St. Fiacre Walks on Fire. Pt.2

Morning temp: 54F
Afternoon high: 72F
Tonight's projected low: 59F
Humidity: 100%
Moon: Waning 85%
East wind at 6 mph

1. I arrived on Lookout Mountain safe and sound last night, where it's warmer and stormier than back home. Yes, the Workshop really does culminate in a Firewalk. We'll build and tend a large fire, until the logs have burned down to the point where we can rake out the embers into a bed approximately 5' wide X 10' long, and once our Firewalking students have been instructed in the "Secrets of Firewalking," we'll come out as a group and anyone who chooses to do so may walk on the Fire. The coals frequently range between 1,100F - 2,400F. By comparison, the steel of your car's engine-block was probably poured at 800F. Nevertheless, in 20 years, no one has ever been burned on our Firewalks. Folks have been burned on other Firewalks, to be sure. Several years ago, Burger King and KFC held a Firewalk as part of a joint team-building seminar for their corporate executives. Regrettably, everyone that walked on the very hot Fire was terribly burned, needing immediate attention at a nearby hospital.

What's the difference? The Secret of Firewalking. What's the Secret? We ask for inner guidance. If we didn't do this, we'd be asking for really big trouble. I believe that this is where the BK and KFC Firewalk went amiss. They forgot about higher guidance, and relied entirely upon the powers and judgments of the rational mind. There's a reason why many spiritual traditions refer to this part of our being as "Little Mind", and the deeper realms of consciousness beneath as "Big Mind". So, we ask, "Can I walk on Fire and not get burned?". If the answer's "no", then we have no business walking across the Fire. If the answer's "yes" and we want to walk, we do so, provided that we've listened carefully. Clearly, this is an intensive course in learning to trust your inner guidance, and if you want to learn to Firewalk, I urgently recommend that you begin by studying under a Master Firewalking Teacher (please don't rush off and do this by yourself, without the benefit of an experienced teacher) such as Tolly Burkan, the Father of American Firewalking, or any of the teachers he recommends. He has an excellent website, at http://www.firewalking.com/. The pictures he's collected are amazing!

2. The Workshop also has lots of opportunities for very deep emotional healing. From Friday to Tuesday, I offer a number of sessions on the Betar. Pronounced "Bay -tar", this is a cutting edge technology that uses music, sound and vibration for de-stressing, deep relaxation and - the thousand or so clients I've worked with and I have come to believe - profound levels of healing on emotional, mental and even sometimes physical levels. Basically, while you're lying on the padded Betar table, high amplitude and deeply resonant waves of music (such an Enya, Clannad, Loreena McKennitt, Cowboy Junkies, or whatever) flow up into your body, turning you into a standing pool of continuous vibration. More so, this standing pool of energy that's in you searches, discovers and releases old, worn-out mental and emotional patterns. Meanwhile, I use a number of energy-based healing approaches (such as reiki, Qi gong and spirit releasement) to assist my clients in all of this. The end results is that clients feel both highly energized and deeply relaxed. If you're interested in learning more about the Betar, they have a swell website at http://www.kellyresearchtech.com/.