In our first class on November 14-15, 2009, we will practice powerful techniques to boost our prana (human life force energy), and then learn to direct it into the lower chakras. Only an energized auric field, strong and focused, can awaken our full psychic nature. We will charge up the power of Muladhara, the root chakra, to provide us with a safe container within which we can expand our soul nature. Then we will open up Swadhisthana chakra, and explore our energy connections with those people important to us. We will learn how to effectively heal and transform the important relationships in our lives, or to let them go and recover the energy they hold for us.

A combination of lecture and practical exercises, this is the first of four workshops which will teach you how every day experiences and relationships can be used to awaken your psychic gifts. Come and awaken to your full potential as a spiritual adult.

This workshop is taught in English with simultaneous Japanese translation provided by Yui Wang.

For location and course fees please email: office-lifeschool@blue.nifty.jp

But to excel at any profession we must undergo a training program, or improve upon our existing natural skills. Any good training process will do three things. One: teach us the different levels of healing – what it is, how it happens, and help us understand what will help a client. Two: gain an array of practical and effective tools – such as how to run various types of pranic energy, how to interact with the complex auric anatomy, how to remove the things that block a client’s progress, and much more. Three: we all need feedback and mentoring; an experienced guide that can point us in a constructive direction, provide us with training tools, and believe in our value when we become disheartened.

The best way to get Energy Healing training is to find a group or a class, and to have access to teaching aids, good lecturers, and practice clients. Of course, it is rare to find a good teacher close to home, and many of us have logged thousands of air miles in search of a good education. But if finances are tight, or getting time away from work or family obligations is difficult, there is another way to grow your experience and knowledge as a healer: Video Conference Tutoring. This personalized one-on-one training service is extremely cost-effective when compared to weekend/week-long training courses. Plus, you get individual attention from the teacher, and a series of sessions fine-tuned to your individual needs.

How does it work? First, download the free Skype software and link it up to a video cam and microphone on your computer. Broadband internet access is a must, of course. If you are interested in a trial session please email me with your questions. Currently, I’m running tutoring sessions at the same cost as my distance healing sessions. Let me know if you are looking for basic training, intermediate training, or advanced/post-Graduate training such as chakra cord work, or Astral healing skills. Now, no matter where you live, you can have access to advanced energy healing training in the comfort of your own home. How cool is that?

To read an example of a Video Conference Tutoring session follow this link.

Testimonials.

“Recently I began a series of video sessions on relational cord healing with Dean Ramsden.  Dean has a wealth of knowledge and expertise based on years of personal experience.  In his teaching through the video sessions there is a clarity and precision that comes through very effectively.  With this format I have enjoyed having the undivided attention of the teacher!  In addition the sessions are fun, as Dean has a wonderful sense of humor.  I can definitely recommend this method of learning to anyone wishing to learn more about relational cord healing.”
-H.L.S., Canada.

“As a practice client of my healer (see above) and as a non-computer person, this Skype session was a first for me but I felt completely safe, guided and connected to both healers: the student (my healer) and Dean Ramsden, the teacher.  Both healers were completely present for me during the session so that it became a profound, intimate and personal experience.  Dean’s honesty and authenticity were inspiring to me.  Dean demonstrated an ability to track my process in such a loving way, one that I, as a therapist, have not seen in many well-known therapists.  No nuance was lost as the session progressed.  Dean knows how much is enough.  As a result of this session of relational cord work, I was able to make a quantum shift and walked away feeling lighter, brighter, more clear and focused.  I would recommend Dean’s sessions on relational cord work to anyone.”
-A.M., Canada.

In my previous blog posting I wrote about  some of my work with a lesser-known chakra: the Talu chakra, a small energy center located in the human brain stem. I first discovered this tiny chakra during my teaching tenure at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing (BBSH), mostly because many of my students exhibited over-charged brain stems along with excessive astral involvement during their time at the school. My assumption at the time was that astral flooding was part of their training program… how better to learn about astral healing than by immersing yourself in it?  Unfortunately, many BBSH teachers denigrate the astral world as regressive, as something to be transcended rather than integrated into the BBSH approach. No one took notice of a very important fact: that the healer-students were processing far more lower astral energy than was healthy, or helpful. In fact, many students ended their training fearful of working with anything other than high-level spiritual guides.

Once I had left BBSH in 2003 I became free to return to a more objective study of the Talu chakra and other higher chakras, greatly assisted by my discovery of Shyam Sundar Goswarmi’s book, “Layayoga”. I came to realize that the Talu chakra was both a receiver of astral consciousness, as well as the main conduit in our communications with astral entities.  Psychic healers have very highly charged Talu chakras compared to the general population, which makes them “food stations” for astral beings roaming at large in the material world. An over-charged Talu chakra will also affect the human nervous system in a negative way. In short, a strong psychic with poor boundaries makes a wonderful meal for certain astral entities!

Without a good regime of regular astral hygiene, and a strong energetic container, psychics are often at the mercy of various forms of psychic invasion and energy draining. The sushumna (energetic spinal column) can become clogged with various astral influences, dragging the healer’s vibration to a low, level, perhaps affecting their health. But by clearing out astral debris, and by reinforcing the boundaries of the Talu chakra, the same psychic healer can learn to both tolerate – and even to thrive – in a high-astral environment.

Here are some of the symptoms that suggest an over-charged Talu chakra:

1. An increase in mental restlessness and insomnia: a churning mind, full of voices or ideas that are jumbled around, as if you are tuning into different astral frequencies at random.
2. Energy drain that does not respond to the usual remedy of good diet, extra rest, or taking vacation time.
3. A sudden obsession, such as food or recreational drug use, has recently taken over your life.
4. Jolts or shakes randomly occur in the body, especially in the neck and head segment.
5. Vivid astral dreams that leave you disturbed rather than rested.
6. An increase in your personal fear levels, and difficulty in soothing yourself when anxiety sets in.
7. You find yourself saying inappropriate or invasive words to others that are not your words, as though someone else is speaking through you.

I regret not being able to bring Talu chakra clearing work into the Barbara Brennan work during my time there, as it adds a vital piece of knowledge to any healer training program. If you are struggling with astral invasion, have difficulties during your training as a psychic healer, or exhibit some of the above symptoms, please consider calling me to arrange a Talu chakra clearing session. It can often make a tremendous difference to the functioning of your energy system. You deserve to have good boundaries with the astral, and to have your life force flow in a healthy direction… and not unknowingly into the lower astral world.

An example of ambivalents are the many types of astral beings that I have seen attached to humans that both feed and stimulate an addiction. Classical Shamanic energy healing usually works towards removing such entities using the same paradigm as Western medicine: if it appears bad for you, pull it out or block it. But if we apply a more Eastern approach to addictive entities we can see them as possessing great potential in assisting humans to expand their life experience. The trick is, of course, to know when enough is enough. Two glass of wine shared with an old friend is a warm, delightful time of human connection. Drinking an entire bottle alone may be symptomatic of depression, or alcohol dependency. Ambivalent astral beings will be attracted to the energy of both situations: feeding on the delight of the higher and the dark pleasure of the lower, in effect straddling human moral systems. Where experiencing life fully in order to transcend a polarity’s illusory grip is always the goal of personal growth, we often find any astral entity involved in the struggle of healing an addiction to be the gatekeeper of higher wisdom. It may be a symbolic “Dragon” guarding the pearl of great price… our transformation to higher consciousness.

Metaphysics is one thing; effecting real change in an energy healing is quite another. On the practical side of my astral work with clients I utilize a major gateway to the spirit world known as Talu chakra, a tiny psychic center located in the human brain stem. It is this primitive doorway to other realms that is brings together both the gift and the curse of the astral realms: it opens up our consciousness to experience alternate life forms, but it is deeply embedded in the Reptilian (ie, pre-Mammalian) part of our physical brain’s evolutionary development. As such, we tend to react to the astral with the emotional wiring of our early ancestors: with either disarming awe, or paranoid distrust. These reactions (rather than our reasoned adult responses) downgrade our options in any meeting we may have with denizens of the spirit world. Unless a certain amount of conscious awareness has developed in us we will remain in a cartoonish relationship with the spirit realms, and unable to meet with them as co-equal inhabitants of a shared and evolving universe.

So, the next time you come across an astral entity in your healing work, maybe take pause. Are you reacting towards it according to your Reptilian brain? Either through fear, or with awe? Overly positive or overwhelmingly negative? Or can you meet it as a co-equal sentient being, as a potential ally?  I encourage you to take a chance to befriend that which your biology fears, and reach towards a new world of understanding.

Except that my grandfather died in the late Sixties, when I was twelve years old. My father died in 2003, of lung damage, the results of a lifetime of smoking. This family meal would never take place. I was waking up from an early morning dream where, for a few minutes, I felt clearly the way it was to be with my father, to speak with him, and to see his face. Talking to him in this way seemed like a lifetime ago, rather than only the passing of a few short years.

We all have dreams like this one, a dream that feels so very real.  Despite decades of scientific research, the human mind remains a mystery, and we still don’t fully understand how the brain produces conscious thought. But we do know that, to keep us sane and rooted in the present moment, the brain continually creates dreams.

The interpretation of dreams has long been the bedrock of any spiritual or personal journey, as chronicled from Shakespeare to Carl Jung. Dreams suspend the assumptions of our conscious self and set us free from the restrictions of physical reality. In this dream from my unconscious I was still attempting to bridge the schism between the generations in my family; trying to heal a long-standing feud between my father and his father. This family split had its roots in my father’s teenage loyalty to his own mother when he took on the role of pseudo-father during my grandfather’s necessary absence from England during World War Two. My grandfather had served in the British military, and in 1945 returned from the African war front to discover his family role usurped. My family never truly recovered. In fact, the same heritage pattern remains embedded in my family history today. Only in this modern version I play my grandfather, and my father’s role has been assumed by my adult son. It is a pattern as solidly embedded in my family heritage as my genetic code. But now I know that family traumas repeat themselves not because of our conscious choices but because they are programed into the family heritage relational code, into our relational chakra cords. These patterns provide the script, and we become the unconscious actors in our dramas of our lives.

How to change these patterns? First we must become aware of them, to know our family history, and to actively seek where our lives are following in the footsteps of a parent, or a grandparent. But even without that information we can still intuit the existence of an old pattern by the deeply disturbing effect it has on our lives, and have them verified by a psychic. As in a vivid dream we may come to notice how we are playing a role in the unfolding drama of our family heritage, where nothing we say – or can do – changes the outcome.

The act of dreaming itself is the true meaning of the dream, of course, not simply the interpretation. Facing what is true discharges the repressed reality of our situation, allowing us to consider new options for ourselves. The dream may seem to point the way towards some salvation, a redemption through an act of some kind. But the far deeper healing available to us is the energetic release of any emotional charge long held in the heritage genetic pattern. We must come to live our own lives, and not duplicate the lives of ancestors long dead. Yes, I do miss my father, but I still cannot save him from his own life choices, even after all my years of study trying to understand personal growth. But I can release my own naïve effort to try and save him. Instead of trying to telephone my grandfather in order to rescue my father from his pain I can initiate a new choice. I can simply go ahead and “prepare the family meal”; those who choose to come will come; the rest will live their lives as they wish. I learn to accept the truth that I cannot save anyone from that which they cannot face in themselves. The greatest healing we can experience is always that of letting go of our unconscious patterns… and then to move on to make a new choice.

Dean offers distance heritage chakra cord energy healing sessions: to clear family patterns and thereby “reboot” your life. Live the life you were meant to live, and not that of another.

Japanese Graduate Performing Cord Healing

I’m grateful to Yui Wang for organizing the logistics of this program, as well as providing peerless English-to-Japanese translation over the last thirty months, and to all the graduates for their hard work, and sincere desire to embrace their healership. Thank you.

2009 Graduates

Sabahan Ethnic Dancer

He shook his head. “No, I not Malaysian. I am Dusun“, he said, referring to the local North Borneo tribe that makes up a third of the native population, the rest being ethnic Kadazan people.

There was something about the way he said it, and the way the astral world suddenly shimmered around his auric field as he spoke, that deepened my attention. I asked about his family, and where in the world he would like to visit if he left Sabah. “I like see native tribes in America, in England. You have native people in England?”

Malay is a direct language that, when transferred to English, strips much of the flourishes we expect from a conversation. I actually like the way it sounds, but I have to practice speaking in simple terms in order to be clear. It’s not talking down; it’s joining the locals in their utilitarian use of language.

“No, native people no longer there… no tribal people left in England”.

He looked momentarily surprised at this information. Transferring his fingers from my toes to the arch of my foot I silently breathed out in relief. But more importantly I was increasingly intrigued by our conversation, and this rare chance to find out about Dusun people and their lives. I pressed him further about his culture, his traditions. “Young people not interested in Dusun traditions”, he said, as he prepared to move on to my other foot. “Only want TV and mobile phone”. He sounded troubled.

How many Dusun in Sabah? About three million, he replied. I was impressed by his knowledge. What about dialects? “Have many”, he said. “But understand each other”.

He hunted with his father. “But not with…” he mimicked the action of using a blowgun. “With rifle. Not old way. My grandfather still hunt old way.”

The mystery of the astral forces around him suddenly became clear. This twenty-something year-old man, working in a mall reflexology clinic, was one of the gatekeepers of his culture. He cared deeply about his traditions. They were in – and around – his auric field. For crying out loud, his grandfather still hunted in the forests with a blowgun! I felt a momentary pang of regret at the lack of such a vital cultural connection in my own life. And sadness, at not being able to have spent time with my grandfather before he passed away.

The session came to an end, and the young man finished by drying my feet with a towel. I gingerly moved to standing, grateful that I had survived the treatment. There was an important Harvest Festival coming up in May, dancing and music, he told me, as I reached for my wallet to pay him. The festival took place over the entire month. Wow. That’s my kind of party.

“We have strong drink”, he smiled, watching me squeeze my feet into shoes that were now uncomfortably tight.  “Local alcohol drink, very sweet. You try it”.

Yes, I replied. I will.

The large room was almost silent except for a few whispered conversations between students. My teaching staff stood around the edges of the one hundred and fifty student body, waiting to assist or intervene in the healing if necessary. Over in one corner, a small booth of Japanese interpreters huddled, taking a break from the exhausting work translating lectures for their Japanese-speaking students. I smiled as I passed by them, and approached my AV staff member, motioning him to start the New Age music heralding the beginning of this practice healing segment.

“OK, everyone,” I said, quietly into my lapel microphone, “It’s time to take your place at the foot of your client: we’re about to begin.”

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Chakra cord with self-cords

I began working with chakra cords over fifteen years ago, in conjunction with my astral removal work. In relational energy healing the structured cord connections between us are one aspect of human energetic relationship, and the etheric astral world is the other. We use both wired and wireless mediums to energetically relate to other people, to form and maintain contact, and to share important ideas and vital resources with each other.  Shortly after I left The Barbara Brennan School of Healing (BBSH) in 2003, my spirit guidance team taught me about a third energetic system that ultimately has become vital to my Relational Energy model: chakra self-cords.

These tiny filaments represent the energetic “wiring” of the way in which we internalize the outer world – and their relationships – into our personal, inner world. We become truly individuated through these personalized connections, rather than just another predictable personality springing out of our family heritage.  While relational chakra cords extend out to others, and astral energies surround, or are embedded within our physical body, self cords emerge out of our cord connections with others and then loop back, sometimes embedding themselves into the chakra head. Normally these cords grow through our early and healthy interactions with others. They are automatically repaired and enhanced in any adult-to-adult relationship, such as that of a caring family member, a close friend or mentor, or even with your psychotherapist. If the cleaning and strengthening of these chakra self cords were simply a nice idea it would be one thing. But experience shows that that by receiving self cord work my clients (and my students) make substantial leaps of progress in the areas of:

• self-esteem, or self-value
• healing from co-dependence
• releasing abusive, toxic, or addictive relationships
• healing of early childhood worlds and developmental deficits
• awakening to our true spiritual identity as an embodied soul

The value of chakra cord work is that the healer deliberately enters the auric system with the intention to clear, or untangle, any problematic energetic wiring of the self, as well as to reinforce important connections  where necessary. Self-cord work is especially helpful to those individuals who have already accomplished much in their lives, and are looking for a new level to healing their past. As these early chakra cord connections are often pre-verbal, held in place by years of habits, a supportive re-wiring of the chakra cord system helps create the circumstances for a leap to another level of awareness.

Dean working with chakra cords

This is not to imply that chakra cord work is dramatic or cathartic; cord healing is almost always gradual and gentle. One day you realize a glimpse into a new inner world, one where you are connected to a deepened sense of self. The old way is somehow behind you; you have found yourself. And the past is done.

To read one way in which Dean works with chakra cords, follow this link.

I have to keep reminding myself of the advantages. Once in digital format a book content not only attains immortality but can be loaded onto the screen reader of choice – my laptop, a PDA/ iPod, or Amazon’s Kindle. No more packing up heavy book boxes to transport to the next country, or search for hours to find one particular piece of cross-referencing writing. My Right Brain welcomes these benefits, despite loud protestations from my luddite Left Brain.

I have just taught a Psychic Development teleclass (now available for sale as mp3 files), and part of the distinction I made about human consciousness was at this basic level of brain structure. As everyone knows, we have a two-lobed self, a Left Brain rational personality and a Right Brain intuitive identity. Research shows these two aspects of human experience co-exist in a single cranium, one happily adjusted to a structured and verbal-orientated reality, while the more intuitive and here-and-now identity lives in symbols and pictures. In this teleclass we explored an energy practice to charge and balance these two hemispheres as an essential precursor to connecting to – and energizing – the Etheric Double.

Why is this relevant to my awful confession of book homicide? There are parallels to the PDF file and the ego-self identity of everyday reality (ie, “the book”) and the permanent soul-self (ie, “the PDF file”). One has substance, heft, and weight, and the other is ethereal, invisible, imbued with essence of the author. Self and Soul. Physical Book and PDF file. The comparison is unmistakable.

The digital medium of the PDF can be further stripped down (see File Juicer) into a plain text file, and then dropped into an online speed reader (http://www.spreeder.com/), allowing you to read at 300 words per minute, or more. The Right Brain is unimpeded by the Left Brain’s need for word order and sentence pattern. The Right Brain can simply “suck” the meaning out of the author’s writing, and the one-word-at-a-time speed reader will crank out reading well above the conscious comprehension reading level. Researchers speculate that the Right Brain reading speed limit is limited only by training, and the processing power of the visual cortex. While my Left Brain enjoys the tactile experience of holding a book, admiring an author’s elegant phrasing while easing through a literary classic one page at a time, my Right Brain longs to operate at warp speed. Perhaps a thousand words per minute. Or more.

If I want to remember the physical book cover as it once was, or need to see an overview of my virtual library, I can always use Delicious Library, the Mac-only archiving software program.

Research shows us that the plasticity of the human mind slows with aging, but does not stop completely. It is possible – and perhaps even essential – to continually absorb new important information and ideas throughout our lives. It’s crazy to limit learning only to our early adult years. The ability to place both new and old information into meaningful and relevant context increases as we age and (hopefully) results in wisdom. And so, I’m forcing myself to continue processing my beloved books, liberating them from their earthly containers, sending them on to attain digital soul status.

But I don’t think I’ll ever be able to silence the voice of that part of me, the deep lover of the printed word, that wants to hold a book, carry it around with me, fall asleep while reading it. The computer screen is just not quite as sexy as paper and ink. Maybe for me, one day, that will change.