When God Closes a Door, Somewhere He Opens a Window

I had been booted out of the 9 to 5 world yet again in early 2010, and was becoming very discouraged and depressed. I’d been praying about my next step, wanting to increase my understanding of the healing work I’d been doing with a partner for now 18 years. I want this work, that I know to be important and effective, to be somehow acknowledged, if not understood, so I can hold my head up high and tell people with certainty the hazards of living with untreated spirit attachment, and past life and current life trauma lodged in the human energy field. I wish also to be able to offer the treatments, and teach people how to clear themselves.

One day last week I came home from somewhere and Carl was very animated about a documentary he had just seen on Tibetan Medicine. So, I got some books from the library written by Dr. Yeshi Donden, one time physician to the Dalai Lama. In the very first chapter of Health Through Balance, he describes human illness starting from the very biggest picture, of all illness originating from a single cause he calls "ignorance" but which I understand to be the veil of separation between us and God or Oneness- the thing that started the ball of polarities rolling - distilling it down to the fact that there are 404 disorders that can afflict humans (with variations on each, of course, ultimately equaling 84,000 afflictions -all of which of course begin with emotional causes).

Tibetan Medicine Classification of Disease

25% of all disorders are caused by past life trauma
25% of all disorders are caused by early childhood and other current life trauma
25% of all disorders are caused by spirits, and
25%, called superficial disorders, can be remedied merely by a change of diet and behavior patterns.

This came immediately after I had received a response from a woman who has been doing Reiki in Tacoma and Seattle area hospitals. I had been networking and had sent a long description of my experience, focusing on spirit attachment caused by anesthesia, and she provided a detailed reply. Aside from referring me to Highline Hospital in Federal Way, she said I should leave out the talk of "spirits" when applying for any hospital job, and that I should forget about Franciscan and Multi Care Hospitals because they are most certainly influenced by a recent denunciation of Reiki made by a Catholic bishop in NY.

I thought about that for a minute. In order to go do Reiki in a hospital setting, I would have to keep this knowledge to myself - this important information I was given in such glorious detail - and pretend to "unknow" it, that which has been so thoroughly shown to me, that which has such serious implications for all people, particularly Americans. My heart sank. Then the info about Tibetan Medicine came in.

Here's my validation. Somehow, while on our own spiritual and healing paths, Patty and I developed an understanding of the spiritual causes of illness, and proceeded to narrow afflictions down to three of the four above mentioned classifications, and treat in our unique ways. In some cases and particularly more recently, Patty was recommending the use of certain vitamins, supplements, diet changes, as well, which would address afflictions in the fourth category. We had tapped into knowledge older than Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda, older than Buddhism, and put it to use. That completely blows my mind.

So, I’m doing what I can, following the thread. There appears to be no place to go, to be trained in Tibetan Medicine. I am making inquiries, but the focus of Tibetan medicine in the USA is largely botanical and herbal.

I’ll keep reading the books, doing my gratitude meditations, and see what happens next. But most important, I feel I have been given the most wonderful validation imaginable – I am somehow tapped into the oldest system of healing on the planet, and if I keep asking, I will continue to be guided. I want to know more, and do more for Humanity.

“I live in gratitude. I live in gratitude. I live in gratitude.”