Author: ECKANKAR

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What stand does Eᴄᴋᴀɴᴋᴀʀ take on healing? I was a spiritualist before I came to ECK. I often healed others but now wonder if I should continue.

The problem surrounding healing is karmic. The ill person once broke a divine principle through ignorance. Psychic healers can ease the symptoms for a while, but eventually the sickness surfaces again with a new face.

In the meantime, the healer is accruing the karma from all the people he heals with the psychic force. Someday the debt comes due. There is more to healing than erasing the outer symptoms for a few months or years, or until the passion of the mind that lies behind the illness produces the next symptom of arthritis or cancer.

The Living ECK Master puts the entire matter into the hands of the Divine Spirit. It, in Its divine wisdom, sees whether or not the individual has learned to control the mental aberration that made him ill. If not, there is no healing.

After all, Divine spirit wants only the education of Soul so It can one day become a Coworker with God.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Sometimes I have scary, ill, abstruse, bizarre, or very absurd thoughts. For instance, I imagine crashing full speed into another car, which would threaten not only me, but also others. Talking to other people about this, I have noticed that I am not alone with this type of experience. Where do these kinds of thoughts come from, and how can I deal with them in the future?

It is a wonder that more people are not assailed by such thoughts. But maybe they are. Witness the acts of terror around us that seem to spring from truly twisted minds.

Surprisingly, the cause can often be chalked up to the Electronic Age.

Everything in the worlds of duality has a light and a dark side.

Our devices provide us with easy communication and hours of entertainment. Yet they also barrage us with electronic waves from cell towers and cell phones, games and tools, TVs and computers, washers and dryers, and lights and timers. And there is also the violent, bloody content of our vicarious amusements. (Read Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family by Devra Davis.)

No wonder people have bad thoughts!

But to fortify yourself, find a good dietician or nutritionist. The wrong food and drink passing your lips will deplete your vitamin and mineral storehouses. Ensure that you are nutritionally sound. That will ground you.

This is our world! But you can do a lot to reach a state of contentment and happiness anyway.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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What is the difference between energy medicine, as presented in the book by Donna Eden which you have recommended, and other healing modalities that used to be considered as psychic healing—such as chakra and aura balancing, either with crystals or energy, for example?

The boundaries between the various healing arts are becoming progressively less defined, and this causes confusion. What is the central spiritual issue here?

It is a fine line.

In a strict sense, all forces of an invisible nature brought to bear upon something or someone to change an outcome are of a psychic nature. The one exception is divine love.

Due to space limitations a detailed argument to show the all-pervasive presence of the psychic arts will not follow.

However, I will give a rule of thumb.

Any conscious or unconscious attempt to change the course or state of a condition—health, political, or spiritual—to gather power to oneself is a negative use of the psychic power.

Service to others in any field, to be a karmaless action, must be done with love and goodwill in the name of Divine Spirit.

This is a spiritual art. It depends in the whole upon a pure state of consciousness. Otherwise, there are karmic consequences.

Healers in any line need to learn the practice of detachment. No, that’s not to say coldness. True detachment comes from real compassion for others.

In reference to a book like Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine, I give a guideline:

One’s risk of incurring karma is not a factor if an individual tries her techniques only upon himself or consenting family members. This small circle may also include close friends.

Any time an exchange of money for services takes place, there is a karmic risk. A professional healer has the training to help patients in the right way. Thus, he incurs little risk. One does not want to load his own balance sheet with the karma of others.

A person who wants to make spiritual progress will practice karmaless actions.

Yes, the lines between the healing arts are ever more a blur, but perhaps the above guideline will clear up some of the confusion.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Over the past couple of years, I have developed a receding hairline. Is there a spiritual lesson to my hair loss? Am I working off karma, or is there an imbalance in my life?

Losing hair can teach us to have respect for what many people take for granted.

Hair loss has dogged me ever since I was your age. It finally dawned on me that I had chosen a family where this was a problem for about half the males. A genetic weakness. But I learned to do something about it.

I learned to cut back on fatty foods. It also worked to use a shampoo that cleaned away sebum from scalp. And to towel dry my hair gently. Nutrition plays a big role, of course.

But a full head of hair is only a superficial adornment. Many fine people are bald. Baldness is a part of their attraction.

Solve the baldness problem, and down the road comes the greying problem. Learn to treat yourself gently. It really is more important what’s inside you than on your head.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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Why do I get angry so often?

The answer to your question may come as a surprise.

Increasingly, outbursts of rage and anger rise from poor nutrition. Who would have guessed? Some “experts” sniff at this notion, citing their own favorite causes—one-parent homes, the negative barrage of electronic games, mental illness, and the like. And those may all play some part to an extent, especially in the United States. However, poor nutrition is too often the underlying reason.

Today, it’s possible to exist on processed foods and fast foods laced with ingredients that imperil health. Choose instead foods and supplements that support good health like vitamins—especially the calming B vitamins—minerals, and others. If you’re well nourished, you will be much more able to manage your anger.

So look into nutrition. It’s an important key to enjoying a better mood, being more pleasant and understanding, and being more easily able to forgive others.

—Sri Harold Klemp

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I have begun some voluntary tasks that have turned my life upside down. I am preoccupied with these responsibilities and feel stressed because I am very dutiful and keen to complete my job as well as possible. However, I recently realized that it affects my health.

What can I do so that I feel better again without neglecting my tasks? How do I continue to be responsible, stay in my position, and do a good job? I want to surrender, but what is surrender really, and how does one do it?

Health comes first. If it breaks, you’ll be of little use to yourself or others. Then someone else will do your tasks. Maybe not your way, but they’ll get done.

People close to me love the ECK very much. But sometimes they work too long and hard, trying to meet impossible deadlines. So they approach their health’s redline. I remind them to take it easy. If they get sick, their absence will have an impact on others, and the work too.

Recognize your limitations. We all have them.

Surrender begins with a hard assessment of what we can or cannot do. Something must give. It’s just good sense.

Life is a great teacher. It says, “You got yourself into this, now what’ll you do to get out of it?”

Our life; our choice.

That’s where surrender begins. When the Master sees you are exercising your creative powers to rebalance your affairs, he’ll open doors to help you succeed.

—Sri Harold Klemp