Questions and Answers about
Divine Healing Prayers

"An Amazing Encounter with Kathy"

Article By Dr. Michael E. Brandt

I met "Kathy" - a divorced woman in her early 40's, at a lecture given by Dr. Joe Dispenza, a neuro-chiropractor featured prominently in the film "What the Bleep do we know?"   Kathy has a probing intellect and asked great questions of me. I am reproducing parts of our dialogue here - subject matter having to do with Kabbalah, the healing work we do, and the nature and purpose of Divine Healing Prayers. I offered Kathy a Kabbalistic healing session with me but she was highly skeptical and thought this was like other healing modalities such as Reiki and integrated energy which she experienced.

This dialogue over a one month period culminated finally in Kathy agreeing to have a session with me. It turned out to be a marathon in which I counseled Kathy for some two hours before she got on my massage table. Her observations following this session are toward the end of the article. With Kathy's blessing and assistance I wrote this article in hopes that it will answer some of your questions about Kabbalah, Kabbalistic healing, the healing power of divine prayers and related matters.

At the end of the day, words are insufficient by themselves to describe the most important aspects of these subjects. Ultimately to "get the message" of Kabbalah, one must enter into it and expereince it from the inside out. It is a way or path for living. Yet words can greatly help to lead us in the most favorable direction in order to maximize the feeling and beingness of joy that characterizes the Spirit-endowed life (all of life and every life IS indeed Spirit-endowed!). So I attempt to be very careful about the words I use because I intend for them to stimulate you in such a way as to evoke certain positive mental and emotional states. Notice I am making my intention explicit here as an invitation to the reader to participate in the true joy that is one with the All That Is and life itself!

Kathy asked me for advice on how to begin learning about Kabbalah. Here was my initial response …


Hi Kathy,

It was great to share a terrific workshop (Dr. Joe Dispenza) with you.

Keep in "heart" that Kabbalah can only be taken in by the WHOLE person - that means you marinade in it and it marinades you! In other words learning about it with the brain and mind is only one aspect, important but not the most important. The word itself has its roots in the Hebrew verb meaning "to receive" - so it's all about reception on many levels - soul, mind, heart, gut, cells, DNA, etc. That is one purpose of the Kabbalistic healing that I practice - to jumpstart the process of holistic integration of the Light, data, and wisdom. This too is a form of fast-track learning which comes not just from reading, taking classes, etc. It comes from the experiential and from unblocking the "gateways" into ourselves that if opened would enable a great deal of information to flood in.

That being said, one must be careful about the data they take in from outside sources. Your discernment is always important along with your healthy skepticism. That's what a good scientist does and Kabbalah may be described as the artful science of creation and life. It is verifiable, and no one is asked to accept anything without reason. Faith is not blind in Kabbalah! I have attached a reading list which you might find helpful, broken down roughly into categories. I would stick with the Jewish sources/perspectives, certainly in the beginning. This is not due to any religious issues, but because of Kabbalah's history and origins.

I happen to be Jewish (mother Jewish, father raised Catholic), however Kabbalah was fully adopted by Christianity later on (and Islam also adopted it - Sufism is highly related). Kabbalah is also well-related to the Eastern traditions - Buddhism, Taoism, etc. possibly vice-versa in terms of historical development and conceptual philosophy.

By the way, in the Bible, the angel that wrestles with Jacob renames him Israel. Thus the word Israel has something to do with "wrestling with God" - in another words - always engaged, questioning, learning and experiencing. This IS therefore an encounter with God, the Divine. Does that sound familiar with anything Dr. Dispenza taught? ;-) Also the Hebrew word for Jew is Yehudi. Yehudi is related to the Hebrew word Yechud (roughly means "united") and echad - meaning one. So a Jew is one who seeks to be whole - and "whole" is a synonym for God - the All that Is! A Jewish soul seeks to be one with her Creator.

I would say, be an explorer - do not accept any single source to learn Kabbalah. Kabbalah cannot be patented or owned by any one, because it is God's gift to every soul! - and it is not religion - yet it is the core spirituality of the Abrahamic faiths. It belongs to every soul who will receive it of their own free will.

I invite you to experience a healing session with me - it is learning on the fast track!

Best wishes,
Michael

Kathy: Oh I did read a few of your papers/essays, very interesting! By the way, why do you spell God, G-D?

Dr. Brandt: Sometimes I have done this - not completing the spelling of this word. Basically, for the same reason we don't pronounce the four-letter sacred name (the Tetragrammaton). God cannot be placed in a "box". Sometimes we say Hashem in Hebrew which means "The Name" - it is an indirect reference to a concept that we cannot ever truly, completely conceptualize. There is good reason for that!

Kathy: And when you said we are God, did you mean god or God?

Dr. Brandt: I meant capital G - we are God, also!

Kathy: I know that we are god, but I can't explain that, can you?

Dr. Brandt: No - no need to and even if you could it would make no difference. Explanations don't alter the Truth, the Reality, right? Also do you know you are God, also?!

Kathy: If this is none of my business, say so!

Dr. Brandt: It is ALL your and everybody else's business! ;-)


Kathy: I'm trying to find a place to fit "in the world," I don't know how I lost my footing! Maybe I see "not being of it" in a limiting way!

Dr. Brandt: This is a common experience of those who are "on the path." It seems like you lose your footing because there is a tendency to become less interested in the "nonsense" of humans on earth and you resent having to be dragged through all the BS. I've been an "institutionalized" professor for 15 years, so I'm very familiar with this!

Kathy: However, I am very interested in psychology,

Dr. Brandt: There is a great need for bringing together spirituality and psychology. That is what I have been working on literally since grade school. Kabbalah has helped me to "stay grounded" by doing this. It teaches that the emphasis is to "bring heaven down to earth." - e.g., to bring spirituality into psychological matters. This is very very important as the film "What the Bleep" shows.


Kathy: I'm so glad you commented! I was wondering if I was "on a path" or had been following a path that has lead me nowhere. I got on a path, lived it in life, so to speak, and now find my life sort of "distorted." Hard to explain, when I get through it, I will be better able to explain it.

Dr. Brandt: "Distorted" implies something wrong with you. That would only be with respect to the distorted world we live in! I would say that you have shifted. It's a good shift, however it can lead to being uncomfortable because you live in the world. You are having to learn how to do that in a new way now. Shift happens! It is always a courageous choice because it can be a hard, desolate road at times. But there are incredible gems to be found along this path.

Kathy: I totally avoided your invitation for a healing because I wasn't sure if I needed a healing or psychological counseling!

Dr. Brandt: The healing work that I do is indeed a form of counseling. I am assisting you to cope with the adjustments you've decided to make. I can directly heal no one but myself. Same for you. Yet others can facilitate that. Alternatively, psychological counseling is a facilitation of your healing. My wife is a psychotherapist - this is certainly helpful for the adjustments, depending on how open one is to it. Receptivity is key.

Kathy: I did have a healing with my cousin, a remote healing. Interestingly enough, I experienced the healing before she sat down to do it. That tells me I am connected, I just don't trust myself - that I am changing!

Dr. Brandt: Yes - it should also tell you that your healing is totally dependent on you and what you call for yourself. The healer does nothing but assist in your aims - the ones you choose to attain.

Kathy: Thank you, thank you for the insight, from the bottom of my heart!

Dr. Brandt: Happy to help.


Kathy: Uncomfortable is saying it mildly! I have never in my life felt so aimless outwardly!

Dr. Brandt: I'd say you're in good company. There are many now experiencing this. You're not alone. Some say that many of us were not supposed to be here past the year 2000. Those of us who are still here had an opportunity to reprogram ourselves, obtain a fresh start and a new life. But many are struggling because they are stuck in the world of appearances. They are struggling with letting go of their past and starting a brand new future independent of it.

Kathy: Oh, I did see "What the Bleep!" I have already explained the concepts to the best of my ability to a few, about how the brain works, how automatic it is that we create our reality and that the key is to do so consciously. The responses I got were varied, so I can see why it's going to take some time getting many to grab on to the concept and follow it through, sad but true!

Dr. Brandt: Yes, we are thoroughly intoxicated by and with the world, including our past and our possessions. Only one problem: we've forgotten where it all comes from. And that is NOT our brains!

Kathy: But with people like you doing your lectures and spreading the word many will be exposed and enlightened!

Dr. Brandt: That would be nice. The messages can only be heard by those who will listen to them.

Kathy: I say thank you, from me and for them, for what you're doing!

Dr. Brandt: I appreciate that. And I say thank you for listening!


Kathy: Honestly, everyone that I know has access to two healers that do Integrated Energy healing, Reiki and Angel Healing! Sorry, I can't help on that front! However, I can encourage some to go to your lectures and any classes you give on the Kabbalah! So keep me posted on your future lectures! Thanks again for sharing your insight!

Dr. Brandt: Kabbalistic healing is different from any of these other methods. See the case studies and testimonials on my website. Also periodic rebalancing is necessary regardless of the type of healing work one partakes of. I do this remotely - it requires only a full length photo of the individual (their physical presence is not necessary). It only works when people commit to themselves to do it. And it does work for those folks.

Kathy: I did read the testimonials and just reread them. Honestly, I don't see any major difference! Grimace, grimace!

Dr. Brandt: I may have mentioned to you that all the reading in the world about this modality cannot give you all the information you need because to ultimately "get it" one must experience a session and see for themselves. One must actually go there - hearing about it or even learning about it is not the same. Actually if someone has experienced other modalities that's the best situation because then they will have more data to compare this with. Even so, when one of my clients says "thank you for the rebirthing experience" - and several have reported this to me - the meaning of this to each individual who will make the commitment to experience it personally amazes me.

The difference is in the level of the work, but one can only know it from the experience itself, and everyone experiences it in their own way. Reconnective and Kabbalistic healing are very different from the other techniques, for example those based on chakras. This goes far beyond the chakra body. If money is what you're concerned about you should not let that stop you from having a session. Then you'll know. I can take a love offering. I am happy to do the session!

Kathy: I guess I just don't see what you see or understand what you understand.

Dr. Brandt: From Proverbs: "Trust in the Lord with all your HEART. Do not lean on your own understanding. Acknowledge him in all your ways and He will direct your paths."

"Left braining" or mentalizing it doesn't get us "there" ultimately. It is through an encounter (not just an experience) with the Divine that we truly can "get it."

Kathy: When you wrote....."It only works when people commit to themselves to do it," what is the "it"?

Dr. Brandt: "It" refers to healing - healing is another world for evolvement, or (spiritual) growth. True healing must be enabled/allowed by the client. We are the ones that block our own healing. But a "healer" can facilitate or assist another. That's very important. If someone can help me speed up the process - offer me a shortcut - I'd be foolish to not take it, wouldn't I? ;-)

Kathy: Does "it" mean the Kabbalah way? If so, would that mean one has to understand and believe in the concepts of the Kabbalah for a true ever lasting healing?

Dr. Brandt: First Kabbalah is not a religion or a dogma. It is the spiritual core of the Western faiths - like the seed that gives rise to a flower. It is closer to a spiritual science system. The "theory of Kabbalah" has been in development probably since the dawn of humankind - that's a heck of a track record. So there's nothing that one must believe. Kabbalah is systematic - based on universal principles - like Newton's laws of physics! Laws do not require your belief. Whether you believe the laws or not they either work or they don't. These do. This is system/information science! If one "breaks" the law things are going to be difficult because there's natural consequences - you have to "pay the piper". But it is not that God is punishing you. There is no old man with a white beard who dolls out rewards and punishments.

If I speed I get a ticket plus I could kill someone. It's going to take a lot more energy to overcome the consequences than if I work with the system rather than against it. It goes far beyond balancing some frequencies or relieving someone's aching shoulder. Kabbalistic healing is an "engineering" that makes use of these universal laws in an optimal way to support the client's complete evolvement - their journey back to the Light that emanates from the Father's mansion!

That's what I am - a biomedical engineer and an information/systems specialist. I've simply applied these principles to doing healing work with clients. I didn't invent it from scratch. I used tools and widgets that have been around for centuries, bolstered now by modern science. Even so I don't heal anyone. I assist my clients in healing themselves. All healing is self-healing.

Kathy: How is the periodic rebalancing you mentioned different from chakra balancing, say as done through Integrated Energy therapy?

Dr. Brandt: The chakra body is "lower" than the Tree of Life body. So we do all the chakra balancing at the low level but this is not enough. We go to higher levels and unblock the blockages there and then balance and integrate at these levels. This is why Eric Pearl calls his Reconnective Healing. You are re-establishing a direct linkup to Source. Your plug worked itself loose from the socket and so we "re-plug it in." Reiki et al is limited in this way to the "lower" bodies. Lower and higher are just directional terms (rather than value terms) when it comes to the various "bodies." Higher means closer to "God" or "heaven", lower means closer to the earth level. In truth, heaven and earth are one! God and heaven are present in all of creation, including of course, you!

Kathy: I probably need to know more about Kabbalah!

Dr. Brandt: Well, it would help certainly. I've been studying Kabbalah in earnest for some seven years and I'm just scratching the surface. So get a cup of coffee and get started! ;-) Actually it's just about being a perpetual student of life in general and your life specifically. The most important thing is to always have a question - being open, because wisdom and truth are infinite like God - and being that which you are - pure Love.

Kathy: As I see it, we cause our own dis-ease, psychologically in seeing one's self: one's behaviors, thoughts and beliefs, guilt, lack of forgiveness, on and on. One can bring about changes that will result in ease!

Dr. Brandt: This is true but there is much more to the story then the psyche, mind or brain dimensions. Realize this comment is coming from a neuroscientist who has spent the better part of the last 24 years doing mind-brain research, and even longer delving deeply into my own psyche. Dr. Dispenza was only presenting for the most part the brain aspects of all this. There is much more to the story, and that's what Kabbalah is all about.

Kathy: Since I see the healing types as not too different, I think you should teach the Kabbalah to the masses, and through that avenue you will get to do/teach the healing work on a larger scale. In that you would not be competing with the other types of healing, you will be laying the foundation of a spiritual movement! I have no idea why I see the above as so! However, I cannot imagine that God gave you that wonderful gift and he has not lead you to the most effective way to distribute that gift!

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Dr. Brandt: We all adore our stories. And as long as we stick to them we are less willing to grow/change. Can we let our story go and see what happens? If we cannot we remain inside the box that is our story! Doomed to a limited existence, failing to grow or expand. By the way, Kabbalistic healing specifically assists one in letting go of their story so that a new one can take its place - one that says "you are God also"!

Kathy: Remember, I am a genius (being humorous here as Dr. Dispenza referred to everyone as this)!

Dr. Brandt: Indeed! thanks for your thoughts.


Kathy: Ah, I now see the difference in the healings! I never thought of the others as working on the "lower" level energy but I get it! I take it that you want to assist people in experiencing divinity more so than doing a body healing! Am I correct or way off?

Dr. Brandt: Correct. It includes the physical body level and goes into mind, emotion, spirit, on up. It is in a sense an acceleration of one's evolvement back to Divinity, yes. A re-membering, reconnection or a Kabbalah Konnection ..

Kathy: I thought Kabbalah is the mystical extension of Judaism, utilizing the Zohar! Would that not make Kabbalah the spiritual aspect of that religion?

Dr. Brandt: Well, not an extension. Kabbalah is the core spiritual essence of Judaism. As Judaism is the "seed" religion of the Abrahamic faiths, Kabbalah is therefore the core spiritual essence of these faiths (Judaism, Christianity, Islam). Then you notice that Kabbalah and Eastern philosophies have a shared heritage. And then one recognizes that modern science concepts hearken back to the ancient ideas of Kabbalah. Kabbalah is not religion - it is a wisdom system.

Kathy: If so, calling what you do, healing, is limiting yourself, you have much more to offer!

Dr. Brandt: It's healing in an expanded sense - it's evolvement, growth, experiential, and moving closer and closer to our divine essence. Many people who are just starting out on the path do not understand this sense of healing.

Kathy: Advertising it as a healing automatically puts you in a position of competition with the "lower" energy healers. Does that make sense? I'm not sure what you're supposed to do with that!

Dr. Brandt: I need not compete directly with them or anyone. I need only present what I have to offer - that's really the only thing I can do at the end of the day I believe. Those who will listen to the info have an opportunity to benefit from it, as I hope.

Kathy: Does your wife utilize the Kabbalah teachings in the spiritual guidance she offers her clients?

Dr. Brandt: Yes, indirectly. She is very intuitive and savvy. She has a different sense of things than me of course. Whereas I do research, am technical, ask questions, read and study, much of it has rubbed off on her without her doing those things directly, like I do. She has incorporated some key things into her work with people.

Kathy: Well, what can I say! You were right, words cannot explain or do justice! You talk about cellular change .... it's deeper than that! It gets better by the minute! I can't stop grinning! Thank you, thank you!

Dr. Brandt: You are welcome. Thank YOU, thank yourself, and thank God! You made it so - by your will, intent and choosing. You asked for my assistance to do this with you and I agreed. So you have every reason to smile and more. I smile with you.

Continue to observe and catalog (e.g., journal, keep mental notes), continue to love your "children" as yourself** - you are loving YOU when you do. You may feel like you need some "refreshers" in time. That is recommended - this is an unfolding of potential into shifts.

Kathy: Did you burn incense during my session today?! I remember smelling a strong smell and held my breath. Then it was gone! Had anyone ever asked you about that before? I only remembered that once I returned home.

Dr. Brandt: I did not burn incense in the office today. It may have burned, or I may have done so in a parallel reality that you experienced. You may be the first person who has asked me this. It never ceases to amaze me what clients report - it does lend confirmation to the notion that this work is highly effective. Example: the last healing demonstration I did in front of about 25 people: one woman who was standing close to me reported that she observed that I "morphed" into a person with long hair down to my shoulders. I told her that I had long hair down to my shoulders in the 70's. But my impression was that she saw another aspect of me or a parallel life - perhaps I was a priest/healer ages ago. That's speculation, but my sense was that it was a past or a concurrent, alternate life. So maybe I was burning incense at another time and you were there being healed.

**During our session, Kathy spoke about the various voices in her head - you know the ones, we all have them - telling us what we're supposed to do, that we're inadequate, we're beautiful, flawed, etc, etc? I had Kathy imagine that each voice was a personality within her, a child of hers that needed comfort and love. I instructed her to meet regularly with them in a "board room" - with her as Chairperson. Listen to their concerns, help them, coddle them if needed and love them, but also be firm and let them know who's in charge! When it's time for them to be quiet, get along with the others, etc they have to obey the Chairperson. Thanks to my colleague Pat Peterson for the insight - www.houseofone.com.

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