It seems to me that Western science and Eastern philosophy can join together to create a really complete and full-fledged human being. It is only in this way that man will emerge strengthened from his condition and become whole. What in fact interests me is what is beyond matter and awareness, what really is important, and what makes us what we are.   - HH the Dalai Lama

Today's scientists seeking to combine quantum mechanics with Einstein's theory of gravity (the General Theory of Relativity) are convinced that we are on the verge of another major upheaval, one that will pinpoint the elemental concepts from which time and space emerge. Many believe this will involve a radically new formulation of natural law in which scientists will be compelled to trade the space-time matrix within which they have worked for centuries for a more basic "realm" that is itself devoid of time and space.  
      This is such a perplexing idea that grasping it poses a substantial challenge, even for leading researchers. Broadly speaking, scientists envision that there will be no mention of time and space in the basic equations of the sought-for framework. And yet—just as clear, liquid water emerges from particular combinations of an enormous number of H2O molecules—time and space as we know them would emerge from particular combinations of some more basic, though still unidentified entities. Time and space themselves, though, would be rendered secondary, derivative features, that emerge only in suitable conditions (in the aftermath of the Big Bang, for example). As outrageous as it sounds, to many researchers, including me such a departure of time and space from the ultimate laws of the universe seems inevitable.  - Brian Greene, author of "The Elegant Universe" and "The Fabric of the Cosmos:  Space, Time and the Texture of Reality."

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if humanity is to survive." - Albert Einstein

“Not only are we connected in the physical to all things in the present, but we are also connected to our past and future. We need to bring our indigenous knowledge forward as a means for our survival. This does not mean we go back to living as we did in the past, it means we bring forward our ancestor’s way of thought and actions. We must change our way of thought and actions if we are going to survive”  - Ella Mulford, a member of the Diné (Navajo) Nation, is a Ta’neeszahnii and born for Tt’aashci’i and related to To’tosohnii and Tl’izila’ni. From the book Every day is a good day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women by Wilma Mankiller (2004), Fulcrum Publishing, Golden, CO.

 

The MASH approach to bringing forward the way of thought and action of the indigenous peoples is to heal dis-eases by connecting to the Ancestors and to Place on specific vibrational flow patterns or spiritual modes that correspond to specific biological mechanisms.

Brief Summary

MASH - metaphysical and spiritual healing - is a systematic approach to healing that connects to the Ancestors and to Place.

The theory is based on vibrational patterns that generalize electromagnetic fields and transcend the physical world of space and time.

Different Places correspond to different vibrational patterns. Specific group and individual rituals can be performed in specific Places to heal memories and the Ancestors on specific vibrational patterns. This is the basis of Goddess oriented healing rituals of the indigenous peoples.

The Grid is a tool that reads vibrational patterns from any date - month/day/year.

By using the Grid and a person's birthdate (month/day/year only), a person's healing challenges can be addressed in a specific and systematic manner.

Awareness of the flow on vibrational patterns also is a powerful tool of prevention, which is an essential ingredient of any health care system.

To date the most complete application of the MASH theory is the Somerset County / Windber, Pennsylvania Healing Project .

Specific Applications of Ancient Wisdom to Modern Problems

MASH stands for Metaphysical and Spiritual Healing. It's a spiritual approach to living, to biology, to dis-ease and to healing, where health and healing mean wholeness.

MASH assumes that people are spirit in a physical body, and that people have souls and metaphysical agendas that transcend physical space and time. Souls incarnate in the physical on a certain date and in a certain place and in a particular family to implement in the physical the intent and metaphysical agenda of the soul. Events in the physical including relationships are crises/opportunities for growth, advancement, evolution or healing of the soul. These ideas are basically part of every spiritual tradition, and they are discussed by Gary Zukov (e.g., Seat of the Soul), Wayne Dyer (e.g., There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem) and Deepok Chopra (e.g., The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success).

The basic tool of MASH is the Grid, which allows a person to read and evaluate these spiritual issues. From any given date (month/day/year), including a person's birth date, a person can easily read the intent of the soul, its metaphysical agenda and the crisis/opportunity, that is, why certain events happen to certain people on certain days.

The MASH Strategy of Healing

The MASH strategy of healing is based on vibrational or flow patterns that transcend or go deeper than space and time. Different places correspond to different vibrational patterns - that is, the dominant energy of a particular place will be a particular vibrational pattern.

The Dance of MASH is a two step: Step One is use the Grid to read the vibrational pattern(s) of the dis-ease; and Step Two is go to a place that has the same vibrational pattern as the dis-ease with individual and group intent to do rituals and energetic work that heals the dis-ease on that particular vibrational pattern.

If the dis-ease involves parts of a person's body, it's called a medical dis-ease such as multiple sclerosis (MS) or ALS (Lou Gehig's dis-ease). If the dis-ease involves people or relationships, it's called a social dis-ease such as domestic or sexual violence, a murder or an accident.

Memories flow on vibrational patterns, and dis-ease on a vibrational pattern often manifests as stuck memories. Other words for memories are the ancestors (indigenous peoples), karma (Buddhist and Hindu), "Things are as they are because they were as they were" (Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance), "it's deja vu all over again and you can observe a lot just by watching" (that great yogi, Yogi Berra, former catcher for the New York Yankees), and "what goes around, comes around."

For a more detailed outline of the theory guiding our work, see Principles of MASH.

Marrying Goddess-Based Indigenous Traditions To Western Rational Thought

The indigenous peoples knew about vibrational patterns and that's why for thousands of years they did group and individual rituals in particular places to fix the flow.

In the past 100 years or so western rational and scientific thought has produced an amazing body of biological and medical knowledge, and we now know the detailed and precise mechanisms of many dis-eases. The mechanisms involves  components such as DNA, proteins and synapses - concepts that are less than 75 years old.

But knowing the mechanism of a dis-ease and fixing it are two different issues.

The word religion comes from the Latin religio which means to re-link to. Group and individual rituals re-link the participants to spirit. At present, western scientific dis-ease mechanisms, although accurate, are not being re-linked to spirit. This could be one reason why, in spite of the mechanisms of the dis-ease being completely understood, the dis-eases themselves have remained unhealed.

It's now time to blend or marry the timeless wisdom of the Goddess-based  indigenous peoples and the recent concepts of western scientific thought.

In other words, if you can do a rain dance you can do a DNA dance, a protein dance, or a synapse dance, but you have to know which gene on DNA, which protein or which synapse. And you have to know where to "dance" - that is, the vibrational pattern of a place.

And it requires heart. As Ignacio, an elder of the San Ildefonso Pueblo near Los Alamos, NM, said, "If, when we dance, our hearts are right, the rain will come."

I call this process  " the Native Americans meet the Caucasians - take two." The first time was a disaster. Now the survival of us all depends on blending the timeless wisdom of the Goddess-based indigenous peoples - the so-called right brain of our group consciousness - and recent western rational thought -the so-called left brain of our group consciousness. We are facing a huge crisis/opportunity and we'll either hang together or we'll hang separately.

MASH also means that musicians, dancers, drummers, and story tellers will re-take their rightful place as healers of dis-eases that are plaguing and bankrupting our society. At present, they have been disenfranchised of their God given talents, and they are forced to take a day job to make ends meet.

To paraphrase Starhawk, the great truths are expressed not in mathematical equations, but in story, song and dance.

MASH is a left brain-right brain-team approach to healing

The MASH approach marries western rational and scientific thought - the left brain of our group consciousness - with the ancient wisdom of the Goddess-based indigenous peoples - the right brain of our group consciousness.

The MASH team consists of six members: 1) someone who cares for the needs of the person with the dis-ease; 2) someone who knows the scientific mechanism of the dis-ease; 3) someone who can do the Grids and read the flow; 4) someone who is sensitive to the energies of Place and can tell the "dancers" where to dance; and 5) the musicians, dancers, drummers, energy workers, etc., who perform the individual and group rituals and fix the flow; 6) someone who is impartial to evaluate the healing, that is, make the line calls or call balls and strikes.

To paraphrase a Native American elder, "come let put our hearts and mind together and see what kind of life we can make for the children."

Our Current Sickness Care Crisis 

It's time to entertain and apply MASH. Our current approach  is based not on timeless PrinciPLES of healing  but rather on PrinciPALS and the "put it in your mouth" mentality. This is producing enormous suffering and is bankrupting our society (link to be added).

Reading the Flow: the Grid as a tool of Self Healing

The Grid - the cardinal tool of MASH - is a visual display of vibrational patterns.

It is possible to read from a person's birthday (month/day/year) the vibrational patterns of that person - and in this sense, the metaphysical and spiritual issues of the person.

Events and relationships occur on vibrational patterns, and it is easy to read from the Grid why an event -accident, death or onset of a dis-ease - occurs to a particular person on a particular day.

It's also easy to read relationship between significant others or the family dynamics among, for example,  parents and children. One easily observed principle of relationships is that two people having energy in the same vibrational patterns enhance this flow pattern -provide passion or intensity- and that two people having energy in different vibrational patterns provide balance to the relationship.

The Grid is a simple tool for self healing and for understanding your soul and metaphysical issues. It uses the position of the six slowest planets on the day of birth (month/day/year only).

By knowing the position - the zodiac sign and degree window - of the six slowest planets, you can easily understand your soul issues (pluto), your metaphysical scripts and agendas (neptune), your natural experiences that happen by themselves (uranus), what you are to align and heal (chiron), what you manifest in the physical (saturn), and your crises/opportunities (jupiter). It's that simple.

It's easier to use the Grid than it is to use an ATM machine, buy a house, understand football or bet on "March Madness."

Vibrational Patterns and the Grid

Vibrational patterns are flow patterns that carry different metaphysical forms or memories. Different vibrational patterns have different themes and carry different memories.  Vibrational patterns transcend or are deeper than space and time.

In the physical, water molecules flow in rivers, air molecules in wind patterns and money flows in and out of banks.

In the Grid, each vibrational pattern is arbitrarily assigned a color and each is associated with a theme and type of memory.

For example, Red is the flow of prior group experiences and has the theme of group re-demption. Blue is the flow of prior individual experiences and the notions of  re-pairing and the discharging of a personal vow. Green is the flow of prior roles and new visions.  Orange is the flow of group ideas,  group core beliefs, the integrity of group beliefs and closing old plays.

Different parts of your body represent the physical manifestations of these different vibrational patterns.

Morphic resonance Vibrational patterns would be one mechanism of Rupert Sheldrake's Theory of Morphic Resonance. His key quotes are "things are as they are, because they were as they  were," and "the effect of like on like."

The Hebrew Connection  As shown in some of the diagrams, the vibrational patterns can be characterized in Hebrew, which is one of the oldest spiritual languages and one of the spiritual foundations of western culture. Chanting the Hebrew letters is a known method of healing, and would be one MASH approach to  "vibrating on a vibrational pattern."

This would be an example of the thinking of the late Martin Buber - an advocate of Hasidic and mystical Judaism - "that the Judaic tradition contained truths of the spirit that secular  Western culture could  ignore only  at its own peril." See The Biology of Kabbalah.