Sekhem: Sekhem DNA Meditation: Heaven, Earth and the Heart

Visualizing Strands of Light

Sekhem DNA Meditation and the Balance of Heaven and Earth. Teaching by Patrick Zeigler.

The next practice is the DNA meditation. Its intention is to imagine reconfiguring the DNA. The introduction includes a playful joke about becoming taller and losing one's hair, followed by the reminder to lose attachment rather than remain attached to the hair.

Patrick Zeigler describes the origin of the meditation as a vision: “I could see the DNA and see the helixes of the DNA, and through that I could see how to repair the DNA.” This vision became the starting point for a visualization of reconnecting the strands.

The meditation works with the idea that, through aging or other difficulties, DNA strands can break down. Its first step is to visualize the DNA and imagine connecting it so that the strands become pure strands of light. This is the imagery and intention of the practice, not an established medical repair procedure.

Attention then moves to the thymus gland, introduced in the teaching as the place where T cells are created. The explanation offered for this meditation describes these cells as able to form any cell in the body, including brain, heart, bone and muscle, and proposes imagining that they can be programmed. These are claims within the meditation's explanation, rather than established biological descriptions.

The practical invitation is to have fun with the imagination. Work with the images rather than treating them as something that must be forced.

Imagination and Possibility

Imagination is the starting point for much of what people create. At some point, something that now exists in the world began as someone's unusual idea.

Jules Verne provides an example. He imagined a submarine traveling through the water, and submarines later became part of the world. He also imagined traveling to the moon. Moon travel became a reality too, although some people dispute it; that debate is left to them.

Through imagination, people begin to create the world they live in. In a dream, a creation can appear immediately. In the physical world, there seems to be a delay. Yet, viewed against the whole course of evolution, that delay has not been very long. The last hundred years have brought a marked acceleration.

The meditation is introduced with the suggestion that consciousness may influence DNA. Its explanation refers to research said to be beginning to show this possibility, and proposes that visualization might allow a person to begin “rewiring” themselves. This remains a proposed possibility in the teaching, not a demonstrated result of this meditation.

Keep that possibility in mind while working with the imagery. The invitation is that the meditation may begin to shift something in the DNA, rather than a promise that it will.

Bringing Heaven and Earth Together

The meditation introduces an image of twelve strands of DNA. It contrasts this with the two strands presently described in the teaching and invites the imagination to work with twelve perfect strands. The twelve-strand image is part of the spiritual visualization.

Begin by bringing two perfect strands of DNA from source. The mind often pictures source as somewhere above. In the understanding offered here, source is actually inside, but the image of something above can help the mind understand and follow the practice.

Imagine these as perfect strands, perhaps as angelic DNA, coming into the body. Then bring attention down into the Earth.

The teaching presents embodied life as a meeting of heaven and Earth. There is this beautiful planet, and the body must evolve in a way that allows the soul, or soul energy, to live here. In this understanding, human beings are a combination of heaven and Earth.

The imagery therefore brings the DNA of heaven and the DNA of Earth together so that they match and can coexist. Without that matching, the teaching suggests, this form of life could not live on the planet.

Consider the relationships that support life. Trees give oxygen, and people give carbon dioxide. There is water and there is sunlight. Everything fits together with remarkable precision.

A different speed of Earth's rotation or a different axis would make it a very different planet. A much hotter or colder Earth would also mean a different species; this body probably would not exist in those conditions.

Other species have died out as Earth's climate changed, sometimes through catastrophes. Those species could no longer exist, while human beings were able to survive. This reflection leads back to the practice: look at the DNA from heaven and the DNA from Earth, and bring them to a common meeting point. Together they form an axis.