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Native American Tobacco Ceremony

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

I have a wide number of applications for a special type of prayer called “Tobacco Ceremony.” The divine messenger, White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman, brought the “Tobacco Ceremony” to us some 500 years ago. I will typically use this ceremony when clearing haunting activity.

With this prayer ceremony, I found that I can anchor light anywhere, block-in or block-out any form of energy or entity, and “clear” an area of unwanted influences. For example, I felt the energies were “off” at one psychic fair I was at. I went outside and quietly walked around the building, doing the ceremony, giving thanks and asking that anyone, energy or entity be excluded from the building if it is not “working for the Light” or if it is not there for the betterment of all. Ten minutes afterwards, two of the “psychics” quickly packed up and left. I had never thought about them, either. Interesting, huh? I know a “channeler” that can’t do readings in an area I’ve done ceremony on. What does that say about what was being channeled?

You don’t need to smoke or use a special pipe. What I do is offer a pinch of the dry herbs in each direction. You may also choose to burn the herbs on a charcoal to offer the smoke. I carry a pouch filled with a generic mixture of tobacco, sage, cedar and sweetgrass, which is symbolic of the four directions. Other tribes use other herbs.

Let’s do it, shall we? Place yourself in a state of grace. Begin with an open prayer/invocation, and then start by facing EAST (or what you perceive as east), which is the start of the Medicine Wheel, holding a nice little handful of your herbs. Raise your hand offering the herbs, and begin by addressing the “Grandparents of the East”. The “Grandparents” referred to in this ceremony, includes ancestors, ascended masters, angels and the spiritual hierarchy of the planet. Give thanks to the Grandparents for all of their assistance, offer your handful of herbs and ask them for their assistance once again (insert request here), thank them in advance for their help and drop a pinch of the herbs in their direction. Do this exactly the same way facing SOUTH addressing the “Grandparents of the South”, then WEST, then NORTH. Then kneel to address the EARTH MOTHER beneath your feet, making sure to thank her for feeding you and giving you a place to live, and offer the herbs and your special request and thanks. Then stand again and talk to SKY FATHER (God, Creator, Wakan-Tanka, etc.) offering herbs, thanks, your request, and thanks in advance for this assistance, and dropping some dry herbs. Any breeze will carry the herbs to where they need to go. It is done. Give thanks. Whatever you asked for is on its way if your intent was correct and pure. This is the short form. White Buffalo Calf Pipe Woman’s version is considerably more involved.

If you are a smoker, you can do this ceremony very casually and even surreptitiously. Light up a fresh cigarette, face east, offer the smoke from your hand as you pray, then take a deep draught and mentally exhale the prayers as you blow the smoke carrying your prayers up to the Grandparents of each direction as described above. Works just fine. It’s the intent that matters.

I will remind you of the importance of Universal Law when doing “ceremony”. Prayer, especially a focused prayer like this, is a powerful form of thought/energy transmission. You will get back that energy multiplied in accordance with your intent in putting the energy out to begin with. Some people say it is multiplied three times, but in truth there is no ceiling on the multiplication aspect. So, for example, if you pray for advancement on your job, ask that it be done in harmony and for the best and highest good of all concerned… not just yourself. I know one lady that did ceremony to get a promotion, and got it, but because it was not done in a harmonious way, she was fired a month later. You can do ceremony to attract a new love to your life, by putting your “spec sheet” out in this prayer ceremony, but you cannot manipluate any person in particular as that will backlash on you. You get the idea.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

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Frickin’ Demagogue Wannabes

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Okay… being a Wiccan does not make you a witch, or vice-versa.  Having been trained for any length of time by a “medicine man” does not make you a “medicine man/woman”.  Going on a vision quest (or whatever) doesn’t make you a shaman.  Having a past-life memory is not a basis for going out and teaching some ill-considered, poorly researched, half-assed course at some new age center. Owning a tarot deck does not make you a psychic reader. Running around with a bunch of expensive electronic equipment does not make you a “paranormal researcher” or a “ghost-buster”.  Owning an auto-focus snapshot camera does not make you a professional photographer, either. 

I run into people claiming to be “this and that” all the time, particularly in new age/metaphysical circles.  I’ve also noticed that many of these people seem to be on psychiatric medication.  I’m serious.  It is a shame that they apparently don’t have enough self-esteem to stand on their own, or enough integrity to do the research and gain the knowledge. I realize that all these claims come from a basis of desiring to be “special” or to stand out from the crowd. Perhaps it is the appeal of assumed authority without any responsibility attached. 

What’s bad is that these sillies occasionally take the newbies (newly awakened) for a ride, often setting them back in their developmental journey.  Of course the flip side of that is the lesson of discernment. Life is, after all, one big-ass classroom.  All I can say is “keep your scopes up, kids.” I’ll try to illustrate this set of my pet peeves. 

When you claim yourself as “this or that”, expect people to watch you and eventually challenge you. I ran into one woman who claimed to be a medicine woman and practicing witch, among other things.  Well… she’s on psychiatric medication, she’s physically sick, her kid is in permanent custody of her ex-in-laws because she pulled a few too many dramatic episodes on them, she cannot hang onto a committed relationship for more than a year or so, she’s a sex-addict, she’s always hurting for money, and she’s perpetually unemployed. She wants to start her own craft business, but wouldn’t work a major festival (for a commission on what she sold) with a friend who is an established vendor. The networking opportunity alone would have been worth her while.  She enjoys playing the victim and sluffing-off responsibility.  Now, does this sound like someone who is in control of her life/reality?  Would you really want this person for a teacher and what would you expect this person to teach you?  Well… actually she really is in control of her reality… but she doesn’t realize it.  I guess that’s the point. She hasn’t recognized the patterns she is in.  That’s not a “medicine woman” that’s a woman on medicine. There is a difference. 

Working so many psychic fairs over the years, I’ve run into at least 4 readers who are on psychiatric medications, which says a lot for their level of development. How much of what they would have to say in a reading would you be willing to accept?  Some try to teach classes and give lectures… usually something that’s already been packaged. Some simply cannot hold a regular job. I know people who really make their living doing readings, and they’re damn good at it. It’s a whole different ballgame when a “reader” is simply trying to make some pocket change to supplement their disability payment. A good way to spot these is their assumed names.  People with integrity don’t require an alter ego to do business.

Another good way to spot a fake is to look for a bunch of fancy terminology with no real effort to explain it. A sales pitch for their upcoming megabucks course is not an appropriate explanation. The more jargon they hide behind, the more likely it will cost a lot of money to learn what the hell it is they’re talking about, and it will likely be the same old bullshit repackaged and perfumed. There are several sparkling examples of this in the Houston area. One woman literally repackaged the old “Flower of Life” merkaba course, selling it as the “Breath of Light”.   When a newbie brings up one of their names, I ask whether the mumbo-jumbo jargon puzzled them.  

When looking at a possible teacher, look at the level of drama and/or quality of their life. Are they calm and serene? Are they manic and desperate? How do they react to adversity?  Is this what you want to emulate?  Can they teach you something, or will you be the teacher?  You’d be surprised at how many times I’ve given the answer to a question that a teacher couldn’t.

Granted, we’re all teachers and we’re all students. Each of us starts with a little piece of the puzzle and we have to find a way to put it all together. I’d say it’s a matter of avoiding the detours while learning the game.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-03-04 02:35:41. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Your Inner Old Fart

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Granted a lot of old “Inner Child” issues are coming up because of Chiron Retrograde, and there’s always something new to deal with surfacing… kind of like peeling away layers of an onion. Yes, you do have to go look at the stuff that happened in your childhood to see how that’s been affecting you as an adult. You do have to release those nasty things that were said or done to you, and forgive the buggers that said or did that stuff.  You have to find where it is influencing your current patterns and defeat that old programming.

 For example, a lady friend of mine was always treated as “second class” by her parents, that she wasn’t good enough or desired… naturally this had an influence on her self-esteem. She went in for hypnotherapy to see what happened.  It turns out that she was actually the second child born to her parents, the first child was a boy that had been still-born. They wanted a boy.  The hypnotherapist took my friend back to her earliest memory as a baby, and it was just as she was being presented to her parents in the recovery room. As her mother held her she said, with a disappointed tone, “It’s a girl.”  She wasn’t the replacement son they wanted, and now they were stuck with this girl. That’s where my friend’s self-esteem issues came from, so she was able to deal with it from there.

 That said, the inner child is a demanding little brat, and there is only so far you can go with pandering to it. Do your excavating and get it done with, because there is something a lot more interesting to learn about and achieve synthesis with for greater empowerment… your “Inner Old Fart”.

 You remember the Wiccan trinity concept of Maiden/Mother/Crone?  We live in a youth-worshipping culture, or haven’t you noticed?  Young, tight bodies run by young, stupid brains are paraded all over the mass media.  The mid-life years of parenthood are the most productive years we know, where most of us amass most of our fortunes to last us through the final stages of life.  Why doesn’t our society like to acknowledge the Crone? Why are the older folks discarded so readily?  Why do we have to cover our wrinkles?  Our elders are supposed to be the keepers of our collective wisdom, and in many societies they are revered as such.

 Your Inner Old Fart is your future self.  So how do you view your future? You know that your longevity and quality of life is all up to you and your actions right now.  Are you going to be footloose and free after you “retire”?  Are you going to be active and healthy then?  Are you going to be a sharp old codger to lead the next generation of seekers?   Are you going to proudly name your own time of transition or are you going to do that steady down-the-toilet spiral into the nursing home and oblivion?  Are you going to be herded from one way-station to the next by someone wielding this society’s current throw-away culture value system?  If you have your head up your ass, don’t be too surprised when it isn’t so easy to pull it out of there.

 How about the Old Fart attitude?  The Inner Old Fart is cannily looking at all aspects of what is going on around you, analyzing and passing judgment with reference to whether you’ll bother going along with any of it.  What’s the angle?  What’s in it for me? Why bother?  Why do I want to get involved? Will it still be important a couple of months or years from now?  Get used to making people justify the “why and wherefore” of everything.  Remember that nobody can make you do anything.  You will find that by looking at the angles, particularly the angles on your money and health, that most of “the system” is NOT there for your best and highest good.  The Old Fart cannot be snookered into or out of anything. The Old Fart realizes that no matter what, you are responsible because it is your own choice.  “Sorry honey, go sell that crap somewhere else.”  There’s a lot of freedom in telling people where to get off.

Granted, if you are still too young to be a real Old Fart, you may have to internalize some of the Old Fart talk while you act quietly from that wisdom.  You know you’ve arrived at the Old Fart stage when you smart off and people think it’s cute.  Believe me, there’s nothing cuter than an 80 year-old telling some fool to “kiss my grits”. 

In short, the Inner Old Fart is the Zen of the Rat’s Ass taken into the next living level. Yes, there is truly a lot of power to be gained from attaining synthesis with one’s Inner Old Fart.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

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How Amazon.com killed the New Age Shops

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

At May 2009’s regional dowsing conference in Houston, George Goodnow gave a lecture that I found most interesting… he connected the dots on why the new age stores have been dropping off the map. George’s company, Xeonix, sells pendulums of all sorts to the wholesale sources like AzureGreen, as well as direct sales to the new age stores. George states that as many as 40% of the new age shops have been closing up each year, with perhaps 10% in new stores being opened to take their place.  There are several different explanations for this trend.

In the past 10 years I have seen two of the oldest new age bookstores in the US close their doors, one in San Diego and one in Houston. I don’t know about the one in California, which was the oldest one, but Aquarian Age Bookshelf here in Houston died when its elderly lady owners died one by one. Volunteers helped keep the store running while the last of its owners did the downhill slide, and with no legal secession, the owner’s children had to liquidate and close it down. It really was a shame to see it go, but it was at least a couple of years ahead of the trend we are now seeing.

The advent of the worldwide web is what really has been killing the new age “Harry Potter” type shops. Most of the new age shops were the primary distribution point of metaphysical and holistic books, and the owners were generally very knowledgeable people who could talk reasonably with a person who was in flux (as in awakening to the spiritual path and wanting to make changes). This little bookshop owner would listen carefully, offer some well-considered advice, and then lead the customer to a selection of books and be able to recommend a selection or two, so the customer could peruse and make a selection, and perhaps add a few other things while meandering towards the register. The owners typically provided a service and information out of passion.

When the web and on-line discount book outlets gained acceptance, the new age shops really lost their primary line of sales. The new age shops went to selling primarily consumables… everything from nutritional supplements, candles, pendulums, bric-a-brac, crystals, ritual stuff and the like. And the owners typically had to go to work at a “day job” to support themselves while leaving some kid behind to manage the shop. The advice spewing from the kid behind the register wasn’t on the level, and the consumables didn’t work, so the service wasn’t there any more. In summary, the bric-a-brac can’t deal with causation and can’t help people who really need information. You can’t expect a kid to take the place of a seasoned and passionate professional.

I had noticed a long time ago that no new age shop could last very long unless they had classroom space and the right kind of teachers, and could book a selection of guest lecturers… basically a draw for the shop. The success of the classroom depends heavily on maintaining a good website, advertising presence, and mailing out a newsletter at least every other month.

Some successful shops I’ve seen had small offices they could sub-let to various professionals such as reiki practitioners, reflexologists, massage therapists, psychics, astrologers, hypnotherapists and the like, which would ideally bring in their own customers who would also patronize the shop.  I’ve seen various arrangements on these two fronts. The only way a shop owner can keep related professionals as a feature in their shop is to actually charge that related professional a pro-rata share of the square footage and utilities… the arrangement where the owner simply took a percentage of the professional’s income didn’t work at all. If the “related professional” isn’t in business to grow their own business, the arrangement will not work.

I’ve seen some of these shops coming and going over the years simply because the owners started out too far in debt to sustain the shop long enough for it to take off, and a number of them tried to shore up their inventory by carrying a lot of consigned goods (which has its own liabilities). I’ve seen several go out of business because the owners didn’t have the requisite knowledge base or integrity to make it work. When it comes to opening a retail shop of any sort, it takes serious capital to go large enough to sustain. You really can’t shoestring it and hope to build up. You need substantial inventory and do consistent advertising and events to draw people in.

NOW…

People are going to the bigger retail chains for the new age books, which are now being exposed to a more mainstream audience. Of course, you will find lots of new age authors interspersed among the rest of the store’s inventory… which may or may not help. I’ve seen the Mary Summer Rain books stuck in the “American Indian” section, and the Abraham Hicks and Stuart Wilde books stuck in the “self help” section.  If the customers cannot locate what they are looking for, it won’t be purchased and the book publishers will have to buy back that inventory after a while. That will eventually tend to narrow the range of what will be published.

My local Barnes & Noble, as described above, has a pretty small new age section, limited to some paranormal crap, some wiccan stuff,  a bunch of astrology stuff, and the usual hack Sylvia Browne and other assorted “psychic” fluff authors. If you want a particular author, you have to go fish with the computer wizard.

There is still a crying need for passionate experts, but without a platform, such as a shop to work out of, they have to find other outlets. My guess is that you will see more new age shops among the permanent booths at the weekend flea markets (like Houston’s Traders’ Village and Trading Fair II), and most will either stay on that level or expand to an on-line presence. Some may find a small house to expand into in a neighborhood that has gone commercial.  The whole dynamic of a shop changes completely when commercial retail space is involved because the lease contracts are an inch thick and expensive to get out of.

Most of the “newly awakened”, however, may not think to look in these flea market stalls. That’s where I, and people like me, come in. People contact me like I contacted various new age bookstore owners back when I first awakened. I will talk to them, comfort them, coach them, dowse for them, and even e-mail them some information to peruse. I can refer them to other sources and books. If they are local, I can also do geopathic or ghost clearings. Since I don’t have to worry about paying rent on some retail space, I don’t have to hard-sell anything, either. 

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

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Frequency Matches in Relationships

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Over the past couple of days I have spent an undue amount of time on the phone talking to people who are cheesed-off because of some so-called friend, lover or relative that has been using and abusing them, and it has finally come to a head. The people I talk to generally feel the need to express what they are feeling and dealing with, but “don’t want to hurt their feelings”.  Some are finally starting to learn these lessons after several repeats of the same pattern, while some figure they are just the latest episode in that other person’s life. Either way, I try to be a sounding board so they can work through the issues at play.

 My widowed, but very independent mother has a “friend” who has decided that the world owes her a living. This friend is currently living with her sister, who in turn wants her gone. A couple of months ago, the friend had a car accident and totaled her car… minimal car insurance. No savings. Depending on Medicare/Medicaid and Social Security for everything, and it isn’t much. Mom wound up carrying this woman to her doctors’ appointments and to the twice-weekly mah-jongg classes… and the grocery store… and so forth. This was eating on mom’s time and really racking up the mileage. She noticed that this friend, who has little money, is wasting money of senseless junk. With her current place to stay coming to an end, she needed to be getting hold of some relief agencies for assistance fast, and a month later still has not done so. She’s clearly looking either for a rescue out of left field, or another sympathetic victim to latch onto.

Mom is as good-hearted as they come, but when she notices a lot of foolishness going on, she detaches very quickly. I told her not to worry about offending this mooch… just pare down the schedule to taking her friend to mah-jongg class once a week and let her handle the rest on her own.

I mirrored this to my mom by relating a similar-enough experience I had in my business. This aromatherapist I know sells her cabinet sets of essential oils through holding classes in which she also sells and teaches the use of pendulums. She’s bought a lot of my pendulums over the years, but the problem I had with her was that she typically did her level best to float her business on my cash flow. She’d pick out a bunch of pendulums, dicker me down on pricing, write a couple of checks on different accounts, and would often make the larger check post-dated for a couple of weeks. When it came time to cash that check, I would get a call the day before its date asking me not to deposit that check “because of an emergency” or some such crap. She even bounced a couple of checks over the years. I put my foot down on several occasions stating that if she doesn’t have the money in hand, I wasn’t going to bring any pendulums. It got to where it was strictly “cash and carry”.  The last time she called wanting pendulums, I quoted the new pricing to keep up with inflation and the demands on my time… and she didn’t want to play unless she could have the pricing from 10 years ago. No problem. No pendulums. See ya!

My oldest and best friend in the world, “J”, was telling me last night how she’s gotten berated and blown-off by both a nephew and a sister-in-law in the same week. The teenage nephew is on drugs (most probably crack, meth and pot) and keeps trying to tell her all of these supposedly spiritual experiences he’s been having. “J” is not only a very well developed psychic, but had recovered from being on heroin, pot and barbiturates in prior years, so she knew what she was hearing… she could distinguish between an acid trip and a past-life bleed-through and told him her interpretations. He e-mailed her accusing her of all sorts of really petty behavior… to the effect that she was jealous of him and that he would never have anything further to do with her. Okay… that’s fine… no big loss.

The same week “J” had forwarded a funny e-mail to her list and got a really nasty note back from her husband’s mooching sister-in-law who just decided to snap. A little background here: “J’s” mom-in-law allowed this particular SIL and her herd of kids to move in with her… as a result, the MIL pretty much has nothing and is even reheating old coffee from days before… you don’t want to think about having dinner in that house. The lawnmower gets stolen and hocked routinely. The SIL won’t do anything whatsoever to help keep the house up and the roach problem is horrific.  One year after the SIL’s daughter stole a sizeable amount of cash from “J’s” purse, “J” and her husband took to simply picking his mom up and taking her to dinner some years ago. The SIL’s other kids are all drunks or on drugs. The whole family is like that… they just don’t own up to their own stuff. In this e-mailed missive, the SIL berated “J” for being a snob, for accusing her little darling daughter of stealing, making snide comments about the sanitary conditions of the house and of keeping her “sweet and kind brother” away from the family fold and mooching off of him.

“J” thought this hilarious because the only reason her husband ever went back to visit his mom throughout their relationships was because “J” encouraged him to do so. When “J” met her husband, he was supporting a bunch of deadbeat pot-head friends in a tiny rathole apartment and had to put a brick behind the tire of his jalopy to keep it in the parking spot. She had to coach him to get off the lower rungs of the I.T. ladder by dressing, grooming and taking on some initiative without giving away his ideas. Without that coaching, he would still be in that same set of circumstances now instead of a $150,000 house in Tomball with two Cadillacs. “J” didn’t dignify the SIL’s e-mail with any kind of a response… that is pointless.

This very afternoon I spent 2 hours on the phone with “G”, who was in a PMS rage about her boyfriend and her family. There’s a long history of abuse in “G’s” background… beginning with being raped by her own father while her mother was pregnant, and continuing with being thrown against the wall so many times that she’s sustained brain damage (mostly in the analytical centers), and of course plenty of verbal and emotional abuse. This set of patterns has played out another echo with the now ex-boyfriend… a rich mama’s boy who disappeared after she nursed him back to health after a ski accident crippled him. Of course the writing was on the wall, but “G” couldn’t see it except in retrospect and with some considerable help. Her ex-boyfriend is a replay of her brother, who is also actively manipulated by mama and has never had a steady relationship… and likely never will. I talked her down off the rage. She still has to deal with her dysfunctional family and her shrew mom’s 80th birthday party next week. “G” is in her mid-forties and is still drifting… no real estate holdings, no retirement accounts (only just this year got an IRA at my suggestion), never married, and still chasing an ephemeral method of making a living, while completely disregarding my advice to do something simple that would bring money to her. She knows she has to process through all these long-standing patterns, but I think that she’s still in the middle of that swamp.

The upshot of all of this is that if you really are on a spiritual path, you will likely be seeing similar situations where a severe mis-match of frequencies is going to cause a blow-up of sorts. People are mirrors for us… mirrors of where we are at and where we have already been. There is a lot to be said for looking at whose patterns are active. The people who are still in those patterns are under a lot of stress and still have no idea where it is coming from because they haven’t looked at themselves or their circumstances. For those of us on “the path”, coming in contact with someone who is still in the victim mode is much like ice water hitting hot grease. We’ve already done that inner work and had to deal with our own darksides in order to pull ourselves out of the toilet. Any replays are there to remind us of how far we’ve come away from that stuff, or how close we still are to it. The whole point of all this new age stuff is to set ourselves free by being fully conscious of our thoughts and actions. About the only things we can do is either gently speak our truth or back away.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc

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Reiki for the Ghouls

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Stuart Wilde recently tossed his NING blogsite in favor of going back to his old blogsite. The feeling coming from his NING articles, which people could actually make comments to, was that Stuie was riding kind of a slippery slope of really broad judgements about a lot of basic spiritual practices.

When he went after other “new age” authors like David Icke, I disagreed with him saying that Icke had evolved quite a lot from his old lizard line (even though we have been seeing a lot of thinly disguised lizards walking around in people clothing), but his message has gotten more into personal empowerment from the inside out… unified field mechanics and all that.  Actually, we desperately need those somewhat frightening authors that publish the spooky stuff, because they shock a lot of people into wakefulness and force them to make some decisions… the red pill or the blue pill. Once on “the path” people can do their own research, and oftentimes that leads people around full-circle.

When Stuie wrote on his NING site that Reiki takes people to the ghouls, I did jump in and clarify to remove the fear factor. Yes… there are people who are not particular about whom they have doing the Reiki teaching and attunements… I’ve run into a lot of cases in which the teacher withheld vital information about protection from unbeneficial energies and how to disengage from the client… just to set the students up for failure while taking their money for the teachings.  

I have known people who didn’t know how to disengage properly that wound up taking on the health problems of their clients, even to the point of being hospitalized.

I’ve run into people who were not particular what energies they really were channeling when they did Reiki energy work… if a person is ego-based they will attract funky beings who will use that opening to do some mischief. If a Reiki practitioner isn’t actively seeking to bring in the highest, most angelic energies possible, and assumes that all Reiki is the same, they are not likely to be consistently bringing in the best.

I’ve run into people who, being fully owned by the dark beings, have literally worked the local psychic fairs just tearing up the auras of unsuspecting rubes.

I know a couple who practiced Reiki together in an office practice. The lady had to kick her husband to the curb because he was literally leaving the clients in pain because he wasn’t doing the Reiki right… his focus wasn’t where it needed to be.

If your Reiki is all about egotism and your attitude is “I am the healer”, then it will take you to the ghouls.  If your approach is to help the other person on all levels as much as the soul will allow, and to provide the opportunity for that person to heal himself, then you are probably going to be just fine.

So Stuart Wilde does have a point about Reiki being a loaded gun. Truth is, your intent and focus really account for a lot.

Reiki can be a delightful way to tell the universe that you are indeed ready to put the hyperdrive in gear for advanced development. It can also be an excellent tool that can be used in so many ways. I routinely use Reiki as a basis for remote healing and energy clearing, exorcisms, amping up my medicine jewelry with angelic energy, and all sorts of other good stuff.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc  

Originally posted 2010-03-04 02:57:24. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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A Pep Talk About This Epoch

Saturday, June 5th, 2010

http://www.davidicke.com/articles/media-and-appearances/34544-david-icke-and-jordan-maxwell-in-conversation-at-project-avalon

By all means, take the time out to watch this video in which David Icke and Jordan Maxwell are discussing exactly what is going on at this point in time. These fellows have been on their respective paths for decades and have heard, seen and experienced so much, and their experiences dovetail with my own experiences and those of my friends. 

In short, we are at the change of the yugas, or epochs, and the old, reptilian control systems are being broken down by we, the humans, awakening into consciousness. As we awaken, the reptilian constructs (Illuminati, Rothschilds, Bilderbergers, etc.) are going to ramp up their efforts to keep us in fear and under control. We can expect things to get really interesting in the next few years, but we have to remember who we are and the fact that they can’t control us once we wake up and refuse to allow our minds to continue to support their control systems. While protests and Tea Parties may help on some level as a show of force, the level that matters most is the one inside of us.

Take a little time out to talk to Holy Spirit, and ask that you be led where you need, be protected, be given expanded awareness, and that you will meet who you need to meet and see what you need to see. When you open up and allow yourself to listen to that still small voice, that is when the adventure begins.  That will bring you into synchronicity, listening to higher guidance, and greater levels of inspiration.

I can vouch for all of the above.  You’d be surprised at what comes across as I’m building custom jewelry for people.  I’ve written one instructional manual which I sell through my website, and I am now writing a novel which incorporates a lot of spiritual knowledge as well as some plain rowdy fun. I open to the aspect of Spirit and ask “okay, what now?” and I am given the next set of additions. In the meantime, I’ve processed through a lot of my own inner stuff while writing all of this. While I’ve been running this character in my book through the gauntlet towards setting her free, I’ve also set myself free a little at a time, right along with her.  I’m about 4/5 of the way through writing this novel, and I’m already getting into a round of brainstorming on a second novel. I can’t wait to get this first novel into the hands of a few friends for the first reading. I have had three psychics tell me that it will be greatly received because it will resonate with so many different kinds of people on so many levels. I certainly hope so.  If I can come up with a tool to assist people in waking up, I consider it a true service to humanity.

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Rev. Suzanne Powell manufactures and markets a full line of line of natural stone “medicine jewelry”, subtle energy tools, pendulums, angel and fairy art and “spiritual soap” through her website, http://www.turtleisland.cc   She also offers an e-book, “Fat-Free Spirituality” which is packed with advanced spiritual knowledge.

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