Pleasure Issue 26-Spring 2007 The Newsletter of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing ® ® BBSH • InTouch ® continued on page 10 By Barbara Brennan Founder and President of BBSH At BBSH and BBSHE, we have focused on our sacred longing that leads us through our life into the experiences we need for our personal growth. This process has the power to take us into areas of experience, both present and past for healing, that we would otherwise avoid. Healing ourselves in this way creates personal power and emotional health, as well as physical health. This year Heyoan suggests there is a more direct path to physical health: Healing the physical and energetic together through pleasure. I have, for much of my life, done what I was supposed to do next—being very responsible to commitments, especially commitments to others. As a result of this channeling, I am living in much more pleasure. Pleasure of all kinds, what I like to do, where I want to be, and what I want to do. It is working great. I have shifted to my commitment to my pleasure, leaving much more space for what I want to do now. It is working very well so far. Enjoy!!! In your use of free will, let each choice be one of pleasure that fills your whole being with healthy aliveness and opens an avenue into your heart, leads you into more fluidity to understand your truth more clearly, to speak precisely your words of love. *** No matter how anyone else behaves, you can still choose love, kindness, clarity, truth. They are the most pleasurable! *** Divine precision is the word of God flowing through you on the creative force of love that moves through every cell, through every breath, through every being. Divine precision holds a space for the pleasure of being you. *** Whatever is the most comfortable way for you to grow and unfold is right for you because it is your pleasure. *** There are many purposes within your body, each riding the wave of pleasure. Feel the pulsation of pleasure in your body. Feel the pulsation of pleasure in each cell. *** Notice how everything in your body likes to move. The human body is a fluid body. It functions through the pleasure of movement, percussion, pulses and the flow of fluids. Notice how fluid everything is, even inside your long bones. The Body’s Creative Movement Toward Health We bring you the possibility that pleasure can be enjoyed unabashedly, without judgment, without it being seen as negative in any way, in every part of your body. *** Every cell in your body moves toward pleasure and functions on pleasure. It is pleasure that initiates your breathing. It is pleasure with which your energy field pulses on the creative force of love. ***
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PleasureIssue 26-Spring 2007The Newsletter of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing®
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BBSH •InTouch®
continued on page 10
By Barbara Brennan
Founder andPresident of BBSH
At BBSH and BBSHE, we have focused on oursacred longing that leads us through our life into theexperiences we need for our personal growth. This processhas the power to take us into areas of experience, bothpresent and past for healing, that we would otherwiseavoid. Healing ourselves in this way creates personalpower and emotional health, as well as physical health.
This year Heyoan suggests there is a more direct pathto physical health:
Healing the physical and energetic togetherthrough pleasure.
I have, for much of my life, done what Iwas supposed to do next—being very responsibleto commitments, especially commitments to others.As a result of this channeling, I am living in muchmore pleasure. Pleasure of all kinds, what I like todo, where I want to be, and what I want to do. It isworking great. I have shifted to my commitmentto my pleasure, leaving much more space for whatI want to do now. It is working very well so far.
Enjoy!!!
In your use of free will,let each choice be one of pleasure
that fills your whole being with healthy alivenessand opens an avenue into your heart,
leads you into more fluidity to understand your truth more clearly,
to speak precisely your words of love.
***No matter how anyone else behaves,
you can still choose love, kindness, clarity, truth.
They are the most pleasurable!***
Divine precision is the word of God flowing through you on the creative force of love
that moves through every cell, through every breath, through every being.
Divine precision holds a space for the pleasure of being you.
***Whatever is the most comfortable way
for you to growand unfold
is right for you because it is your pleasure.
***There are many purposes within your body,
each riding the wave of pleasure.Feel the pulsation of pleasure in your body.Feel the pulsation of pleasure in each cell.
***Notice how everything in your body
likes to move.
The human body is a fluid body.It functions through the pleasure of movement,
percussion, pulses and the flow of fluids.
Notice how fluid everything is,even inside your long bones.
The Body’s Creative Movement Toward Health
We bring you the possibilitythat pleasure can be enjoyed unabashedly,
without judgment,without it being seen as negative in any way,
in every part of your body.
***Every cell in your body moves toward pleasure
and functions on pleasure.It is pleasure that initiates your breathing.
It is pleasure with which your energy field pulseson the creative force of love.
***
Barbara BrennanP R E S I D E N T
Barbara Brennan School of Healing500 NE Spanish River Boulevard
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Hello everyone!
I’m pleased to announce
that Kahea Morgan…who has
served as School Dean of BBSH
United States for several years…
is now moving into the position
of School Dean for the new BBSH
Japan (BBSHJ). BBSHJ will open
next fall for Year 1 Classes.
So tell all of your friends
the exciting news!
I‘m also happy to announce
that Priscilla Bright has become
the new School Dean for BBSH
in the U.S., and will become
the Year 2 Class Dean in the U.S.
next year. Priscilla took over
BBSH the third class of this
year and is already doing a great
job. She has, in the past, put a
lot of effort into streamlining the
paperwork and administration.
As I write this column, we’ve just completedClass 3 at BBSH, and so are more than halfwaythrough the school year.
Being the midpoint of the year, Class 3 isa time of some reflection for students whenthey assess their remaining challenges for theyear, and gather themselves to step forwardinto those challenges. This week also seemedlike a time of “deepening,” as the students’journeys expanded to new and deeper levels,as they connected even more fully into thetemplates of their specific years of study.
At this halfway point, I too take time toreflect, to see if I am taking my own steps tochallenge my images, and risk new ways ofbeing. And I ask myself, “In this school year,have I been as I long to be as a person anda teacher? Am I fully present to this journey,and if not, how can I arrive more fully?”
As faculty, we are on the journey of theschool year right along with the students,opening ourselves to the spiritual and personalgrowth and healing that comes throughout theyear as we work with Barbara’s and Heyoan’steachings.
For our HMD lectures this week we had apresentation by Year 3 Dean Donnalea Goelz,who spoke on Movement and Personal Process.On the second evening, we had a presentationby faculty members Steve Stroud (Year 3),Kate Pernice (Year 2) , John Shordike (Year 4Assistant Dean and BBSHE Year 4 Dean),and Hiroko Tsukiji-Steinberg (Year 4)…whoeach spoke on the unique ways they integrateBrennan Healing Science into their workand lives.
Both HMD evenings involved studentparticipation, and were engaging and full.Thanks to all of the teachers who sharedtheir energy and wisdom!
During this class week the students werefull of excitement and anticipation aboutCreative Arts, as they began preparationand planning for their Creative Arts projects,which will be exhibited and performed atClass 4. The projects have become an amazingcommunity event, and the energy for it isalready building.
The school year so far has been rich andfull. Blessings to everyone on our continuingjourney!
Priscilla BrightNew BBSH School Dean
Kahea MorganNew BBSH Japan School Dean
From Barbara:
From Priscilla Bright:BBSH United States
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BBSHJ will open its doors September 13, 2007 in Tokyo, andwe are hoping to draw students from all of Asia and the SouthPacific.
I had an opportunity in March at an IBHS in Tokyo to work withand listen to our graduates and students from Japan. (See photoson pages 10 and 11!) I found their commitment to BrennanHealing Science and their passion for awakening inspiring.
Satoshi Hirosawa and Kazuyo Kawamura, both BBSH PS4s,spoke in the evening school talk of their experience in travelingto Florida for 4 years…their challenges in being in a country sodifferent from theirs…the difficulties of not speaking English…andthe emotional rollercoaster rides of BBSH. They made us all laughand smile as they shared their stories.
Both Satoshi and Kazuyo beautifully transmitted their passionand excitement of how their work in the school has changed theirlives and relationships with friends and family. They concludedthat the adventure was more than they ever expected, and theirinfectious passion that night helped inspire the first 20 BBSHJstudents to enroll!
Taeko Yuchi, 2000 BBSH graduate, was a member of the veryfirst Japanese class of 12 at BBSH. She told me that BBSH graduatesin Japan have a huge influence in the Japanese new age spiritualcommunity, and she feels the first stage of the journey was thefirst BBSH Japanese class in the U.S. The beginning of BBSHJ,Taeko believes, is the second stage to make the enlightenmentbridge bigger and more stable.
“Now more can communicate in authentic method and makethe template here stronger.”
Somi Hongo, a 2001 BBSH graduate, shared with me that herfeelings about BBSHJ opening in Japan are very personal.
“I will feel more understood,” she said firmly. “Even though Ihave spiritual friends, they are not serious about awakening, butmore interested in manifesting money and comfort. With BBSHJhere, more people will be on a path of awakening. This is whatI am excited about—more people on the path.”
I wanted to hear more, so I asked Satsuki Nishimura, an AS2graduate in 2006, what BBSHJ opening in September meansto her. Satsuki, an investment banker and consultant, feels thatJapanese business and economy are very famous worldwide.However, she shared, the Japanese culture is often viewed byforeigners as distant, closed and mysterious. Opening a very special
From Kahea Morgan:BBSH Japan
healing school in Japan and drawing students from all of Asia,Satsuki feels, is an opportunity for a bridge of understandingbetween east and west cultures.
Although the BHS method is westernized, Satsuki sees BBSHJas a bridge to the spiritual, psychological and physical worlds tounderstand a healing path in a safe way. It is exciting, she said,that the good container and method of BBSH will be presentedin a worldwide healing center in Japan.
So there you have it—a taste of the excitement bubbling amongour graduates and students in Japan. I too am very thrilled andhonored to be a part of this new bridge of cultural understanding,healing and awakening.
Arigato Gozaimasu!
Gratitude, A Way of Living Beyond PracticeIt has been interesting to experience the transition from
practicing gratitude to living it. Study after study has proven thatgratitude above all is the “emotion” that shifts one into higherconsciousness, initiating a welcome response from the Universe.It is a state that naturally bestows grace and well-being on theone who is grateful.
I had always “practiced” gratitude until a few months ago. Itusually required a conscious effort on my part. One day I realizedI was no longer consciously focusing my attention on what I wasgrateful for, but rather the feeling of gratitude sprung seeminglyon its own volition into my heart and mind. Since that moment, thegratitude within me is like a spring, upwelling into my awarenessmany, many times each day. I have discovered gratitude to be afriend, with a beautiful consciousness all its own.
“How much is there to be grateful for?” you might ask.There is a lovely Hindu story about a man who lived in a village.
Each day he could be seen in the town square praising and thankingGod. The villagers would look at him and shake their heads, notunderstanding. One day the people awoke to the sound of a greatstorm. Rain, wind and hail were lashing the town.
“Finally,” they said, “he will have nothing to be grateful for.”They looked out their doors and there was the man, as always, inthe middle of the square praising and thanking God. A villagercalled out to him, “What can you possibly be grateful for today?”The man answered, “I’m thanking God that not all days are likethis one!”
If you have not begun a gratitude practice, begin one now.Be grateful for your breath. Be grateful that, in this moment, you
are alive in this form and able to experience life, whether joyfulor painful. In this moment you get to have the full experience.It will not always be so. Be grateful for the land, family, friendsand strangers. For food, air, water. For health. And for the abilityto strive to realize your full potential.
Make a daily gratitude list. Then wait for the magic.Your gratitude practice will dissolve into a loving prayer. It will
shimmer and illuminate. It is the “nectar of God.” The Universeis a most willing lover. It only awaits your kiss of gratitude so itmay respond in kind.
They say the kingdom of heaven is within us. Gratitude is thefastest way I know of getting there!
We say welcome to some of our new BBSHJ students!
From Laurie Keene:BBSH Europe
—by Bonnie Kozak ‘06
Introduction
The Harry Potter book series is thethreshold, for anyone at any age, toidentify within lifetime after lifetimethe need to tell a story. A story wherewe weave in a new strand each wakingday. The innumerable stories of lifeand living where life is eternal: maybenot yours, maybe not mine, but lifeis eternal, and now is the time.
This paper does not set out toprove anything using scientificmethods portraying results in graphs,
percentages, lists, cross references, and/or quotes by authorities, be they medical,religious, philosophical or political. This paper is one of many over the millennia thatspeak to the spirit of the law and not the letter, to the potential more than the realityat hand, and the mind of the heart rather than the head. If we are truly to be healers,we must live in the reality of magic and miracles, to ask for the heart’s desire, for ourgreatest longing, and trust it is given, to trust so deeply that we know, to become thewizards that transform life.
Do you believe in magic? It is a perennial question. How many centuries havepassed asking that question over and over again? Does it really matter if anyoneelse but you says, “Yes?” Psychic abilities are considered common in the Harry Potterseries, and most importantly, teachable. As this premise becomes more familiar, morecommonplace, maybe more readily understood and appreciated, we can find supportfor the “magical” orientation.
At BBSH, we learn to live in the magic.
Hogwarts Is Real,and I’m Enrolled
Ask and It Is Given:Everyday Magic
Dear Bahni:
This is a love song, a love feast, to
the dancing, laughing and loving goddess
who chose to transition just before
Valentine's Day.
We honor you Bahni—your wild
expression, your thinking out of the box,
your deep sweetness, your constant
reaching out for more…more pleasure,
deeper contact. We enjoy you Bahni—
your colorful essence, your playfulness,
your full-of-surprises nature, with no
boundaries, no limits.
We honor your humanitarian battles.
You are a planet healer.
Bahni, you are so alive to every one of
us, so present. We can smell the Starbucks
latte, dive into a chocolate madness feast
with sensuality, and follow your laugh
with so much wisdom and innocence.
Bahni, the Water Goddess of our
ceremony, you are present in our healing
and guiding us.
Your choice reminds us how deeply we
are connected beyond lifetimes, how deeply
we love each other beyond words. Your
choice reminds us that it is so easy to slip
into our lives and forget who we really are,
hold back, forget the Divinity within us.
Bahni, you have lived out loud and
we can hear you loving us. In return, love
is pouring out loud from each and every
one of us. Our core stars are expanding.
We are one. We are whole.
With love, gratitude, and in unity…
The Class of 2006
Celebrating
Bahni Lahma
1953–2007
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In honor of our friend and colleague, Bahni (Bonnie) Kozak ‘06, here are excerpts from her
Year 4 Project. We thank Bahni’s sons Matthew and Aaron for their permission to reprint these
passages. As Matthew wrote:
“I think this is a wonderful idea and know that my mother would be thrilled to have her work
circulated as much as possible. She had us read her work all of the time, so this is quite appropriate
and would be an honor.
“Thank you for the love and support that all of BBSH has provided to both my mother since her
beginnings with the school—one of her favorite places and the source of many of her brightest
moments—as well as to us since her passing. It’s very comforting to know how supportive and
otherwise important BBSH and the BBSH community was/is in her physical life and beyond.”
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Hogwarts Is Real
I’d missed the first week of school and was all butoverwhelmed with lessons and homework to catch up on.The Student Workbook listed Grounding, Tan Tien, Chakras,Colors, Modes of Energy, Chelation, Pendulum Readings,Clearing Clouds, HSP, and Holding Levels. Like Harry Potter,I found myself immersed in a world of amazing skills andeven more amazing experiences.
I was enrolled in the Barbara Brennan School of Healing,otherwise known as BBSH, or lovingly referred to as Hogwarts.Not having young children and not having much spare time,I hadn’t read the Harry Potter book that had just been released,but I had heard of J.K. Rowling’s rags-to-riches tale. In thatfirst year, I can’t even say when or with whom I saw The Sorcerer’sStone, but I do recall lots of comments referring to Hogwarts.Harry Potter was the buzz. The following unpublished haikupoems by Lynn Woodward, a fellow classmate, speak to thegeneral Hogwarts theme in that first year at BBSH:
We go to Hogwarts! Sensing new realities, Fingers see, cells sing.
If I could fly, how Would I be different?
And then, would I care?
The eye’s magic wand Transforming reality: Burden and blessing.
Poverty or wealth? The magic wand of forms,
Alchemy at work.
Feeling differences, Learning to see with my hand:
I go to Hogwarts.
Focused attention Magic wand of perspective
changing realities.
Focused intention Changing the view to life form
Lessons at Hogwarts.
Everyday Magic
My first year at BBSH shot by quickly. Life was a blur.The homework finally got caught up. The skills requiredpracticing to sharpen my High Sense Perception, consideredby some to be “psychic” abilities. One such technique, a TimeCapsule Healing, was similar to the “pensieve” in the HarryPotter books, where a healer can roll back in time and connectto events that have happened.
In a Time Capsule Healing, a wave of energy, charged with
emotion, surfaces…connecting to events that allow the client toexperience them in such a way that it is released. In the Muggleworld it is generally referred to as memory, and some peoplehave good ones and some not so good. But in the magical world,it is also a tool to explore and relive events in a heightenedstate of awareness experiencing an event that yields pertinentinformation through all the various senses, bringing to the forepreviously unnoticed or unknown data.
As with Harry, events personally not experienced may alsobe tapped into by the healer.No thought is ever truly lost orforgotten, and with a practicedeye, the perceiver may be ableto recognize the qualitativedifferences of those thatare altered.
More Everyday Magic
To become a healeris to become awareand sensitive to thecharge of emotion thatunderlies the issues athand, and like a radio,recognize whatfrequency you’reon, learn howto adjust yourdials to whatpleases you,and find whatserves you bestin the moment.
To be ahealer isto facilitatethis samepracticalawareness withthe client asthey learn totune into theirown uniquefrequencies, andthrough thework in healingsessions, to beempowered.
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The process itself is simple, but dogmatic scientific andreligious perspectives so color our experiences as rationalthinking beings that we cannot accept things that help us—makeus—feel good about what we want, what we do, and ourselves.Why does it seem that in most societies we continue to insiston struggle, pain and disease? How did we become so ingrainedwith the feeling of unworthiness that we have constructed ourworld with pain as its foundation?
For centuries we have cast aside the love and joy availableto us in some twisted belief where we feel justified in the shameand diminishment of our earthly corporeal existence. In ourattempts to sidestep the emotional fuel of our lives, we keepsearching for and creating limited mechanical constructs andabsolutes. Whether it be Newtonian or quantum physics, theemotional fuel we supply is key.
At BBSH, the realm of all potential and possibility is calledthe “black velvet void.” Whether we construct a scientific processand protocol or not, whether we even understand the scientificperspective or not, these realms of “magic” are accessible to usall, but the qualitative difference lies in our use of this profoundand inspiring Source.
Why is it easier to construct a mechanical universe where wereplace one “scientific” construct for another that leaves uswith yet another cold and sterile basis for what we call reality?Why are we so averse to the power of love, or could it be thatscience is softening at the edge?
In the Muggle world, scientists like Candace Pert, and doctorslike Bruce Lipton, are making the connections in ways that wecan begin to understand more clearly. Effortless Intention speaksto Belief Systems as well as Negative and Positive Intention.
The word “effortless” brings the connotation of ease, andwhen our beliefs support the flow of circumstance, our beliefsmore smoothly, maybe not quickly, but smoothly as we ride
the wave of the Life Pulse through the stages,call us outward and
inward. It is thenegative habitsof thoughtthat create the
struggles, the pain,the misery of holding
onto beliefs that donot serve our health
and happiness. Quite simply, after
all my years of studyingvarious disciplines, Ialways come back to
the profound simplicity of the Heart. The place that trulysymbolizes being alive, or dead. Love belongs to no one.“Love” is each of us, every one. “Evil” is the distortion ofour unmet needs. Love never leaves us so much as we moveaway from it. The soothing we deny ourselves in judgmentis the elixir of life.
The emotional scale is the key to health.As we pinch off, or freeze the flow of energy, we create our
characterological distortions, where we hold onto suspicion,blame, shame, and hatred. We keep ourselves separated fromthe Core Star—the spark, our individual and collective spark,the unifying and individuating aspect of our existence.
Is being a healer asking for trouble?That question seems to imply a yes, but actually for a healer,
the gem underneath all the digging is to get to the core, toexercise the finding and meeting of Core Essence in eachof us. Core Essence shines from that place where we reachbeyond space and time to recognize the Source from whichall things flow and where all things abide.
As science unravels the inner and outer units of our physicalexistence, the mystery and magic of our Source still begs tobe solved. In science we have evidence of the extinction of speciesthat have come before us, but looked at from a differentperspective, this same evidence shows that the creating forcegoes on eternally.
As with many wise teachers and healers…Buddha, Jesus,Lao Tsu, Mother Teresa, to name a few…the message stressedspeaks of the “God” within each of us, and the Source is thecreative force of Love. Whether we can appreciate and under-stand that concept, or not, does not alter its truth. At BBSH,the process of the creative force is called the Life Pulse. Life isan active process of ever becoming.
Learning Magic
The second year at BBSH reviewed the first year skillsand added States of Being, the 4 Dimensions of Humankind,Aura Healing from Unconditional Love, Astral Healing,the Sacred Human Heart, Time Capsule Healings, and anintroduction to Lines of Light. The association to Hogwartsgrew exponentially! The astral realm is an exploration into thebreadth of the imagination where the symbols and archetypesof all worlds...exist.
Some of my favorite work has been in the third year atBBSH, where there is 5th Level Surgery, Restructuring Chakras,and Restructuring Organs. In restructuring levels 1, 3, and 7,each finger is like a separate magic wand moving quickly,working with colored lines of light strengthening, repairing,sometimes removing, a shattered mess of energy lines torestructure an area of the body.
In Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince, using “Destination,Determination, Deliberation” is the instruction for masteringthe skill of apparating—disappearing from one place and
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appearing in another, similar to “Beam me up, Scotty.” It isa skill every wizard learns, but in energy work, there is noneed to apparate to effect a healing.
Incorporating determination and deliberation atBBSH, the word “Intention” is used. The keyto apparating and long-distance healing, aswith many skills, is to develop a practicaldegree of effortlessness where mastery yieldsto Effortless Intention. Long-distancehealings occur with the benefit of theclient or the healer never leavingthe comfort of their home,and we don’t have to worryabout splinching (when apart of the body is left behind)!
Healers work with the Aura,which is called a “light” body,close and real, but unseen by mostpeople. The nature of light is exactly whatwe’re dealing with in the field of energy healing. At BBSH,we are trained to be sensitive to this light body and work withit to ultimately effect change in the physical body.
Science probes out into the galaxies and deeper and deeperinto the body, and the basis of our world as light and energybecomes more real to us. As quantum physicists explore thefoundations of our world we come closer and closer to under-standing how the realm of magic works. The alchemist, themetaphysician, the witch, the wizard and the healer are everancient and new again. In similar fashion and in all honesty,the situation parallels what has been a burning conflict betweencomplementary and allopathic medicine. As the fire of the debateis no longer fueled by outworn beliefs of scientific limitations,the dissolution rate allows us to step into our future aseach successive generation slowly sheds the old belief systems,allowing new thoughts to broaden our perspective of what ispossibly, most probably, and actually real. Create and discoverfor the joy of it!
Repeatedly, Dumbledore asks Harry to speak to his integrityand make giving his word something of greatest value. Harry’sability to be honest with himself and others speaks to theBrennan Policies [Principles] of Practice that outline the expectedlevel of integrity that a healer needs to maintain, this beingan ongoing personal, as well as professional, commitment.
In life, every moment, we are making our way on somepath that leads to what we want or what we don’t want in ourfuture. The physical body is a focus for many of these choicesas we make our way through our lives, and a healer is someonewho will walk with you when asked.
At BBSH, totem and power animals as recognized by tribalcultures are also honored and revered as co-creators in healing,but in the end it is the client’s self-empowerment that makesthe difference.
At BBSH, another twist on Defense Against the Dark Arts
course (which is taught at Hogwarts) is our study of the fiveCharacterological defenses. There are a number of ways toteach the qualitative differences of the defensive strategies ofcertain characteristics of emotional energy, but at BBSH,we primarily use the ancient chakra system. In the bookHands of Light,® Barbara Brennan refers to the Bio-Energeticsmodel developed by Wilhelm Reich, Alexander Lowen and JohnPierrakos, in addition to studying The Pathwork Lectures ofEva Pierrakos to round out the core systems of reference as a“Brennan Healer.” In the Bio-Energetic model, I would suspect
that Harry most often exhibits character traits ofthe Psychopath, Ron the Masochist, Hermionethe Rigid, Neville Longbottom as the Oral,and Luna Lovegood as the classic Schizoid.
Hogwarts has a Sorting Hat that determinesthe placement of students into something like
fraternity or sorority “Houses”—Gryffindor, Hufflepuff,Ravenclaw and Slytherin—to express personality traits
offering clues to the use of personal energies. As withany general conclusion, they do not restrict the individualcharacters and they can lean in positive and negative directions.For example, even though both are in Gryffindor, Hermioneuses her intelligence, a distinctive characteristic of Ravenclaw,and Harry can be resentful and let his ego get away with him,as is characterized with Slytherin. Personal therapy sessionsthroughout the school year are required as each student of BBSHtouches more deeply into the negative emotional patterns thatdo not serve them and as a necessary part of becoming a healingprofessional. This process work plays a key part to reinforcingthe personal responsibility of each healer to themselves, as wellas their clients.
It is core to the BBSH program that healers are everydaypeople, and everyone has the seemingly special gifts that wehone in our practices. Hermione often admonishes the witchand wizard community for thinking that wizards and witchesare better than everyone else, and because they do not reachout enough, preferring to stay in their ivory towers.
BBSH students learn earlythat everyone has specialgifts, which they bring tothe world. One of ourmain goals is to helpeach client bringtheir gifts to light,recognizing ourhuman commonality,yet always inspiringthe wonder of ourbeing.
Unlike Hogwarts,BBSH is a recognizededucational institution.
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Our greatest teachings come from personal experience andcan awaken us to our true spiritual nature. In 1979, Iexperienced my first conscious and significant synchronicity.
It was an event that would plant the seeds of ongoingexploration of our spiritual nature.
Synchronicity has played an important role in my lifepersonally and professionally. Such events, whether seeminglyby default or co-created with positive intent, can serve as aform of spiritual guidance and contribute to healing energy-consciousness by awakening us to wholeness.
In 1979, my father had a heart attack and I was calledto his bedside. He wavered in a tentative clinical status…upand down, in and out…of the Coronary Care Unit for twoweeks. During this time, I returned to work as a psychiatricnurse at the Veterans Medical Center. Family and friendsheld bedside vigilance and prayerful hopefulness for a positiveoutcome. And on the twelfth day of this event, I went homefrom work to find one in a series of clinical nursing books inthe mail. With not a lot of enthusiasm for much of anything,I responded to an inner urging to open the package. The topic:Death and Dying.
“Ahhh, I know all I need to know about that,” I saidto myself. But something told me to look at it.
I flipped through thebook, and it fell
open to a pictureof an old friend,Evelyn.
I froze.
Synchronicity asSpiritual Guidance
—by Simone Guenette ‘94, R.N., BBSHE Year 4 Faculty
Evelyn had passed from cancer in 1975, and it had beenher wish to write about her experience. And here she was—facing me at this vulnerable time in my life, as I was dealingwith the possible impending death of my father.
Now I must digress and tell you about my experience withEvelyn, to help you appreciate the impact it had on me.
We had both worked in the same hospital at the time shewas diagnosed. In fact, I was working the very day she had hersurgery preparation. (In those days, people were admitted theday before surgery.) I admitted Evelyn and did her skin prep,which included shaving and cleansing the area. In the process,she asked me what I thought of the “lump.”
As soon as I touched it to examine it, I “knew” it wasmalignant. I had never been more sure of anything.
“Oh, I didn’t mean to put you on the spot,” she said.I hesitated, and slowly replied, “It doesn’t look good to me,but as you know, we won’t know until after the biopsy.”
And just as I had known, it was malignant, and a radicalmastectomy was performed, as was the procedure at thattime. Evelyn’s recollection as printed in her article is as follows:
“What a horrible question to ask her! I mean, it really put heron the spot. But Simone, bless her, came through. She hesitateda second and then responded. In that moment she helped memore than anyone else, more than all the good wishes and prayers.Because here, at last, was someone who would let me talk aboutit who wasn’t trying to hush me up.”1
Years of radiation and chemotherapy followed. In the mean-time, we would periodically visit and talk about the experience.Evelyn thanked me for being so honest that day, and sheproceeded to live her life for several more years and completeit with dignity, grace and humor. When she passed, I attendedher funeral and realized how much she had taught me aboutthe dying process. Her funeral was a magnificent, yet sad, event.
I walked away inspired by her life.
Simone and husband Richard
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When I opened the book and saw Evelyn, all time and spacedissolved, and I had a knowing that Evelyn had come to tell methat my father was going to die. I closed the book, and of course,have kept it all these many years. As I came back to myself,I realized what I needed to do—to say goodbye to my father.
I went to the hospital the next day, still wanting to hold ontomy denial, but as difficult as it was, I could no longer do so.I was able to be more present to him, and massaging his feet,I told him I loved him. He replied, “I love you, too”…wordswe had not frequently shared. Two days later, he passed to hisnext journey.
In my sadness, I had deep gratitude to Evelyn for bringingme the message that allowed me to bring closure and acceptanceof my father’s soul decision. I shared my experience with myfriends, who just quietly nodded at hearing my story of suchcoincidence. I, of course, had no understanding of how suchan event could occur, but the inner experience had been aprofound teacher.
How and why did this book, providing such an awesomepersonal experience, arrive on my doorstep at this particulartime—several years after Evelyn’s passing? Intuitively, I knewthe why, but I could not begin to understand the how.
Synchronicity Defined
The concept of synchronicity describes a meaningfulcoincidence of two or more events, where something otherthan probability of chance is involved. It was Carl Jung whofirst used the term after many years of making observationsof such events. He stated synchronicity consists of two factors:a) an unconscious image comes into consciousness (subjective)either directly or indirectly; and b) an objective situationcoincides with the content.2
In my own (subjective) experience, the unconscious becamethe conscious “intuitive knowing” that my father was goingto die, and the book was quite literally the direct (objective)delivery of the message. Other experiences, such as dreamsand premonitions, are examples of indirect knowing.
My father’s heart attack and the dying process, along withthe arrival of the book, are examples of objective events.
The principle of synchronicity asserts that the synchronisticevent included simultaneity and meaning.3
Certainly, both were present in this case.Jung knew physicists Einstein and Pauli, and had an
understanding of a unified field, and that time/space were nolonger constant concepts. Jung also had knowledge of Easternphilosophies and so developed his theories upon blendedknowledge of science and philosophy. Believing that we havean unconscious connection to this field (collective unconscious),Jung stated that coincidences mirror deep psychological processes
and make them conscious. An archetype lying dormant inthis unconscious is triggered, releasing an energy and theaccompanying synchronistic event. The power release isliterally a sense of the divine (as was my inner experience).Jung’s fascination with Einstein’s discovery of the powerwithin the atom led him to consider the possibility of suchpower within the human psyche.4
Explaining the How
There is no explanation for synchronicity from thehuman/physical dualistic perspective. Therefore, Jung referredto it as an acausal principle—acausal meaning without observablecause and effect. However, we now have a growing body ofscientific information from a variety of disciplines that arecontributing to a Unified Field Theory.
McTaggart’s interesting and valuable work, The Field, is areview of the works of scientists that reveal the interconnectednessof the universe. Something like a consciousness field exists,although we are still not completely aware of how it works.We do know that our intention and emotional state can beconveyed as information that affects another system beyondourselves. Information consciousness can exist without aphysical component. It exists in the field or “other realm,”and can be accessed by “crossing the veil.” Altered statesof consciousness can access this field of information.
The ongoing consciousness research at Princeton Universityhas prompted many scientists the world over to speculate ontheories to help explain the obvious and statistically significantdata that has been collected.5
As Ken Wilbur states, our three-dimensional world is a“flatland,” and what we have to work with at the present areflatland tools. Someday we may have the necessary tools thatcan support the existence of the field. And, somewhere inthe field, synchronicities occur. One realm affects the otherand results in the interplay of the physical and nonphysical.Space/time as we experience it on this planet does not existin the other realms. This is well known by physicists.
The Trickster
The archetype most closely associated with synchronicity isthe Trickster as manifested by the Greek god Hermes. The mythis that Hermes is the bringer of luck—good and bad, guideof souls to the underworld, and messenger to the gods. “He ismaster of boundaries and transitions. It is through this masterythat he surprises mundane reality with the unexpected andthe miraculous.”6
It is uncanny that the most significant synchronicitieshappened to me at major transitions in my life, substantiatingthis Trickster energy for me.
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Pleasurecontinued from cover
***Feel the pleasure in movement.
Feel the pleasure of the articulationof your joints.
Look inside, feel, hear, know, perceive. That’s you in there!
Notice how bright and full of lifeyou are in there!
***Nothing in your body is ever still,
even when you are lying down or asleep.How pleasurable it is to move.
Every time you take a step there is percussion. You initiate more fluid movement
every time you eat or drink,with every breath you take.
Do not hold yourself rigid in this movement.Let it flow in pleasure.
***Breathe in the breath of life from the universe
filled with energy and consciousness.It goes throughout all systems of your body.
Pleasure is each breath you take.
***Your brain isn’t still either.
Look at all of the action in your brain!Feel it, see it, hear it, know it.
Know the pleasure of one momentof conscious awareness!
***Your bodies are full of light, full of love.
The body functions on love and pleasure.What is your pleasure?
What is your body's pleasure?What does your body love to do? Where does your body love to be?
How does your body love to respond to your loved one?Feel this pleasure throughout every cell,
the pulsation, the sound of life.
***You are crystalline beings of light
with many facets and colors who have drawn up your body
from mother earth.Your physical body runs on pleasure.
Health is pleasure.Pleasure flows on the creative force of love.
***It is every cell’s pleasure to be alive.
It is every cell’s pleasureto exchange with others.
It is every organ’s pleasureto create and to do its purpose.
Dear ones, allow pleasure,invite pleasure in.
It’s the healthy thing to do!
Many thanks to
our graduates
who volunteered
their time for
this IBHS.
Students and graduates from BBSH and BBSHE.
Advanced Studies
Year 2 graduates
Misa Kamiya (left)
and Satsuki Nishimura.
Two new BBSHJ students
in the process of registering!
BBSHJ Dean Kahea Morgan with grads holding Barbara’s CDs.
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BBSHE Dean Laurie Keene instructs.
Enrollment Representative Midori Sato (left) registers a BBSHJ student.
Their smiles say it all, don’t they?
An American workshop participant holding LIGHT EMERGING in English…and a Japanese participant holding HANDS OF LIGHT in Japanese!
New BBSHJ Students and the Recent Tokyo IBHS!
Kahea and BBSHGrad Hiroko Ona.
To attract new students and further bring
Brennan Healing Science out into the world, BBSH
has launched its “Testimonial” campaign…where
real graduates tell their real stories about the real
changes that BBSH has made in their lives.
“Some of theBest Yearsof My Life..”
“My time at the Barbara Brennan School
of Healing was nothing short of astounding.
It is hard to truly convey the profundity of
the teachings and enormity of my personal
transformation that took place over the four
years of studies.
“I treasure all that I experienced there—
the sophisticated healing skills, the intensive
work on personal growth, and the wonderful
sense of community among classmates of all ages and walks of life.
They were among the best years of my life.
“I have the greatest admiration for Barbara and her wonderful faculty
of teachers, all of whom guided me through the multiple challenges
with compassion, gentleness and understanding. In doing so, they
created a place of safety in which I could feel confident and alive.
“One dream I thought I could never attain has also come true:
“As a young adult with serious reproductive system problems, I was
told I would never have children. Today, I have my miracle baby…
Michael…who is now almost five years old.
“I am sure all of the healings I received played a part.
“As a Brennan Healing Science Practitioner, I now use the school’s
teachings on a daily basis as I continue my journey of healing and
self-discovery.”
—Michelle Renee DeMercurio, New Jersey, 2003 BBSH Graduate
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English translation for Japanese language ad shown above at the far right:
“How I Learned to Fulfill My Dreams”“The Barbara Brennan School of Healing changed my life. I had
tried a lot of healing modalities to heal my issues. These eased mypain, but I never felt the fundamental problem was solved.
these new ads will appear in publications throughout
the world, reaching prospective students for the U.S.,
Europe and Japan schools.
Special thanks go to the featured graduates below
(and those who’ve agreed to appear in upcoming
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at BBSH in order to help other people enjoy the
same balance and pleasure that they do.
We’re sure that readers will be touched by their
stories, and will be motivated to learn more about
the Barbara Brennan School of Healing and how
Brennan Healing Science can have such a positive
impact on their bodies and souls.
“How I Learnedto Transform
My Life.”“The Barbara Brennan School of Healing
really challenged me to look deep inside
myself and to thoroughly examine my
life. I was able to understand that my
fears and anxieties, childhood issues
that I had carried forward into adulthood,
could be transformed.
“Through my years at the school, this personal transformation
occurred, giving me a whole new sense of freedom from blame
and expectation of others. More than that, it also brought me
into full contact with reality. My qualities became more present
and my gifts and longings came out of shadow.
“As a child, I had experienced the higher senses, and BBSH
showed me how to reawaken and fully develop these. Although
I come from the Netherlands, I moved with my family to France
and opened what has become a successful healing practice.
“As my journey continues, I will always carry with me a
deep gratitude for my teachers at the Barbara Brennan School
of Healing, as well as the warmth of that whole wonderful
community.”—Irma van Schadewijk-Verhoef
Soumensac, France • 2003 BBSH Graduate
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Like Irma, you too have the opportunity tolearn directly from Barbara Brennan on the four-year
training program that can transform your life and bring thehigher levels of awareness into everyday normality.
The Barbara Brennan School of Healing isn’t just aboutlearning to heal—it’s also about creating the life you want.
Visit our web site to order your free copy of ourremarkable new DVD, “Becoming a Healer.”
“I Now Havethe Life of
My Dreams..”“When I first heard of the Barbara Brennan
School of Healing I was a counselor in acommunity mental health center workingwith people afflicted by schizophrenia andbipolar disorder. Being on the verge ofcomplete burnout with overwork had led meto explore alternative modalities of healing,as much for myself as for my clients.
“I knew from the moment I picked upBarbara’s book Hands of Light® that I had toattend the school. Almost immediately after enrolling, major changesbegan occurring in my life.
“My clients, many with whom I had been working for years, alsobegan to improve, in some cases dramatically. And my own personalhealing has been profound.
“The school, with its wonderful teachers, set me on a journey ofself-discovery and movement toward wholeness. In 2000 I gave up my job, and I now have a thriving healing practice in which I usemy skills as a counselor, along with hands-on healing. I now knowwhat it is to be ‘embodied.’
“I speak from my entire being when I say that I love all that I havecreated in my life. It is the life of my dreams, and I can thank Barbara…and myself…for this extraordinary gift.”
—Madeleine Conger, Louisiana, 2002 BBSH® Graduate
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Like Madeleine, you too have the opportunity to learndirectly from Barbara Brennan on the four-year training
program that can transform your life and bring thehigher levels of awareness into everyday normality.
The Barbara Brennan School of Healing isn’t just aboutlearning to heal—it’s also about creating the life you want.
Visit our web site to order your free copy of ourremarkable new DVD, Becoming a Healer.
“When I arrived at BBSH, I had a one-year-old baby, an ex-husband,and little money. But going there was the best decision I ever made.
“BBSH was a kind of a wonderland for me. It was a place filled withlove and safety, with nearly 100 wonderful teachers who showed merespect, wisdom and integrity. In my four years of studying, I learned a
lot about healing myself and others. In those days I had to travel fivetimes a year to attend class in the United States. Now the school willopen in Japan, and this is so exciting!
“Right now, I'm fulfilling my dreams one by one, knowing that in myheart, I have found the truth I had always been searching for.“
Mihoko Yamamoto • Fukuoaka, Japan • BBSH Graduate 2004
Grads Share Their Stories
Quoting from a BBSH brochure, graduates of the schoolare “eligible to establish a professional practice as a BrennanHealing Science Practitioner—one of the most highly regardedtitles in the field of energy healing and holistic healthcare.”
Since it is taught at BBSH that each client determines thecourse of action in healing, no specialty is better than another.Individuals develop distinctive styles and abilities, and overtime, there has been a language change from “alternative” to“complementary” medicine, showing the progress made forwardin the goal to offer each client the healing modality that
serves them best. The HarryPotter series
is the life
and times of a youngwizard who realizes his
destiny attending a school ofwizardry. In the simplest terms, the tale is one
of growing up and becoming a powerful, wise andproficient wizard. This process is a universal human
theme of maturation. As with all organic processes, weneed time to ripen, but we must never forget that we have
within us the seed of new life to begin again, and again, andagain. At the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, we learnto appreciate the multidimensional layers of what we call theLife Pulse. An individual life, in all its aspects, is the livingexample of this multidimensional reality.
The use of fantasy and magic in a child’s life, and even inthe life of an adult, can be as simple as a daydream. When dowe, or should we ever, stop believing in magic? Isn’t it the energythat creates worlds? Who decides what is possible? In history,the fictional novel of one age has often become the realityof another.
BBSH has become a recognized academic institutiondedicated to advancing the professional healer, fosteringresearch in the field of energy medicine, and offering personaltransformation and growth to dedicated students. It was once
Everyday Magic—Hogwarts Is Realcontinued from page 7
the dream of a woman named Barbara Brennan, and dedicatedothers shared that dream, helping to give it life. If fantasy andmagic put us on the leading edge of thought, then we are wherewe are most needed in the world as creators of what can be,otherwise, and often called “healers.” As healers we hold ourselves,and our clients, in Unconditional Love where the Intentionof a client is made clear and the Beliefs and Images are theonly wall between where they are and where they want to be.
Conclusion
Time is a flexible medium in healing. Reality isn’t quite thefirm foundation we have held it to be. Belief is a cornerstonethat allows probable realities to emerge to the benefit of theclient in the healing process. Alternative medicine is benefitingby a renaissance of our world view. As our societal consensusof reality shifts, so too does our acceptance of what is or isn’tpossible. Ask and it is given. It’s magic every day—everydaymagic.
Witch, wizard, healer, or muggle…in the realm of the SacredHuman Heart, all things are possible. In literature circles,there is a debate as to whether the Harry Potter series qualifiesas an epic tale, and I’ll leave that final decision to them. Butas each and every one of us lives our personal stories, we canat various levels easily relate to the trials and tribulations,successes, and rewards of the young hero.
How do we choose to live our lives?The answer to that question is at the core of Harry’s magical
life—and our own.Every magical moment, every magical day.
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Since January of Last Year…
Dr. Barbara Brennan has been writing a bimonthly
column for select publications throughout the
United States, Europe and Japan. Each column
addresses a new topic or current event within the
healing world. The columns are also available in
the Newsroom on www.barbarabrennan.com
"I just finished reading Barbara’s Column articles
on the website, and I feel more inspired than ever
to take my work out into the world. Thank you!"
M’Lissa Dayton ‘06
Hara and Positive Intention
Barbara Brennan’s four-dimensional model of humankindoffers a wonderful way into understanding how to apply intentionto our lives. Hara is a deeper dimension, beyond the physicaland auric dimensions. Hara holds our intention for this life’sincarnation.7
The gradual process of strengthening Hara along withawakening through psych-spiritual development skills guidethe student to the nonphysical experience of Hara/Intention.
It is possible to set positive intention each day to observehow synchronicities are working in one’s life. Some events willbe minor, others life changing. In April of 2002, my husbandTerry “transitioned," unexpectedly and quickly, from a heartattack. From the moment I found him, and in spite of mydeep shock, I was aware of what was happening. I aligned withthe Divine and I also knew that Terry’s soul had made his choice.
I proceeded to live my path from the place of deep griefand knowing, never giving up my faith and the teachingsI had received and been living at BBSH, and especially asa teacher in Year 4 where Hara and Core Star are the focus.How grateful I was to have embodied the teachings at thistime of great challenge.
I can almost remember the day my grief began to lift. It wasin August of 2003 when I began to consider the possibilityof being happy again.
Being a double Libra, I love being in partnership. I setmy intention and turned it over to God and Match.com!As I frequently did at the time, I spoke with Terry and askedhim to help find someone for me. He knew what I neededand I didn’t want it to be difficult. Those were my requests.
The first man I met was widowed three months before me.As I investigated the possibilities, I felt a growing interestand love developing. But as Richard and I were dating, I wasuncertain; it felt a little too fast. So again, I set my intentionand asked Terry to send a sign.
On the exact day of the second anniversary of Terry’s passing,I received an envelope in the mail addressed to Richard Duniho.Now, my current husband is Richard Menoche and my celestialhusband is Terence Duniho. So the name on the envelope wasan amalgam of the two! In awe and almost disbelief at whatI was seeing, I said, “Thank you, Terry."
In the envelope was a flyer advertising an Irish Tenorperformance. The evening before receiving this, I had beenreminiscing about our trip to Ireland taken very shortly beforeTerry died. It had been his dream to go to Ireland and hekept a very detailed journal of the trip. Reading the journalhad brought the trip to life again. (How interesting that theTrickster had come to me through the mail.)
This time, I could accept the perfect divinity of it all.I trusted the guidance it brought and I understood that Richard
was the right one. We were married January 31st, a year tothe day that we met. We are still in awe of the miracle of ourconnection. And we know there will be more lessons in ourlife plan together.
Synchronicity cannot be predicted, but we can set intentionto be aware of how it can manifest in our lives. Invite theTrickster and expect the unexpected.
Whether “good” or “bad,” it can be an opportunity forguidance, moving us to greater awareness and healing theseparation of duality. At the same time, it is most importantto be grounded and discerning in your interpretation of the event.
Summary: Characteristics of Synchronistic Events
• Unexpected and not time/space dependent
• Involve two or more events that occur simultaneouslyand ignite meaning
• Personal events, and when significant, can bringintuitive knowing, thus promoting spiritual growth
• Can reflect a deep, broad holistic reality—you geta “bigger” picture
• Abound at times of life transitions
• Meditation tends to promote activity of archetypes,which in turn lies at the root of synchronicity
• Strengthening hara strengthens intention and grounding
When intention is in alignment with our Divine plan,we co-create into physical manifestation.
We are co-creators of synchronistic events that then reflect…mirror back to us…making conscious the unconscious.These events demonstrate the possibility of reaching acrossthe material plane and interacting with other realms.
References
1. Nursing 77. Dealing with Death and Dying. Surviving: Four PatientsTalk. (Jenkingtown, Pa: Intermed Communications, 1977) p 113.
2. Jung, CG. translation by RFC Hull. Synchronicity an AcausalConnecting Principle. (Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press,1973) p 31.
3. Jung, CG. p 69
4. Combs, A and M Holland. Synchronicity.(New York: Marlowe and Company, 1996) p 68
5. McTaggart, Lynne. The Field.(New York, NY: Harper CollinsPublishing, Inc., 2003)
6. Combs, A and M Holland. p 82.
7. Brennan, B. Light Emerging.(New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1993).
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Terence…Simone’s celestial husband
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