"What happens in a session with Nigel?"

Surrendering the Ego

The work that takes place with Nigel starts the moment you make a decision to book a session. Your intent (which is driven by your Spirit) can, in many instances, bring about subtle changes in your energy even before you enter the room to begin your session. Sometimes people find that they have difficulty getting to the appointment, or they may feel somewhat apprehensive before the event. All this is natural!

While this can be a normal apprehension such as one would experience when going to the dentist, it is attenuated by the capacity to accept that growth and change are healthy. The part of us that has always maintained control of the way we live our life, our beliefs, our attitudes, and all that flows from them, is coming up for healing. This part of us is known as our Ego. Rather than give our Ego a bad name, let us qualify what we mean by Ego. The Ego, in our work, is that constellation of beliefs and attitudes we hold that help us make sense of reality. These attitudes and beliefs actually coalesce to form an energy blanket around our being that forms a sheath through which we view our reality. The Ego works for us, helps keep us safe and secure, but does so in its own world. Your work with Nigel is about acknowledging the Ego and expanding its horizons. You will place it in a safe place where it can observe and learn that it truly would be much better served, as would your whole being, if it were to surrender its need to control to the higher authority of Spirit. Therefore, the work you will do involves surrender of Ego to God. This is a primary point and makes the world of difference to your capacity to heal.

Healing from Spirit

When we speak of healing we are not talking in the traditional medical sense. Medical healing involves medical doctors. The healing that Nigel facilitates is that of the Spirit. To understand this, it is important to understand that initially Nigel will open the session with a brief dialogue to explore where you are in your life at this moment and to highlight any major areas of concern to you. From this point onwards, he will start his work with the focus on the various aspects of your energetic body. Healing implies to make 'whole' - to integrate all the aspects of our being. In this sense, the work that you will do in the session spans across four interlocking dimensions of your being. These four levels are explained below.

Levels of your Being - the Vehicles of Consciousness

According to the most deeply held tenets of spiritual teaching, the inner or hidden tradition of both east and west tells us that we operate through and are made up of three vehicles of consciousness and consciousness itself. We can explain this by analogy. If you wished to travel from San Francisco to Sydney you could, theoretically, travel by way of submarine, ocean going liner, or aircraft. Each is a qualitatively different vehicle and each operates in a qualitatively different environment. The submarine functions best under the ocean, the liner on the ocean's surface, and the aircraft a great height above the ocean. Each is best suited to its own environment, yet each will take you from origin to destination. You are present, or the constant, within each vehicle of travel.

Very often what we tend to do, in our efforts to function in the world, is to take our submarine and put it on the runway, expecting it will take off. It doesn't. Frustrated, we try to break down the problem into small pieces to find out why, forgetting that this vehicle of a submarine was not designed to fly. Using this analogy, let us go back to healing. The human being, in the most simplified model of spiritual teaching, has three vehicles of consciousness which are all best suited to their own unique environments.

Physical Body

The first of these is the vehicle of the Physical Body. This is the vehicle of action. Our actions are our behaviours throughout our life. There are right actions and actions which are inevitably deemed "wrong", in that they lead us into 'disease' within one or more of the vehicles of consciousness. The Physical Body exists in what is called linear time and space - second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, decade, century, and so forth. In this sense, our experience of life in the physical body is by way of time, measured as past, present, and future. It is precisely the fact that we tend not to live in the moment, but rather in regrets of the past and fear of the future, that we develop a lack of ease with ourselves. It is also of primary importance to note that the physical body is our karmic body. Karma is a Sanskrit word which means action. The physical body is the end result not only of the DNA of our parents and the experiences of this lifetime, but also carries forth spiritual fingerprints of life experiences from previous soul incarnations. Hence many diseases that we encounter can be the direct result of karma brought forth from past life events. Our body is the living temple for our Soul, our next vehicle.

Soul

The vehicle of consciousness known as the Soul is a qualitatively different vehicle of consciousness and exists in a qualitatively different experience of time. Contrary to popular belief, the Soul is not the astral body shaped to look like the physical body. It is a much higher vehicle of consciousness which at its most vibrationally mundane level is seen as the astral form. The Soul exists in time as 'a day of 1,000 years' or ' a day of Brahma' or 'a day of our Lord'. One day of 1,000 years is 4,320,000,000 years. Think about this for just a moment and you will realise that your Soul certainly has had many incarnations. Each incarnation is an active life print of the Soul as it goes about its work of healing. It is also highly likely that in this instance of time, you are living a number of parallel lives at the same time. Do not confuse yourself over this, but expand your awareness to the possibility that you may even be a split Soul. Also be aware that your Soul has had experiences that even the most fertile imagination would be hard pressed to imagine! The point here is that we have lived our life in a cloistered reality and that cloister has been created by way of the Ego and its Physcial Body. Using just 5 physical senses, this vehicle has told you "what is" and "what is not" reality. (For those of you who wish to explore this more deeply, I recommend that you read Nigel's book "Initiation Into Miracles".)

The vehicle of the Soul has seven primary centres through which awareness passes. These are variously known as Chakras, Psychic Centres, Seals or Churches. Each tradition labels them differently, but regardless of the name you use for them, they exist within the Soul and have a direct connection to the physical body. These seven centres, which we will call Chakras, are from head to toe as follows: Crown Chakra, above the crown of the head (opposing forces of life and death); Brow Chakra, also known as the third eye, located just between the eyebrows (opposites of vision of unity or disunity); Throat Chakra (truth or falsity); Heart Chakra (selfless service to the Absolute Divine or egocentric self); Power Chakra or solar plexus (faith or fear); Sacral Chakra at pubic bone (stewardship or exploitation) and the Root Chakra at the base of the spine (dominion or subjugation) which deals with how you do or do not feel validated in your creation.

The Chakras have an electromagnetic spin. Ideally, they spin in a clockwise direction for health and a counterclockwise spin for disease. To observe them spiritually one would see flowing outward from the source a tunnel of light which would resemble a vortex that expands outwards into infinity. For instance, at the level of the heart there would be one tunnel spreading outwards from the heart in the front of the person and one at the back from the same point of origin. Each centre ideally focuses its energies along the spine. Each one of the centres has a physical counterpart in an endocrine gland. These glands, such as the pituitary, pineal, thyroid, thymus, adrenals, spleen and gonads or ovaries, are the vibrational 'downloaders' of energy from Spirit.

Think of it this way. Millions of years ago, the sun cast its kosmic rays across our planet and one of the results was a beautiful array of forested lands which covered our earth. After various changes to the earth's surface, including ice ages, we today find that these forests are deeply buried beneath the crust and have turned to sources of oil or coal. Today we go and drill for oil, pump it to a generating stations, burn it, create electricity (how they still do not know) and then send the generated charge to a substation somewhere in the township or suburbs. This is then further downsized to travel along less powerful wires to the meter box in your home and then from the meter box along even lower amperage wires until the potential electricity reaches the outlet. It is then up to you to both plug in the appliance you want and then to turn it on. The very same system applies to the Chakras. The energy passes from high vibrational levels in Spirit and downgrades until it is at a level that your Soul can accept. Then it downgrades even further and enters your Physical Body by way of etheric pathways (recognized in oriental medicine as meridians) and then charges the endocrine glands positively or negatively. The resultant charge produces the resultant biochemical release. These are called hormones, and it is the hormones that dictate our behaviour at the physical level. Hence we have come full circle back to the Physical Body.

Spirit

The third vehicle of consciousness is that of the Spirit. It is said to exist at the level of time which we call 'Eternity'. This is yet another scale of time and one that cannot even be fathomed at our level of awareness. The Spirit is a matrix of Divine yet sentient (aware) Light that has as its primary mode of being three channels of Light. They are conduits that travel along the spinal column which in eastern terms are known as Ida, Pingala, and Sushumna. In western terms they are known as the three alchemical principles of salt, sulphur, and mercury. Understood another way, they are what we call the Yin, Yang, and Tao; the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva, and so forth. These energies flow up and down our spinal column and work in conjunction with the Chakras. They feed the Chakras which further feed the Physical Body. A free flow of these energies is essential to spiritual growth and evolution. (This is also known as the Kundalini energy, which can only ever be opened at a time when a great master or adept has brought us to the point of readiness.) These energies can be safely activated to function and balance properly at the level you are most ready to work at now. This is one of our objectives in the work is carried out in session.

Visualization and Imagery

You can now see that a lot of the work being done may not be visible to you in session, for it is happening at other and all levels simultaneously. This brings us to the next point. During your session, you will be using imagery and breath work. Every thought is a spectrum of energy that imprints itself upon our being. There are healthy, loving, compassionate thoughts and there are polarized thoughts of hate, envy, greed, anger, and so forth. Know that with every breath you take you are actually inhaling pranic energy, or pure life force. This is breath. The thoughts that you have, whether they be openly expressed or subconscious processes, are coloring your breath. This breath then in turn colors the cellular structure of your being. As a result, a person who thinks anger becomes a vibrational vortex of anger energy. The same is true for love and so forth. It is also true that every piece of food that you take into your mouth is colored by your thoughts. Hence, eating and drinking in peace and quiet, in reflection on the holier aspects of life, becomes in and of itself a healing process. Much can be said about this, and I encourage you to explore this further.

With this in mind, let us now consider the breath work and the use of imagery. Every one of us has the ability to imagine in our minds eye that which we choose to imagine. Let me state from the outset that no matter what anyone says to you (or you say to yourself), every person is capable of visualizing! For instance, can you describe to me your bedroom? Yes or no? If the answer is yes, then go ahead and do it. What does it look like? What furniture is in the room, drapes, wall colors, and so forth. Whether you believe that you visualize or not, you have just visualized. Let us be clear - to remember something within our consciousness is to visualize. To see is not to visualize, to see is to use the physical eyes and to impress the energy of the physical light rays upon your memory.

Now, to imagine is, (rather than remembering the past), being able to project into the future within your own consciousness. Let's go back to your bedroom. If it has a queen sized bed in it and it faces a particular direction, can you imagine it with a single sized bed facing a different direction? If the answer is yes, then you have imagined. To imagine is to bring things together that you have visualized and then to put them in a different order. The greatest tool of the Spirit, at this level of development, is to imagine. In your session you will be working with imagination, but what you will be doing is using your capacity to lock into images that have already been created in Spirit by the great masters - men and women from - who have preceded us. You will be dealing with what we call Traditions. Within any given tradition there are specific thoughtforms that when used properly can elevate the Soul of a being to a much higher level. Some of these thoughtforms repeat across each and every spiritual path - Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Bhuddism, and so forth.

Effective Prayer

At a particular moment in your session, Nigel will ask you to share a prayer with him. The prayer and the invocation are of vital importance. A prayer by definition has many dimensions. Some are prayers of supplication, others of compliance, and then there are those of deep esoteric activation. The prayer Nigel will share with you is the latter prayer. It is important to feel your way through the prayer, rather than letting it be said for you. Powerful prayer is felt, emoted, and spoken with clear intent. In this prayer, Nigel will invoke the presence, in Spirit, of those most high beings that provide the basis for the healing that will be done. While the prayer will shift and change according to the directions Nigel is given in Spirit, it will essentially be as follows:

Holy of Holy, Light of Light, Father of Fathers, Mother of Mothers
Bless us we pray, this and each and every new day
To accept first and foremost Thee, Thy Love, Thy Grace, as our very existence
We pray that You will fill our minds with sacred thoughts and our hearts with holy feelings
That our presence may be sanctified in the eyes ears and hearts of all those in whom Thou Art
We pray that You will surround this sanctuary in which the Soul of Nigel and that of (your Name) come before You
With a cocoon of the most potent, pure Divine healing White Light
We pray that from within this sanctuary You will take from us any fear, anxiety, judgement, and pain
We pray that You will allow us to surrender unto You our Ego
Please take our Ego into the furthest reaches of Your divinity and transmute its life force according to Your Will
Within this sanctuary we surrender unto You every thought, word, and deed
We surrender with reverence, gratitude, humility, and humbleness for all that Thou Art
We call upon the protection and guidance of our Dearly beloved Lord Jesus Christ, The Divine Mother who has stepped forth across time and space taking form in all traditions and generations, we call upon Lord Sathya Sai Baba, the Avatar of this age and we call upon any of the saints and sages in the tradition of this Soul who stands before You now at this moment, We ask you all to stand in the pure limitless Light of the One Absolute God
We pray for the presence, the guidance, and the protection of the Archangels Michael, Gabriel; Raphael, Uriel, Haniel, Sandalphon and all the guardian angels that stand by this Soul and in service to the One
We thank you as we surrender to the Will of the One
So be it

Amen, Amen, Amen

Angels and the Divine

Nigel will call forth the Angelic hierarchy, the Christ, Divine Mother, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and any of the saints and sages with whom your soul has a communion and you have spent your life. Each will be asked to stand in the pure clear light of God. Once that is so, he will then move into the prayer proper. The energy will shift throughout the session. There are no hallmarks for what is "right" or "wrong". Evaluation of the process is to be left out. This is about spiritual healing with spiritual markers, not objective and logical markers. Please understand this.

Crystals

You will be given one or two very special crystals to hold during your session. These crystals are hard workers. Each crystal has its own life. There is not one element that is not sentient and alive on this planet and throughout this kosmos. Each crystal has the ability to become a source of great healing once it is attuned to your own Spirit. They are cleared between each session and different crystals may be chosen for each person. Once you hold them you will be asked to repeat the Invocation of Light. This is recognized in the spiritual dimension as a trigger to fill your being and those of the crystals with spiritual energy. Again, no objective markers for this, but you will understand as the session progresses.

The invocation is as follows. You will hold both of the crystals, one in each hand, close your eyes and then repeat this statement, with feeling and emotion, three times. Nigel will lead you. This statement is to be felt at all levels of your being, not to be repeated as rote.

I am now invoking the light of God within
I am a clear and perfect channel
Light is my guide

Soul Clearing

The Soul works with Imagery, feelings, breath and symbolism. Hence our next step will be a guided Soul Clearing in which you will expand your awareness to link up to a balance of masculine and feminine energies. These energies are the energy of the Father (Pure White Light, some times Electric Blue) which you will draw in through your Crown Chakra. This energy will pass through at a cellular level to every cell, tissue, gland, and organ of your being. It will also open, cleanse, and rebalance your Chakras. Once this is complete, the energy will be directed to the core of the earth, which beyond our limited understanding of existence, is a living entity of pure divine feminine love. Once that has been articulated, the energy of the Divine feminine (Mother) will flow up from the earth as a Rose Pink healing light. It will do so with the same intensity as the downward Father flow.

You will then be given a few moments of time to share a prayer of your own. This prayer is heartfelt and comes from the deepest aspect of your being. It is not spoken aloud, but rather it is a direct communion with you and the Divine. Let your heart open and prepare to take the journey inward. Your next step is to make your way to the healing table. You will lay on your back and be covered with a light blanket to keep you warm. Nigel will then guide you into a short period of breathwork. Given the earlier comments on breathwork, let us now review what we are doing here.

Breathwork

Firstly, your breath will be conscious. This means that as opposed to the manner in which we breath 99% of the time, which is unconscious, you will actively breath in a conscious way. You will simply close your eyes and follow Nigel's guidance. Sometimes you will be directed to breath deeply and fully, sometimes in a shallow manner, sometimes rapidly, and sometimes slowly. Each breath connects on the inhale directly to the exhale and on the exhale directly to the inhale. Hence it is conscious and continuous.

The breath work may last 5 minutes or it may last 20 minutes. Unlike Rebirthing, this breath work is done purely to open wider the door of Spirit. Nigel, by this stage, is totally immersed in following the direction of Sai Baba. (More on Sai Baba shortly.) While you are breathing, Nigel will be following the directions he is given in Spirit which will vary for each and every person. They involve working with energy blocks, releasing past life or present life energies and events, further and deeper healing of the Chakras and more. As the session continues, whatever has been requested by your Soul to come forth from your time in session will start to manifest. Much more takes place which cannot be described or easily defined, but this provides what you need to understand in order to maximize the time frame that you share with Nigel.

Sacred Space

Now some points to note about the sacred space you enter into when you arrive for your session. Wherever Nigel works, the energy of the room will have been established before he starts. This is done by prayer, invocation, and meditation. Please remove your shoes. Once in the room you will hear a repetitious yet soft sound in the background. It is a mantra. A mantra is a sacred sound, in this instance composed of particular Sanskrit words that have the effect of sanctifying a space and all who share it. The Gayatri Mantra which will be playing when you enter is actually a recording of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba. Its verses are:

Om Bhur Bhuvah Svaha
Tat Savitur Vareenyum
Bhargo Deevasya Deemahi
Di YoYo nah Prachodayat
Om, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti

In English this translates as, Salutations to the Lord Savita, the Creator, Preserver and the Purifier of all Kosmos. We meditate upon your Divine Light which stimulates our power of spiritual perception. Om, Peace, Peace, Peace.

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba

When you work with Nigel, you are in effect working with Sai Baba. This must not in any way be misconstrued to say the Nigel channels or becomes Sai Baba. He does not! In effect, through the prayers and ritual that you jointly establish, through the energy of the room, and through the act of surrender to the Highest most Divine of all, Nigel opens himself to experience the fullness of Sai Baba's blessings as they pour forth for whomsoever he is working with.

So who is Sai Baba? If you have not read Nigel's book Initiation Into Miracles please do so. You may also wish to read Howard Murphet's book Sai Baba Avatar. Sri Sathya Sai Baba is the physical incarnation of the highest level of the Divine. He is the Avatar. Avatar is a Sanskrit (ancient sacred India language) that means the full embodiment the Absolute that takes the human form in order to reflect back to us our own Divinity. Sai Baba is 75 years of age physically, and he has said he will be with us physically for another 20 years. His birth was prophesized in just about all major religions. The following is a quote from the prophet Mohammed mentioned in Nigel's book.

"There have been many prophecies that pertain to a Divine being who will be present at this point in our history. They are to be found in all manner of culture and creed. It is pointless to mention them all here, but illustrating just one may plant the seed for your own further investigation. It comes from the twenty-five volume book Ocean of Light which represents the teachings of the prophet Mohammed. Mohammed issued the prophecy that the "Master of the World" would have unmistakable distinct markings. "His hair will be profuse. His forehead will be large and concave. His nose will be small, with a slight bump at the bridge. His front teeth will be spaced. He will have a mole on his cheek. He will not have a beard but will be clean shaven. His clothing will be like a flame. The colour of his face will be sometimes yellow like gold, sometimes very dark and sometimes shining like the sun. His body will be small. All the teachings of all the religions of the world will be in His heart from birth. All the science and the knowledge of the world from the beginning of time will be in his heart.

"All things which you ask the Master of the world, He will give. All treasures are under his feet. He will give gifts that are light in weight. He will go around among His devotees and touch their heads as Blessings. All eyes that see Him will be happy. He will live 95 years."

"In the last 20 years of His life He will be the King of the whole world but at that time only two thirds of the people of the world would believe in Him. Muslims will recognise Him only nine years before His passing from the world. He will make the world light and full of peace." And so spoke the Prophet. (excerpted from Initiation Into Miracles)

Throughout his life Sai Baba has been known as the Man of Miracles. Nigel may share some of the miracles that have occurred personally for him and or he may direct you to other areas of interest. At one point in your session Nigel will place an orange shawl over his shoulders. This shawl was manifested by Sai Baba specifically for Nigel to use in his work with people in sessions. In speaking about Sai Baba, it is very important to note one thing. Sai Baba does not ask for followers and has never worked to establish a new religion. He emphatically says that he has not come here to change your religion. Rather he has come here to uphold the eternal and perennial truths evident in all faiths. Therefore, if you are a Christian, he emphasizes that you be a good Christian; if a Jew, be a good Jew, and so forth. So please also note that Sai Baba says that "by whatever name you call me I shall come". Hence, if you as a Christian call unto Jesus or the Divine Mother, know that this is the exact same thing. Be open to the fact that different spiritual entities from different faiths, some from this life and others from lives of the past, may step forward to assist in the healing process.

Closure and Follow-up

Once the session comes to a close Nigel will direct you to slowly shift and get up. Occasionally people will feel sleepy or light headed after sessions. This is natural and normal, as is also the possibility of feeling specific energy intensities in certain parts of your being. These will be blocks that are being worked upon. (Remember that your healing continues beyond the time in session. Many people experience shifts and changes for months after their actual session time.) Once you are up and ready to leave, Nigel will give you some water and suggest certain instructions. Over and above any instructions that you are given I recommend the following:

a. Drink a lot of water for the next five days. Make the restroom your very best friend. It is important to realise that when you are doing your spiritual healing, you are detoxing at a cellular level. This detox means that whatever you have released is now decrystalised in your blood stream and needs to be washed out. The water does this job.

b. He will also direct you not to drink tea, coffee or alcohol.

c. You will be asked to walk around and get some fresh air before you proceed to drive, so as to ground yourself.

d. It is advisable to establish a daily routine in the practice of meditation. If you do not already have them, I suggest that you consider using Nigel's meditation tapes (Not to be played in a moving automobile) which were specifically designed for this purpose. There are four volumes of 4 tapes in each. I will explain them to you if you wish to know more or you can find information about the tapes on our website at www.nigeltaylor.com, and you can order them by writing directly to me at nigelrtaylor@att.net for quick service. Plus I would also suggest reading Nigel's book, Initiation Into Miracles, if you have not already done so.

One question that often comes up is, "Should I have another session and if so when?" That will be your choice and will become obvious to you and Nigel if it is appropriate. Nigel will often see a person more than once if it is meant to be. Generally, those who he sees again have taken a specific task of working with the tapes and the book to improve the quality of their spiritual lives with deep intent.

Duration

In the first meeting a session will run for up to one and one half hours. Subsequent sessions may run slightly less.

Attire

Come relaxed and in loose fitting clothing, for your comfort.

Fee

Nigel charges a fee for the sessions simply because this is the way he has been instructed to make his living by Sai Baba. He does not charge for Sai Baba interviews or blessings, because he neither is, nor gives them, despite the fact that Sai Baba may well choose to do exactly that! The healing that takes place is not done by Nigel. It is done by Sai Baba and your own Spirit's willingness to participate.

And there's more…

Satsang

As a further point to note, Sai Baba has instructed Nigel to run Satsang. This is a gathering of spiritually intentioned individuals who will share up to two hours of specific ritual, including prayer, bhajans (singing of sacred songs), mantras, and a discourse. The previous activities are then followed by a healing meditation and Padnamaskar (blessing of the most High) from the Padugas (Shoes of the Lord). Satsang is run on a donation basis and whenever time or numbers make it viable. Anyone is most welcome to attend. Where private sessions are not viable due to the financial considerations, please approach Nigel and, if possible, he will accommodate a few individuals at a time for a donation based group healing. However, it is first important that they participate in the Satsang, for much healing will take place there.

With Gratitude

We can only do our work by the Grace of God and we thank you for helping to make it possible. If you feel that friends or relatives would benefit from sharing at either the Satsang, a class or a healing session then please encourage them to read the book, listen to the tapes, and if they then still are interested to read this material and make an appointment by calling me at 1-908-832-2527 or by email: nigelrtaylor@att.net

Enjoy your moments of great bliss and be aware that your life will continually change as the days and months unfold after the event of this session!

Blessings of great love and Light,

OM SAI RAM

Regina Taylor

 

Healing with Nigel

Healing sessions are continuing to expand in both the number and potency. It is important that we make some very clear points here relating to exactly what does happen. To do this, let me quote from Dr. Paul Brunton (one of Nigel's all time favourite spiritual teachers) and his small but uniquely beautiful text The Inner Reality. I have italicised statements that are of great import. After you have read the article, you may wish to consider pondering over the words and their meaning in your own health, healing, and spiritual journey.

"There is a very widespread misconception in America, a misconception that is much more prevalent there than in any other country of which I know, and that is that if you attain spirituality, if you realise your divine self, you will then automatically demonstrate prosperity, perfect health and everlasting good fortune. This, probably the gravest error that could arise in the mind of the seeker after Truth, is believed by millions of American people. It is a doctrine which carries all the glitter but little of the weight of gold. Let us try to understand the implication of this claim.

If prosperity is to be made the criterion of one's spirituality, then Jesus was a failure, a spiritual failure. He had no prosperity at all. He carried no purse, possessed no capital. Buddha gave up all he had, so he would also have been a spiritual failure. Jesus never said that if men followed Him they would become wealthy; so why should such claims be made by the professed followers of Jesus today?

If perfect health is to be made the criterion of one's spirituality, then we must admit that some of the greatest saints in Christian history were not saints at all. In the Orient, we have the examples of various sages like Ramakrishna and the Maharishee who did not enjoy perfect health, but who are regarded as the highest sages.

There is a way known to yogis to attain perfect health; you can make the body as resistant to all diseases as steel; you can make it as strong as a human body can be; you can prolong its life span far beyond normal. There is a way, but to find and practise that way requires that you sacrifice everything else, because the discipline necessary to attain that condition demands all your time and all your energy and the severest regime of asceticism. The price is as high as the prize. It is an impractical way for us so let us rule it out.

So we have to decide whether these things mean anything at all, or whether they mean nothing. Men you will say, have performed marvels of spiritual healing either upon themselves or upon others. That is true; but it is the result of an occult, not a spiritual power, and all occult powers are powers of the mind, not of the Overself, latent or little known perhaps, but still powers of the mind, and of that part of which I call the Overmind. There is no such thing as spiritual healing in the sense of direct spiritual healing, but indirectly, yes.

For an adept or for a man who has attained the consciousness of the Eternal to use an occult power is to step down into the world of form, time, and illusion. From the standpoint of a man who has realized Truth, all occult powers are of the illusory self and worth having only after this realization has been obtained. Whether he possesses these powers or not depends upon the line of evolution along which he has gone in former lives. If he has worked for occult powers he will get them now, if he has not sought for them they will not come to him. But he will still have one power, the power of the Overself, and that is the root of all power.

So you must understand that the consciousness of the spirit may be obtained and yet one may have no healing power other than the one primal power of healing souls and hearts and minds. But do not expect that every man who has entered into the spirit will therefore attain perfect hearth, or will be able to give others perfect health. He may or may not, that is entirely a matter of destiny, that particular self-earned destiny which has come to him as the result of his evolution.

Until you have finished your quest you can have nothing but opinion, theory, fancy, because there is only an extremely gradual dawning of more and more truth. The end is a sudden rebirth into the kingdom of heaven, and once it comes, it comes like a flash of lightning.

From the standpoint of a man living in truth, the body is an ephemeral thing. He knows the body will die as surely as it was born, that he has had, maybe, hundreds of bodies, and he looks upon it as he looks upon the rest of this material universe, as nothing more than an idea passing through consciousness, just a mental picture to be born and to die.

From the standpoint of truth, which is the standpoint of reality, the entire universe is nothing but a dream. All life is almost a phantom, a mental picture, something that flows through consciousness and is gone. How then can a man who lives in that eternal consciousness so over-value the body that he can regard a perfect state of physical health as the only perfect demonstration of spirituality? He will have enough common sense to know that good health is necessary and desirable, but he will not allow that knowledge to delude him into thinking that the ephemeral body can dictate to the eternal Spirit. The Spirit has only one power, and that is the source of all other power. Mental powers come ultimately out of the Spirit power but they come only to those who seek them, not necessarily to those who do not seek them.

Can everlasting good fortune be a criterion? Can one enter into tune with the Infinite and thereafter experience nothing but good fortune? Is it possible that all the gifts of the gods will fall into your lap; that you will never know what misfortune is; that everything in the garden of life will be beautiful and lovely until you die? That, I am sorry to say, is another illusion. This ephemeral world is definitely a world of mixed suffering and sweetness because it is a transient world, a world which has a beginning and an ending. Therefore, you cannot find perfect happiness in it, although you can find it in your self. Nothing can remain perfect for ever; no good fortune can remain permanent.

There are people who have founded cults over in America, with adherents numbered by the millions. The founder of one cult that gives out excellent teachings interspersed with fallacies, died after an illness of two years. Throughout her life she taught that consciousness of the Spirit infallibly brought perfect health. But she could not bring it to herself. Realizing that the tangible results did not square with the theory, her illness was kept secret. The worth of any spiritual cult is not to be measured by its amplitude.

A lecturer, who was addressing thousands of people a day in a certain city I was visiting, told his listeners that if they would tune in to the Infinite they could eliminate all of their bad destiny immediately, and henceforth everything would be beautiful in life, no illness, poverty, or lack of any kind. Not long after, he stopped his classes and lectures, disappeared for a whole winter, but later came back lecturing more beautifully than ever. He could only give lectures! He had had a nervous breakdown, which had to be kept secret, too. He was telling people that to tune in to the true Spirit would give them a perfectly harmonious and healthy life, but he could not eliminate the destiny of his nervous breakdown.

I will tell you what in these teachings is false, and what there is of truth in them. If you happen to have been a member of one sect or another for twenty years and have formed a set of stiff notions, such as that there exists a brotherhood of adepts in Tibet, or that there is a continuation of earthly existence in the after-death state; if you firmly believe these things, all right, but if you believe them to the extent that you cannot disbelieve them, it is all wrong. You must hold such beliefs loosely, and if the truth would come and say, "That is not true", you should be so delicately poised that you can let those beliefs go, even though you have held them for twenty years. If you are not so delicately poised it means that you have become dogmatic without even being certain of the actual reality of your beliefs.

People come to me with talk of occultism and put questions that are really requests to endorse their cults. Well, there is a good deal in the teachings of these latter that is certainly correct and much that is incorrect, but I do not like the way in which they have complicated simple truths: they have made the finding of the kingdom of heaven more difficult than the scaling of Mount Everest, which is the loftiest height I have ever seen.

Credulous people take to these studies and become subject to hallucinations which they glorify as truth. Because I am sorry for those who have lost themselves in a forest of foolish doctrines, I have written this chapter in an effort to assist them out of it.

You must beware first of all of becoming captive in dogmas implanted in your mind by others. You must beware of persons who dupe themselves and deceive others by unscientific speculations which cannot prove themselves, which are wrapped in unnecessary mystery. You must refuse to give uncritical credence to them.

Jesus gave demonstrations of His character and power, saying, "By their fruits ye shall know them." Scientists use the same rule; if they cannot demonstrate their theories, they discard them. The acid test of all spiritual theories is in the laboratory of daily living. That is where you must test the claims of these cults to ascertain their value.

The omission of the factor of fate in so many of these cults is due to ignorance. That is where Asia has something to teach you. To put your heads in the sand like an ostrich and refuse to see the existence of an element of predestination in most of the major events of your personal life does not cross out its existence. It is still there.

Man lives a two-fold life, an outer material life and an inner emotional-mental life. His outward deeds and actions are simply the result of his inner thoughts and feelings. They may take centuries to materialize, often not till a later birth, but ultimately they do. The world which you do not see, the unseen world of thought and feeling, is the real world of causes; the world which you see around is the world of effects.

Because man tends to express his inner self by his outer actions, it may safely be said that his outer life corresponds to his inner life. The world as a whole in itself is nothing else but the expression of Divine Ideation, the very thought of God expressed. Man, in his own little way, is also a creator and is creating his own world - the world of his own experiences - the expression through which he lives. That chain of causal connection between man's inner thought, his inner feeling, and his outward experience, is unseen. But it is there, and it is there by a subtle force, the law of destiny.

Destiny is something entirely self-created, self-earned, whether it is for good or for evil. If man does not know that whatever he gives out in life to the world is ultimately thrown back to him by destiny, that does not excuse him. Nature never excuses ignorance. Man is the builder of his own life, the creator of his own fate, both outward and inward. Destiny is not a blind force; it is one expression of that greater cosmic Intelligence which rules the universe. It has a purpose to fulfil, and that purpose, so far as man is concerned, is an educative one. Destiny is like a balance, if you depress one side of the scale you find the other side goes up in proportion. Destiny restores the balance in man's life because she wishes him to understand himself, his powers and possibilities as well as the fact that he is here to fulfil the higher purpose of his incarnation.

Destiny is quite impersonal and universal. It has no sense of retribution. There is no motive of punishment in that great force. As a man creates his own destiny by his thoughts and feelings and actions he gets back unerringly from life sooner or later what he himself gives to life. There is no escape.
You are here to learn, to learn who and what you are. That is the purpose of your incarnation, and the experiences of life are the lessons which will ultimately teach you. Mostly you learn blindly and unconsciously, but still you are learning.

It is unfortunate that most men learn more from suffering than from pleasures. Unfortunate because they seldom learn enough with a single sorrow. It has to be repeated, perhaps getting worse with each repetition, until the lesson is etched into the heart, burned into the mind.

Until you arrive at the real self, you are distorted and warped; you cannot think truthfully and you cannot act truthfully. Go back and look at your past; you will see how, even in this birth, you have created much of the experience through which you have gone. Many of those very warpings were present in former lives; they reappear in succeeding lives and they bring with them the destiny which is attached to them.

The destiny which you have earned in former lives you are working out now in this life. From that kind there is not much hope of escape, but there is every hope that it can be modified or altered.

There is a second kind of destiny: the fate which has been stored up for you in previous embodiments and which will be allotted to you in some future earth-life. That represents the greatest mass of destiny which is attached to any individual, because naturally he can work out only a little in a single life. That does not affect you now, but it will affect your next earth-life.

I shall try to explain this in another way. If you shoot at an object in a jungle, believing it to be a tiger, and after the trigger has been pulled, and the bullet sped on its way, you see that the object is a man, a friend of yours, you cannot recall the bullet and lodge it in the gun again. The bullet must take its course. The body in which we are born in this particular incarnation, together with the circumstances and environments attached to it, is the bullet which was shot out from your past, and the past cannot call it back again. It must speed its course.

All future shots, however, belonging to the lives that are to come, can be recalled, can be stopped at their very source. That is, it is possible to stop creating any fresh destiny as well as to wipe out the possibility of all future incarnations, because they have not yet begun.

So long as your body is here its destiny is attached to it. But you can alter your reaction to it. You can react to the misfortune of losing all that you love and possess by taking it calmly. You can say: "Another cycle of my life is finished and I must begin a new cycle; I will therefore readapt myself to the new cycle without fear. I will do everything that common sense counsels to mend matters and meet results." Or, in a state of deep depression, believing that you are finished, that life has no further hope for you, you can commit suicide. Both attitudes are the expression of your own choice, but the happening which you face is one and the same for the two moods.

The best way to escape is to get to the region where these forces do not work, to become fate-free. You can do that only by returning to your divine centre and staying there. If you do that whilst you are in the flesh, then that vast store of destiny which was awaiting you in future embodiments becomes dissolved and disappears. Why? Because it is the destiny of the personal ego, and when you have eliminated the tyranny of the latter you have eliminated the tyranny of the destiny attached to it; you are free, and with death that vast mass of accumulated stored-up destiny disappears completely. That is why Buddha meant when he said that you enter into Nirvana to escape the terrifying cycle of unending rebirths.

If you wish to avoid the misfortunes, the unpleasant experiences of life, you must learn to nullify the so-called evil destiny. If you live in the material world, then you must go through world experiences. But you can conquer your destiny inwardly. You can give up both pleasure and pain so that hey do not touch you within your innermost being. You can stand aside from the processes of life inwardly, and although these experiences come to you, you can see them for what they are and realize them for their true value.
To find yourself is to find perfect mental equilibrium. Even if the greatest sufferings come to you they cannot disturb your peace. Neither can the greatest pleasures disturb you. You remain rooted in your divine centre, which is the only place where peace can be found. There is no running away from yourself, except to run within.

This is what happens to the adept. All the immense storehouse of destiny which has come down to him from the past and up to this particular incarnation in which he now lives is wiped out but not that which belongs to the present body. He must endure it, and he does. But he will endure his destiny with a different attitude than would the average man. Sorrow does not mean sorrow to him; good fortune does not mean good fortune to him; he is detached. He looks upon both pleasure and pain with calm eyes. No matter what his personal self is passing through he enjoys perpetually the consciousness of eternal life, so he is happy within. He does not particularly seek good fortune. He will welcome it is it comes, and enjoy it; he is not incapable of enjoying it. But if pain and sorrow were allotted to the body he would not object. He does all that common sense would dictate to modify and alter, but that which cannot be modified or altered he accepts resignedly.

The adept refuses to be swept hither and thither by destiny, and neither the greatest pleasures nor the greatest misfortunes can break his wonderful calmness. You, too, must try to reproduce the same attitude by living as close to the Divine as you can get.

You do not eliminate present destiny when you enter the eternal; but what you eliminate is the destiny which has been stored up through countless lives; not that of the earth-life you are now living.

But remember always that it was within your power to modify and to alter your destiny. Life is not a cast-iron thing because fate is only one of the forces that are playing upon us. There is also the force of free will, and the stimuli resulting are a mixture of both. Your own free will once created your present destiny, so you can create something even now.

Destiny sends the circumstances of your life; the major events are brought you by destiny such as birth, death, marriage, the meeting with the spiritual teacher, all those come to you by its mysterious operation. Troubles also come, but it is in your power to make them better or worse. And so you should never fall into that fatal lethargy into which so many in the Orient have fallen, when they sit down helpless and hopeless and say, whatever the misfortune: "It is God's will; we can do nothing. We must sit down and bear it to the biter end."

Thus they repudiate their own innate divine power. This has been their degradation. It explains why they have fallen into such a state of servitude, as so many of them are today. If India was a subject-nation for years and the prey of alien invaders for hundreds of years, it is partly India's own fault. The abuse and misuse of the truth of destiny is the cause of many troubles. You cannot become weak through knowing truth; but you do become weak by ignorance. Be strong!

In the face of adverse fate we have to learn two things: when to accept it and when to resist it. There are times when it is wise to resign yourself to overwhelming circumstances, learning their bitter lesson. But there are other times when it is wiser to fight them with the courage of a lion. You must find out for yourself which is the right time. Such wisdom comes only in its perfection to the adept. Why? Because he has learned to stand aside from the purely personal.

There are times when misfortunes are cups of blessing and they should be accepted. There are also times when good gifts are cups of poison, and they should be rejected. Only by becoming absolutely impersonal can we judge between them. The "I", the ego, is your enemy; it can become your friend. It is your enemy so long as it monopolizes your attention; it becomes your friend when it stands aside and says, "Not my will, by Thy will be done." If you look for that which is behind your personal self, your personal life, your mind, your body, for that which is true reality and spirit, there you will find peace. No one can rob you of it; no one can take it away from you. You will have found life eternal."

Brilliantly worded! Thank you to Dr Paul Brunton. I highly recommend any and all of you to avail yourself of Paul Brunton's material. They are lucid and articulate endorsements of what we inherently know to be true in our heart, but so every often ignore in our daily existence. So the question is, why have I put this excerpt in the section on Nigel's healing work?

Answer. Many people ask both Nigel and me exactly what happens in a healing session. I have put notes on the website to explain the processes that take place, but it is almost impossible to explain the subjective energetic spiritual experience that unfolds. In quoting the above, I feel it is important to reiterate what Nigel has always said. "I do not do any healing at all. I am no more than an instrument. Whosoever comes to me for a session does so of their own free will. They are brought by Spirit. I surrender to the Divine and, as such, I allow my body, mind, and spirit to be instruments in the hands of the Divine. In particular, I hand over directly to Sai Baba. I do not channel Sai Baba. Why would I? He is not to be channelled for He is Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent. No, rather, if it is the Will of God, then the person who comes forth connects with God through the processes we have in place and then they, in this communion, bring healing to their souls. I will follow whatever guidance I am shown by Sai Baba and/or other Divine beings and direct the individual to choose which way they wish to go. It is all about surrender.

"Furthermore, (adds Nigel) I posses no inherent healing power. Or if I do, then it is no different than that of anyone else. I have no occult power to heal another being. Healing simply occurs when the spirit of the one who comes forth is prepared to match the Grace that is ready to be poured down upon them by the Divine. To that end, the God in me communes with the God in them and together we uplift the spirit to reach a higher level of being. Now, in context of this, if a person comes forth and says "tell me what is wrong with me", I am not endowed with the faculty to tell people this answer. To do so would imply a power within me that I simply have either not developed or never had offered to me. However, should it be the will of the Divine that a window on this issue unfolds before me during the sessions, and should it be the Will of the divine that this is shared after the event, then so be it.

"Healing sessions always, I repeat always, bring changes to a person's life. It is not possible to pass through a healing session and not be changed. Such a change really comes down to an understanding of what does take place in the session. To this end, I can now share what Sai Baba is doing in many, but not all, sessions. If you review the article Regina quoted, you will note that Brunton specifically states that there is only one source of healing, but literally numerous sources of disease. Some are from this life and some are from past lives. Given that our body and being is but a thoughtform in the grand dreamfield of life, then we must also be aware that this thoughtform is a composite of all previous actions, current actions, and potential future consequences. Karma. Karma means action. The physical body is our action body and, therefore, it is our karmic body. It stores up and holds in spirit all potencies that are able to be cleared by the one and only one we call God. This one and only is the Source that Brunton speaks of. No occult powers will heal the soul and spirit from the consequences of more than a few impressions resident in the physical body of a being present for healing. However - and here is the twist - the true art of healing is the ability to stand so firmly and truthfully in the moment as a divine being that the Source (God) digs deep into the well of our being and pulls out the original genesis of disease that first made an impact upon our being. The first. Today, we see the symptoms in our spiritual body of that which is the cause - our very very first cause. The very first breath that the soul took to separate itself from the Unity was the first cause of disease. That action started a series of events that played out in spirit until eventually they played out in lifetime after lifetime until they became the nature and form of disease for all of us. Having said that, when a person is fully open to surrender, fully cognisant of the facts of what this means, and when their spirit is willing, they can then commune with God and at that moment the healing takes place. What happens is that the original karmic point from the original breath and the original thought, which resides way beyond body, mind, and soul, is pulled out and al of the barbs that connect it to all beings and souls throughout the entire Kalpa are also pulled out with it. This does not mean instantaneous healing. What is does is activate a pathway whereby the surrender process is fully engaged and all aspects of the person are called into force to bring about the overall healing. Now, when we look at the life of the Buddha or Jesus or the saints such as Ramakrishna, they exhibited what it was like to act as karmic magnets. They would pull out such karmic consequences through their divine relationship to God - the One. In so doing, they would often wear the impact of such work. Hence, they then passed over these consequences to their Source and healed accordingly. They were also not blind to the trials and tribulations of their own physical reality. They did experience such sickness as would make them look less than divine - but that is not so, as Brunton pointed out.

For my par,t one thing I do know is this. I am neither saint nor sage, adept nor guru. I do not honestly know for what reason I have been pointed in the direction of performing healing sessions. But it is currently part of my soul's journey to do so. Perhaps in a past life I did the opposite - dispensed advice that aggravated the situation - or worse. Who knows? I do not, but then that is because it is irrelevant to me. What is relevant is that when Sai Baba speaks, I listen. What I am told time and again is that He and He alone (as God Incarnate) can pull the strings of destiny (or karmic consequences) from a soul's life. As He does so, it then frees the soul not to immediately walk in eternal peace (although it may), but rather it offers the person much deeper clarity about his or her own life. One is able to go deeper and deeper into relationship with God, whereby one realises that all along the healing has been done by God through the God in oneself. Therefore, I act as a mirror to your soul and as no more than an eternal listening post to the one I love most dearly - the Poorna Avatar of this age - Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba."

If you are interested in having a healing session with Nigel, please read these notes carefully, as well as the other session notes listed on the website. There is work to be done both before and after the event. Since the power of the healings is growing day by day, please do be prepared to do the work. To attend and then ignore the work is a pointless waste of time and money. Also, please book early for sessions are very limited in number and we can only schedule in accord with the time we have available in each location. It is also of great benefit to you, once you have had your session, to develop the discipline Nigel discusses with you. This includes regular meditation using his tapes and contemplation on the Footsteps in his first book, Initiation Into Miracles.

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