Concentrate: Emo-tent-ion Rather than Intention Brings the Healing Intervention

The late Brazilian healer, João Fernandes de Carvalho, came to Brad in a dream and brought the Guild a teaching:

We were sent to a churrascaria (barbecue steakhouse) in Brazil. There we met João who was grilling picanha, the Brazilian cut of beef that is cooked over an open fire. After he charred it, he threw it in an iron frying pan with many cut garlic cloves to create a special debris gravy. Smiling, he served us the meat sitting on top of the garlic debris that had been poured all over the plate as a base. Then he spoke:

“I am giving you the meat and sauce that you need to deepen your mission. Please enjoy. I have prayed for you and it is time for Sacred Ecstatics to venture further into mystery.”

We both felt it was the best tasting meat and sauce we had ever eaten. After we finished this stunning meal, João gave us a teaching:

Your mission is to please God, not satisfy human taste. When you cook for others, also remember to serve God and be not swayed by anyone else’s preferred flavors or dietary habits. As the meat is doubly cooked, both grilled and fried, the base emotion must be made to perfection. Don’t throw away the debris. Instead, mix it with as much garlic as you can get in the pan. Pour the gravy and then lay the meat on it. This is the art of spiritual cooking and serving the meat. In the char, the juice, and the gravy blend of debris and garlic, everything is maximally concentrated—it’s cooked to the optimal point. Not too much and not too little of this or that.

Though he seemed to be talking about the way he cooked in the churrascaria, we understood João was using meat as a metaphor or “meataphor” for the spiritual cooking of Sacred Ecstatics.

Emo-tent-ion

When he said the word “concentrated,” we also knew that this was the vital secret to his powerful means of accessing holy mystery. He never took his mind or body senses off the main line to God. Over the years, his healing work became more and more concentrated. He started with medicinal prescriptions, moved to spiritual prescriptions, then water blessed by prayer, and finally super-saturated prayer alone. No matter the form in which his intervention appeared, there was definitely an outer char, inner juice, and a sublime sauce of sacred emotion.

João continued with his teaching:

“Concentration is the least understood part of spiritual cooking. This involves far more than “setting an intention.” It is more an emotion than a thought, what you have called “pouring the base emotion.” Perhaps you should call this an emo-tent-ion rather than an intention. This change may help bring back the tent of emotion that must be the container for all spiritual work. Pour the emotion to prepare the ground and then let it envelop you as the tent of emotion, your emo-tent-ion.”

As he said this, we remembered some conversations with the Kalahari Bushmen doctors (n/om-kxaosi). We discussed with them how to send a communication to another person via the numinous ropes. To an outside observer this may sound like telepathy—thought transference without speech. But to the n/om-kxao it is transmission of a concentrated emotion.

This is emo-tent-ion rather than intention. The latter is missing the needed tension, the amplified compacted emotion, and the body contraction behind the spontaneous release of n/om communication. This kind of excitement is aroused by n/om (a blend of emotion-song and vibration) rather than trickster fantasy and desire. N/om is the cooking fire of the spiritual churrascaria.

João recognized that we had caught his teaching. He continued:

“It is not sufficient to set a mental intention or announce a noble purpose. You must set up the right kind of emotion. Only hoping or believing that healing can be done is not enough. You must feel a close and intimate relationship with God and then hand everything over to higher hands. Anything less will fall short of cooking the right char, juice, and gravy.”

We immediately realized how there are two kinds of intention—one is completely mental, psychological, and purposefully willful while the other is more whole bodied, felt, and involves deeper communion with Thee. We recalled how Edgar Cayce prayed to Jesus before opening his means of unconscious reception. He needed to feel a personal relationship with God before opening the conduit channel.

The same was functionally true for Dr. Fulford, the famous osteopath and old friend of Brad’s. He is also a “saint” of Sacred Ecstatics who comes to us in dream. Though he used different metaphors to describe his work, Dr. Fulford realized that above all else he must feel a hookup to the utmost healing process and then whatever needs to happen will follow. When he felt he was plugged into this spiritual dimension, he trusted his hands would be better guided.

 

Concentrate

To spiritually cook, heal, or do anything with spiritual potency, you must feel a close relationship with your Creator. Go past setting a thoughtful intention. Dissolve your thoughts by flooding your room with sacred emotion–it’s your rope to God. When the divine connection is made, what you next need is delivered by the mainline. As João the sanctified churrasqueiro taught us, God wants you served up tasty and charred.

-The Keeneys, December 14, 2021. The next Guild season will be announced in January 2022.

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