Swirling around in the light

Wrestling with angels, demons, questions, whatever......

I've always pictured the wrestling with the questions in some way where I was wrestling with an angel, a physical being of some sort with wings and everything, because this is part of what we do as theologians. I feel like I've always heard of it, and now I really like it, because it feels like something I've always done - just asking myself a series of questions until perceptions shift or change or come back to where they were in the first place. Oh the wrestling with questions of this class is truly what has taken me to the next level of my own personal spiritual evolution.

So do you allow hands on healing at your church?

It's sorta funny to me, because I grew up in Unity, and so, the parts of my childhood Unity always feel like what Unity really "is". One thing we did every year was go to a family retreat in the mountains of North Carolina and there was a variety of hands on healing services offered, and therefore, this must be a part of what Unity really is. 

So where does the light come from? Where does the energy come to?

For most of my life, in meditation, I have felt energy moving in and through my hands. I can feel energy off of objects and in the energy in rooms. With that, I have "sent" prayers through me, and never had I really thought of that as anything different. If energy moves through my hands, of course we could have hands on healing because to me, that's just apart of what we are apart of.

Oooh no, channeling?

This could not possibly be the fear people have of channeling, so I think, because the energy is coming from a divine source. It's not weird words from some ancient and wise being far away. This is the essense of God. But I could see how it can be seen as channeling, until I think of meditations of light.

But what about meditations of light? Light comes through you...

Something I have always defined as super Unity (again because we did it in my child hood) is meditations of light. So, the idea goes something like this, we are all meditating and then we take the love, light, energy, whatever, from our hearts, connect it together, send it out to our city, state, country, world, universe, etc. So, if hands on healing, is energy moving through your hands, how is this medtiation any different?

It's all the same to me... energy of hands and energy/light moving through us...

That is really how I see it, that this is all the same, same energy, same love, same light. When hands on healing is happening, we are asking for the healing love of God to move through us, and heal someone else. Yes, this could happen directly, but sometimes we are conduits for energy. I can see how each person could ask for it directly, but sometimes using this light, this peace, this joy, through someone who may be a more willing conduit than I can be during a time of healing... I can accept that. I can "buy" that. Far beyond either of these ideas, when I really do think of this, what I really think of is the fact that, it's worked for me and lots of other people that I know, and the proof is "in the pudding" so to speak. If this is effective and I have "felt" the healing energy move through me, then who's to say why it works. But it has been very effective, and this has been a good reason for me to decide that when I have a church, I would allow hands on healing, because I do feel like it fits with who we are.