In the year 2000, Paul was visiting after the service at All Saints Episcopal Church in Corpus Christi, where we were members. The choir director, Arlene Long, was telling us she was going to France to study a healing method, using sound, color, and movement. She was enthusiastic and her description of the instruments, the methods and the teachings of Fabien Maman made me ask if she thought it might help Paul’s hearing loss. She said it might do that, at which point we pointed to Paul and said, “You are going to France!” He went, with five women, for the two weeks of level one training. He came back with renewed life, vigor, and seemed to be able to hear much better. We invited Fabien and his partner, Terres Unsoeld, to come to Corpus Christi for classes that we offered. Terres taught healing using color and flower essences. Alice Bailey’s Seven Rays are integral in her methods. Fabien is from a lineage of rabbis, so he includes the tree of life (the Sefirot), he also connects all life from eight stars to the cells in our bodies. His story starts with his career as a jazz guitarist. He and his band were on tour and arrived in Tokyo, exhausted and weary. They asked the hotel to arrange for the band members to get massages and were sent an acupuncturist instead. After the acupuncture treatment, they were so revived, played so brilliantly, and continued their tour in high health that Fabien decided to leave his music career and go to China to study acupuncture. His methods are based in Chinese medicine. This means the study of the subtle bodies, all the meridians that are the pathways of energy in the body, and the command points where traditional acupuncturists use needles. Fabian integrated all this with the science of pure sound, Kototama. As a result, his methods use the command points with tuning forks instead of needles. I quickly add that we have only scratched the surface of what is to be learned and we have studied this for more than ten years now.
Thosanustra Says
JANUARY 2012 READING LIST
Here is our list of the books we are currently reading. Our method is that we give over one to two hours daily to read into these books, one page or one paragraph at a time. We read aloud to each other and sometimes spend time discussing the ideas. Altogether, it feeds the “learner” talent in me and seems to appeal to the “maximizer” in both of us. Enjoy and send me your feedback.
Drowning in a Mistake
Just when I think things are smoothing out and we are actually on our way to “Beginners Heaven,” one of us makes a mistake and there we are again, guilty and ashamed, just like the old feelings from childhood. They are like deep fractal patterns that recur under present circumstances. So, here is the latest story of this fractal wave. It is sort of a tsunami in miniature right here in Elm Grove, our beautiful little neighborhood.
Byron Katie: Try to Make People Moral……
…and you lay the groundwork for vice (when you try to make people moral). This post is an excerpt from Byron Katie’s book, A Thousand Names for Joy. On pages 185 to 187, she says:
“Being present means living without control and always having your needs met. For people who are tired of the pain, nothing could be worse than trying to control what can’t be controlled. If you want real control, drop the illusion of control. Let life live you. It does anyway. You’re just telling the story about how it doesn’t, and that’s a story that can never be real. You didn’t make the rain or the sun or the moon. You have no control over your lungs or your heart or your vision or your breath. One minute you’re fine and healthy, the next minute you’re not. When you try to be safe, you live your life being very, very careful, and you may wind up having no life at all. Everything is nourishment. I like to say,
September 27, 2011 “What’s Wrong With Your Face?”
Yesterday, I had a delightful encounter with a three or maybe four year old, extremely intelligent young lady. We greeted each other with a high five and she looked at me and asked, “What’s wrong with your face?” Now, how would you answer that question? I knew exactly what she meant. My face is that of an old woman with 82 years of experience–wrinkled, sagging, and liver spotted. I watch out for stray long hairs that grow out of interesting spots, unexpectedly. I cover the liver spots with makeup, but this day, I was in the raw, un-made up, “au naturale.” I also had a lot of sweat pouring from my pores, and reddened skin due to lifting some heavy boxes. My answer to Piper was that “I got really hot.” She countered with, “Why are you hot?” And that brought many possibilities to my mind. I thought she wouldn’t really be interested in the weather facts. We have had a very hot summer of record-breaking heat and no rain. (I call it the Rick Perry effect–lots of hot air and high pressure drying us up here in Texas.) But those ideas wouldn’t be interesting or pertinent in the life of a little girl. So we said good bye and I hope to meet her again very soon. I smile at the candor and honesty of her question. She is perfectly wondrous–a genius with original vision and incredible determination.