Love and Light Healing: Karangasem, Bali

By Barrie | March 14th, 2007 | No Comments

In what could be described as an event of biblical proportions, hundreds of Abian Tiing villagers in Bali’s Karangasem highlands recently flocked to their community hall for a mass healing meditation.

The lame, the blind and the diseased of this farming community were seeking miracles when more than 20 faith healers from Denpasar’s Giri Kusuma Foundation traveled to the village for a communal healing one Sunday as Trisha Sertori reports.

The healers used a technique called Love and Light, believed to have been passed down from the lost city of Atlantis.

Giri Kusuma founder Ida Bagus Argawana says the technique is almost miraculous in its ability to heal people without medicines, citing three other villages in Bali that have achieved impressive results through the meditation, evident in the improved health of villagers.

“It is like a miracle. We are healing without medicine. It’s a miracle they (the villagers) get better and better,” said

Argawana, adding that village heads gave Giri Kusuma regular updates on improvements in the health of villagers who participated in the organization’s healing meditation.

Giri Kusuma Foundation was established in 2001 by Argawana, a master teacher and Brahmin, to make available the Love and Light healing technique.

The technique is similar to Reiki, but far in advance of that system, according to Argawana, who has practiced Love and Light healing for 17 years.

“This healing technique was developed in Atlantis thousands of years ago. It then traveled to Tibet and was lost for centuries. It is the application of Mahatma energy that comes from God — the universal energy that we can tap into and channel into healing people,” he said.

As in many Eastern traditional treatments, Giri Kusuma’s Love and Light meditation works on opening and freeing the body’s chakras, or energy points, in the same way as acupuncture.

“The opening of the chakras … is quite similar to some Chinese healing where the blood circulation is stimulated using needles, which in turn opens the chakras, but we do it with energy from God in a similar way to Reiki,” said Argawana.

He added that while Reiki can open seven chakras, Love and Light opens 12 to 16 chakras in patients, and master practitioners can open the body’s total of 352 chakras.

“Opening all the body’s chakras must be done very, very slowly and certainly not everyone would ever do that,” said Argawana.

As with many traditional therapies and remedies, the healing meditation works well with modern medicine.

“Certainly people can apply this healing with modern medicine. Because it is working on the energy lines in people, it means that medicines are going to be more effective, so it’s attacking diseases on two levels,” said Argawana.

But for the villagers of Abian Tiing, why the system works is unimportant; the overriding emotion of the day is the hope these healers bring into their lives.

This hope is bound up with the despair of suffering from incurable diseases such as arthritis that normally respond well only to expensive medicines, which are often far out of the financial reach of residents of this farming community.

The village includes farmers like 60-year-old Nyoman Pada, who has arthritis and suffers constant dizziness, and 80-year-old Ketut Dedun, who also has arthritis and is losing his sight to cataracts.

Then there is middle-aged Nyoman Pagah, who suffers psoriasis of the feet and is in constant pain due to the open wounds caused by the rare skin disease.

“I have been to the doctor many times and taken tablets and creams, but nothing works. The skin cracks open and my feet bleed,” said Pagah. “I have been taking tablets for four months now, but my feet are no better. I hope I will get well today.”

Nyoman Rai, 60, also said she was desperate for relief — from the asthma that has dogged her for the past decade. She hoped to receive some medicine during the communal healing, but said she was happy with meditation, believing it would give her some relief.

Another patient is a nine-year-old girl with diabetes. She looks nervous and afraid as her mother leads her to a young healer, who gently coaxes the girl to relax and begin the healing meditation with him. The healer speaks with her like he is talking to a favorite niece with a tummy ache. Later, during the meditation, his hands shake with energy and concentration while the girl, eyes closed, prays for a cure.

Perhaps the miracle of this healing mediation is the gentleness of interaction as the healers draw out the health problems of their patients.

This “counseling” is freely given and a technique anyone can learn, said Argawana.

“We are not allowed to charge for this. We come to the villages to help in their healing, and that is something we can give (in our role) as healing channels from God,” he said.

For more information, contact the Giri Kusuma Foundation on 0811398001