Viewing Intimately
November 2nd, 2007 by Rose RosetreeFunny little surveys sometimes spice up my teaching. Students like to participate. I like the occasional shock.Yes, shock. This happened recently with some 70 students after I asked these questions:
- How many of you have tried to read auras?
- How many of you have tried remote viewing?
Remote viewers outnumbered aura readers by about 4:1 (if, in my stunned state, I counted correctly).
My shock isn’t a put-down of remote viewing; it’s a fine way to practice ESP. Not to mention the carfare you can save. Hey, for all my phone sessions of Energy Spirituality, I read auras remotely! But the only reason it works so well is that first I spent a decade reading auras right there in the room with me.
One friend of mine confessed some ambivalence about remote viewing and healing. “So many people offer to send me Reiki and other forms of remote healing. Maybe I’m just too dense to appreciate it but I have to tell you, it never seems to work.”
Deeper Perception can help any kind of healing to work, whether done near or far. Reading people more deeply increases our perceptiveness. For instance, I believe that the 100+ techniques in Aura Reading Through All Your Senses could help remote viewers. (Any comments from you Blog-Buddies who are both remote viewers and aura readers?)
Still, we always get to choose the context for our perceptiveness. We can flash ourselves out about what’s in the distance or we can, bravely, home in on immediate, personal reality–daring to experience that rather counter-culture type of intimacy.
“The Great Leap,” I call it. Most of today’s metaphysical seekers prefer the relatively far-out. Yet our destiny, I believe, is to find the far-out right here: Human plus Divine, here and now.
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WHAT WAS THAT JOB? Last night, speaking with some Japanese friends, I teased “Wendy” about her pronunciation. “L” is a hard letter to say if you’ve grown up Japanese. It comes out sounding more like “R” as in “Blackbelly tea.“
So, without meaning to, Wendy referred to someone we knew as a “Fright attendant.”
In our own lives, it might seem more glamorous to be a flight attendant. We’d get to go places, see things, serve passengers innumerable meals with little plastic dishes, and learn how to overcome jet lag. Flight attending could be compared to remote viewing. Call that job adventurously far out.
But whoever would choose to become a fright attendant? To hold that job you must be willing to keep yourself company when feeling scared. Instead of fleeing the room, inwardly, you courageously stay put. For highest job performance, you must avoid denial or distraction or impatience with yourself. You must hold your own hand, as it were. Maybe, reading auras, you find where your fear is strongest. Maybe you find a way to heal, with Emotional Freedom Technique, cutting a cord of attachment, whatever method works best for you.
Viewing intimately: For most real-life growth, I’d choose it over remote viewing. How about you?
