Gozo, the sick slept in huge stone chambers, while
priestesses there communed with the Gods and did their
healing magick. Egyptian healing books dating as far
back as 1,800 BCE combined healing and spells. In the
early Irish Celtic society, healers at a royal hospital,
called the Bearg, or House of Sorrows, at Tara used
special magickal stones, water from sacred wells,
charms, and magick, as well as herbs and surgery. The
Irish medical schools were so highly esteemed that
students came from all parts of Europe to learn the
techniques. All ancient healers were connected with the
spiritual in some manner.
Ancient Eastern healing methods describe meridians
and nadis (pronounced naw-dees) running through the
body. There are twelve major channels for the ch'i, or
universal energy, to flow through, with many other
branching channels. These all end in the fingers and
toes. Think of meridians as rivers, streams, and
tributaries for universal energy that flow in specific
channels and do not change. They are all connected to
nerve endings in the physical and etheric bodies. Both
the meridians and chakras take in cosmic energy and
distribute it to every body organ. The aura holds this
energy in place unless the aura is damaged.
The Chinese use these meridians or streams of energy
during acupuncture treatments. If there is a blockage in
the meridian, the acupuncture treatments release it.
Some of these meridians are also used in reflexology and
acupressure for the same results. If you decide to use
any of the points known in acupressure or reflexology,
take great care when working on the very young, the
elderly, or the very sick. Sudden breakage of blocks of
negative energy can overload the body and the aura,
thus making the patient even sicker. In Japanese shiatsu