Narayan and The Pillar of Light
About 20 years ago, when I was first studying acupuncture, I came across a book by Dr Mikio Sankey called ‘Esoteric Acupuncture’. This was not your average TCM book for tennis elbow or sciatica, but acupuncture that was designed to elevate the spirit and to raise consciousness. It uses the acupuncture points in a slightly different way as it incorporates elements of sacred geometry, that creates patterns on the energy systems that extend outside of the body. Once I was qualified I took a deep dive in to Sankey’s work and practiced dozens of these acupuncture patterns on many a willing volunteer.
One of these volunteers was an old Glastonbury character known as Narayan. He was an extremely energetically-sensitive individual and amongst other things he was an excellent cranial-sacral therapist. This made him an ideal candidate to explore these esoteric patternings with, as he could clearly sense the movements of Qi inside and outside of the body. He would then explain back to me what was happening.
However there was one particular pattern known as ‘The Pillar of Light’ that we could never get to the bottom of. It uses 8 needles around the head in a very particular configuration, but no matter how many times we tried, we couldn’t quite fully understand what it was designed to do.
Anyway, the years went by, and my wife and I had our daughter, who came into the world via a traumatic (for everyone involved) Caesarean-section. Shortly after we took her to see Narayan for a cranial-sacral therapy session. This can be a very beneficial treatment for babies born in this way, as they are not properly squashed and aligned as they come through the vaginal canal. Narayan did his thing and our daughter magically slept through the night from that day forward.
A few years later my son was born, also by C-section. One day I was chatting to Narayan in my old tea shop, whilst I was holding my newly-born in my arms. My son somehow managed to leap out of my arms head-first and into Narayan’s hands, who realised that he was requiring a slight adjustment. He held his head for a few moments, did his magic, and my son slept through the night that night for the first time.
The years continued to go by and unfortunately Narayan contracted lung cancer due to working with asbestos back in the 70s. I continued to give him acupuncture during this time, and occasionally we would revisit The Pillar of Light pattern but sadly we never did quite get to the bottom of it before he died a few years ago.
Anyway, a couple of months back, Narayan came to me in a dream, telling me that I had been doing the Pillar of Light wrong all these years. I’d been doing it whilst the client was lying down, whereas obviously a pillar needs to be upright. Since then I have been performing the pattern whilst the client is sitting in a lotus position or at least with the back upright in a chair, and the results have been spectacular. The configuration, with 4 needles going in a clockwise direction around the head, and 4 needles counter-clockwise, means that a kind of energetic double-helix is formed. There is a simultaneous pulling of Qi upwards from the Earth and downwards from the Heavens that creates this ‘Pillar’ of light.
I could sense a little of what was occurring energetically but to truly understand the pattern I had to experience it myself. So with the help of my psychic friend Hannah, who I’d taught how to gently insert the needles, I got to experience the Pillar of Light in its full upright glory. It feels as though there is an energetic stretching out of the spine that occurs due to the up and down movements of Qi. I likened it to a chiropractic, or indeed a cranial-sacral adjustment.
In fact this was exactly what was happening as Hannah realised that Narayana had entered the room and he was really happy that I had finally managed to get the Pillar of Light right after all these years. He had also come back, in whatever form he could, to perform the energetic realignment that I had needed….for I was also born by C-section nearly 50 years ago and I had never been readjusted at the time.