A healing meditation

I'd jut like to share the following variant of an exercise I recently heard described in the hope it may bring some comfort.

Sit comfortably. Close your eyes and relax.

Cup your hands together in your lap. Visualize a tiny point of white light in your hands. As you breathe so the light begins to get bigger and glow brighter.

Keep breathing as it continues to grow. You are now joined by your guides standing behind you, adding their breath to yours. Your loved ones in Spirit join you too, also adding their breath to the ball of light.

The ball grows and grows and also changes color. First red, then orange, then yellow, green, blue, purple and finally back to white. Its light now shines out from your hands, filling your whole body with light. It shines around the room and beyond. Around your neghborood and beyond. Finally, it extends all around the world. Bringing healing and comfort wherever it is needed.

Hold that imge for a minute or two. Then the light starts to get smaller, and smaller, until it becomes point size and fianlly disappears.

Thank your guides and loves ones and slowly return to full waking consciousness feeling refreshed and energized in the certain knowledge that your thoughts have had a positive effect on the world.

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Trust me - I'm a healer

Over the past few weeks English BBC TV has been running a series of documentaries on alternative healers. Healers featured include Stephen Turoff, and John of God. The shows have adopted an objective approach being neither too credulous nor unreasonably hostile.

A commonality of those featured is their denial that the healing is done by them. Instead they claim to channel entities from the Spirit world. One healer even claims to channel Saint Paul of Tarsus.

Something, somehow leaves me unconvinced by the near-celebrity status of the healers shown. Perhaps it's the amount of money they take by way of fees.

I've no doubt that alternative therapies can produce some amazing results. I've also no doubt the body itself has tremendous healing powers. Much "healing" results from the stimulation of the body's own self-repair mechanism triggered by faith (a variant of the so-called placebo effect). But Spiritual intervention does occur too.

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Evil - born, made, or non-existent?

The English newspaper The Daily Mail today carried the story "So are some people really born evil?" inspired by Norman Mailer's novel The Castle in The Forest which tells the story of Hitler's childhood.

To answer the question we must first understand what evil really is, and if it exists at all.

The obvious response is that evil is something very, inexcusably, bad, from which there may be no redemption. But good and bad aren't easy to define. As just one example the Bible's commandments teach us not to kill, but as societies we regularly kill those who do not conform to our laws (we call it execution). In war we give medals to soldiers who kill "the enemy". Doctors hasten the passing of suffering patients in the name of "humanity". They also dispose of unwanted babies in the surgical procedure politely described as "abortion". So even something as momentous as the sanctity of life is subject to human interpretation.

Perhaps it all comes down to why we exist. In Spiritual terms we each exist in this plane to learn and grow. Perhaps perversely the times when we learn and grow the most are those in which we face difficulty. Now we may curse those that cause us difficulty as bad or evil. But in doing so they give us opportunity to evolve, so maybe we should thank them?

Pursuing this line of thought that which is bad is that which inhibits or retards the growth of Spirit, either of others or of one's own. Though even this "evil" is not irredeemable as we have eternity to get it right.

Are we the product of genetics, upbringing, or both? Of course the slightest introspection tells us it is both. Of course we are influenced by our early environment, as we continue to be influenced throughout our lives. But equally there is an essence within us that remains unchanged regardless of the experiences we are subject to. And neither of these factors are responsible for "evil".

We are all parts of Spirit (or God) made flesh to expand the one true reality. Each is born with a specific purpose, and with free will. Once incarnate we are prompted, but not forced, to pursue our predetermined purpose. The purpose of some is that of "agent provocateur", to actually create difficulties for others. These are not evil per se, but merely acting a part for others to react to.

We are all born imperfect (otherwise no need to incarnate) and immature to varying degrees. It is the most immature that comprise the Spiritual definition of evil, ie that inhibit or retard the Spiritual growth of themselves and others. But even they serve purpose by challenging others to deal with their immaturity either by protecting society from it, or by providing opportunities from which even they may progress.

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Are we Kiling Mother Earth?

Have no fear for atomic energy, cause none of them can stop the time Bob Marley.
A few days ago the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (consisting of top scientists) concluded it is very likely that human activity is causing global warming. Among its predictions are temprature rises between 1.8 and 4 degrees C and a rise of sea levels of 28-43cm.

Similar findings were reported by Sir Nicholas Stern for the UK government toward the end of 2006.

The evidence is unequivocal. If we continue as we are going, we are undoubtedly damaging and will ultimately destroy the planet we call home.

But should we care? Human existence is shortlived. It's likely that most of those reading these words will have passed on before their worst effects are realized.

The physical universe, including planet earth, was manifested by Spirit for the purpose of providing a theater for us to experience the adventure of incarnation. In so doing we have been granted free will, for that is the only way we could benefit from our time in flesh.

The future of the planet is truly in our hands. If we fail to act then we sign our own extinction warrant. All would not be lost, for Spirit would go on and we would surely become manifest elsewhere.

But given that we have the awareness of what is happening, and the capacity to do something about it, to fail to act is to retard our evolution.

The problem is that real action must take place at group level. Individuals may play their part, but unless we do so as one such isolated attempts are unlikely to have much effect. Perhaps the real challenge of the environment is whether we can put aside individuality and re-discover our belonging to the one-ness that is Spirit.

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