Modern Order of Essenes Course: Healer – Unit 18

Welcome back to this Modern Order of Essenes course!

Today, we’re diving into the sixth unit of the Healer grade, and in particular into emotional complexes and your emotional body…

Coursework

1. To Practice – Blessing Walk, Healing Hands, Foot Reflexology, Muscle Testing

   Continue with the practices you’ve learned in the Candidate and Apprentice grades, ideally daily.

2. To Study – Emotional Complexes

   Study “Emotional Complexes” in the way explained in the Intro to the Healer grade, and/or use it as basis for your discursive meditation. As always, you are not supposed to blindly believe this text as gospel, but instead to study it thoroughly, contemplate it, and to come up with your own ideas and thoughts about it.

   Online Version (only the section “Emotional Complexes”)
   PDF Version (section “Emotional Complexes” on pages 10 and 11)

3. To Study and Practice – Hand Reflexology: “THE HANDS REFLECT THE ILLNESSES OF THE EMOTIONAL BODY”

   Practice Hand Reflexology, ideally daily. Study the section on the illnesses of the emotional body, and include them into your practice as you see fit. Draw both on your previous studies and on your own experiences and perceptions.

   Online Version (section “THE HANDS REFLECT THE ILLNESSES OF THE EMOTIONAL BODY”)
   PDF Version (section “THE HANDS REFLECT THE ILLNESSES OF THE EMOTIONAL BODY” on page 23)

4. To Practice – Essene Healing Breath: Continue as in last unit

   Continue to practice the Healing Breath meditation up to and including Step 9, as introduced in Unit 17 – unless you practice another form of meditation, e.g. discursive meditation which you could use to meditate on the theoretical study texts of the Healer grade.

   Online Version (Section “Stage Three: Step Nine – Move your consciousness into your window of opportunity”)
   PDF Version (Section “Stage Three: Step Nine – Move your consciousness into your window of opportunity” on page 22; note that Phase 3 of the Healing Breath is covered in the Apprentice pdf and not in the Healer pdf!)

Reflection Question

While you do the work of Unit 18, take some time to reflect on the following question:

What is your emotional body?

Meditation Topics

Note that for the Healer grade, there is a lot of meditation fodder in the study texts. I’m not going to pull these topics out of the study texts for you, though – that’s up to you to chew on for yourself!

But if you should need fodder for your discursive meditations beyond what you have found in this unit’s texts, the following topics should give you something to work with:

• How do your emotions interact with each other?
• How can emotions form a body?
• What is an illness of your emotional body?
• What is an emotional complex?
• Which role do the emotional complexes play in your life?
• Which other roles could the emotional complexes play in your life?
• How do your hands relate to and influence your emotions?
• And how do your emotions relate to and influence your hands?
• Why are emotions stored in your body?
• How are emotions stored in your body?

And if you have enough ideas on your own and don’t need any from this list, that’s even better!

Commentary

Hand Reflexology

At this point at the latest, the MOE Hand Reflexology is taking a turn which is decidedly different from the earlier MOE Foot Reflexology.

While the Foot Reflexology focused on healing your physical and energetic/etheric body, and clearing any blockages there, the Hand Reflexology focuses on your emotions and your emotional body.

Does this mean that Foot Reflexology doesn’t work on the emotional level, whereas Hand Reflexology doesn’t work on the physical and etheric levels?

Well, why don’t you experiment with them and find out for yourself? 😉

(There is also a link to a video featuring John Gilbert’s voice and explanations in the Resources section, in case you’re interested.)

Emotional Complexes

This is listed as “study” material, but really it should be a mixture of study and practice.

As usual, you’re not supposed to blindly believe what the material says, but instead to study it, contemplate it, apply it, and come up with your own conlusions and perceptions.

In any case, your studies of the theoretical material and the Hand Reflexology practice intertwine at this point, and one should feed into the other…

Two quick notes about things for those of you who work with the pdf file. There are some techniques mentioned in this section of the pdf file which require an explanation:

1. The Breath of Acceptance and Breath of Forgiveness are part of a later unit. You can file the info about their applications away for now, and we’ll get back to them later.
2. The Healing Eyes of Love and the Loving technique must be leftovers of some earlier version of the material. There is no explanation for these techniques, and thus I suggest you ignore them. The online version of the material has been cleaned up by John Michael Greer accordingly and only refers to the Healing Breath.

Apparently, John Gilbert enjoyed tinkering with things, and either he renamed something here, or he removed certain techniques, or added them for trial and then removed them again. He also seems to have shifted things around, see the first point above.

Either way, the material as it was handed down to John Michael Greer and then to us doesn’t tell what some these techniques are, and thus your guess is as good as mine. 😉

(Although I think there might be some ways to re-engineer some of these techniques, if somebody dedicates themselves to the task – always knowing that we can’t be sure what the original techniques are, of course. If I have now made you curious and you feel drawn to this quest, I suggest you start with this comment of mine here, and then finish both the Healer and the Master grade first in order to be well equipped for this challenge…)

Further Resources

There are by far not as many resources (in the form of video or audio files) available for the Healer material as there were for the Candidate and Apprentice material, thus this section will be noticeably shorter for the units of the Healer grade.

For this unit, there is a video featuring John Gilbert (or rather, his voice) teaching Hand Reflexology to another person. I’ve only included the video now because it draws heavily on the idea of emotions stored in the hands and is thus worth studying at this point in your practice.

Always worth a read are the comment sections to JMG’s posts, accessible via the “Online Version” links in the Coursework section.

Our own prior comment sections are also worth a read, especially as comments continue to trickle in over time. Here’s the link to the comment section of Unit 17.

(And in case you shouldn’t have noticed yet, all my posts have at least one “category” assigned to them, and most also have “topics” assigned. Categories and topics are listed below the actual post text, i.e. you’ll see them if you scroll just a wee bit further down from here. Clicking on the topic “MOE Course” will get you straight to a list of all course posts.)

Outlook

In two weeks (on Sunday November 9th, 2025) we will continue this Modern Order of Essenes course with Unit 19 in the Healer grade.

Until then, I’m looking forward to your comments and your feedback, and I hope you enjoy the work of this unit. 🙂