The Healer’s Journey

It’s a maze with a lot of dead ends

Anyone interested in my work is a healer. Maybe you don’t think of yourself as such. I certainly didn’t think of myself as a healer at first either. In fact, I didn’t like the word or the connotations conjured.

As a healer, I specialize in systems. I break systems. I see trends. I create new systems. So oftentimes I won’t like buzzwords, new trendy ideas, popular people, and the group mind in general. I stand alone and observe the group. Then I see things. Horrible things. Beautiful things. Eventually I find solutions.

Observing the healer’s path is one thing I’ve been doing for a while. Both in my own life and through watching others. I see a lot of mistakes. I see mistakes being repeated by many people over and over again. I see what works and try to understand why it works. I chart the trends and leave room for the mystery to play out.

One thing that I have been observing in the world of healing is the concept of dead ends. Fakes. Lies. Empty promises. Snake oil salesmen. Desperate people willing to believe anything. Willing to pay anything. The conman has a field day with these types. It’s open season on easy marks.

Now, I’m not the only one who has noticed these things. Many others have seen it as well and this drama cycle has given birth to a whole host of skeptics. The skeptical mind becomes jaded and blunt. These types don’t believe anything. They will never be fooled, but they will never find the cures either. They will die a cold and logical death in the wooden box they built to keep themselves safe and protected from the con men.

On the other side of the spectrum, you have the open mark. The gullible fool. They believe in magical fantasies as though they have the proof and understand the thing in depth. They have no discernment. They have only hope and will fall for one trap after the other. The fool and their money are soon parted, but it doesn’t stop there. With social media, these types can spend endless hours propagating their delusions and infecting others with these dead ends and distractions.

Something to understand is that with delusion and manipulation, the goal isn’t always money driven. Men and women have strange motivations that only God can truly understand. Sometimes the fake healer is after prestige. Sometimes they want admiration, or accolades. Any way you cut it, if they are operating from selfish desires and anything other than a pure heart center, then the healer is a fake. There are more fakes that reals. Many times over in fact. Most, in my view are fakes. They might have some truths mixed into their spiel. They might even have the odd gem. But you will have to dig and dig to find them and then all the other information will contaminate your finds.

Rule number one. Never idolize anyone. Don’t form icons. Never. Sounds simple in theory, but we all get sucked into creating celebrities out of people. We put them on a pedestal and we think that they are somehow better than us or superior to other teachers. Eventually we begin following their thoughts and recommendations to our own detriment. Then we get mad at them and throw them in the fire. It’s a cycle. Better to avoid that cycle from the start and recognize that there are only people.

Rule number two. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Everything comes with a cost. There is no magic bullet. There is no such thing as free and everything has limits and downsides. Most great solutions will hurt in some way. They will be uncomfortable, complex, or the results will wane over time.

Rule number three. There is no universal protocol. One size fits all approaches never work for everyone. In fact, one man’s medicine is another man’s poison. This is the inconvenient truth. It makes things exceedingly complex and nuanced and very difficult to navigate the oceans of healing information.

Rule number four. It takes work. You will have to work for it. No freebies. Nobody can do it for you. Even the best healer, doctor, naturopath, acupuncturist, chiropractor, or miracle worker cannot do it all for you. They can get you started. They can get you out of a crisis. But, eventually, you will need to take the reigns and drive yourself.

Rule number 5. Nobody stays alive. We all die. So its better to just accept that and go from there. In a way, this is really rule number one of becoming a real healer. We work with death. We form a council of relations with death and respect the process at play. Death is not the enemy just as God is not the enemy. Death is the ultimate destination of this physical life and there are good reasons for things working like this. Without death, life is meaningless and so although it is a bitter note, it is a note that we must all finish on.

Rule number 6. No pain, no gain. Every great natural medicine has something about it that sucks. Every real treatment will be somewhat uncomfortable. DMSO burns and then you stink for 3 days. Detoxing makes you feel like you are sick. Fasting makes you hungry. Drinking lots of water means that you have to pee constantly. Working out is tiring. Mediating is boring. You get it. Everything has a cost and if it doesn’t, then it’s probably not a great natural medicine. Western medicine treats death and pain as the enemies. Natural medicine takes you through the pain to meet your death in perfect timing and grace.

Rule number 7. Learn to trust yourself. Trust God. Work with God and let God work with you and your life as a master sculptor works a lump of clay. Disease can be a great opportunity to get to know the Creator. Treat this opportunity with the appropriate respect.

Healing is a spiritual path. Real healers are very spiritual. The physical needs to be respected though. I see many healer types forsaking the physical and only focusing on energy and auras. They think that they can wish away disease. We are spiritual beings rooted into a physical body and inhabiting a physical reality. To ignore the physical side of things is just as foolish as ignoring the spiritual side of things. We have a left eye and a right eye. Without both eyes, we lack the ability to perceive depth. Without depth perception, we cannot say that we can truly see.

I am MK. I am a healer. I am also a protector and a warrior. I am a father and a husband. I am a brother and a friend. I am also a son, but much less so as of late. I used to be a child. I grew into a man. Along my path, I’ve learned to open my heart. Along that path, I had to learn to shield my heart. I’ve taken care of people and I’ve been taken care of. I have helped others, and I have been helped.

We are all connected through our story. We are all one in a way, yet we must retain what makes us unique. We must remain sovereign and regal. In God we trust. For love we live. For a good life we pray. Healing is just a heartbeat away.

-MK