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Munay-ki is a path of Sacred Initiation involving the impartation of Nine Sacred Rites. I read about it on a forum I belong to and contacted the person who posted the information. Her name is Connie and she offers the Munay-ki rites free of charge, in her home in Columbus, Ohio. I contacted Connie because I was interested in the path and the approach of the Munay-ki teachings. What follows is a sort of informal interview as I asked Connie questions about the Munay-ki rites and teachings.

My initial questions about Munay-ki:

Connie, thank you for emailing back about the Munay-ki rites you offer. I had a couple of questions. How do you feel this is different from the other training you have received? Do you mind sharing with me what is involved in the free impartation you offer? Not the teaching but the free part? What is involved in terms of time?

Connie’s Response:

In answer to your basic question , receiving any of the 9 rites would enhance & change the way you practice energy healing for ever.

1. One of the “rules” agreed to before receiving the 9 rites & learning how to pass them on is that there shall not be a charge for imparting any of the Munay-ki rites.

2. Another rule agreed to is that the rites must be imparted live – no remote impartation is acceptable.

The “no charge” & the “must be live” are not suggestions- they are absolutes. No Munay-ki practitioner would ever question those two rules. Those 2 points are so basic, fundamental & absolute to the Munay-ki initiation process.

3. Only under extremely unusual circumstances & then only if with a medicine worker that knows how to step outside time, should the rites be given in one sitting…

This rule is in place to avoid detoxing and flu symptoms among protegees, which can happen at a very intense and unnecessary degree if the rites are given in one sitting

4. In old times with the Mayans, these 9 rites were received over a lifetime with the majority of the peoples not ever attaining all 9.

The first 8 were transmitted person to person with the 9th available only from Spirit.

It was an individualized process with each protogee being continually assessed & the rite(s) being conferred according to spirit’s timing as opposed to a man-made schedule.

5. So, done properly, your mentor will be able to assess your field (this part can be done remotely) & impart each rite at the optimum time for you.

For most of my protogees who have come in a prepared state.(.no alcohol for 24hrs, rested, meditated/prayed as usual) I find we can accomplish rites 1-4 in one sitting of just under an hour.

The remaining rites take only about 15 minutes each but are spread over days or weeks.

I find Spirit has been most gracious those that live nearby the rites are spread out over the next month & those from afar are prepared during their length of stay with me.

I have had a few protogees who came from afar with no support back at home & in those cases Spirit has allowed me to accelerate the imparting of rites to meet their travel schedule.

These rare individuals seem to be “called” to the rites, have experience in energy healing & have spent time on the website becoming informed.

6. Not technically part of the process but I find that Spirit gives me each protogees “Indian” name around the time of the 5th rite. (Mine is Laughing Water….my last 2 protogees were gifted the names – Dancing Flame, & Smiling Sand)

7. How this differs…These are not 9 attunements like you’d get with Reiki or other modalities. They are unlike anything you have received in the past or will receive in the future. Please look at the scanned doc for what each rite imparts.

8. FYI photographs can be snapped freely through –out & often orbs & wisps are present. Cameras ALWAYS freeze when attempting to photograph the 9th rite.

The following is taken from the Munyi-ki website. After reading it, I had some questions for Connie:

The second rite consists of protections installed in your LEF. These are known as the Bands of Power, and consist of five energetic bands representing earth, air, fire, water, and pure light. These bands are installed in your Luminous energy field, and act as filters, breaking down into one of the five elements any negative energies that come your way so that these energies can feed you instead of making you toxic or ill. The Bands of Power are always ‘on’, and negative energies bounce right off them. In a world filled with fear, the bands provide essential protection.

Question about Second Rite:

Connie, I have lived most of my life working to embrace all of life, to walk open and clear of resistance. I have a little confusion about the first rite and wonder if you could explain it a bit? When i used to do psychic fairs, I would always see people spiritually protecting themselves all day long. it took so much energy and always seemed so fear-based.

What I liked about the above explanation is the transformation effect that allows negative energy to transmute as it enters the field. What confused me was the part about negative energies bouncing off the person who had the bands of power installed. That would seem, at least on the surface, to be contradictory to my own truth about dealing with negativity in a way that doesn’t require fighting it……maybe I am not understanding the second part of the explanation?

Are these bands of power something i’d have to think about and recharge or repair or maintain or are they more of a permanent shift in my connection with the elements that allows for the transformation of all that could drain me, through natural law?

Connie’s response:

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Once you receive the bands of power ….there is about half an hours worth of after work to enforce there placement —-they’re there. No future ritual, repair, etc

There is definitely no fear or fighting involved.

Actually each of the rites also serves as a set of “spiritual glasses”. Shortly after receiving them you will find you understand not only the rite more fully but the physical & energetic world around you in a new & heightened way.

My response:

I believe I understand your response and what you said resonates with me.

My knowing is that what we push away or what may “bounce back from us” of a negative energetic vibration can continue it’s attempt to affect our field in a negative way or bounce away to affect someone else……whereas, if we have the energetic strength to offer transmutation then only those of lower vibration who seek that will even approach…..does that make sense? and when those energies make contact with the field of a realized being, they can transform into progressive energies.

If the bands are something that will help me see and sense better what is around me, that would be a good thing and if they further allow for energetic solidarity of my field in a way that non-progressive energies are offered transformation then that is a wonderful thing.

Have I understood?

Connie’s Response:

Excellent understanding, insight & expression.

My thanks to Connie of The Light Ways for sharing this information on the Munay-ki teachings. Connie is a registered nurse and energy worker. Her specialty is the human energy field of auras & chakra –assessing, repairing, balancing. She is a master & practitioner of many different energy modalities. You can find out more at her website.

How do you know if you are gifted to be a healer?

White Eagle, Visions and the Burning Bush

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I have walked a path of blended-tradition spirituality since I first started awakening to higher realms of consciousness in a metaphysical way, back in 1988. This Spirit Ask Question deals with experience that challenges our taught or learned ways of viewing Truth.

Question on Spirit: I bought a meditation cd from White Eagle and while litsening to it, I journeyed above a mountain with unfamiliar terrain and I watched as two men were carrying another from the foot of the mountain. The one being carried had snow white hair that was sticking out everywhere. All three were dressed in clothes that showed there legs and they were wearing sandals. As I journeyed above the mountain and looked down I saw a fire that was contained to one place and It was revealed to me that this was the burning bush. I have heard of the burning bush but have never been led to read about it or explore it in any way. Do you have any thoughts on this?

Healing Facilitation Response: One of the strongest knowings that has blossomed in me along my path of spiritual awakening was the sure knowledge that We Are All Related, or Mitakuye Oyasin. I know that part of the healing of the planet now, and in fact a large part, is the sharing of common experience across faith-lines and past boundaries of religion and creed.

I believe all truly Universal Spiritual stories, myths, visions, parables and preachings have common elements that transcend all the boundaries we have created that divide Truth. Your experience of The Burning Bush story in a way that was triggered by Native American frequencies is part of your path of integrating spiritual truth from two traditions.

And as each one of us takes our personal journey of integration, we also assist the planet as a whole to embrace other truth and truth in the beautiful costuming of other visionary paths.

Your experience reminds me of when I first saw Jesus hanging from the Sundance Tree. I was stunned, humbled and awed by this vision and realized that Jesus was telling me that the Native walk and path of prayer could be integrated with the Christian path without controversy or even struggle. It was so clear.

What is the spiritual significance of a marked, new attraction to gemstones?
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Question: I am suddenly mesmorized by gemstones. When I see one I just stare at it and notice it and I am attracted and aware of it. Do you have any idea why I am having this attraction?

Healing Facilitation Response:
All stones are memory keepers. Crystals and other gemstones all have specific qualities besides so it might be good to go to a gemstone store and see if there are specific stones that attract you more than others. Then, learn about the qualities of those stones.

Crystals are very good for clearing energy and for meditation so maybe you are being guided to work with them in that way.

ps. This is a quick ask response. There are lots of reasons why people may be attracted to gemstones where they were not attracted before and more indepth guidance would require more information on the specifics.

What is The Healer’s Role When Working with Childhood Trauma and Healing the Inner Child
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Question on Healing:
“Can I try to reach the inner child of my client in order to help them? I always call on healing the inner child when I give reiki. I know some young people on drugs and I know that healing must begin from the inner child.”

Healing Facilitation Response:
Experience has taught me that it is usually non-progressive to try to do anything. I mean that rather literally. The moment my mind thinks….I’m going to…..I know I’m in trouble because I’ve decided the direction I think the session should go.

What is helpful to invite that type of healing session is to be certain you are in touch with your own inner child, that part of you that came in with such clear focus, awareness of mission, absence of programming and connection to source.

By making sure you’ve done your own work to consciously initiate re-connection with your own inner child, it naturally follows that your frequency and vibration would feel Safe and Sacred to anyone else needing to do that important work.

If you are able to provide Safe and Sacred Space to people, you are then in a position to invite inner child healing. An invitation is oh, so different than even a suggestion. It is an openess to a potential without any judgement or “push” on it.

This same open invitation energy is vital for any kind of partnership where you help to facilitate the healing work people want to do for themselves but it absolutely has to be there before that aspect of self that we call the inner child will make an appearance that leads to healing of any childhood traumas or distortions in the personality.

What to do when your Spirit is urging a pilgrimage to India but your finances say you just can’t go.
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Spirited Statements:
I am a reiki master who is trying to improve her own spirituality, remove blockages etc. I still need to work more with my “children” lack and poverty. But I am doing so. Would like to visit India this year also. Lots of work to be done. Thanks again and DIVINE BLESSINGS!

Note from Neva: This person didn’t really ask a question yet a response came so I shared it. And I’m sharing it here for others who might feel led to take a spiritual pilgrimage but also feel unable to do so because of money issues. Personally, I have felt led to meet Mother Meera and it isn’t money that stops me but the sheer idea of such a long and arduous trip. Yet, the same tips I’m giving for balancing money issues could also help me gear up for going to Germany one day.

Healing Facilitation Response:
I know all about those “twins” of yours. There is material on my website about healing poverty consciousness. In fact, I need to remind myself of that lesson again too.

One suggestion on India…..bringing yourself into resonance with what you want is a great way to increase that resonation in such a way as to draw the experience to you, I’d suggest:

1. Get some Indian chanting music and start listening to it all the time.
2. Ask to connect with Masters from India in your dreamtime.
3. Seek out others who have gone and let them tell you stories of their visits,
asking them to include as much detail as they can remember.
4. Get books on India with lots of clear, detailed pictures and gaze upon them before meditation and prayer.

ps. You might also want to look into Vision Boarding. It’s today’s enhanced version to the Manifestation Memory Boards of a decade ago. There’s a free trial here.

Question on Healing: (some info removed to protect privacy)
When I was a senior in high school, I had my life figured out. I’ve never been very spiritual, but often I question my doubts. When I got into college and studying my field of choice, I quickly realized I was not interested.Two years have gone by since then, and I’ve let my life stagnate. I’ve become a total recluse, but and plagued by loneliness. I’m lazy, have poor hygiene, I’m out of shape, the list goes on. It certainly isn’t a high point on my time line.

For a while now, I’ve been trying to think of something I can do, something I can pursue with which I have a passion, something I may actually follow through with. It wasn’t until I was talking to my friend, whom had the pleasure of being healed before, told me of their experiences. Until then, I hadn’t even known things like that had existed.

All my life, I’ve had dreams of helping people (but in weird dream ways), and it has reflected in life. I’ve even been noted as having a “calming presence”, by a majority of my friends. As of late, I’ve been researching all I can about healers of any belief, attempting to find a place to start my learning.

My questions are these: I feel a definite, inexplicable draw to healing, but where do I start to learn about it? How do I determine what styles of healing are available, and figure out which is best for me?

I’m sorry this email is scattered, I am having a hard idea focusing my thoughts into questions I can express via email.

I thank you for you time, irregardless of the outcome.

Healing Facilitation Response:
I am not sure how to best assist you. I am concerned about the struggles you are having and wondering if the first step might be to find a healer to work with you, to help you heal yourself in areas where, by your own words, you are stagnate?

One of the best ways to learn about healing energies is to feel them. My suggestion would be to seek out a healing facilitator that you feel safe with and schedule some work with them for yourself. As part of your healing, and in the energetic field of the healing facilitator, you may also ask God to reveal your path in this work.

I also offer a free email course on healing and what it takes to work as a healing facilitator. You might find this of benefit. Just let me know if you’d like to receive it. It’s called The Healing Journey and free on request. Email to askme at askahealer . com