Thomasville Pharmacist Travels the World to Study Healing Methods
By Tina Firesheets | Staff Writer - Greensboro News & Record Sunday, Mar. 9, 2008 3:00 am
The shaman started the ceremony with a blessing.
Reciting a prayer in his Andean dialect, he made the sign of the cross with his hand. Thomasville native Amy Greeson stood before him, unafraid. She traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and below the equator for this experience.
The shaman placed rose petals into the palm of his hand, then mixed them with oil. He dipped his index finger into the mixture, then made the sign of the cross on her forehead.
Finally, he blew smoke from a cigarette several times into the crown of Greeson's head. Some call this area the "crown chakra," and it's believed to be the body's energy center.
His breath felt warm against Greeson's scalp. Her body felt light; her spirit peaceful.
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Affiliations
Healing Education Foundation
Healing Education Foundation is devoted to educating the public about the many medical practices around the world, additionally highlighting the discoveries of the Healing Seekers and Natural Discoveries teams. Our education format will include a comprehensive website complete with video, podcasts and other interactive tools to share information about indigenous culture, their medical practices, sustainable environmental conservation practices, and the interconnectedness of all life forms. Future plans also include the production of live interactive multimedia projects that will connect classrooms to our research adventure in "real" time.
Natural Discoveries, Inc.
Natural Discoveries' mission is to work with indigenous communities and healers to investigate the efficacy of their traditional medical therapies. With their permission, we will work together to develop sustainable relationships of reciprocity, where communities will be empowered and the health of all communities improved.
Healing Seekers is a project of Inquiring Systems, Inc. (ISI). ISI is a California nonprofit 501(c)(3) Corporation, founded in 1978.
News: Healing Seekers Announces Collaboration With California Ecosystem Management Organization
Healing Seekers Announces Collaboration With California Ecosystem Management Organization
01-02-2009 (from Carolina Newswire)
High Point, NC — Healing Seekers LLC, a multimedia project that promotes awareness of traditional medicinal therapies and explores their potential for present-day treatments, has entered into a collaboration with Inquiring Systems Inc., a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) corporation in Sonoma, Calif. Inquiring Systems provides ethical and sustainable ecosystem management services to nonprofit organizations, community-based projects, selected value-driven for-profit entities, government agencies and supported projects throughout the world.
Under the collaboration, Inquiring Systems will serve as an agent for business management and financial development activities to enable and sustain project activity by Healing Seekers LLC as it explores, discovers and aids in awareness and application of diverse healing and medical traditions.
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