Dar'Shem is a powerful Wisdom-centered spiritual technology, with 12 symbols that act specifically and powerfully. Some symbols deal with issues such as releasing negativity down to the DNA level, piercing through illusion, and bringing forth abundance from its true Source. The nine remaining symbols are specific to other concerns, and in combinations create the ability and capacity to change, flourish and grow towards wholeness
and harmony.

We have found Dar'Shem works quite well by itself and is compatible with other healing modalities.

Dar'Shem does not stop with helping others. It is also a powerful method of mental, physical, spiritual and emotional transformation, enabling the initiated to awaken!
and arise! It is the feeling of more than one current
Dar'Shem Master that the Great Work can be more
effectively completed as we re-member Sophia, the Divine
Mother, and She re-minds us.

A brief synopsis for Reiki practitioners and other
energy workers

By Brother Douglas

The system known as Dar' Shem has the
double connotation in some Semitic languages of Dar-household, and Shem-the Name, possibly an allusion to the famous Jewish healers and mystics who used the secret name of God to perform their wonders; like Baal
Shem-Tov, the great Ukranian wonder worker who
founded the Hasidim in the 18th century.

Dar' Shem is an energy based healing system along the
lines of Usui Reiki, which came from the Buddhist Medicine tradition, though via Tibet instead of China.

Unlike Reiki however it is still almost entirely an oral
tradition, and there are not dozens of books about it, some
of which even print the symbols for the public to see.
There are four levels from novice to Master Teacher, and
each level has its own triad of symbols, making twelve in
all.

It thus easily correlates with the 3 x 4 systems of
European metaphysics, as in the create, sustain, destroy
triple law applied to the four seasons, which produces all of astrology, and a similar correlation among the four elements to make a filing system for much of alchemy.

These Dar' Shem symbols are learned by the student, as in Reiki, and are placed in the electric field of his or her body during an attunement process. though that process is somewhat different from the Reiki ways.

The attunements have produced a minor cleansing process in initiates, but the majority of them have already been through the Reiki 21 day cleansing period. Because of this we cannot say much about the cleansing that may occur in absolute novices in energy work.

One of the big pluses in Dar' Shem energy work is the twelve symbol armamentarium. Some of these symbols act very specifically, though gently.

Both Reiki and Dar' Shem seem to have a Buddhist Medicine background, and a more complete knowledge of the Usui handbooks is needed to make known the other techniques, untaught in the West.*

However, until that time, if it ever arrives, we invite all Reiki and other energy workers who are aware of the value of the feminine in healing modalities, to learn about Dar' Shem.

Everyone in the Dar' Shem Association at the moment is currently a Master teacher in Reiki, some in more than one school, and all are Dar' Shem Masters after considerable experience in other fields.

To hear about Dar' Shem Masters in your area, or to tell us about your own Dar' Shem qualifications, so that we can add you to our list of practitioners, please write to us at the address on the front of the brochure. We have not given a phone number because we would not accept anything but a written statement or a copy of a current certificate; so this will save everyone needless effort.

To those qualified by experience in energy work to learn, practice, or teach Dar' Shem, we will send you details of any nearby teachers, phone numbers, fax numbers and newsletters, and put you on our data base so that we can refer others to you.

*Frank Ajava Petter has found the facts about the Usui legend. He runs a translation service in Tokyo and has published a translation of Usui's Handbook that he gave to his students, and several other books about the true history of Reiki. And in May 2001 was brought out The Spirit of Reiki by Petter, Lubeck and Rand which is the definitive book on the subject.
These are all published by Lotus Light-Shangri La, and are available in all bookstores.

One day the same service may be provided for Dar' Shem, with an exploration and understanding of the connection to other Reikis.