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The Art of True Healing

Israel Regardie

Within every man and woman is a force which directs and controls the entire course of life. Properly used,

it can heal every affliction and ailment to which mankind is heir. Every single religion affirms this fact. All

forms of mental or spiritual healing, no matter under what name they travel, promise the same thing. Even

psychoanalysis employs this power, though indirectly, using the now popular word libido . For the critical insight

and understanding which it brings to bear upon the psyche releases tensions of various kinds, and through this

release the healing power latent within and natural to the human system operates more freely. Each of these

systems undertakes to teach its devotees technical methods of thinking or contemplation or prayer such as will,

according to the a priori terms of their own philosophies, renew their bodies and transform their whole

environment.

None or few of them, however, actually fulfil in a complete way the high promise made at the outset. There

seems but little understanding of the practical means whereby the spiritual forces underlying the universe and

permeating the entire nature of man may be utilised and directed towards the creation of a new heaven and a new

earth. Naturally, without universal co-operation, such an ideal is impossible for all mankind. Nevertheless, each

one for himself may commence the task of reconstruction.

The crucial question, then, is how are we to become aware of this force? What are its nature and

properties? What is the mechanism whereby we can use it?

Untapped Currents

As I have said before, different systems have evolved widely differing processes by which the student

might divine the presence of such a power. Meditation, prayer, invocation, emotional exaltation, and demands

made at random upon the universe or the Universal Mind, have been a few of such methods. In the last resort, if

we ignore petty details of a trivial nature, all have this in common. By turning the fiery penetrating power of the

mind inwards upon itself, and exalting the emotional system to a certain pitch, we may become aware of

previously unsuspected currents of force. Currents, moreover, almost electric in their interior sensation, healing

and integrating in their effect.

It is the willed use of such a force that is capable of bringing health to body and mind. When directed it

acts magnet-like. By this I mean that it attracts to whomsoever employs these methods just those necessities of

life, material or spiritual, that he urgently requires or which are needed for his further evolution.

Fundamentally, the underlying idea of the mental healing systems is this. In the ambient atmosphere

surrounding us and pervading the structure of each minute body-cell is a spiritual force. This force is

omnipresent and infinite. It is present in the most infinitesimal object as it is in the most proportion-staggering

nebula or island universe. It is this force which is life itself. Nothing in the vast expanse of space is dead.

Everything pulsates with vibrant life. Even the ultra-microscopic particles of the atom are alive; in fact the

electron is a crystallisation of its electric power.

This life force being infinite it follows that man must be saturated - permeated through and through with

spiritual force. It constitutes his higher self, it is his link with godhead, it is God in man. Every molecule in his

physical system must be soaked with its dynamic energy. Each cell in the body contains it in its plenitude. Thus

we are brought face to face with the enormous problem underlying all disease, the enigmatical problem of

nervous depletion.

What is Fatigue?

How can there be depletion if vitality and cosmic currents of force daily pour through man, simply

saturating his mind and body with its power? Primarily, it is because he offers so much resistance to its flow

through him that he becomes tired and ill, the conflict finally culminating in death. How is puny man able to

defy the universe? Nay more, offer resistance and opposition to the very force which underlies, and continually

evolves in, the universe? The complacency and confusion of his mental outlook, the moral cowardice by which

he was reared, and his false perception of the nature of life - these are the causes of resistance to the inward flow

of the spirit. That this is unconscious is no logical obstacle to the force of this argument, as all the depth

psychologies have demonstrated. What man is really aware of all the involuntary processes going on within him?

Who is conscious of the intricate mechanism of his mental processes, of that by which his food is assimilated

and digested, of the circulation of his blood, of the arterial distribution of nourishment to every bodily organ? All

these are purely involuntary processes: to a large degree so are his resistance’s to life. Man has surrounded

himself with a crystallised shell of prejudices and ill-conceived fantasies, an armour which affords no entrance to

light of life without.

What wonder he ails? What wonder he is so ill and impotent, helpless and poor? Why should there be

surprise that the average individual is so unable to deal with life?

The First Two Steps to Health

The first step towards freedom and health is a conscious realisation of the vast spiritual reservoir in which

we live and move and have our being. Repeated intellectual effort to make this part and parcel of one’s mental

outlook upon life automatically breaks down or dissolves something of the hard inflexible shell of the mind. And

then life and spirit pour abundantly. Health spontaneously arises, and a new life begins as the point of view

undergoes this radical change. Moreover, it would appear that the environment attracts just those people who can

help in various ways, and precisely those amenities of life that had been longed for.

The second step lies in a slightly different direction. Regulated breathing - quite a simple process. Its

necessity follows from the following postulate. If life is - all about one, all penetrating and all pervasive, what

more reasonable than that the very air we breathe from one moment to another should be highly charged with

vitality? Our breathing processes we therefore regulate accordingly. We contemplate that life is the active

principle in the atmosphere. During the practice of this rhythmical breathing at fixed periods of the day, there

should be no strenuous forcing of the mind, no overtaxing of the will. We let the breath flow in while mentally

counting very slowly...one, two, three, four. Then we exhale counting the same beat. It is fundamental and

important that the initial rhythm, whether it be a four or a ten beat count or any other convenient one, should be

maintained. For it is the very rhrythm itself which is responsible for the easy absorption of vitality from without,

and the acceleration of the divine power within.

Rhythm

Immutable rhythm is everywhere manifest in the universe. It is a living process whose parts move and are

governed in accordance with the cyclic laws. Look at the sun, the stars, and the planets. All move with

comparable grace, with a rhythm in their inexorable times. It is only mankind that has wandered, in its ignorance

and self-complacency, far from the divine cycles of things. We have interfered with the rhythmic process

inherent in nature. And how sadly have we paid for it!

Therefore in attempting to attune ourselves once more to the to the intelligent spiritual power functioning

through nature’s mechanism, we attempt, not blindly to copy, but intelligently to adopt her methods. Make,

therefore, the breathing rhythmical at certain fixed times of the day, when there is little likelihood of disturbance.

Cultivate above all the art of relaxation. Learn to address each tensed muscle from toe to head as you lie flat on

you back in bed. Tell it deliberately to loosen its tension and cease from its unconscious contracture. Think of the

blood in response to your command flowing copiously to each organ, carrying life and nourishment everywhere,

producing a state of glowing radiant health. Only after these preliminary processes have been accomplished

should you begin your rhythmic breathing, slowly and without haste. Gradually as the mind accustoms itself to

the idea, the lungs will take up the rhythm spontaneously. In a few minutes it will have become automatic. The

whole process the becomes extremely simple and pleasureable.

It would be impossible to overestimate its importance or efficacy. As the lungs take up the rhythm,

automatically inhaling and exhaling to a measured beat, so do they communicate it and gradually extend it to all

the surrounding cells and tissue - just as a stone thrown into a pool sends out widely expanding ripples and

concentric circles of motion. In a few minutes the whole body is vibrating in unison with their movement. Every

cell seems to vibrate sympathetically. And very soon, the whole organism comes to feel as if it were an

inexhaustible storage battery of power. The sensation - and it must be a sensation is unmistakable.

Simple as it is, the exercise is not to be despised. It is upon the mastery of this very easy technique that the

rest of this system stands. Master it first. Make sure that you can completely relax and then produce the rhythmic

breath in a few seconds.

Mental and Spiritual Centres

I now approach an idea fundamental and highly significant. It is the inability to realise or thoroughly to

have grasped its importance which really underlies the frequently observed failure of many mental culture and

spiritual healing systems. Just as in the physical body are specialised organs for the performance of specialised

functions, so in the mental and spiritual nature exist corresponding centres and organs. Exactly as the teeth, the

stomach, liver and intestines are so many mechanisms evolved and devised by nature for the digestion and

assimilation of food, so are there similar centres in the other constituents of man’s nature.

The mouth receives food. Digestion occurs in the stomach and small intestines. Likewise there is an

apparatus for rejecting waste effete products. In the psychic nature also are focal centres for the absorption of

spiritual power from the universe without. Others render its distribution and circulation possible. The dynamic

energy and power entering man from without is not uniform or alike in vibratory rate. It may be of too high a

voltage, so to say, readily to be endured by him. Within, therefore, is a certain psychic apparatus whereby

indiscriminate cosmic currents of energy may be assimilated and digested, their voltage thus becoming stepped

down or adjusted to the human level. The process of becoming aware of this psychic apparatus, and using the

energy it generates, is an integral part of this healing system.

It is my contention that prayer and contemplative methods unconsciously employ these inner centres.

Hence we would be wiser and far more efficient deliberately to employ for our own ends this spiritual power and

the centres it flows through. Let us call these latter, for the moment, psycho-spiritual organs, of which there are

five major ones. Since name them we must, inasmuch as the human mind loves to classify and tabulate things,

let me give them the most non-committal and non-compromising titles imaginable so that no system of prejudice

may be erected thereon. For convenience’s sake, the first we may name Spirit, the second Air, the succeeding

ones being called Fire, Water and Earth.

To illustrate the concept, I reproduce a simple diagram. It shows the position and location of the centres.

Not for one moment do I wish to be understood as stating that these centres are physical in nature and position

(though there may be glandular parallelisms). They exist in a subtler spiritual or psychic part of man’s nature.

We may even consider them, not as realities themselves, but as symbols of realities, great, redeeming and saving

symbols. Under certain conditions we may become aware of them in very much the same way as we may

become aware of different organs in our physical bodies. We often speak of reason as being situated in the head,

referring emotion to the heart and instinct to the belly. Similarly, there exists a natural correspondence between

these centres and various parts of the body.

Thought, Colour and Sound

It is axiomatic to this system that there are three principal engines or means whereby we may become

aware of the centres to awaken them from their dormant state so that they may function properly within.

Thought, colour, and sound are the three means. The mind must concentrate itself on the assumed position of

these centres one by one. Then certain names which are to be considered as vibratory rates must be intoned and

vibrated. Finally, each centre is to be visualised as having a particular colour and shape. The combination of

these three agencies gradually awakens the centres from their latency. Slowly they become stimulated into

functioning each according to its own nature, pouring forth a stream of highly spiritualized energy and power

into the body and mind. When, ultimately, their operation becomes habitual and stabilised, the spiritual power

they generate may be directed by will to heal various ailments and diseases both of a psychological and physical

nature. It can also be communicated by mere laying of hands to another person. Simply by thinking fixedly and

with intent, the energy, moreover, can be communicated from mind to mind telepathically or transmitted through

space to another person miles away - objects in space affording no interruption or obstacle to its passage.

The Coronal Sphere

First of all, the position of the centres, as shown in the diagram, must be memorised. They are to be

stimulated into activity either while sitting upright or whilst lying down flat on the back in a perfectly relaxed

state. The hands may be folded in the lap, or else, with fingers interlocked, be permitted to rest loosely below the

solar plexus. Calmness of mind should be induced, and several minutes devoted to rhythmic breathing should

result in the sensation of a gentle ripple playing over the diaphragm.

Then imagine above the coronal region of the head a ball or sphere of brilliant white light. Do not force the

imagination to visualise the light sphere. To force would only result in the development of neuromuscular

tension, and this would defeat our end. Let it be done quietly and easily. If the mind wanders, as indeed it will,

wait a moment or two and gently lead it back. At the same time vibrate or intone the word Eheieh, pronounced

Eh-huh-yeh. After a few days of practice it will become quite easy to imagine the name vibrating above the head

in the so called Spirit centre. This is the indwelling or overshadowing divinity in each of us, the basic spiritual

self which we can all draw upon. Eheieh means literally I AM, and this centre represents the I AM consciousness

within.

The effect of thus mentally directing the vibration is to awaken the centre to dynamic activity. When once

it begins to vibrate and rotate light and are felt to emanate downwards upon and into he personality. Enormous

charges of spiritual power make their way into the brain, and the entire body feels suffused with vitality and life.

Even the finger-tips and toes react to the awakening of the coronal sphere by a faint pricking sensation at first

being felt. The name should be intoned during the first few weeks of practice in a moderately audible and

sonorous tone of voice. As skill is acquired, then the vibration may be practised in silence, the name being

imagined and mentally placed in the centre. If the mind tends to wander, the frequent repetition of the vibration

will be found a great help to concentration.

The Air Centre

Having let the mind rest here for some five minutes, when it will be seen to glow and scintillate, imagine

that it emits a white shaft downwards through the scull and brain, stopping at the throat. Here it expands to form

a second ball of light, which should include a large part of the face, up to and including the eyebrows. If the

larynx is conceived to be the centre of the sphere, then the distance from it to the cervical vertebrae at the back of

the neck will be approximately the radius. Naturally this dimension will vary with different people. A similar

technique should be pursued with this sphere, which we name the Air centre, as obtained with the previous one.

It should be strongly and vividly formulated as a scintillating sphere of brilliant white light, shining and glowing

from within. The name to be vibrated is Jehovah Elohim - pronounced as Yuh-hoh-voh Eh-loh-heem.

A word or two may not be amiss at this point with regard to the names. In reality they are names ascribed

in various part of the Old Testament to God. The variety and variation of these names are attributed to different

divine functions. When acting in a certain manner. He is described by the biblical scribes by one name. When

doing something else, another name more appropriate to his action is used. The system I am describing now has

its roots in the Hebrew mystical tradition. Its ancient innovators were men of exalted religious aspirations and

genius. It is only to be expected that a religious bias was projected by them into this scientific psychological

system. But it must be explained that for our present-day purposes no religious connotation is implied by my use

of these biblical divine names. Anyone can use them without subscribing in the least to the ancient religious

views - whether he be a Jew, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist or atheist. It is a purely empirical system which is

successful despite the scepticism or faith of the operator. We today may consider these sacred names in an

entirely different and practical light. They are keynotes of different constituents of man’s nature, doorways to so

many levels of that part of the psyche of which normally we are unconscious. They are vibratory rates or

symbolic signatures of the psychophysical centres we are describing. Their use as vibratory keynotes awakens

into activity the centres with which their rate is in sympathy, conveying to our consciousness some recognition

of the several levels of the unconscious spiritual side of our personalities. Hence the actual religious significance

does not concern us. Nor their literal translation.

To refer back to the air centre in the throat, let the vibratory sounds be intoned a number of times, until its

existence is recognised and clearly felt as a definite sensory experience. There is no mistaking the sensation of its

awakening. About the same length of time should be spent formulating it and the succeeding centres as was

devoted to the contemplation of the coronal sphere. This period having elapsed, let it thrust downward from

itself, with the aid of imagination, a shaft of light.

The Fire Centre

Descending to the region of the solar plexus, just beneath the sternum breast-bone, the shaft expands once

again to form a third sphere. This is the position of the Fire centre. The allocation of fire to this centre is

particularly appropriate, for the heart is notoriously associated with the emotional nature, with love and the

higher feelings. How often do we not speak of ardent passion, and the flame of love, and so forth? The diameter

of this ambient cardiac sphere should be such as to extend from the front of the body to the back. Here vibrate

the name Jehova Eloah ve-Daas , pronounced as Yuh-hoh-voh Eh-loh ve-Dah-ahs. Take care that the intonation

vibrates well within the formulated white sphere. If this is done, at once a radiation of warmth will be felt to

emanate from the centre, gently stimulating all the parts and organs about it. Some students have complained that

the above divine name is unduly long and difficult to pronounce. After some experimentation, I have substituted

the Gnostic name IAO for the Hebrew word. Both are attributed, qabalistically, to the Sephirah of Tiphareth on

the Tree of Life, and so are equally valid. I have found it to be every bit as effective as the Hebrew name, and in

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