Here is a little information about me, Elissa, the founder of this site and the seer of this vision.

My Journey  •  Books  •  Energetic Healing
The Big Picture  •  Experiences & Practices   •  Education and Work

My Healing / Spiritual Journey:

I began my healing journey at age 8 when I was introduced to the 12 steps. I became an enthusiastic member of "Pre-teen" (Alateen for those under 13). It was around that time that I had been reading Old Testament Bible stories in a book that had been in the house, and so asked for a Children's Bible for Christmas one year to learn more.

Thus began my search for the Divine, self-awareness, and the desire to be a "better" person.

My studies of the Bible eventually took me to Unitarian Universalist seminary, where I learned more about the history of Christianity. That and additional studies have given me an understanding of the importance of weeding out cultural context from any scripture, as well as examining if and how original texts have been changed over time.

Books:

I found the Tao Te Ching and the Bhagavad-Gita to be immensely helpful on my continued spiritual quest, and even to provide some healing of the mind. I am currently studying the Ashtavakra Gita as well as the Baktri Sutras. Favorite modern authors and titles include: Eckhart Tolle, David Hawkins, Sensible Self-Help, Deepak Chopra, Shakti Gawain, Emotional Clearing, Barbara Sher, Anne Wilson Shaef, Reinventing your Life, The Highly Sensitive Person, Charlottte Davis Kasl, Louise Hay, Allen Carr, The Healing Brain, The Social Animal, Don Miguel Ruiz, and Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

Energetic Healing:

On the more energetic level of healing, I have received countless Resonance Repatterning™ sessions, also known as Holographic Repatterning. I have trained in this work and also Reiki, Quantum Touch, intuitive energy work (Bhakti Academy), and Plaedian techiniques. I have also spent a total of six weeks at the Options Institute, learning about how beliefs create our experience of the world.in addition, I have attended seminars with the human awareness Institute, as well as a landmark education, sweat lodges, support groups, women's healing circles, drumming circles, and rebirthing.

The Big Picture:

If that sounds like a lot, and you're thinking something like I should be healed by now, you're right! I do believe I am close to a new chapter in the book of this life. There is right now, some trauma held in my system, which I believe will be able to be healed and released in the environment, which it is the intention of this website and my vision to create.

I believe I have chosen this particular life and this path, even the colors of my Aura, in order to be of service. Here are some facts of my life, which are part of what lead me to this conclusion: at a very young age I was seeking God. I was praying, I was asking for a children's Bible. This is unusual, and so I take note of it.

A couple of years after life landed me in an Asian literature course, which was where I read the Tao Te Ching and the Bhagavad-Gita, I went through a period of time where I was in a state of complete freedom, and also experienced what I would call pure unquenchable Divine Love, though the experience was really beyond words. In my state of complete freedom, I was at complete choice, and had no negative emotions whatsoever. I remember thinking, "I can't do anyone any good this way." because I was so free, and so much in a state of complete choice, I would look at others' suffering and have no comprehension of it, nor any desire to try to help them. It was simply their choice.

I believe it was at that point that I took on the crystal nature / color in my aura. This afflicted me, one might say, with the ability, to absorb feel and reflect back people's energy. Up until recently, it has been mostly an affliction. As I learn to manage it and use it to help others. It becomes more of a gift and ability.

Another indication, has to do with Indigos. About five years ago, after I had been reading about the Indigo children, a psychic person told me that I was an early Indigo, that I was here to sort of pave the way, or pave a way for other Indigos. Although she also said that this was why I was so much misunderstood, which is as true as true gets, I was somewhat indignant about this and subsequently got an electronic picture of my aura taken. It was very colorful, and by no means indigo or blue. I mentioned this to a spiritual teacher of mine at the time, and she said, well sometimes that's because you are compensating.

Shortly after that, I was instructed, in the form of a positive action of a resonance repatterning session, to get a Reiki session. the night before the session, I had a dream that a grackle came right up to me as I was leaning out of a window. The window is significant to me, because of another session where I drew a picture of a window with the seven elements and a bird in each pane. I looked up the meaning of grackle, and it signifies emotional healing and release. After the session, a friend of the practitioner's was there with her nephew. He was about four or five years old, and was drawing a picture of a blue witch. "Look," he said, "she's blue, because she's not angry anymore."

To add to that, several years later, I wrote about red overlays, and how a red overlay on the aura is something that we put on to protect ourselves when we have early childhood trauma. Also, taking an aura color test, I come out indigo. And, one day, as I was e-mailing somebody about this, my being indigo that is, a not so common bluebird flew very close to my window. And, just to give you an idea, I would say in the last week, I have maybe seen one bird (not a blue one) outside my window, much less flying right up to it.

Experiences and Practices:

Not too long after my experience of Divine Love, and my choice to dive back into the muck and muddle of human life, I developed Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). One of the books I read prescribed daily meditation - the simple practice of focusing on an object, any object, for just 5 minutes a day. In my determination to avoid permanent disability, the primary consideration and focus of current CFS support groups at the time, I thus began meditating.

At some point, I moved on to counting my breaths, lighting a candle. At first, I would get frustrated with myself when I would lose count from my mind wandering to other thoughts. A turning point in that process was when I changed my attitude towards the process. Instead of thinking of it as something I had to do, and to do right at that, I somehow changed into thinking of it as a time that was a gift to myself.

One time while meditating this way, my dog came up and licked my face and I just accepted it and he went on about his other business. This, I thought, was progress, and the ultimate goal - to be in peace, in meditation, while having an intention and working towards a goal.

To this day, I still find this simple practice of counting my breaths to be of great benefit. I also practice the Sudarshan Kriya, taught by the Art of Living.

I also started a gratitude ritual involving 7 elements, which I am happy to share in person with anyone here.

I've had two other striking spiritual experiences. One was during a women's sweat lodge. It was kind of like an experience of no thought. I could hear every sound around me in complete detail, and I could feel the temperature of the air and the feeling of it on my body and the sweat on my body. It's hard to describe any better than that. There was a sense of clarity, but I don't think I've had since then. the other was during a meditation, which preceded a great year to minute. The other, was during a meditation, which preceded a reiki attunemeent. My consciousness expanded. I don't think it was part of the actual guidance, we were receiving, but something that I alone experienced. By the time we were asked to come back, I experienced myself as the universe, even beyond that, as all that is.

As a result of these experiences, I am aware that the only real truth is that there is no truth, not that we can express in words anyway. We really do create our reality by our beliefs. And when we can become disentangled from believing that our beliefs are the truth, then we can become free, choosing beliefs that create a reality to our liking. I am also aware, that not only are we interconnected, we are in fact, all one. Yes, that sounds like a truth, a belief, one that creates our reality of peace, love, understanding and healing.

Education and Work:

My formal education also includes a BBA in computer information systems, as well as an MA in evaluation.

My post-graduate income-producing activities have included mostly computer work of some kind, going from technical support to management in the corporate and academic worlds, to web design in the last eight years, which initially gave me the flexibility I needed to help my grandmother, and now gives me the flexibility to pursue healing work, and sustainability efforts.

Prior to and during college, I had a variety of jobs, including taking care of horses, teaching horseback riding, working in a sub shop, painting houses and home improvement, landscaping, and pizza delivery.

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