Answering the Call

by Jan Toomer

This is a Discussion from the “Undefined Reality” course:

We are not just physical beings – when our bodies sleep, we often work. Sometimes you may remember, like a dream, what transpired at night – sometimes you won’t. Many often dismiss the memories as a weird dream.

We can also work when we are awake and going about our daily routine. When this happens, a lot of people described that they were on “automatic” that day.

I was a young teenager, and was just drifting off to sleep. I heard a call (a feeling/ sensation/ knowing) that I was needed somewhere. As I dozed off, I remember arriving in an old barn. The smell of old hay and a feeling of an oppressive heat were all around me.

A young boy grabbed my hand and began excitedly talking while dragging me further into the barn – and my ears didn’t understand a word he was saying. The language was unfamiliar to me.

I was brought to an older man who apparently lay where he had fallen. He was very ill. The urgency in the boys voice told me to help him, and quickly.

I remember working on the old man – then…

I woke up, sick as a dog. My mother would come in and out of my room, giving me either Tylenol or aspirin, checking my fever. I would fade in and out of sleep.

I next woke up to a strange man standing with my mother beside my bed. He was telling my mother that the symptoms all fit yellow fever, but my mother was adamant that we hadn’t been anywhere that I could have come in contact with that.

I don’t remember how long I was bed ridden – most of the time was spent sleeping a very deep sleep, only to be awakened to have liquids and pills shoved down my throat.

When I was able to start staying awake, my mother had told me that she convinced a doctor to make an actual house call – but she never discussed anything else about the illness.

My strength returned and I returned to my normal routines.

When an untrained healer begins healing, or answering the call, the mistake of taking the others illnesses/ pain/ imbalance into oneself is often made. This is a no-no. It creates unnecessary strain on the healer’s body – it robs the other person of doing what their body needs to do (whether for karmic debts/experience, or robbing their body of the chance to build an immunity to the illness, etc) – and frankly, isn’t needed for healing.

Shield; shield; shield! Pull from the Source to send healing, not from self and then direct the healing energies to boost, clean, etc. the other person or self.