Illumination
The Illumination process is a Peruvian shamanic technique brought to
North America by Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D, one of the first North
Americans to study with the Q'ero shamans in the Andes. In his
book, Shaman, Healer, Sage,
Mr. Villoldo says of Illumination:
"The Illumination Process transforms heavy
energies into light. this is also a metaphor for saying that it
transforms emotional wounds into sources of power and knowledge
... Through an alchemical process (miqui / mikhuy), one
transforms one's wounds into a source of courage and strength ... The
lessons are integrated at an energetic level ... The Illumination
Process transforms the heavy emotions associated with trauma and
disease into nourishing life energy.
The Illumination Process
achieves healing in three ways. First, it burns up the sludge and
deposits adhering to the walls of a chakra. This promotes
longevity and strengthens the immune response. Second, it
combusts the toxic energy around malignant physical and emotional
imprints. This is the fuel that an imprint employs to express
itself. Third, it scours clean the imprints in the Luminous
Energy Field. The Illumination Process brings about healing at
the source, at the blueprint level of our being. When these
imprints are erased, one can readily change negative emotions and
behaviors. The power of the immune system is unleashed, so that
physical healing is accelerated.
After the Illumination
Process combusts the energies around the imprint, the underlying
imprints are erased. There is no pattern left in the blueprint to
reorganize an old reality."
Shaman, Healer, Sage,
pp. 156-160.
Our energy bubble, our Luminous Energy Field, also known as our poq'po,
carries the imprints of past trauma and emotional wounds. These
imprints serve as grooves on a record to perpetually steer
us into well-worn behavioral loops around these traumas.
Illumination is a
process which combusts and mulches the heavy energies associated with
these traumas, removing these imprints completely and
permanently. This cleanses the energy bubble, erasing the
patterns which drive us back into those loops of
unhealthy and destructive thoughts and behavior. In the process,
deep insight is gained about these imprints and "the wounds cease scripting reality and
turn out to be gifts of love and strength."
My
personal experience of the Illumination Process is that it is deep,
profound, often gentle work with amazingly far-reaching effect.
Like knots being untied and unraveled, I actually felt my inner
emotional fabric loosening in a wonderful way, giving me more freedom
to respond spontaneously from my center rather than to these previously
hard-wired imprinted responses.
An Illumination session typically lasts from two to three hours.
I will open sacred space around us using rattling and intentional
prayer to call the spirits, and then we will discuss the issue you wish
to release for that session. You will work with one of my khuyas, my medicine stones, which
have been 'taught' to mulch and combust the heavy energies of the
imprint. Each khuya was
itself activated during an Illumination session that I underwent in the
first portion of my Peruvian shamanic training. I have indeed
made strong medicine of those issues! As you lie face-up on my
table, the khuya is placed on
the lowest of your chakras affected by the issue, and breath is then
used to move the hucha down
into the stone where it can be mulched and combusted. To
completely clear the imprint, it is necessary to re-experience the emotions surrounding the issue, but
not the original trauma itself; through the emotions associated with
the imprint, you harvest the hucha,
the negative energy surrounding the imprint and release it. When you
feel 'done', we thank the spirits for their assistance and insight and
then we close sacred space. Illumination has become one of my
favorite shamanic techniques, mostly because it is so incredibly
profound and transformative.
If you would like to experience the releasing of an imprint in your
Luminous Energy Field, transforming a perpetual wound and unwanted
negative thought pattern into strength and healing, please contact me.
Jeffrey
Rich
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