"Love in its essence is spiritual fire"

Had an interesting fortune cookie today: "Love in its essence is spiritual fire"

Gosh, this just makes me think of the experimentation which led to my writings on Inner Homeopathy. This is a practice of Love, to love ones self, to love every single part of you, to love the self destructive parts of ones self, to love, and to love more. This is a very self transforming practice, so very simple yet so comprehensive.

Love is acceptance, as it accepts the loved one without regard for anything the loved one is doing. This is God's love this is, it is a sort of love which humans often have a time accomplishing.

Humans so often have conditions on their love. I'll love you only if you treat me a certain way and so on. Is that God's love?

The Inner Homeopathy practice I've written about can be very challenging. Inside us are so many conflicting ideas about ourselves, not all of which are consciously known. In the subconscious is held all the beliefs we've made about ourselves and the world, many of which paradoxically contradict each other. We may have a belief of our competence and love-ability, but find another part that's self doubting and certain nobody loves us. These subconscious beliefs swirl around based on the events around us, the memories inside us, etc, each belief being triggered at various times depending and affecting how we act from moment to moment.

Not all of our inner beliefs appreciate being held in love, just as we don't always recognize love when it is offered to us, and we don't always trust those who claim to love us. So is it also true when we practice loving ourself.

Yet I know from the experience of my experimentation, loving ones self can transform such inner beliefs. It is as if unconditional acceptance and unconditional love, Gods love in other words, is the ultimate in remedies, the cure for all ills.

Love to you all.

Your poison is your medicine

I had an inspiration the other day which I want to share.

In Buddhism, and many other spiritual practices, they teach compassionate self awareness as the path to enlightenment. The Buddha had a long series of teachings about this, but what's interesting is their meditation practice. One sits and stays in awareness of whatever is going on inside themself. But, instead of trying to change what you see inside, instead of trying to fix it, you're guided to have compassionate acceptance of whatever you find inside yourself.

No matter how nasty or how wonderful what you find inside yourself, compassionate self acceptance is the Buddha's guidance.

My inspiration is, this is just like homeopathy.

In homeopathy the remedies are usually made by taking a poisonous substance and diluting it. You dilute it, and dilute it, and dilute it, and dilute it some more, until there is nothing of the original substance left over. The dilution process is very specific to homeopathy. What results is a remedy for the condition caused by the original substance.

Isn't that just like compassionate self awareness?

If you sit and observe yourself, you will find various pains, doubts, fears and more. You have a few choices, don't you? For example you can try to change those things, you can reject them, you can try to cut them out of you and toss them off a cliff, you can try to give them to someone else, you can ignore them hoping they'll go away, etc. Or you can accept them.

When you accept your pain in love, it is absorbed in love. As you accept your pain into love, it will, over time, be diluted. As you accept your pain into love, as a continual practice, the dilution process will be ongoing, and over time your pain becomes more and more diluted. Until ... your pain becomes dilute enough to become the remedy for whatever caused the pain.

That's an idea for you to ponder.

A Healing Experiment with Unconditional Love

The following event happened to me on the last weekend of September, 2003, while attending a class given by Vianna Stibal. The following experiment was done rather informally, though with good care to have fairly clear results. I believe it could be repeated in a more rigourous setting if someone chose.

In the room along with the class was a woman with a microscope doing "Live Blood Cell Analysis". The microscope also had a video monitor and VHS tape recorder allowing a record to be made. She also had pictures explaining various common blood conditions. The process was simple, she pricked my finger with a clean needle, collected some blood on a slide, mixed in a clear liquid, and put it under the microscope. I've since been told that in a clinical setting, live blood cell analysis uses multiple samples taken from different parts of the body. In this case the woman took only one sample, from my finger.

In my case the blood cells were clumped together in a way exactly matching one of these pictures. She explained this would happen through not drinking enough water or taking enough enzymes. Indeed, while I usually drink lots of water every day, I have phases of not drinking enough water, and that weekend in particular was another of these phases. Upon seeing my blood, and learning that I haven't been taking any "supplements", she offered me a spot in a little experiment.

They also choose a woman to also undergo this experiment, and she had some other blood condition than mine.

The next step was to bring us before the room and sit the two of us in chairs. A healer was chosen for each of us. The audience was instructed to invoke "Unconditional Love" sending it up into a cloud in the top of the room. The healers were simply instructed to bring the unconditional love into my body and the womans body, especially into the blood.

After doing this we went to the back of the room for another round of blood cell analysis. By the way, I really felt fabulous with receiving the unconditional love. I have had similar experiences at other times in other classes, and knew through experience that relaxing and receiving is The Thing To Do in such situations. It's not often that you have a chance to feel unconditional love beamed by a large group of people, and it's best to soak such chances for all they're worth.

In my case my blood "afterward" looked astonishingly different. Instead of clumped up deflated looking blood cells, they were nice and plump, perfectly round, and all flowing easily and freely through the blood. Further, I felt significantly better, more awake, more alive feeling, happier. And, I felt truly astonished to see my blood clearly so very different than before.

The woman had a somewhat different result. In the blood sample taken immediately, her blood showed the same conditions as before. Her and the woman doing the analysis sat together a long time working with issues and beliefs around accepting healing, and then they took a third blood cell sample from her. That one showed her blood as well changed to nice, plump, perfectly round and freely flowing blood cells.

In the woman's case this says even more than mine. Just think, they had two blood samples taken from her just minutes apart. The only difference, other than the 5-10 minutes, was that this working on issues and beliefs of being worthy of accepting healing. That's all it took, the clearing of beliefs, to cause the healing to sink in, and it showed up in the blood.