KRYSTAL LIGHT CENTRE: MY STORY (Keeping it Simple)

I have seriously been on the path for the last 15 years and for me it started with my daughter Brooke persistently asking me to go along to her church as she was heading off to England and would not be back for awhile. Me, i was a Church of England and and had not been to church at that stage for a few years as things were not sitting right with me and my beliefs. They were telling me that what i believed was not right and against God. So i left. I then just wandered along with no real purpose i suppose, i was working and bring up four children and although i was happy something was missing. I suppose you could say i was sitting on the spiritual path and not doing. I relented and went to the service with Brooke. It was Thornlie way (outside of my comfort zone as i did not travel too far in those days) and when we got inside the hall we took our seats and not knowing what to expect just sat in anticipation. Well it was a lovely service, we had the prayers and the hymns without overdoing it and the medium who i think from memory was Pauline Jackson. I felt stimulated and excited as i had just listen to the philosophy for the evening and that sat right with me and just to know that others felt the same as me, wow i thought it was great. Then the medium ship began and that held me spellbound so to speak as i had never seen some one work this way before with spirit. I was used to going to psychics who worked from home and had not been to lots of those either as i have a trust issue.

Healing was important for me because i believed that it could help us in our everyday lives, not only in the physical self but more importantly the healing of the soul. I sat and learned healing through the church after attending the services for about 12 months. I took the classes for 6 weeks and once again travelling to Gosnells as there did not seem to be anything happening in the Fremantle area where i lived. i was so enthused that once again i thought i could everything and anything. But we soon learn through our experiences that this is not so. When i started to work in the healing room (you had to get there early as there were many healers working the churches back then), you were used as a battery first before being allowed to stand behind someone and give them healing. Being a battery meant that you sat in front of the person whilst a healer stood behind the person and gave the healing. Why you wonder was this done? It was a good way of learning from others and also building your confidence and you were also able to take the time to learn how the energies worked and what you were able to experience. After a period of time i too was able to give healing to others. It was indeed a privilege and i certainly began to feel the different energies that you experience when first starting out. We are all taught to do healing with a format but after a while you notice how everyone does it their own way. I loved the healing room, the quietness, the energies and above all just being able to give someone else a little of what i had to give.

I soon learnt the real meaning of healing when my daughter Sandie was admitted to hospital with an illness and no one seem to know what was wrong with her and if they did they were not saying. After being in hospital for a few days and having tests done, we were still not told what was wrong and she was certainly not herself as every day seemed to take her further and further in to a down ward spiral. Sandie was only young 21, and not long been married to Gary with a small child, and on the Friday she was told to say her prayers as they were going to remove her bowel and she would have to wear a bag (it was not known whether this would be full time or part time) but she was booked to have surgery on the Tuesday. Her grandmother came to the hospital and gave her healing in the form of reiki. I at the time was only in to spiritual healing and did not know or understand what reiki was but the long and short of it was that the specialist came in on the Monday evening and said to us "i don't know what you did Sandie but your prayers have been answered as you do not have to have the surgery at this stage as everything seems to have settled". We were so grateful as anyone who has gone through this would understand how relieved we were although it was still a long time before she was her old self again and still suffers to this day but no where near she was back then. Healing does not necessarily help to heal the person on the day but can take several days to feel the benefits. One comment i heard whilst attending the healing rooms was that once you began to give healing out to others you too felt much better in yourself. I heard people saying that they felt less stressed and much more able to cope with incidents that were happening in their own lives. You also took on a different prospective concerning the loss of a loved one. I too felt this way as i progressed with my learning and understanding. When working the healing rooms you were also taught to respect all that was given and received. We did not talk once the healing began and you certainly did not give off clairvoyance and if you really needed to speak to the person to whom you were giving the healing to then you waited until the healing room had finished for the evening or the service was over. I have had some wonderful experiences through the healing which i will share with you later as i am sure others have too. I continued to work in the healing rooms for quite some years and loving every minute of it.

You know, you meet so many people who have the same thoughts as you and are just trying to learn as much as possible. But it was in a circle that I came to learn what friends and having faith and trust really meant. And it is here that you learn so much from other people but also so much of what has happened to them in the past and also the now. You learn how other people have struggled within this life, of their losses etc, how could you not become apart of each of them. There is also the good times where you laugh at the silly things in life. I sat in a circle where there were about ten of us and as i sit here typing this it brings a smile to my lips just thinking of all that we did especially in the early days when we were all learning and not trusting. And not even knowing where the information was coming from. But our teacher assured us that we were on the right track. I, for those who know me now, i was and still am very reserved and don't like to be out there so to speak. I would prefer to watch everyone else work rather than do it myself. (the trust issue again). We were asked to stand up and do a small talk on ourselves, well honestly that was the hardest thing i had to do. I just found it difficult to find my voice and speak out as i was so nervous. Our teacher had a talking stick and she would place it in our hands so we had something else to concentrate on as we spoke. My talk was very short i can assure you. When it was time to learn psychomtry, we were asked to write in a notepad so that as we progressed we could look back to see how far we had come. I think my first reading consisted of about two words as i did not really understand like most of us how all this worked and where i was supposed to get the information from. Perseverance and patients were the words we often heard as like every thing we do in life, the more we do it, the more we understand and achieve it. I was lucky as i was often practising with Lesley and after awhile we would both pick one and other as partners as we always felt comfortable with one another. At least i did. We would do our readings on each other and laugh at what we used to receive. Sometimes it was right and some times it was not. but we continued to try. Our teacher realised what was happening between us and so we did not get to work together often after that. People came and went as it was an open circle but some of us stayed as we were committed to our learning. I remember saying to my teacher about one particular person in the circle whom for some reason she paired me up with for a few weeks in a row and this lady was very good at doing readings and had been doing tarots for some time and i being a novice was very nervous sitting opposite her. The teacher was unaware of what she had done but i have to say it certainly made me try harder and i learnt a lot at the time. Imagination is good if you have it as it helps when doing readings. We used to do an exercise where we were play acting and you never knew what you were going to be until the last minute. You may be a spider, an alien, a flower, and you had to make up a story. Well what can i say, i did not like doing these exercises as i always felt a bit stupid really but when i look back it made all of us stand up and contribute something. It also helped to lift the vibration. Some people were really good at the exercise and went on for ever, others that were not so good only talked for a few seconds. Like they got it over and done with quickly. We also used to sing very loudly to all different kinds of songs to lift the vibrations. I don't think i would like to have lived next door as we were not good at singing and staying in tune.

There came a time whilst attending this church where my daughter was diagnosed with a tumour on the optic nerve. I could not have asked for more understanding, love and assistance at this time. She was to undergo a seven hour surgery and was risky as there was a chance her sight could have been affected, as with all surgeries there is always a risk. Brooke was not coping with the idea very well but every week we went to church and she would having healing to prepare her for her ordeal. The time came when we had to go to the hospital and i was lucky to have friends who gave up there time to sit at the hospital with me and to send healing to Brooke whilst the surgery was taking place. No sooner had we settled Brooke into the pre-op room and we went to have a coffee, when not long after a nurse informed us that her procedure was not taking place and that we could take her home. Well first they had to find where the doctors had put her as an emergency had come in as they had Brooke on the table already to go. Brooke was high as kite with anti-seizure drugs and was feeling pretty good and telling us that see her trust in God meant that she did not have to have surgery. She could not have been that lucky as she was rescheduled for two weeks later. So off we went back to the hospital on the date given and she was very nervous this time. Many people who were sitting in circles were sending Brooke healing. I always remember the specialist explaining to Brooke that after the surgery she would be bruised from the forehead down to the chest. Much to the doctors surprise Brooke did not have one bruise on her body as not only were people praying for her but many people came to the hospital and gave her every healing possible. I think the hospital was pleased to see her leave as there were that many visitors all day and into the night. The surgery was a success and although like her sister has to keep a check on her health is doing fine. Personally i could not thank all these people enough or spirit for taking such good care of her.

It was now time to move on as i was asked by a friend if i would help her to set up a church and offer something different to those who where looking for something new. Her dreams were high and sounded great. There would be lots of work to do. I thought it was a good idea at the time and looked forward to the challenge and was offered the role of Healing Leader which was at the time everything and the only thing that i wanted to do. So it was on. Finding premises, booking mediums and everything that went with setting the church up, including training healers. We had a weekend where we trained up about thirty healers so that they understood all that we could teach them about spiritual healing. The big night came and we were all so excited as people starting coming for the service. Many people came also for the healing and we were kept very busy. Jan Cartwright was there taking photos for her magazine as well as my daughter filming it on video as we had three well respected mediums on that night to do the platform. I had never seen so many people attend a service before as we could not fit everyone through the door. As things settled into a routine, the church had good attendance and the healing room started to settle and run smoothly. Unfortunately, because not every one could do healing on others each week and rosters were unreliable because of peoples commitments outside of the church, these numbers started to dwindle. Our healing room was a welcomed sanctuary for those that attended and the dedicated healers came every week regardless. I oversaw the healers as they worked and always made sure those that came received the healing necessary for them. Whilst watching the healers work i often had the opportunities to see the energies in the room and the aura on those that had illnesses or injury of varying degree. I naturally kept this information to myself as i did not feel it was mine to share. The church was going well and our leaders were holding courses for others to learn, which i loved to help out at as i also learnt from these days. We never stop learning. Circle was going good i felt i was progressing at long last as we were doing more overheads than psychometry.

Still we had rules and regulations such as not to smoke before we came, not to wear perfumes, and to be in our seats 10 mins before we were to start. The last rule was a bit hard as we only saw each other for that night a week and loved to catch up. We had one student in class that when we came to her, the reading always start with "I would like to come to you as i feel like you are so stressed and that tiredness etc comes in around you" What could you expect the poor love had five energetic boys and our teacher soon caught on and we had to start that reading with no stress or tiredness mentioned. There was the night when we put on a healing and reading evening and that was great as it was a fun raiser. I had to give a philosophy in front of about forty people and was i nervous. I spoke on Healing and i can still remember how close to tears from nerves and the palms sweating i got through it and thought never again. I said that about a lot of things back then. The night was a success and some reading were done.