Hi Puzzle and everyone else,
There is one thing I had to think about. I am always somewhat hesitant in pointing out such things explicitly, and it's not critique, it's only a thought that came up based on my puzzlement.
But, isn't it the way the very New Age folks handle it? I have been always sceptical regarding such things like "we'll send light in order to change things we want to change". Of course, I wish health for Atreides, too. But does an arbitrary concentration on it really help improve the health condition (...of certain people; in this case that of Atreides)? That would be too easy.
So I think that knowledge, attention and group awareness are rather the key than attempts to do or change anything from distance, especially if one does not know those people personally (because of the word 'sending' which implies an active act or effort). If we want to do or to change or to achieve anything, we are only able to do those things we can really do. And since most people are plagued with their own worries, programmes and their wrong personality, it is hardly possible and not very probable that things of this scale can be fixed deliberately so easily and quickly. As G. said: "One has to help himself before he is able to help others." (my own words) That's what I think about it at least. Maybe I forgot to consider and thus omitted certain points, I don't know. Maybe I am totally wrong (one consideration I always try to keep in mind).
The whole point is: Dedicating is absolutely okay if it's just dedicating, but there is or could be that tendency to slip into wishful thinking that one is able to "change" or "do" something for/against certain things one would like to change, especially things one is not involved in directly. We can dedicate our practices to a person and we can keep in mind all those important and current on-goings.
[quote author=Puzzle]When dedicating the program to Atreides yesterday, I saw him engulfed in light from all those 'sending' him strength/healing. Anybody else seen this?[/quote]Honestly, no, I did not see anything like that. Is not everyone able to see certain things at least to some extent when he wishes to see them?
There are two possibilities:
1) You saw something because there was something. That means you have a sixth sense. And many people here were actually "sending strength/healing" as you said. If there was no sending at all, you could not see a sending.
2) You saw something because you forced to see something, AKA wishful thinking.
[quote author=Puzzle]Since realizing that now is the time to work even harder on myself for the sake of the network and innerly planning and preparing myself, there was an upsurge of old programs, holding me in check for a whole week. Then, during the breathing yesterday, I felt all the underlying feelings about that, which I had been shoving away that week: it was most of all fear. Fear of having to leave the comfortable lazy state that offers so much 'appeal'; fear of living the light inside me. Then I had an insight, when I realized that this is the false personality/predator who's afraid of losing control and eventually, of having to die.[/quote]Yes, that's more or less what I thought about recently, too.
I wrote about it a couple of posts ago:
[quote author=Sirius]Why do people do anything? What's their motivation? And what is my motivation approaching the Work? Is it just fear? Fear of death, self-preservation? Maybe it is the fundamental STS fear of non-existence. Or something else? Further thoughts were that there is nothing one can possess in this world, neither material nor intellectual things. Everything will die and vanish. And one can do nothing against it! The material world possess man, not vice versa. There are so many illusions! And intellectual achievements? What is original and really unique? Probably nothing.[/quote]
And then there's the breathing, counting and POTS on top of that thought. 
