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ClifNotes 6
January 2001

Intention In Action ™

Continuing the theme from last ClifNotes looking at observations of nature’s marvelous events.

An Indian doctor in Nepal told me that whenever a tree stopped bearing fruit they would get an elephant to shake the daylights out of it and next season the branches would be loaded. Once there was a brief story in the Reader’s Digest of a man in Idaho who had tried unsuccessfully to remove an infertile peach tree using a bulldozer. The next season he had a crop of huge peaches. In the Cook Islands, the year after a hurricane, the people were telling me that they had a record crop of mangoes – I could still see three sheets of corrugated iron impaled in one of the trees.

The American Indians made use of drumming and foot stamping in their fertility rites.

I wondered about that and in my book “Dancer’s In The Fields” I put the question…. does the same apply to animals and humans?

The first thing was to find a source of impartial research data. And where better than look at the world’s shaky bits! California, Japan and New Zealand which are forever being tossed around by earthquakes.

I spent three years researching the variations in numbers and strengths of ‘quakes over almost one hundred years. I found that many crops increased the year following increased earthquake activity.

Stone fruit in particular seemed to show the largest change - often up to a 50% increase.

It appears that if a species is threatened by upheaval, percussion could be the trigger mechanism for primal focus on survival. Bringing on an increase in fertility.

For a significant number of years the human birth rate in California hovered below the USA average except in years following increased earthquakes when it rose above.

In Nepal, family survival depends on producing lots of offspring. An important part of village wedding celebrations there includes nightlong drumming outside the happy couple’s first-night bedroom.

Percussion looks as though it could be a useful tool for infertile couples. Rather than inviting an elephant to invade their bedroom which might be difficult with modern bedrooms so small or waiting for an 8.5 quake I devised a system which proved effective in many cases.

One doctor who became convinced of the effectiveness of my theory and practice was Professor Marina Shalimov, senior lecturer at the Moscow Women’s Medical College. She agreed that there might be something serious about this theory – her own daughter-in-law became pregnant after years of trying. Basically playing drumming tapes throughout the most auspicious night has shown some connections to successful pregnancy. (When disco music became dominated by drumming the rate of pregnancies among young women grew dramatically).

Of course there needs to be a lot more research done to finally convince others, but along with specific counseling it has been helpful to many couples.

In conjunction with this effect I began puzzling over something which has bothered me for many years. Why do so many abused women return again and again to the person who abuses them so tragically?

Of course there are extremely complex reasons for this but many counselors have no answers at all.

Can it be, and I am seriously proposing this without expectations of wholesale agreement, that the survival mechanism which appears to be linked with percussion, creates a chemical or physical desire in the abused so that they become ‘hooked’ on the repeated powerful rush?

And what if the same blind insanity affects the men who repeatedly do this, usually under the influence of drink or drugs?

It’s a point to think on.

Doing my Qigong at 6.30 in the morning is marvelous when the beach is almost empty, the water is warm and the sun is not yet scorching. At any one time, the two or three people in view look no larger than this “.”

To the north, on my right, the Pacific Ocean fringes the grassy headland 2.5 kms away. At the other end of the bay a clump of sub-tropical rain forest leans over the Clifside making sparse shadows on the sand.

It is too early for the flies and mosquitoes.

This was how I met Adam. I’d finished my exercises and as I opened my eyes he waved me over to sit on the rocks just on the shoreline. He’d been watching what I was doing and was curious.

He is a smallish man covered in tattoos from elbow to shoulder with the broken nose and rugged features of a person well worn in life’s struggles. His dog, a pit bull, tethered on a short leash, had the same crushed look as though his snout had come into violent contact with more than a few brick walls in his time. The impression was of two tough characters. Added and abetted by the dawn sunshine glinting off the half empty beer can held in his hand.

Even though he had obviously been drinking he was cautious and ‘respectful’ – not wanting to break into my obvious quietness.

We waited without speaking while he finished rolling his Drum cigarette and he unobtrusively slipped the can out of sight behind a rock.

A few more waves broke on the beach at our feet before he started to talk. At first, lots of questions about Qigong - what it was, how to do it, what benefit it might be. Then as he resolved to tell me his story it tumbled out of him.

Four years ago he’d been to see a doctor because of a slightly painful back. With no signs of improvement he agreed to have surgery. The operation left him almost unable to walk and in 24-hour pain. Ever since then any movement at all has been excruciating.

My suggestion of a healing session brought on a hopeless shrug. It might has well have been one of those brick walls that fell on him.

“It isn’t that I wouldn’t want to try it,” he turned away to the distant horizon. “I would try anything for me and also for my wife. You see, she is dying from cancer, the doctors can’t help her and what makes it agonizing for me is that she belongs to that religion which wont agree to anything like that.”

At that moment if there had been another can of beer handy, I am certain I would have joined him in a drink – 6 o’clock in the morning or not.

From Ava: “I offered a session to a German doctor, who was interested in IH after I told her about it, and the next day she rang me and asked for another one, she liked it so much....... she reports being in bliss for hours after both healings!”

Alice’s was another story which touched me closely. She was about 15 years old, living on Mossburn Animal Farm in Dumfries, Scotland. All around her were elderly, retired animals, doddery old sheep, a broken down racehorse or two, a strange looking owl and some Tibetan pigs. It was run by Juanita Wilson who put all her energies into helping animals die in as much comfort as she could find. I was often there sharing healing and marveling at the changes often enough.

Alice, one of my favorites had bad arthritis. It is said that goats will eat almost anything and the first time I met her Alice spent the healing time nibbling on my jacket. Her arthritis was so bad she could only move around bent over on her front knuckles – the lower half of her legs bent under – her days of prancing in the fields well and truly over. Yet after one session she shook her head, stood up, and for the next year or two she walked properly on all four feet.

Speaking of books - I am reading Rupert Sheldrake’s latest: “Dogs that know when their owners are coming home.”

As I read it, he is saying that it is Intention which makes the connection between humans and animals and between humans and humans. Dogs begin to prepare for their person’s return when the person DECIDES to start for home.

He says: “ Through perceptual fields, people and animals are connected to the objects of their attention. Indeed, the very word ATTENTION implies such a process. Its Latin roots have the meaning of stretching the mind towards something. It is closely related to the word INTENTION, which means to stretch the mind INTO something.”

[In agreeing with what he says, my idea is that the more you pay ATTENTION the less you allow INTENTION to flow appropriately. Or another way to put it is: INTENTION flows, ATTENTION controls.]

Sheldrake goes on: “…according to quantum physics, particles that come from a common source, like two photons of light emitted from the same atom, retain a mysterious interconnection such that what happens to one is instantaneously reflected in the other. This is known as ‘non-locality’ or ‘non-separability’ or ‘entanglement’. No one knows how far this process extends, or how extensive is this instantaneous interconnectedness. Some physicists speculate that everything in the Universe is interconnected through quantum non-locality.” End of quote.

Doesn’t that sound suspiciously like the actual experiences described by Intentional Healers? Can you agree that what we are doing in this process is allowing enormously distant connections to take place? That it is in fact the very expression of ‘non-localised’ mind and practice? That we are playing with practical examples of what the physicists are only just beginning to dance with in theory?

From Martin: “My sister had severe pain in her arm and shoulder and insomnia.

She was about to see her doctor to have an injection to kill the pain. She did this several times before. This because she almost could not use her arm and it became difficult to take care of her one-year-old daughter.
I offered her an [Intentional] Healing session also using the Mind Music. I asked her to write her experiences down.

This is what she wrote:
‘Just after the session the pain was still there but during the day I noticed that I was not thinking about it all the time. I felt very peaceful and empty.
The next day the pain was almost gone!’
Conclusion after one week: ‘The pain is completely gone and I sleep very well!
This is what happened after only one treatment, four weeks ago.
The pain hasn’t return since.’ ” ……. Martin Wessels email: info@chichoice.nl

One time I had just arrived in Hongkong. I caught a taxi from the airport but after we had traveled no more than one quarter of a kilometer (about half a mile) the Chinese driver stopped the car and turned to me.
“You must be a very nice person,” he said, then turned and drove on.

Remember in ClifNotes I told you of the couple in Melbourne whose restaurant a few years ago had the best day in years after I had adjusted the Feng Shui of their house? Femke has emailed to say that the very day she received ClifNotes5 they again had a record day at the restaurant!

Last night more than 50 doctors and caregivers came to a talk in a conference center here in Coffs Harbour. The conversation ranged from Intention through Qigong to Spirit Release. What is particularly interesting is the number of people who agree that they have had such experiences. Many have already begun to do this work in groups or singly and there is a growing recognition of the need for brave souls to forsake many of the age-old concepts and become, finally useful in this weird and often confusing world.

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