The Journey of Inner Witnessing

At the beginning was space, emptiness, vastness, nothingness. Then came air, sound, the Word, Dreamtime, voices of the first day. From there, fire erupted, water started to flow, earth began to grow.

Somehow, the “journey of inner witnessing” I experienced in India a few weeks ago, along with a group of thirty Brazilian homeopaths, was the journey of re-membering this very origin, the source of it all, the depth of our soul, who we truly are.

Gathered at The Hidden Oasis, a biodynamic center on the outskirts of Pune, along with Dr Sankaran, one of the most renowned homeopaths in the world and true pioneer in the realms of medicine, environment, education, arts, we all dived right into the Song, silence, the art of paying attention, healing, freedom.

The pattern.

The same way nature is made of the five elements, the same way each of us is composed of those five components. 

Depending on your own characteristics, you may encompass more of one or few of those elements. That’s the basis of Ayurveda, the Science of Life, that originated in India thousands of years ago, as well as other ancient systems of medicine. 

At its core, Ayurveda heals individuals based on the thorough understanding of each body constitution and their unique combination of fire, earth, water, ether and air.

The re-balancing of those elements in the body through specific diet, lifestyle, herbs and medicine is essentially what Ayurveda is all about.

Homeopathy is a system of medicine based on the principle that ‘like cures like’. 

In practice, this means that a medicine capable of producing certain effects when taken by a healthy human being is capable of curing any illness that displays similar effects. 

Both Ayurveda and homeopathy stem from the very detailed encompassing of each individual’s nature and particularities. 

They both treat the patient as a whole and as an individual. There is no medicine for any particular disease, but there is a medicine for the patient suffering from the disease. “The individual, not the disease, is the entity” (Sir William Osler).

What WISE (or the Witnessing of the Inner Song Experience), enacts however is another level of precision into the definition of each particular being, and therefore healing potential . 

Yes, you are the elements, you are a form, you are a shape, you are a range of colors and associated sets of personality traits.

Yet, deeper than that, you are an energy pattern, a song playing within you, the driving force of it all: your health, your passions, your purpose, your life.

Every day, we wake up at dawn and meditate together. We are fed with the most delicious food from the premises, entirely vegan, organic and sugar free. The sense of bonding rises.

One after the other, we all get to share the notes of our song. The stories arise, the patterns unfold, the melody starts. 

In any situation of life, whether it is fear or joy, there is always a reaction to it or a response to it. 

The “reaction” comes from our pattern. The experiences that emerge from it are actually not ours. Like the thoughts, they come and they go. Like an illusion, they are disconnected from reality. 

The “response” on the other hand comes from a clear way of thinking, seeing, feeling, willing, acting and the full acceptance of a situation and other people. Actions in that case are appropriate to the reality. 

The more you are aware of your pattern, the more you can dilute it and liberate yourself from it. You start to handle situations from a response perspective rather than a reactive one. 

It is from that song and the awareness of it that the journey towards true healing begins.

That is the real revolution the WISE process brings, beyond homeopathy where it originates from, to any aspects of the living and what it means to be human.

The process.

The practice of homeopathy convinces the physician to regard the body as more than a sum of its parts.Unlike a machine, it develops, carries on its function and repairs itself independently. In this sense, everyone carries within him his own doctor. 

Beyond just symptoms and illness, the WISE process goes a step further by opening to the “pattern curing pattern” promise, and ultimately the source of healing.

We begin to “arrive” and truly meet each other. 

Despite the silence (most of the retreat was silent), the sharing of our experiences is so deep that we quickly get to know some of the most powerful parts of each other.

The processes being used to identify your energy pattern take many different forms. 

Whether through sound and music, touch and feel, meditation, movement, they each follow the same foundational steps : Imagining, Experiencing, Moving, Witnessing and ultimately Liberating yourself from experiences that are not yours.

I can see how challenged most of us are in expressing ourselves other than with words or our intellect. How to bring about the fear of losing your child in movement and sound? How to connect with the experience of rejection through the body and the voice?

We are all humbled. We all dive in.

I realize how much the mother connection means in people’s life and healing. 

I observe the power of pure listening.

I notice how easy it is to get caught into your own perceptions and judgements, as homeopaths looking for a logic to this all, or anyone really, trying to finite a truth beyond space and time. 

And how liberating it is to free yourself from those perceptions and judgements. 

In just a few days, the world opens up. 

Day after day, I meet my inner song. 

I start to see it, to get to know it, to feel it, in my body, in my mind, in how I see others. Some days, I fight with it, some days, I make peace with it. Some moments, I ignore it, other times I make up with it. 

The very last day, without any notice, I fully, wholeheartedly surrender to it.

Coming from my mouth, the biggest sound arises, coming from my body the most powerful volcano erupts!

I take a step back, I watch it all happen: the sound, the volcano, the tears flowing, the silence, the peace. I become the witness. 

Only at that moment, I see the beauty, I feel the love, I accept it all, the songs of the birds, the humming of bees and my inner song. I feel much lighter.

The revolution.

Unlike any other forms of medicines or therapies, WISE works from the very depth of each individual, the very seed of life.

There lives the source of healing, the remedy to all diseases and ailments.

The body and the soul really are one when they participate in the third dimension of being, when matter reverts to pure energy, when the body is “lived” (instead of being enslaved to itself and to existence). The body becomes our tool, our laboratory, and our work to enter our true stature, which is divine.

Man enters the cosmos, and the cosmos enters Man.

The first time I met Annick de Souzenelle’s work, I remember feeling a profound sense of Truth or whatever Light could be called. Her words traveled beyond my brain and intellect, they connected deep inside my body. I felt it so strongly that I ended up meeting her in person and connecting with her on a very personal level. We are now along with two other writers in the process of translating her latest work from French to English.

In her master book The Body and Its Symbolism she wrote:

“The best medicine would be to set the patient on an upright path. This would mean recognizing the reality of the spiritual level in man, his essential being, his divine calling. Our doctors would then become the priests they formerly were, in the sense of teachers and masters.”

Listening to Dr Sankaran’s perspectives on life, “giving” and what it means to be human, connecting with this inspired group of homeopaths, I see the doctors, I see the teachers, I see the masters, I see the priests.

With very little words involved, we get to experience the most transformative moments together, we share smiles, eye contacts, books and poems like we would share remedies for each other.

Mainly I see a new system of medicine unfolding, one that’s boundless and infinite, one that relies on “free energy”* and the power of the body and soul becoming one. 

One that embraces Art and alchemies as a “guide for the soul”** and a way to connect with the spiritual world. One that reaches your energy blueprint through the power of forms & colors, music & sound, scent & aromatherapy, dance, poetry, singing.

I notice we all gathered on Holy Week, I notice the passing of Pope Francis on Easter Day, I hear the words “Dying and Becoming”, I hear the word “Freedom”.

Doctor Sankaran’s “Journey towards the Inner Song” is the medicine of our very origin and of our present. It is the medicine of our future. It is an act of liberation, truly, a gift to humanity. 

Right after the gathering, the group of Brazilian homeopaths would then travel to the Sankaran clinic in Mumbai for two more weeks of reviewing and studying the thousands of patients cases successfully treated through the WISE process. Mainly, they would watch a revolution unfold.

Notes:

*Nikola Tesla’s "Apparatus for the utilization of Radiant Energy"

**Rudolf Steiner, The Theory of Colors