Inquiry

 I think we are so lucky to be living in a time when technologies such as Holosync (see Ken Wilber's conversation with Bill Harris) are available. However I would like to sound a possible note of caution for people who suffer with chronic, exogenous, atypical depression, like me. When I moved on to a certain level I experienced a depressive episode, which stopped when I stopped using Holosync. After a little while I tried again, and the same thing happened. Undaunted, three months later I tried again, and once more experienced a depressive episode. I contacted Holosync's excellent advisory team, and was advised that this was probably another symptom of resistance. This may well be the case but depression is something it's very difficult to detatch from, and just let happen. In fact, on the advice of a therapist several years ago I did try this, and ended up with a full blown nervous breakdown, so am not keen to try it again. Having undertaken a little research into this myself, it seems to be fairly common 'knowledge' among main stream medics, in both the USA and UK, that certain brainwave frequencies can indeed trigger a depressive episode. My experience, on the face of it, would seem to back this up. I wonder if anybody else has has this experience, and how they dealt with it.

Helen

I have recently been visiting the San Diego Sufi center where I have met several graduates from the University of Spiritual Healing and Sufism in northern California. ( http://www.sufiuniversity.org/ ).  These wonderful healers have beeen helping me to open my soul to be touched by the divine in the most gentle, heartfelt, and merciful way. 

The primary healing technique that they have been sharing with me is called the Sufi remembrance technique.  The focus is on the heart.  Life can bring us pain and cause our hearts to become closed and gaurded.  This technique is aimed to gently open the ear of the heart, to listen with the heart. With the ear of the heart you can hear the wispers of love from the divine. Remebrance means remembering the open and loving state that our hearts where in when we were small children.  The healer holds a safe place for the receiver.  Together we visualize a waterfall of love pouring into the top of the head and filling the chest cavity.  We feel the love filling our chest cavity.  We chant the name of Allah.   The Ah sound opens the heart, and the La sound splashes the love into our hearts, scooping it up and drawing the love into our center.  After several minutes the floodgates open and the heart is filled with divine love and mercy.   Old wounds are healed, old grudges are forgiven, fears melt away, and the heart leaps with gratitude before the awesome mercy of God.

The distinction that I practice is ... From the beginning of time to now, somebody else said so, from Now and into infinity I say so, or I dont  say so,   CHOOSE

-- Centering Prayer.....  Sitting in the lap and the love of the Maternal Abyss of Nothingness, opening (or rather emptying) my heart and mind to the presence and action of Spirit, letting go of thoughts, letting go of attachments, just Being..... 

Unbound Spirit