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My workshops on <\/p>\n Again, the Only one person The Intermediate Clearly the The experience Covens and their I am coming to The not so good A “New Age” I think a basic acquaintance with this kind of healing is valuable over and above its utility as a means of encouraging better health. It also gives people experiential and repeatable knowledge that there are dimensions to our reality that we live in an interconnected world at far more subtle levels than secular Western modernity is willing to acknowledge. It can play a major role in freeing our society from the nihilistic trance of modernity.<\/p>\n But how can this <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My workshops on Energy Healing at Pantheacon were simultaneously great successes and great frustrations. I’d done it for several years, the numbers slowly growing. Then, in 2008, the turnout more than filled a room, leaving me space about the size of a kitchen table top in which to stand and speak. Any hope of actually…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pagan-culture","category-pagan-spirituality"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nEnergy Healing at Pantheacon were simultaneously great successes and great
\nfrustrations. <\/span>I’d done it for
\nseveral years, the numbers slowly growing. <\/span>Then, in 2008, the turnout more than filled a room, leaving
\nme space about the size of a kitchen table top in which to stand and speak. <\/span>Any hope of actually enabling people to
\ndo exercises was nothing but wishful thinking. <\/span>So for 2009 I asked for and received two rooms and two
\nworkshops, both larger rooms than 2008, the first for beginning energy work,
\nthe second for intermediate energy work. <\/p>\n
\n<\/p>\n
\nBeginning section over-flowed. Over 150 got in, I would guess. I heard later
\nthat about as many people were turned away because the room was full as managed
\nto get in. <\/span>There was (barely)
\nenough room for everyone to pair up and perform exercises from seeing and
\nfeeling the energy to feeling how it differed on another person’s body, often
\ndiscovering old injuries and the like in the process. <\/span><\/p>\n
\nout of them all reported he could not see the energy. <\/span>Unfortunately, in a crowd that size there was no chance to
\nwork more with him, and even if I had, I have found that seeing and feeling
\nenergy seems to fall along a Bell Curve.
\n<\/span>Some people always have, some learn pretty easily (me, for example) and
\nsome, try as they may, cannot. <\/span>Anyway,
\nthe size of the crowd prevented exploring the issue more with him.<\/p>\n
\nHealing workshop was on the last day, when most attendees had left, and the
\nroom was merely pretty full. <\/span>There
\nwas no room for people to practice what they saw, but there was room enough for
\nsome demonstrations. <\/span><\/p>\n
\ndemand for learning such practices in our community is very large. <\/p>\n
\nhas led me to wonder about how we can make learning that is not easily
\ntransmitted through books, and best learned experientially, available in a
\nsociety of mostly solitary individuals.
\n<\/span>(Here, again, is diZerega’s pro-coven rap!)<\/p>\n
\nequivalents in other Pagan traditions enable this kind of learning and mutual
\naid. <\/span>So would a healing circle
\nestablished just for this work, but setting one up requires people with
\nexperience, and it takes a while for the group to get coordinated and
\nexperienced enough for the circle to really begin working. <\/span>A coven supplies that framework more
\nthan would a group of people who simply come together to explore this
\nmodality. <\/span>Covens, the best of them
\nanyway, already have the tight-knittedness and experience with raising and
\ndirecting power that will contribute to the effectiveness of this work. <\/p>\n
\nthe conclusion that the beginning teachings can be to any size group, if we
\ngive up hope for much individual attention from the presenter. <\/span>All that is really needed is enough
\nspace and a decent sound system because the kinds of experiences needed to show
\nthis stuff is real and interesting can be achieved for most people in dyads,
\neven among strangers. <\/span>Maybe they
\nwill give me a really big room next year!? <\/span>That is the good news.<\/p>\n
\nnews is that “mass production” pretty much stops there. <\/span>To really start doing much beyond
\nworking with sprains, tension, and the like requires the kind of immersion that
\nonly groups can provide for most of us.
\n<\/span>With enough space a convention such as Pantheacon can give people the
\ninitial steps to this experience, but only the initial steps. <\/span>(For example, because it’s in a hotel
\nwe also cannot use incense or fire, and water is impractical.)<\/p>\n
\nmodel of a weekend workshop would sort of work, but only if the participants
\ncontinued to meet together and practice what they learned. <\/span>It takes people time to develop their
\nenergy channels and learn what these methods really feel like. <\/span>This practice is experiential, not
\nintellectual. <\/span>As my major teacher
\nin such things told us long ago, “I could teach you everything I know that I can
\nput into words in a weekend. <\/span>And
\nit would be useless.” <\/span><\/p>\n
\nknowledge be best imparted? <\/span>It’s
\nfrustrating. <\/span>Maybe some reader has
\nsome ideas to share.<\/p>\n