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tachyon healing : The word electricity describes a type of energy. The word Tachyon describes the Source of all energies.

t’ai chi : An ancient Chinese meditative and martial art – often referred to as "meditation in motion" – that promotes mental and spiritual development. It involves slow movements and breathing to improve balance, muscle control, breath awareness and concentration. Used to treat back problems, stress, cancer and other chronic conditions.

talisman : A magically charged object used to attract a certain type of energy or a particular type of person.

tantra (Tantra Yoga) : Mode of lovemaking that involves breath control, energy exchange meditations, techniques of sexual healing, and transformative touch.

tao : In a word, everything; the experience of the "universal Way" ("essential reality").

taoism : A Chinese religion and philosophy that sees the universe as engaged in ceaseless motion and activity. All is considered to be in continual flux. The universe is intrinsically dynamic. The process is described in terms of Yin and Yang that should be balanced or harmonized through yoga, meditation, etc., to promote spiritual wholeness. According to legend, Taoism founder Lao-tzu wrote Tao Te Ching ("The Way and Its Power") about 550 BC. His teaching was developed and spread in the third century BC by Chuang-Tzu, whose writings inspired the Tao Tsang, 1200 volumes of Taoist scripture.

tao te ching : Sacred scripture of Taoism.

tarot : A form of divination using a set of cards, usually 76 cards.

TCM : Traditional Chinese Medicine.

telekinesis : A form of psychokinesis which involves moving objects with the mind without ever physically coming in contact with them.

telepathy : Unspoken (psychic) communication between two minds.

testicles : male gonads: produce spermatozoa and male sex hormones.

thai massage : Follows the 10 main “sen” or energy lines, using pressure on specific points along these lines, as well as compression and stretches. Southern style is characterized by extensive pressure point work and fewer stretches. Northern style is gentler, comprised mostly of stretches. The client is fully dressed, and the massage is performed on the floor.

thalasso therapy : The treatment of illness by sea air and sea water. It encompasses sea bathing, ocean voyaging, and sojourning at seaside resorts.

therapeutic touch : A laying-on-of-hands technique using a meditative process where the practitioner gently disperses blocked energy and channels healing energy to the client.

Th.D. : Doctor of Theology.

third eye : The psychic eye not physically visible but mental. Located in the middle of the forehead.

thyroid : The thyroid gland produces hormones that are essential for normal body metabolism. This gland is located in the lower part of the neck, below the Adam's apple. The gland wraps around the windpipe (trachea).

tibetan medicine : (Amchi, Emchi): A system that mostly stems from Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and Unani. Tibetan medicine encompasses acupuncture and moxibustion and heals both the physical and the psychic being. It includes reincarnation, evil spirits, tutelary gods, and three physiological principles (bodily energies): wind, bile and phlegm. According to Tibetan medical theory, karma strongly influences 101 disorders caused by afflictive emotions (e.g., desire or hatred); another 101 disorders caused by such emotions involve spirits (harmful unseen forces); and it is appropriate to expose certain medical substances to the light of the full moon.

tibetan rites : 5 Tibetan rites for health, vitality and rejuvenation.

tincture : A liquid usually made by soaking a whole herb or its parts in a mixture of water and ethyl alcohol (such as vodka). The alcohol helps extract the herb's active components, concentrating and preserving them.

tofu (bean curd): A kind of soy cheese. It is non-dairy and high in protein.

totem : Non-human entity, usually but not always an animal, that symbolizes the spiritual essence, and often the first ancestor, of a group.

trance : One of the most common altered states of consciousness. It is characterized by extreme disassociation often to the point of appearing unconscious.

transactional analysis (TA) : System of psychotherapy created by psychiatrist Eric Berne, M.D. (d. 1970), and the subject of two bestsellers: Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships (1964) and I'm OK--You're OK (1967). Fundamental to TA is the hypothesis that "ego states"--attitudes during transactions and corresponding sets of behavior patterns--fall into three categories: parental (preceptive or didactic, admonitory), adult (evaluative), and childlike (emotional and creative).

transcendental meditation : Maharishi Mahesh Yogi founded TM in 1957. TM is a means of experiencing "pure awareness." It involves sitting comfortably, with eyes closed, for 15 to 20 minutes twice a day while one mentally repeats a mantra. In TM, a mantra purportedly is a "thought-sound" that has a known vibratory effect but does not have a designative meaning. The TM teacher chooses a mantra suitable for the initiate.

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UFO : Unidentified Flying Objects.

unified chakra meditation : creates a bubble of Light that allows you to handle vaster and vaster frequencies, and acts like a force field. It helps screen out other people’s pictures of reality. Most of you walk around in other peoples’ energies because your bodies are separated. The main thing for Lightworkers is to get in your bodies and figure out what your energy is. The Heart of the Legacy Unified Chakra is the best way that we know of to assist you and your Keepers to follow your Spirit with every breath and every step. We suggest that you do this technique every single time that you notice that you are in the past or the future.

usui reiki (Seichim, Karuna, Kundulini, Sahaja and Taokan Reiki) : Reiki is an ancient healing technique that usually involves the laying-on of hands. It is thousands of years old and is thought to have originated as a Tibetan Buddhist practice.

vajra : Sanskrit. One of the channels in the astral spine

vedas : 1. The four Vedas of the earliest Sanskrit hymns and verses: Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, and Atharva Veda. 2. Equivalent to shruti, "revelation," comprising the Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, and Upanishads as the eternal and unauthored source of Hinduism.

vedic astrology : Ancient system that allegedly helps to resolve doubts concerning children, health, spiritual growth, and other subjects. Suggestions regarding donations, gemstones, herbs, mantras, yantras (mystic diagrams), and rituals are integral to the system.

veganism : The custom of refraining from using, or at least from ingesting, anything derived from animals.

vibrational healing : A broad range of therapies using vibrational essences, sound/frequency, voice and energetic touch to clear the chakras and raise the vibration of the human energy field. Healers work on the subtle energy layers of the auric field to affect change on the physical body.

violet children : or indigo children. Children that don't respond to tried and true techniques and won't be molded. Some are willful, precocious and brilliant. Others have their own language or become easily detached. Medications do not work, they often have strange eating habits.

virtues : Magical properties of objects like herbs, stones, and creatures as was assigned to them during their divine creation.

visceral manipulation : The practitioner uses gentle hand pressure techniques to work with the body’s visceral system (the interant organs) to locate and alleviate points of tension throughout the body, addressing the relationship between organs and the rest of the physical structure.

visualization : 1. Forming clear mental images often used in magic to focus and direct energy to a visualized goal. 2. Imagining a scene, a person, or an object with intense clarity, this is often done through a meditation.

vital force (bioenergy, cosmic energy, cosmic energy force, cosmic force, cosmic life energy, cosmic life force, elan vital, energy of being, force of life, force vitale, inner vital energy, internal energy, life, life energy, life force, life force energy, life power, life source energy, nerve energy, nerve force, personal energy, spirit, subtle energy, universal energy, universal life energy, universal life energy power, universal life force, universal life force energy, universal life principle, vital cosmic force, vital element, vital energy, vital energy force, vitality, vital life force, vital life force energy, vitalistic principle, vitality energy, vital life spirit, vital magnetism, vital principle, vital spirit) : An alleged nonmaterial "force" that sustains life.