CREATING A CIRCLE OF CONCERN
The results are in. Recent experiments carried out in the contemporary scientific and medical communities have consistently proven what traditional healers and mystics throughout time and culture have always known.
Prayer works.
Test after test show that patients who were prayed for -- even at a distance, even by strangers, even without their knowledge -- recovered much quicker than those who relied only on conventional western medical practices. Ample demonstration of the curative efficacy of fervently focused intentions and compassionate acts of devotion.
Since we know that everything in this marvelously complex universe of ours is inextricably inter-connected, it stands to reason that the lines of communication and communion that join us are already in place. When we travel along these energetic avenues of our affiliation we extend our reach and our benevolent response-ability in ever-wider networks.
Ultimately, our caring creates a sort of spiritual circulatory system that pumps life blood to all of its parts. If we honor and nourish it, this magnificent pulsating web of our interdependence can serve us as an emergency safety net, breaking our falls and softening our blows.
Over the years I have received hundreds of requests from folks who want me to pray for them. I always do, of course. Of late, these compelling messages have increased many-fold. I have created a special drawer under my altar to contain these petitions for prayer. There they lie in state on beds of dried flowers surrounded by amulets of compassion and peace.
I regularly light candles above them to help fuel their purpose. But think how much more meaningful and potent it would be if we would all join together to concentrate our power-for-good toward the healing of ourselves, each other and Mother Earth.