Modern Order of Essenes Course – Unit 7

Welcome back to Unit 7 of the Modern Order of Essenes course! If you are new to the course, it starts out here with Unit 1.

With Unit 7, we’re past the halfway mark of this course – at least past the halfway mark of this first part which is leading you up to the Apprentice attunement.

(Some time soon, btw, we’ll need to talk about whether you folks want this course to continue past Apprentice, up to the Healer and maybe even Master attunement!)

In Unit 7, we build on things we started in earlier units: There is a new step of the Blessing Walk, a new step of the Healing Breath Meditation and a new method for muscle testing. Enjoy! 🙂

Coursework

1. To Study – Essene Healing Breath, Phase 2

   In this unit, we enter Phase 2 of the Healing Breath meditation. You should study the relevant background info before you start with the actual practice.

   Online Version (The sections titled “Essene Healing Breath Meditation” and “Phase Two: Overview”)
   PDF Version (Section “Phase Two: Overview” on page 19)

2. To Practice – Essene Healing Breath: Step 4

   And on we go with Step 4, the first step in Phase 2 of the Healing Breath meditation…

   Online Version (Section “Phase Two: Step Four – Watch your breathing”)
   PDF Version (Section “Phase Two: Step Four – Watch your breathing” on page 19)

3. To Practice – Blessing Walk up to Step 5 – only after the first week

   Your next task in this unit is to include Step 5 into your Blessing Walk – but only after about a week has passed, i.e. during halftime of this unit.

   Online Version (only Steps 1 to 5)
   PDF Version (only Steps 1 to 5, on pages 11 to 14)

4. 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)

5. To Study – “The Essene Healing Paradigm”

   Study the material on the “Essene Healing Paradigm”. You’re not required to agree with everything in this text, but you should contemplate it seriously, and if possible come up with your own thoughts or opinion about this topic. (Hint: It also makes for excellent discursive meditation material!)

   Online Version (only the section titled “The Essene Healing Paradigm” – note that “Essene Gnostic Beliefs” marks the beginning of another section which we’ll study in a later unit)
   PDF Version (only the section titled “The Essene Healing Paradigm” on page 28)

6. To Practice – Muscle Testing: Rubbing Fingers Technique

   Practice the second of the muscle testing techniques, the “Rubbing Fingers Technique”.

   Online Version (only the section titled “Rubbing Fingers Technique”)
   PDF Version (Section “Rubbing Fingers Technique” on page 47)

Reflection Question

While you do the work of Unit 7, take some time to reflect on the following question:

What is physical healing?

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:

• What are the rules of healing?
• How do the elements relate to healing?
• What other concepts could be used to explain healing?
• On which levels does healing take place?
• Does practice make perfect?
• What can you learn from watching your breath?
• What can you not learn from watching your breath?
• Does your attitude towards others influence yourself?
• Why can bad things happen to good people?
• Could you constantly be on a Blessing Walk?
• How have the MOE practices influenced or changed your life?
• Why do different healing techniques work for different people?
• Which healing techniques work well for you, and why?
• How does friction on higher levels translate into friction on lower levels?

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 5

Step 5 of the Blessing Walk is different from the steps before. It’s not about blessing others anymore, but about observing yourself and your own life while you continue to bless others. (The latter is the important part – don’t forget to continue with steps 1 to 4 alongside any observation and introspection you perform!)

In a way, it’s an intermediary step towards integrating the Blessing Walk into the rest of your life.

When you do this step, you should pay attention to several things, if possible: Both to effects within yourself (e.g. you might be calmer, or more patient, or …) and to effects coming from externally, e.g. people treating you differently than before. Also, don’t just pay attention to how things might have changed during your actual Blessing Walks, although this is interesting to note as well. In addition, consider whether there have been any changes in the rest of your life, i.e. while you don’t perform Blessing Walks.

These changes might be subtle, but there are likely to be some noticeable ones even after just these few weeks of practice.

Feel free to share your findings with the others in the comments, if you are so inclined. Reports like these also a great resource for people who wonder whether they should start the MOE, which kind of effects it has, whether it is worth the work, etc. 😉

Muscle Testing

By now, you have probably gotten over the initial weirdness factor, if muscle testing had been new for you. 😉

Don’t worry if the Looped Fingers technique hasn’t given you reliable results yet (or any results at all). If this should have been the case, it might have been due to one of two common issues:

First, it might simply be that you need more time to get the hang of muscle testing in general. Like most other things in life, some people take to it like fish to water, some people need to practice a lot in order to get any results – and most people fall somewhere in between, along the spectrum! 😉

I.e. chances are good you might simply need more practice. Just follow along and practice the different techniques as they come up in the coursework until it “clicks”.

Secondly, it could also (or in addition…) be the case that the Looped Fingers technique simply isn’t your cuppa tea (it’s not mine either, and I use muscle testing regularly). In this case, the remedy is equally simple: Continue to practice along with the different techniques as they are presented in the unit coursework, until you find one (or more) which work well for you.

Generally, it’s worth trying out all of them – you never know what a technique does for you until you’ve tried it. This includes, potentially, coming back to try the Looped Fingers technique again later, especially if it didn’t work well for you during Unit 6. Maybe your overall muscle testing skills have improved considerably at a later point, and techniques which felt clumsy or pointless at first might produce excellent results for you in the long run.

Either way, muscle testing is like riding a bike: Most people need to practice a bit (or a bit more) until they can do it smoothly. But once you can, you won’t lose the skill again…

Further Resources

Again, the resources aren’t really new or surprising in this unit… 🙂

I already pointed you towards John Gilbert’s audio files in Unit 1. As you proceed with Step 5 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 six minutes of it contain Step 2, 3 and 4, 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, as usual, our own comment section from Unit 6 as a valuable resource.

Outlook

Unit 8 will go live on Sunday, May 25th, 2025.

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