The Art of Touch

Physical Contact: Human, Animal, Vegetable, Inanimate

To be touched can attract, repel, stimulate, sedate, anger, pacify, hurt, heal ---- or create dozens of other responses.

The nature of each response depends upon several factors: 1) the circumstance and atmosphere at the time the touching occurs; 2) the conditioned consciousness of the person who touches; 3) the conditioned consciousness of the one who is touched.

In your own responses to being touched, you've probably experienced the various extremes of this basic human act. Think for a moment about being touched in a way that aroused your love feelings. Then for a moment consider an occasion on which you felt repulsion at being touched.

The consciousness of the person being touched is the major factor in creating receptivity to touch and the effect it creates. Second in importance is the situation in which the touching occurs, and the atmosphere of the situation. Finally, the consciousness of the person doing the touching affects the inherent quality of the energies transmitted during the act of touching.

Bodies Talk Too

Both touching and being touched can be in an emotional and mental atmosphere of indifference, anger, friendship or love. It can be harmful or healing. But it isn't all emotional or mental.

Bodies, too, have their own form of consciousness.

They speak to one another in their own terms, through subtle energy exchanges. For example, one body may say to another. "The energies now being directed through me (and this can be either consciously or nonconsciously) will help heal the places of pain you are now experiencing." Don't expect any medical school to confirm this. I (Dr. Robert) believe it implicitly.

Go to our store at astara.org and look up Dr. Robert's book "Mysticism ---The Journey Within" For a list of instances of healing touch as well as guidance and insights as you go through your own mystical experiences.