Inviting the Miracle Energy:
Healing At the Heart of Spirituality

It's true that anyone can heal, themselves or other people. As divine creatures, we all have healing abilities. Today, more than ever, the world needs its healers.

Often the question arises: 'How can I access those abilities?'

Mostly it requires an open heart and some knowledge of healing channels - it's best when healers recognize their connection to the divine, to the universe, becoming instruments of that.

Over our many years of study in South India, at the Shiva Sai mandir, we've witnessed and participated in healings and miracles that completely shatter the mind while enlivening the soul.

We've learned that charging the soul through meditation is vital to any healing process, and that the miracle energy plays a strong role at the soul level.

We've seen practically that all problems people are facing - physical, emotional, relationship, financial, spiritual, whatever it is - really do involve karma.

A great healer, an avatara, is someone who is willing and able to 'eat' (that is, consume and transform) the unfortunate karmas another person is carrying.

That's a soul healing, the real healing, much more at the root of the problems we're experiencing.

Soul healing is the right medicine for the number one disease people are suffering on this planet, today: heartbreak.

It means, yes, reincarnation is real, we DO go from lifetime to lifetime, creating our share of mistakes and triumphs - and everything we do, good or bad, creates karma. When you have enough unfortunate karmas accrued that are ready to be paid off - illness or accidents or some other trauma usually strikes.

The real healing, then, isn't physical -that's the surface level. It isn't emotional, either - the next layer down.

Deep healing happens at the soul level, cleaning out the closet of whatever karmas we've accumulated. Once the soul is clearer, healthier and happier, it can then go about its rightful business of healing the whole system.

This is why healing is a vital component of spiritual life and spiritual practice, however we define 'healing.' Ultimately it's about lifting souls, helping them become happy, healthy, peaceful.

Saying that everybody has the innate ability to heal is not a trivial statement - it's empowering. Most of us are so covered over at the deep subtle levels, we've lost the capacity to recognize or access our divine ability.

And then: Illusion!

Learning about karmas and souls then leads to an understanding about Illusion. Illusion - the temporary net of experience that we all think is real; i.e., we're born here, we grow up, we do stuff, we attach to stuff, we fall in love, we have jobs and lives and marriages and suffering and joy and whatever, then we age and die —  is a part of the whole explanation of healing, and souls, and of this planet, what we're all really doing here.

Have you seen The Matrix? One of our favorite movies! That chilling line - "the .. Matrix .. has .. you...." is a perfect metaphor for the grip of Illusion, or what they call Maya in Sanskrit. The Tibetan Buddhists call it Samsara. South American mystics call it The Dream - it's the same thing.

It means, we're all living in a dream that we THINK is real because our senses tell us it is, because our minds accept it as true - but behind the scenes, the story is far greater and more complex than we think it is. It's also, simultaneously, a whole lot simpler.

Why do cultures value their great artists, writers, playwrights, poets, storytellers, musicians? It's because they have a keener awareness of that Illusion nature of life, of that Maya, and of the promise of immortality that lies just behind it, than most people do. We love the artists, musicians, writers, so much, because they remind us of what we know without knowing that we know it, and they allow us to EXPERIENCE it non-logically, through music or color or poetry.

Great artists are pointing towards the immortal nature of the soul, how human beings are transitory in form, from lifetime to lifetime, but the soul never dies. In that sense, then, there is no birth, there is no death.

It's like water, how it's easily changing states - if you boil it, it becomes steam. If you freeze it, it becomes ice. But solid, gas, or liquid - it's still H20 - it's still water.

We, as human beings, are like that, too - whether we were cats in our last lives, or people, or trees or whatever - the soul is the soul, it continues on from form to form.

Okay, so how does THAT relate to healing?

Let's say - maybe the real healing is waking the soul up enough so that it itself starts to remember what its real nature IS. How would you do that, since we all live in the Illusion soup and breathe it, eat it, walk in it, worry about our finances in it, every day...?

Great art provides a kind of intuitive doorway into the Reality behind the Maya, but the saints have more efficient methods: Miracles.

One way to break the grip of Illusion is to stop the mind.

What stops the mind?

The soul getting charged. (Hence the importance of meditation practices.)

What mechanism allows the soul to be charged, enlivened, in a kind of short-cut way?

Witnessing a miracle that the mind can't explain.

Seeing a supernatural event that is so full of the energy of Reality, the energy of creation, an energy that is also, like the soul, immortal, that it comes from behind the veil of Illusion, from outside the Matrix, INTO the Illusion - and for a split second, cracks it open so the soul can clearly perceive, for a fraction of an instant, the truth behind the Illusion.

That's why the great saints show miracles (and not only Indian yogis - Francis of Assisi, for instance, or Jesus, of course, demonstrated them). In the hands of an avatar, a miracle is never what it appears to be on the surface - it's not some frivolous ability to change matter from form to form for show (like water to wine).

The miracle energy is about the deeper changes that occur the moment you cause a ripple in the fabric of Creation itself - the changes that occur in the souls of people who witness or experience such a miracle.

It's a lightning-bolt.

The miracle energy is a cosmic wake-up call: "Remember yourself!!!!!!!!"

Now THAT's healing: a direct taste of immortality.

Since returning to the Santa Cruz mountains in March '05 from seven years in South India, Alx Uttermann & Jonathan D. Rosen have been teaching & healing in the Bay Area.  Through The UCBK Temple in Bonny Doon, CA, they  offer regular Shakti Satsangs on Thursday nights. Their intensive training as healers of body, mind & soul has been through the grace of Shirdi Baba & his divine lineage of enlightened masters.