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 Sekhem – Lineage Update
This update
is for the attention of anybody who has been trained in Helen Belôt’s original Seichim,
Sekhem and Reiki courses within the lineage downwards from myself.
The original date of posting was November 2006 with some minor updates in
November 2009 to reflect Helen Belôt’s withdrawal
from the public arena and the closure of the Sekhem Association. More recent
postings about Sekhem may be found in the Information Centre.
Background to the update
My
training manual for Helen Belôt’s Reiki / Seichim / Sekhem system was written in 2001 / 02. We are
now several years on from then. In that time, some of the people in the
lineage above us have moved on with what they are doing. In the lineage
beneath me I have been receiving reports that not all the original teachings
have been passed down and of some other issues arising. This page on my
website is intended therefore to give both an information update about what
has been going on within the lineage and also to ask that on some matters we
can work to a standard external presentation within the lineage.
The Lineage above us
At the
start of our lineage tree, Patrick Zeigler is active in his teaching work.
Patrick is teaching in a different way these days to the style of a
traditional attunement workshop. His present day workshops create the
environment in which energies of a more generic nature flow in freely and can
be received by the participants direct and not through him. The energies
raised in his workshops facilitate healing amongst the participants.
Sometimes participants receive spontaneous initiations. Many people have had significant
healing experiences at these workshops. You can read more about what he is
doing these days at his website at http://www.all-love.com .
Further down the lineage, Marsha Burack is teaching Seichim with
her colleague Shashala in a way that incorporates
both the traditional attunement approach and Patrick’s current way of
teaching. She is at http://reikihealinginstitute.org/classes.html
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In Australia,
Deepa Slater had the intention of moving into
retirement and reducing the amount of teaching that she was doing. The way in
which she integrated the energies into self development and behavioural change programmes was leading edge work so
any retirement on her part would have been a loss to the healing community. However, it seems that too many people are
finding their way to her and the Warts and All programme
to let her retire so she is still doing her work.
Also in Australia,
Helen Belôt is no longer running the Sekhem
Association or teaching Sekhem. Helen wrote a book called ‘The Sekhem Story’.
This narrates how she got to where she is with Sekhem and of her experiences
with Sekhem. I believe that this book is now out of print but second hand
copies can be found on the internet.
It is my
understanding that elsewhere within Helen’s lineage people learning Sekhem
these days might be shown the lineage tree starting with Helen. This is
because Helen ceased to teach the three energy courses of Seichim,
Sekhem and Reiki and had been teaching Sekhem only. I would ask please that
members of the lineage beneath me who are teaching Helen’s original Seichim, Sekhem and Reiki could continue to present to
their students the full lineage tree in my training manual which starts with
Patrick Zeigler and which includes the Deepa Slater
leg so that we do not lose the record of all the people from Patrick down to
ourselves who have contributed to helping us to get to where we are now.
Usage of the names Seichim, Sekhem, SKHM
Different
healers are using the names Seichim, Sekhem and
SKHM in similar but different contexts.
The name
that Patrick Zeigler gave to the energy that he experienced in Egypt
was Seichim. This was a name that was derived from
information given in channelling sessions which you
can read about on Patrick’s website. Once Patrick had started to pass on this
energy to other people, a view was held within the lineage that the word Seichim was the Sanskrit translation of the Egyptian word
Sekhem. The names Sekhem and Seichim started to be
used in an interchangeable way for the same energy within the lineage. In the
Australian part of our lineage, Deepa Slater was
the first Seichim Master in Australia. Deepa
learned Seichim from Marsha Burack
in the USA and later also
learned with Phoenix
Summerfield who had been Marsha’s teacher. Both Phoenix and Marsha were using the names Seichim and Sekhem in an interchangeable way. Deepa went on to develop her own way of teaching naming
her courses Newlife Reiki Seichim
and Newlife Seichim
Sekhem.
When
Helen Belôt was learning Seichim
with Deepa, she started to channel a third energy which
was different to the Reiki and Seichim which had
come down from Patrick. Helen took her Seichim
Mastership with Phoenix
Summerfield. She also worked on the third energy with Phoenix and developed a teaching structure
for it. Helen used the name Sekhem for it and used the name Seichim only for the energy that had come down from
Patrick that he had experienced in the Great Pyramid. At this point some of
the subsequent confusion about the usage of the names was crystalised.
Some of the rest of the lineage under Patrick were using the names Seichim and Sekhem in an interchangeable way whilst in
the lineage from Helen downwards the names were no longer
interchangeable.
The
Ancient Egyptians wrote in consonants only. They did not write vowels. Their
written form of Sekhem was SKHM. SKHM was also used within the lineage above
Helen in an interchangeable way. SKHM has also been used for the less
structured form of teaching that Patrick has introduced in recent years.
Outside
of Helen’s lineage, the American teacher Diane Shewmaker
channelled energies and teachings which led to the development of what she
has named the Sekhem-Seichim-Reiki matrix or
SSR. I have no experience of the
energies within this system but SSR represents another situation in which the
same names are used.
The use
of the same names in different contexts can obviously give cause to
misunderstandings. When dealing with prospective students and other relevant
parties, could members in the lineage beneath me please take the time to
explain clearly what they are applying the names to and to take the time to
understand the context in which the other people think that they are using
the names. If we do not do this, there will be times when we are talking at
cross purposes with people and confusion will result.
For the
record, when I talk about Seichim and Sekhem I
follow Helen’s use of the names including for the rest of this posting.
Seichem
Seichem is an energy from the Tera-Mae
™ family of energies which has Kathleen Milner as Head of Lineage. Kathleen
received an initiation into Seichim at one point.
This did not feel like a particularly good attunement to her and she felt
that the Seichim energy was lacking in power. A
while afterwards, she had a vision of Sai Baba who
gave her an initiation into the energy she calls Seichem.
She discovered later that the Higher Being who gave her the initiation was
not Sai Baba but Lord Buddha. Some people are making the connection that
Lord Buddha gave her a better initiation into Seichim
and that Seichem and Seichim
are the same energies. This is not the case and Seichim
and Seichem are not the same energies despite the
similarity in name.
Australian Sekhem
In the USA,
Helen Belôt’s Sekhem has been renamed Australian
Sekhem. This is incorrect. The name that Helen gave to the energy is Sekhem.
If this causes confusion with the Sekhem in the SSR system, then some
explanation can resolve this. Sekhmet has advised that what is called Sekhem
in the SSR system is not the same energy as that which Helen Belôt calls Sekhem and it is not correct to present
Helen’s Sekhem as some variation on the Sekhem in SSR. The original terminology Seichim Sekhem Reiki came from Helen Belôt
and it was copied at a later date by Diane Shewmaker.
Myself
I am
working currently from the training manual that I wrote about five years ago.
I am in the process of updating the Foundation Chapters and tidying up the
rest of the manual. Although this work is running behind schedule, there are
not any substantive changes planned to the existing manual in the imminent
future.
As a
project for the future, I would like to work through all of Deepa’s training course material and run a pilot course
for it with the intention of introducing this over here in the UK
one day. Deepa has been kind enough to let me have
her training material
but I have not had the time yet to gain sufficient experience
of it to be able to pass it on to other people. Deepa’s
approach to teaching people how to change their behaviours
and to grow and to regain the spiritual connection is of a very high
standard. The time commitment required to work all the way through her
courses is much longer than for most of the standard workshops on offer these
days and really requires people to attend on a retreat basis.
As a
project for next year, I intend to create a controlled access members’
section on the website within which the training manual will be available on
line. It is likely that it will be towards the end of 2007 before the loading
of the manual on to the website is completed. Anybody within my lineage or
within Helen’s lineage elsewhere will be able to have password access to the
levels that are appropriate for them. It will be posted in Microsoft Word.
This will make it easier for people to copy parts of it and incorporate into
their own Word based training material. The online manual will also have a
change control record of any files that have been updated from the original
version so that we can keep track of updates.
I have
had the experience that students can sometimes have difficulty sensing the
Sekhem energy when first learning it. I think that this is partly because
Sekhem is not felt
in the same way physically as Reiki due to its high vibrational
frequency. Sometimes students coming from other teachers have not been taught
the basics of meditation and developing their perceptive and intuitive skills
so do not always have enough tools to work with Sekhem. I have also had the experience that
students find it difficult to feel or to sense the Seichim
and Sekhem energies separately when receiving the multiple style attunements.
Because of this, it might be more appropriate sometimes to teach Seichim or Sekhem separately and not together. In due
course, therefore, I will split the teachings from Helen’s system and my
manual so that they can be taught separately if needed.
Away from
Helen’s Reiki / Seichim / Sekhem system, I am
trying to get back to developing training manuals for some of the other
energies that I work with. This is very time consuming work and the big
constraint is the number of hours in the day.
I also want to spend some time trying to develop my website as an
information centre.
My training manual
My
training manual is the written form of how I teach Helen’s system. I would
like to take the opportunity to confirm that I have always passed on the
energies in Helen’s system in the way that I was taught by Helen. I have not
added any new symbols to her system and have not changed the attunement
procedures.
I have
added attunements to some additional energies to be
used alongside Helen’s system as appropriate. These are useful in areas of channelling, ceremonies, psychic surgery, etc., but do
not change the core teachings from Helen.
CD version of the training manual
Computer
technology has progressed a lot in five years. Back in 2002, the electronic
versions of my manuals were made available either by saving on numerous 3.5
inch discs or by e-mailing compressed versions of the files. The number of
files in the manual meant a lot of time spent saving or sending files at my
end. I would suspect that this might have meant that the full manuals did not
always get passed on further down the lineage. These days I copy my manuals
to CD. If anybody within the lineage would like a CD copy of the manual,
copies can be obtained at a cost of 12 UK Pounds with payment through
PayPal for people living overseas. The price covers the cost of producing and
posting the CD. The manuals are written in Word for the Windows operating
system. There is no version for Mac operating system.
Helen Belots’ Training Manual
It is not
clear to me whether Helen Belôt’s training manual
has been passed down to all members of the lineage. When I learned with Helen
Belôt, she gave permission for copies of all her
training materials to be passed down. I scanned her manuals and they are
available in electronic form. They are included in my manual as appendices.
It is helpful for people to have access to Helen’s original teachings so that
they can see what these were before other people have made their additions
subsequently. I would ask, therefore, that everybody in the lineage down from
me passes copies of Helen’s manuals on to their students. If you do not have
a copy, the electronic version is available on the CD version of my training
manual.
Sekhem Association
Helen Belôt established the Sekhem Association to ensure
minimum standards of training and practice within an approved pool of Sekhem
Masters. Following an incident shortly after I finished training with Helen Belôt in September 1999, I decided that I did not wish to
continue to be a member of the Sekhem Association and did not renew my annual
membership when it fell due. This meant that I was not party to any
additional healing symbols or healing techniques and methodologies that were introduced
to Helen’s standard training programme since then.
Because of this, nobody in the lineage beneath me was eligible for membership
of the Sekhem Association unless they retrained with a teacher who is a
member of the Association.
In
September 2007 Helen Belôt decided to close the
Sekhem Association and to withdraw from teaching Sekhem. The Sekhem
Association had corporate status in Australia and has been wound
up.
Trademarking
Trademarking rights relating to Helen Belôt’s
system have been granted in Australia,
in the USA, in the
European Union and in Hong Kong. Further
information relating to this is given on a separate page on this website.
Please click here
to read about this.
Representation of Sekhem
Elsewhere
in Helen’s lineage, it is common to find representation of Sekhem as being a
feminine energy or embodying the feminine spirit. If members of the lineage
beneath me wish to make representation about this, could they please be very
careful with the words that they use so that they do not mislead people. The
essence of Sekhem is that it helps us to achieve good balance between male
and female energies. Therefore, somebody who has a lot of male personal
energy, even though they may be living inside a female physical body, is
likely to feel Sekhem working to bring them back in to a more equal male /
female energy equilibrium and it will feel like feminine energy is coming in.
Alternatively, if Sekhem is applied to a situation which has been dominated
by male energy, again it will help to achieve a more
equal male / female energy equilibrium. This is not the same as Sekhem being
a feminine energy and I would ask if members could choose their words
accordingly. Sekhem is not a feminine energy. It has a good balance of male
and female energy. If we present this incorrectly, then we mislead clients
and students.
Similarly,
it can be found elsewhere in Helen’s lineage representations of Sekhem as
being a complete energy system with everything that is inherent and implied
within that description. Other representations indicate that Sekhem has a
completeness that other healing energy systems do not have. I do not know what comprehensive experience
of other energy healing systems the people who have been making such
statements have but I do not feel that these statements give a correct
picture. Lots of healers are doing good healing using a wide range of healing
modalities and including other channelled energies. I know from my own
experience that healing can take place simply by channelling
the energy from Mother Earth beneath and from the Universe above and passing
on to a client without the need for the healer to have gone through any kind
of attunement process. We all know as well that in some emotional and behavioural situations active involvement from the client
is needed before anything can happen. If we make representations that we
cannot achieve with clients or students or which are wrong, our credibility
is damaged. I would ask, therefore, if all members of the lineage could
choose the words that they use when talking about Sekhem carefully. It is helpful sometimes
to try to put ourselves in the shoes of prospective clients or students
listening to our words and to consider how the receiver will interpret our
words.
Some
members in Helen’s lineage elsewhere seem to give the impression that the
higher the frequency of energy that they can channel, the more suitable it is
for healing purposes. They say that Sekhem is the highest frequency energy
being worked with on the planet at the present time and that there is no
longer any need to work with longer with the lower frequency Reiki energy.
The truth about energy healing is that different health situations need
different frequencies and different qualities of energy to heal them. The skill
of the healer lies in deciding whether to work with generic energies such as from
Mother Earth or the Universe or whether to work with specific energies. The
former are more likely to have the frequencies and qualities needed for
healing but the strength of these can be dissipated to some extent by
everything else that is being channelled. The latter can be more effective if
the correct energy is chosen by the healer because the dissipation effect is
reduced. It is not a badge of honour to give the impression that the higher the
frequency of energy a healer can channel, the better the healing ability of
the energy. Nor is it correct to indicate that one healing
energy is better than another healing energy. I would ask if members
in the lineage beneath me could please refrain from such representation. This
kind of approach is the one certain way to damage the credibility of the work
that we do.
Higher Beings
In
Helen’s system, she teaches that the Sekhem energy is associated with Sekhmet
and that the Seichim energy is associated with Kwan
Yin.
On his
website, Patrick advises that there were no Higher Beings involved when he
had his experience in the Great Pyramid.
As far as
I can be certain, Helen is correct when she says that Sekhmet was working
proactively for the Sekhem energy to be used in the public domain again on
this planet. Sekhmet was involved with bringing back this energy. This energy
was worked with under direction from Sekhmet in earlier times.
The
situation is not the same for Kwan Yin. I have asked many times about her
connection with Seichim. Here the situation seems
to be that she does not have a specific connection with Seichim
in the sense of trying to bring it back into the public domain. The situation
seems to be much more that when she has been connected with people she has
either supported them with whatever they were working with or has found what
would be suitable for them individually to work with which has included Seichim.
Perhaps
members of the lineage might care to focus some of their time on the same
questions when they have the time.
If you do
feel a connection to these Higher Beings, they will help you to pass the
attunements and will help with healing sessions. If you do not feel a
connection, your intention and quality of preparation should be sufficient to
pass the attunements well and to undertake healing without them.
The Stars
People
work with different mind sets when working with the energies. Each has its
own advantages and disadvantages. For those people who prefer to work in a
more generic way with energy, it is not too important about the routes that
energies take to reach us. For other people, this is quite important.
Helen
teaches that the Sekhem energy comes from the Sirius stars. As far as I can
be certain this is correct.
Neither
Patrick nor Helen gave any such guidance about Seichim.
I am able to channel a lot of energies and have felt a common vibration
between the Seichim and other energies. That common
link is a Pleaidean vibration which is referred to
in my manual. For a matter of record, I need to make it clear that this
particular commentary has come from myself and not
from Patrick or Helen. I have asked repeatedly for confirmation of the Seichim link to the Pleiades when passing attunements or
in a similar energy state and have always received the confirmation. Kwan Yin
carries the Pleaidean vibration and has always been
with me in my energy work from the day I first received a Reiki attunement.
She has repeatedly confirmed the link.
When I
was developing my Blue Star manual, I was guided to go to the Egyptian
Cartouche energies. I was shown how there was a hidden dimension to some of
the energies of the Cartouche. These were star energies. My feeling is that
one of the many directions in which our understanding of Helen’s energies can
follow in the future lies with the star energies and that Seichim
and Sekhem are pieces in a much wider picture of star energies that some of
the Ancient Egyptians were working
with. That however is work for the future.
For the
present day, I would ask please that the lineage follow Helen’s guidance on
the Sirius connection with Sekhem. If you wish to refer to what I have said
about Seichim and the Pleiades, it would be helpful
to point that this came from me and is not part of the original teachings
from Helen. You do not have to make reference to the Pleiades.
Distance attunements
I
understand that comment has been made from within Helen’s lineage about the
appropriateness of passing attunements by distance, the view being that good
attunements cannot be passed this way. My view on this is that it is not
always possible to be present physically with somebody who needs to receive
the energy. Also, the way that I pass attunements is to send the attunements
to any aspect of the person in any time, place or dimension where it is
appropriate to be received and to ask the Higher Beings working with me to be
with the other aspects of the person elsewhere and to help with the
attunement process there. Physical presence is not possible with all of this
anyway.
I have
had the experience of sending attunements over distance to people and they
have worked.
I have
had the experience of receiving attunements by distance. Some have worked,
some have not. The ones that did not work came from people who I do not think
prepared properly or did not put enough effort or intention into the job in
hand or did not have the sensitivity to discern between the different
energies they could channel. The issues there were probably more to do with
the person passing the attunements rather than whether they were in person or
by distance.
My
guidance on distance attunements is that the best attunements will work when
a proxy energy environment or energy bank has been created properly, when the
healer has taken time to build up within himself / herself the maximum amount
of the energy to be passed on as possible, where the healer has taken proper
time and steps to connect to the person at the receiving end, and where the
healer has built up as much intention as possible. If this is all done, then there should be
no reason why a successful attunement cannot be passed over distance.
My teaching structure
The
teaching structure that I have developed for Helen’s system is largely an
extension of a traditional format except that it has a lot more detail. I
have made my manuals very detailed for a number of reasons. Firstly, my
intention is that if regulation comes to the energy healing sector in the UK
and people who have learned with me are required to explain how they learned
their trade, the manuals that they present from me will be of good standard
and acceptable to the regulators. Secondly, it is often the case that
students do not always practice immediately what they learn in class and
their memory becomes a bit hazy about what they have learned when they come
to practice it several months on. The detail in the manuals gives them the
necessary instruction if they have forgotten. Thirdly, the manuals are
written for distance learning where I am not talking or showing things to
people face to face. There has to be adequate detail for this kind of
learning.
The
detail in the manuals is intended to be my way of focussing
attention in the learning situation so that through me the student can get
enough of an introduction to the energies and to develop sufficient
relationship with the energies that they no longer have any need for me and
so that the energies can take over as the true teachers. The structure is a
tool and not an end in itself. In some other energy lineages, the teachings
are very prescriptive and people are told what they can or cannot do with the
energies. This is not my approach. It should not be construed that this is my
approach because my manuals are very detailed. Once students in the lineage
have worked through any manual content that has come from me, they are free
to develop their own ways of working with the energies and if possible it
would be helpful to share these with people so that we can all have a few
more tools to work with.
The website
I do not
know how many people are in the lineage beneath me or where they are in the
world. However, I hope that I will be able to reach some of the people
through this posting. All are welcome
to make contact with me. Also, if anybody has any experiences or comments
about working with Helen’s system that they would like to share with people,
I would be happy to post them to this website. The Google search system seems
to like websites which have a high information
content and this website already comes up high in some of the search result
rankings. The more information we can get on to the website, the more it will
feature higher in the search engine results and the more we can reach out to
people and share what we have.
Thank you.
Robert
24thNovember 2006
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