 The red Corvette ahead of us sported a license plate with the numbers 444, which comforted me as my husband Steven and I drove along Pacific Coast Highway.
The number sequence 444 means that the angels are with you (see my book Angel Numbers for more information on the meanings behind numbers). We were scheduled for an appointment with a visiting healer named Kelly Willis, who was conducting therapeutic sessions on a crystal bed. He had been highly recommended by friends who'd already worked with him.
I'd just finished writing about my past-life experiences with crystal-healing beds in Atlantean temples for my book Angel Medicine, so I was naturally curious and excited about having a crystal-bed session in my current life.
I was tired and battered from too many days on the road giving workshops. I needed to receive some healing in order to revive myself before returning to my travelling schedule for the rest of the year. This session was a great way for me to be helped, as everyone needs to receive – especially those of us who are healers and givers.
The healing chamber
I walked into the lobby and met Chris Marmes, a girlfriend and local psychic healer who is soft-spoken and has the gentle energy that comes from years of devoted meditating. She was keenly interested in Kelly's crystal-healing bed and his methods, and she'd come to study both.
'Would you like to be with me in my healing session?' I asked her.
Chris doesn't talk much, but her expression conveyed her answer: 'Yes, if you're okay with my being there.'
Since I trusted Chris and didn't yet know Kelly except through friends' recommendations, I motioned for her to come with me. Steven lay on a massage table with a metal frame hanging overhead. Seven enormous crystal points hung from the frame, each crystal pointing toward one of his seven major chakras. Coloured lights corresponding to each chakra colour (red for the base chakra, and so on) flashed behind each crystal. A machine controlling the speed of the flashing lights whirred in the background.
The machine and flashing lights slowed, and Steven opened his eyes. We looked at each other and smiled. His blue eyes radiated deep relaxation and contentment. I didn't need to ask him how he was or how he'd enjoyed his session. His bright eyes and renewed energy said everything.
Steven slowly stood up and helped me onto the massage table. Six clear quartz crystals stared down at me, sparkling like perfect energy conveyors. Pointing at my root chakra was a beige smoky quartz, a crystal known as a 'psychic vacuum cleaner' for its ability to clear away emotional toxins.
The energy of the large crystals made me feel spacey, as if I were in a waking dream. I closed my eyes as Kelly entered the room. A former Navy Seal, Kelly was a big macho man with an engineer's mind and a spirit-seeker's heart. Exhausted from all my travelling, I prayed for protection to help me relax into the session.
I saw the Greek warrior goddess, Athena, at my side like a powerful nurse in attendance during surgery. She paced and watched Kelly, and I felt safe enough to close my eyes again and surrender to the healing session.
As soon as I surrendered, I understood the reason for Athena's presence. The flickering lights behind the crystal points took me straight back to past-life memories of the Atlantean healing temples, which also featured therapeutic crystal beds. In Atlantis, the strong Mediterranean sunlight filtered through a hole at the temple's rooftop and was directed to a pyramid altar beneath the hole. The pyramid of light would bounce onto crystal points that we priestesses held above our patients' chakras on polished concave beds carved out of solid crystal.
Psychic debris
As in the Atlantis temples, Kelly's healing work involved pulling energy toxins from his patient's aura. First, I saw him pull a big black spidery mass from my throat chakra. I had a vision of a person jealous of my speaking career throwing a curse my way that had manifested as this spider. A neophyte would have thrown the curse right back at her, but I knew that such an action would have devastating consequences for myself and the other person. So I chose to pray for her well-being and healing instead. My success comes from using my power – the same power we're all born with – with love. Those who misuse their power experience struggles with life, including blocks in manifesting their goals.
Next, Kelly extracted an elderly husband and wife who attached to me during a mediumship session. They were loving, but I realized that they were one reason for my recent fatigue. As they left, my energy level rose dramatically. I protected myself during mediumship work by invoking Archangel Michael and visualizing white light around myself. Yet, during my intense seminar tours, I sometimes forgot to protect myself at smaller book-signing events. The couple hadn't possessed me in the scary sense; they were simply misguided hitchhikers whom I hadn't noticed due to my tiredness.
The flashing lights through the crystals felt wonderful. No darkness could hide in the bright light of this machine, along with Kelly's pure intentions and the prayers emitted by Chris (who sat nearby during the session).
I felt Kelly's presence near my head. Opening my eyes partway, I saw him yanking a big black bulb out of the top of my head. Like a gardener pulling a stubborn weed, Kelly's biceps bulged as he struggled to extract the entity through my crown chakra. A golden hue of light emanated from Kelly, but it wasn't purely from his own aura. Standing behind him was a team of beautiful and powerful goddesses: I saw Aine, the Celtic fairy queen; Aphrodite, the Greek love goddess; Maeve, the Celtic goddess who explained that she was helping me with perimenopausal issues; and of course, Athena.
A vision of the Atlantean healing temple overtook my awareness. Then it hit me: Although I'd administered countless healings to our patients at the temple, I'd never received treatment myself. And I'd continued this same unbalanced pattern of giving without receiving in my present lifetime.
I also saw how many times I'd feigned interest while listening to someone's complaints, and how this energetically lowered me. I needed to be completely authentic with others. Integrity demanded that I not be 'fake nice' and pretend to be interested in others' negative stories. If I were to truly awaken my inner high-priestess, I needed to courageously speak my truth with love.
I thought of Louise Hay, one of my heroes and mentors and someone whom I've been fortunate enough to travel with while giving workshops. One time Louise and I were eating lunch in Denver when someone approached me for an autograph. Louise said very matter-of-factly: 'We're eating lunch right now. You'll need to talk to Doreen afterward.' Louise masterfully said what was on her mind, with disarming power and grace. She showed no sign of guilt or remorse for being truthful.
Kelly continued pulling psychic debris out of my body and aura. At the end of the session, he reminded me of Archangel Michael after an arduous clash with dark forces.
The need to shield ourselves
Once I'd regained full awareness of my surroundings, I faced my healer. His expression belied his distress, and I thought, This is why I don't schedule many healings for myself! Just like my long hair exhausts my hairdresser, my world-weary aura challenges healers.
Kelly spoke slowly and deliberately. 'That was the toughest battle I've ever waged. You've got to shield yourself better!'
I'd received the same scolding from Dolores Cannon, the hypnotherapist and author, when she'd regressed me back to my lifetime as a Babylonian priest-astronomer. During the session, Dolores had hypnotized me into a full trance state and then asked me questions, with a tape recorder capturing everything I said. My unconscious mind spoke to Dolores about my present lifetime, demanding that I psychically shield myself more consistently.
Since I did healing work virtually continuously, including during my dreamtimes, I was often in an altered state – so much so that I hadn't driven a car on freeways since the mid-1990s, since I didn't trust that I was grounded enough to drive fast. With my frequent altered states and busy healing schedule, I often forgot to shield myself.
Shielding involves visualizing a protective film of light around yourself or another person or object. This light acts as a filter, allowing only love to pass through. Any lower energies are transmuted by the light. White light is the living, intelligent essence of angels, so when you visualize white light around an object or a person, you're invoking angels to protect it. The light shield wears off after about 12 hours, so it needs to be re-invoked. In intense and fearful situations, the light wears off even quicker.
On the drive home, Steven said, 'Kelly's warrior background as a Navy Seal and former police officer is perfect for his Light Warrior work.'
I told Steven about my insights during the crystal-healing session. 'Shielding and being authentic is honouring the goddess within me.' I asked Athena and Archangel Michael to remind me to shield myself consistently.
From Goddesses and Angels, copyright 2005 by Doreen Virtue, published by Hay House.
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