(Karra presents a dissertation on the ritual of healing, something common in all types of healing including surgery. The topic morphs into how to create a room where healing in such a ritual kind of way can be done so we go over some options.) 

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Karra: let’s see, what can we discuss?

Russ: well we can discuss your diplomatic fun games you have coming up here or we can go on to more dietary supplemental things.

Skip: or if you want to go on to the physical, spiritual healing bit you can go that way too.

Karra: okay that works.

Skip: okay.

Karra: physical, mental and spiritual healing. Okay now what have we got so far? We have using water to cleanse your hands….

Skip: uh-huh.

Karra: we have using energy balls.

Skip: uh-huh.

Karra: we have using rituals. Have we covered rituals?

Russ: yeah.

Skip: a little, maybe I wasn't present when you covered them thoroughly.

Karra: well we can cover them again, it’s always handy to go over rituals. Now part of the healing purpose of a ritual is to awaken the conscious, spiritual side of an individual and also to bring the two energy patterns into alignment where they can work together. Sometimes it’s necessary for a healer to go down but sometimes a healer can’t go down that far so the healer will go down as far as they can and bring the other person up to a spiritual level that is close enough for the healer to work from. Now depending on what religious beliefs the individual is depends on what religious practices the healer will use in a ritualized ceremonial healing. Let’s say you are a Native American. Okay what you would do is to bring somebody up or down to your spiritual level depending on their level or their energy level is that you would sit with them within a very hot area which is part of the spiritual……..you would call it I believe a heat house?

Skip: sweat lodge.

Karra: sweat……thank you…..sweat lodge and in doing so what you’re doing is you’re bringing them up or down to your level as well as you moving up or down to their level. That is part of the religious practice that aids in the ceremonial and ritualized healing. Now once you have achieved that level then you can start to do the healing process of the energy transference which in actual fact what you're doing is you’re guiding their energy and augmenting it with your energy into a healing platform that they can use. Whether it is more your energy than their energy is besides the point, what you’re doing is you’re getting them to focus the energy and do the work themselves. A lot of healing rituals are designed to do just that is that even though we have an unlimited supply of energy to work with, it is limited by several factors. One is our stamina, one is their stamina, one is the mental condition that you're in, one is the mental condition that they're in, one is the actual health that they’re in. These are just five factors that have to be considered when doing a ritualized healing. Also part of some rituals is fasting or taking psychedelic drugs to aid in bringing the mental awareness up or down so that they can mesh with you. Now these rituals are very important to some people, even in modern surgical facilities it’s very ritualized. Scalpel, forceps, autoclave, suture, needle, forceps, swab, it’s all very, very ritualized in how things are done and for a reason. Because even though the subject is unconscious, the energy is being aided and flown through the ritual. Forceps, scalpel, suture, clamp, irrigate, swab, all these are part of the ritual. Even in a modern setting with the lighting and the sterilized table and the sterilized equipment and so on. So the ritual, even if you think it’s not practiced anymore, actually is. If you take into consideration such other practices as listening to classical music whilst they’re doing the procedure or their favorite tunes of the subject that is in healing or bringing them gifts of flowers and sitting and talking with them, that’s all ritualized if you look it how things happen. Okay……..well all don’t ask a question all at once, it’s overwhelming.

Skip: yes I realize that it is, I’m just observing and dissolving on what you said.

Karra: I know.

Russ: well I’m working on how to change that downstairs into a more energy center. Now that's all pretty much all what it can be used for, what it will be used for. So to aid in healing let’s say or to aid in meditation and to use your ritual like you're talking about, how to set that up.

Skip: can I intervene here just a minute?

Karra: certainly.

Skip: okay I was going to a lady that’s a graduate from Barbara…

Karra: uh-huh.

Skip: physical, spiritual, healing graduate. The room that she had set up had a table in it, her desk, a radio…..a disc player actually is what it was and two open windows.

Karra: uh-huh.

Skip: nothing more to distract you but nothing less to distract you. In other words it was comfortable and she would play soft music while all this was going on.

Karra: uh-huh.

Skip: no vocal music, all instrumental.

Karra: uh-huh.

Skip: it was very relaxing and she went through her own physical ritual of hands-on healing……..

Karra: hmmm.

Skip: where she went the same route every time that……..you understand what I’m saying?

Karra: yes.

Skip: because that’s the way she was trained….

Karra: uh-huh.

Skip: and it’s part of her ritual.

Karra: exactly but the problem that Russ has brought up is what do you want the room for?

Russ: well it’s a multipurpose room.

Karra: that’s right, so you got the problem.

Russ: right.

Karra: for healing you want a bright, light airy facility. For meditation you want it fairly dark, you want it comfortable, you want it warm so therefore you’ve got the conflicting structures but I think we can work with that. One of the important things is the energy flow, all centers require a good energy flow, good being the operative word. What you might think about doing is moving exercise equipment out of that area and putting it somewhere where it is……because what you're doing is you're creating a different kind of energy that is not that compatible with it.

Skip: it distracts you?

Karra: correct, what I’m saying getting back to the energy flow, it is important to have the correct energy flow. It’s not a storage area for clothing, it is not a storage area for knickknacks, it is what you want it to be is a healing, meditation, metaphysical area correct? So that’s something that has to be laid out.

Russ: all right so we actually have to design it.

Karra: correct and then once it is being used for that purpose, that is the purpose it is used for, it is not a storage area. It is not a area to come down, sit down and just be idle. It is an area that you go to do your meditation, to do your healing, to do your research on astral travel, to do your various techniques and practices.......

Russ: I see.

Karra: but it is not an area for storage. I know I’m harping on that.

Russ: no, no, no, you’re right, you’re right.

Karra: yeah. So having an exercise equipment in there is also a distraction.

Russ: well I can get that out of there, that's easy.

Karra: yeah, having a setup that is beneficial for mental awareness and advancement is what you want. So what you might try to do……and here’s an idea……is the little window, not the sliding glass one.

Russ: right.

Karra: is get one of those curtains that comes in a circle that you can draw open and closed. Something like that would be perfect because you can do your healing with beautiful light streaming in through the windows, actually that’s a little bit tricky with that window, it will give it more lighting.

Skip: and then do you meditation by closing it, the blind.

Karra: uh-huh.

Russ: hmm.

Karra: another thing to do would be to specifically designate that as your domain.

Russ: right, well I set that the other day.

Karra: yes I know and it is totally your domain.