Healing is a broad term, and we may be tempted to define emotional, physical, or spiritual healing—or even financial healing—in different ways. Emotional healing may be defined as being free of negative emotional charge from the past, while financial healing may be defined as freedom from debt. Physical healing may be the mending of a limb or the elimination of cancer.
For almost 20 years, the anesthetic ketamine, also known as the party drug “special K,” has piqued curiosity in psychiatry, and rightly so. Over time, research has shown that ketamine alleviates depression in only a few hours. This rapid action is in stark contrast to existing antidepressants that normally take weeks to begin working, which matters greatly when dealing with someone who is actively suicidal from the pain and despair of constant depression.
I recently reread some of Paul Levy’s penetrating teaching on how to break the trance of evil, In his book Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil, Levy shows us that within the very force that can destroy us lies the hope of what can save our world at this time. Levy describes wetiko as a non-local, transcendental force that cannot be adequately expressed in language, because it is not a thing. The abstract nature of the English language fails to account for such dynamic forces as wetiko that affect us all the time yet are not visible or measurable.
Our ability to be vulnerable first with ourselves, and then with others is far from being synonymous with weakness or being broken or needy, as is so often believed, It is in truth our most reliable strength in a world where ideology and lies are used as weapons, between friends, family members, and even partners.
“No more excuses. We must find one another, and as we join in a deeper communion with one another, we can no longer be destroyed.”
Kathleen Hanagan
We face the task of loving our world and one another back into wholeness. We can only do that if we learn to be open from the center. Desmond Tutu said, “My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.”
As human beings we are a complex web of interconnection, an eternal unified field of consciousness. The simplest way to explain that is that we exist in a space in which the observer, the process of observation, and the observed, are all one. We are not separate from all that we have created, and this realization can awaken us to the power we possess individually and as a collective to create a magnificent and desired future.
Essentially, the Law of Attraction can be understood by the concept that “like attracts like,” and that what we place our focus on has a huge impact on what is actually happening in our lives. If we focus on being afraid of things out there, we activate fear inside and that is our point of attraction, calling fearful things to us. If we focus on expecting a positive outcome, we can activate the feeling of optimism as a point of attraction inside. If we focus on our desire to connect, we activate openness inside as our point of attraction, and invite the same in others. We impact the outcome each time.
