Recently my friend Jewels from Hub Pages approached me about the possibility of scheduling a specific type of regression therapy session designed to unblock human energy.

Jewels, a professional writer and astrologer, does this kind of energy work for a living and is quite good at it.

Because I like her and respect her work, I took her suggestion seriously.

The technique, known as ISIS, or Inner Space Interactive Sourcing, is the brainchild of Dr. Samuel Sagan, a spiritual teacher and healer who is also an accomplished neurosurgeon and psychiatrist.

Sagan received his formal medical training at no less an establishment than the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

Not too shabby for starters, but Sagan’s credentials don’t end there.

Sagan’s lifetime interest in Eastern contemplative traditions and meditation led him to pair his traditional Western studies in neurosurgery and psychiatry with additional doctoral work on the chakras and subtle bodies that are a major focus of the Hindu medical tradition.

After that, Sagan drifted away from Western medicine rather quickly in favor of energy medicine with a more Eastern emphasis, pursuing additional degrees in both acupuncture and homeopathy.

After years of energy research and practice, Sagan founded the Clairvision School in 1987. The Clairvision School is dedicated to teaching specific techniques that help people to access higher states of consciousness by awakening the third eye, an intuitive energy center.

ISIS is a unique form of regression therapy (somewhat like hypnosis but not exactly) that helps the client access higher states of consciousness.

Unlike hypnotic past life regression therapy, ISIS attempts to bring about “...flashes where clients feel themselves in a different body" or different spiritual space. They may re-experience past episodes with all sensations, including visual and auditory perceptions, or they may not.

Over time, ISIS sessions ultimately seek to help clients release latent emotional charges. Often clients experience profound spiritual realizations as a result of ISIS. These realizations can occur quite dramatically and suddenly, or they can emerge gradually over many sessions.

Cool!

Listen, I’m open to almost anything, and I like my astrologer friend a lot, so I said OK, let’s do it.

If nothing else, I figured I could write about how it went.

The Western medical tradition is alone in the world in its view of human beings as lumps of physical matter with minds and not much else. In Western medicine, a person’s physical body is the primary focus.

Doctors work on bodies the way mechanics work on cars. Recent research on the effect of emotional stress on healing is promising, but no formal recognition of an energy force or an energy body exists in Western medical theory.

By contrast, in most non-Western traditions, the human body is thought to be a conduit through which life-energy flows. This flow of energy makes up a kind of a second or ‘etheric’ body, comprised of what we might loosely think of as the life force. In acupuncture, this life force is called ‘qi’ or ‘chi’. In the Hindu tradition, this same force is called ‘prana’, which also means (roughly translated) ‘breath’.

In the West, an occult tradition that draws on Eastern metaphysics talks about the ‘etheric body’ or sometimes ‘the astral body’. This view of the human being is embodied in the works of phenomenologist philosophers like Rudolph Steiner and in the teachings of esoteric groups like the Theosophists and the Rosecrucians.

(Etheric and astral bodies are not the same, but in general, both terms convey the concept of a nonmaterial body connected to the physical one; a body made of subtle energy that animates the physical body during life, and sheds the physical body at death, continuing on without it.)

So, while we can point to esoteric metaphysical traditions in the West that speak of energy flow and energy bodies, in mainstream Western medicine such talk is considered to be outside the realm of science and is not usually taken seriously.

In recent years, several excellent studies showing the effectiveness of acupuncture as treatment for a variety of illnesses and chronic conditions has opened the field of energy medicine up to much more serious consideration by the Western scientific community.

Placebo effects can be very powerful. A ‘placebo effect’ is a positive treatment result obtained through positive suggestion and confidence in the doctor. Placebo effects are considered to be purely psychological even when they result in recovery from a physical illness, which they often do.

Yet even taking the phenomena of the 'placebo effect' into account, it is difficult to explain the specific changes that come about through manipulation of an energy field that is not supposed to exist. These specific changes are consistent and occur across cultures.

Interestingly, the meridians (or acupuncture energy points) within the human body show up in all the right places when kirlian photography is used to illustrate them. Kirlian photography is a technology that uses a high voltage electrical charge to create an image instead of using ordinary light.

Again, the question becomes, why are these energy structures that supposedly don't exist (at least not in Western medical theory) showing up on any kind of photograph?

I’ll leave that to the experts to sort out in their own time.

The notion of an energy body is pretty interesting, to say the least. And the truth is, mainstream medical science is beginning to look at energy medicine much more carefully than it once did.

East and West are gradually coming closer together as the world shrinks and people share more information.

I come from a family in which psychic ability seems to be passed down on the female side from mother to daughter. Not all the women in my family are psychic, but one or two in each generation seem to have what we’ve all come to simply call ‘it’.

Once in awhile it passes to a man.

My mother and her mother had it. One of my mother’s sisters has a bit of it, the other not so much. I have my fair share of it, but my sisters have less and don’t want it when they get it.

My eldest daughter has it and wishes it would go away. My son has it and thinks it is cool. My middle daughter has none of it and feels a bit left out and relieved all at the same time.

Both my eldest daughter and my son have experienced dreaming and/or speaking in foreign languages when they were still children (and didn’t know the languages). I confess I found that more than a tad bit freaky.

What is ‘it’?

For me, it turns out to be a lot of things, some of them subtle, many of them seemingly unrelated.

It crops up in unwanted information I sometimes get just by being around a person or touching that person. I can often tell if someone is pregnant and if someone is about to die just by standing close by. (The two conditions have a similar ‘feel’, like a softening in a wall or something—It’s hard to describe but I know it when I encounter it.)

Just like in that movie “The Sixth Sense,” I sometimes see dead people: both in my mind’s eye and in my dreams, and I sometimes get detailed information about them as well—their names, when they lived, how they died, what they looked like. I’ve also woken up hearing other languages, Hindu chants, and other weird things that are not on a radio or anywhere else. (Similar to my kids.)

Usually all this information is, as far as I can tell, completely useless. It serves no purpose I can imagine about 80% of the time. My younger sister likened it to having a transistor radio that works some of the time, but only in short bursts that make no sense, like words coming intermittently through static.

Because of its general uselessness, I call this cluster of weird perceptions my ‘dysfunctional clairvoyance’.

Occasionally sharing this kind of info, when I do get it, impacts people emotionally in very dramatic and intense ways.

I avoid such encounters at all costs.

Like I don’t have enough to deal with, you know?

So I didn’t expect to become Svengali after my one single ISIS session, and in fact I didn’t really expect anything in particular. But I did think it would be interesting and I hoped that it might help me understand and use my intuition more effectively. I hoped it would shed some light on it and make it less useless.

Jewels started the session by directing me in a specific kind of slow meditative breathing and guiding my attention into a state of mild relaxation.

Anyway, it felt mild at the time.

I remember thinking at the beginning of the session that it wasn’t really going well, that nothing much was really happening, that the breathing was awkward and I was pretty sure I wasn’t doing it correctly, and wouldn’t it be embarrassing if we went through the whole thing and it was all a big dud?

I worried a bit about how I would respond at the end so as not to hurt my friend’s feelings about my total lack of “acutely intense flashes” despite her best efforts as an ISIS facilitator.

I began to feel progressively calmer though, and resigned to at least getting a bit of a rest. I expected that something visual would present itself, something symbolic that we could pick apart for meaning the way people often do in conventional therapy. But to my surprise, nothing very dramatic showed up.

Then, quite unexpectedly, I literally felt like I was somewhere else. It’s very hard to describe what happened or how it felt, but suddenly a very vivid recall of a surgery I had as a small child came up. It was like I was there.

What was shocking to me was that 1) I hadn’t thought of this surgery in years—I mean, it’s not like it’s some big traumatic thing I nurse and carry around and suck my thumb over when I’m in a bad mood—no, I literally forgot about it, and 2) the way it came back to me was incredibly physical and vivid.

I felt the coldness of the operating room, heard the clink of the metal, felt the intense fear of a small child, felt the breathing tube down my throat, and a something like a fist squeezing down hard on my abdomen.

The tightness in my abdomen was painful and lasted longer than I wanted it to last, but over the course of minutes it subsided and the fist began to feel more like an open hand laying flat across my belly, kind of like armor.

At that point I became aware of a kind of fire just below that—something almost like the fire on top of a gas stove. It was very vivid, very weird, and not at all what I’d had in mind—if I’d had anything in mind—when I started.

I had been having stomach troubles for some time before this session and a feeling of just being ‘stuck’ in that area of my body, although I know this makes little rational sense. Each time we would talk about doing one of these ISIS sessions together, I’d get a terrible case of indigestion and nausea. After a cancellation or two I went through with it anyway, and this is what came of it.

The session actually lasted for about two hours but felt like it lasted maybe 30 minutes or so. There was more to it, but nothing I want to into go in great detail since I feel a little weird about it. Suffice it to say I am quite convinced of the existence of the etheric body at this point and don’t really need to see any scientific data to affirm my own experience.

It was indeed very powerful and intense.

For the next several days, the muscle pain in my gut lingered and seemed to gradually move upward into my stomach and chest, and then disappear. My pants fit more loosely now and I do feel physically different, though in what precise way is difficult to pin down.

I have not had any big psychic experiences since my session, nor talked to any dead people, nor had any especially vivid dreams or any other ‘woo-woo’ feelings of any kind, but I have been spending more and more time on spiritual studies and less and less time on the political and economic topics I used to love.

I’m definitely intrigued by Sagan’s Clairvision School and plan to learn more about it in the coming months. I’ve been spending more time writing on paranormal topics and getting back to some of the comparative religion and philosophy I was drawn to when I was younger.

What especially shocked me about the ISIS session was how physical it was and how emotionally vivid. When I was a small child, I had chronic problems with my throat and my breathing that resulted in repeated operations and hospitalizations, all before age 6. At one point I lost a third of my body weight, and I do recall (now that I did this ISIS session) being taunted by other children over my small size and inability to breathe correctly.

There is no way Jewels could have known about this. I’d ‘forgotten’ it myself.

I’m 56 now. So to say I don’t spend a lot of time worrying about the first five years of my life is the understatement of the century. I’d forgotten my surgery completely until the ISIS session and would never have guessed it as a topic that would come up in any context. It certainly wasn’t the kind of ‘it’ phenomenon I was half-hoping for during the session, but it was clearly connected to some kind of energy block in my abdomen (and, curiously, my throat).

I’m not above feeling sorry for myself, but if I had to pick something traumatic out of my life to present as a big fat problem under hypnosis that one would not even have made the list, though now that I reflect on it, I realize it really was a difficult, violent thing that got me off to a very rough start in life. That illness defined me for my first five years. I was small, I was sickly, I was sad and afraid.

I think the ISIS sessions are definitely worth it and I do think there is something to it. I would say that what I mostly feel, post-session, is more grounded and solid, and much more curious and my spiritual side than I was before.

That’s all good.

If you think you would like to schedule an ISIS session or just have further questions about it, you can check out Samuel Sagan’s Clairvision Website, or contact Jewels directly through her Hub Pages email.

Jewels is also now a featured author at Eye on Life online magazine, where she writes about issues in astrology and moderates a forum on the same topic.

Ruth Ellen Camden is a colleague of Jewels who writes about regression therapy and past lives from the point of view of the Clairvision School. Preview her book at the following link:

Past Lives: Everyday People's Remarkable Experiences by Ruth Ellen Camden

To request an energy session with Jewels or to ask questions, contact her via email at here profile page at HP by clicking on the following link:

Jewel's Profile Page and Email

Or check out here work at Eye on Life and her forums there at:

J Braden Gets Astrological, EyeonLife.com