Ellavivian Power and Robert D. Waterman
Ellavivian and Robert - 2003
Ellavivian Power
1913-2004
Ellavivian wrote the definitive work on balancing called The Auric Mirror, and was one of the original faculty members in the teaching and development of Noetic Field Balancing.
Robert D. Waterman, EdD, LPCC
41 Verano Loop
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87508
Phone/fax: 505-466-8385
Web Site: Quimby Amenti Foundation Mystery School
E-mail: RdW2110@aol.com
Dr. Robert D. Waterman developed Noetic Field Balancing from his experience as a student at Quimby Center, thirty years of clinical experience, and academic work as founder and president of Southwestern College. The basis for Noetic Field Balancing evolved out of the technique of aura balancing. Dr. Neva Dell Hunter, founder of Quimby Center, developed aura balancing from the healing work of Phineus Parkhurst Quimby and material gained through her inspirational work with John-Clark McDougall. Dr. Waterman met Dr. Hunter in 1967 through a mutual friend, Muriel Engle. He had dropped his classes during his senior year at the University of California, Santa Barbara, because he was experiencing a great deal of inner pressure, a lack of direction, and an inability to study.
At the time of their meeting, Dr. Hunter explained that aura balancing is a form of spiritual therapy in which the practitioner works directly with the energy fields surrounding and penetrating the physical body. It sounded good to him. He agreed to a session. At the time, his exploration of consciousness-oriented psychologies helped him trust the process. The impact was dramatic. "I experienced energy sensations and feelings moving in and around my physical body, and a mysterious resolution of my inner conflicts." Afterward, he felt clear, centered, and ready to complete his senior year.
Apprentice to a Mystery
After graduation, Dr. Waterman headed for Dr. Hunter’s school in New Mexico. He was excited about this dramatic demonstration of therapy. Conventional therapies had seemed lacking, and aura balancing represented to him the missing link that joined his experiences, spiritual training, and academic studies into one model. He needed to discover how it worked. Later, he added the dimension of the noetic field as a means to further account for role of consciousness, and to incorporate the quantum model of David Bohm.
At the Quimby Center, he met Ellavivian Power, who wrote the definitive book on aura balancing called the Auric Mirror, and Stephen Broscoff who developed a body-centered approach. As an apprentice and colleague, he worked and lived with this team from 1968 until Dr. Hunter’s death in 1978. After this time, his approach to balancing was influenced by his study and practice of "soul transcendence," with John-Roger Hinkin. John-Roger, founder of the Church of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness (MSIA), adapted aura balancing to work with a spiritual consciousness that he called the "Mystical Traveler." The techniques has furthered evolved through his experience and study of the ancient mysteries.
Dr. Waterman views the opportunity to do balancing as a great blessing. "The greatest blessing is the deepening and softening of my heart and the wisdom that is conveyed to me with each person I work with. I am able to present myself to the Holy Spirit and to the service of souls in a way that promotes spiritual progression, health, happiness, well-being, and healing."
He believes his role is as a spiritual enabler, guide, or tutor. He is able to gently suggest and draw out the client’s inherent wisdom. "When all goes well, I am able to help them remember and touch the reality that they are originally and inherently divine. In a sense, I am an educator who can enhance the student’s soul-astic achievement. When our souls touch, we awaken more to our precious role in the immensity of spirit."
For Dr. Waterman, Noetic Field Balancing continues to be an unfolding mystery. "I am a perennial student and a true apprentice of that mystery."
Southwestern College
In 1979, he received a Doctorate in Education from New Mexico State University and began work as the founding president of Southwestern College, a position he held until the college became accredited in 1994. When he became the founding president of Southwestern College, in Santa Fe, the phenomenological and mystical influences took on the expression of counselor education. Translating mystical teaching and energy therapies into innovative, experiential teaching was a wonderful experience. The greater challenge during the accreditation process, however, was when circumstances required us to rise to the occasion of articulating the curriculum to our colleagues. The college was accredited in 1994, and, as president emeritus, he is free to conduct a deeper study of spirituality in counseling and the implications of that to therapy and counselor education.
Quimby Amenti Foundation
As the founder and president of the Quimby Amenti Foundation and Mystery School, he continues to offer his teachings through his Noetic Field Therapy Practitioner Program, Noegenesis: Mystery School for the New Millennium, and other classes.
