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FIVE GREAT HEALERS SPEAK HERE
We are ultimately responsible for our own consciousness. We should, indeed, approach the Infinite with humility. Does the healer connect with a healing guide? A pool of cosmic wisdom? Or achieve oneness through prayer?
This question is partially answered in the previous one. It is indeed all three but not always at the same time.
As a small child about three years old, my stubborn self disobeyed and went to the sandbox in spite of warnings about the wind, which caught tin roofing and sent it crashing down upon the top of my head, fracturing my skull. My experience was a sudden seeing-a very tall Indian man who said, "My name is Mithra. Do not be afraid. You are not alone.” After a month when I was in and out of consciousness and not getting any better, my father finally heard of this tall man who came every dawn and every sunset and held his hand above my fevered head. He sent for my great-grandmother who asked me to tell her from which direction the tall man came. She faced that direction and spoke to the space, filling it with her vibrations, magnified through the crystals she held in her hand. She later told my father that the spirit said there was something inside the skull that must be removed immediately. It was quite an experience for my father and great-grandmother to convince the doctor to reopen and examine the wound on the basis of her conversation with space and a child's supposed delirium. The equivalent of four teaspoons of hair was removed from the interior of my skull.
This man walked by my side until I was nine years old. To me, it has always been natural to call upon the spirits for various reasons. No one ever told me it was special or different.
The pool of cosmic wisdom is reached through this journey to consciousness. It includes knowledge tested in
