In August 1993, I assisted at a 10-day course
called "The Naexus Intensive". This is the work we used to do before
discovering "Harmonic Accessing",
and Bayard, Crissy, Jaimie and others transformed what we were doing then,
into what it is today.
As an assistant I helped cook, clean, wash,
fold, and any other job that needed doing at the Intensive. This in itself was
instructive because I learned to work in a team environment.
This particular course was a breakthrough for
me because this was the first time I was able to access in an easy and
accurate manner.
On the last day of the course, I was assisting
in the kitchen and helping to prepare a special dinner. We were going to serve
a Turkey Dinner as a treat to all the assistants as a reward for giving a
great course and for all the work they were going to do packing up and
cleaning up the site.
Nancy (the Kitchen Supervisor), gave me a task
as she was leaving for her afternoon nap. I think afternoon naps are crucial
to being productive and being able to produce your best work all day. While
people may laugh and scoff at the idea of a "Siesta", I believe that
there's a lot of value in the concept.
I learned it from the friends I made at these
courses. A nap is always scheduled as part of every course they give. Naps
make a great difference when you're doing the stressful work on yourself and
others that goes on at these courses.
"Al, I want you to make the Turkey
Gravy...", she said.
Now, I'm a pretty good cook. But I had never
made a Turkey, or Turkey Gravy on my own. Spagetti Sauce, yes! Chili, YES!
Turkey Gravy... nope.
"What do I do?", I asked her.
"Put the neck and gizzards into a pot,
cover them twice with water, put some spices in, and simmer it. When you are
done, you can go take your nap.", Nancy said as she started to leave.
"What spices do I use?", I called
after her.
"Anything you want.", she said as
she went out the door.
I sighed, and did what she said. But, I was
worried about what kind of spices I would put in the gravy.
Now, earlier that week two of the teachers
(Carolina and Susan) spent over an hour removing everything in my way of being
able to connect to God, and access the Harmonic.
For months I had struggled to get accurate
answers and I tried and tried, but never got any real accuracy. I wish we had
then, what we have now on our web site (www.wayimmune.org). If I could have
done the Connection Study back then, I'd have gotten to this place in 15
minutes rather than 3 months..
All week, I was accessing like there was no
tomorrow. It was like the floodgates had opened, and all this information was
coming into my consciousness. It was dizzying to me how easy it was to get
this information.
In my best passive-aggressive mode, I decided
to use accessing to make the gravy.
I had been dragged kicking and
screaming into this new world of information. When Bayard, Crissy and others
discovered this, I didn't believe it. I couldn't. It didn't make sense to my
rational, scientific mind.
But, after spending a weekend
with Bayard, we found I already was accessing and had been for years, I just
hadn't been calling it that. I was using this in my Computer work, in School,
and in many other places. But without the training and practice I would get by
continuing to work with Bayard, my accuracy was "hit and miss".
Sometimes I would access
correctly, other times I wouldn't. I had no way to know which was which. Now I
did.
Behind me, on a two-tiered table were all the
spices and condiments used for cooking at the course. I started to go down the
row of spices, looking at each and asking if using this spice/condiment would
be good in this gravy.
There were all sorts of things there, like
cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, honey, chili pepper, mint leaves, and more. Some
of these would have made the gravy totally inedible. There were probably about
40 or more different jars and containers of things to choose from.
When I was done testing, I had selected the
following spices:
- Garlic Powder
- Cayenne Pepper
- Bay Leaf
- Cardamom
- Thyme
I was pretty happy with the fact that while
some of these were items I would not normally choose to season a gravy. None
of the items were obviously out of whack, like Molasses, or Cinnamon might
have been.
Pretty well satisfied with the selection, I
then used accessing to determine how much of each to add. I put in a little
and asked if this was enough. When my fingers blew with a "Yes", I
stopped.
I stirred the pot, set it simmering. Put the
lid on it, and left for my nap. I basically had my fingers crossed and hoped I
hadn't ruined dinner for 15 hard-working assistants and teachers.
I got up from my nap, showered and headed over
to the kitchen to see how I did.
When I got there, Nancy was sitting on a stool
noisily slurping something up from a bowl.
"Did you make the turkey gravy?",
she asked me.
My heart hit my sneakers, as I waited to hear
how bad it was..
"It's GREAT! This is the best Turkey
Gravy I've ever had!", she said.
I was literally floored. I went over to the
pot, grabbed a spoon and tasted it for myself.
It really was good. I was simply floored with
how I got such a great result with a lot of work by simply trusting God and
doing what he instructed me to do. I never in my life (up to this point)
thought it could be so easy.
My only regret was that I didn't make more, as
people ate it up and it was gone pretty quickly at dinner.
I got to bask in the glow as I lived one of my
dreams, when people came up to me and told me how much they loved my cooking.
This was the first of numerous times I was
able to live the life I always wanted by trusting God and using the gift he
gave us to heal ourselves, and make our lives easier.
