THE CENTER FOR AMERICAN ENERGETIC MEDICINE

​PUBLICATIONS

ESSAYS

A compendium of published works​

BY: LESLEY E SHEARER

PROLOGUE

I never intended to be a writer- an inventor, artist or physicist maybe, and surely wife, mother, and perhaps something later on- but no, never a writer. Yet life’s circumstances often demand another path and compel a change in earlier decisions. It was when I was asked to submit a paper for a medical conference in China that I became a writer.
The title of the conference manuscript was Homeopathic Qi Gong, a technique I had come upon when working with my clients. I started tentatively, uncertain of how my subject related to contemporary Chinese Medicine. As I researched background information and tied it to the technique, a peculiar thing began to happen. At the same time I was writing this essay, it seemed that it began writing me.

To this day I have no explanation of my process but it reminded me of the way Michelangelo described making his fifteenth century marble masterpieces. “Carving is easy,” he said. “You just go down to the skin and stop.” In other words, what needed to be created was already there.
In retrospect, this was not the first time ideas took over my pen. After treating an old friend with acupuncture a number of years ago, we got into a deep discussion about the current state of health care in our country. I was so impressed with our shared insights that once she had gone I decided to put them on paper. After writing a few words, thoughts began flooding my brain. I found my pen racing across the paper as I struggled to capture them. Forget about grammar, forget about punctuation, forget about everything I learned in English composition classes-

JUST  GET  THEM  DOWN!
And so the description for The Center for American Energetic Medicine was born, the all-encompassing vision for what was to follow. Everything I have written since describes its progression: the field of energy that is the substrate of our lives; the patterns, rhythms and frequencies of life’s natural forces; their eternal nature; the distortion of the information; how the information can be researched and recouped and finally, how it can be incorporated into contemporary times.

Although I struggled with some of these papers, others flowed from my pen.  And in reading them now I am amazed at their breadth, their eloquence, their elegance and depth. They were composed with a profundity impossible to muster on my own. As years have passed I have finally concluded that it wasn’t me that actually wrote them. Maybe they came from the Earth or maybe even Heaven. Or perhaps their author was the Divine intelligence that permeates us all.

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In ending this prologue I want to remind you that I had no intention of ever writing anything. But when the Holy took me over then I became its tool. And when it is your time the eternal Mystery, or whatever It is, can come through each of you.