Tuning into a favorite program on WERU, a Maine community radio station, literally changed Lucy Pincince’s life. As she listened to a syndicated New Dimensions segment on a healing modality called Oneness Blessings, something resonated deep within her. “It was a calling, just like Joseph Campbell talks about. I heard it,” she recalled. And she heeded that call.
Tuning into a favorite program on WERU, a Maine community radio station, literally changed Lucy Pincince’s life. As she listened to a syndicated New Dimensions segment on a healing modality called Oneness Blessings, something resonated deep within her. “It was a calling, just like Joseph Campbell talks about. I heard it,” she recalled. And she heeded that call.
Shortly after hearing the program, she sought out and had two Oneness Blessings. The day following the first blessing, Pincince found herself in a situation that had repeatedly, in the past, caused her irritation. “The next day when that scenario happened, I didn’t feel myself get angry or feel frustrated inside. I said to John (her husband), I think there may be something to this Oneness.”
Never second guessing her decision, Pincince headed to Fiji where personal growth guru Tony Robbins had donated land and built buildings for a satellite location of the India-based Oneness University, where she did her first level of Oneness training over nine days. Synchronicity also had a hand in her journey. Pincince recalls that her mother had recently died, leaving her a “stash of cash” that was the exact amount it cost for the $2,000 flight to Fiji and the training, a total expenditure of about $7,000. “It cost a pile of money,” she said, without a trace of regret.
“I couldn’t not do it. It was one of those things. I did it, but I was terrified. Fiji is a heck of a long way away, nearly halfway around the world,” said Pincince, who makes her home in Mid-coast Maine.
Once back in the states, she offered the blessings to her husband. “And then I watched John’s transformation. It changed his life,” she said.
The Oneness Blessing
A Oneness Blessing, also known as Deeksha, is not associated with any religion, and is given by touch on the top, or crown chakra, of the head. It can be done in under a minute or last longer. Like other modalities, such as Reiki, Oneness Blessings can be given through intention, allowing for distant healing.
Benefits of Oneness Blessings
The general benefits of receiving a Oneness Blessing include:
- Higher states of consciousness
- Deep inner peace
- A balancing of energy centers
- Relaxation
- Healing of past and present trauma
- Renewed energy
“I feel it’s all the same energy, from the same universal source, just like Reiki, although for me Reiki is a subtler form of energy than the Oneness Blessing,” she explained. No stranger to the healing arts, Pincince has studied Reiki and Shambala energy modalities. She is a licensed and nationally certified massage therapist, and also was a licensed Speech and Language Pathologist for 25 years.
An individual’s experience of receiving energy can vary greatly. And, as with many forms of healing, a Oneness Blessing can trigger an emotional or even physical release, clearing obstacles from one’s path and removing that which does not serve a person’s highest good. Typically, a Oneness Blessing brings about stillness and peace.
My own experience with them is to gain a profound sense of well-being that is not tied to external circumstances. When I trained as a Oneness Blessing Giver in June 2010, I did experience a wave of general anger, not event-specific or reactive, that rose up and was released before my training process was completed.
Changing Our Minds
The purpose of the Oneness Blessing is to raise our vibration and raise our consciousness, in order to help change the world we live in. The blessing stimulates and activates the parts of the brain that experience joy, happiness, bliss and divine love, and deactivates the parts of the brain that experience suffering. This allows for a shift in consciousness so that we begin to naturally perceive and experience life in positive and creative ways.
“It certainly changes your brain. Research has shown there is a neurobiological change in the brain, that dampens the part of the brain that goes into a flight or fright response, and stimulates the part of the brain that experiences a sense of well-being,” explained Pincince, noting this information is contained in the book Awakening to Oneness by Arjuna Ardagh, the author she heard being interviewed on the radio.
The Roots of Oneness
The Oneness Blessing movement, which began in 1989, has its roots in India, near Chinnai, and is led by twin avatars, a husband and wife team, known as Sri Amma Bhagavan. The man, Bhagavan, was aware of his life mission from the age of three. As a spiritual avatar, he has dedicated his life to the purpose of helping humanity. His specific goal is to help ease the suffering of humanity. Through Oneness Blessings, the avatars hope to awaken a critical mass of humanity throughout the world.
Once enough people are awakened, it is believed the world will be a much better place. That people will have evolved beyond the need for separation or boundaries, and that humans will bask in their connectedness to one another.
“I like the idea of no boundaries, the idea that it won’t have to be about my religion or your religion, my country or your country,” said Pincince.
The goal of the twin avatars is to have between 60,000 and 70,000 people awakened worldwide by 2012, a figure they believe will represent enough of a ratio to tip the scales and allow humanity to make that all important leap in consciousness we have talked of and heard so much about.
The process should be completed by 2035, noted Pincince, at which time the world will be vastly different from the one we live in now, she added.
The Journey Continues
In India during the spring of 2010, she received Level 2 training and became certified to train others as Oneness Blessing Givers, over a 23-day period. In January, Pincince has plans to travel to Toronto, where she will learn the last of several deepening processes related to Oneness.
Pincince offers free Oneness Blessings each Tuesday at noon at High Mountain Hall, located at 5 Mountain Street in Camden, Maine. She is assisted by other blessing givers who have trained with her. Since her return from India, she has trained 36 people as Oneness Blessing Givers.
Meg Sideris, who did an extensive renovation and owns the center, provides the space at no charge. This in turn, allows Pincince to offer the healing on a complimentary basis, which she believes is in keeping with the twin avatars’ intentions to make the blessing accessible to all, while also increasing the number of recipients in order to shift human consciousness exponentially.
For more information on Oneness Blessings visit www.OnenessUniversity.org, www.WorldOnenessCommunity.com or contact Pincince at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or (207) 230-2410.
© 2010 Teresa Piccari
Teresa Piccari is a writer, teacher and creativity coach living in coastal Maine. She is the proprietor of The Village Scribe, a professional writing and editing business, at The Wellness Center in Camden at 71 Elm St. She teaches writing workshops including Memoir, Creative Writing and Mythic Structure, and she also runs the monthly Ducktrap Writers’ Round Table on third Sundays at the Camden Public Library from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Contact her at
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