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[darkemeralds]

roseambr came down out of the mountains to visit me today.



We talked for a long time over tea and lime cookies with whoops-too-green icing, while the vile weather gradually improved.


Whoops

Our conversations are almost never purely mundane: even when we both worked in the World's Tallest Basement and took frequent, ridiculously long coffee breaks together, we never ran out of serious spiritual subjects to talk about.

Today was no exception. We caught up with my Self-Improvement Moratorium and the most recent leg of her journey up from some difficulties. We discussed the energetic interaction between people and the electronic devices to which they're emotionally attached. And then we tried out the Healing Codes.

The Healing Codes are a new energy method that I've been experimenting with. It's good stuff; purports to remove unconscious long-term stress by clearing negative memories and false beliefs from the deepest cellular levels of the body, after which the body is better able to heal itself. The Healing Codes use some qigong-like energy directed from the fingers to places around the head and neck. You can feel it happening. It's very interesting.

Then, feeling uplifted and connected and Sourced up, we turned our thoughts to some lunch. Lily, roseambr's iPad (to which she is quite attached), pointed us to Tin Shed Garden Café, where they "believe that energy travels through food: not just caloric, but spiritual energy."

Well heck yeah. Let's go there. So we set out on foot.

First, there were the crows. Big, shiny ones. They swooped down across our path, one after the other, while the Boss Crow cawed directions from the top of a nearby spruce.

Then, Shoulder Cat. She came prancing up, longhaired and white, but with a tabby-striped brown tail and a tabby-striped patch above one green eye, as if she was made out of beautiful spare cat parts. roseambr bent to pet her. Then I bent to pet her and she climbed up my arm, perched on my shoulders, and pressed her flank repeatedly against my left ear, purring.

Then, the ring. Once Shoulder Cat could be persuaded to get down, we walked on, and a few steps later something shiny went rolling across the sidewalk in front of my feet. I picked it up. It was a copper ring. I put it on.


Plumbing part? Or magic sign?

Next came the art. The Tin Shed had art for sale on the walls. One piece showed crows and a magic tree, so I bought it.


Print on plexiglass by Lucia Johnson

As we ate, ravurian sent a photo of The Shard from London Bridge Station, so I sent him one of the inside of the Tin Shed. Connected! To the world! \o/


Honest. We did not spend our meal over our devices. We talked.

The other cats came next. On the way home, every cat ran out to greet us. We were the Copper-Be-ringed Energy-handed Pied Cat Pipers of Northeast 14th Avenue.

Then at last there was the sign.

Comments

[darkemeralds]

Aw, Mozzi!

You are so right about the dire circumstances of so many of the testimonials. And I agree completely: if it's this complicated I won't do it. It's not in my nature. I'll sting the frog and we'll all sink in the river.

My good friend roseambr has been simultaneously digging into the Codes and is 100% in agreement with both of us on the ridiculous--really absurd--complexity. Here are some of her comments, with permission:

"One thing I thought to add at the end was a reiteration of the prayer, adding that spirit and my intentions would continue to hold these codes as long as it is needed for healing to have been increased by the hundred times or more."

"all I could think about was how wordy and repetitive the process is. Then I realized that the creator has a talk therapy background so of course it’s all about the story! We realized a long time ago that the story was just words. If you state your intention you can bypass the pain of the story."

She wrote up an all-in-one version that incorporates short positive statements about all the major areas she's working on. It's beautiful, and she's happy to share it if you're interested. Let me know.

The only reason I'm bothering with all this is that the first time I tried the Codes, without having read the whole book or become confused by all the bullshit, the hand positions and the intention statement were physically and obviously powerful and I had immediate relief from some pain, along with a sudden mind-clearing that was very specific (I became oriented--I'm perpetually disoriented in the world). So I do believe it's worth the trouble to strip this puppy down and re-engineer it from the gold nugget outward, and anything you care to throw into the mix will be welcome!

[jumpuphigh]

I'd love to hear about other people's experiences with this process so if roseambr wants to share, I'm willing to discuss. I'm lucky that I have people to discuss this sort of stuff with but my feeling is, "you can never have too many." :D

So I do believe it's worth the trouble to strip this puppy down and re-engineer it from the gold nugget outward, and anything you care to throw into the mix will be welcome!

I do, too! First thing I stripped - the overt Christianity. :)

[darkemeralds]

I meant to reply to this with a firm nod of approval. The overt Christianity simply excludes too many people. I had a hurdle to get over with the word "God," myself, but I managed to clear it. I'd like this kind of method to be accessible to anyone even slightly open to the non-materialist, non-reductionist, non-determinist perspective.

[jumpuphigh]

I'm still doing the Healing Codes and have had a few of the best days I've had in the past year. Today though, I just want to sleep. Luckily my dog thinks that is a good idea so we are curled up in bed letting eyes drift open and closed. :D

I've been reading a bit more - not too much to get overwhelmed again - and now that I've been doing it for a while, I'm starting to see the bigger picture of what they have created. I still think it is an organizational mess but I'm starting to be able to move the pieces around in my mind to make more sense. I am finding a lot of moments of them contradicting themselves though so I'm still not sure about a lot of it. I guess I'm going to just have to keep experimenting and seeing what works for me.

I'm planning on finishing the 12 days of codes and then starting to focus in on things a little more intensely. I'll let you know how it goes.

[darkemeralds]

I'm really excited to hear more. I've been unable to focus enough to set up a 12-day program for myself, but roseambr extracted all the Truth Statements from the manual and put them into an orderly document. She goes over them and gets a feeling for which ones are strongly true, and then just Codes on those. She's been working on her husband and her cat surrogately. That's not a word, but you know what I mean.

I asked her to check the Truth Statements for me, and she came back with what I feel is a very accurate picture of just what I need to be working on, and that gives me some structure to get started in an orderly way.

I eagerly await your updates!

[jumpuphigh]

I haven't used any of the Truth Statements yet. I've just been focusing on either generalities like "love" or "joy" or I have been focusing on healing a specific physical condition that is bothering me. While doing the codes, I will get mental images, memories coming up, or feelings and so I let those just be there until they go away. When I try to call them back after I'm done, there is no intensity there - just like with EFT.

I did have a major depressive incident last night like I haven't had in many years so I don't know if that is related to doing the codes or to some music I was playing around with (solfeggio harmonics). I ended up putting on some joyful music (from Abraham Hicks) and it cleared up within the first song.

[darkemeralds]

I would love to know more about the solfeggio harmonics. I can google it, obviously--and I will--but do you have some recommended reading?

[jumpuphigh]

They are some supposedly ancient tones that promote healing. I found a number of them extremely uncomfortable to listen to and after that day of playing around with them, I dumped the ones I'd downloaded.

I'd offer up a link but I deleted those too.

[darkemeralds]

I wanted to come back around to this and let you know that I was so intrigued by the Solfeggio Harmonics that I ended up buying both sets. I've been listening to them and have found them really powerful as a boost to meditation. Three of them in particular seem to take me right into the zone.

There's one I can't bear to listen to (it has Tibetan throat singing in it and that sound just freaks me out).

I have a long history with binaural beats (which are embedded into these recordings), and I suspect that those are where the power lies, more than in the wash of musical sounds. I've been using Bill Harris's Holosync for years. It seems intuitively obvious that not everyone's brain frequencies would be identical, so maybe I just lucked out on these particular sets of sounds.

[jumpuphigh]

Oh, good. I'm happy to be the conduit to this for you.

[jumpuphigh]

I want to add:
-Would you ask roseambr if she'd be willing to send me the document? I'll send you my email via DW mail.
-I did the quiz on the site as well so I think once my 12 days of codes is over, I will take it again to see what has changed (if anything) and then work intensely on my lowest scoring area until I can't think of anything under that category to work on any longer. Then, I'll test again and see where to go from there.

[darkemeralds]

Eee! The reply column is getting really skinny!

roseambr has given me carte blanche to share her extracts from the work, so I'll email the Truth Focus Statement document to you today.