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A couple of weeks ago, I had begun to wonder. I had had several successful clients, including one who just contacted me this evening as I was writing this article, telling me that she was doing great. Our work had worked. Then another client told me that he didn't think that his did - even though the symptom that he came to see me about had vanished.
Even though the work we had done was great, something about the work - something he couldn't identify - led him to his strange conclusion. It wasn't clear why he didn't think the work was effective - even when I pointed out that his issue was no longer present. Somehow, to him, the work didn't work, yet the person had healed. The news left me both encouraged and discouraged, and a little bit confused.
After hearing back from this person, I had to remind myself that the ultimate goal of a healer is to heal. The best thing you can tell a healer is that you don't need them any more. If you are speaking the truth as you see it, if the healing is complete, then the healer's work as an instrument of God/The Universe/The Higher Power/whatever you wish to call it, is done. Ultimately, the final outcomes, any secondary effects of the healing in the client's life are beyond our control. Their life is their own.
I believe this is a lesson the Universe has been trying to teach for many years. While one can continuously work for Good, doing healing work, research exploration and discovery, or any other endeavor - results are often beyond our control. In the end, each of us can only do our best. And it is vital to not become attached to outcomes. Shortly thereafter, work resumed with several new clients - each with successful results. The beat goes on...
Earlier this fall, I had the honor of meeting several new and wonderful close encounter experiencers. Both lived in the same area about a half-day's drive south of my home. Both had had powerful experiences with the extraordinary, and while they were both encounters, they had little resemblance to eachother.
One experiencer described an encounter with what can best be described as a 'monster' - somewhat vampire-like, yet with dragon wings and scales. As we delved further, it became clear to me that this was becoming a metaphorical exploration of her own life. Rather than a physical close encounter experience, this event belonged to the metaphysical, archetypal realm of the mind and soul. Still, her roommate had seen evidence that there was more to this than "just a dream." Both had seen the UFO that had prompted the original report. I finally concluded that this event was one of those 'outliers' that occasionally crop up in my own case files - not quite a dream but not a well-defined UFOlogical event, either.
While we ended up doing some great healing work, the inner skeptic in me surfaced. This often happens when events turn out to be non-UFOlogical in nature. It reminded me that 'we had not found our aliens.' Skepticism and discernment, UFOs and dreams, reality anomalies and mysteries of the mind; a flurry of questions and a fair degree of doubt filled my mind - the beat goes on...
Then came the next day and work with the other experiencer I had come to visit. This person turned out to have had much more of a classic close encounter experience. He described a classic sequence of events; lying in bed when he suddenly felt the familiar paralysis set in. Suddenly, the ‘little guys’ were again surrounding him - beings he had seen so many times before. Soon thereafter, he found himself in the alien realm, subject to medical procedures, etc. It was all classic stuff - straight out of Hopkins and Jacobs' books. After an hour or so, reliving a series of frightening events and resolving the fear surrounding them, we began the final phase of our work - forgiveness and personal empowerment.
Hypnotic regression sessions often conclude with a process called 'Forgiveness of Others' - also known as gestalt or chair therapy. In this work, the experiencer imagines that the offending party - in this case, the leader of the aliens - is sitting in a chair a safe distance away. The hypnotist then invites the experiencer to say whatever he/she wishes, with the understanding that the alien can not do or say anything in return. As a result, the air sometimes gets rather blue in the studio at that moment. The alien can then respond, eventually fostering a dialog between the experiencer and this representation of the aliens. If all goes as planned, the result is a degree of forgiveness - a releasing of the burden the experiencer has carried for years. When such forgiveness occurs, I often see the person's shoulders visibly lift, as if a physical weight had been removed from them. This case was no exception. Once again, I felt the satisfaction of having participated in a wonderful healing event.
As I drove home from this final session, I concluded that the trip had been a success. We had learned a lot, two experiencers had come to terms with - well, with whatever had happened to them. The intricacies of the phenomenon again drove home the point of how little we really know about close encounters. I also had to remind myself, once again, that the work was that of God - and to void becoming too attached to outcomes (even positive ones).
Since that time, additional experiencers have appeared in the world of Minnesota MUFON. Each has a powerful story to tell and each is at a distinct point in their phenomenal journey. Several have begun hypnotherapy work - including a couple of people from other areas of the country. Several hypnotherapists in the National Guild of Hypnotists have begun working more with experiencers. If this trend continues, more and more people will be able to find help in their own location. .
The journey continues; progress occurs one step at a time. The phenomenon is busy as always and so are the UFO researchers and the hypnotherapists of the world. They mystery continues. The beat goes on...
