グラハム ハンコック - スーパーナチュラル

I've been meeting a lot of good people here in Japan, all of great variety. But despite the vast differences between all the people I've been getting to know, there's been one overriding common theme - almost total disconnection from nature. Even in the very spiritual, nature loving people there doesn't seem to be much engagement with nature. Noticing this made me reflect on my own life and my tendency to ignore that yearning to reconnect with the natural world. It make me realise that despite believing I need to priorisite email and work over walking in the forest and connecting with plants, this really shouldn't be the case. And most of all it made me realise that even though I am from the countryside and am a deeply nature loving person, I very rarely make any effort to connect with nature anymore.

Disconnection from nature is dangerous. Nature is our mother - it is both how and why we're here. This disconnection that we all seem to be suffering from is what allows us to destroy our world guiltlessly, and this destruction is going to bring about repercussions of our own destruction somewhere down the line. But I think our suicidal march towards the eschaton, and the future history of doom that we are writing for ourselves could easily be averted if only we could recognise and respect our planet for what it is - a conscious, living entity deserving of gratitude and reverence for all she gives us.

Nature is where we came from, and it's where we're going to. It is our sustenance and source of life, and I think it is important for us to keep our connection with it alive, and not absorb ourselves totally in cities and the aims, ambitions, lifestyles and vibrations they represent.


I've recently learned of an exercise that helps restore biophilia, that I'd like you to try. So please, take a moment from your distractions and try this sometime.

• Go to nature. Find a comfortable place and sit there. Feel the vibrations there. Bring a notebook, and start writing. What was it about this place that made you choose it? How does it make you feel? Write everything down that comes to you.


• Pick a plant there. Focus. Feel. What kind of energy is coming from this plant? Is it happy? How does it feel about you? Is there some part of the plant you like more or less than the other parts? Why? Write everything down.


• Go to another place and do the same thing. Does it feel different here? Better or worse? Give both places names.


• Relax. Meditate. Breathe. See standing infront of you the little child that you were. Notice everything about you/him. Is he happy? What kind of clothes is he wearing? Ask your child if there's anything he'd like to tell you. Talk and listen. Is there anything you'd like to tell them? Will your child hug you?


• Now get your child to tell you about the plant you focused on before. Write down everything you're told.


• Finally, show some love to the plant, thank it, thank your child, and thank the Earth. That's all - quite simple really.

  

Yesterday I was on Kurama Mountain - the birthplace of Reiki. Reiki was invented by Mikao Usui, who received instructions from spirits on how to do it, after 21 days fasting and meditating on the mountain, at the spot that the spirit of Venus came down from the heavens and entered the Earth to bring love and healing.



Over the past year and a half, I've been getting very involved in learning to use Reiki energy, and learning about Shamanic spiritual healing. I've been romanced by the idea of being able to help and heal people, and I wanted to learn ways to do this. But making a pilgrimage to this site raised a question for me.

Healing
Last time I drank Ayahuasca, she made it very clear that illness is a reaction to your own negative behaviours, and is a method your body uses to communicate to you that you're doing something wrong. You only have to listen to the illness to find out how to fix it.

Someone very close to me has been suffering from heavy depression his entire life, and I know there are Shamans in the Amazon that can heal him and fix his depression. We were contemplating going to see a particular shaman to get him help. But Ayahuasca told me that he should not go to a shaman and get the problem removed, no more than he should take anti-depressants from western pharmacies - the whole reason he has that problem is because he karmically needs to repair his relationship with his mother.



It got me thinking - when you've got a headache, you're not supposed to take a pill - you're supposed to examine why you got the headache, then remedy your behaviour.

Well, shouldn't the same apply with Reiki or Shamanic healing, or any other healing art?

When somebody is ill, surely they're still supposed to examine their behaviour, identify exactly why they got ill and then stop doing whatever that was - and not use energy or spirits to help remove the sickness from the body?

Karmically, sickness needs to be addressed not through confrontationally throwing it out of the body, but through love, understanding and cooperation, right?

Well, if that is the case, then perhaps being a good healer is a matter of helping people through that process, more than it is using your mastery of Ki, or acupuncture, or your spirit helpers (etc) to eradicate illness?

What about cancer sufferers and the terminally ill - those who can't respond to their body's communications? Surely they should be given medication and help? Yes, absolutely. But at the same time, a close friend of my close friend had a huge cancer in her body. She was months away from dying, and the doctors wanted to give her chemotherapy. She refused, and decided to stop sitting infront of her TV drinking beer and eating junk food.

This woman moved to a house on a beach, and went for walks in the mountains everyday. She only ate organic vegetables, and she did exercise everyday. When she returned to the doctors months later, they realised her cancer was gone, and she had had absolutely no form of healing other than working positively with her body. She is alive, happy and as genki as a person can be.


Perhaps the best healing anyone can give is to help teach them how to: