Yesterday, I stopped by to say hello to Wayan. She was busy but told me to come back in two hours at 5:00 pm and we’d go see the Holy Knife. He’s a village spiritual priest and does work with people on the spiritual energy causing or effecting their physical health. Many cultures around the world including many in the US feel that before an illness shows up physically, something is out of balance in the energy body. Carolyn Myss wrote about that in “The Anatomy of Spirit”.
She was working long distance with a doctor who would call, give Carolyn a patient’s first name and ask her intuitively to describe what she saw going on in the energy of the patient. For over a year, Carolyn never received any feedback on the accuracy or helpfulness of her intuitive impressions. The book describes not only the accuracy of what she provided as a medical intuitive but also points out how healing the body requires healing the energy wound that’s leaking energy off the physical body.
The Holy Knife uses a “kris” knife in his healing touching the body where he senses the energy is stuck and needs assistance. The last time I was there with Wayan and two others, I was able to watch how his eyes focused when he was working on someone. He wasn’t looking at the body, he was gazing off in the distance either looking beyond the body or in the space between himself and the patient.
I saw him several times and he was instrumental in helping my back heal. When I was working with Dr. Fritz at home, I told him one day that my back pain made no sense to me. I was riding my mountain bike a lot, physically in great condition and getting stronger, had just bought a new bed replacing my very well aged futon, taking nutritional supplements, doing daily stretching and consistently getting my abdominal workout. I told him there had to be something else contributing to the pain.
When I saw the Holy Knife, he went right to the energy and started talking about energy of jealously and envy that was stuck there from when I was in my later teens. In high school, I got picked on a lot for being a dumb “Bohunk”. Fed up with it one day, I could have taken a swing at my friend. Instead, I internalized an “I’ll show you” feeling. The next year, I was an All-State football player, All-conference basketball player, finished second in state in the javelin throw and felt like a celebrity with the daily arrival of letters offering me a scholarship or at least a visit. The first letter to arrive was from the U.S. Naval Academy!
The Holy Knife worked to release that energy and between working with him, Eddy for the physical adjustments and Dr. Fritz back home, my low back rarely bothers me. During the 40 hours of travel to get here on this trip, it never once even tightened up.
In a hour, I’ll follow Wayan and her patient out there with my motor bike and stroll back taking photo’s of the rice fields in the country side.
This afternoon, I’ll go see a young woman referred to as the Maharesi. She was depressed and fell into a coma when she was 21. When she awoke, she spoke 14 languages and possessed knowledge Hindu priests study a life time to learn and master. She was tested for her knowledge, passed the test and accepted into the High HIndu Priesthood.
She provides a “Melukat”, a Spiritual blessing and cleansing involving water and prayer. The intent is to cleanse (Melukat) the body, the energy field of the body and the aura of any negative energy. It is an opportunity to go back through accumulated experience, release any negative or confusing energy and return the body to the purity of birth. I am going this afternoon to cleanse my energy and to start the new year here with that blessing. Remember, last Saturday’s festival of NYEPI is the first day of the Balinese New Year. This will be my initiation into the new year.
Many years ago, I was traveling through Florida when I read about a Medicine Wheel Gathering with Sun Bear. I arrived early, volunteered to help and had some amazing experiences there meeting Grandmother Twyla Nitsch (Seneca Medicine Woman), Grandfather Black Elk (Lakota Medicine Man) and many others. One thing that struck me about these “powerful” people was how humble they were. Rumor has it that one man came out of a sweat lodge with Grandfather Black Elk and later offered him a $100 bill in appreciation. Grandfather reportedly turned and tossed it into the fire thanking the man and reminding him the Great Spirit was who he should be thanking. I sensed the same egoless humility in the Maharsi. It felt like she was a vessel for healing information and processes to flow through. Her presence reminded me of other egoless healers I’ve met.
Here’s some more information on the Maharsi written by Gusti, contributed to by others and posted here with Gusti’s approval. A little book on Ida Resi Alit
I hope tomorrow to see Eddy one more time and then have written for an appointment at Jari Menari in Seminyak (not far from where I’ll be staying in Kuta). Jari Menari has won numerous awards for the quality of their massage and the training they provide. Check them out: https://jarimenari.com/
For two days now, I feel small rushes of energy moving through my body. This has happened since my sessions with Nyoman. I’m especially aware of a really warm heat rising occasionally on the soul of my left foot. Sometimes it even happens when I’m walking!
This has been quite an auspicious ending to my lovely trip! I wonder what other surprises continue to be in store for me?