INAUGURATION DAY BLEND: SUPPORTING OBAMA’S MISSION THROUGH SOUL-ATTUNEMENT
Part 1 of a 2-Part Series
Copyright 2008 by Joseph Ben Hil-Meyer Research, Inc.
Bruce Berkowsky, N.M.D., M.H., H.M.C.
Like the majority of Americans, I was immensely relieved when Barack Obama won the presidential election. I believe in his integrity and remarkable intelligence and can sense that he is the right person to navigate this country’s course back from the precipice of willful ignorance, reckless arrogance and intentional divisiveness that has characterized the tenure of the current administration.
Thus, I became inspired to create a Spiritual PhytoEssencing essential oil blend formula named “Inauguration.” I believe this blend will enable those who use it correctly to project supportive soul-light to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day (January 20th, 2009).
I will share the exact recipe for this formula with all of you in the hope that you will take the time to prepare this powerful blend and share it with like-minded individuals on Inauguration Day. This will also offer some readers your first opportunity to experience soul-level work with essential oils.
Sharing the Inauguration Day Blend/Experience
If you are not able to prepare the blend yourself, but would like to experience it and share it with others, please e-mail me and I will forward your request to one of the highly trained graduates of the Spiritual PhytoEssencing Diploma Course, who, for a reasonable fee that merely covers their costs, may be able to supply a small quantity of the blend to you before Inauguration Day.
This is not intended as a profit-making venture. The goal is for my students to be able to prepare the blend and share it with as many others as is feasible on Inauguration Day. In this way, we, as Spiritual PhytoEssencing blenders, could in a small way enhance the level of soul-attunement to the Inauguration in order to enhance the potential for what is referred to in Hebrew as “tikkun olam”: the repair of the world.
Please pass this issue on to anyone you know who may be interested in participating in this project (and passing it along as well) while gaining invaluable knowledge in the art of deep soul-level work with essential oils.
The Power Of Collective Soul-Force
At this crucial moment in world history, the ship of state will be sailing through stormy, high seas, thus the captain at the helm can use help from all quarters. Certainly, most of this help must be in the form of tangible economic, political and diplomatic measures that derive from positive policy and institutional changes. Nevertheless, the intangibility of spiritual light does not diminish the value of its projection as a collective soul-force.
While this effort toward exertion of influence on a higher soul-level may seem to some as too esoteric to generate substantive change of conditions on the ground, the Kabbalah teaches that individual will is distilled from Divine Will: the engine of Creation. Creation, in turn, is viewed not as an historical event, but rather, as an ongoing, infinite process shaped in part by each person’s exertion of individual will. King Solomon wrote: “The light of God is the soul of the human being.” Accordingly, the human soul, via the transmission of positive intent, can strengthen communal will and thus the progression of the creational continuum.
The Blending Process
With the goal of synchronized transmission of soul force in mind, I wrote to my core group of Spiritual PhytoEssencing students and asked them to suggest essential oils for inclusion in the proposed Inauguration blend. The candidacy of a given essential oil had to be supported by excerpts from the relevant oil chapter in my Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis Of Essential Oils, one of two central reference works used in the art of Spiritual PhytoEssencing (the other being the Spiritual PhytoEssencing Repertory Of Essential Oils).
Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis Of Essential Oils, which I began writing over 10 years ago, currently consists of 105 chapters, each of which is devoted to a full elaboration of the inner soul-nature of a specific essential oil. Said elaboration is achieved via a dynamic interfacing of certain aspects of aromatherapy, doctrine of signatures, classical homeopathy, modern physiology, Kabbalah, philosophy, anthroposophical science, Chinese medicine, herbal medicine and folklore, depth psychology, gemstone healing and color therapy.
Every living cell must be animated by a vital force, or “ensouled,” and it is this incarnation of higher forces into living tissue that lends each organism its tangible expression. Hence, when using essential oils for psycho-spiritual work, all of the images of the plant’s soul-nature such as its physical features, clinical properties and historical associations, etc. can be used to develop an understanding of an essential oil’s spiritual roots.
Once these spiritual roots are perceived, the blender can engage with an essential oil’s natural expression of being rather than relying solely on the material images (such as its chemical composition and physical therapeutic actions) of its soul-nature. In this way, the human soul can meet an essential oil on a soul-to-soul level.
The Kabbalah describes the soul as having five levels, the next to highest being the level of “collective souls” from which all individuated souls emerge and maintain their communication. Thus, an individual soul can exert a degree of influence upon collective soul consciousness.
Formulating the Inauguration Blend
I limited the number of oils in this blend to eleven oils. I chose this number because the Tree Of Life (the Kabbalah’s symbolic mechanism for the perpetual distribution of creative force from the spiritual realm into the material world) features eleven vessels. Note: In Spiritual PhytoEssencing, for practical reasons, Daat-Knowledge is considered a fully operative vessel. Traditional kabbalists generally consider Daat to be a quasi-vessel, and so, view the Tree of Life as having only 10 vessels.
As a starting point for the formulation of the blend, I established lavender and Australian blue cypress as two of the eleven constituent oils. I left it up to my students to determine the identity of the other nine oils. Once the entire ingredient list was determined, I finely balanced the proportions of the oils in the blend and shared the formula with all of my students.
Oils In The Inauguration Blend
Lavender
Lavender is one of the two oils that I had indicated to be in the blend. This comes as no surprise to my students, because in Spiritual PhytoEssencing lavender is included in every blend. Lavender is the only oil that is a specific for the point of equipoise: the perfectly symmetrical balancing center-point within the point of equipoise on the Tree Of Life.
The point of equipoise on the Tree Of Life is the vessel of Tiferet-Beauty. Tiferet, which facilitates harmonious existence, is most commonly translated as Beauty, but it is also called the Heavenly Gate of Harmony. It is the spiritual root responsible for balancing opposites and recognizing beauty. Lavender, specific for the point of equipoise within the Heavenly Gate of Harmony, is ideally suited to serve as the organizing and harmonizing nucleus within a blend of diverse plant souls.
Australian Blue Cypress
The other oil I had determined for this blend is Australian blue cypress. The following supportive excerpts from the Australian Blue Cypress chapter in Berkowsky’s Synthesis Materia Medica/Spiritualis Of Essential Oils help explain its relevance.
Blue Cypress and the Gemstone Cavansite
Blue cypress oil has an inherent dynamic-plane relationship with cavansite. Exploration reveals a profound dynamic-plane synchronicity between blue cypress oil and cavansite.
While the great kabbalist and spiritual teacher Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook is not referring to cavansite in the following quote from his The Lights of Penitence, Lights of Holiness, the Moral Principles, Essays, Letters, and Poems, it can nevertheless be used to succinctly express the essence of what cavansite supports on a psycho-spiritual level: “All that is required by study is only a profound strategy as to how to draw on what is hidden in the heart, in the depths of the soul, one’s inner understanding, from the knowledge within. Knowledge in our inner being continues to stream forth. It creates, it acts. The higher creative individual does not create. He only transfers. He brings vital, new light from the higher source whence originality emanates to the place where it has not previously been manifest, from the place that ‘no bird of prey knows, nor has the falcon’s eye seen it.’ (Job 28:7)…’that no man has passed, nor has any person inhabited it.’ (Jeremiah 2:6). And with the emergence of such greatness of the self, there is fashioned the faithful ear, the listening heart.”
Blue Cypress and the Ringworm Miasm
Blue cypress is associated with the Ringworm miasm. A miasm is the homeopathic concept (which I have adapted into Spiritual PhytoEssencing) of a constitutional reactional mode, transmitted from generation to generation bioenergetically rather than genetically. It is my belief that miasms can also be transmitted from one incarnation to the next within the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. The miasm is not an actual disease state, but rather, a complex of constitutional characteristics and reactional tendencies that resemble the thematic pattern of the disease for which it is named.
Accordingly, each of the miasms has characteristic physical and emotional symptoms which, in conjunction, announce its presence. Similarly, many homeopathic remedies, based upon the nature of the symptoms for which they are specific, are seen as having a special affinity for one or more of the miasms. Like homeopathic remedies, essential oils are traditionally described in relation to certain physical, psychological and spiritual symptoms upon which they have been observed to have potential to exert an ameliorating action. It is likewise possible to clearly delineate specific essential oil/miasm affinities through careful study of the symptoms for which an essential oil has been noted to be of potential benefit, and subsequent correlation of those symptoms with the oil’s dynamic properties.
The identification of an individual’s prominent miasmatic influences, and specific essential oil responses to them, helps in differential diagnosis regarding essential oil selection. Also, it opens up a new, heretofore unexplored, dynamic in work with essential oils which enables the practitioner to more effectively penetrate the layer of a person’s superficial characteristics and gain access to the “true self” from which these images emerge.
The major themes of the Ringworm miasm are: it is a difficult situation; things are not easy—beyond easy reach; problems linger and do not get solved because there are many ifs and buts, however, there is hope. The key word of this miasm is “trying.”
In the case of blue cypress, the Ringworm miasm feeling is: I will succeed on all levels of being if I make the right decisions regarding the direction I must take at each of the successive crossroads I encounter during my journey through life. These decisions regarding direction span the spectrum from those concerning career path, to personal relationships, to soul journey. If I cannot make a decision or choose the wrong direction, I will be stuck and be a failure.
Blue cypress and the Daat/Tiferet Interface
Blue cypress is a specific for the interface of the Tree of Life vessels of Daat-Knowledge and Tiferet-Beauty. Daat is the external intellectual manifestation of one’s internal volition and identity that is communicated to the world. Daat is the ability to express one’s intelligence to others. Daat is the ability to communicate and develop an intelligent relationship with the outside world.
Lying on the Central Column of the Tree Of Life is the Self, poised midway between heaven and earth, which channels the Divine down into matter and raises matter up to the Divine. Tiferet is the junction between the visible and invisible, the point into which all things from all directions flow, and flow out again. It can be said that only when you live and love in accordance with Tiferet are you being true to yourself. Hence, this vessel is the nodal point of growth, the place from which “stuckness,” or inertia in one’s life, can be overcome and the perception of spiritual beauty unfolds.
Ultimately, confident decision and determination of the right direction is a product of inner awareness of one’s unique singularity, and thus, what one is genuinely meant to be. In this reference, Buber scholar Maurice Friedman writes in Martin Buber: The Life of Dialogue 4th Edition: “This is a reciprocal process…for in transforming and directing one’s undirected energies, one comes to recognize even more clearly what one is meant to be.”
Friedman writes: “In the reality of existence all the diverse decisions are merely variations of a single one, which is continually made afresh in a single direction.” Movement in this “single direction” is actually at once movement toward one’s true self and toward God. For the blue cypress individual, the overcoming of trepidations, recurring bouts of weakness and persistent fear of failure is facilitated by unwavering commitment to higher truth and the perception of inner beauty. In this way, the pathway of his single direction becomes fully illuminated and confidently traveled. Friedman observes: “The person who knows direction responds with the whole of his being to each new situation with no other preparation than his presence and his readiness to respond.”
In the next issue:
Part 2 of this article series will be e-mailed to my reader-list next week. It will provide details about five more of the oils in the blend. Part 3, to be sent the following week, will describe the last four oils in the blend and provide the precise proportions of the eleven oils in the blend as well as instructions for suggested use.
I encourage you to pass all three of these journal issues on to anyone you know who has both an interest in essential oils and supporting “tikkun olam”: the repair of the world. Clearly, the more people who participate in this project, the greater the number of streams of transmitted soul-light will combine to form a river of hope and support.
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