Chapter 2: The Two Universes

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. Our internal self has now combined the feeling of fear with the belief of hot stoves as dangerous. Voilà! We have an emotion. If we keep those two reactions bonded and

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.”

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.”

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

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.” 23 Routledge, “What Prayer Is Good for—and the Evidence for It.”

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.”

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.

introduction

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…

Jane Jensen, Dante’s Equation

Each 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

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

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.

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.

WHAT’S iN THiS BOOK 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.

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!

HOW TO USE THiS BOOK 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.

Now, some of you might wonder why you’d want to skim the surface or home into only a part of this book and its teaching. I’ll tell you why. The four pathways system is quite cubistic in nature. In Cubism (for which Pablo Picasso became famous), objects

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.

Part 1

The Four Pathways: The Bold Healing Paradigm

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 W 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.

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

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 W 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. THE iNCEPTiON OF THE FOUR PATHWAYS SYSTEM

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

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.