Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Kundalini, Energetic Healing, the Rig Veda
Because kundalini so sensitizes the system, energetic healing (herbs, aroma therapy, crystals and the like)is especially effective for persons who have been "opened" by the Mother. For some two years, I have been visiting an herbalist (Joshua Muscat) here in San Francisco, and have had great success using his prescriptions. Joshua gathers and prepares his own herbs, traveling across the country to obtain his ingredients. His products are thus especially pure, and much more potent than those sold in commercial outlets.
Herbs do not heal instantaneously. Instead, they work through a slow buildup of the system, gradually strengthening and improving all the body's functions. Joshua prepares a special formula for each client, based on individual need and history. He is very skillful, able to select and mix the correct components for each person's needs.
When I first took his preparation, I had a very intense reaction. I experienced severe pain in several parts of my body, and was fearful that I would not be able to continue on this path. But there was no more pain after the initial experience--everything subsided into the "normal" range of response. But from then on, I proceeded with great caution, taking very small doses and gradually building up to normal.
In ancient times in India (and elsewhere), the healer/priest occupied a special role in society. His work was viewed as an aspect of the sacred. Healing itself was closely identified as the work of the gods. The healer thus invoked the sacred presence as part of the ritual of restoring health to the ailing body. (Contemporary mainstream medicine has long since rejected this aspect of the healing process, except for those like Larry Dossey, who has explored the healing aspects of prayer.)
Here are some excerpts from the Rig Veda which reveal the sacred nature of the healer's actions and of the plants he utilizes in his work:
"The tawny plants were born in ancient times, three ages before the gods; now I will meditate upon their hundred and seven forms...
"Be joyful, you plants that bear flowers and those that bear fruit. Like mares that win the race together, the growing plants will carry us across...
"He in whom the plants gather like kings in the assembly, that priest is called a healer, a slayer of demons, an expeller of disease...
"Your mother's name is Reviver, and so you are the Restorers. You are streams that fly on wings. Restore whatever has been injured...
"Let one of you help the other; let one stand by the other. All of you working together , help this speech of mine to succeed...
"Those that bear fruit and those without fruit, those without flower and those that bear flowers..., let them free us from anguish...
"Flying down from the sky, the plants spoke: that man shall not be harmed whose life we join..."
(from the Rig Veda, 10.97, Penguin Books)
Herbs do not heal instantaneously. Instead, they work through a slow buildup of the system, gradually strengthening and improving all the body's functions. Joshua prepares a special formula for each client, based on individual need and history. He is very skillful, able to select and mix the correct components for each person's needs.
When I first took his preparation, I had a very intense reaction. I experienced severe pain in several parts of my body, and was fearful that I would not be able to continue on this path. But there was no more pain after the initial experience--everything subsided into the "normal" range of response. But from then on, I proceeded with great caution, taking very small doses and gradually building up to normal.
In ancient times in India (and elsewhere), the healer/priest occupied a special role in society. His work was viewed as an aspect of the sacred. Healing itself was closely identified as the work of the gods. The healer thus invoked the sacred presence as part of the ritual of restoring health to the ailing body. (Contemporary mainstream medicine has long since rejected this aspect of the healing process, except for those like Larry Dossey, who has explored the healing aspects of prayer.)
Here are some excerpts from the Rig Veda which reveal the sacred nature of the healer's actions and of the plants he utilizes in his work:
"The tawny plants were born in ancient times, three ages before the gods; now I will meditate upon their hundred and seven forms...
"Be joyful, you plants that bear flowers and those that bear fruit. Like mares that win the race together, the growing plants will carry us across...
"He in whom the plants gather like kings in the assembly, that priest is called a healer, a slayer of demons, an expeller of disease...
"Your mother's name is Reviver, and so you are the Restorers. You are streams that fly on wings. Restore whatever has been injured...
"Let one of you help the other; let one stand by the other. All of you working together , help this speech of mine to succeed...
"Those that bear fruit and those without fruit, those without flower and those that bear flowers..., let them free us from anguish...
"Flying down from the sky, the plants spoke: that man shall not be harmed whose life we join..."
(from the Rig Veda, 10.97, Penguin Books)
