Illuminations

An Illumination is an ancient Inka energy medicine process that uses a medicine stone (cuya) and gentle holotropic breathing to clear heavy emotions associated with trauma and disease that have become toxic energy within your Luminous Energy Field; in addition it erases the imprint that causes the creation and storage of toxic energy. Its primary benefit is to return an individual back to his/her original state free of the emotional wounds that may have interfered with the achievement of life’s desires.

How long does it take?
An illumination typically takes about 1-1/2 to 2 hours depending on the amount of time it takes to identify the emotional issues/patterns that need to be healed and the amount of time needed to process after the breathing phase is completed. I schedule 2 1/2 hours in case the sessions run longer.

What is the cost?
$120.00 for the first hour and a half, $75/hr for any additional time

Who originated this process?
Alberto Villoldo and his mentor Don Antonio Morales perfected the Illumination healing process after working with male & female shamans of the Q’ero people. The Q'ero people believe that they are descended from the Inka who escaped the Spanish Conquistadors' by moving up to the Andean mountain tops in Peru over 500 years ago. Their energy medicine techniques had been passed on orally, without any written documentation. Alberto Villoldo and Antonio Morales developed the illumination process by interviewing, documenting and synthesizing all the oral traditions into a unified illumination process.

This illumination process is supplemented by the use of a drum healing track specially recorded for me and the use of a metratron mat that was designed by the man who is said to be the reincarnation of the Buddha Maitreya, his Holiness Jetsun Gyalwa Jampa Gonpo. The two additional processes were added by me to increase the efficiency of the combustion and evacuation process.

What is a Cuya - medicine stone?
“Cuya” is the Q’echua word for medicine stone. Q’echua is spoken by the Q’ero people who live in Andean (Peru) mountain top villages. Any stone can become a “cuya” after it receives a direct energetic transmission from a shaman’s mesa that have cuyas. My cuyas (see photo inset) received their energetic transmission from the Q’ero shaman pictured on page one; he is the man pictured on the far right. These stones were collected in the “wild” in Washington, Oregon, California & Utah.

What is the purpose of the illumination process?
An illumination can accomplish three things:
It combusts and evacuates the toxic energy that has been deposited to the walls of a chakra as a result of emotional and/or physical trauma. The emotional trauma can be a “real” event or fear of an event occurring. For example, a real event emotional wound would be when a young child is yelled at for wetting his/her pants. While a perceived threat would be the fear of being yelled at if he/she wet his pants. Often the fear of something happening to someone -- losing a job, spouse, family members --- create more toxic energy than the actual event. Or the emotional pain could be the fear of or the consequence of breaking a family taboo -- such as shame and guilt. If not released, the build up of toxic energy will manifest into “dis” “eases” such as cancer, ski rashes, organ failure, etc. It is similar to an engine that never receives an oil change. Eventually, the friction of the dirty oil impacts other parts of the engine until something fails.

It erases imprints of the emotional & physical trauma. In other words, it removes the “tender spot” in your Luminous Energy Field that is reactivated/triggered whenever a similar event occurs. For example, a person who received unrelenting criticism as a child, may have developed an imprint of emotional pain & fear whenever that person perceives another person criticizing him/her. The “tender spot” is triggered like an open wound to create more toxic energy in response to the perceived or actual criticism. Overtime, the person may attempt to avoid that pain by making choices that have bad outcomes. For example, if the child felt abandoned, then as an adult, they may stay in relationships longer than necessary to avoid abandoning others. The examples of how emotional wounds suffered in early life have caused decisions with bad outcomes is too numerous to outline. Most human being has suffered to some degree during this lifetime and have, consequently, minor or major emotional wounds that create toxic emotional energy that is stored in the Luminous Energy Field.

It prevents the further build-up of toxic energy because your Luminous Energy Field is not clear of all the imprints that would have triggered the creation and storage of any new toxic energy. As a result, the toxic emotional energy you previously harbored will no longer manifest into a “dis” “ease”, and you will no longer be caught in an endless of loop of emotional pain if you cease to return to your victim story. Most importantly, it frees you from feeling forced into negative emotions and behaviors. One client described the experience as “transcendent.” Your experience will vary depending on the depth of your emotional, mental and/or physical trauma you experience over your lifetime. As Alberto V. wrote, “ The emotional wounds cease to script your reality and they thus turn into gifts of love and strength.”

What is a Luminous Energy Field?
As written in Alberto Villoldo’s book: Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americans. pp. 46 - 55 :
“The Luminous Energy Field is the archive of personal and ancestral memories that one experiences. It contains early-life traumas, even those of former lifetimes. There are four layers of this field: the first, outermost layer holds imprints of physical trauma; the second layer holds emotional imprints, soul imprints are in the third layer, and spiritual imprints are stored in the fourth and deepest layer. These imprints are similar to dormant computer programs stored on a hard drive or seeds in the ground. While being dormant they do nothing, but when activated or germinated they can produce either a bad or good reaction.

Imprints can make an individual repeat disastrous behavior or they can help him toward a more productive behavior. All imprints contain information that flows to the chakras which govern the individual's emotional and physical worlds. Information in implants organizes the Luminous Energy Field, which later organizes matter.

The Luminous Energy Field contains a template guiding the individual's future actions: how he lives, feels, ages, and possible dies. For example, when the Luminous Energy Field has no imprint of disease, the person recovers faster from an illness. However, imprint of disease can depress the immune system and sufficiently increase the recovery time.

It is very important to note that in the Luminous Energy Field only destructive imprints are contained. Imprints such as disease and traumatic experiences leave marks on the luminous body, the outer covering liken to skin of the physical body. This luminous body or Luminous Energy Field resembles a doughnut, in geometric terms a torus, having a narrow axis or tunnel, less than a molecule thick at its center. The human magnetic field, filled by streams of light, mirrors the Earth's magnetic field traveling from top of the head. These energy fields penetrate the Earth about twelve inches and reenter at the feet. When the arms are outstretched such a field may be pictured as a globe of light surrounding the physical body. The lines or rivers of light that flow in the luminous body are tributaries of the greater luminous lines flowing around the Earth.

As it is seen disease and traumatic experiences leave negative imprints on the outer layer of the luminous body, the marks. Good experiences, happy and loving ones, do not leave marks but can act as soothing solution helping to erase these marks. The marks of the trauma of child abuse do not appear as a child being beaten; likewise those of cancer do not appear as a blob. No, they both appear as pools of dark stagnant energy to those who can see them.

An example of a lasting effect of an imprint would be a woman whose father left her mother when she was a child that had affected her relations with men all of her life. The indication was a configuration of knotted strings above her left shoulder. Once this was analyzed the configuration went away and the woman could trust her husband more after forgiving her father. There also are imprints for diseases like cancer. The physical disease may be removed by surgery or other treatment, but unless the imprint is fully removed the disease is more predisposed to return.

This is an example of the working of good emotional experience. Trusting her husband more to be supportive of her and forgiving her father helped this woman to overcome the negative activity which the imprint had activated in her emotions for years. Again, good feelings are soothing solutions. Many people endure tragic situations and seem to develop no serious imprints in their Luminous Energy Fields while others do. The difference seems to be the attitude with which people handle the situation with which they are faced. Those meeting it with anger and resentment seem to develop imprints and can be severely scared, while those meeting the situations amicably seem less or not affected at all.

The reason for this difference is the negative effect of the imprint itself. The imprint of a tragic and/or traumatic experience ejects negative activity that affects the chakras which exerts certain behavior. Until this negativity is eliminated by positive emotional behavior the former negative behavior will persist each time the imprint is activated. This is the reason imprints, even those of past lifetimes, can predetermine people's behavior throughout their lives: their emotions, their relationships, their work, who they marry, and so on. When activated people tend to gravitate toward people and circumstances of the original wounding in order to heal. It is only through therapy and/or self-determination that this emotional change reaction can be broken.”

How is this different from psychotherapy?
Modern psychotherapy focuses on healing emotional wounds through a mental self-discovery process, often through conversation. This process can be helpful in developing an awareness and then understanding of the what is troubling an individual. If successful, psychotherapy can result in an individual moving out of the Karpman Drama Triangle (Victim/Perpetrator/Rescuer roles) into the role of the “Hero” who transcends all the past trauma through a release of old contracts, tacit agreements and wounded feelings such as shame, guilt, betrayal, etc..

However, psychotherapy cannot remove the toxic emotional energy that has been stored in the body up to that point. To remove the stored toxic energy, one must undergo some method of energetic release to purge your Luminous Energy Field of toxic energy; ideally, that energetic release would also erase the imprint that triggers an emotional response to certain situations and feelings.

How does the Illumination process begin?
The illumination process begins with a discussion (discovery) of what he/she wishes to heal. The focus can be on a physical condition that you believe is either caused by or is prevented from healing due to an emotional pain. Or it could be a feeling that prevents from facing a re-occurring problem such a fear of doing or saying something that is in your best interest. Just as in dreams, their are almost endless ways in which a emotional wound can manifest as a physical condition or a fear that prevents you from making good life decisions on a daily basis.

As the facilitating healer, my job is to help you discover the source of this emotional wound without judgement. In other words, we go back together through your life to identify any patterns that may relate to this emotional wound without any judgement on whether you life choices were bad. The goal is not relive the pain but to acknowledge, yes, there appears to be a pattern often beginning at childhood (possibly in the womb) that then appears to have manifested as a physical aliment and/or pattern of life decisions that were not in your best interest because of the original emotional wound(s).

The discovery process takes between ten to 45 minutes depending on how much introspection you have done to solve this problem. The goal is to not psychoanalyze your issue but to discover when the original emotional wounds occurred without judgement of who may have inflicted them since the perpetrators are often earlier victims of emotional abuse and thus unknowingly perpetuating a ancestral wound that was done upon them, as it was done to their parents, grandparents and so on.

Blowing into the Cuya
Once the issue(s) has been discovered, you will be asked to first anchor the feeling of the emotional wound in your heart, without trying to relive it, and then blow that feeling/issue into a Cuya ( Medicine stone) three times. After you have blown your issue into the stone, I will ask you to lie down the floor, face up. If you are doing this session long distance, I will ask you to blow the feeling/issue into a proxy stone. At that point, I will muscle test to determine which chakra to place the stone on and then ask you to place the stone on that chakra. For long distance clients, I will place that stone on the mat in relationship to where that chakra would be had you been lying down. Although it may seem preposterous, it is possible to do this work long distance just as it is possible for psychics to see what is happening in different locations, sometimes described as “remote viewing.”

Metatron Mat
During the final stage of this process, you will be lying down on a Metratron mat (picture inset to left) to magnify the efficacy of the light body evacuation. Per the mat’s designer, his Holiness Jetsun Gyalwa Jampa Gonpo, “the mat is designed to attune to your meridian system and the natural magnetic field of the body; neither over-stimulating nor under-stimulating but balancing and purifying the energy systems of the body. It works on the cause all the way down to the energetic field and it applies the divine configuration of the Vesica Pisces to attune to the DNA in the body; both the physical DNA, the light that is in the DNA and the magnetic field that carries that light.”

My life partner and I have received powerful experiences while sleeping or resting on this mat. The mat is sold as a self-contained healing tool but I have found that pairing it with the illumination with the Metratron mat greatly accelerate the healing process to occur in a shorter time period and with greater efficacy.

Sound Healing Overlay
In addition to the use of the Metatron mat, I also play a special recording made by Master Drum Healer, Toby Christensen (see inset picture) to further loosen the light body for the healing process. The recording is of an actual drumming healing that he performed by standing over and drumming into the clients (me actually) heart chakra for 20 minutes. This track is played once or twice depending on the amount of time needed to combust and evacuate the toxic energies and clear the core imprints that led to the accumulation of toxic energy.

Combustion & Evacuation Process
Once the cuya (medicine stone) is placed on the chakra that is most blocked by this issue, I will ask you to begin breathing that issue into the stone. This process will take approximately 25 minutes -- or more if needed. During this process, you may feel an energetic release such as buzzy body or you may immediately start releasing strong emotions as they are pulled up from where you have stored them. The goal is to breath the issues into the stone without having to relive the pain. Just like a breathing coach for a childbirth, my job will be to anchor you through the process and encourage to breathe when you get stuck or frozen in the emotional release. The drumming music will also help distract you from staying with any particular emotion and provide a soothing overlay.

Completion
During the breathing phase, I will ask periodically how you are doing; based on past experience I will know where you are in the cycle of release and when you are nearing completion. The breathing phase will end when you tell me that the heaviness or pain has left your body.

This process is intended to release toxic emotional energy from your Luminous Energy Field (LEF). Assuming you do not create new emotional pain to re-fill your light body, this process may need to occur only once or enough times to completely clear your LEF. The degree of clearing depends on the awareness and intention to release the toxic emotional energy. Once the LEF is clear, it will be up to you to make life life decisions that place away from any situations that could cause new emotional wounds.

Confidentiality
This process requires a sharing of emotional secrets and/or private pains that probably have not been shared with many people and/or understood. And as such, they will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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