Machaelle Small Wright's MAP program!

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Is anyone else familiar with the MAP program? I've worked with it for a couple years and find it to be the most unique, effective healing modality I know. MAP book (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0927978199/qid=1142406195/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-1940115-0558530?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). It's a wonderful program to work for healing on every level. Machaelle Small Wright also wrote "Behaving as If the God in All Life Mattered."

Here's a review I just wrote of the book. I'm happy to answer any questions you have!

I've found MAP to be an incredible, unique, effective method of healing, and a gift to the world. It requires a good degree of open-mindedness to get started, and one of the greatest drawbacks of using MAP is that -- though you may be excited and amazed by what the program does for you -- it may be difficult to talk about with your friends because it truly sounds crazy. I remain skeptical and agnostic about *how* this works. I don't know whether there really is such an entity as the Overlighting Deva of Healing (though I'm fascinated with such questions). I don't know if Machaelle Small Wright's explanation of what happens during the program is, in fact, what's really happening. All I know is that this program has worked and benefited me in a very real, very concrete way, and for me, that's all that matters.

I would have thought this was too weird to think it could possibly work, but when my Reiki teacher told me how it had worked for her, I decided to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. When I first started working with MAP, I thought to myself in amazement, "This is so much more powerful than Reiki ever was for me!" I'm so lucky to have a support system like this.

If I want to share the wonder that is MAP with others -- and I'll only tell those who I think can handle it -- I usually tell them: 1.) I don't know HOW it works; I just know that it does. 2.) Read all the five star reviews on Amazon.com. That will give you an idea how effective this is. The one reviewer who gave it fewer than five stars -- W. Lambdin, who gave it three -- probably already had his (her?) mind made up, and didn't approach it with an open mind. The criticism "Needs other things like the Perelandra essences which are expensive" reveals that this reviewer did not read the book carefully (MSW clearly states several times that flower essences may be helpful but are certainly not necessary). The reviewer's other criticism, that it's too ritualistic, depends on whether you think saying a few words is "ritualistic." Opening a coning simply involves saying the words "I would now like to open a MAP coning." Ritualistic? I don't think so, but I freely admit that it's weird, crazy, insane. It's insane to think that saying a few words could give me such powerful, intense experiences and change my life. And it's sad that people will miss out on the wonders of MAP because, on the surface, it seems so weird.

It's worked for me. That's all I can say.

[ShamanFeather]

The title about the White Brotherhood disturbs me. It makes me think it is racist, but I haven't read the book. Do you know where the title comes from?>

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I know how you feel. I'm not a fan of the term myself. That's yet another reason why I find this book hard to recommend!

If you read any of MSW's other writings, it's clear that there's nothing racist or scary about them. The White Brotherhood is an old occult / theosophic term, used more recently by a lot of New Agers, referring to a group of spiritual beings who take interest in the spiritual development of humanity. Though I think New Age writings on the White Brotherhood are often superficial, their intent is certainly not racist.

Machaelle Small Wright herself isn't really New Age, or even occult, so I don't really understand why she uses the term. She does bring up the issue of feeling uncomfortable with the term. What she says is basically this (partly paraphrased, partly from memory):

White refers to the combination of all colours. Brotherhood refers to kinship. The White Brotherhood contains members who are female, male, and beyond the persuasion of either sex, and when it comes to colour, they can outdo us any day. For those who have objections to the term, this is what I suggest: Try it for at least three months. If you still have objections to the term, ask your team for permission to use a term you feel more comfortable with. You can call them the Purple Peoplehood. The Neutral Androgenyhood. Unless you're way off, I'm sure they'll have no objections.

I'm comfortable with the term now, though I don't like it, and I don't understand why something less controversial isn't used instead. Just the same... Purple Peoplehood *is* a possibility. ;)

[Tanemon]

Is anyone else familiar with the MAP program? I've worked with it for a couple years and find it to be the most unique, effective healing modality I know.
I've heard of it, but don't really know what the basics are.

I've found MAP to be an incredible, unique, effective method of healing, and a gift to the world. It requires a good degree of open-mindedness to get started...

I would have thought this was too weird to think it could possibly work, but when my Reiki teacher told me how it had worked for her, I decided to give it a chance.
And... what did it do for her?

I'm glad I did. When I first started working with MAP, I thought to myself in amazement, "This is so much more powerful than Reiki ever was for me!" I'm so lucky to have a support system like this.
:lol: Moonstone, you're leaving us guessing what it may have done for you, too!

Read all the five star reviews on Amazon.com. That will give you an idea how effective this is. The one reviewer who gave it fewer than five stars -- W. Lambdin, who gave it three -- probably already had his (her?) mind made up, and didn't approach it with an open mind.
Maybe not (re W. Lambdin). Bill (William) Lambdin and I participated in the same Reiki discussion group for about a year. I doubt he's too closed-minded. He's a Qi Gong practitioner, a Reiki master, and a Huna practitioner. So he's widely experienced. It could be that out of the various energy and healing practices that he uses, MAP may not have worked as well for him as it has for you. (Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry... you know. :whatgives )

It's worked for me. That's all I can say.
I have no doubts that it did. But am totally in the dark as to just what it may have done for you. Your post on this is, hmmm, shall we say, a bit vague and abstract?:ballonsmi

:sunny: Tanemon

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And... what did it do for her?

I'm not really sure, actually! I just remember her telling me that it really helped her. Maybe I should ask.

Moonstone, you're leaving us guessing what it may have done for you, too!

Lol.

I've posted here about some of my particular experiences in the past. If you can do a case-sensitive search for MAP (?), you'll probably find them.

Basically, it jumped started the healing process after a traumatic experience. After one particularly intense healing session, in which I felt chills all over my body, I was able to feel hope and joy again for the first time. It wasn't long after I started using MAP that I started feeling emotionally healthy and stable again. It may have been partly a coincidence, but it was a long, hard road for about a year, with healing coming slowly, but when I started using MAP, my issues started resolving themselves right away.

The issues that I bring up in sessions are always resolved (or at least relieved) after sessions, whether they be feelings of rejection, uncertainty about the future, my mind running a million miles an hour, back pain, depression. That's really what it's done for me. Any problem I have... physical, mental, emotional... MAP helps me. I've found it often more immediately relevant than my work with Reiki. Your experience will probably be totally different. It works with the issues *you* need to work on.

It was within a month after I started work with Kundalini that I began experiencing the Kundalini Awakening. I wrote to MSW about this, and the response was: Kundalini Awakening is not a side-effect of MAP in general, but a result of what I specifically needed to work on in sessions.

In the book, there are a lot of examples of what others have gotten out of it.

Maybe not (re W. Lambdin). Bill (William) Lambdin and I participated in the same Reiki discussion group for about a year. I doubt he's too closed-minded. He's a Qi Gong practitioner, a Reiki master, and a Huna practitioner. So he's widely experienced. It could be that out of the various energy and healing practices that he uses, MAP may not have worked as well for him as it has for you. (Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry... you know.

I shouldn't have made that assumption. :) I just wanted to point out the misinformation in his review... and the misinformation led me to wonder whether he really read it that well.

Hope that takes care of the abstraction. Again, any questions, ask away!

[ShamanFeather]

what sort of things is involved in a map session? is it visualization, tapping, mantras, do you you need someone to do it on you? give some general detalis please :)

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I hesitate to give details because the basics are so incredibly simple -- no visualisations, mantras, nothing -- that you probably wouldn't even try it! Again, it takes an open mind, at least until you try it and see how it works for you. Really, it requires lying down (alone) for about 40 minutes or so, saying a few words to open the session, and then talking (out loud or in your mind) to your "team" about the physical/mental/emotional/spiritual issues you're dealing with. The more specific you are about the issues, the better it will work. And that's about it... the therapy itself of going over all your issues is useful, but what happens is a lot more than that.

So, for anyone who wants to try it, I have basic information up on a web page: http://www.freewebs.com/moonstonedreams/coning.html. The book has a lot more information and details.

The first session is a little bit different because it's a scanning session.

Ignore the bit at the bottom of the page called "Other Conings." I was just experimenting with different variations.

[Tanemon]

I hesitate to give details because the basics are so incredibly simple -- no visualisations, mantras, nothing -- that you probably wouldn't even try it! Again, it takes an open mind, at least until you try it and see how it works for you. Really, it requires lying down (alone) for about 40 minutes or so, saying a few words to open the session, and then talking (out loud or in your mind) to your "team" about the physical/mental/emotional/spiritual issues you're dealing with. The more specific you are about the issues, the better it will work. And that's about it... the therapy itself of going over all your issues is useful, but what happens is a lot more than that.



Interesting.

After I'd been into Reiki for a few years, I sort of wandered into a similar practice on my own. The reason seemed to be this: When I first got attuned, some positive changes (mainly emotional) began to occur just as a sheer result of the attunement. Then, along with giving Reiki to people, animals, and plants, I was also doing the self-healing hand positions daily. Quite a number of physical things improved (kidney function, energy level, conjunctivitis cleared up, etc). :smile:

But after a while, the 'easy results' tapered off. So in my attempt to deal with other things that were bothering me, I wandered into something a bit like you're describing.

It is quite possible, though, that there is a better way of going about it than I've discovered on my own. Thanks for putting up the info on your Web site. I'll be checking it out and giving it a go.

:sunny: Tanemon

[dancinghathors]

i've been using map on and off for the last few years. its really helped and it intensifies with the use of flower essences thats for sure!
it wasn't a hard concept for me to wrap my mind around once i read the book.
my only trouble is being contant with calling in my map team. i am working on it and hopefully i'll get better at regular contact.

[Tanemon]

Moonstone Dreams seems to have disappeared. :foh:

I did my first MAP session using the instructions given on his Web site, and sent him a PM about how it went... including a question. No reply. And I think he has not posted here on Mystic Wicks in a few days.

????

:sunny: Tanemon

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i've been using map on and off for the last few years. its really helped and it intensifies with the use of flower essences thats for sure!
it wasn't a hard concept for me to wrap my mind around once i read the book.
my only trouble is being contant with calling in my map team. i am working on it and hopefully i'll get better at regular contact.

Wow. I would have thought using essences would have the opposite effect (making people more able to handle the sessions by making them less intense). Now that I know, I think I will use essences before sessions -- I like them to be intense. :)

Maybe I'm just tired, but I can't figure out what you mean by "contant." Constant? You think that sometimes when you start sessions you aren't connecting?

And I think he has not posted here on Mystic Wicks in a few days.

Yeah, I was having al ovely time in South Carolina!

[Tanemon]

i've been using map on and off for the last few years. its really helped and it intensifies with the use of flower essences thats for sure!
it wasn't a hard concept for me to wrap my mind around once i read the book.
my only trouble is being contant with calling in my map team. i am working on it and hopefully i'll get better at regular contact.

Do you mean that you feel you should be more constant in calling on your MAP team outside of the regular MAP coning session (a session where you lie down for an hour or so and do the whole coning procedure, simple as it may be)?? Do you mean calling on your team at various points during an ordinary day? Please explain. I'm trying to learn... wanting to work with this process. Thanks.

:sunny: Tanemon

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Thanks for the flower essence suggestion, dancinghathors. Like I said, I never thought taking essences would have that much of an effect, but the other night I decided to take Bach Rescue Remedy before a session. It was definitely more intense than I've experienced in a while, and I do think the essences had something to do with it.

I think it did bring up a lot of issues that made me feel like crap for a group full moon ritual the other night. I didn't know why I was feeling that way, but then I remembered the MAP session, and that's probably it. Sometimes things do come up and it takes a while to adjust. If that happens to you, you can always have another session to deal with the unpleasant effects.

Do you mean that you feel you should be more constant in calling on your MAP team outside of the regular MAP coning session (a session where you lie down for an hour or so and do the whole coning procedure, simple as it may be)??

I'd like to know what you mean, too. Sometimes the connection doesn't go through because you're distracted or not concentrating enough, but usually all it takes is requesting the connection again. I've never had a problem with connecting... and I don't really feel the need to work with my team outside of sessions.

[dancinghathors]

Wow. I would have thought using essences would have the opposite effect (making people more able to handle the sessions by making them less intense). Now that I know, I think I will use essences before sessions -- I like them to be intense. :)

Maybe I'm just tired, but I can't figure out what you mean by "contant." Constant? You think that sometimes when you start sessions you aren't connecting?



Yeah, I was having al ovely time in South Carolina!


oopps sorry for the typo, i meant constant, not contant! hehehee.

the use of flower essences makes the healing for me so much more powerful. to me its because the map team consists of devas and nature intelligence and what better form of nature intelligence than flower essences? they hold the vibration of the plants and devas of those plants.
try experimenting with topical application of the essences. for me its a wild ride, but i really resonate with the essences and i've been doing some heavy duty healing work on myself with them.

[dancinghathors]

Do you mean that you feel you should be more constant in calling on your MAP team outside of the regular MAP coning session (a session where you lie down for an hour or so and do the whole coning procedure, simple as it may be)?? Do you mean calling on your team at various points during an ordinary day? Please explain. I'm trying to learn... wanting to work with this process. Thanks.

:sunny: Tanemon

ideally you should be able to have session at least a couple of times a week, for me ideally i'd be doing a session every nite. but because i'm forgetful and have my mind all over the place my sessions tend to be every once in a while.

i was introduced to MAP by a couple who called on them any time they had anything stressful happen, which during the time i knew them was a daily event. it helps to develop your connection and it increases the level of communication.
tell them everything, what activities you've been involved in, any dramas, physical symptoms, your failures and successes, any healing you've done or recieved, any realizations, ideas, experiences and concerns.
treat them like treasured friends who will listen to everything and anything going on with you.
it can take time to really feel things happening for some folks, for others they can feel them and talk/see them quite easily.
for me the sessions are more intense, transformative and powerful if i use flower essences. because of their price it can take a while to collect a good amount of them but they are so worth it.

good luck, and if you have any more questions please don't hesitate to ask.

in light and joy,

dancinghathors

[Tanemon]

I'll mention this in this forum. I already posted about it, for another reason, in two other MW forums...

I'd been working with the MAP coning method. A couple weeks ago, I did my fifth session.

The session lasted between 50 minutes and an hour, and I felt extremely relaxed by the end. I also felt like maybe I wanted to nap for 15 minutes or so after it. So I rolled over on my side, and closed my eyes... and when I did, I saw the most beautiful inner field of color, a deep blue... accompanied by a supremely peaceful and secure feeling.

I was able to think about it and marvel at it, and it just didn't disappear (!). But I couldn't put a lable on the color at the time (other than "blue", which did not seem to do it justice). It was sort of like looking into a deep blue liquid, almost.

A few days later, the color name "indigo" came to mind, though I don't know why it didn't at first. Maybe it's just not a word I use often.

Hasn't happened in later MAP sessions, though I haven't really missed it. It was just a curious thing.

:sunny: Tanemon

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It wasn't long after I started working with MAP that I started developing a really powerful connection to the colour purple. It's probably more connected with the awakening of Kundalini than MAP itself. The colour triggers (and I find it associated with) kundalini / erotic energy. I don't understand it, but wow... purple!

I've found a lot of other people feel the same way about purple... and I can share what they said, if anyone is interested... but I think indigo is a powerful colour too. Maybe it's your colour? How does it make you feel? Maybe it's worth meditating on it... seeing if it has any erotic significance for you... etc.

[dancinghathors]

I'll mention this in this forum. I already posted about it, for another reason, in two other MW forums...

I'd been working with the MAP coning method. A couple weeks ago, I did my fifth session.

The session lasted between 50 minutes and an hour, and I felt extremely relaxed by the end. I also felt like maybe I wanted to nap for 15 minutes or so after it. So I rolled over on my side, and closed my eyes... and when I did, I saw the most beautiful inner field of color, a deep blue... accompanied by a supremely peaceful and secure feeling.

I was able to think about it and marvel at it, and it just didn't disappear (!). But I couldn't put a lable on the color at the time (other than "blue", which did not seem to do it justice). It was sort of like looking into a deep blue liquid, almost.

A few days later, the color name "indigo" came to mind, though I don't know why it didn't at first. Maybe it's just not a word I use often.

Hasn't happened in later MAP sessions, though I haven't really missed it. It was just a curious thing.

:sunny: Tanemon


indigo is a deep healing colour that i have experienced also.
i'm glad you had such a beautiful experience! indigo is also a colour of the rainbow and a colour associated with the brow/ third eye chakra, intuition and mysticism and understanding.
its also a great purifiying energy.

thanks for sharing your experience.

[dancinghathors]

It wasn't long after I started working with MAP that I started developing a really powerful connection to the colour purple. It's probably more connected with the awakening of Kundalini than MAP itself. The colour triggers (and I find it associated with) kundalini / erotic energy. I don't understand it, but wow... purple!

I've found a lot of other people feel the same way about purple... and I can share what they said, if anyone is interested... but I think indigo is a powerful colour too. Maybe it's your colour? How does it make you feel? Maybe it's worth meditating on it... seeing if it has any erotic significance for you... etc.

i would disagree with you about purple having more of kundalini awakening connection than a MAP connection.
In my experience and understanding thru my own spiritual journey i have found that purple/violet is also a colour of the the nature spirits and its also a colour of great healing and transmutation. it helps transform denser energies into that of the light. it is a powerful energy to work with but i do not think that that it is exclusive to kundalini awakening. yes it has that property also.
MAP works wih the connection of nature intelligence of the devas and the angelic rays of the ascended masters.to me purple reflects both of these groups of beings as well as the etheric healing and energies of my own higher self.
purple makes perfect sense to me and i have had that colour come up in many healing sessions, in sweat lodges, in MAP sessions,in ritual, in meditations and trances.
is the kundalini awakening connection there? most definately. it it exclusive to kundalini awakening. i don't believe so. is there a connection to kundalini awakening and nature spirits/intelligence, angelic, higher frequencies? most definately.

in the great connection between all,


dancinghathors.

[Tanemon]

indigo is a deep healing colour that i have experienced also.

i'm glad you had such a beautiful experience! indigo is also a colour of the rainbow and a colour associated with the brow/ third eye chakra, intuition and mysticism and understanding.
its also a great purifiying energy.

thanks for sharing your experience.

I just thought I'd add this...

I was on a Buddhist discussion board, and without my posting anything about my experience or the content of our discussion here about indigo, someone mentioned the Buddhist significance of the color "lapis lazuli". Lapis lazuli (the stone) can come in a number of shades, but when used as a color name it's usually thought of as a deep blue.

When experienced in meditation, apparently, the color is associated with "the Medicine Buddha"... which I was startled to learn. Pleasantly startled. And I suppose that was because the exsperience of a color like that could have been given numerous other interpretations, but this was the one put forward. And it was interesting to me that I eperienced it in a sort of healing meditation situation (or, if not considered a meditation as such, at least the MAP session was a healing experience).

:sunny: Tanemon

[dancinghathors]

well, the medicine buddha is one of the ascended masters that is part of the brotherhood of light that makes up the MAP team.
all of this stuff is connected. the devas, the masters, the healing, the meditation. its all connected.

[Tanemon]

well, the medicine buddha is one of the ascended masters that is part of the brotherhood of light that makes up the MAP team.
all of this stuff is connected. the devas, the masters, the healing, the meditation. its all connected.
Just curious... Given that there is much help available from higher planes of existence, how do you draw on their assistance when doing work with other people (I mean, not self-healing)?

Let's say someone requests your help with a physical issue, and feels the need for fairly rapid response... given the various healing methods you've been working with, what do you tend to go with?

Thanks...

:sunny: Tanemon

[dancinghathors]

i always call in on mine and the person i am working with healing angels, guides and higher selves. i also call in on the devas and angels of healing, as well as the silver violet flame to assist.
when i say call in i mean just that
"I ask for the assistance and guidance and support of {name of angel, master, deity,deva, energy}
when there is physical issues involved i call on the masters, angels, devas, and healers of the light in charge of the specific healing they need.
i tend to call on archangel raphael and the medicine buddha when it comes of rapid healing.
i call on the medicine buddha by saying his mantra
"tayatha om bekandze bekandze maha bekandze radza samungate soha"
i'll chant this in my head while i'm working with the person and i'll see the indigo light of the medicine buddha filling the persons aura and body.

but the thing is i'm not only an energy worker. i am also a reflexologist and i have some training in other forms of bodywork like acupressure, massage, shiatsu and flower essences.
i always combine the energy work and the bodywork together in my sessions and it seems to get good results.
i had a woman come in to one of the student clinics i was part of last winter, who had some fractures in her hand. since i was in clinic and i did not feel comfortable doing anything physical to her hand to help her out i began channelling reiki and i used figure 8's some karuna ki reiki symbols and i scooped out the energy with counter clockwise spirals.
this woman had never had energy work done and she was kinda skeptical about it. when she realized that we were both feeling the rushing water like energy and and that her pain lessened to a great degree, she suddenly found herself questioning her own skepticism.
i combine everything that i know, all the knowledge i have gathered over the last 3 years of my healers journey.
the main thing i have found is that as long as i ask that the session is guided, supported by and assisted by both mine and the recipients higher self, healing guides and angels and that the energy is in harmony and accordance with that persons highest good then everything happens as it should.

i get directed that way to figure out what techniques to use on the person who has come to me for assistance.

and i always remember to thank them for their loving guidance and support. gratitude, respect and love for them keeps the connection to them strong.