Remembering There is a Human in Every Healer

Several years ago there was a book that was recommended to me about healthy masculinity. I was diving into the early stages of understanding the difference between “men’s work” and “women’s work”, and a friend of mine said that this book was a must-read. I resonated with much of what was in the book, but then at one point, I hit this chapter where it felt like everything had changed. The way the words *felt* had changed. All of a sudden, I could feel an undercurrent of predatory energy that overshadowed everything else that was to be said in the book. It was as if the deeper layers of the author were being revealed. From that chapter on, the book held an entirely different energy and it was clear that none of the other information included was to be taken in (by me). The remaining information had been colored or filtered by this predatory energy I was picking up on. It was only recently that I met other people who knew this author personally and confirmed what I had felt about this aspect of his energy. Turns out that in the human world, he wasn’t a very good person even though much the information he channeled was solid. The predatory energy that he carried in his day-to-day (stemming from human-based shadow) had tainted some of the information wanting to flow through him.

This was the first time I was confronted with the lesson about the human-ness of healers. I was learning about how you can be a healer, and you can channel deep and profound information for the collective, but at the end of the day, you are still human. You are…