An Inner Guide to Healing Through Energy Medicine
Dear Readers,
My writing colleague, Dorothy, has published a book on the teachings of her mentor, Rahul Star Patel, and has asked me to let others know about it. I am posting an essay she recently wrote on her blog, and her description of the book below it. I hope that those of you who are interested will contact Dorothy, and those who are not will patiently wait for my next post . . .
Rhythm
July 12, 2021
Oakland, CA
Sunny and warm
A few years ago in India, I was staying at a tiny ashram in Gujarat near the border of Pakistan. We were near a Muslim village on the banks of the Shabarmati River, which flows through Ahmedabad. In the morning we could hear the chanting of the village women as they washed their clothes in the river, slamming them against the rocks on the edge of the river. “Chant – wham! Chant – Wham! Chant – Wham!.” The chanting, I am sure, made the whams much easier.
In the classic movie, “Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?” a chain gang is chanting as they drive the pylons into the railroad ties. There are many sea chanties used by the sailors of wind-driven ships to lighten their work. And when I put on some loud and very rhythmic jazz, my daughter says, “Wow! Housecleaning music!” and hauls out the vacuum cleaner.
Politicians use rhythmic speech to capture their audience. For good or evil, the principal is the same. They use rhythm to catch people, get them to board their train and take off with them to an unknown destination. Only the speaker knows where they are going, and often he doesn’t know either. But the force of the rhythm carries them along.
Where does rhythm come from? Is it something pre-existing which we can tap into? Or is it something we invent as we speak? The planets and stars revolve in a gigantic rhythm such that we can predict exactly when they will reappear in the same configuration. Here on earth, the rhythm of the seasons is fairly reliable. The pulse of the cosmos is always beating whether in broad, spacious beats, or in tiny, fractional beats. Our heartbeats may be echoing the rhythmic beats of the cosmic heart. We are living in a sea of rhythm.
The Pied Piper of Hamlin used music and rhythm to kidnap the children of Hamlin and lead them, dancing, to oblivion. The sound of Krishna’s flute drew the respectable housewives of Vrindaban to a divine, spiritual experience in the jungles of Vrindaban. Whose rhythm are we following? The rhythm of the Pied Piper, or the flute of Krishna? Will we end up with disaster or with joy? Be careful!
May we all have joy!
Published!
I am happy to announce that The Healer’s Way: An Inner Guide to Healing Through Energy Medicine, the essence of Rahul Star Patel’s teachings on healing, has been published and is available for purchase.
The Healer’s Way integrates an astounding amount of information from many fields into a comprehensive guide that is deeply mystical but also practical and easily applied. Rahul’s teachings changed my life and continues to inform how I live. I believe they have the potential to help many others heal their lives.
I was Rahul Patel’s student and assistant for the last eight years of his life and am intimately familiar with his work. I know from my own experience, and that of others, how powerfully transformational his teachings are. Rahul asked me to publish his book for him, but until recently I didn’t have the resources to publish it. Fortunately, a friend and former student made it possible for me to complete a task that had been haunting me for years. I am very grateful to at last be able to fulfill Rahul’s wish.
For more information about Rahul Patel, please go to https://rahulstarpatel.com.
Dorothy lives in Oakland, CA, She has four adult children, loves music, and practices kyudo, Japanese archery, which is a physical meditation. Although she is not an activist, she is a member of ACLU, Our Revolution, and the International Rescue Committee, to which she will donate any profits from her work. She can be reached at https://dorothyseeger.com/
Marlene
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