Peter’s Story
Section Three - Episode Three
Flower Essences
Continuing on with the story of how Peter discovered natural therapies.....
flower essences.... and more flower essences....
I still use homeopathy as one of my therapies, and at times it is vital: there are occasions where it is the only therapy that will do the job.... however, flower essences are my first love.....
In late 1992, I attended another workshop with Mary Garbely, and at this workshop I bought her full set of seventy “New Perception of New Zealand” Flower Essences from her.
I immediately began using these “New Perception of New Zealand” flower essences, using a pendulum for diagnosis, and gradually my expertise developed. What used to take me half an hour back then, I can do in a minute now (1998).
By early 1994, I was using the New Perception flower essences with confidence, thinking that this set of seventy essences would be all I would ever need. Then, suddenly, “Perelandra” burst onto my scene.....
Perelandra
“Perelandra” is a center for nature research, in Virginia. It was established in the 1970's by Machaelle (pronounced “Michelle”) Small Wright, and her husband Clarence. Machaelle had heard about the work done in communicating with the intelligence of Nature at Findhorn, in Scotland, and was fascinated by this (as I had been when I read about Findhorn in 1991).
One day, Machaelle went out into the woods and announced.... “I want to do here what was done at Findhorn”, and then went inside and sat down as if to meditate, and opened her mind to the consciousness of Nature. She immediately heard many voices talking to her, and had to ask them to speak one at a time! She began to work in partnership with the intelligence of Nature, initially very much as the student with Nature as the teacher, and eventually as an equal “co-creative” partner. For details of this story, I recommend her book “Behaving as if the God in all Life Mattered” (Second Edition), and also her more recent book “Co-creative Science”.
I won't bore you with all the details of how I slowly learned all of the many things that Perelandra pioneered, but gradually from early 1994 until 1998, working very intensively, I learned and mastered all of the many things that Machaelle has published in her various books, audio tapes, and video tapes.
For a detailed description of “Perelandra”, and of some of the work done by Machaelle Small Wright, refer to the
Perelandra Chapter of the
New Millennium Flower Essences Manual.
A major revelation for me was to learn a more advanced method of working with flower essences, the so-called “telegraph testing”. Any medical condition can be treated, physical, mental, emotional, whatever. All of the symptoms are noted, and a separate bottle of essences is prescribed for each of the major symptoms. As the patient takes the dose from each bottle, he/she thinks of the symptom and this puts the body's energy system into the energy state of that symptom.
I have used this “telegraph testing” method extensively, and it works brilliantly. Anything can be treated, including medical conditions that have been diagnosed as untreatable by conventional medicine. Here are two examples from my own experience.
Case No. 1. A man of around 30 years old. Very fit and active. A keen tramper, a semi-professional dancer, and working at the time as a mail-man, delivering the mail. He had bad hip joints, and had been told by the doctors that he would need a hip replacement within a few years. He had a lot of pain and soreness in both hip joints. Following the flower essence treatment (plus some homeopathy), he has been symptom free for eight years.
Case No. 2. A woman aged around 40. A professional dancer. Menier's Disease, a condition of the inner ear. Symptoms included hearing loss, severe nausea with vomiting. She was unable to work, even teaching dancing became impossible. Life was a misery, as every day she suffered from the nausea and vomiting symptoms. She had consulted three specialists, and they could offer no treatment other than a strong diuretic which did not help (other than to add to her misery, by having to run to the toilet all day long!)
Within a few days of the initial flower essence and homeopathy treatment, her symptoms improved, and she has now been symptom free, apart from some minor hearing loss due to permanent physical damage, for eight years.
With these two cases under my belt, I really thought that I had it all sorted out! I could heal the whole world! But, guess what? The world definitely did not want to be healed!
I especially remember the case of a man you had bad eczema. He was referred to me by a friend. He had tried all sorts of therapies, and none of them had helped at all. In my arrogance, I thought “I'll fix it for him!”. Well, guess what happened! It appeared to be a very simple case, I gave him the treatment, but it did not work! He got no better. He added me to his long list of “failed therapies”, and told many people that I was a fraud.
This was quite a shock to me. Why had it not worked for him? I was being given a lesson in humility. And, in the simple fact that not everyone is instantly ready to let go of their pain just because I think they should! After having ideas of becoming a famous therapist, healing the world, I quietly went back to the computer industry for my livelihood, continuing to use the therapies for my own healing and a few close friends.
Over the period of my 12-step work in Al Anon, and the Breath Express workshops (see earlier in the story for details of these), I was sufficiently proficient with the flower essences and homeopathy to use these therapies as an integral part of the self-healing work I was doing. I was also learning the environmental energy cleansing and balancing techniques developed by Machaelle Small Wright, (kind of like a version of Feng Shui), and I was using these to balance and enhance my living and work environment.
In fact, I now believe that one of my roles in this life is to act as a “natural therapies systems integrator”, bringing together a variety of therapies form various sources and discovering ways to combine them together into very powerful combinations where “the whole is greater than the sum of the parts”. This is certainly working for me on my own journey.
But on with the story.....
One particular combination of therapies that I worked extensively with all through 1996 was the combination of flower essences and acupressure. A cotton bud is soaked in the appropriate flower essences, and the bud is used to stimulate the appropriate acupressure point. This combination was pioneered by the people at “Living Essences of Australia” of Perth, Western Australia, and I saw it demonstrated at the flower essence practitioners celebration in Auckland in September 1995.
I discovered that the “cotton bud essence acupoint” therapy is very effective when used on the acupoints of the ear. The ear acupoints correspond to a map of the whole body, and I have found this therapy to be especially effective for pain control. I used this on myself extensively during 1996, with two notable successes being pain control from severe toothache and the total prevention of infection (with no antibiotics at all) for an ingrown toenail.
Another notable therapy discovered by Machaelle Small Wright of Perelandra which I have used successfully many times is the “Microbial Balancing Process”. This works in cooperation with the intelligence of Nature to bring the microbes in our body (the viruses, bacteria, fungi, and protozoa) into a state of balance. Disease manifests in our body when the microbes are out of balance. Our usual response to this is to kill as many of the microbes as possible. This approach really is the “cracking the nut with the sledge hammer” method, and often leads to further complications as we kill off all the friendly microbes as well as the out of balance ones.
If I can catch it early enough, I have found that I can clear up most viral and bacterial infections within a few days using the Microbial Balancing Process. This includes the common cold, cold sores, herpes, etc.
Then there is the “M.A.P.” process, or to give it it's full title, the “White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program”. It's difficult to explain exactly what this is without dedicating a hefty part of this story just to this subject. It is a very powerful form of energy therapy, where the energy system of the body (at all levels: physical, emotional, mental and spiritual), is worked on by an invisible team of “therapists”, which includes the intelligence of Nature. To many people, this will seem very far-fetched, and to them all I can say is “It works, and don't knock it if you haven't tried it, with a truly open mind!”
By the time of my relationship with Meagan, in 1995 (see earlier in this story for details), I was beginning to experiment with extending the Perelandra energy work processes into new territory, starting to develop my own techniques, that were original to me. I began developing a technique for working directly on the balance of the energy of relationships between people. I used this for a while in 1995, and then put it aside until 1998 when I took it up again, and since then it has evolved into other forms.
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