Chapter 16: Locating Your Intuitive Center...................................................293 Chapter 17: Your Intuitive Gifts and Change on the Pathways...................299

Part 5 Creating Change on Each of the Four Pathways…313 Chapter 18: The Elemental Pathway: Uniting the Finite and the Infinite.............................................................317 Chapter 19: Healing on the Elemental Pathway: More Insights and How-To’s.......................................................................365 Chapter 20: Energy Body Specifics on the Elemental Pathway...................461

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Chapter 21: Conduits of Light: The Power Pathway.....................................481 Chapter 22: Moving Through the Mirror of the Imaginal Pathway............541 Chapter 23: Illumination: The Risen Heaven................................................571

Part 6 Energy Mapping on the Four Pathways…617 Chapter 24: Creating Energy Maps.................................................................621 Chapter 25: Specific Energy Maps..................................................................641

Glossary…707 Bibliography…725 Index…737

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1. The Intuitive Capability Quiz...................................................................270 2. Spirit-to-Spirit...........................................................................................278 3. Summoning Healing Streams of Grace to Create Boundaries.............285 4. Getting Assistance from Beings in the Imaginal Realms......................286 5. Five Steps for Grounding.........................................................................289 6. Finding Your Intuitive Center..................................................................293 7. What’s Your Chakric Bloodline?..............................................................324 8. Easy Healing of a Chakra with Healing Streams...................................332 9. Sheltering Within an Angel’s Wings.......................................................333 10. The Chakra Circle Breath.........................................................................335 11. Locating a Chakra with a Pendulum.......................................................344 12. Locating a Chakra with Your Hands.......................................................345 13. Locating a Chakra with Your Intuition...................................................346 14. Figuring Out if You Are a Heyoke...........................................................360 15. Evaluating a Chakra By Using a Pendulum............................................361 16. Evaluating a Chakra By Using Your Intuition........................................362 17. Setting an Intention..................................................................................366 xiii

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18. Pinpointing the Causal Chakra...............................................................366 19. A Regression to Uncover the Causal Story Line....................................367 20. Bringing Healing Streams Through the Inner Wheel...........................369 21. Releasing Energetic Constructs...............................................................370 22. Exchanging Energy...................................................................................371 23. Releasing Others’ Energies.......................................................................371 24. Journeying..................................................................................................371 25. Using Neutrons—and Neutrality—to Clear an Issue............................377 26. Healing Energetic Anxiety and Depression with Neutrons.................378 27. Closing the Gap.........................................................................................384 28. The Kanda and Your Basic Life Energy Flow.........................................387 29. Enabling a Healthy Serpent Kundalini...................................................395 30. Evolving Your Energetic Intelligence......................................................400 31. Freeing Yourself from Others’ Energies: The Transpersonal Process.......................................................................407 32. Finding Your Fragments and Reclaiming Yourself................................408 33. Healing a Challenging Feeling.................................................................418 34. Working the Subluminal and Supraluminal...........................................424 35. Pulling Down Your Ninth Chakra Template..........................................442 36. Setting Your Seals......................................................................................489 37. Keying into Your Personal Harmonic.....................................................495 38. Activating Your Golden Kundalini.........................................................498 39. Using the Imaginal Pathway Mirror........................................................548 40. Working from the Middle of the Mirror................................................549 41. Manifesting Through the Imaginal Pathway..........................................550 42. Using Silence on the Imaginal Pathway..................................................554 43. Imaginal Storytelling Toward Healing....................................................556

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44. Forgiveness on the Divine Pathway........................................................579 45. Healing Through Feeling..........................................................................581 46. Healing a Belief on the Divine Pathway.................................................591 47. Healing a Feeling on the Divine Pathway...............................................592

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illustrations

Figure 1: The Four Pathways and the Two Universes...................................18 Figure 2: The Twelve-Chakra System.............................................................22 Figure 3: The Hassidic Kabbalist Tree............................................................32 Figure 4: The Imaginal Realms........................................................................50 Figure 5: The Electromagnetic Spectrum.......................................................72 Figure 6: Loop Quantum Gravity....................................................................76 Figure 7: The Twelve Auric Fields...................................................................102 Figure 8: The Chirals of DNA..........................................................................192 Figure 9: Headaches..........................................................................................644 Figure 10: Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)....................................................646 Figure 11: Allergies...........................................................................................648 Figure 12: Overeating.......................................................................................650 Figure 13: Pain and Chronic Inflammation...................................................654 Figure 14: Fibromyalgia...................................................................................656 Figure 15: Arthritis...........................................................................................658 Figure 16: Multiple Sclerosis (MS)..................................................................662 Figure 17: Depression.......................................................................................664 xvii

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Figure 18: Osteoporosis....................................................................................666 Figure 19: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)................................................668 Figure 20: Cancer, General..............................................................................670 Figure 21: Heart Disease..................................................................................672 Figure 22: HIV Infection/AIDS.......................................................................674 Figure 23: Premenstrual Syndrome (PMS)....................................................676 Figure 24: Addictions.......................................................................................678 Figure 25: Asthma.............................................................................................680 Figure 26: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)....................682 Figure 27: Codependency (In Relationship with Alcoholic).......................684 Figure 28: Energetic Anxiety and Depression...............................................686 Figure 29: Financial Lack.................................................................................688 Figure 30: Interactive Forces............................................................................690 Figure 31: Bacteria............................................................................................692 Figure 32: Fungus (also Yeast and Mold).......................................................694 Figure 33: Microbes—Parasites.......................................................................696 Figure 34: Microbes—Viruses.........................................................................698 Figure 35: Narcissism (and Their Codependents)........................................700 Figure 36: Phobias............................................................................................702

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foreword

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met Cyndi Dale seven years ago following a July 7, 2013, interview she did with George Noory on his show Coast to Coast AM. The episode was called “Chakras and Energy Healing.” Little did she know that mentioning her email address on the broadcast would lead to the two of us collaborating. It was all because of a statement she made: that subtle energy is “hard to quantify.”

I wrote to Cyndi, and we discussed how, in fact, using the research and development methods I was pioneering in the oil and gas industry, all energy actually can be quantified. We have been friends ever since, sharing moments of loss of family members and beloved pets, sharing laughter and tears that have strengthened our friendship. While Cyndi was working on the Complete Book of Chakras, I had the pleasure of providing a few details about the interaction of quantum physics and nature, which are one and the same.

In Cyndi’s new book, Advanced Chakra Healing, using her vast knowledge of energy healing, she eloquently maps out the four pathways healing system. Her understanding of how the process of healing occurs is extraordinary, but it is her ability to share and to bridge a range of levels of understanding that is truly amazing. Readers are led through a step-by-step process that allows them to capture the teachings at their own pace. Cyndi shares her experience by painting vivid pictures that readers can see and sense as chapter after chapter unfolds. Readers are left with fresh knowledge and a hunger for the next xix

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adventure in the fields of healing and energy arts that have been part of our world since the beginning of time.

In reading Advanced Chakra Healing, I learned from my friend and teacher, as I always do. Our backgrounds remain intertwined, weaving my knowledge of engineering, patent, and quantum realms together with Cyndi’s mastery, teaching, and understanding of how our lives revolve around nature. As she has so often pointed out, our walk together is a unique one because, from our different perspectives, we can both see that the metaphysical and scientific worlds are one.

Dr. (Doc) C. Michael Scroggins PhD, CEng, CMarEng, FIMarEST

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T H E L IM I TAT I O NS O F O U R CUR R EN T HEAL I NG APPRO AC HES

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hy does the world require a fresh approach to healing? After all, there are many different forms of healing. The truth is that there are strengths and weaknesses to the current healing modalities, and the four pathways practitioner can benefit from understanding the other methods that exist. The knowledge conveyed in this special section provides context to the four pathways system.

Fundamentally, there are two contemporary approaches to healing. These are usually termed “allopathic” and “holistic,” though there are other names for each. While both tactics fall short, each also presents benefits.

Allopathic modalities are considered Western in nature, and holistic care aligns with Eastern thought. Allopathy is also called “biomedicine,” as well as “conventional,” “mainstream,” “orthodox,” and “traditional” medicine. Holistic therapies are also labeled “alternative,” “integrative,” “functional,” and “complementary” medicine. They include a component called “energy medicine.” In general, allopathic medicine seeks to destroy pathological invaders or suppress symptoms. Holistic therapies assert that a human is composed of a body, mind, and soul, and because of this, the causes of a problem might

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be found in a physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual component of the self—and the same is true of the solutions to a problem.

As we review the most fundamental allopathic and holistic philosophies and practices, I’ll point out their positive features but also showcase what each is missing. These comparisons will help me make the case for the need to address the assumptions underlying each model by presenting two different universes.

The Allopathic Healing Modality As I’ve already suggested, allopathic medicine is largely based on Western principles. In allopathy, healthcare professionals usually employ medicines, radiation, or surgery to treat or repress the symptoms of disease or other challenges.

Even though allopathic approaches are often called “traditional,” the term is a misnomer. Traditional medicine constitutes whatever healing approach is indigenous to a group of people. And actually, these modalities are anchored in the holistic principles that have existed in most tribal and village communities across time. As the World Health Organization (WHO) reports, most traditional medicines not only maintain and improve health, but are used to prevent and treat both physical and mental issues.

WHO adds that alternative or complementary medicines are merely those that aren’t integrated into a country’s traditions, but instead are used in a supplemental way.1 These points mean that in many cultures, practices such as surgery would be considered complementary, not traditional.

Why am I making a fuss about the definition of allopathic medicine? Because I want you to know there are effective healing treatments beyond the narrow band of methods allopathy currently employs. In fact, there are philosophies that allopathic medicine ought to embrace but is currently ignoring.

At this moment, allopathic treatments are mainly destructive in nature—but there are two other allopathic philosophies that are dissimilar. The easiest way for me to illustrate this point is through the treatment of microbes, which allopathy seeks to destroy under the model approved by the American Medical Association (AMA). In fact, AMA-approved allopathic researchers most frequently describe microbes as pathogens or parasitic organisms.

Microbes, including bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa, do cause disease. But they also quite actively contribute to our well-being. In fact, most of the microbes in our

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microbiome or “gut” support health, assisting with concerns including immunity, digestion, weight control, and disease resistance. We’re lucky this is the case, since our microbiome’s microbes outnumber our human cells—those coded with our own DNA—ten to one.2 The overall healing strategy of the AMA allopathic medical model is called germ theory, which basically means that microbes, or germs, are the enemy and must be abolished at all costs. This theory goes back centuries, but its destructive bent is frequently credited to Louis Pasteur, who lived in the nineteenth century. After proposing that microorganisms initiate disease, he experimented with killing them as well as developing vaccines against them.

I’m not arguing against an obvious point. Among other diseases, bacteria underlie ear infections and dental plaque; protozoans trigger malaria and sleeping sickness; fungi instigate ringworm and candidiasis; and viruses initiate influenza and AIDS. Complicating microbial dangers is the fact that certain types create biofilms: clumps of microbes that form a community around which develops a protective sheathing. Biofilms lead to hard-to-treat infections such as Lyme disease and cystic fibrosis.3 Medical specialists, however, are beginning to question this “raze and burn” approach to healing. Taking the microbiome alone, researchers are discovering that it can be as important to add beneficial microbes to the system as it is to reduce harmful microbes.

For instance, doing so can assist with treating and preventing acne, diarrhea, asthma, multiple autoimmune diseases, various types of cancer, dental cavities, diabetes, depression and anxiety, ulcers, digestive diseases, obesity, and more.4 Maybe we need to search beyond the seek-and-destroy philosophy to add a couple of new ideas—wait, they already exist.

One of these is resonance. I can best explain this idea by illuminating the thinking of Georges Lakhovsky, a scientist, inventor, and author of The Secret of Life, originally published in 1939.5 Lakhovsky’s theory relates to his perception of the origin of life. Basically, he believed that the chemistry of all living beings is vibratory in nature and that optimum health and functioning are supported by the correct oscillations of heat, light, electricity, and magnetism. Every component of this earth has to vibrate at its correct

2 Hair and Sharpe, “Fast Facts About the Human Microbiome.”

3 Lumen, “Introduction to Microbiology: Defining Microbes.”

4 Genetic Science Learning Center, “The Microbiome and Disease.”

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frequency for balance and health to exist. Disease is therefore a product of the insertion of a harmful vibration.6 For instance, imagine that you’re dealing with pancreatitis. According to the resonance theory, pancreatic cells must vibrate at their own optimum frequencies to form a healthy pancreas. Along comes a microbe that “sings its own song,” or vibrates at a frequency that overwhelms that of the pancreatic cells, weakening the latter and setting up the pancreatic condition. We can restore the pancreatic function in one of two ways: cancel out the frequencies of the troublemaking microbes or enhance the correct frequency of the pancreatic cells—or we can do both.

The second major theory contrasting germ theory is pleomorphism, which professes that changes in a system—moisture, temperature, and other environmental factors—can allow a toxic microbe to overtake a system.7 As well, and more miraculously, alterations in an environment can actually transform a microbe not only from lethal to nonlethal and vice versa, but from one type of microbe to another.

A major purveyor of pleomorphism was Antoine Béchamp, a French scientist who lived in the late 1800s. He stated that the entirety of the planet is made up of microanatomical elements. He called the most rudimentary of these tiny living elements a “microzyma,” or “small ferment.” Béchamp said that microzymas often change into bacteria, but bacteria can also revert back to their elemental state.

The by-products of this fermentation process include enzymes and other valuable substances, the existence of which can support good health. In regard to the microbiome, this controlled fermentation formulates health protectors that strengthen the colon wall and digest foods. However, if the gut conditions aren’t just right, such as occurs when the environment is too acidic, the fermentation process will backfire, and we’ll become sick. Bottom line: Béchamp’s hypothesis shows that disease is a product of the environment.8 Another proponent of pleomorphism was American scientist Royal Raymond Rife, who was said to have cured people of cancer. We don’t know for sure because the AMA discredited his claims, although Rife’s proponents believe that was done because his findings would have drastically altered the medical landscape and, therefore, the economics of medicine.

6 Ibid.

7 Gibbons, “Germs, Dr. Billings, and the Theory of Focal Infection.”

8 Young, “Who Had Their Finger on the Magic of Life—Antoine Béchamp or Louis Pasteur?” xxiv

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During the 1930s, Rife invented a special type of microscope with a finer resolution than any other microscope—seven hundred times finer, in fact. Through it, he observed the pleomorphic states of various microbes, categorized the frequencies of various microbes, and was also able to spot the just-discussed microzymas. Rife also identified ten families of micro-life and showed that within each family, a single member could transform into another.

For instance, Rife watched a virus found within cancer tissue turn into a fungus, and then finally into a mold. He was also able to turn lethal microbes into nonlethal ones and vice versa by altering the environment in which the microbes were placed, such as by changing the frequencies and angles of light they were exposed to. He also developed a “beam ray,” a resonant frequency that could rid the body of diseases, including cancer.

Overall, Rife believed he demonstrated the basics laws of pleomorphism, showing that by themselves, microbes don’t cause disease. Rather, he concluded, a microbe can evolve from harmless to morbid depending on the chemistry of the body.9 Actually, Rife combined the ideals of pleomorphism and resonance, suggesting that there is a functional vibration for healthy cells and organisms and that when the environment can’t support this vibration, challenges ensue.

One more name should be mentioned in our pursuit of alternative allopathic theories. Edward C. Rosenow was a renowned medical doctor who served as the head of experimental bacteriology for the Mayo Foundation from 1915 to 1944. Rosenow’s research suggested that many infections begin in a focal point and then spread to bodily areas exhibiting a similar environment. For instance, a dental infection can spread to other mucus membranes and cause a follow-on infection there. This assumption of the existence of a “foci infection” for at least some diseases is a form of pleomorphism.10 It’s also one of the major theories behind functional dentistry, which asserts that unhealthy conditions in the mouth can cause local disease but these same microbes can spread and stimulate problems elsewhere, such as the heart, resulting in heart disease.

Equally vital in our discussion is breakthrough research into the newly emerging field of epigenetics. Epigenetics is the study of our epigenomes, a soup of chemicals and switches that instruct the genes. The epigenomes lie next to the DNA double helix.

When responding to changes in the environment, these epigenes toggle DNA on and off, thereby stimulating or stopping diseases ranging from cancer to mental illnesses.

9 Laleva, “Louis Pasteur vs Antoine Bechamp and the Germ Theory of Disease Causation—1.”

10 Gibbons, “Germs, Dr. Billings, and the Theory of Focal Infection.” xxv

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Typical environmental triggers include diet, air quality, and physical stressors, but the presence or absence of love is also a factor, and so are events that mirror ancestral experiences, in that the epigenes are chemically coded with our ancestral memories. This means that if we go through an event similar to one undergone by an ancestor, the epigenomes might switch a gene on or off, causing everything from cancer to mental imbalances.11 In fact, scientists have observed that epigenetic memories can be passed down for at least fourteen generations.12 As we know, allopathic medicine has much to offer. The use of surgery allows the body to recovery from a calamity. Sometimes the best response to a disease process is to wipe out the microbes. If we have a headache, we certainly like the reprieve promised by a pain reliever—even if we have to take another one to remain pain free. But approaches like germ theory don’t cover all the possibilities that might be afforded through allopathy. Employing vibrational resonance and pleomorphism have much to provide.

Can we create a paradigm of healing that allows the use of the powerful tools of allopathy yet embraces additional ideas? Yes. This book does exactly that. Before exploring this idea, however, I’m going to examine the ins and outs of holistic medicine.

The Holistic Healing Models There are many versions of holistic healing. As I’ve already indicated, they are distinct from allopathic treatments in that they seek to assist the whole person. Most versions of holistic medicine also address the internal and external factors that create health challenges. This means that factors related to the environment, discussed in our last section about allopathy, are built into the holistic model.

For example, I participate in a Sufi support group. Sufism is a form of Islamic mysticism that, for me, enables an inward search for the Divine. I primarily use the practices to understand my truest identity and also learn how to heal through spiritual means, as the Sufi school I’m a member of is devoted to healing.

I embrace this path because its tenets are equivalent to most of the holistic healing endeavors I’ve studied or employed. The goal is to work through the ways I keep myself separate from the Spirit, which is my word for the Divine, God, Source, and the like. This endeavor requires assessing my blocks, or the ways I prevent connection, in the main aspects of self: body, heart, mind, soul, and the “secret,” or the spirit-self. I’ll 11 Watters, “DNA Is Not Destiny: The New Science of Epigenetics.”

12 Dean, “Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down for 14 Generations.” xxvi

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further define all these terms in the upcoming section called “The Soul-Spirit Healing Approach.”

Semantics aside—and depending on specialties—holistic healers interact with the same aspects of a person. The goal of a truly holistic healer is to assess symptoms but treat their underlying cause. Often there is more than one cause and if so, various issues can be found in one or more aspects of the self—body, mind, and soul. Specialties are vast and varied, however, including folk medicine, herbalism, lifestyle changes, acupuncture, massage therapy, naturopathy, homeopathy, chiropractic care, psychotherapy, energy medicine, and more. Fundamentally, however, I can categorize the holistic venues into four groupings: mind-body, healing by feeling, soul-spirit, and energy medicine. As I did with the allopathic analysis, I’ll evaluate each of these healing philosophies for their benefits as well as their problems, as this book aims to propel forward only the highest and best components of all current healing modalities.

The Mind-Body Approach For decades, science has explored the many ways in which the mind is stronger than the body and can even overrule what is occurring in the body. Demonstrating this point best are the placebo and nocebo effects.

The placebo effect relies on the validated theory that in many cases, the brain can convince the body that a fake treatment is real, thus achieving a positive and measurable effect in the body. Often, an inactive substance, such as a sugar pill or distilled water, is given instead of a medicine. The same outcomes also occur when someone is simply told that an outcome will be beneficial, showing that even a suggestion can strengthen the connection between the brain and the body, enabling them to interact together.

For instance, during a 2014 study led by Professor Ted Kaptchuk of Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, researchers discovered that a placebo labeled as “placebo” and given to one group of individuals after a migraine attack was 50 percent as effective in providing pain relief as the real drug given to a second group. According to Kaptchuk, the enhanced mind-body connection was critical, but so was the ritual of taking a pill, which makes us believe we’ll get better.13 There are many caveats involved in obtaining strong placebo results, but the ritual is really one of the most important factors. Consider an incredible finding in which patients with Parkinson’s disease were divided into two groups. One underwent a “placebo brain surgery.” This mock surgery featured all the protocol and paraphernalia 13 Harvard Men’s Health Watch, “The Power of the Placebo Effect.” xxvii

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involved in stem cell therapy, but the patients weren’t actually injected with stem cells.

Another group received stem cell treatment but didn’t think they had. The patients who didn’t receive the actual therapy but experienced all the bells and whistles had far more positive results than those who had.

There are other factors involved in the placebo effect. The more artificial pills are taken, the more powerful the effect. Injections incur a greater outcome than pills, and even the color of a placebo pill will make a difference. For instance, blue placebos are more effective at sedation than pink ones, and pills with branding are stronger than those that are plain. As well, some doctors are better able to reinforce the hope required to gain a convincing placebo result, and depending on the condition, patients who are friendlier usually fare better than those who are grumpier. Even animals respond to placebos; for instance, once rodents start associating the effects of an active drug with a taste or a smell, only the latter becomes necessary to stimulate a positive response.14 I love studying the power of the placebo effect. In fact, I’ll never forget a story relayed by a client of mine who had just returned from medical missionary work in Kenya. The nuns in the African clinic where she worked distributed medicine but had run out. So, they mixed food coloring with water and passed out this “new medicine” to treat a variety of ailments from colds to HIV. My client, a nurse, was astonished at the results; many patients reported being cured. The rainbow water, along with the nuns’ reassurances, combined to create a belief in the water’s healing property. What we think and how we think can help fix what’s broken in us.

But the placebo effect has a dark side. It’s called the nocebo effect, and it occurs when a patient has a doom-and-gloom expectation of the treatment, causing it to have a more negative outcome than it would otherwise have. As with the placebo effect, nocebo interactions can apply to the use of pills, injections, practices, and even ideas, including statistics. For example, when spinal tapping was new, medical providers were told that headaches were an expected side effect. These informed doctors relayed their expectations to their patients, and in fact, seven out of fifteen patients given the warning got headaches. Then in 1981, on the island of Kiribati, doctors failed to warn their patients of this side effect. Only one in thirteen patients got a headache.15 As these stories show, our mind has the power to make what is dark become darker.

The nocebo effect is one of the main reasons the mind-body approach to healing can backfire. In fact, in his classic book Timeless Healing, Dr. Herbert Benson points out 14 Jarrett, “The Placebo Effect, Digested—10 Amazing Findings.”

15 Daniels and Sallie, “Headache, Lumbar Puncture, and Expectation.” xxviii

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several such cases, some of which actually created epidemic-level problems. An example includes a situation in which seven hundred people in New Zealand became ill from fumes said to be toxic. In fact, the fumes were not. People became ill simply because they thought they would.16 If you’re told your cancer is most likely fatal, isn’t that outcome most likely? If you believe your spouse will stray, might you not act in such a way as to drive them away, perhaps, for example, by compulsively under- or overeating? I’m not suggesting that we blame ourselves for the behavior of another person, but merely that we examine the effects of our attitudes and beliefs on our own behavior. Whether or not a belief originates within you, if you take it to heart, it becomes your belief. Your mind—not someone else’s—then affects your body.

The truth is that most of our thoughts are both negative and recurring. According to the Cleveland Clinic, the average person has sixty thousand thoughts a day. About 95 percent of these are repetitive; of these, 80 percent are negative.17 An even more startling idea is one presented to me by Dr. Michael Scroggins, who authored the foreword of this book. Most of us have heard the claim that we only use about 10 percent of our brain. I remember being told this as a child, and I was filled with glee: What else could I accomplish if I could harness the other 90 percent? Yet as Dr. Scroggins has pointed out to me, this actually isn’t a hard truth. In fact, we do use much of the other 90 percent of our brain, but it’s to review what we’ve already experienced and learned, most of which is untrue, pessimistic, and historical.

Although our realities might be forged by our own mind and perceptions, the placebo and nocebo studies prove that we are greatly influenced by our environment. I suggested the same in the last chapter with the discussions about resonance, pleomorphism, and epigenetics. What if you have been raised to align with a universe that is dark, dreary, and disconnecting? It would be the equivalent of living within a great big nocebo experiment. Don’t we owe ourselves the benefits of the placebo effect instead?

The Healing by Feeling Approach Emotionally minded people believe that every illness is a result of a repressed or mistaken feeling. As an energy-based intuitive healer, I constantly find correlations between emotions and diseases and other challenging conditions, such as difficulties in recovering from accidents, job losses, childhood abuse, relationship woes, and other stressors.

16 Benson, Timeless Healing, 267.

17 Goldberg, “The 1 Question That Helps Me Combat Negative Thinking.” xxix

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When people fail to fully feel and express their feelings, their physical bodies become tense and rigid. From a mechanical point of view alone, an inflexible body won’t operate smoothly. If your muscles are tight, your lymph system won’t flow correctly. The lymph releases toxins, and if these waste products aren’t passed out of the body, they’ll be stored where you least want them. For women, this might be in the breast tissue, thereby creating the conditions for breast cancer. For men, the repositories could include the stomach, hence the heavy gut that increases the chance of heart disease.

Before further analyzing the role of feelings—and emotions—in disease, I want to define a few terms. I’ll be continuing this exploration in several later chapters, but first I want to lay the groundwork.

At a baseline, emotions are different from feelings, although an emotion technically includes at least one feeling. A feeling is an internal reaction to an event or a need. Psychologically, feelings are sometimes called “affects,” indicating that in infancy, our feelings start as biological responses to getting our basic needs met. As we mature, we figure out that others can meet our needs beyond the instinctual ones, such as food or warmth, and feelings evolve into ways to exchange communication with others. This evolution occurs even when we’re babies. If we’re unhappy and show that we’re sad, Mom will hug us. If we’re happy and smile, Dad will toss us up in the air again. Overall, we learn that those around us can respond to our basic feeling expressions—fear, anger, sadness, disgust, and happiness—and we can also react to their feelings. Now we can have relationships.

An emotion isn’t based only on feelings. Emotions exist when we partner a belief with a feeling. There are other factors that can combine, which I’ll discus at several points in this book, but basically an emotion allows us to respond intellectually and organically to keep ourselves safe and to meet our higher needs, such as to be loved, accepted, and seen. The mature person understands that what we desire to receive, such as affection, also feels good to give.

Beliefs are simply ideas or opinions. For instance, I might believe I’m a nice person or a mean one. Even though I might take such a judgment as a fact, it’s actually only a perception. Same with beliefs like “bees are dangerous” or “all women are foolish.” Why do we formulate an emotion? Emotions are coping mechanisms. The proverbial example centers on an emotion encoded to dealing with hot stoves. The first time we touch a hot stove, we feel pain and fear. In reaction to witnessing it, our mother scolds us, even while she runs our finger under the cold water. “Hot stoves are dangerous,” she advises.

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never separate them, every time we see a hot stove, we’ll feel scared and unconsciously remember our opinion of hot stoves. We won’t touch them, thus saving time. Because of that emotion, we don’t need to keep relearning the same lesson over and over.

Emotions can also backfire, however, as many of our emotions are based on inaccurate ideas. Consider the many individuals stricken with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that happens after someone has lived through or witnessed a traumatic event, such as an accident, combat, rape, or environmental disaster. However, PTSD also follows in the wake of verbal and emotional abuse, being in relationship with an addict, or other acute or chronic stressors.

Basically, someone with PTSD in conditions that seem similar to the one causing the trauma will re-experience the disturbing feelings and thoughts that occurred during or right after the causal event. I’ve had PTSD, and I know how horrifying it can be to suddenly start picturing images from the past or reacting with uncontrollable feelings.

Yet the salient truth is that the past never repeats itself. We are never in the exact same situation as we were before. This is because once a moment has passed, we’re in a new moment, which isn’t forged from the same ingredients as that prior moment.

Think about it. Imagine that you are drinking a cup of coffee and you set it down to stretch for a bit. Then you pick up the coffee again. That drink is slightly different from the one you just enjoyed; certainly, there is a sip less of it and it’s not quite as warm.

Neither are you the same person you were. You’ve thought new thoughts and wondered new wonderments.

I’m not discrediting PTSD. It is very real. Responding to today’s events with yesterday’s emotions can be helpful. If we begin to feel rage when we’re around a person who likes to make fun of us, that rage is instructing us. The anger tells us they are crossing our boundaries. The core belief—that what they are doing is wrong—is accurate. When emotions are never released, however, and are also misapplied, they cause disaster. For instance, if we become enraged at anyone who looks the same as does a former verbal abuser, we are misapplying our rage. The current situation is not the same as the earlier one.

To heal, most of us must address our emotions, including our mental state, in terms of the way we perceive similar situations. If we don’t, we’ll become sick. We’ll remain continually looped in the stress response that encouraged us to form an emotional reaction, which includes physiological chain reactions such a racing heart, sweating, and the desire to fight, flight, freeze, or fawn (play peacemaker).18 Bottom line: pent-up emotions 18 Weinberg, “Mind-Body Connection: Understanding the Psycho-Emotional Roots of Disease.” xxxi

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cause stress, and stress leads to 90 percent of all healing problems, including asthma, immune dysfunction, heart disease, cancer, mental illnesses, digestive problems, arthritis, mental illnesses, and so much more.19 As this research might suggest, healing by feeling is extraordinarily important. For example, I worked with a woman who had asthma and had undergone one treatment after another, including allopathic medications, acupuncture, and cognitive therapy, to no avail. After a few sessions with me, the asthma attacks disappeared. What worked?

I helped her express the feelings she’d held about her overbearing mother. After we figured out that her mother only paid attention to her when she was sick, we could work with one of my client’s primal beliefs: “I need to be sick to be taken care of.” Releasing the repressed feelings and altering that belief, which was only true in relation to her mother and not the rest of her relationships, freed her from the emotional underpinnings of the asthma.

But working through every single emotion is a slow and painstaking process. There is a complex relationship between feelings, beliefs, memories, chemicals, and spiritual forces. It is hard to get to the nub of an emotion or the most basic of underlying beliefs.

People and their issues are complicated and unique, and emotional work is all too often simplified and systematized. For instance, I frequently find that feeling-based healers associate hopelessness with cancer. However, I worked with a client with breast cancer, and neither of us detected a spot of hopelessness. Rather, she was extraordinarily hopeful and upbeat. She did recover from cancer, but only after she used symbolic healing tones rather than processing or feeling her feelings.

It’s also difficult to figure out which feelings might be causing a physical problem and which ones might result from that problem. I had a client with rheumatoid arthritis who displayed a lot of anger. Several holistic-minded providers had told her that anger was the root of her disease; if she dealt with that anger, she would get well. I had a sense that my client’s anger wasn’t causing her arthritis; rather, she was angry because she had arthritis! Ultimately what assisted my client was taking a purely energetic approach, a modality I’ll explore in the upcoming section called “The Energy Medicine Approach.”

Ironically, the feeling of anger was underlying her arthritis, but it wasn’t my client’s anger. She had internalized subtle energies and rage from her father, who was a roaring alcoholic. Recall that subtle energies are vibrating waves of information we can’t easily perceive through our senses.

19 Salleh, “Life Event, Stress and Illness.” xxxii

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Reducing emotions to their component parts and actively expressing and accepting our feelings are essential to getting and staying well. Being clear about our feelings is necessary for living a full, vital, and juicy life. But we can get so busy processing yesterday’s emotions that it’s easy to forget we have a life to live in the here and now. And fundamentally, we’ll never gain emotional balance if we align with the assumption of being broken rather than whole, if our foundation is anchored in a universe that testifies to the need to be unworthy rather than the acceptance of being intrinsically lovable. We have to start in truth to end up with what’s true.

The Soul-Spirit Approach The belief in spiritual healing is as old as the hills. It’s actually the most ancient form of healing. Part the mists of time and you’ll see shamans drumming, medicine healers murmuring, and mystics chanting for purposes of soul healing.

Soul healing is an important form of spiritual healing. It is the calling forth of wisdom and curatives from the invisible to produce effects in the physical. The basis for soul healing is essentially the same from culture to culture: correcting karma, life’s collateral damage held within the soul.

When talking about soul healing in specifics, healers are in for a complicated undertaking. The soul is interconnected to dimensions across time. It is able to communicate with beings and forces far beyond the norm and visit sites wild and wonderful, though usually unseen. While these linkages lend a magicality to our sometimes gray human lives, they also leave the soul vulnerable to unusual problems.

When working on a soul, a shaman will examine for a variety of issues, such as soul fragmentation, which occurs when a part of the soul separates from the greater soul and becomes lost or stuck somewhere in time. A shaman must then rescue or retrieve that aspect of the soul in order to enable wholeness where there is brokenness. As you might perceive, this activity is comparable to the therapeutic treatments of modern psychologists, who help their clients uncover and restore their disassociated “inner child” that experienced childhood trauma.

Science has long questioned the existence of the soul—at least, our ability to decisively prove it. There are a considerable number of experiments in mediumship, the act of connecting to the deceased or the otherworldly, that suggest an aspect of us exists before and after death. In fact, many double- and triple-blind experiments conducted between 1997 and 2017 with mediums indicated that accurate information was obtained from souls on the “other side.” Technology has actually become a boon in this drive for proof. For example, three proof-of-concept experiments showed that measurable xxxiii

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photons (particles) of light appeared in a pitch-black light-proof chamber when spirits were asked to enter. When their presence wasn’t requested, no changes were detected in these chambers.20 The challenge with soul healing is that it is an inexhaustible endeavor. We all have a past. And if you believe in reincarnation, you’ll know that you have a seriously long past, one rooted in former lives and inclusive of in-between-lives experiences. How will we ever erase all the yesterdays to catch up with today? Healing our history, whether it involves this lifetime or others, is a valuable step on the healing path, as long as we don’t get stuck there.

Many spiritual healers skip the soul altogether and take a more direct approach to the Spirit. Several studies indicate that people with religious associations are often healthier, recover faster from disease, and live longer than those without these associations.

For instance, a study of nearly two thousand adults in North Carolina found that those attending church regularly had healthier immune systems than those who didn’t.21 The conventional process involved in religious or spiritual healing is prayer. Many of us pray. A survey published by the National Institutes of Health examined the most common alternative and complementary therapies used by Americans. Of the top ten, three involved prayer. In fact, 43 percent employed prayer for self; 24 percent used prayer for others; and a large number were members of prayer groups.22 Prayer is not exclusive to a specific tradition or political party, and it does seem to help our lives. Studies beyond those just mentioned have found that prayer softens the negative effects of financial problems on older adults and that religious practices contribute to feeling as if life is meaningful. As well, a sampling of cancer patients who focused their prayers on gratitude exhibited the least symptoms of depression. Prayer can also clear the mind, paving the way for more mental acuity. But prayer is a mixed bag. People who believe that God is loving benefit more from prayer than those who believe that God is distant. Plus, we don’t know if prayer is really about connecting to a divine source or if the type of people who pray are already participating in healthy social bonds and behaviors.23 It does seem that the efficacy of prayer and spiritual healing is hard to prove or pin down. One particular study, led by internationally renowned researcher Marilyn Schlitz, 20 Pitstick, “Scientific Evidence that Bodily Death Is NOT the End of Life.”

21 Cherry, Healing Prayer, 14–15.

22 Schlitz, “Meditation, Prayer and Spiritual Healing.”

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was conducted with great hopefulness. Healers were asked to pray or direct intention to women who had just had reconstructive surgery after undergoing mastectomies. The healers included Qigong masters, Johrei and Reiki practitioners, Buddhist monks, Carmelite nuns, and Christian groups.

The women were organized into three groups. Two of the groups received distant healing for about twenty minutes a day for eight days following surgery. One of these groups received a call daily from a healer reminding them about the healing; the other group wasn’t reminded. The other of these groups didn’t receive off-site healing and knew that fact. Implants were used to collect collagen samples, to be analyzed after the eight days, and there was a follow-up questionnaire, which some of the recipients failed to fill out. The results actually showed little to no difference among the groups.24 Many other studies revealed a similar lack of effectiveness in the use of spiritual healing. Certainly, it is good to feel loved and equally good to be loving. I must ask, however: Is it enough to simply call upon things spiritual? Would it make a difference if we were to do so through a means of connecting more knowingly to a truly supportive source of love, not only a ragtag collection of oft-judgmental religious beliefs?

The Energy Medicine Approach Energy is information that moves, and it composes absolutely everything. There are two basic types of energy, however, and this distinction must be understood for those of us who are devoted to healing.

Physical energy is the nuts and bolts of concrete reality. When you pick up a coffee cup, you look forward to enjoying the very physical substance filled to the brim with caffeine and any number of other savory ingredients. You want the physical reaction, including energy to burn. Subtle energy, on the other hand, is ethereal and immeasurable. Also called “psychic,” “intuitive,” “spiritual,” and “quantum” energy, it doesn’t obey the traffic laws of physical reality. Rather, subtle energy appears when noticed and disappears if ignored. Once the subtle energies of two people, objects, feelings—or just about anything else—are connected, they continue to remain connected, even if parted by great distances, even the veil of death. Quantum reality is one of magic, and I’ve devoted a great deal of ink to it throughout this book.

Quite often, energy healers work with one or more of the subtle energy anatomy structures, which consist of energy organs or centers including the chakras; energy

24 Schlitz, “Distant Healing of Surgical Wounds: An Exploratory Study.” xxxv

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channels including the meridians and the nadis; and energy fields such as the auric fields. We’ll focus on working with the chakras and auric fields in particular in this book.

Overall, however, energy healing—now called energy medicine—has grown as a category to encompass nearly every type of alternative or integrative modality, including homeopathy, chakra balancing, acupuncture, massage, sound and light therapies, yoga, meditation, hypnotherapy, intuitive counseling, Reiki, Healing Touch, Qigong, and tai chi, among others. What all approaches have in common is that they acknowledge the existence of subtle energies and energetic structures, allowing for the assessment and directing of these energies.

Rigorous scientific studies are proving the efficacy of subtle energy medicines. As Dr. Daniel Benor states in his book Spiritual Healing, 191 controlled studies of energy healing suggested its effectiveness, and of the 52 most rigorous studies, 74 percent showed significant positive effects.25 I am an energy medicine proponent. In fact, I’m an energy healer. Not only do I believe that energy medicine works, but I’ve seen it do so. I’ve watched a student of mine use my signature techniques, which you’ll learn in this book, to send streams of energy into a dog that had bitten thirteen people and was about to be put down. Within a week, the dog’s entire nature changed, and he became docile and loving. His life was spared.

I’ve watched people become freed of tumors, PTSD, mental challenges, financial woes, addictions, and so many other issues. Energy is real. But while it can be a medicine, it can also, to some extent, be a poison. What can cause benefits can also instill harm, and that is the reason I’ve become a devotee of the idea of two universes—and the need to select which one to align with when healing.

25 Benor, Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of a Healing Revolution, 187–371. xxxvi

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What if we’ve discovered the underlying physical law of life itself, Jill? Not how two parents biologically create an offspring, Darwin’s law, but why—why our universe creates things at all…

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ach morning invites us to wake up, stretch our arms, and walk anew on this good earth happily and peacefully. Whether the sky is sunny or overcast, moments abound for love and appreciation. Of course, we’re talking about real life. Our journey will encompass sorrows and suffering, disappointments and maladies.

That’s where healing comes in. As simplistic as it sounds—and as many times as you’ve read this definition—to heal means to “make whole.” Healing isn’t a goal. It isn’t a onestop service. It’s a way of living that involves interactions between ourselves, the universe, and all other sentient beings. Ideally, healing is based on interfaces that create more love, and it is these exchanges that result in ever-evolving wholeness.

In this book, I’m going to provide you the keys to the most organic and potent forms of healing that exist: in other words, healing concepts and techniques that are completely and totally aligned with love. In fact, I’ll be presenting four valid ways to formulate lovebased healing, each represented by a distinct pathway, or reality. These levels of reality constitute different perspectives about the self and the world, and together they compose 1

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a greater reality. While totally unique, based in diverse rules and methodologies, each of these pathways offers opportunities to achieve the awakened state that brings true healing and also compels an invitation to the healing power of love.

The pathways that underlie the four pathways healing system are interlocking. Each functions independently of the others, operating under a specific set of rules and principles. What’s neat, though, is that when you perform a shift on one pathway, transformation occurs on the other pathways.

For instance, on the elemental pathway, you use intention—and honest hard work— to make changes by addressing the basic units of life, such as thoughts, feelings, foods, and other substances. On the power pathway, gigantic changes are created when you command the movement of forces. Through the imaginal pathway, you get to play shaman. By using your imagination, you can transfer energies between otherworldly realms and dimensions. Along the divine pathway, you search for the need underlying a negative situation. Meet the need in a different way, in accordance with divine truths, and appearances alter.

It’s easy to negotiate the individual pathways because they are all accessible through one particular vehicle: the chakras. Chakras are subtle energy organs, and you’ll learn a lot about them in this book. They aren’t so very different from other organs in the body, except they are primarily made of subtle, rather than physical, energy.

As I will explain, everything is made of energy, which is information that moves.

There are two major types of energy: physical and subtle. Physical energy is relatively slow and quite measurable, whereas subtle energy—the stuff of the invisible, inaudible, and ineffable—is far less measurable but much more magical in its effects.

One of the reasons it’s so hard to achieve increased wholeness in our everyday world is that many of our challenges are anchored in subtle energies, which are organized by a subtle anatomy, a system made up of subtle organs, channels, and fields. In other words, you have to shift the subtle energies composing a problem in order to release that problem, and then you need to bring in better and more life-enhancing subtle energies.

These activities are the basis for four pathways healing, the overarching label for healing conducted through the four pathways, which I also term shift-healing.

Why are chakras such a vital component of four pathways healing? As I’ll explain in this book, chakras can convert physical energy into subtle energy and vice versa. They also serve as tunnels through all four pathways.

In my mind, I picture the four pathways as continuums of space-time that are stacked atop one another, separate yet able to touch each other. Swirling funnels of light run through the four realities, interconnecting all four pathways. Like stairways between floors, these hallways are the chakras, with each independent chakra functioning as a 2

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doorway into one particular pathway but also interconnecting them all. In other words, chakras are entrance and exit points into and between the pathways.

In this book, you will learn how to use the chakras as the portals that they are. Soon you’ll be traveling these gateways for healing purposes. However, no matter how fluid you become at this voyaging, you’ll be facing one huge decision at every turn: Which universe will you align with?

I know you might feel confused by that question. After all, I have said that healing is a side effect of interacting lovingly with self, others, and the universe. However, I believe there are actually two universes.

The initial universe is founded on the principle of divine love. Hence, I call it the “heavenly universe.” A secondary universe, which I associate with the big bang, is based on dualistic themes that are muddled and confusing. Hence, I call this second universe the “shadow universe.” This is the universe we most often affiliate ourselves with, and because of the convoluted ideas associated with it, it becomes far harder to perceive love in this universe. And the four pathways? They are sandwiched between and inside both universes. This means that while you can choose which pathway to perform healing on, you can also select which universe—and its overriding principles—to align with.

Some of you might have noticed that this isn’t the first rendering of the four pathways system. Almost two decades ago, I wrote the first version of this book. Then the book went out of print. Over the years, however, I kept hearing from people around the world who wanted classes on the four pathways. Those who wanted to buy the book often spent a small fortune hunting it down on eBay and Amazon. I realized there was a bit of a cult following for the book.

Over the years, countless people also shared their experiences of using the concepts and exercises in this book to heal themselves and others. One man sent me a picture of his tattered, well-marked first edition and claimed that the ideas had enabled him to achieve long-term remission from cancer. Another woman had been using the divine pathway exclusively in her spiritual coaching practice, and she attributed the peacefulness that most of her clients reported to this four pathways knowledge. Yet another woman has taught dozens of classes with very expensive (out-of-print) copies of the book as the curriculum. She insists it’s the most logical approach to transforming would-be healers into real-life healers. (In fact, she likes to call them “heroes” instead of “healers” because of their devotion to boundaries and love, two of the pillars of the pathways’ system.)

Many other stories could illustrate why, when the copyright was returned to me, I snapped it up. Since then I have updated the book with increased understanding of the four pathways, a few new terms, increased insights and case studies, and leading-edge scientific research. The other main change, however, is the addition of the two universes.

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That inclusion alone, as well as other new material, makes this a brand-new and even more powerful book compared to the first version.

It’s only in the last few years that the science has existed to suggest two different and intertwined universes, and it’s only in the last few years that I’ve been teaching this concept. I’ve worked with over 65,000 clients and students in my nearly thirty years as an energy healer, author, and teacher. I’m honored to say that over the years I’ve received a lot of input and acclaim from my students. Their reaction to the notion of two universes has astounded and sometimes even overwhelmed me. Students demand more. Some are moved to tears and tell me that science and spirituality finally make sense to them. They ask questions. They get it. All our decisions basically reduce to what universe we’re seeking to align with, and this book will help you make that choice a lot easier.

W H A T’S I N TH I S B O O K As with the first version of this book, here you’ll learn about the four pathways system and how the chakras are key to its functioning. You will gain an understanding of the role of the chakras and other subtle energy systems as you progress through the book and learn a variety of shift-healing techniques and how to make them work for you.

Before you’re through, you’ll crack the code of the energy mapping method that is central to four pathways healing. You’ll also discover that although there are different pathways, or approaches, to truth, your choices always reduce to making decisions based on truths that are seeded in love and unifying in their outcome.

In part 1, chapter 1, we’ll begin at the beginning, establishing why we need a new healing paradigm in the first place. (This chapter is augmented by the preface, which offers an overview of a number of current healing modalities and their advantages and shortcomings.) Then in chapter 2 you’ll move into the all-important concept of the two universes, and you’ll get an overview of the four pathways model in chapter 3.

Part 2 gives you an intensive grounding in your four pathways palette: the many forms and manifestations of energy. You will gain an overview from a scientific standpoint in chapter 4 and then delve into the intricacies of more esoteric views of energy in chapter 5. Chapter 6 adds the layers of communication and consciousness as you explore the energetic patterns and programs that underlie imbalances and illnesses and get an orientation to the many dimensions of energetic communication. Chapter 7 rounds out part 2 with a discussion of the sources of subtle energy you may encounter when you do this work, both external energetic forces and the energetic nature and workings of body, mind, and soul.

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Part 3 commences your exploration of the pathways in earnest. Chapter 8 lists all the categories of energies you will encounter on the pathways. In chapters 9 through 12, you will gain detailed knowledge of the energy types and bodies encountered on each of the four pathways, then chapter 13 examines all of the pathways through the specific lenses of chakras and auric fields.

In part 4 your four pathways practice begins. Having a firm grounding in the theories and concepts of the preceding parts is essential to effectively performing any four pathways healing. But if you just can’t keep from skipping ahead to get a taste of the direct experience that awaits, you could begin with exercise 1 in chapter 14 and start becoming familiar with your strongest intuitive gifts. If that still isn’t enough to satisfy, you can take a peek at one of the fundamental four pathways techniques, Spirit-to-Spirit, in chapter 15. Beyond that, I would ask for your restraint. If you are patient, you will find that the conceptual exploring you do in parts 1 through 3 will set you up perfectly to master the practices in the four chapters that comprise part 4 and beyond. When you come to them with a deep and broad understanding of the many energetic dimensions of four pathways healing, you will have more tools in your toolbox, your efforts will prove more effective, and you will find the entire experience more satisfying and enjoyable.

Moving into part 5, it’s time to take the deepest of deep dives—full immersion, in fact—into each individual pathway. Because there is so much ground to cover with this one, I devote three entire chapters, 18 through 20, to helping you gain a complete understanding of the elemental pathway. The remaining three pathways are covered, one chapter each, in chapters 21 through 23.

Arriving in the last section, part 6, you will learn the fundamental four pathways skill of energy mapping, beginning in chapter 24 by discovering the principles of energy mapping and how they can be adapted to map any situation, and then in chapter 25 seeing how energy mapping may be applied to many of the specific common illnesses and issues you are likely to encounter. And with that, your toolkit will be complete!

H OW TO U S E TH IS B O O K Given how large, advanced, and complete this book is, I’d like to suggest three different ways to use it to help yourself or others heal. These ideas are like walking, trotting, and cantering—simple, focused, and very involved.

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are analyzed, broken up, and put together again. The goal is to give viewers a fresh perspective of an object or concept, and of reality itself.

The four pathways healing approach is similar. It needs to be in order to truly explain this multidimensional and complicated universe we exist within. Instead of looking at our shared world through a single lens, we are examining it through four spectacles.

While foundational and life-changing, this portraiture is also mind-blowing. Your reactions might range from confusion and overwhelm to fascination and empowerment.

I wouldn’t be reissuing this book (yes, with even more material) if untold numbers hadn’t benefited from the full system. Most of us are raised to simply believe that an apple is red. It’s either crisp enough to eat or rotten, in which case you should leave it alone. However, quantum physics, as well as most spiritualities, insists that existence is more cubistic than not. That apple could be an orange when viewed in a certain light, or an apple pie in another. In the same vein, there isn’t a single approach to meeting a need, though there can be a more beneficial method than not.

So, what if you’re up against a timetable and you can’t afford to indulge in all the explorations and science in this book? What if you’re intrigued by a specific pathway, rather than the other pathways? That’s great! If you desire quick and efficient change, jump around. That’s right! This is your book.

To start a healing process ASAP, I suggest you read the preface and part 1 to learn the basics of the four pathways. Gaze at figures 1 and 2 to get a visual on the four pathways and your chakras, and then walk into part 4 to better understand and accelerate your intuitive abilities. You’re then ready to immediately apply the most powerful and fundamental exercises for healing toward your immediate concern: exercise 2, Spirit-to-Spirit, and exercise 8: Easy Healing of a Chakra with Healing Streams.

Have the interest and time to trot rather than walk? After delving into parts 1 and 2, you’ll understand the fundamentals of the four pathways system. Access your intuitive capabilities in part 4, learn the formative exercises 2 and 8, and then pick your pleasure.

That’s right: engage on the pathway of your desire and skip the rest until you’re drawn to them. Use the chapter headlines to focus on the pathway of your choice.

Are you into cantering? Take your time. I recommend using this book like a selfguided class. Better yet, organize a small group and work through it together. After the first issuance of the book, I was surprised to find out that people all over the world had done just that. Ultimately, the teachings reduce to simple ideas. If we attempt to heal through the universe based on brokenness and disconnection, we’ll manifest from this place. However, if instead we remember our implicit wholeness and interconnectedness—the basis of a universe formed from love—we’ll create lives that are filled with love.

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The Bold Healing Paradigm

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e all search for healing. We also deliver healing to others, whether we do it consciously or not. Yet we’ve all questioned the effectiveness of the existing healing models. Is it possible to find a system that can encompass all our needs— that can support every aspect of our being—body, mind, and soul?

Yes, it is very possible; in fact, that system is described in this book. Welcome to the four pathways model for healing. Here you’ll be presented with a number of terms and concepts that constitute this healing model. You’ll learn that it’s okay to be broken, to need healing—but that you don’t have to apply a broken healing paradigm to your transformation. Rather, you can take a four pathways journey.

In chapter 1 I’ll first share a secret about how the four pathways system was revealed to me. I’ll then describe a few of the ways people around the world have employed this system in the nearly twenty years since its inception. The rest of the chapter is devoted to describing the basic components of the system itself: the existence of two universes, the four pathways, and the chakras, the latter serving as vehicles with which to travel through the pathways and select which of the two universes to align with. I’ll also briefly touch on the need to use your innate intuition to access the four pathways for healing purposes, and I’ll introduce energy mapping, a special way you use everything you’ll learn in this book to perform your own pathway magic.

The differentiation between the two universes is so vital that the second chapter is devoted exclusively to that topic. Then, rounding out part 1, chapter 3 describes the pathways themselves. References to the chakras are peppered throughout chapters 2 and 3, as these energy bodies are primary tools for advanced chakra healing.

Are you ready to take a few bold leaps into your goodness? Then let’s begin.

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Chapter 1 the four pathways healing paradigm

What is the meaning of thy struggle?…not the fire that kills but the kind that tears down ancient walls and imparts to each human being his true possibilities.

Paulo Coelho, The Fifth Mountain

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hat is the four pathways paradigm? This chapter will give you an overview.

First I’ll share how the four pathways and their interlocking ideas were revealed to me, and then I’ll present a few of the ways practitioners of this paradigm have used this special approach over the years. Next I’ll touch on the five main areas of knowledge you’ll be putting together to become a four pathways practitioner for yourself or others: the two universes, the four pathways, the chakras, energy mapping, and intuition. You’ll discover that when you take the four pathways approach, possibilities can become probabilities—and sometimes even certainties.

T H E I NC EPT I O N O F THE FOUR PATHWAYS S YS TEM The four pathways approach was presented to me while I was in a dream state. On one very special night, I fell asleep, dreamed, and then awoke four times. Each dream was

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part of the larger dream, and each dream-part was a teaching about one of the four pathways.

In these dreams I found myself in my kitchen accompanied by Christ. To be clear, I do not believe this dream would qualify as a “Christian” dream. In my belief system, Christ is a model four pathways worker and a prophet who spoke truth, as have prophets in so many religions across the world.

In the first part, Christ pointed at my refrigerator, which was under lock and key. He had assigned me the task of making dinner, so obviously my first job was to get into the refrigerator. At this juncture I used elemental pathway techniques to find the key and open the refrigerator. I searched the entire kitchen, on ladders and on my hands and knees, until—after a long time—I finally found the hidden key. I woke from the dream feeling successful.

When I fell asleep again, I was back in my kitchen staring at the same locked refrigerator. This time I asked Christ how to use power forces to accomplish the task. At his bidding, I unplugged the fridge from the electrical socket and used some sort of magnetic device to decode the lock. Even while sleeping, I understood the analogy. On the power level, you can ask for higher help and engineer efforts by using various forces and powers.

When I awoke again, I felt pretty proud of myself, but then I slipped back into slumber and found myself again in front of the locked Amana. What was next? I went for the imaginal pathway; I simply sat down and pretended that I had already made dinner.

That worked for a while. I could see that it might be an easier task for a real master, the guru who can truly live on air. I decided that this wasn’t my preferred means of operating, at least at that time.

Again I awoke and wasn’t surprised to immediately doze back off. There was the refrigerator, locked again. This time, I noticed a small bowl on top of the refrigerator.

Christ said to me, “If you change your perception of the problem, the problem will change.” Without knowing exactly what I was doing, I pictured myself setting the problem in the bowl, asking for a solution, and then walking away.

I didn’t have far to walk. When I looked at the refrigerator again, the lock was gone.

I heard these words: “When there is no resistance to the problem, it then shifts out of existence.” I knew that I was now on the divine pathway, the place of knowing what needs to be known. I also knew that I didn’t have to solve my own problems. Unconditional divine love is present for us all, as are the powers necessary to create change.

Owning any version of this truth causes a shift in awareness, and this shift alters reality as we know it.

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When I awoke in the morning, I knew that I had been blessed with ideas so important that I needed to share them with the world. I couldn’t keep them only to myself, but first I needed to get a handle on how to implement them.

T H E EMER G ENT FO U R PATHWAYS APPRO AC H I began asking questions about—and then adding philosophies to—my nighttime revelation. Lacking the existence of a multidimensional go-kart, I wondered how I could transfer energy, which is information that moves, between pathways. I was already an expert on chakras, and I knew that those subtle energy bodies more than suffice when it comes to shifting energy and healing. After all, they can change physical, or measurable, energy into subtle, or immeasurable, energy. I quickly began using them as “elevators” to move between the pathways.

My next consideration was how to help people best interact with their chakras as well as the pathways. Intuition became the key there. I also knew I needed to devise a way to track the energies necessary to heal an issue, no matter the pathway, and to figure out how to understand what was happening on several of the pathways at once; the concept of energy mapping was born. All of these concepts together became the first edition of this book.

As time went on, it became obvious to me that we live within more than one overarching reality, or universe. My research revealed two cosmologies. I discovered an original universe that was full of hope and light. When I imagined myself as an extension of this universe, which I called the heavenly universe, I experienced a lightness of being and greater healing for myself and my clients. When I linked only to the everyday universe, which I labeled the shadow universe, I felt dark and dreary; standing in this universe, it was tougher to create transformation. Because I could now perceive this differentiation, I began interweaving the cosmological and energetic paradigms of two coexisting universes into my teachings. Students and clients responded enthusiastically.

What I liked best about the emerging system was that it afforded vital choices to people requiring healing as well as to practitioners. For instance, I remember interacting with a client who had a hereditary kidney disease. She’d already had one kidney removed and the second one was failing. Every member of her immediate family had been born with the same dysfunction, which meant they couldn’t be donors. Because my client introduced herself as an “adamant allopath”—referring to allopathic medicine, the healing modality that involves prescription medications, surgery, and other interventions of modern medicine—I wondered why she was seeing me, an intuitive energetic healer.

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It turned out that all she wanted was some simple intuitive-based advice. Should she continue to take drugs she had been prescribed or surgically receive a donor kidney from someone outside her family? I knew I had to work on the elemental pathway with her, as it is most closely aligned with the allopathic medical model.

We professional intuitives aren’t doctors. We can’t deliver medical advice, so I didn’t.

Rather, I guided my client into the chakra that relates most closely to the kidney line. As you’ll learn, this is the third chakra, located in the solar plexus. After she entered a light trance state, I had my client picture a medical clinic. In a doctor’s chair sat her own wise self. As you will learn, all things practical are available through the elemental pathway, including the use of drugs, surgery, and herbs. I encouraged the client to imagine that this office space was in a heavenly realm. Hence, she received the highest level of input possible there.

My client’s doctor-self clearly indicated that surgery was in order. She followed through, and the donated kidney has been humming along perfectly for years.

When compared to participating in the foundational and somewhat slow-moving elemental pathway, operating through the power pathway often results in significant and sometimes instant shifts. A “shift” is a change in state, a movement from a lower, unhealthy status into a higher, healthier position. A perfect example of a power pathway interaction involves a female client who was experiencing horrible premenopausal symptoms.

When we interacted over the phone, I intuitively perceived a degenerative force on her ovaries and a generative force on her adrenals. As you’ll learn in this book, the power pathway is a land replete with fields of energy called forces. Some are destructive or cause loss of energy and others are constructive and add or create energy. My client’s ovaries didn’t have enough energy to produce her needed hormones, and her adrenals were overextended and therefore exhausted. Using the same techniques you will learn here, I simply switched these forces. This alteration allowed her ovaries to get back online energetically and took the pressure off her adrenals. And guess what? Over the next week or so, my client’s mood swings abated. She said she could feel her ovaries making more estrogen and progesterone and her adrenals pumping out testosterone.

The night sweats, anxiety, and other premenopausal symptoms that had been playing havoc disappeared, and she became her old self.

The imaginal pathway can be a grand place to play, especially when it is aligned with the heavenly universe. One student who has taken my four pathways training operates exclusively along the imaginal pathway. For a living, she reads the Akashic Records for clients around the world. The Akashic Records are energetic libraries that store data 12

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about everything a person or another living being has ever experienced, is undergoing, or might face. She loves the idea of a heavenly universe, so she always links with it too.

She asserts that her insights are at least twice as accurate and helpful as they used to be, and she has actually achieved a high level of fame in her field since she began interacting with the imaginal. As she discovered in her training, it is relatively easy to visit other spaces and worlds through a set of magical mirrors that are available on this pathway.

What about the divine pathway? A good example is the man I mentioned in the introduction who has used the four pathways concepts to achieve a remission in his cancer. He lives as if he’s always on the divine pathway, in a state of acceptance and love. Constantly aware of the presence of the heavenly universe, he has become a healer.

Though he only takes clients through word-of-mouth referrals, his work has benefited hundreds of individuals with cancer. Most of the time, his work slows the growth of cancer, although many times the cancer disappears or goes into remission.

As you’ll come to discover, you don’t have to perfectly understand the four pathways approach in order to wield its concepts. You don’t have to be a perfect practitioner to direct the energies found on the pathways. Neither must you be a perfect person to operate the pathways themselves. Not only is that goal impossible to achieve, but attempting to be flawless would inhibit your effectiveness. Why? Because where we are most broken is where we are most open to healing and the energies of the heavenly universe.

H EA L I NG WHAT’S BRO KEN W H I L E I N A B RO KEN S TATE Let’s take a closer look at this. If we are honest with ourselves, we must all admit to being broken in some way.

Perhaps our heart is the most broken part of ourselves. We’ve been rejected, abandoned, or even forgotten, until our true self is now a faint childhood memory hidden away in a misplaced treasure chest. We might feel dispirited because of a disease, accident, job loss, or addiction. No matter the cause or the symptom, we yearn to be freed from our hardships so we can experience love, wellness, and joy.

We desire healing.

The phrase “to heal” means “to make whole.” Most of us have spent a lot of energy trying to create wholeness where there is brokenness, but it can seem like a losing battle.

We fix one problem and another pops up. We peel away a layer of the onion and discover that there is more onion to peel away. It can be hard to keep going.

We end up feeling like we are on a merry-go-round.

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One reason for the cycle of brokenness is that most of our healing modalities are based on a broken model. In the appendix, entitled “The Limitations of Our Current Healing Approaches,” we’ll explore the most popular contemporary healing models, emphasizing their strengths and weaknesses. Ironically, the takeaway is that our models expect perfection, but they can’t actually move someone over the finish line into a perfect state. Instead, they just keep searching for one problem after another, and of course they find more. You know why? Because these processes are based on the shadow universe, the one that only differentiates between good and bad, black and white, and has no sense of the perfection and beauty in the imperfect and nonsensical.

The truth is that as humans, we are imperfect because we are continually in the process of being made anew. Change is the only certainty, and uncertainty is the only invitation we need to make choices that better ourselves and others. Where we have lack, we have need—and we can open to love and assistance. Where we have pain, we can seek—and grow in knowledge and strength. Where we have loneliness, we can fall to our knees—and know that no matter what, we are actually connected to something far bigger than ourselves.

If we want to experience that kick-up-our-heels hurrah that comes with genuine well-being and enduring change, we only need to align with the heavenly universe, the reality, that embraces our brokenness and says, “It’s okay. You are whole no matter how broken you seem; you can be broken and whole at the same time.”

Once we arrive at this place of understanding, we have entered the portal to the four pathways. We are ready to assemble the component pieces of the four pathways system, starting with knowledge about the two universes.

T H E T W O UN IV ERS ES —THE BAC KDRO P OF T H E FOUR PATHWAYS S YS TEM In the four pathways system, we base our healing activities on a paradigm that encourages authentic transformation. Fundamentally, we make a decision before or while engaging with any of the pathways: we select which universe to energetically and consciously align with. We choose which universe to plug into and pull energy from.

These two realms are separate, but they also interweave, and we dwell within both.

But our healing models, especially the allopathic one, are based on the universe that holds all the sources of our problems, whether those difficulties are physical, psychological, or spiritual. As I said earlier, I call this the shadow universe, and you’ll come to understand why in this book. The universe from which hope, love, miracles, and ease 14

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spring has been confined to storybooks, mythology, and, to some extent, the “spooky” side of religion and science; I’ve labeled it the heavenly universe because of the imagery that invokes.

For background, the first universe came into being just before the big bang. Scientifically, we have evidence of its existence in that there are twists of primordial light lingering in space. The substance of this light is different from any other, and because of this, it has been called the Absolute Light. It is completely still and composed of a very pure energy.

A small fraction of this light vibrates in a polarized way, which means that it bends. In the next chapter, we’ll see how this bending light is significant to our healing processes and even to the everyday components of our lives. Think of these streams as the arms of God reaching toward us, bringing us everything we need, if only we would accept them.

This original universe hasn’t drifted away; we dwell within it. But we don’t know how to perceive or relate to it, even though it contains all the “secrets” of our collective and individual divine plans. Though many of our ancestors spoke about this universe, each in their own way, we don’t remember the core messages. Quite simply, we have had so many painful experiences that it’s hard to sift through them to find the gold. Instead, we think of the heavenly realm as a place to reach after death—well, maybe, but even then, only if we’ve been good boys and girls and pleased the sort of Santa Claus god that many of us were raised to believe in. The good news is that, with training, you can learn how to perceive this universe, and by aligning with it enable the highest level of healing.

The shadow universe was birthed after the original universe. We know a bit about its inauguration as it is described by the big bang theory. Arguably, the big bang followed the explosion of a ball of energy, which dispersed various forms of matter and energy throughout space-time. These ingredients have become less dense in what seems to be an expanding shadow universe, which has led to the separation of four fundamental forces and various types of quantum and classical particles and waves. These energies continue to flood into what science believes is “empty space,” but what I would call the fabric of the heavenly universe. These two spatial creations are still present, as are we within them.

From a spiritual point of view, the first universe is foundational, constructed from purely loving and holy qualities and substances. We could apply the Hindu concept of dharma to this universe, with dharma representing the eternal and intrinsic nature of reality. Dharma is the truth of unconditional love and serves as the primal law of the heavenly universe. It states that everything is made of love, done for love, and can be transformed through love.

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As you’ll need to know in order to apply the four pathways principles, each being is actually composed of a number of parts. A thumbnail sketch is as follows: Spirit—the essential spark of a being that is knowingly connected to the Oneness and all that is good.

Soul—a part of the spirit that is able to move through time and gain experiences about love.

Mind—the “brain” of a soul, which gathers learnings during various lifetimes and loads these ideas into the physical brain of a body. The conclusions of the mind’s reflections might be accurate or inaccurate.

Heart—the loving center of a being.

Body—the vehicle through which a soul inhabits a place like Earth and interacts with the environment and other beings.

Our spirit, or essential self, that is knowingly connected to the Oneness is naturally dharmic, while the other aspects of us struggle to become so. Hence, you’ll often turn to your own or another’s spirit, or a greater spirit, when performing pathway healing.

In fact, one of the techniques you’ll be taught and encouraged to always use, Spirit-toSpirit, will enable this to occur.

In Buddhism dharma is considered to be a form of emptiness. As I’ll discuss in chapter 2, this does not mean that the original universe is made of nothing. Rather, the original universe consists of so much love that everything exists within it. In this context, our personal drama—the purpose of our spirit and our various incarnations—is to create more love where there is a lack. And that “where” is the shadow universe.

The second universe, the shadow one, relates to the Hindu idea of karma. Karma is technically described as effects linked to causes; in other words, the outcome of our activities. The entire shadow universe is an extension of our sometimes accurate yet usually inaccurate beliefs about love.

Unlike our dharmic perceptions of love, which are unifying, karmic ideas about love are dualistic. There are “good actions” and “bad actions.” There is “cause” and “effect.”

Karma essentially boils down to the attempt to even out the harm that has been done to us or that we’ve inflicted on others. Essentially, this attitude results in a conditional perception of love. For some people, love equates with what you can get from others; other individuals might perceive it as a way to survive. The unifying fabric that is love in the

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heavenly universe is hard to achieve in the shadow planes, as our beliefs are convoluted and, as I’ve pointed out, quite dualistic.

When I say “our beliefs,” I’m not only talking about humans. As a species we’re dreadfully human-centric and often fail to notice the fact that we share this planet—and probably a lot of other galaxies—with other life forms. In the next chapter, I’ll relate a Hopi story of Creation to give you an idea about what I mean. Suffice it to say that somewhere along the line, the souls incarnating in this secondary world began to feel shame.

Instead of accepting the fact that lessons can be hard to learn and that we’ll frequently make mistakes, we started feeling bad about ourselves and others. Unworthiness leads to unfulfilled love.

These two different approaches anchored in these universes—unconditional love (connection) versus conditional love (separation)—define the primal disparity in our world. Most religions, many spiritualities, and much of science align with the precepts of the shadow universe, as do way too many of the ideas in our healing modalities. We cannot heal into an optimum state if we’re aligned with a broken universe. We can only achieve wholeness if we’re attuned to the complete universe. Because we exist within the shadowy universe, we cannot expect perfection, but we can realize wellness.

To explain the basic difference between the effects of these two universes on a healing endeavor, I’m going to have you imagine that you have a tumor. There are two clinics available for treatment. The first is occupied by medical staff dressed in white lab coats.

These practitioners think it’s nearly impossible to get rid of the tumor, but heck, they’ll try anyway. Their method involves killing off as many bad cells as possible and hoping that enough healthy cells stay alive to clean up the debris. You feel scared and isolated.

The outcome of the treatment is entirely dependent on the practitioners’ skills—and maybe a bit of luck.

If you probe, they’ll tell you that their treatment is based on the belief that life is about pain and suffering, and that deep inside, we’re all really bad. Becoming healed—or getting loved, for that matter—is conditional. But they won’t tell you the rules, only that you “win some” and “lose some.” Only the strong survive, and even then, it will all be downhill from there.

Then there is the other clinic.

Comfortably clothed, the practitioners greet you with smiles. Before examining your blood tests and other evaluation tools, they ask how you’re feeling—they ask about who you really are—and then offer you a spot of tea. After they have a true sense of you, they examine the tumor from several points of view. Only then do they decide which of four approaches they will employ to assist you, each of which is founded on philosophies that 17

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support interconnectedness and goodness. They show you ways to self-heal and reassure you that you will not be alone in this process. In fact, they emphasize, you’ve never been alone.

I know which approach I would prefer. We have free will, however. And we can operate within either the heavenly or shadow universe via all four of the pathways.

T H E FOUR PATHWAYS : THE CH A N N EL S BETWEEN U N IV ERS ES Fundamentally, the four pathways are channels, or tunnels, between the heavenly and shadow universes. They are the layers, planes, or realities of existence that enable you to heal into wholeness—and consider yourself whole even if you have broken parts that are leading you toward transformation. Each pathway offers equally valid ways to create change, but you have a choice.

Which universe do you want to align with in the process? You’ll discover it’s actually easier than you might think to link with the heavenly universe—and much more fun too.

The best way to understand the four pathways model is to envision the four healing pathways as a three-dimensional checkers game with four boards stacked atop each other. Atop this chessboard is the heavenly universe. Below it is the shadow universe.

The pathways exist between these universes but also within them, each functioning with its own set of rules, principles, and systems.

In a nutshell, these pathways, and a shorthand description, shown in figure 1, are as follows: The Elemental Pathway: Material reality The Power Pathway: Powers The Imaginal Pathway: Magic The Divine Pathway: Consciousness When you are seeking healing, you can select any of the four pathways to operate on.

Usually people select a starting point that makes sense in relation to the issue they’re concerned with or that is the most comfortable for their personality. On the elemental pathway, you will take practical steps, such as using herbs or processing emotions. On the power pathway, you might move forces: great waves of supernatural energy that are either destructive or constructive. On the imaginal pathway, you play the part of

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a dancing shaman, moving energies between dimensions in order to create a kinder third-dimensional reality. Along the divine pathway, you consciously align with divine sources of assistance, thereby invoking a supremely willed outcome.

The truth is that it doesn’t really matter which pathway you employ. All four pathways are in the here and now, and you coexist within and on each of them, so when critical mass is met on a single pathway, all the boards shift at once. You reach this critical mass most easily when making a healing-based change by aligning yourself with the heavenly universe. When you do this, the pathways become the means for accessing true leapfrogging, quantum-jumping, heart-popping wonders, the ones we call “miracles” from the perspective of the shadow universe.

In the shadow universe, miracles are processes and outcomes beyond the norm. Miracles seem to bend natural law. They make no sense, and because of that we think of them as supernatural rather than natural. From the perspective of the heavenly universe, miracles are normal. They are nothing more or less than the concrete appearance of what is supposed to be present.

For instance, imagine that your aunt has a tumor. She undergoes chemotherapy and reduces the sugar in her diet. The latter is important because she knows that cancer feeds off sugars. The cancer continues to spread. You aren’t surprised, though. Statistically, the type of cancer your aunt has only has a 10 percent remission rate. In the shadow universe, she doesn’t have much of a chance.

But then your aunt takes a few other steps. She aligns with the heavenly universe using my two signature tools: Spirit-to-Spirit and Healing Streams of Grace. She then takes steps along each of the four pathways instead of only one, which is always an option. She more stridently alters her diet (elemental pathway). She figures out there is a degenerative force on her healthy cells and a generative force on her cancer cells and switches them (power pathway). She discovers a negative entity is pouring harmful energy into the main tumor site. She frees herself from this being and swaps in a reality that isn’t affected by this entity (imaginal pathway). She also allows angelic assistance while seeking a higher purpose for her life (divine pathway). Over a few months, her cancer disappears, she regains her health, and she takes steps to become a creative author instead of an accountant.

“A miracle!” the family might say. Perhaps—or is it possible that the underpinnings of the shadow universe accommodated a long, slow death, while the qualities of the heavenly universe supported recovery?

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me, healing is different from curing. Our goal is wholeness, not perfection. Wholeness can replace brokenness and we might still die from a terminal cancer or never recover use of paralyzed legs or still battle every so often with a long-term anxiety disorder. Yet we will recognize the actuality of being greater than the sum of our parts.

I have a story that illustrates my point.

Decades ago, my father, who is now deceased, gave a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger gun to my son Michael. This particular species of toy may or may not be recognizable to you, but take my word for it: this was a big deal. This gun was cool. It could dial alien-busting tones and high-alert frequencies while generating enough power to save the world. It was a five-year-old boy’s dream gun. It accompanied Michael to bed, bath, and beyond­—until it broke.

Not one for mechanics, I did my best to fix the switch that was stuck. I tried every unjamming technique known to mothers since time began, including the use of eyebrow tweezers and nail cutters. I even superglued another piece of plastic to the broken switch. Nothing helped. Finally, I admitted defeat. I sadly informed Michael that the gun was dead and might as well be thrown out. He looked at me like I was an alien on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers television show.

“But, Mom,” he noted sagely, “it’s still the same gun that it was, even if one part doesn’t work.”

No matter how many apparently broken pieces you have, you are still only one complete self. Yet there are four ways to improve matters and become more aware than you’ve ever been of your inherent completion.

T H E CH A K RAS AS THE DO O RWAYS BET W EEN UN IV ERS ES AND PATHWAYS When the four pathways were revealed to me years ago, I was immediately concerned.

Four realms of existence? It’s hard enough to negotiate the day-to-day! How are we to manage four realities? When I had recently begun working with the two universes, I had had the same sinking feeling. Two universes? How are we to deal with two worlds?

Wasn’t one world enough?

I solved the first issue forever ago: it’s all about chakras. All four pathways and both universes are accessible through these energetic doorways, and they are available to us all. Chakras are the key focal points of the human energy system, also called the subtle body and the subtle energetic anatomy. They are a complex set of subtle energy bodies that regulate all components of the self. In fact, each of the twelve chakras I work with 21

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manages a specific set of physical, psychological, and spiritual functions. The location of the chakras and their basic functions are depicted on figure 2.

Subtle energy bodies are of particular interest to contemporary scientists and healers because of their seemingly magical qualities. By working with the chakras, we can analyze the cause of a problem, predict outcomes, clear issues, and attract what we need.

Chakras are paired with another set of energetic structures, the auric fields, which are also called auric layers. The sum total of these layers is usually called the aura or the auric field. The truth is that every chakra generates its own auric field, allowing us to imagine the chakras as running our relationship with the internal world and the auric fields as regulating the same with the external world. Together, the chakras and their partnered auric fields connect you to the four pathways, which means you can access any or all of the pathways at a given moment. They are also portals for both the shadow and heavenly universes, which means you can choose which universe to align with through the chakras.

In my twelve-chakra system, chakras are situated inside and outside of the human body. Because of this local placement, they govern physical or sensory information but also subtle information. They can also convert one type of energy into another. Their ability to serve as energy converters is one of the reasons that esoterics usually perceive them as swirling vortexes of light, though they also emanate sound.

Think of the potential of using your chakras as gateways between you and the heavenly universe, of traveling a chakra along a pathway to figure out how to best approach a problem. Because of the chakras’ innate ability to transform energy, you could potentially fold a physical tumor into a subtle slip of space and then wink it out of existence.

You could also dream a dream and manifest it in the three-dimensional world. Using the chakras as the doorways of light that they truly are while simultaneously allowing their respective fields to border and protect you are the keys to heavenly healing.

ENER G Y M A PP I NG FO R C HAKRA HEAL I NG In order to make use of the four pathways—and super-connect your endeavors to the heavenly universe—you have to be able to find them. Energy mapping is a technique that allows you to intuitively access all four pathways. Through energy mapping you can accomplish the following: • Activate the chakras as doorways • Select the correct chakras to use for a particular problem

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• Move energies from the heavenly into the shadowy universe • Picture your life issues in order to construct helpful solutions • Mobilize resources for healing • Shift your problems out of physical reality and bring in solutions from the subtle realms • Open to the miracles you desire With a map of your physical surroundings, you can determine where you are in relation to streets, buildings, and other landmarks. Once you know where you are, you can figure out how to travel to wherever you want to go. In the same way, an energy map shows your current position on a given pathway in relation to the energies around you and the heavenly universe’s availability to you. From there you can intuitively follow the chakric doorways, energy lines, principles, and walkways toward the origin of your problems. You can then access the energies from the heavenly universe and align with the wholeness latent within and around you. When necessary, you can also determine which energetic or practical changes you need to make, in perceptions or behaviors, to create a healthy order in your life. By seeing what to release and what to attract, you can chart your own course for healing.

You can energy map any life issue. You’ll learn how to do so in this book through exercises interspersed throughout. In part 6, the energy-mapping section of this book, I present energy maps of common life complaints. Some of these are the garden-variety illnesses that annoy us all, like colds and flus. Others are the more tragic ones that befall too many of us, like cancer and heart disease. Still others are psychological and biochemical in nature, like narcissism and codependency. After examining and working with these energy maps, you’ll be able to construct your own.

US I N G Y OU R I NNATE I NTU I T IO N To align with the heavenly universe, you need to use your own inner ability to read and direct energies. To seam together the two universes—to access a pathway or weave them together through your chakras—you must also rely on your intuition.

Intuition isn’t an eerie, occult, or paranormal concept; it’s a fact. Being intuitive is nothing more or less than interpreting the information contained in energy that moves too slowly or quickly to be easily recognized through your five everyday senses. Anytime you sense another’s pain, feel a storm coming the day before it arrives, or guess 24

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who is on the phone before you answer, you are acting intuitively. You are being the intuitive that you are.

Your intuitive abilities operate a little differently on each pathway because energy moves at different speeds and in different ways on each one. With a little practice, you can adapt these skills to working each of the pathways. In part 4, I provide ways to help you better define your personal intuitive styles. Knowing which of the many intuitive gifts is easiest for you to use will also clue you in to which pathway might be the most effective for you to access.

There is plenty of information in store for you on all of the topics I have introduced here in chapter 1. Let’s get started in chapter 2 by exploring the qualities and characteristics of the two universes.

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Body, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Energy

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Featuring nearly fifty hands-on exercises and a full-color insert, this book shows you how to negotiate the pathways—elemental, power, imaginal, and divine—through the subtle energy organs known as the chakras. You will explore the energy patterns and programs that underlie imbalances and illness and learn methods for energy mapping as well as Cyndi’s signature Spirit-to-Spirit practice. The four pathways are interconnected and dynamic, so when you transform one you transform them all, leading to healing outcomes that are based in the unifying energy of love.

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