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Mirta’s Miracle -
A Journey of Undying Courage, Near Death and A Mother's Love
by Ellen Louise Kahne
August
9, 1996 is a date forever encircled in golden memory on my healer’s calendar.
It was Mirta’s first day of her Reiki Master level workshop. After
class, she related privately the miracle of her survival, her spiritual
journey and her deep need to forgive one closest to her. Throughout that
night and the next day of class, I prayed for guidance to heal and teach
this extraordinary woman with care, love and perception. I sent Reiki
distant healing to the past to heal the cause of pain within her.
As I invoked the Master
level attunement which gave Mirta the empowerment to teach Reiki and the
perspective to forgive her father and heal the past, I prayed for all
personal ego to dissolve, for the strength to serve as a pure conduit
and emissary of universal (unconditional) love and G-d’s peace.
All prayers were answered as specific frequencies of spiritual light flowed
from Universal field through our linked energy systems. Reiki poured
like pure water through a transparent straw for her complete healing.
Mirta perceived the energies as “Mother Mary,” and a beautiful golden
angel of light. As she was bathed in spiritual healing energies,
Mirta was able (finally) to forgive her father and make peace with the
tumultuous events which had shaped her destiny.
Reiki is laying on of hands
(spiritual) healing which originated in nineteenth century Japan and is
a virtual “time machine” to send distant healing to any issue or area
in a person or for a situation. Reiki is easily learned and quickly
transmitted through an attunement process. Spiritual initiations
(Reiki attunements) are guided by the same energy which keeps us in life
and empowers us--the energy of Creation or Higher Power. Reiki healing
has been open and available to people of all faiths, backgrounds and cultures,
since it was brought to the west (Hawaii) in the 1930s.
Mirta was a survivor of
Argentina’s “Dirty Wars.” During this tragic period of Argentine history
(1976-1983), over 30,000 people were arrested, accused, tortured, and
secretly exterminated (“disappeared”) as political dissidents without
trial. She survived persecution miraculously. After drifting
in and out of coma for over a year, it took many years for Mirta to completely
reclaim her spirit from the traumatic events which she witnessed and from
immersion in that dark time.
Years later, Mirta was married
briefly and gave birth to a beautiful son, Alexander, who became the light
of her extraordinary life. She moved to the U.S., and took sole
responsibility for her personal healing and raising her beloved son. In
time, Mirta studied many alternative healing arts and became an interfaith
minister.
Mirta delighted in Alex's
accomplishments and was looking forward to his return from college in
April of 1998, when he was critically injured in an automobile accident.
Afterwards, only the thinnest thread of life and his mother’s love and
deep faith sustained him in his struggle to survive. Doctors told
Mirta that Alex was near death or he would be severely brain damaged,
if he survived. He was deep in coma for months.
Reiki Peace Network’s worldwide
voluntary healing circle was immediately engaged to pray and send distant
healing to Alexander. Healers sent hours of focused distant healing
over the next days, weeks and months, for Alex’s recovery. Mirta
remarked, “all prayers and the like, as angels of G-d on earth...all truly
wishing to intercede, asking for a miracle to take place--all works of
love reach those who work in the light, for the light. All those
prayers get to G-d and are answered.”
Months after the accident,
40 pounds lighter, paralyzed and tethered to tubes as his oxygen levels
remained well below normal, having lost sensory perception, Alex was still
alive. A Catholic priest asked permission to pray and to anoint
Alex, as a social worker embraced Mirta and told her "it is time
to let go." In coma, Alex raised a finger moving it to the
left and right, indicating "no."
Mirta was reminded, "Miracles
happen all the way, God doesn't do miracles half way, believe, and it
will happen, ask and it shall be given to you". As a nurse
entered Alex's room with a wheel chair, Mirta told Alex “if you want to
walk, we will get rid of the wheel chair, if you agree, press my finger.”
Alex strained for hours to press against Mirta’s hand, until he succeeded.
Mirta removed the wheel chair and asked the nurses not to bring it back.
For days, she repeated to Alex “if you want to walk, try...feel your body
and move. I am here, use my hand (for support).” Mirta held a sacred
space for Alex’s healing, without telling him what the doctors had insisted
he could never do.
Mirta related “above all,
Alex is the hero of his own life. He WANTED to live (and) as his soul
asked, his body received. He is aware that he was given a second chance
and honors every minute of his life!”
After five difficult years
of recovery, Alexander enjoys a vigorous, happy life. He has a 3.7
cumulative grade average and will soon graduate from college. He
is a healer (a “light worker”), and has been ordained. Alex has
served as an emergency worker in areas of Latin America devastated by
natural disasters and he is (almost) engaged to be married.
Mirta and Alex have endured
and survived enormous trials of body, mind and spirit, near death experiences,
which most of us could never imagine in the context of our lives.
Mirta’s path of forgiveness shines as a golden message of hope to all
who are stuck in old patterns of bitterness, fear and betrayal.
True healing can be forged from the darkest hours of our lives, by personal
choice, by recognition of all that is holy within and around us--by trusting
in that which is Eternal--by letting go of all else that holds us back.
Ellen Louise Kahne is the
founder of Reiki University™ and Reiki Peace Network® and the New York
State Healer’s Empowerment Coalition. This article first appeared
in To Your Health Magazine, April/May, 2003 issue. For more information
on Reiki healing, see www.ReikiPeaceNetwork.com
email: HealNet@aol.com or phone: 1-877-HealNet (877-432-5638)
© Ellen Louise Kahne