Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge those teachers and mentors on my journey who encouraged me to trust my creativity, intuition and inner guidance, including John Perkins, David Morehouse, Llyn Roberts, Alex Grey, Allyson Grey, Iyanla Van Zant, Alberto Vilolldo, and Nina Spiro. Also, I offer a special acknowledgment to Alexandra Marquardt and Ric Weinman, the first teachers who opened me to the Divine energy healing magic of Merlin. I also thank my teacher and dear friend, the late shaman Carolion, who took my consciousness to the furthest reaches in her dreamwork classes, devic gardening classes, and who showed me a higher purpose through her dedication to using energy healing and shamanic practice to promote world peace. As well I wish to give thanks to my fellow teachers in Magical Awakening (Magical Awakening is a service mark of Brett Bevell) who have been dear loyal friends on this journey: James Philips, Hethyrre, Michele Denis, Michael Marlowe, Lori Avalon and Justin Prim. Let me thank as well the whimsical poet and Magical Awakening wizard Meghann Plunkett, who kindly agreed to read this book before I wrote it so I could finally give focus and intention to this writing project that I delayed for many years. Finally, I want to give thanks to my dear beloved, my wife Helema Kadir, who makes each day being on this Earth truly joyful to me: as tempting as it may be for me to live in other realms she keeps me grounded in this one much of the time.
Chapter 1
What Is Energy Healing?
THE UNIVERSE IS CONSCIOUS. I first recognized this two decades ago when I began engaging a number of alternative healing techniques to overcome my own childhood trauma, trauma which was complex and deep, far too complex for traditional psychotherapy to conveniently unwind. As I engaged these techniques, which ranged from shamanic healing to rebirthing to energy healing, I noticed quick and radical changes that were very positive begin to happen in my own life. I also noticed my own level of awareness grew, my intuition became more sharp, and I was overcome with the constant peculiar sense that the universe was conscious and aware of me. The deeper down I went exploring these alternative methods of healing, the better I felt about myself and my body, and my emotional awareness grew. I was able to eventually feel the energetic attachments between me and those who had abused me decades ago. I was then taught how to sever and release those attachments, these energetic strings that had kept me like a puppet victim for so many years no matter how much traditional therapy I did. Once those attachments were cut, I felt empowered to be free and have been on an amazing journey ever since.
Energy healing works with the premise that everything in existence is made of light and has an energetic signature. This concept corresponds with the string theory in modern physics that the smallest, most basic particles of creation are oscillating and vibrating, almost like the music from the strings of a guitar. These energy signatures affect us all the time. If we are in a room that is full of joy, we feel that vibration . Similarly, if you enter a room where people have been fighting and arguing it often holds a very different energetic signature, what some might call bad vibes . What energy healing does is address those fundamental energetic signatures, even those energetic signatures from the past that can impact the present and future.
My own healing journey taught me that though I cannot change the past I have been able to radically shift and alter how those energetic signatures from the past impact me now. We cannot change past events, but we can change the notes, the tune that those strings from the past are sending into the future. We can also change the energetic signatures of our own cells for physical healing, as well as change the energetic signatures in our emotions to change how we feel about ourselves and the world.
Some schools of energy healing such as the very popular form called Reiki use a primary energetic signature to alter or shift a person into a place of well being. You might think of Reiki as a constant single energetic note that clears out and harmonizes the other energetic signatures at play in a persons energy field. Reiki at higher levels can also bring in a few different energetic signatures by using sacred Reiki symbols that deepen a healing even more. Other forms of energy healing also have their own energetic signature, such as the Light of the
Eternal One work in my previous book Energy Healing for Everyone , which has an energetic signature designed to help a person remember their own connection to the Divine. The Magical Awakening Energy Healing System has an almost infinite expression of energetic signatures available, which gives the healer an opportunity to creatively work with the Divine consciousness in ways that are challenging to put into words given how vast and expansive these healing opportunities are.
Such a level of healing changes radically the approach of a healer, given the numerous energetic signatures one has access to. Unlike Reiki or other modalities where there is a structured set of hand positions and routines for any given healing session, Magical Awakening calls upon the healer to allow their consciousness be guided by the energy itself, so that each session is entirely unique and geared to the person receiving it. A Magical Awakening healing session is actually quite creative from the healers point of view. The healer goes into a place of deep listening, allowing the Divine consciousness within the energy itself to unfold and teach the healer what needs to happen next. It is more a healing art and not a science. This also allows the healer to let go of their ego, let go of the need to fix or heal anyone. Instead, they are simply playing with numerous Divine energetic signatures the same way a musician riffs on various notes during a jazz improv session. The beauty and joy of this is often felt as much by the healer as the person being healed, though the positive healing results for the person receiving the healing are astonishing. One person whom I gave three treatments to told me it changed their life and that they no longer felt the need to be in therapy after fifteen years. Also, a Magical Awakening session can be sent to numerous people simultaneously. At Omega Institute, where I work and teach, I often give half hour long sessions to a room of twenty or more people all simultaneously, and have on rare occasion worked on as many as one hundred people at once.
Energy healing at this level leads the healer into awakened states of consciousness, often being able to see karmic patterns, past life issues, and even the core spark of Divinity residing inside each person. As you learn to unwind the debris that covers that core spark, more light begins to shine outward into all aspects of your life. You also begin to realize that the universe itself is a dream, a playful dream. As a healer, you loosen, let go, laugh, and come to realize you are playing with the Divine and nothing more, that the joy of energy healing at its deepest level is simply energetic play, a game with the Divine. I do not even think of Magical Awakening healers as being practitioners as much as wizards, like the great wizard Merlin.
Magical Awakening has its roots in the lineage of Merlin and the healing power of The Grail. The beauty of this system is that not only is it one of the most powerful energy healing systems I have been shown in terms of what one can accomplish with it, but it also works to free the mind of the wizard healer who uses it. Magical Awakening always requires that the wizard healer be fully present, open as a child, without preconceptions to where the healing is going to go. The wizard healer is asked to listen intuitively to the energy itself, and to play with it. Through this sense of magical play it is constantly reinforcing that the universe itself is a dream, a playful dream. We are nothing but haikus, little wonderful poems created by Divine imagination. It is through this playful dance that we realize we are nothing at all, and we then know simultaneously that we are everything.
