I WAS fortunate to have met a master of Sekhem – an Egyptian energy healing art – who was visiting here recently. What is remarkable is that she is of Indian origin, was born and raised in Hong Kong, studied in the US, and now resides in the UK. That typically sums up the background of the modern global citizen. And many people of various nationalities are now becoming masters of healing arts from cultures that are foreign to them, often taking over as guardians of these arts that may be dying in their places of origin.
Reiki, perhaps the most widely practised energy-healing art, is mostly known in the West, with very few practitioners in Japan, where it all began. This is similar with Sekhem. This ancient healing art, attributed to ancient Egyptians, has been salvaged, revised and re-introduced to us by Helen Belot, an Australian who now acts as the “custodian” of this healing system. She claims to be High Priest in the ancient temples of Egypt in her past lives.
