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Healing Wheel Evolution of the Healing Wheel The white sculpture of Mother Teresa perched on the medicine wheel all week long at every Seven Day Intensive until 1996, when Buz handed the bust of Mother Teresa to Jayma Delaney and asked her to envision and co-create a Healing Wheel for the community. One thought in the early days was that each person on the Healing
Wheel could represent one of the eight lunar phases. That idea was
quickly discarded because soon there were twelve and then sixteen
people serving on the wheel. Today an amazing number of dedicated people serve as the wheel has grown to include well over two dozen radiant beings who serve the Divine and the community on the Healing Wheel. Every day of the year these people pray and send healing to all the various wheels of the community and to those community members, families or friends who ask for specific healing or prayer. During each Seven Day, the Healing Wheel offers Morning Light Calls daily and channels healing for participants as needed. The wheel also offers and care takes an altar, a quiet space to pray and meditate for those attending. All of the sacred objects and oils that grace the quiet area during the Intensive spend the rest of the year with various people who serve on the Healing Wheel, blessing their homes as they bless the objects each day, keeping the energy building and flowing for the community. Each year those who have taken care of an object or an oil hand carry them to the location of the next Seven Day to create the altar for the week. Such loving dedication honors the Divine and the community. Of course, the statue of Mother Teresa graces the altar, not because of any religious persuasion, but because her statue was the focal point for the beginning of the Healing Wheel. Yet perhaps an Albanian woman who paid homage to the Roman Catholic Pope while working in the largest Hindu country on Mother Earth does represent the wonderful, eclectic spiritual nature of this community. This is my last report to the On Time Community Newsletter as I have resigned as Facilitator for the Healing Wheel so that others may serve. I have enjoyed serving on the Healing Wheel, have grown and been inspired as you shared your growth and miracles throughout the years. I know the next person or persons to lovingly serve will continue to CO-create an ever-growing Healing Wheel as the wheel turns once again. With love and great clear light, Barbara Elizabeth
The Healing Wheel is a vibrant spot on the On-Time
Community's Wheel. Just as Barbara Douglass easily transitioned
into the vacancy left when Jayma Delaney moved onto the Facilitator's
Wheel in 1998, Joann Farmilo moved easily into the vacancy created
by Barbara in 2000 and began her competent tasks of sending out
requests for healing. Keep in mind the Healing Wheel participants
pray for various concerns that people send the facilitator including
physical health, emotional well-being, and spiritual strength. A
common request that is received is for an easy transition as individuals
face death which enables the body, mind, and spirit to remain at
peace. Andrea Lynn Rice coordinates the Healing Meditations
written by members of the Healing Wheel and published monthly in
the Cycles Planners. And at each Intensive, our work continues as
Lucinda Smith facilitates Light Calls every morning, Nancy Gardner
offers Tai Chi and stretching, and there are chair healings available
by various healers from our Community throughout the day and during
the evenings. Our prayer grotto is graced by Mother Teresa and various
spiritual traditions are represented by sacred objects including
an Eagle feather, Tibetan prayer flags, a compilation of prayers,
etc.
Healing Prayer Grotto 2004 |
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