THE BEACON MAGAZINE

It is a deeply human impulse to want to heal disease. The witnessing of suffering accompanied by a sense of powerlessness to alleviate it can be agonizing. Yet one of the paradoxes of the spiritual Path is the realisation that sometimes disease can be a means of clearance, and therefore beneficent in its effects.

Healing can perhaps best be defined as the restoration of harmony to the complexity of energies that constitute the vehicles of man’s manifestation. If this definition is accurate, then the key to healing lies firstly in an understanding of the range of energies that may be present within a man and his environment, and secondly it involves accurate recognition of those energies that are present within a patient. The point of conflict can then be ascertained in the knowledge of the energies involved and energy added or withdrawn from the various areas at the healer’s discretion.

In Esoteric Healing, Alice Bailey presented a formula of healing for each of the seven rays but with virtually no explanation. She did say that these formulas were "gathered out of the ‘Book of Rules for Initiated Disciples’, "lay the foundation for a future structure of knowledge", and are "susceptible of three significances, the lowest of which the modern student may succeed in interpreting for himself if he reflects adequately and lives spiritually".

Electronic communications technology, like the body’s system of energy fields and information processing nodes, is both a reflection of human creative consciousness, and also a field through which consciousness moves. Each form of the global infosphere resonates with a different aspect of our chakra system, each carries the light and shadow of the human spirit, each offers us a mirror to our personal and cultural liberation.

As we go through life we adjust to changes and open up to areas of ourselves. For instance, discovering we have emotions can be a time of traumatic adjustment, and later of realising ourselves as independent thinkers and the power of the mind. Further on in life we may open ourselves to greater spiritual sensitivity as well, each stage offering opportunity, but also crisis.

William Harvey is well known as the "discoverer" of the circulation of the blood and as a pioneering scientific researcher on the mechanism and function of the heart. More than three centuries after his death the importance of Harvey’s work continues to be acknowledged in exoteric scientific circles where he is seen as having laid the foundation of the present imposing edifice of modern scientific medicine.