January 2007 Newsletter
This is the
January 2007 Newsletter. As usual, you can click on the headers above to
go straight to an item or scroll down the page. If you click on the black
headers above, you will go to the main sections of this website. The reorganisation of this website has started and all the
headers in black above have hyperlinks that will now take you somewhere. The
information content in the different sections in this website will be
developed during 2007.
Thank you.
Robert
30th January 2007
Medicine Dharma Reiki
 I am updating
currently various training manuals including the Reiki manual that I wrote
several years ago. This manual contained file
reiki.1.chapter09.01.reikihistory which contained reference to Lama Yeshe /
Dr. Richard Blackwell, the discovery of some of Mikao Usui’s
papers, and the development of the Medicine Dharma Reiki healing system.
Subsequent to the writing of my manual, there was some controversy over the
accuracy of the story about Mikao Usui’s papers and
whether some of the teachings from Mikao Usui that were incorporated into
Medicine Dharma Reiki came from the papers or were channelled. At the time,
there was indication from Lama Yeshe that Mikao Usui’s
papers would be released into the public domain after they had been
translated into English and that all questions regarding where information
came from would be answered. Some years later this appears not to have
happened and it is difficult to find any up to date information about
Medicine Dharma Reiki. I have deleted reference to it in my Reiki manual,
therefore, as it is not good practice to include information that cannot be
verified when verification should be possible. The revised file from my
manual can be found by clicking here.
It is fairly standard in its content and no different to that which can be
found in anybody else’s Reiki manual. I would be pleased,
however, if anybody who has learned Reiki from me could note what I have said
and pass it down the teaching line.
 Astrological Perspectives for 2007
For those healers who work with the astrological
energies and their interaction with people or who are interested in them,
some observations on the key astrological influences for our new year of 2007
can be found by clicking here. The key influence is the conjunction of
Pluto with the Galactic Centre. The impact of this conjunction is likely to
be felt most strongly by the generation of people born in the second half of
the 1960s. For anybody who is not familiar with western astrology, it might
be helpful first to read the astrology chapter from my training manuals which
I have posted to what will be developed as an Information Centre on this
website. You can find it by clicking here.
Legal Framework
 My training manuals, most of which are now several
years old, contain reference to the legal framework within which healers need
to operate in England.
This reference was based largely upon guidance to members given by some of
the leading alternative therapy associations. Since this guidance was
developed, new legislation had been introduced in areas of consumer
protection and the distance selling of goods and services over the internet.
The guidance needs to be updated, therefore. Rather than make my manuals any
larger as I go through the current manual updating process, during 2007 I am
going to post the legislation relevant to healers to this website by way of
information notices together with some simple guidance. It is likely that in England
a number of healers who are working with the best of intentions probably
break the law from time to time without realising it. Although the current
legal framework did not take our kind of work into account when it was
developed, we cannot work outside of it. If the law causes problems for us,
it is more appropriate to work through our professional associations and
through our Members of Parliament to have our laws updated rather than ignore
them.
At the time of posting this newsletter, I have
posted information about the law in areas of cancer healing, suicide and
sexually transmitted diseases. I do not think that there have been many
prosecutions under these laws over the years but even so it is helpful to be
aware of the legislation here. The
Directory for Legal Notices can be found by clicking here
to go to the Information Centre.
Regarding cancer healing in particular, the law is
that nobody should give indication that any service or product can support
the healing of cancer unless the indication is being given to members of the
medical profession. This is an absolute prohibition. The following websites
refer to different situations in which prosecutions under the Cancer Act 1939
have been attempted and show how easy it is for somebody to be in breach of
the law here whilst having the best of intentions.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3954805.stm
http://www.healthpromotionagency.org.uk/work/Publicrelations/PressReleases/tescos.htm
http://www.tescocorporate.com/page.aspx?pointerid=CFFCC7C92BC84B14AB45014E2F5546E5
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmhealth/23/23we47.htm
http://www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&useSecondary=true&ssDocName=CON2024242&ssTargetNodeId=389
http://www.barnet.gov.uk/press_releases.htm?id=1463
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2729123.stm
http://www.i-c-m.org.uk/Journal/2005/nov/a03.htm
Drunvalo Melchizedek
In the current round of updating my training manuals,
the links to the original sources of my learning keep coming up. I will
continue to post details of these to the website through the monthly
newsletters as other people might be interested in them as well. One of my
sources is Drunvalo Melchizedek. Although I have
never met him or studied with him directly, one of my teachers studied with
him directly and I have his books. His work has helped me in the past and
some of it is in the in-tray now to help me with some of the manuals not yet
written. Drunvalo
has been a spiritual development teacher for many years now and has travelled
extensively around the world teaching. His first two books, The Ancient
Secret of the Flower of Life (Volumes 1 and 2), helped him to gain
international recognition. The part of his work that I have drawn upon has
been sacred geometry and the Egyptian related writings. He is the editor of
the Spirit of Ma’at website (Ma’at
being the Ancient Egyptian Goddess of Truth and Understanding and Wisdom) at http://www.spiritofmaat.com.
The online magazines and news archives and letters from Drunvalo
on this website contain a lot of interesting material and are well worth
reading. Drunvalo’s personal website is at http://www.drunvalo.net.
He will be teaching in Spain
at the end of April and in Germany
in June if anybody is interested to attend his workshops.
Mantra Yoga Workshops
When I learned Seichim and Sekhem with Helen Belot,
most of the focus of her teaching was on Sekhem with Seichim being left in
the background and Reiki not really included at all. I kept being guided,
however, that Seichim was too important an energy to be left almost as an
also ran so asked Helen on my last weekend of training with her to update us
on anything else she knew about Seichim which she had not talked about so
far. Helen obliged and showed me the Seichim manual she had received from Phoenix Summerfield. The
manual was literally not more than a few sheets of paper, mostly showing the
healing symbols. Helen also mentioned in passing that Seichim had been
practiced as part of the Agni Hotra
ceremonies in India
down through the ages by those priests who could channel Seichim. However,
she did not teach this on her course or show me Agni
Hotra. The Indian Agni Hotra practices which she referred to are undertaken by
people who are not part of the western Seichim lineage of Patrick Zeigler. Agni Hotra
is the Indian energy practice of working with the Element of Fire and the biorythms of sunrise and sunset each day.
 I
was guided to research this and to incorporate what I could find into my
Seichim training manual. The research took some time and was completed with
the help of many people around the world courtesy of the internet. Two of the
people whose work helped me the most are based here in England but I did not find them
until the end of my research. One of those people was Muz Murray. His website is at http://www.mantra-yoga.com/about_muz.htm. Standing aside from his practice of Agni Hotra, Muz is very
experienced in the practice of mantra yoga. Mantra yoga is a form of
meditation using the power in the sound of mantras to close down the day to
day chatter in the mind and to reconnect with one’s own higher consciousness
and the cosmic consciousness. For anybody on the spiritual and personal
development path, it can be a great experience to learn mantra yoga and this
can always be brought into the healing situation in combination with energies
such as Reiki. If anybody might be interested in joining a workshop held by
Muz, his 2007 programme of workshops is as follows with contact through his
website. His workshops are very good. If anybody is interested in attending,
most of his workshops in England are in the summer holiday period so best to
get the time off work booked early before other colleagues beat you to it. Standing information about Muz may be found
in the Sound Healing and Yoga sections of the Information Centre on this
website.
Arco di
Trento, Italy – 7th to 9th March
Manchester - 23rd and 24th June
Nottinghamshire
- 30th June and 1st July
Northampton - 7th and 8th July
Swindon - 14th and 15th July
Glastonbury - 21st and 22nd July
Isle of Wight - 25th to 29th July
Chinese New Year
The Chinese
New Year of the Boar starts on 18th February. Details of the celebrations in London are on the ChinaTown website at http://www.chinatownchinese.co.uk/EventInfo2007.htm
and on Ken Livingstone’s website at http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/chinese_ny/index.jsp.
February
Newsletter
The February Newsletter will be posted towards the
end of February and will include more postings regarding the legal framework
in England.
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