Healing Transmissions

It feels to me as if I have been ‘surfing’ on the waves of my past experiences this week and standing up tall and not falling off and being able to give concise, meaningful and even provocative thoughts and comments on how I relate to the idea of language as a mirror through which one sees the animacy of the world.

I realize I have had over two decades worth of animistic practice through my Reiki work.  Universal energy flows through everything, humans, flora, fauna, etc., connecting and communicating to us if we give ourselves permission.  At each weekly practice circle, we often send healing to some part of nature and ‘give space’ for receiving any information to be shared.  Both individually and collectively we can intuit where and on what level of the world we feel called to send healing to.

I was reminded of the accomplishments of my group, the Reiki Fellowship achieved while participating in monthly blessings of Seattle’s polluted industrial Duwamish river.   This river, like the tribe, has been ignored, abused, and taken advantage of for capitalist gains.  Each month a group of Reiki, sound healing, and shamanic practitioners would perform rituals and offer healing energy to the ecosystem and consciousness of the river.  Coincidentally, within the first months of our outreach, several million dollars were granted toward a cleanup of the river from one of the companies that had contributed to past pollution.  Both the river and our group gave a loud cheer!  In addition, there were many individual animistic experiences that each practitioner had with this forgotten river.  As one of the participants told me, the Reiki we performed on the river brought the Duwamish back into consciousness.  

Perhaps these recollections are an intercoropoeal meeting of my past and present worlds.  Both are informing me of who I am.  In that place I feel whole.  The words ‘whole’ and ‘heal’ come from the same Old English root, so then it isn’t a surprise that there also seems to be some degree of healing that has occurred within my body and mind with each writing and subsequent posting uniting my past and present knowledge.  I know this because my inner experience has been that of being continually held.  Even when there have been frustrations, there has been buoyancy.  It feels like all my molecules are receiving a hug of support.  I am grateful and express optimism and curiosity for the evolution of this next level in my personal development.

Copyright 2021 Eileen Dey Wurst

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