Nemenhah: the Sacred Sahaptan Healing Way

I have been searching for my community of healers and I found it in the Nemenhah/ITO religion! And I am now a Medicine Woman in the Nemenhah/ITO (Indigenous Traditional Organization).

Nemenhah is a haven of support for alternative healing practitioners. All religions are seen as sacred and the individual brings their current religious beliefs to Nemenhah as a foundation. The Nemenhah religion is focused on the practice of healing ministry and the right to the healing way of life. It offers legal protection in the USA under the right to freedom of religion.

The Nemenhah religion is a restoration of an ancient Native American teaching in which healing is a spiritual pillar of the church. Sadly, there are groups of people that find this restoration threatening to existing religious, cultural, medical and legal power structures.

I studied with Phillip R. "Cloudpiler" Landis who is leading this restoration. He is the President and Presiding High Priest (Tehk Tiwehkthihmpt) of the Native American Church of Nemenhah (NACNEM). The Nemenhah were an ancient, indigenous people. There are no current Native American Tribes called Nemenhah.

According to Chief Cloudpiler, the Nemenhah people were an ancient, indigenous people who lived in parts of Central America, North America, the Pacific Islands, Japan, Korea, China and Tibet. These peoples left evidence and writings of their ancient sacred ways so the Nemenhah might be restored in the future.

The writings are called the Mentinah Archives and are the sacred histories of the people known anciently as the "Nemenhah" (people of the truth). The stories trace their history and journey into the land now known as the "four corners" area of the USA.

According to greaterthings.com, the histories were allegedly written upon plates of various metals, processed animal hides and paper velum.  Allegedly, the records were archived in several locations in North and Central America anciently. The only surviving copies of the Nemenhah histories are strictly guarded in libraries at a non-disclosed location in Sanpete County, Utah. 

I joined the Nemenhah/ITO through the ancient covenant of Spiritual Adoption. This Ceremony of "Making of Relations," is the process for taking initial orders and is the essence of Nemenhah Ministry. I choose to participate in an intensive weeklong study culminating in status of Nemenhah Medicine Woman and minister of the church.

The Five-Fold Mission of the Nemenhah is the healing of individuals, healing of families, healing of communities, healing of society, and the healing of the planet through the use of natural healing methods, natural materials, and the guidance of spirit (Wayaykihn). This is the Sacred Sahaptan Healing Way; so all people may become healers through Wayaykihn.

http://www.nemenhah.org

http://www.nemenhah.org/faqs.html

http://www.greaterthings.com/Records/Nemenhah/

Thinking About: self-empowerment

I realize my thinking has been programmed by the politics of power. Powerful groups telling me they know the right answers. In the US these power brokers are governmental institutions, religious institutions, corporate industrial institutions and the media that programs our thinking and manipulates us to buy toxic products.

We do not really admit it in the US because we believe in “free speech and freedom of the press,” but often the media is nothing but a bought and paid for propaganda tool. This is sad, very sad because the media can unconsciously program us with beliefs that are counter to a positive, effective, healthy life. We feel we must have a particular medical screening, medication, or treatment because everyone is doing it--and we do not want to be denied anything. We believe if we fall in line with the program we will not be alone in our fear and misery and we just might get the cure we are promised.

My strategy to discern the truth is to ask---who profits from my decision? Does the action enhance my life? Or does it make profits for others at my expense? What happens to us when we abdicate our self-responsibility to governmental institutions, religious institutions, corporate-medical institutions? We have surrendered our life energy to fear. In a harmonious world all individuals are respected and there are no losers---you would not be asked by the physician and hospital to sign a waiver absolving them of responsibility. 

When governance, the corporate-medical establishment, and religion are used to dominate and control our thinking, the common person is victimized. It is true, society or culture cannot be sustained without shared beliefs and the US was founded on a concept of shared secular values and beliefs. The hope was that the separation of State governance from Religion would give the individual freedom to practice their Spiritual and religious beliefs without fear. This high level of freedom requires tolerance, acceptance and at times insecurity. 

This essay is actually about the insecurity that lies at the heart of free-will. (Free-will [belief in the right of personal choice] is a spiritual tenant of many religions) It is the feeling of insecurity that creates a lack of faith, which leads to doubt, which leads to hopelessness. How can anyone of us be empowered when in an emotional state of hopelessness? How can we create a healthy body when we feel hopeless? 

Can the individual live a healthy life in a constant state of disequilibrium, disharmony? The empowering principle enlivening one’s Mind/Body and Spirit is faith. It is the spiritual tension between Free-will and the choice to act on Faith that creates the opportunity for personal growth and evolution. If we abdidicate our self-responcibility to others we cannot demonstrate faith. All healing is faith healing. You can have faith in a medical model or particular treatment, faith in Nature and a natural life, faith in Self, faith in God. It is the choice to act on empowered, free-will that empowers Mind/Body Spirit healing, and Spiritual evolution.

Recently life challenges reminded me that making life decisions based on faith is a moment by moment commitment. There is no one point where I can say I will never be insecure, I will never question if my decision was the right, perfect, good choice. I can only make the best choice for me in the moment. But to be at peace with my choice--for me to feel empowered--I need to seek information, meditate with my guidance, review my belief system and accept the consequences of my decision in the moment. This process centers and balances me--it is a demonstration of the respect I have for myself. Self-respect is a demonstration of love for self. Where there is Love, fear cannot exist. 

Using Mantras for Healing

I, like Edgar Cayce, believe that the good things that are given to us from Spirit should be freely shared. That is an ethical discussion for another day.

Because I believe Spirit gives us information to be freely shared, I will tell you the mantra meditation I was given on self-healing.

My intuitive understanding is that a component of disease is encapsulated fear and anger in one’s body. To remove this encapsulated fear, anger and bodily symptoms of the disease, the fear and anger must be identified, acknowledged and owned as real. Then the disease/fear/anger can be transmuted in a Violet Flame. The Violet Flame is identified in esoteric knowledge as an energy quality of the Creator.

Esoteric means hidden, deep, buried. The true meaning of the end of the Mayan calendar was not the end of the world—it was the end of secret knowledge. Spirit will make knowing available if we choose to know.

The Violet Flame can be used to transmute energy. It is essential to realize that a disease is idea energy, or thought form, that one has created or materialized in the body. It may represent a current life stressor, or it may represent a karmic lesson or shock. To learn more about the Violet Flame, also known as the Violet Ray see the web link directly below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_rays

Cayce often prescribes a therapy that makes use of an actual violet light. My intuitive understanding has led me to know that we can meditate on the Violet flame to transmute the disease. The disease idea, or thought form resides in unconscious, subconscious, and conscious aspects of our Mind. These layers of Mind and Spirit are where the roots of the disease reside. We can use treatments and therapies at the body level where the disease symptoms reside, but until we address the roots of the diseases at the Mind and Spirit level, as well, we are vulnerable.  The original disease/fear/anger may return or manifest as another disease. The role of the disease is to motivate us toward Spiritual enlightenment and Mind evolution.

As an example, in the case of a tumor or scar tissue, one starts the healing process when the fear and anger are identified, acknowledged and owned as real. The one repeats the Violet flame mantra with an attitude of faith. After one has asked for the tissue to be transmuted in the Violet Flame, the tissue will be broken down by natural body processes, reabsorbed, and eliminated. Once the disease energy is transmuted and released, your personal life energy is no longer feeding the disease and can be used to rebuild your body.

My guidance tells me, we tend not to give up disease because we fear that we will be isolated and left unseen by our fellow man because people have given up on Love and Joy. We tend only to recognize fear and anger. Love is the opposite of Fear, and Joy is the opposite of Anger—these energies cannot coexist.

 I understand what the guidance is saying but I recommend meditating on this statement to find your inner truth. As a counselor, part of our ethic is to warn clients that change has consequences--relationships and family dynamics will change, if you know this before hand you can compensate for it.

My Guidance intuitively gave me this technique for working with the Violet Flame.

1.  First:

Accept that you need to forgive yourself and others for..................................that lead to manifesting this disease. Put into the blank the name of what it is you are angry about ---the whole idea, clearly review it in your mind.

2. Next say this mantra:

Father, Mother, God, Goddess I AM, All that Is, please send a Violet Flame of transmutation to surround and permeate all energies of ................name the disease.............all times, places, spaces, events, participants, and energies are cleansed and healed and brought into alignment with Gods will for humanity at this time. So be it. Amen.

3. Say the mantra 3 times.

Many diseases are the result of accidental occurrences, or exposures to germs and toxins that unintentionally get overlaid with emotional shocks--life happens. It is essential to remember that disease becomes a habit pattern, an energy habit pattern in mind, body, and Spirit. To overcome the disease you must break the energy, the body memory, by doing therapies at all levels of self--Mind, Body, and Spirit. We are a threefold being. Successful healing therapies must address the physical Body, the Mind and the Spirit. (In other words if you may need to forgive yourself---for forgetting to wash your hands, or forgive your child for dropping a hammer on your toe.)

It is also essential to remember you, and those you love, have a life plan. No one lives forever. The Christ demonstrated to us that he was a Being that embraced his Life Plan and saw death as a doorway to the next adventure.

http://www.edgarcayce.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joseph_Sugrue

Spirit Connection to Health, part 1

Recently I was on vacation in Virginia Beach, Virginia attending the International Association for the Study of Dreams conference. In Virginia Beach I had the opportunity to visit the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE). ARE has grown out of Edgar Cayce’s medical intuitive readings. Edgar Cayce is known as the sleeping prophet.

There is a River, the official biography of Edgar Cayce was written by Thomas Joseph Sugrue. He interviewed Cayce, his friends, and family. This biography is a true representation of Cayce as he struggled to accept his amazing gift of medical clairvoyance and integrate this ability with fundamental Christian beliefs, and practical, workingman, country values.

I had many misunderstandings about Cayce the man and the validity of medical clairvoyance. Cayce was a product of his culture and farm life in late 1890s rural Kentucky. An introspective man, He worried about being a good person and not disappointing God and his family.

His autobiography is one of the most interesting, well-written books I have read. It displays true essence of what it means to be an individual in the US. (I worry that many individuals living in other countries have a misunderstanding of the US character from watching TV and movies. I do not know any one like the people displayed on TV shows, movies, or the news. These are entertainments, or shocking unique events. Oh no, I have just admitted that I am very ordinary and possibly boring.)

Mr. Cayce would fall asleep and go into a deep trance. During this trance Mr. Cayce was able to give clairvoyant or psychic readings about an individuals health and lifestyle. Although, his ability to view the human body from a distance and correctly diagnose medical issues seemed phenomenal at the time, and today as well, other individual have displayed this ability across time. However, it was ARE’s commitment to documenting the individual case studies that create a pattern of validity.

It is Edgar Cayce's life and work, which demonstrate to me the truth of the Mind/Body/Spirit connection at work for our health and healing. At first one believes that Cayce's work can't be real there must be something untrue or fake about what he does. But no one has been able to establish that. The information and documentation of his psychic health readings, collected over thirty years, are available for anyone to study and research.

One of the most striking examples of Cayce’s ability is the story of his son Hugh Lynn. In the 1890s, Edgar made his living as a photographer. At that time they used flash powder to create enough light to get the image on the photographic plate. His young son some how caused a large amount of flash powder to ignite and severely burned his face and eyes. Cayce picked the screaming boy up and ran to the nearest physician’s office. The physician did what he could. The physician consulted other local doctors. Their belief was that the boy would be permanently scared, blind and that one of his eyes should be surgically removed or the boy would die.

Cayce’s wife said if ever we are going to trust in the gift of the medical readings---now was the time. Cayces went home, he went in to a trance and Spirit gave them a treatment plan for their son. They followed the plan exactly. Hugh Lynn did not have any facial scarring and after about five weeks times scar tissue peeled off his eyes and he could see perfectly.

Our current allopathic medical establishment will never research these therapies because there is no profit to be made--you cannot patent these therapies as they belong to the ARE. The ARE makes the therapeutic knowledge available to members for free. By US standards membership is not expensive. The current complaint about the therapies is that they seem old fashioned.

The therapeutics are old-fashioned. When Spirit spoke through Cayce, Spirit gave therapeutic recipes using products available at the time. Spirit utilized established medical schools of thought when appropriate. They recommended the appropriate use of allopathic, homeopathic, osteopathic manipulation, chiropractic and psychological treatments. Medical readings often made recommendations on dietary change, toxic cleansing, herbs, and massage techniques.

The recommendations from Spirit never did harm to the individual, unlike current medications that have cumulative long term, and even deadly side effects. If the therapeutics recommended by Spirit did not work, the case was investigated. Lack of success was related to the individual not following the therapeutic plan exactly.

I believe one of the reasons individuals did not follow the therapeutic plan exactly was because it was free. We tend to look askance at, not have full faith, in things that are free. The nature of our current culture is that profit is king. Nobody gives anybody anything of value for free--supposedly. Therefore, ARE is an organization. When one pays money to join you support the workers and the buildings, the knowledge if free. A link to edgarcayce.org is below.

http://www.edgarcayce.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joseph_Sugrue