Reclaiming Sakhmet

Truly a Goddess of Healing

I went for a healing session with a Chironic Healer (an amazing technique I have had some startling recent results with by two separate practitioners). (www.iachi.com)

This particular talented practitioner, Lisa Hare, is well versed in many other interesting things as well! (http://www.acvhealing.com.au)

It was no coincidence (does anyone believe in coincidence any more in these days of almost continuous synchronicity?) that this came through in her sincere and reassuring presence.

After the Chiron session was completed, a very intriguing "past/parallel" life/collective unconscious story emerged...

It ties in to my experience at the Egyptian Museum in Turin

(a place of much magick - both light and ark throughout the ages)

in Italy where I was taken as part of a tour organized by the people of Damanhur whose esoterically inspired community I was visiting with my British travelling companion at the time, Mark. (see Ilanit's European Adventure 2002)

Mark and I were both intensely affected by the energy in the hall with all the Sakhmet statues - the ones that the esoteric initiate curators of the museum prized so much that they traded the Rosetta Stone with London's museum to complete their collection of this dual goddess of war and healing - which is quite a polarity to encompass even for a goddess!

The Damanhurian tour guide had informed us that apparently the statues exude energy when the moon is waxing (approaching a full moon) and absorb energy when the moon is waning.

seems we mis-timed our trip, because it  was waning when we were there! Although the youngest travellers in the group, Mark and I could barely put one foot in from of the other or keep our eyelids from drooping closed in that great hall, but perked up when we left it. We both noticed it and it was a topic of conversation for quite some time!
Though when I was talking about the event afterwards or describing the peculiar but inspiring statues, on any occasion I had such difficulty recalling the name of the deity- Sakhmet! This much misunderstood goddess is often only remembered for her supposed delight in death and destruction. The Egyptian goddess of war and divine vengeance seems to have been misunderstood historically. Like the Indian goddess, Kali, Sakhmet encompasses the potential for deep healing.

"To the ego-centred person attached to the material world, Kali is a wrathful and horrifying goddess of destruction. But to those in search of liberation from the illusion of suffering and ego-identification, she is a saviouress" (MSI in Enlightenment, 1996).

Interestingly, although Mark and I live on opposite sides of this little blue and green ball hurtling through space, we have found that we would experience similar landmarks and trials and tribulations in life in very close time frames. I wonder if my recent experiences are having any esoteric repercussion in North London?

Although I had been very involved in inner work to do with addressing and transcending duality on many levels in recent years, it has been in the past few months that this has come to light (and dark!) even more forcefully.
I had recently used a technique developed by a very insightful esoteric teacher, Zivorad Mihajlovic Slavinski, in which one recognizes and transcends one's Prime Polarities - the particular personalized structure of duality consciousness through which one enters this Universe - and which colour all belief structures throughout incarnations - was a major factor in the healing that took place in this session.

"Your "Primes" define your fundamental, compulsive and obsessive game of life. Until you Neutralize them you can't be free from that game, no matter how many years you follow different methods and systems. This Primes technology opens up new dimensions of Being and new universes..." (www.spiritual-technology.com)

My Primes of Acceptance/Unacceptance illuminated many of my belief structures and changed how I saw things in my life to this point. The additional technique of Past/Future Rundown - in which all emotional charge is removed from all past and future events clears the way for much healing in this lifetime and can possibly clear the decks for other existences since the borders become hazy as the illusion of separation starts to fade.

During this healing session which is unrelated to the Primes merging and Past/Future Rundown, Lisa there was an issue of abuse trapped around the pelvis - something that an on-line oracle had focused on once but which I had dismissed because that finding doesn't resonate with me and is contrary to my experience. It just seemed to confirm my aversion to dabbling in that arena of psychic probing.
During the session it was affirmed that the issue was not from this lifetime... which resonated with me and given my previous metaphysical investigation, I found intellectually plausible.

Before we began our investigative and healing expedition through Awareness, Lisa told me about a fellow kineseologist from Queensland, Steve who had developed an amazing technique called Holographic Kinetics for working on Awareness. It clears patterns holographically with many emotional, spiritual and physical healings as a result.
Email Steve for more information about his work, courses and amazing work with indigenous cultures especially much needed work reconnecting his fellow indigenous Australians to the wisdom that they are. (email: keymaker@optusnet.com.au)

She asked if I was interested in a session of Holographic Kinetics. Despite my history of jumping into many healing practises enthusiastically over the years in my quest for health and enlightenment (just little pursuits really!), this seeking has been tempered in me lately as an inner acceptance of what is Real emerges. However something in me responded to the idea without much - or really any - knowledge of what the practice would entail - also an usual reaction for me. As the session with Lisa unfolded, it was revealed that much of what could be accomplished in this session was due to the clearing that had taken place in a supposedly future session with her colleague from Queensland - another testament to the illusory experience of what is commonly relied on as linear time. Maybe the ancient Mayans were right after all - time is the great illusionist and we are the audience who is deceived by its sleight of hand as well as the enchanter wielding the wand...

(see article at the end of this page for recent scientific validation of what the Ancients have known all along - time as we commonly know it is one of the greatest tricksters of all...)

From the Disappearance of the Universe discussion group at Yahoo groups...
Here is my favourite statement from the whole thing... seems like our "scientists" may be perceiving the "real world"
"Today's scientists seeking to combine quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of gravity (the general theory of relativity) are convinced that we are on the verge of another major upheaval, one that will pinpoint the more elemental concepts from which time and space emerge. Many believe this will involve a radically new formulation of natural law in which scientists will be compelled to trade the space-time matrix within which they have worked for centuries for a more basic "realm" that is itself devoid of time and space."

This is the story that unfolded during the healing session in an uncanny way - I would see these images - something so vivid I have never before seen in my mind's eye, sometimes with accompanying words, which were out of the practitioner's mouth before I could utter them. Then there were the energetic sensations...
I had an image of a priestess of some order in ancient Egypt (and I am not prone to Cleopatra reincarnation fantasies - in fact I have always had an aversion to Egyptology).

The practitioner sensed that the order was a very secret, high order (calm down, ego ;-) of initiates. Later I learnt that just because they were of this standing that did not mean it translated to complete spiritual wisdom or mastery or what unity really meant. The consciousness, even amongst the initiates was highly polarized at the time - which of course is intimately related to the consciousness of peoplekind as a whole at that "time" in the precession of the equinoxes (see The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life Volume 1 and 2 by Drunvalo Melchizedek for more information).
She went through some names... "Isis... no... Hathor... no... Sakhmet! Aah that's the one!" And she went on about something else.
"Sakhmet? Sakhmet?" I thought. "Where have I heard that name before?" and then it all came back to me...

Apparently, this secret order of Sakhmet had been working with very powerful earth grid energies.

Something had gone amiss which had to do with a type of hubris shown by the order or by Sakhmet in a disagreement with Isis. Sakhmet embodies a very strong feminine energy - in fact, the male pole of the feminine energy. This imbalanced energy that the order was working with, or the imbalanced way that they were addressing it, apparently then caused a rift with the Priests of Horus, who in a fit of rage, and with jealousy of the power that their female counterparts were wielding, desecrated the temple and the priestesses. The energy of betrayal and violation could have had their origins planted at this time. However we both got an inclination, that ancient though this episode was, it was not the initial time when a drama such as this power struggle, culminating in the sense of betrayal and despair that had occurred. There were echoes of Andromedan times and locations and reverberations to Mayan circumstances as well. However it was the Egyptian scenario that chose to present itself and since the illusory universe is holographic, healing in one sector can only ripple through to be a healing salve to any other vibrations that require it.
The image I saw was of the high priestess, broken and in despair in a crumpled heap on the cold, stone floor of the temple.
Then a peculiar but amazing thing happened. An oval of light (anyone seen those sci-fi TV series?) opened between my present day/time self and the priestess - my hand reached through and grasped her hand. My present understand of the illusory nature of "reality" and my ongoing and accelerating kinaesthetic, emotional, intellectual and spiritual integration of duality and polarity electrically passed from my nervous system to hers shattering the illusion of the distance of time and space, infusing her with healing, understanding and forgiveness. She then had the experience of understanding on many levels how the energetic imbalance had triggered effects and her intense and overwhelming sense of anger and betrayal at the hands of her kinsmen was quelled. This seemed to filter through to many other existences where these two had beings had danced and fought through the ages.
Then the issue of the misplaced earth energies was addressed. Consciously looking at this energy made me aware of the amount of energy that my present day physical body had attempted to hold and suppress - energy that was and is meant to flow. I finally allowed it to and it was as if the energy was grateful to me for allowing it to be free. I had set it free to do what it had come into existence to do. It felt very liberating for me as well. It was unmistakable and awe inspiring. I didn't want it to stop ever. Then I realized it never would. It was not meant to.

In these present day times of male/female equality or at least the politically correct movement towards that ideal, many men are able to identify with the feminine energy and the feminine aspect within themselves (some perhaps a little too well!). However as a collective, true masculine energy has been suppressed due to an inherent fear  mistrust of its power by the witnessing of what it could do untempered in times past and a forgetting of innocence that the true masculine energy can embody. Cumulative feminine anger instigated by these historical episodes of misused male energy has prevented the masculine from embodying its true male power which can only be reclaimed by embracing it in harmlessness - true innocence. By releasing this anger from the feminine, the male is able to lay claim to what is rightfully his - true power that is matched only by its own integrity.
As I lay there, integrating this energy, two powerful streams of energy catapulted up each side of my spine and fervently embraced each other at the top of my head.

The energy which I took to represent the masculine force then bowed regally yet with deep reverence, and gracefully descended to the base of the spine where it formed a reassuring receptacle for the feminine force that continued to course through my energetic pathways.
As the energetic dance continued, many intervening existences in traditionally masculine roles such as Russian soldiers (does that explain my love of buckwheat?), cavalry and pioneers on horseback were touched on. I found it interesting that the merging and healing of this inner energetic battle took place in an outwardly female form and also that it occurred in a lifetime where the study of true macrobiotics - not just the nutrition of it, but the inquiry into complementary antagonists - the true meaning of yin and yang is central to my existence.

Now my inquiry into uncovering the Truths of dualities and polarities has revealed itself as another Truth with a little "t" leading me further in my re-memberance of Truth in Unity. With texts such as the highly challenging yet immensely enjoyable The Disappearance of the Universe by Gary Renard,

glimpses of A Course in Miracles (yes, I can't believe it myself!) spurring me on in my understanding of what true Forgiveness is, my pathway seems clearer than ever. My willingness to surrender into an authentic immersion in my true passion for the teachings and techniques of the Ishayas,

www.ishaya.com

www.theishayatradition.org

www.ishaya.org

www.ishaya.net

the custodians for techniques to truly heal at the deepest level there is and reunite with who we truly are, the true nature of our existence and healing at the fundamental level is starting to dawn on the horizon.
Books that will give you a taste of the Living experience of this Awareness are...
Ascension by MSI
First Thunder by MSI
Enlightenment by MSI
(are you starting to see that I am a fan of this guy?! ;-)

Experiences such as my Egyptian odyssey have proven entertaining and liberating. Now I see the role that they play. A reflection of our inner separation from What we truly are. As the cosmic schism is carefully restitched, we may come to realize that there was never a tear to begin with. The belief that there was, can then only serve as fuel for the illusory fire that is the engine room of this little Universe on the edge of all known Universes, which are still only a speck of dust in the eye of our true Selves.

Jai Isharm Ishvaram (Sanskrit greeting meaning "praise that which destroys ignorance and ignites full human Awareness that leads us from darkness"

Ilanit

Ilanit's library for further exploration...

(click on the book image or "Buy the book" logo to open a new window and get information on the book)

The Disappearance of the Universe: Straight Talk About Illusions, Past Lives, Religion, Sex, Politics, and the Miracles of Forgiveness by Gary R. Renard

The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 1 by Drunvalo Melchizedek

The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life: Volume 2 by Drunvalo Melchizedek

First Thunder: An Adventure of Discovery by MSI

Ascension by MSI

Hathor Rising: The Power of the Goddess in Ancient Egypt  by Alison Roberts

The Goddess Sekhmet: Psycho-Spiritual Exercises of the Fifth Way  by Robert Masters

Enlightenment: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali A New Translation and Commentary by MSI

The Time We Thought We Knew
By Brian Greene
January 1, 2004

It was an unlikely place to be at 4:30 am, since I'm not much on celebrations and take minimal notice of most every holiday. Yet, a few years back, on a rainy Dec. 31 morning, I stood in Times Square, together with a handful of other early revellers, awaiting images on a giant screen of festivities on Kiribati, the first inhabited place on earth to welcome the new year. I was, as I recognized through the fog of exhaustion and the hazy steam billowing from manhole covers, re-enacting a struggle I'd been engaged in for decades. Time dominates experience. We live by watch and calendar. We eagerly trade megahertz for gigahertz. We spend billions of dollars to conceal time's bodily influences. We uproariously celebrate particular moments in time even as we quietly despair of its passage. But what is time? To paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart, we know it when we see it - but certainly, a few years into the 21st century, our understanding of time must be deeper than that. By now, you'd think, science must have figured out why time seems to flow, why it always goes in one direction and why we are uniformly drawn from one second to the next. The fact is, though, the explanations for these basic features of time remain controversial. And the more physicists have searched for definitive answers, the more our everyday conception of time appears illusory. According to Isaac Newton, writing in the late 17th century, "time flows equably without reference to anything external", meaning that the universe is equipped with a kind of built-in clock that ticks off seconds identically, regardless of location or epoch. This is the intuitive perspective on time, so it's no wonder that Newton's words held sway for more than 200 years. In the early part of the 20th century, however, Albert Einstein saw trough nature's Newtonian facade and revealed that the passage of time depends on circumstance and environment. He showed that the wristwatches worn by two individuals moving relative to one another, or experiencing different gravitational fields, tick off time at different rates. The passage of time, according to Einstein, is in the eye of the beholder. Numerous terrestrial experiments and astronomical observations leave no doubt that Einstein was right. Nevertheless, because the flexibility of time's passage becomes readily apparent only at high speeds (near the maximum possible speed, that of light) or in strong gravitational fields (near a black hole), nature lulls us into believing Newton's rigid conception. And so it's not surprising that nearly 100 years after Einstein's breakthroughs, it remains a great challenge, even for physicists, to internalize his discoveries fully. But the cost of adhering to Newton's description of time is high. Like believing the earth flat or that man was created on the sixth day, our willingness to place unjustified faith in immediate perception or received wisdom leads us to an inaccurate and starkly limited vision of reality. For one thing, relativity lays out a blueprint for time-travel to the future. Were you to board a spaceship, head out from earth at 99.999999 percent of light speed, travel for six months and then head back home at the same speed, your motion would slow your clock, relative to those that remain stationary on earth, so that you'd be one year older upon your return - while everyone on earth would have aged about 7,000 years. Or, were you to venture into space again and spend a year hovering a dozen feet above the edge of a black hole, whose mass was 1,000 times that of the sun, the strong gravitational field would slow your clock so much that on your return to earth, you'd find that more than a million years had elapsed. To be sure, executing this strategy for catapulting yourself forward in time is beyond what we can now achieve, but scientists routinely use high-energy accelerators to propel particles, like electrons and protons, to nearly the speed of light, slowing their internal clocks and thereby sending them to the future. Though unfamiliar, forward time-travel is an unavoidable feature of relativistic reality. Relativity also upends the way we traditionally organize reality. Most of us imagine that reality consists of everything that exists right now - everything that would be found, say, on a hypothetical freeze-frame image of the universe at this moment. The history of reality could thus be epicted by stacking one such freeze-frame image on top of the one that came before it, creating a cosmic version of an old-time flip-book. But this intuitive conception assumes a universal now, another stubborn remnant of Newton's absolutist thinking. Let me explain. Clocks that are in relative motion or that are subject to different gravitational fields tick off time at different rates; the more these factors come into play, the further out of synchronization the clocks will fall. Individuals carrying such clocks will therefore not agree on what happens when, and so they will not agree on what belongs on a given page of the cosmic flip-book - even though each flip-book provides an equally valid compendium of history. Under these rules, what constitutes a moment in time is completely subjective. This is unfamiliar, and hence hard to accept, because we all experience the same gravitational field (the earth's), we all travel extremely slowly compared to light's speed (even the space shuttle never comes close to exceeding a ten-thousandth of light speed) and we all compare our conception of reality to beings who, by cosmic standards, are nearby. But by using our understanding to relax these measures, if only hypothetically, we learn that our experiences belie the truth. For example, if you and I were sitting next to each other, our freeze-frame images of the present would be identical. But were you to start walking, the mathematics of relativity shows that the subsequent pages of your flip-book would rotate so that each one of your new pages would angle across many of mine; what you'd consider one moment in time - your new notion of the present - would include events I'd claim to have happened at different times, some earlier and some later. As we pass each other in the street, this rotation is imperceptibly tiny; that's why common experience fails to reveal the discrepancy between our respective senses of past, present and future. But just as a tiny angular shift will cause a rocket to miss a distant target by a large margin, the tiny angular shift between our notions of now results in a significant time discrepancy if our separation in space is substantial. If instead of being next to me, you were 10 light years away (and moving at about 9.5 miles an hour), what you consider to have happened just now on earth would include events that I'd experienced about four seconds later or earlier (depending on whether your motion was toward or away from earth). If you were 10 billion light years away, the time discrepancy would jump to about 141 years. In this latter case, your subsequent flip-book pages, your notion of the present - a notion that agreed with mine until you started walking - would include Abraham Lincoln on the day the Emancipation Proclamation took effect (if you walked away from me), or the victor of the hotly contested presidential election of 2144 preparing for his inaugural (if you walked toward me. That's not to say that you could save Lincoln's life or analyse mid-22nd century American presidential politics; at such enormous distances it takes signals, even travelling at light speed, a long time to make the trip. But the point is that even ordinary motion, when considered over vast distances, results in a marked change in our conception of reality, revealing how thoroughly subjective the temporal categories of past, present and future actually are. In a very specific way, then, this realization shatters our comfortable sense that the past is gone, the future is yet to be and the present is what truly exists. Einstein was not hardened to the difficulty of absorbing such a profound change in perspective. Rudolf Carnap, the philosopher, recounts Einstein's telling him that "the experience of the now means something special for man, something essentially different from the past and the future, but this important difference does not and cannot occur within physics." And later, in a condolence letter to the widow of Michele Besso, his longtime friend and fellow physicist, Einstein wrote: "In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by just a little. That doesn't mean anything. For we convinced physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent." Some physicists and historians see these as declarations laced with poignant hyperbole. Perhaps they are. It's hard to know whether Einstein was "convinced" to such a deep level that he had remoulded his emotional sense of time to reflect his understanding of relativistic reality. But regardless of whether Einstein had succeeded, his remarks articulated the challenge - to allow carefully reasoned and experimentally verified investigations of the universe, however discomfiting their conclusions, to inform our lives with the same force as experience. When quantum mechanics, the tremendously successful theory of atoms and subatomic particles, is taken into account, the challenge becomes greater still. Quantum mechanics has, at its core, the uncertainty principle, which establishes a limit on how precisely particular features of the microworld can be simultaneously measured. The more precise the measurement of one feature (a particle's position for example), the more wildly uncertain a complementary feature (its velocity) becomes. Quantum uncertainty thus ensures that the finer the examination of the microworld, the more frantically its physical features fluctuate, and the more turbulent it appears to be. For subatomic particles, these fluctuations are well understood mathematically and have been precisely documented experimentally. But when it comes to time and space, the fluctuations speak to the very limits of these familiar concepts. On extremely short time intervals (about a tenth of a millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second) and distance scales (about a billionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a centimetre), quantum fluctuations so mangle space and time that the conventional ideas of left/right, backward/forward, up/down, and before/after become meaningless. Scientists are still struggling to understand these implications, but many agree that just as the percentages in political polls are average, approximate measures that become meaningful only when a large respondent pool is canvassed, so conventional notions of time and space are also average, approximate concepts that become meaningful only when considered over sufficiently large scales. Whereas relativity established the subjectivity of time's passage, quantum mechanics challenges the conceptual primacy of time itself. Today's scientists seeking to combine quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of gravity (the general theory of relativity) are convinced that we are on the verge of another major upheaval, one that will pinpoint the more elemental concepts from which time and space emerge. Many believe this will involve a radically new formulation of natural law in which worked for centuries for a more basic "realm" that is itself devoid of time and space. This is such a perplexing idea that grasping it poses a substantial challenge, even for leading researchers. Broadly speaking, scientists envision that there will be no mention of time and space in the basic equations of the sought-for framework. And yet - just as clear, liquid water emerges from particular combinations of an enormous number of H20 molecules - time and space as we know them would emerge from particular combinations of some more basic, though still unidentified, entities. Time and space themselves, though, would be rendered secondary, derivative features, that emerge only in suitable conditions (in the aftermath of the Big Bang, for example). As outrageous as it sounds, to many researchers, including me, such a departure of time and space from the ultimate laws of the universe seems inevitable. A hundred years ago today, the discovery of special relativity was still 18 months away, and science still embraced the Newtonian description of time. Now, however, modern physics' notion of time is clearly at odds with the one most of us have internalized. Einstein greeted the failure of science to confirm the familiar experience of time with "painful but inevitable resignation." The developments since his era have only widened the isparity between common experience and scientific knowledge. Most physicists cope with this disparity by compartmentalizing: there's time as understood scientifically, and then there's time as experienced intuitively. For decades, I've struggled to bring my experience closer to my understanding. In my everyday routines, I delight in what I know is the individual's power, however imperceptible, to affect time's passage. In my mind's eye, I often conjure a kaleidoscopic image of time in which, with every step, I further fracture Newton's pristine and uniform conception. And in moments of loss I've taken comfort from the knowledge that all events exist eternally in the expanse of space and time, with the partition into past, present and future being a useful but subjective organization. Yet my presence in Times Square that rainy morning - losing sleep to mark an arbitrary moment in the passage of what I truly believe to be a derivative concept - attests to the power of convention and experience. Regardless of our scientific insights, we will still mourn the evanescence of life and be able to thrill to the arrival of each newly delivered moment. The choice, however, of whether to be fully seduced by the face nature reveals directly to our senses, or to also recognize the reality that exists beyond perception, is ours. Brian Greene, a professor of mathematics and physics at Columbia, is author of "The Elegant Universe" and the forthcoming "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality."

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