(Adrian) Forrest Jewell

PO Box 632

Lock Haven, Pa 17745

814-590-7008 (cell) 570-726-4890

esotericist1@gmail.com

www.healthexploration.com

In recent years I have had enough experiences of successful healing to convince me they are real. I would like to offer them to a wider group of people. I am a pharmacist and a Reiki master. I have degrees in psychology, pharmacy, and business administration. I have ABDs in psychology, educational research and applied history and social sciences. The healing I do is based in both what understanding I have of the relevant sciences and of energy healing. Distance seems irrelevant in what I do. It seems to have helped dogs and cats as well as people. I would guess it could help any living thing. I have no firm basis for saying that. The energy is not my energy. It flows through me and seems to accept some kind of direction from me. I can’t claim to understand it. I have had classes with Ken Cohen and other qigong healers,, Carol Look, Donna Eden, and a variety of others. I have a background in Ericksonian hypnosis and neurolinguistic programming.

I don’t charge anything. I do encourage donations. I promise nothing except to try. Problems exist for many reasons and the things I am able to do or suggest may not lead to a solution. Whatever I do is in addition to whatever else you are doing and is not meant to replace any other healing/medical modality.

Basically, I am trying to explore my seeming abilities, put them to good use, and possibly find a way of supplementing social security.

If you are interested in learning more or in being open to healing, send me an email. That works better than the phone. I also read letters.

 

NICABM 2008

The first year I came here I signed up for one of the dinner groups that had no stated purpose other than meeting people.  There was one other guy and 4 women.  Of course, the first item of business was to introduce ourselves.  I am extremely shy and sat there soaked in sweat until it was my turn to talk.  I had no idea what to say after my name but stammered out, “I guess I’m a fifty-five? year old juvenile delinquent.  The group broke into laughter and I realized that everyone else had been in the same situation and what I said had broken the ice.  I don’t know what happened to the other guy but I had dinner with the four women every night that week.  One of them was a consultant teaching reflexology to corporate managers and she gave us a class in reflexology.  I had driven here that year and brought some drums with me and we had a drumming circle one evening.  I corresponded with them for a year or so but none of them ever came back.

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Over the past few years I seem to have become some kind of healer.  Distance seems to be irrelevant and it seems to work with dogs and cats and, I guess, other organisms.  I don’t charge anything but do accept donations.  I am interested in finding more people to try the healing.  I’ve written a handout with my information.  There are some on the bulletin board and you can just ask me for one.

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A few years ago I bought a GPS contraption for the car.  Before using it you have to hook it up to a computer and initialize it — download the maps and so forth from some web site into the GPS equipment.  I kept having trouble with that and finally said some thing like, “God Damn this thing.”  The computer turned off and wouldn’t restart.  The surge protector hadn’t shut down and everything else connected to it worked just fine.

My local computer wizard determined that the power supply had burned out and fried the mother board meaning I had to buy a new computer.  He also told me there was nothing other than a power surge that could have done the damage since there was nothing in the equipment to generate sufficient voltage to do the damage.  He also said that in all the years and all the computers he has seen he’s never seen anything like that.

I don’t know what happened but I try even harder than I did before to avoid becoming irritated with anything that matters, especially people.

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What follows are comments and poems expressing my amusement with my life and with the institutions of my society.  I never do anything today that I can put off until tomorrow.  This was mostly written last night between about 7 and 9.
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Differences

When I was 10 or so
I began to fear that I would die from
The dread disease, Lackanookie;
When I was 65 or so I began to realize that
I had never heard of anyone dying from
Lackanookie
And some part of me relaxed
Into a centeredness that allowed me to marvel at,
Rather than striving to conquer, the differences between
Men and women and the reasons why I had quit at
Two strikes in marriage rather than continuing on
To strike out altogether.

In the years since I was 10 or so
And during most of those years,
No matter what I thought I was thinking about
It was always in addition to thinking about
Women;
And now that I am 73 I can look back
And marvel at
The insanity of the path that hormones
And lack of information
Carve through the years allotted to one
Before moving on to some other mode
Of existence
And marvel even more
At the fact that it continues yet,
Albeit accompanied by growing insight
And driven by less intensity,
At least, most of the time.

Forrest Jewell

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Why does that ignorance exist?

Unless a child has siblings of the other sex, our society – most societies, I guess — has no provision for them to have anything like an intimate relationship with people of the other sex.  This means that children grow up with their eventual mates being, effectively, an alien race.  The society provides no reliable way for young people to learn anything meaningful or useful about sex meaning they will marry – or whatever they do – knowing nothing about how to accept, live with, please, be pleased by, honor, be honored by, or enjoy their partner.

The model marriage in our society is between two virgins who are expected to have some innate understanding of everything required to maintain a marriage.  In my generation the woman has been programmed to perform wifely duties and resent them while the man has been trained to perform husbandly duties and resent them.  It’s long been a mystery to me how any marriage lasts more than a year or two and the constant yammering of our politicians about returning to traditional family values is ridiculous because they never existed.

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Raising Kids

Three Stooges movies show life
A lot like my home life as a child;
Those movies mirror lots of things;
For instance
I can’t see the difference between
A Three Stooges movie
And a football game.

Given that my childhood
And the Super Bowl
Are indistinguishable from
A Three Stooges movie
It became very difficult for me
To take life seriously
And eventually I gave up trying.
I look at a baseball game
And see a lot of people
Most of whom must have a high tolerance
For boredom
Ane whose role consists primarily of
Standing around watching
While two others contrive an art form
Out of playing catch
And another tries desperately
To interfere with their game of catch
So as to disturb the boredom
Of the others
By hitting the ball with a club —
That’s a lot like being home waiting for Dad to arrive.

In the life of a child
Schools play a large role –
Sometimes good, I suppose, but
Often not so good;
I started school a couple of months shy
Of my sixth birthday
And had already read
Robin Hood and Treasure Island and
Part of Canterbury Tales
So the school presented me with
Dick and Jane and Mother and Father
And Spot and the cat – Puff, maybe –
And a family situation totally outside my experience –
And began the process of destroying
My desire to be in school
And my ability to learn
Anything there …
Reinforcing
My growing discomfort
In being around people.

So Effective was the school
In consort with my parents
That, at fifteen,
With an IQ (tested when I was in my forties)
Of over 160
I flunked out of high school.

Forrest Jewell

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I never have any idea how long any of this is taking so just tell me when to stop.

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How Comes Suicide

There is a small but growing consensus
Of opinion
Around the notion
That people choose/create their own lives
And then change them
More-or-less
At will.

My first response to that was
HOGWASH
Supposedly
I fought with a bunch of other souls
To live my childhood?
To be a child who couldn’t
Fit into what was supposedly
The best school system
In the United States?
And, as a little boy,
Found solace
In cuddling with my pet
Nanny goat
To avoid the havoc in the house —
Why would anyone do that?

Given that
I was fool enough
To compete for
That childhood
I can understand how
I could create a lot of the rest of my life.

In meditation I’ve encountered
What I think of
As past lives
And I also think I can see how
They have affected this life
And, in that way,
I have created parts of my current life
Out of past lives.

This life is a constant stream of events and thoughs
And relating and learning
And all that a person does
So that, based upon what I came with
And what has occurred since I came
I have created a lot of my life.

A kid can be frustrated with school
And with his parents
And then hold a pistol to his head
And create a whole new life for himself
But I’m still not comfortable
That he has done that alone;
He has taken the information supplied
By those around him,
Come to see himself
As a worthless impediment
And sought to remove the obstacle
He presents
From the lives of those to whom
He feels worthless and some of whom
He desperately loves
And who seem to me to have failed
To encourage in him a sense of sufficient
Self-worth to help him
Fight for his life.

I’ve struggle with the concept of life creation
Since 1977
When my son shot himself in the head
And didn’t die
But he did change his life for the rest of his life
And
The event changed
My life,
My wife’s life,
His mother’s life,
His sister’s life,
……..AND…..
I still don’t know
Who changed what;

Forrest Jewell

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Disease Creation and Management

Our society operates in a cycle
Of disease creation and
Disease management.
The disease creation portion
Is the marketing of food
Or
What passes for food
And the manipulation of people’s weaknesses
By huge corporations
Selling products
And dreating beliefs
Concerning food and diet
Trading the environment and
The public health
For profit so that
For example
I think the most frequently eaten food is
French Fries.

The disease management portion
Of the cycle
Is what we call the
Health care system
Which has little to do
With either health or caring.
It is created primarily by
Drug companies and
Operated through insurance companies
Which turn would-be healers
Into clerks
Serving a decreasing percentage
Of the population
And, even then,
Treating symptoms with chemicals so that
People can continue destroying themselves
Rather than working to remove the causes
Of the symptoms.

Forrest Jewell

Obesity is probably the most important current health  problem of our society.  It results from many factors and tends to be extremely difficult to change.

In our society it is difficult to learn to eat correctly and to not overeat.  Food is everywhere.  It is difficult to avoid passing pop machines, racks of candy bars,  snack foods, pastry shops, and so forth.  Fast food shops are everywhere selling products consisting mainly of meat, grease, bread, head “lettuce”, french fries, sugar, cheese, pastries, ”soft drinks”,  ….  Small restaurants providing somewhat balanced meals are honored more by memory than by availability.

I’m a pharmacist.  During the sixties and early seventies I was a graduate student and (eventually with a couple of courses} taught myself computer programming.  I worked as a self-styled consultant to the blossoming researchers who need someone to help with the design of experiments, data collection, and data processing to allow them to study what they meant to study without being totally swamped with the procedural aspects of the exercise.  So I became a pretty good statistician, multivariate analyst, and offered other activities related to carrying out research.  When the government found it urgent to burn down southeast Asia the money for research disappeared into support of another of the country’s worthless wars and I could no longer earn a living.  I was 37.  I considered what I could do.  I found I could become a pharmacist in two years by taking more than full time work to finish the degree in two years.  When I entered pharmacy school I had already come to consider myself a failure and was simply looking for some way to have a job.  Unlike most people going into pharmacy I had no illusions of being some kind of great contributor to a wonderful health care system.  I simply wanted a job.  I did have some illusions of learning some worthwhile things and being of help to people.  Those illusions were proven inaccurate while I did find other things to see as being helpful to people.  Doing something worthwhile in my life has actually always been of more consequence than making money.  What I have found is that I have great difficulty in finding anything to do that is worthwhile in the sense I always hoped to find.

In recent years the size of portions served in restaurants seems to me to have increased by a large factor so that even if one starts out to have a wholesome meal, it is easy to eat too much if you are a person who has trouble not eating the whole meal and knows that taking home the extra will result in it sitting around until it is thrown away.   School meals which should be models of good nutrition have become in many places just another outlet for an assortment of  junk foods.

In many — perhaps most — homes all the adults work and none of them has time to spend in the kitchen preparing “home-cooked meals”.

There is a very large BUT:  A great deal is known about food, food preparation, food contaminants, ways of selecting and preparing foods so as to reduce if not eliminate the health threats of eating and make it possible to have food and eating assume their natural role of maintaining health rather than their present role which too often is simply the creation and maintenance of disease.

The basic reality of eating is that it is apparently necessary to maintain life.  A second basic reality is that most food readily available to most of us fulfills that basic role only marginally and while doing so, and in conjunction with what is consumed for beveragtes and the effects of tobacco consumption and lack of exercise an so forth,  creates most of what we call disease  including most of the so-called diseases of aging.  The diseases of aging result from a lifetime of consuming the things that do not readily maintain health and do readily accumulate to the point of causing disease(s) which we attribute to aging.  The food, drink, and tobacco consumption cause the symptoms of aging.  Perhaps some day someone will find a path to making life eternal and eternally welcome.  That hasn’t happened but what is known is that following proper diet, not using tobacco, finding accptable ways to obtain enough exercise, and related things that do not have to condemn the person to life of misery in trying to maintain health make it possible to live a healthy life for much longer than is possible for most people today without the necessity of consuming chemicals which help one live more-or-less normally by managing the symptoms caused by the diseases resulting from lifestyle.

Lack of exercise is another factor in disease creation.  We are organisms that had to be physically active to survive but have created a society where little physical activity is required in our daily lives.  Rather than being a part of necessary daily activities, physical activity has become something that we must do on purpose.  In my case, I go to a fitness center and use the equipment.  I dislike doing so and make it more acceptable by always having things to read as I use the elliptical machine, bicycle, etc.  I have also gotten a kayak and a bicycle which I try to use when I can.  But I am pretty old.  I tend to fall of the bicycle and have skinned legs and knees and sor shoulders.  When I use the kayak I tend to fall in the water attempting to get in and out of the boat but paddling it is sort of fun.

How can one keep from becoming obese and how does one reverse the process once it occurs?  We grow up being taught to eat wrong.  Partly because of historical factors which have transformed natural apetites that served to maintain life into ones that destroy health and wellness.  And partly because of the never-ending barrage of advertising persuading us to eat what amounts to garbage.

There are many people teaching their favorite methods of maintaining or losing weight.  Some of them will work if they are followed but the structure of the lives of most people in this society make it unlikely that such routines will be followed.  But a great deal is known about what foods or food types lead to disease and which ones help to avoid disease.  It seems to me that the important things are to try to learn about foods, try new things, try to alter the notion of what tastes good , and gradually change ones diet to one tha tis more healthy.  This process is not one for which it is possible to draw a map or map a list of what to eat for every meal.  It is one that requires the effort to learn what is healthful and what is not, try new things, incorporate those new things into the diet a little at a time.

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I have been working on this a little at a time for months.  I will publish it to the blog but I will add more to it later.

I am a person interested in the concept and practice of healing. I have been trained as an Ericksonian hypnotherapist and master neurolinguistic programmer. I have practiced taiji and qigong. I have learned therapeutic massage. I am a pharmacist, a Reiki master, a practitioner of therapeutic touch. I practiced meditation for a long time. I am a person who heals by somehow manipulating subtle energies. Such activities are sometimes called faith healing. While I have no argument with the idea that the energies come from outside myself and are channeled through me or directed somehow by my intentions, I don’t see the processes as having anything to do with faith except that the term, faith, may be taken to mean learning to believe that what seems to be happening is happening. They are physical processes involving energies which we are not very good at measuring. The ability to be involved with those energies and to learn to apply them probably exists in each of us but are ridiculed by our society and suppressed in children so that many if not most adults find themselves no longer able to sense them, at least consciously, or to benefit from the application of them.

I am constantly bewildered by subtle energies and I am able to apply them in ways which sometimes seem miraculous. The concept that is difficult to truly accept is that, although I may set out to help someone with some problem, my intention is never to heal that problem. My intention is to help create an abundance of energy which the other entity’s protective and healing systems can use to advantage in THE BEST INTERESTS of that entity while not interfering with my protective and healing systems so that all that happens is also in my best interests.

The healing can involve a person who has recently died or, lived thousands of years ago, animals as well as humans, and individuals thousands of miles away. Help for any one individual may include the energy healing as well as others of the healing techniques I have learned through the years.

All healing is internal to the individual being healed. Doctors don’t heal anything, healers don’t heal anything. They provide help to the individual’s immune processes enabling the individual to heal naturally.  Since those natural healing processes are not well understood, no kind of healing or medical attention is infallible.  In hypnotherapy or neurolinguistic programming the fortunate discovery of the effective way of reframing (describing differently) an experience underlying a condition impacting a person’s whole life can be healed immediately in a way which seems miraculous.  The problem for the therapist is to find the underlying cause and think of the right thing to say.  Neither of those is guaranteed in any therapy session.

Energy healing is similar but even less understood.  I have had what seemed like very good results in helping with healing a growing variety of conditions: the eye of a cat in the Pacific Northwest, stopping the death of a cat suffering from renal failure again in the Pacific Northwest for several months so the devoted human “owner” could accustom herself to the anticipated death, dental pain in the Southwest and Southeast, in the Mid-Atlantic region: depression, PTSD, Lupus, uterine fibroids, dental pain, a cold, headaches, and probably others that I am not remembering.  All of that while not leaving the area of central Pennsylvania and usually without ever seeing or talking to the person being healed.  I care about people in general and have sent energy to many people who simply asked me to without having any feedback concerning its effects.

HEALTH is an elusive concept. Related concepts such as maintaining health, evaluating health, health care, health care system, and restoring health are also elusive. We speak of our health care system which I see as having little if anything to do with either health or caring. Rather, it is a disease management system designed by drug manufacturers and insurance companies and underwritten by government to maximize the transfer of funds from the general public into the coffers of those corporations.

One way of conceptualizing the universe is as an energy field with areas where the frequencies and intensities of the energy vary in ways that result in galaxies or stars such as our sun or planets such as the earth and in the various features of which the earth is constituted: rocks and soil and water and plants and creatures of many varieties.

Humans are part of the universal energy system and each human is, in itself, a complicated system of components all of which are composed of energy. Our understanding of the human organism deepens and widens, sometimes gets stuck in a rut, finds branches to the ruts, discovers or rediscovers concepts which are either new or mostly abandoned long ago.

In recent years the general concepts of health and wellness have centered around what we usually think of as physical and chemical. There is a constant search for chemicals to modify every condition somehow identified as abnormal and undesirable. The chemicals have helped many people through problem situations and there can be little question that they are of value. There is, however, room for questioning whether the chemicals are worth the enormous costs that put what we call health care outside the reach of most people.

Another part of the present general notion of health care is surgery. We use chemicals to treat joint pain but when the pain is no longer tolerable or the part no longer works we replace it.  We use chemicals to treat assorted problems of circulation and respiration but we use surgery as a last resort in replacing hearts and lungs. We also replace kidneys and livers when they cease to function adequately. We cut out tumors and cancers, and repair damage from assorted accidents.

Our model of health has grown to include psychiatric conditions which are dealt with using chemicals or various types of social interactions which take place in groups of two or more participants and referred to loosely as therapy. We have gone through periods in which the therapies included considerable use of things like electrical or insulin shock or cutting parts of the brain. I suppose some of that continues but, in general, it has been found that such techniques are not usually helpful.

There has never been a shortage of alternative approaches to dealing with the concerns of people. We have manipulative approaches such as various types of massage, chiropractic, and osteopathic. Osteopathy, of course, has mostly dropped its manipulative treatments so that there is very little difference in the training of MDs and DOs. There are treatments such as hydrotherapy and techniques for inducing sweat, often as part of some sort of cummunication with spirits.

There is also a growing awareness of techniques for modifying areas of the human energy field known as subtle energies. There are many approaches to obtaining such modifications and a growing body of research into their effectiveness. It is such techniques that are of most interest to me.

There is some sense in which I seem to be an energy healer.  I am a Reiki master and have had classes with assorted practitioners/teachers of energy medicine and energy psychology.  But what healing I do has little connection with any of the classes I’ve had.  My experiences in healing are so different from each other that I have difficulty finding the connections among them.