Her spine undulated like a dolphin
excerpt: “History of the Groove” Russell Buddy Helm ©2014 all rights reserved
1998. Her spine undulated up from her sacrum to her cranium then back down like a dolphin swimming. I knew what that looked like from watching Florida swim around me in circles back down in Coconut Grove at The Dolphin Project.. It also reminded me of the Hyde Park Kensington in London when the maid flipped the fresh sheets perfectly, sending a wave up to the top of the bed, before settling down into a smooth, inviting linen. Funny how images and sounds trigger memories.
This woman was lying face down on a chiropractic table in a dimly lit room with soft New Age music. She let out a sigh of relaxation as the psomatopsychic wave moved up her spine in slow motion, up to the base of her skull, then it reversed and came back down her spine; a gentle wave as the bones adjusted themselves. Then it subsided. She was attended by Doctor Wendy, who was showing me discreetly, what ‘the wave’ looked like. I would not have believed it possible if I had not seen it with my own eyes. A human being cannot do that to their own spine. It had happened as if it was the most natural form of chiropractic adjustment in the world. That was the new Network Chiropractics, and it was not your conventional chiropractics at all. It was all energy without force. When it happened to me I realized many things, one of which, that I should go back and record drumming music to create this same healing phenomenon using rhythm. This is what brought me back to the music and the drum. If the spine feels safe enough, it will adjust itself. It’s called dancing.
Actually injury brought me back to the drum. Or rather ‘forward’ to the healing drums. I hit my head on a low hanging sign at an art store. They paid for the chiropractor. I did not tell them it was the new very alternative form called Network chiropractics created by Dr. Donny Epstein in New York who studied videos of swimming dolphins. Their undulations reminded him of the involuntary body movements some of his patients experienced while he was adjusting them. Even after he had adjusted them, they were just lying there on the table and then began to move around; sort of letting their spine adjust itself. It reminded him of the dolphins. He started to map out portions of the patient’s back where there were energy grids he could sense without touching them. Hovering over the spots would create a healing movement in the body. This was proof that there was an invisible energy exchange between the patient and the doctor. He created a protocol and it became very popular. Groups of people attending “Gates” would share this miraculous energy transference. If a patient on one adjusting table started to release, others close by on other tables would also release. Past lives would come up for people who did not believe in reincarnation. Realizations and insights were plentiful. People were healing all because of this method where the chiropractor did not even touch the patient. These are accredited doctors doing this and it was amazing. The doctors themselves were often dumbfounded by the results. They were getting strong psychic impressions from the patients. A patient, lying face down on an adjustment table, felt that a bejeweled sword was imbedded in her back while a doctor came by her as she worked on several different people at the same time. The doctor envisioned a dagger in the patient’s back. She pulled it out. They talked later and realized they both had experienced the same image. I saw that it was releasing Orgone energy based on my Wilhelm Reich studies back down in Coconut Grove. The life force, Orgone, was getting blocked as it traveled up and down the spinal column. This Network chiropractics opened up the addresses along the spine that were blocked, as a result the life force would rush through into the brain creating what the yogi’s refer to as Samadhi, white light. I got it. I also knew that this bland New Age music would have to be augmented with grooves that would engender movement in the client’s spine. “Let your backbone slip.” Was the way Big Joe Turner put it. The blues and the healing arts were coming together, and I wanted to play the grooves that would heal and help us survive.
excerpt: “History of the Groove” Russell Buddy Helm ©2014 all rights reserved