Modern Order of Essenes Course – Unit 6

Welcome back to Unit 6 of the Modern Order of Essenes course! If you are new to the course, it starts out here with Unit 1.

I hope you enjoyed the first of the Apprentice material in the last unit. In this unit, we will start practicing a somewhat weird technique: muscle testing. If you have never done it before, it’s fun and can be very useful. And, of course, the practices you’ve learned so far will continue.

Coursework

1. To Practice – Essene Healing Breath: Continue as before

   This week, we’re taking a breath 😉 – simply continue with the Essene Healing Breath practice as in the last unit, i.e. the full sequence up to Step 3, and don’t forget about the withdrawal! If you should be lagging behind a bit with your Healing Breath practice, this is also a good chance to catch up…

   Online Version (Up to section “Phase One: Step Three – Extend your breathing”)
   PDF Version (Up to section “Phase One: Step Three – Extend your breathing” on page 18/19)

2. To Practice – Blessing Walk up to Step 4

   Your second task in this unit is to include Step 4 into your Blessing Walk.

   Online Version (only Steps 1 to 4)
   PDF Version (only Steps 1 to 4, on pages 11 to 13)

3. To Practice – Empower your Healing Hands

   Continue to empower your Healing Hands in the morning.

   Online Version (only the sections for empowering your Healing Hands, i.e. up to and including “Empowering Your Healing Hands, Step Three” – the rest is part of later units)
   PDF Version (pages 31, 32 and the top of page 33, up to and including “Empowering Your Healing Hands, Step Three” – the rest is part of later units)

4. To Study – Essene Kinesiology: Overview and Theory

   Study the introductory text to the kinesiology (muscle testing) practices.

   Online Version (only the section titled “Essene Kinesiology: Overview and Theory”)
   PDF Version (“Lecture Three: Essene Applied Kinesiology” on page 45; only the text above the section title “Looped Fingers Technique”)

5. To Practice – Muscle Testing: Looped Fingers Technique

   Practice the first of the muscle testing techniques, the “Looped Fingers Technique”.

   Online Version (only the section titled “Looped Fingers Technique”)
   PDF Version (Section “Looped Fingers Technique” on pages 45 and 46)

Reflection Question

While you do the work of Unit 6, take some time to reflect on the following question:

How can spiritual healing be accomplished or facilitated?

Meditation Topics

If you 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:

• Can slowness advance your progress?
• Can slowness hinder your progress?
• Why would you bless inanimate objects?
• Might inanimate objects bless you – and how?
• What are the differences between natural objects and man-made objects?
• What are the differences between natural objects and man-made objects with regards to blessings?
• Can inanimate objects heal spiritually?
• Can inanimate objects help you heal spiritually?
• What can your body tell you which you don’t consciously know?
• What’s the difference between your conscious and your subconscious knowledge?
• Where is your subconscious located?
• What kind of answers can you get from your subconscious?
• What strengthens your muscles, and what weakens them?

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

Commentary

Blessing Walk, Step 4

Step 4 of the Blessing Walk introduces “entities to be blessed” which you might not have had on your radar – inanimate objects. Note that the instructions talk about both man-made and natural objects, and about certain things which aren’t “objects” in the strict sense like “dirt”, i.e. which don’t have clearly defined borders. When you practice Step 4 of the Blessing Walk, make sure you incorporate objects of all these different kinds.

Also, remember that the steps of the Blessing Walk accumulate, i.e. to the best of your ability, you should also bless humans, animals and plants during each of your walks.

With the inclusion of inanimate objects in Step 4, I also want to encourage you to try out, yet again, both versions of the Blessing Walk: the more “verbal” one, and the heart-centered one, as explained in Unit 2. You might be surprised to note that one of them works better for blessing some entities, while the other one works better for others.

(You might also note that the version you perceived as “easier” or “more natural” back then is now a bit harder or feels less natural, and vice versa, or any other changes. If so, I’d appreciate you reporting those in the comments, as I’m still collecting data about the more heart-centered version in comparison… 😉 )

Muscle Testing

If you have never done any kind of muscle testing before, it might seem weird at first. Please give it a chance anyway – it really is a great way of checking certain things!

Among other things, muscle testing is helpful to determine what your body needs (e.g. whether a certain kind of food or drink is agreeable to you at the moment of testing).

There are also other ways to use it. To the best of my knowledge, it is the most reliable when applied to things which relate to your physical body, or which are stored in your “body memory”. For example, I know of a person who is very experienced with muscle testing and uses it to retrieve things which she knows or has encountered, but can’t remember at the current moment. Once you’ve gotten the hang of the method, it’s worth experimenting in this direction.

Also to the best of my knowledge, muscle testing as a divinatory method (to learn things not related to yourself, your own body, and your past experiences) can lead to misleading results, as it is more heavily influenced by yourself than other divinatory methods (i.e. by your own wishes, hopes, etc). But your mileage may vary, and again, it might be worth experimenting – just keep in mind that any results might be more biased than you are used to from other divination methods…

If you have done muscle testing before, you might have done so with another method. In fact, the MOE material contains quite a few methods of muscle testing. Over the course of the next few units, you will have the chance to try out all of them (plus one which isn’t included in the material, but which I prefer).

Some of these various methods work better for some people than for others. Thus I’d encourage you to give each of the methods a try, even if you already know other ways of muscle testing. You might be able to expand your repertoire that way.

And if the looped fingers technique should not work well for you, then don’t throw in the towel – there will be other methods later, and one of them might be more up your alley. For now, just keep on practicing to gain experience!

Further Resources

There’s nothing new in the resources section this time, apart from the link to Unit 5’s comments section – this section includes the same references as in Unit 5 simply for your convenience. (The Blessing Walk audio also covers Step 4, though, i.e. you can listen a bit further ahead in it.)

I already pointed you towards John Gilbert’s audio files in Unit 1. As you proceed with Step 4 of the Blessing Walk, you can come back to the audio file with the name “Walk.mp3” if you are so inclined.

Walk.mp3 covers the Blessing Walk, but all steps of it. I.e. you can either listen through all of it right away to get a feeling for where we’ll be heading, or you can simply stop the audio for now when it moves on to the next step of the Blessing Walk, and then listen further as we proceed.

In the zip file of the audios, there is also a file called “breath.mp3”. This file covers Steps 2 to 6 of the Healing Breathing Meditation, narrated by John Gilbert.

About the first four minutes and 15 seconds of it contain Step 2 and 3, i.e. the steps you practice in this unit. You can of course listen through the whole file now, but stop practicing at around this time. There’s no point in overdoing it and knocking yourself out, and we’ll get to all the other steps later anyway…

The file AE-L1.mp3 contains instructions for empowering the Healing Hands (up to about minute 6:45).

Note that this audio explains certain (smallish) details slightly different than the written text, but both version should work fine.

My bigger issue with it comes further on in the audio file, especially in the remarks about ethics, and also some comments about “teaching clients”. I’ll have more to say about those parts in a later unit. For now, if you should decide to listen through the whole file and not just the first few minutes about empowering your Healing Hands, please keep in mind that some of what John Gilbert says here might be well-intended, but that doesn’t necessarily make it the right thing to do. 😉

Finally, there is our own comment section from Unit 5 to read, if you shouldn’t already have done so. Not that many comments yet, but again some interesting ones you might enjoy.

Outlook

Unit 7 will go live on Sunday, May 11th, 2025.

Until then, I’m looking forward to your comments and your feedback, and I hope you enjoy the work of this unit!:-)