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A
Healer's Legacy
By Dr.
Fernan Poulin
When I was growing up, there was this undercurrent of mystery about
my grandmother. She was quiet, loving, with a presence that felt
mystical as if she lived a divine existence. A devout Catholic, she
was constantly in prayer.
On occasion I overheard brief conversations about my grandparents'
ability to heal; a phenomenon that was kept quiet. The gift they had
for stopping hemorrhaging was called in French “le Don de Dieux,”
translated as “the Gift from God.” They would enter
their bedroom and engage in prayers that would successfully heal people
from various bleeding injuries. Heavy bleeding would stop within minutes.
My grandfather passed away before I was born. My grandmother continued
the legacy until her death, just as I was turning twenty-four. She had
mentioned to one of her daughters that the Gift would be transmitted
to a male, one generation down.
Soon after her death, she appeared in a dream and spoke to me of the
Gift. She explained that in order to develop this Gift, I had to be
discerning and seek training to protect my spirit from fragmenting.
She said, “There will be shamans, medicine people and healers from
various parts of the world who will come into your life and deliver
knowledge and practices that will enable and deepen your development
as a spiritual healer.” Being twenty-four years old and pursuing
an artist's career, I was terrified of the responsibility of carrying
such a legacy and angrily refused her transmission of this healing lineage.
The next day I met with a friend. Midway through our conversation, I
began to feel an unusual shaking along my spine. I felt cold and hot
fluid moving up my back and my sacrum was vibrating like the rattle
of a snake. I began to feel terror as this involuntary undulating movement
made its way up my spine and into my head. Increasing in amplitude it
caused my body to heat up quickly and stream with sweat.
While my pelvis and spine were moving out of control, my sight became
altered. I was seeing neon-like columns of light with colors I had never
seen before. My range of vision expanded as I began to see activities
that were not of this dimension. All my senses were altered. My body
became exhausted from this out of normal behavior and I finally drifted
into a deep sleep. However, while I was supposedly sleeping, I was consciously
travelling inside my body as a luminescent ball of energy. I was visiting
my organs, flowing through my circulating blood and riding the electrical
pulses of my nervous system.
The next morning I awoke realizing a life-changing event had occurred.
I no longer needed prescription glasses. My sight was clear, in fact,
extraordinarily clear. I could see a glow around all vegetation. My
body felt very peaceful, my mind calm and focused. Was last night's
strange episode considered a psychotic break, or was it the beginning
of my ancestry's spiritual influence on my soul's destiny to
fulfill its calling, by continuing the healing legacy?
As my grandmother assuringly foretold, during these past twenty-four
years I have met and trained with shamans, medicine people and healers
from all walks of life. I apprenticed four years with Reverend Rosalyn
Bruyere, with whom I studied the philosophies and healing arts of ancient
mystery schools while developing my abilities to perceive the unseen
worlds.
In the beginning of my initiation into healing, I was psychologically
immature and unprepared to responsibly carry out an authentic relationship
with my Soul. I was invested in how I came across with my “performance”
as a healer, which left me fragmented and disconnected from my soul.
The danger forewarned by my grandmother in the dream was the peril of
falling into the shadow side of the gift, to which my grandfather had
fallen hostage as eventually did I: alcoholism. In fact, he died from
pneumonia and alcoholism.
The shame and embarrassment around the misuse of my potential left me
convinced that I betrayed my lineage and could no longer carry the torch.
However, through intense therapy, recovery and life coaching, my psychic
structure began to melt as I committed to the life that wants to live
through me with integrity.
The teachings of the spirit world combined with compassionate life companions
have taught me the importance of human development as a gateway to spiritual
unfoldment. At the heart of my childhood wounds and my human adult needs
is where I found my natural gift: to see and listen into the soul's
messages. I have learned that the Healer provides a forum for a listening
that allows the soul to reconnect with its passion.
I often missed my grandparents throughout the process of my becoming
a spiritual healer. Just this past year, they have both made themselves
available to me in spirit as they show up in my healing sessions, praying
for my patients' healing. I guess I can now say that life in all
its mystery is my true spiritual trainer.
Dr.
Fernan Poulin incorporates Energy Medicine into his spinal care practice,
spiritual coaching and teaching. For information on healing sessions,
classes, and his Chakra Meditation CD, contact him at 770.998.8909
or drpoulin@joimail.com
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