Nina is a practitioner of spiritual healing, and for want of another name for
the healing tradition which she carries on, and as a tip of the hat, so to
speak, to the souls which make her work possible, she has decided to call it
"Behind The Moon Healing".
Nina would have you understand that Behind The Moon Healing occurs through the agency of souls: not only good souls, white souls, but also souls on probation and willing to work hard at worthwhile tasks to secure a better future for themselves.
She would also have you understand that for healing to occur, one human must wish another human well. In fact, that is probably the most important part any of us on Earth can play: certainly it is fundamental and necessary. Nina reminds us that the souls are going to do things which we could not possibly do ourselves, but for them to act, one human must wish another human well.
If you have begun to suspect by now that the Behind The Moon Healing tradition asks for discipline and dedication, Nina would not be one to say that you are wrong. As side benefits of leading a life conducive to healing in this tradition, you will be free from the effects of drugs, alcohol, and promiscuity. Says Nina, "I am a hollow tube. The energy goes through me. But I could lose it all tomorrow if I took a drink. The good souls have no tolerance at all for drugs or loose conduct. If I tried drugs or ran around, my contact with them would be gone in an instant."
What does a healer gain, then? Wealth? Perfect health? Satisfaction of all desires? Not that Nina is aware. People may neglect to pay you for your efforts, but you are really not supposed to ask them to yourself. You can ask for favors and healing for yourself, but the potency of such requests, says Nina, is much less than of requests asked for others. You may find desires fulfilled, but if so they will be plain, innocent, simple ones. "What do I hope to get from doing healing work?" says Nina, "Peace. And a nice farm with all my pets after I meet Saint Peter. Eternity is a scary thing to think about. I want mine to be pleasant."
What satisfaction does she get from it, then? Nina says, "I don't like anybody even talking about it. No 'Oh thank you, thank you, thank you'." But isn't there a satisfaction to knowing that something worked? "I like it when a person really helps themself. There was a woman in her early forties with a large tumor in her female parts inside. I told her 'Only organic foods, now. No coffee. No alcohol. Give me six weeks.' After four weeks she went to her doctor, and he couldn't find a trace of the tumor. That was satisfying."
So to review, in order for healing to occur, one human must wish another human well. Once that is underway, the souls begin to work, using the healer as a conduit, a pipe, a transmission line. If the conduit is clean, their energy can be transmitted to the person to be healed, and the souls will also enjoy working with and through the healer. If the conduit, however, is clogged, polluted, dirty --- choose whatever words seem to you expressive --- then the souls will not enjoy the collaboration and what energy they contribute will have a harder time passing through to the person to be healed.
Here is an important point: a healer has no power over souls, NOR DOES HE OR SHE WANT ANY! A healer may marshall souls into position or ask that they exert pressures or bring about changes or request that it be as though imagined objects actually existed, but the souls are in no way subordinate to him or her, and the healing process should summon in the healer a diplomacy appropriate to a shared endeavor.
So, we have seen that in the Behind The Moon tradition, healing is part of a way of life, and the way of life is grounded in contact with good souls, an active, nearly continual, obedient contact.
"What is healing like?" one might ask.
Here is a possible example of healing done at the request of souls: they may point out a young man with an infected foot begging in the streets of Rio. If the young man's foot were to be healed, he would be able to help a tourist couple push their car; the couple would reward him. He would buy a suit with the money and then present himself at a cabinetmaker's atelier, demonstrate his artistry and skill, be hired, and begin a happy, useful life. But, first, he must be healed.
Now, healing that young man is desireable, but why are the souls telling a healer about the need? The souls, after all, are entirely capable of healing that infected foot themselves. The key bit of information to remember is that it is part of the makeup of the universe that we, we humans, must be willing to help each other, that souls will do the heavy lifting in the healing, but that we must desire that the healing happen, must contribute all the will, knowledge, and imagining we can.
If humans are pipes through which the healing by souls flows, then human
willingness is the valve, and we must open that valve by willing that another
human be helped and healed.