A HISTORY of CHANNELLED ENERGY HEALING

It is the intention here to present a simple and brief account of at least some events in the history of the development of some of the many channelled energy systems. I make no apology for placing particular emphasis on paths leading to the development of the relatively new ‘SourceSTAR’ as it is currently the most recent, and there is little information yet available on the web. It is hoped that this synopsis may help some people arrive at a better understanding of the relationship and development of healing energies as we know them today.  Be aware that due to the vagaries of human nature and personal interpretation of events, people live in their own reality and a number of diverse understandings of history can evolve. This brief history was collated from information gathered from several sources and is, to the best of the knowledge and understanding available, an accurate account of events.

Although all channelled energy healing comes from the same Universal life force or Source, you are probably aware that there are a number of systems that exist. It is widely believed we are all capable of channelling healing energy based purely on positive intention, at least to some degree. Unfortunately our Western society and culture does not generally recognise and nurture our development of this ability.  The frequency and volume of vibrational energy channelled can be increased through practice, or by training and attunement or initiation in a named healing system. The main differences in the systems are whether or not an attunement or initiation process is used, how the energy is channelled and presented, the frequency of the energy channelled and in the visualisation of any symbols associated with a particular system. It is not the intention to suggest that any particular system is better than any other as they are different vibrations and presentations of the same Source.  Therefore a higher frequency of vibration should not be interpreted as superior to a lower vibration - just different, and people will find affinity with the vibration that suits their personal needs.  All systems are valid and provide much needed healing for mankind and the planet.

Spiritual Healing (usually associated with the Spiritualist church or movement) involves no attunement process or symbols and the vibrational rate is raised through years of practice. The attunement process to which they refer is actually the process of asking and channelling the energy for a healing session.  The energy is channelled from Source, through the crown to earth, and then up to flow down the arms to the hands of the Practitioner.  The hands may make light physical contact with the client, or be held in the etheric layer close to the body (within 5cms/2 inches) as the energy travels down to the core.

Traditionally, other healing systems include multiple levels of proficiency, symbols, and personal growth work to enable expansions in consciousness and to raise personal vibration level. Reiki, Karuna Reiki® Seichim, Tera-MaiTM, Sekhem®, SourceSTAR and most associated and derivative healing systems have an attunement or initiation process or ritual that enables the Practitioner to achieve a fairly consistent connection at the appropriate frequency for each level within the system. Regular use of these energies will help strengthen this connection further.  In most channelled healing systems the Intention to connect with Universal Source and direct this energy to a recipient for healing is done in a similar fashion, although Spiritual Healing and SourceSTAR involve a more complex route including earth energy.

Reiki - Although it is thought likely to have had its roots in Tibet or Atlantis, Reiki as we know it today owes much to Dr Mikaomi Usui who re-discovered it in Japan in the late 19th century through pursuit of study, fasting, meditation and an Instantaneous initiation from Spirit. He spent several years developing and giving form to the system often referred to as Usui Reiki and then passing this knowledge on to others through teaching and attunement. Whatever its roots, Dr Usui gave an energy system to the world that has spread and developed thus enabling mass consciousness to rise and support energy of increasingly higher frequency.

Seichim was re-discovered by Patrick Zeigler through a spiritual experience and spontaneous attunement while spending a night in the King’s chamber in the great pyramid of Giza in 1979 or 1980. Patrick was at this time based in The Yemen with the Peace Corps and studied with the Sufis in Egypt and the Sudan before returning to the USA via Nepal in 1984. He lived in the Himalayas for 2 years prior to receiving initiations into Reiki up to level 3A, stopping short of teaching Master level. The new energy was found to have a higher vibration frequency than Reiki and in 1984 was advised by an Indian spiritual being called Marat of the name Setim, the name of the highest order of Priests in Egypt, and who also gave guidance on its history and the attunement of others.  With this knowledge, and what he heard as ‘Se ch im,’ Patrick initiated Tom Seaman and David Quigley (originator of Alchemical Hypnotherapy) into what is better known today as Seichim. Interest in Seichim rose with the increasing numbers of those attuned to the energy.

In 1989, Phoenix Summerfield was attuned to Seichim and went on to work with Tom Seaman on further development of the system giving Seichim the form and structure we know today. Phoenix commenced teaching the developed system in 1990.

It is from the system of Seichim that a number of offshoots and systems were derived and developed, together with new symbols.

The history of channelled energy may indicate that both Tera-Mai and Karuna forms of Reiki flowed from the system of Seichim.

Tera-MaiTM was developed by Kathleen Milner in 1991 following her meeting Buddha in a consciousness raising experience who gave her the symbols that it’s claimed were missing from the original three attunements of Usui Reiki. Tera-MaiTM, often referred to as a higher vibration of Reiki, was trademarked in 1993.

Karuna Reiki® was developed by American William Lee Rand after he was shown the Tera-Mai system symbols in 1992 and was then intuited to use them in a different form of attunement process.  He added more symbols, combined toning and work with crystals, and brought in the concept of Ascended Masters and Celestial beings. William went on to lay out a set of standards and trademarked Karuna Reiki®. A number of Masters took exception to this and went on to develop their own systems.

It was in 1992 that Helen Belot in Australia learned Reiki and Seichim. When trained and attuned by Margot to Reiki levels 1 & 2 prior to Seichim, Helen recognised some of the symbols as looking similar to those she had received as a child, but drawn differently. Helen found that her way somehow changed the vibration pattern and increased the power of the energy. 

Sekhem® - Following her Seichim attunement from Margot Slater, Helen Belot continued to follow her intuition and experimented with drawing and channelling the energy in her own way. Helen met and received the Master Seichim attunement from Phoenix Summerfield in 1992, but felt when she channelled the energy in her own intuited way that she received a different energy to that of Reiki or Seichim and in order to differentiate called this energy Sekhem®.   

In 1994 when Phoenix realised Seichim had changed, she again met with Helen and re-attuned her to Seichim giving her a separate attunement for each level through to Masters level.  They spent eight days in Australia working together and exploring energy healing.

Sekhem® initially incorporated Seichim and Reiki, but further experiences and discussions between Phoenix and Helen on Seichim and Sekhem® seemed to expand on differences in these energies and they could not agree about the use of some symbols. By the end of 1994, Helen had gone on to develop a teaching structure for Sekhem® using only the Sekhem way to draw and visualise symbols.

As Sekhem® further developed, Helen Belot decided that Sekhem® should be taught as a totally separate system and developed a significant number of powerful symbols that were unique to the Helen Belot lineage of Sekhem®.

In 1996 and 1997 Helen Belot felt there were difficulties arising from confusion between systems that led her to filing for trademark registration of both the name and logo in 1998. This Trade marking was only partially successful, with variance in presentation and format of the copyright mark(s) dependent on country. For instance, in the USA and Hong Kong the Sekhem logo together with the word Sekhem beneath and TM were trademarked while trade marking in the UK and EU was initially granted for the Sekhem® logo alone with an ® situated to the right.

SKHM - Patrick Zeigler developed SKHM, a healing system that has less reliance on symbols and in 1998 Patrick dropped the set Reiki style attunement and commenced teaching SKHM in its present form. The SKHM process involves students making their own connection and achieving expansions of consciousness through a series of activations arising from meditations, rather than any set attunement ceremony. It is thought by Patrick that this energy is the core energy of the original Seichim system rediscovered by him years earlier.

SSR - In 1997, Diane Shewmaker stated she received a natural spiritual initiation into Sekhem during a meditation at a weekend workshop led by Patrick Zeigler. This system includes part of the energy system, but not the full system as developed in the Helen Belot Sekhem® lineage.  Diane Shewmaker created the SSR (Sekhem, Seichim, and Reiki) system as a result of bringing together and combining these systems. Diane Shewmaker followed this up by publishing a book called 'All Love.'

In November 2005, Helen Belot received conformation that her little known second personal submission to trademark the name Sekhem® had been successful in the UK and EU and that the word ‘Sekhem’ should be immediately followed by ®.  The right to use either logo or name Sekhem® then became only permissible by those who became members of The Helen Belot Sekhem® Association.

In September 2007, Helen Belot resigned from the Helen Belot Sekhem® Association taking her name and her right to the Sekhem® Copyrights and Trademarks with her. Although this had varying consequences throughout the world depending on what had been trademarked in each country. The UK and EU were hardest hit due to the 2005 trademarking of the freestanding name Sekhem.

Following Helen’s letter informing members that neither the name nor logo could be used in the UK and EU, a group of 11 UK Sekhem Masters, many of whom were approved and endorsed by Helen as Teachers in May 2007, met as a group in Edinburgh on the 11^th November 2007 to discuss the matter and to decide how to proceed. Apologies were received also, from 11 Masters. In numerology the number 11 is a Master number associated with intensifying the desire to serve humanity and bring about peace and reconciliation and the number has great spiritual portent.

SourceSTAR - At the meeting Gordon Soutar reported having received symbols incorporating a twelve-pointed golden star, while others could identify with the importance of stars at this time. Sheila Caldwell proffered the acronym Sekhem Transformed And Reborn for STAR. These things, coupled with the origin of all energy, led quickly to the unanimous agreement that the name for this evolving energy would be ‘SourceSTAR.’  The unanimous feeling that recent events were guided by Spirit led to an instant feeling of certainty that the path was now clear for the development of the healing modality now known as SourceSTAR.

It was agreed that we should continue to work towards setting up an Association of Practitioners that should have no geographical boundaries, and would be supportive and inclusive. It would set standards offering the possibility of satisfying the expected new Government regulatory legislation for all Complementary and Alternative Therapies. Membership of the Association would not be compulsory for trained therapists in order for them to use SourceSTAR.  A steering committee was elected, and tasks allocated to take the work forward. It was agreed the Association should have a website.

Under the auspices of the Steering Group, the training manuals were rewritten and a Constitution for the formation of The SourceSTAR Association was drafted.  A further meeting was held in June when, after discussion, agreement was reached to dissolve the Steering Group in favour of setting up inaugurating the SourceSTAR Association.  The Constitution was adopted unanimously and an interim working Committee was then elected to look at writing Articles and Memorandum of Association for a future Company limited by guarantee, and to formulate rules, and procedures regarding membership, certification, forms, etc.

Prior to the evolution of SourceSTAR, channelled healing has historically had difficulties arising primarily from ego. It is therefore hoped that important lessons of the past be learned and that we go forward in the spirit of co-operation and harmony.

It may seem unbelievable at this time of upheaval, as people struggle to adapt to the new energies, that the signs in the heavens indicate a time of great change and renewal in this new Age of Aquarius. This is an age for dualities to mix, differences to resolve, and for renewal and unification. It is no surprise therefore that SourceSTAR should emerge at this time to assist and guide us at this exciting time.

We can look forward to the unconditional healing and love that is Source playing a significant part in the healing and development of mankind, the Earth and the Universe with all healing modalities playing their part in a spirit where difference is embraced.