Flower and Vibrational Essences

This is the name applied to many water-based healing remedies which contain the bottled vibrational qualities of the mineral, plant, or other energy named. Essences are different from tinctures in that tinctures contain the infused substance rendered in alcohol (etc.) and water, while essences may not contain the plant itself, but its vibrational qualities given thru a process of communion.

Essences are made with love and communion, and may be helpful in addressing a variety of emotional, spiritual, psychic, and even physical disorders that results in imbalance. Essences identify the imbalance and in their structuring of water, re-impart the balance the body needs to adjust back into healthy balance.

Flower essences are the highest intentions of the plants for humanity and other living creatures. They were first "discovered" by Dr. Edward Bach in England, in the mid-1900's. Dr. Bach was a medical doctor and a sensitive, someone who was sensitized to his surroundings and the condition of others. He first explored flower essences, which included trees and other non-flowering plants through feeling their energy. He then created infusions of the plants in full sunlight. An infusion entails picking the blossoms, floating them in a glass bowl of distilled water, then draining and straining the water. Often this is fixed with up to 50% alcohol such as unflavored brandy, so that nothing additional grows in it over time destroying its purity.

Bach flower remedies are the oldest of the Vibrational Remedies and continue to be popular and effective to this day. The most common is a blend or "bouquet" called Rescue Remedy. He essenced 36 plants that grew near where he lived in England and considered this a complete work. Beginning in the 1970's there was an explosion of interest in "VibeRems", starting with Perelandra (which was linked strongly with devic communion) and on, including gem elixirs, star elixirs and environmental essences (those of places and events). An essence of anything but a flower essence should be called a "Vibrational Remedy" but for the sake of this book we shall call them all flower essences.

All traditions begin with a radical departure from the past, sparked by a visionary, which over time becomes the accepted standard, which then becomes XXX. The infusion method that Dr. Bach practiced is only one step removed from making a tincture and entails killing the flower to extract its life force. Over time and through devic communion, some of the more radical flower essence practitioners have departed from this method to the "no pick method", in which a bottle is left next to the plant, after using a pendulum or intuitive contact, to access the plant's highest vibrational essence for use with other living beings,

Even more radical methods are now being utilized. Some of the more visionary intuitives believe that sunlight isn't necessary and the most radical methods include "jumping the bottle, in which 2 bottles are set next to each other rather than directly mixed and the essence floats vibrationally from one to another, ending equally in both. There is "beaming" in which an essence is telepathically transmitted over time and space for a variety of reasons.

The more conservative vibrational practitioners who are either long-term adherents to this art and learned Dr. Bach's method, or those who learned from books from the traditional practitioners, do not respect these radical methods. It is my belief that human minds imprint and fix knowledge according to the time and place that they were first exposed to it. So traditional practitioners are comfortable with the methods as they learned it, yet evolution occurs. This gets into the ongoing controversy of whether revelation occurs once or is ongoing. This book is for humans who believe that all things, including revelation, intuition and rituals can and are evolving.

The veil that separates the known and unknown is thin and becomes thinner, and I believe it becomes increasingly easier to access the unseen worlds. Therefore science becomes more intuitive and revelation is ongoing and increasingly more available. This means that shamanic and intuitive arts continue to evolve and always, the radical methods are judged, ostracized, then reconsidered and eventually accepted as commonplace, then displaced thru new revelation. Everything has a life cycle that evolves. The teachings of great Masters reflect this,

Flower Essences are now widely used for a variety of intentions. It is believed that the physical attributes contained in the direct eating of its flesh and in tinctures, salves, etc. of a plant are useful in addressing the physical symptoms and the physical body. Flower Essences are made fir the emotions, mental states and etheric patterning. It may be more useful to apply St. John's Wort tincture on a sore elbow than to take the essence, but the essence of something appropriate (i.e., Cyanolthes for see-and-know-this) may attune you to why energy has coalesced in your elbow and attracted the injury in the first place.

This too is evolving over time as the link between the seen and unseen world becomes more translucent. Sometimes the same plat that can be physically administered for one effect has a related homeopathic effect in the vibrational form - Opium essence to address heroin addixion and aid in the recovery process for example.

I used to grow Valerian as a cash crop for herbal tinctures. Valerian is the herb that is synthesized or "XXX" chemically to produce XXX, a muscle relaxant and stress relief aid. Years later I had a neighbor's cat who was obsessed with abusing our cat, his brother, We caught this cat and administered Valerian essence on his forehead (more than once) and he stopped this pattern - he relaxed. Since we didn't orally administer the essence, which contained only a few drops of pure Valerian essence, a case cannot be made that the alcohol or Valerian in the physical form made the difference.

The effect is this:

The overlighting Angel or Deva or governing entity of that plant reminds the spirit of the recipient what realignment feels like. In this case, the cat was out of balance, and Valerian said, "chill out" and its essence demonstrated a method for calming his energy. Some of us are more responsive than others. Some of us have more work to do than other, and some are more fixated in a condition than others or even more predisposed to certain patterns and that is part of who we are at any given moment.

My Flower Essence teacher, Ouapiti Robintree of Hummingbird Essences, tells a story about a student of hers who divorced a man, partly because of his alcoholism. But she left her "mothers" (master remedies fixed with 50% brandy) when she left him and sought to retrieve them one year later, only to discover her ex-husband had drank them all- which cured his addixion. Whatever he took addressed the root cause.

Ouapiti, tells of another student who would find various flowers and declare "It's about SEX", and be particularly interested in creating essences that were for this often all-encompassing aspect of life. As Susan XXX pointed out all flower (as opposed to Vibrational) essences are about sex, since flowers contain the sexual organs of the plant. This is one of the reasons this subject comes up so frequently in my channeling. But the flower essences are not just about sex and other essences, such as other plants and environmental or star elixirs, are about everything imaginable and then more.

A person will be attracted to a certain plant or other living form according to their own needs and desires. They will gravitate towards certain ones and be ambivalent or not observant of others until the need or desire occurs.

This need or desire aspect is a very important key. Usually what we need is not what we desire. We may feel a "need" for chocolate or caffeine, but the desire is for love or stimulation or excitement. A desire for chocolate is really a desire to be loved, for example. So our tendency is to seek out the essences that we desire and only in more extreme emergencies or, as a result of intense self-discipline do we seek out what we need. So the womyn looking for the flowers having to do with sex, is really looking to satisfy a deeper need for completion and union thru love and excitement. In this regard, often a person will desire the most dramatic or interesting essences, when they really need the opposite. Perhaps this is why a pendulum, muscle testing, blind choice or an uninterested party should select their essence. With few exceptions a person selecting essences for a loved one will choose what they desire for their beloved and not necessarily what that person needs. This is in itself a reading.

And if you are anything like me, you will want to take the very essences that already give you more of what you desire rather than what balances your tendencies. A typical example includes white light - high vibrational new age people who choose essences or crystals to further open their 7th or XXX chakras when perhaps they really need something to root them in their first chakra with earth. Or the flip side - those mentally based well rooted folx who don't wish to use crystals or essences in fear that it will make them ungrounded. Essences are for realignment with the perfect balance of intent. They were created by the intentions of the Most High thru the Devas to facilitate planetary evolution thru re-alignment. This is a cooperative enterprise freely given . The Devas want to be of service. Each plant or other energy has a signature specific to itself and can only be approximated by something else. Sally is sort of like Sue but they are not the same. In this regard the preservation / or at least the lack of annihilation of any species of anything is essential because their use in the physical template disappears. This is the underlying argument concerning preservation of sacred space and all that grows there. Every environment contains energies and entities specific to that which can be approximated but not duplicated by anything else. This is important and is also the basis for your own existence. No one else can be you no matter how hard they try.

In the beginning of the chapter the importance of each individual signature was discussed. It is estimated that six thousand species f plants disappear daily from the physical realm. It can be argued philosophically that even these have a life cycle and evolution occurs; we don't need to preserve everything. But we should not eradicate what we don't understand which is the basis for the outrage regarding one culture (i.e., White European Christians) seeking to eradicate native cultures they encountered since these were "ignorant". Ignorance comes from the root "I know" as in "I have the complete truths already, my mind is made up." It is hard to learn anything when you are already full. But we as individuals don't need to know, understand or be all things, just have awareness that our Universe is a subset of a greater universe which is a subset of a something even greater than that we may never realize or need to.

With flower and other Vibrational Essences, all things can be accessed with greater ease. They are ways to "fast forward" our awareness and evolution and that is why they exist.

Before the beginning of recorded time, all things were created from an ethereal template and were given a holographic pattern or signature according to its vibrations. This can be seen or sensed intuitively, as in the Berlin photograph of a leaf and a leaf cut in half which shows the "ghost" of the other half. Everything is true to its own vibration but often gets muddles or neglected due to its interaction with other vibrations. Nothing physical exists in this pure realm, form is an intermediary by which we can cognize the essence. This concept is very important but even this disruption slows down reality to a rate which our conscious mind can then understand.

Healing occurs by reintegration with the etheric template by the realignment with pure essence. We take flower essences to realign with something we've forgotten due to life somehow, We don't need the physical plant or even its vibrational essence, but these are aids to fast-forward our memory with the essence of unity with our own being. If you are truly aligned with unity you don't need sex or essences for sex. Life itself may be about remembering the unity of all things.

Flower Essences are created either thru infusion or intention. There are 3 levels or forms of these similar to homeopathic remedies. These are the Mother, which is usually the original full essence created with distilled water and fixed with alcohol or perhaps vinegar - something to deter growths of microorganisms or other non-specific matter. Usually between 4-7 drops of this is placed into an ounce of distilled water and alcohol (etc.) in a non-clear (brown or blue) glass container. This is called a Stock, and from this, practitioners put 4-7 drops of the stock into purified water (no alcohol necessary) to make a dose bottle. A person could also put a few drops of the stock into drinking water, bath, etc. for vibrational effect.

Yes, you could dose your intended lover with extremely sensual essences such as Darlington, Naked Lady, Jasmine, Blackberry, etc. but that would be Magic and if there is will, there is karma. Or even better how about putting Thimbleberry, for Devic communion, in your scientific left-brain friend's drinking water for a month (I didn't tell you to do this and am not responsible for your karma).

HOW TO MAKE A VIBRATIONAL ESSENCE

1. Listen to the environment for messages.
2. Usually, one or more plants (etc.) will ask to be essenced.
3. Sometimes a pendulum is used for clarification. Usually the plants are shouting to be done in responding.
4. Ask which one is to be essenced. Bigger is not necessarily better or stronger, but it is important. A large tree and a small tree have the same Deva.
5. Gift the plant. Typically with tobacco, sometimes with sage, a penny, a song, hair, etc.
6. Place bottle as close as possible to the vibration you intend to capture.
7. I used to open the bottle. We've been told it's no longer necessary. This is controversial to some.
8. Listen for messages, write them down (if you are visual, draw a picture, etc.)
9. Listen for intenxion from the plant life i.e. go away, stick around, done in 20 minutes, come back tomorrow, essence this other plant
10. Determine by message intention or pendulum when it is done.
11. Thank the plant.
12. Listen for other messages i.e. wait until the fall before using.

Another Mother Essence is made!

Some I use constantly, some never, some like Peyote (which I did not make) are not to be used until a certain time of the evolution in the planet but need to be bottled or brought in a certain time / space signature. Logic does not apply here. What happens here is a magical experience which can give lots of information and understanding far beyond our rational knowing or ability to convey.

Flower Essence creation is about communication, learning and remembering. Good fortune in your journey!