Contents
Introduction
Chapter One:
The Basic Premises
Exercises
Chapter Two: The Human Energy System
Exercises
Chapter Three: The Chakras
Exercises
Chapter Four: Causes, Nature and Diagnosis of Disease
Exercises
Chapter Five: The Practice of Esoteric Soul Healing
Chapter Six: Devas, Elementals, Angels and Sound
Exercises
Chapter Seven: Emotional Healing through Regression
Chapter Eight: Psychic Reading - Healing in the Mental Body
Chapter Nine: Self Healing
Exercises
Chapter Ten: Death and Conscious Dying
Exercises
Chapter Eleven: Soul Healing and the Divine
Appendix One: The Energy System of the Universe
Exercises
Appendix Two: Magnetic and Radiatory Healing - Condensed
Appendix Three: Exercises in Consciousness
INTRODUCTION
My healing experiences began over twenty five years
ago during a time of inadvertent spiritual retreat in the mountains of
south Wales. I found myself living alone on a hillside in a lovely old
farmhouse which had a panoramic view of the Brecon Beacons. For five
years I studied the esoteric teachings of the eastern and western spiritual
traditions. I spent much of my time immersed in the beauty of nature,
in gardening and chopping wood, in meditation and reading. I was in particular
influenced by the writings of Alice A. Bailey and Jane Roberts. Since
that time I have done many things. I am a writer, teacher, sacred dramatist,
ceremonialist and priestess of Avalon. I am also an esoteric soul healer,
tarot and psychic reader and for a time practised as a therapist using
emotional regression.
At present I live and work upon the Isle of Avalon, the legendary Western Isle
of the Dead, a place of transformation, healing, death and rebirth. For twelve
years I was involved in creating sacred drama for the deep healing of both
individuals and communities. l am a co-founder of the Isle of Avalon Foundation,
a registered educational charity, the Library of Avalon - a library of spiritual
books, the Brigit Healing Centre and the Glastonbury Goddess Temple - a sacred
space dedicated to the Lady of Avalon. I teach a year long intensive professional
training in Esoteric Soul Healing for the Isle of Avalon Foundation, as well
as a training to become a Priestess of Avalon.
In 1995 I suddenly found I was suffering from breast cancer and experienced
the whole range of allopathic and complementary therapies including surgery,
chemotherapy, and radiotherapy, as well as healing, massage, acupuncture, Chinese
herbs, radionics, crystal healing, vitamin therapies, counselling and a few
more. The whole experience brought home to me once again the realisation that
disease and its healing are a spiritual as well as physical affair and that
all healing is of the soul.
This book is based on my experiences both as a healer and as a patient. I began
writing it about twenty years ago and it has been refined as my healing knowledge
has grown. It is also in part a reworking of Alice Bailey's classic teachings
on Esoteric Healing. At the time that she wrote her many esoteric volumes, A
Treatise on the Seven Rays (Lucis Trust), she felt it necessary to give
information in a complex way that required students to search selectively through
her writings to find the truths she wished to convey. She felt these truths
could not be given out freely at that time as they might be misused. She wrote
that a time would come when her teachings could be given in clearer forms to
the world. That time is here now and I hope that this book is part of the unveiling
of her mysteries making the practice of esoteric healing accessible to more
people.
My aim in this book is to bring some of her inspired work forwards out of the
patriarchal, hierarchical context in which she wrote. I wish to incorporate
some of her ideas on energy and healing within a balanced, egalitarian, non-hierarchical
world view. My aim is to bring clarity and common sense to the subject of healing
which can often appear vague and wishy-washy or is put in such complicated
language that few people can understand it and put it into practice. What!
hope to show is that subtle invisible energies are not just amorphous and chaotic
with no relevance to everyday life, but that they follow certain laws which
can be discovered and used in healing disease.
Everywhere today we use the properties of non-material energies, such as electricity
which give us light and heat, which we register with our physical senses, even
though we still don't actually know what electricity is. In a similar way we
can experience and use the non-physical energies of emotion, mind, consciousness
and spirit to transform our lives, without necessarily knowing what those energies
are. These subtle energies are not physically quantifiable, because they are
not physical, but they have properties which we can register with the subtle
faculties of the psyche which we all possess, although in some people they
lie dormant. It is these subtle energies which we use in healing disease.
I hope to demonstrate that the illnesses which we contract are not just things
that happen to us from the outside, although there are definitely external
agents of disease, such as bacteria, viruses, poisons and carcinogens, which
are being produced in ever increasing numbers by our industrialised societies.
Disease has causes which are intimately connected to the reality of our nature
as human energy beings. When we are whole and in harmony with ourselves, with
our soul's energy, freely expressing what we sense, feel and think, then we
are usually well and healthy. We don't catch the everyday germs that we breathe
in with every breath. When we don't express ourselves, when we withhold our
energy for whatever reason, we are likely to become ill - physically, emotionally,
mentally, psychologically or spiritually. It is not usually a conscious choice
to suppress our energy and disease is something that appears to happen to us
from the outside.
Most of us have no conscious control over the expression of our energy. Some
days we feel good, other days we feel bad. It often depends on how we feel
when we wake up, on whether we have had good or bad dreams. We don't seem to
have too much choice over how we feel. We often don't even recognise our own
energy patterns. We don't know what it is to be conscious, we are just getting
on with living. We are at the mercy of fate. As we begin to become conscious
of our true Selves susceptibility to disease can lessen, though the possibility
of unravelling deeper and deeper layers of personal karma also increases, again
bringing with it a susceptibility to disease. Our bodies are also prone to
the diseases of the world in which we live, to the karma of being a human being
on planet earth in the twenty first century. We cannot hide from the fall out
from Chernobyl if it falls on the place where we live or fail to breathe in
the pollution in our cities and landscapes.
With this one great provision about the erratic and accidental effects of living
in a polluted environment, the effects of our common human karma, the teachings
of Alice Bailey state that disease comes whenever the energy of our Soul is
inhibited in its expression. This inhibition can be minimal giving rise to
the coughs and colds which we all suffer, or on a grander scale in the major
diseases which maim, cripple and kill us.
Disease by its very nature changes the way in which we experience the world
around us. A headache can completely remove the pleasures of a summer's day.
A psychological depression can prevent us from getting out of bed in the morning,
from relating to other human beings. A disease such as arthritis or cancer
can immobilise us with pain, totally altering our everyday experience, confronting
us with our human frailty and with death. The healing of such diseases requires
radical transformations in our subtle bodies of emotion, mind and consciousness
as well as our physical bodies.
In its positive aspect disease is associated with expanding consciousness.
We are always changing, moving out from our spiritual centre towards greater
personal fulfilment, reaching to the limits of our present physical and psychological
forms. Whenever we near these limits or move faster than our personalities
with their conditioned responses can cope, disease comes to accelerate the
process and to help us break through into new awareness. Here disease and its
healing help us see who we truly are as human energy beings and not just as
physical creatures. In a sense disease itself is a healing experience.
A personal experience of healing is an initiation into new dimensions of reality
for both the sufferer and the healer. It can bring with it the recognition
that while we are mortal and human, we are also eternal, limitless Sparks of
Life living in physical bodies. Healing brings the material and spiritual aspects
of our humanity into sharp relief.
As healers our aim is to ease pain and suffering, to heal disease. In essence
in esoteric soul healing our practice is to create an emanating energy field
from within our own Soul, which allows the patient to come into contact with
their own Soul's energy which flows through their non-material bodies into
their physical form healing them of their disease. Our work as healers is to
catalyse the process of soul contact for a sick person who may be too weak,
distracted or withdrawn, to do it for themselves. Healing is a joint process
in which both patient and healer are transformed by the experience. Essentially
we all heal ourselves, but sometimes we need a little help from our friends.
The planetary body known as Chiron was first sighted in the heavens on November
1st 1977 moving in an orbit between Saturn and Uranus. Its recognition heralded
an upsurge in interest in natural and complementary healing therapies. In mythology
Chiron was a centaur, part human, part horse, part god. He was famed for his
knowledge of earth magic and healing. The sons of gods and humans were sent
to him for training in the heroic arts. One of these, Hercules, accidentally
shot Chiron with an arrow tipped with the poisonous blood of the Hydra. This
poison was normally fatal but because Chiron was an immortal (born of the gods),
he could not die. The wound however would not heal and Chiron had to live with
its pain for the rest of his life. He was eventually delivered from his agony
by exchanging places with Prometheus who lay chained to a rock having his liver
eaten out by a griffin vulture as a punishment for stealing fire from the gods.
Through this exchange both Chiron and Prometheus were healed of their pain.
Chiron is known as the wounded healer - the person who through their own suffering
knows the pain of others. S/he is one who can heal others and herself through
generating and transmitting soul energy. Astrologically the position of Chiron
in the natal horoscope indicates the placement of an individual's life wound,
the karma that they are dealing with in this life. Transits of Chiron around
the horoscope indicate opportunities to resolve the dilemmas this life wound
creates.
The Labrys is the double-headed lunar axe which symbolises the phases of the
moon - waxing, full, waning and dark, reflecting the cycles of the Goddess's
nature. Goddess is the ruler of nature, the Matrix, the Mother from whom we
all spring. She is the context in whom we live and move and have our being.
Worshipped throughout the ancient world her epiphany in the great matriarchal
civilisation of Krete was the labrys, used for decoration, large and small,
in paintings and sculpture. The complementary image to this labrys was the
symmetrical butterfly, symbol of the soul, transformation and rebirth.
CHIRON IN LABRYS is a book about transformation and the healing of disease
in both the sick person and the wounded healer, within the context of the natural
energies of our Mother the Earth and the laws, rhythms and cycles of Her Nature.
This book is about healing in the sense of making whole, balancing all the
energies of soul, consciousness, personality and form. Disease arises essentially
out of the suppression of Soul energy which needs to be released, and sometimes
our Souls too are in need of healing. As healers we use Soul energy to help
catalyse the healing process in our patients. This knowledge is esoteric in
the sense that it involves an understanding of non-material energies, which
are by definition hidden from normal sight and this knowledge has not been
readily accessible to the public until now. This book is an introduction to
the subject which will allow you to begin to practice esoteric soul healing.
Once you have some experience of this form of healing I suggest that you explore
Alice Bailey's Esoteric Healing (Lucis Trust) for a deepening understanding
of the subject.
In this book I shall attempt to give a description of who we are as energy
beings, living out our lives in a material and spiritual universe whose underlying
principle energy is Love. I shall give ways of getting in touch with and experiencing
this Soul which we are and with the energy patterns and rhythms in which we
all live and move and have our Being. We will look at the causes and nature
of disease and describe two main methods of healing - Magnetic Healing using
the energy of Prana flowing out through the hands and Radiatory Healing using
the energy of the Soul flowing out through the aura. I shall also give information
on specific forms of healing in the Emotional and Mental bodies, on Self Healing
and on Death and Dying.
All the techniques given are stepping stones to the experiencing of certain
energy states, which reveal the truth of the nature of our being and the worlds
in which we really live. The methods themselves are not the Truth and
should not be regarded as such. They are gateways through which we can contact
the wisdom of our Souls and experience what is. It is here that we will
learn Truth directly.
Once we know how to discriminate between different qualities of energy and
recognise how they move and transform, the need to follow a particular method
passes. We can heal in the flow of our intuition and inspiration which always
comes.
Throughout the book there are exercises and meditations which are designed
to transform the consciousness of the healer. The greater our personal Soul
consciousness, the deeper our own inner explorations, the more we can assist
other people on their journey of transformation. Our aim is ever to serve the
healing spirit to whom in our hearts we are dedicated. That healing spirit
has different names in different traditions. For some it is the Christ energy
or the archangel Raphael or White Eagle. For me living here upon the Isle of
Avalon, she is the Lady of Avalon, Goddess of Transformation. She is Bridie,
Goddess of Healing. She is Ariadne, Arianrhod, Green Tara, Rhiannon, the Nine
Morgens and Morgen la Fey.
