Archangel Raphael, Dr. Garcia and the Crystal Bed

In April of 2006, I became interested in crystals and their healing properties. As an ANGEL THERAPIST©, I was giving readings and connecting with angels for others as I started receiving information regarding the construction of a crystal healing bed. I soon came to believe that this information was coming from Archangel Raphael.

With an offer to use the basement of a historic house in my neighborhood, I spent my spare time assembling something that I knew very little about. My wife was very patient with the time consuming and costly venture as she would gently ask me “How do you know that thing will work?” I would just smile and tell her I didn’t know how, but I had faith that it would work!

This particular crystal bed combines ancient and modern modalities such as light (chromo-therapy), sound, vibrational, magnetic and crystal therapies to form a unique experience. I was also guided to read a book called the “Wings of Heaven” that described a stone placement formation called Archangel Michael’s gate, which is a gateway to the angelic realm. I added this feature to the bed as well.

Several times during the process, I felt as if someone was looking over my shoulder as I worked in this vacant house, considered by many to be the haunted house of the neighborhood. As it turns out, the house had historic designation as the “Garcia House”, due to the fact that the owner started the first Mexican-American newspaper in the state of Texas. He was also known as Dr Garcia and as I worked in the house, I discovered old glass test tubes and remnants of the life he led.

The current owner of the property told me stories of how he had converted the house into a mini-hospital that treated immigrants who could not afford health care. In return, they would perform duties around the property as their exchange for the treatments. I often felt the presence of Dr. Garcia and Archangel Raphael in that basement.

I finished the project in fifteen months and invited a friend to experience a trial on the crystal bed. The thirty minutes session was interesting, as part of her intentions for the session were to find out if she should fly to Florida to visit her ailing mother. Toward the end of her time on the bed, a small plane flew right over the house at a low altitude to deliver a message from the angel guides that the time was right. She described an overwhelming feeling of peace from her time on the crystal bed that was unique to the world.

I moved the bed to my house and began to offer the crystal bed to my clients and it quickly began to fill my practice. Looking back, I think that Archangel Raphael was ‘training’ me on how to use the crystal bed with the sessions morphing into a prescribed standard of treatment.

As I began each session, an emerald green light would fill my minds’ eye to signal the arrival of Archangel Raphael. Having worked with Archangel Michael in my angel readings, Archangel Raphael’s energy was quite different. His energy was more like a doctor, a loving doctor that often delivered important information on how to deal with an illness, pain or emotional issue.

I would often get an image of someone leaning over the client and working to remove cords and string-like objects, especially from the area of the heart. In addition, I would get visions of the bones, tissue and the flow of blood as a way to message me that these were areas receiving energetic movements.

The experiences with the crystal bed have been wide-ranging and at times mind-blowing with the results. With a background as a carpenter, I often wondered why this information would come to me, until one client pointed out that the angel could easily message me with information about construction, in addition to the information regarding healing.

As an alternative practitioner, I often see people who do not resonate with western medicine or have inoperable situations such as tumors or heart conditions. In one case, I did two sessions with a woman that suffered from blocked arteries and had a genetic heart condition from birth which resulted in doctors turning her down for treatment. After the second session, she walked down my driveway and threw away her nine prescriptions, unbeknown to me. A year later, she reported what she had done and told me that from that day forward, she never suffered an angina attack. Prior to our visit, she had suffered from those painful attacks on a daily basis.

In another case, a woman found me after discovering that she had an aggressive form of breast cancer that had already produced a sizable tumor on her left side. After one treatment and visualization prescriptions from Archangel Raphael, she returned to her oncologist who reported the tumor was shrinking. I might add at this point, she undertook a strict regimen of diet and exercise in addition to her alternative therapy and remained under the guidance of a doctor and nutritionist. The doctors recommended surgery and hormone replacement therapy which she rejected. My client evoked her intuition and free will as she threw away her prescriptions with her faith in the angels and process that she had undertaken.

Some two years after the crystal bed was constructed, one of the grandchildren of Dr. Garcia unexpectedly made contact with me. Upon our meeting, she informed me that Dr. Garcia was interested in the metaphysical and not many people knew that about him. He practiced yoga and worked with crystals wands with copper windings. This was shocking information with the way the crystal bed is constructed utilizing copper, crystals and some of the principles of yoga among other things. Dr. Garcia must have added his energy to the process in more ways than I imagined.

There is a new story of healing everyday on the crystal bed built by angels, and I attribute that to Archangel Raphael, my eagerness to learn and a person’s willingness to step into their own natural abilities. I often tell my clients that I am merely a helper and someone who listens. In the beginning, I was attached to the outcome of the services that I provide, but Archangel Raphael helped me with the patience and expertise of a master counselor, by placing the energy of control and outcomes in the hands of the client and the Highest Power.

The feeling of helping people heal from such things as Cancer, addictions, emotional distress and pain is something that is hard to express in words, but I feel like when you request healing energy and help from Archangel Raphael (he who heals with God) and open your heart to the possibility that miracles exist, you have laid the groundwork for the acceptance of miracles in your life.

Fall Equinox message from St. Hildegard of Bingham 9.22.9

Fields of green…..this image brings me great pleasure. I spent many a day looking out over my fields of green…….the fields where my dreams held a vision for a life with Divine purpose and a message of healing. The deep rich shade of green, represents healing from the Earth and is the wellspring of my energy….my essence…..who I am, who I was and who I ever will be is found in this light. Like the healing energy of the Earth, I connect with God….I connect with Spirit….I connect with the creation that is within me. The activation of light from the healing aura of emerald green provides the spark that ignites the energy of love, compassion, understanding and truth. This is what is activated within me……within my soul….my essence……the biggest part of me……that which I share with the world comes from the healing essence of the Earth…….and the healing essence of my beloved Creator.

From my vantage point, I am able to look down on those that call on me through song, chant, prayer, and celebration. Your gift of singing my songs, which as you know are not really my songs, is a gift back to me from God…….filled with teachings that exist below the conscious mind, and therefore requires trust and a silent space in which to fully realize the meaning. Your energy placed in the heart of music brings the light of emerald green into a circle of life for all to see, feel and experience…..and forms a golden ring that unites a Christ Consciousness through the eyes of Spirit and the heart of one voice. I find great joy in space of a collection of voices reaching out to each other, reaching out to community, reaching out to God to feel the oneness in a united breath of light.

As you light the candle for me, say a prayer for the sounds and vibrations of healing that bring acceptance with the past and hope for the future. Bringing people together to sound a joyous celebration for life is how your life becomes a dance with the ribbons of love.  The pure love for life builds the sanctity of life which helps you find honor in every living aspect of life on Earth.

Everyone struggles…..I am no exception. So know that it doesn’t matter where, when or how an awakening comes forward, it only matters that it is illuminated in the light of truth, the light of healing, the light of God and the light that shines down on my everlasting fields of green. No matter where you reach within yourself, you will find that you have connected your heart with the Cosmic Heart of the Universe.  May God fill you and any space in-between with eternal strands of precious love.

Russell Rides Back into the Flow of Life

Today, June 9, 2009, is the day Russell got back on his bike!

In November ’07, I had a serious freak accident while riding my mountain bike crossing a busy Austin street. So many factors contributed to the event that it is hard to imagine forces coming together in such a way to ultimately result in such severe injuries. Yet, I can’t help but to reflect with the blessing in the situation within the reality that I could have lost my life or the use of my body on that fateful day.

Some nineteen months later, the day arrived when it was time to reclaim my passion. You know the old saying “it’s just like riding a bike”, that really is true. It was like a day had never passed as I traveled the exact same route to the Hike and Bike trail right past the spot where my wife, some city workers, the police and a handful of passer-bys watched them load me into an ambulance.

There was a vibration that is hard to describe, emanating from my left side around the center of my injuries. It feels like the same effect as you get when listening to crystal bowls or vibration through sound, so I think it must be a release of some sort. I know that I have felt grief over the things that I felt was lost…my health, time…or even a piece of myself. But what I’ve learned is that is only one perception that I can choose. The other might be that I became vulnerable……open to receiving……I had new experiences that illuminated a side of me that I had never seen, nor had those around me. One perceived area of loss allowed room for something totally different.

So how was the ride? Here is my interview with myself(lol):

Did I feel the energy of fear? ~ no fear….caution

Did it feel good? ~ incredibly freeing to the body, mind and spirit

Any shaky moments? ~ none….really smooth

Did I wear a helmet? ~ a helmet….. is the reason I have a brain that says wear a helmet!

Best way to describe the overall feeling? Very healing on many levels

Best thing that happened? ~ Sunset at the river on the footbridge………and the four year- old that stopped in the park to say hello and tell me the he had just played basketball.

Lasting impressions? ~ Gratitude beyond measure

Any tears? ~ enough of those shed already……….this was the true celebration ride

Anything to say? To my friends, family and Beckie…..Thanks for having the courage to see me through my strongest and weakest moments. I know it has been hard to watch and now it is time to erase that vision and replace that vision with the current one. See me as a survivor and a warrior for passion……..someone that is fully riding in the flow of life.

smiles, Russell

Vulnerable

The words that conjure up mixed feelings seem to draw me in; I guess you could say I was vulnerable to that (tee hee). A discussion with a friend led me into thoughts around the true essence of being vulnerable, which means capable of, or susceptible to, being wounded or hurt. Vulnerable also means open to moral attack, criticism and temptation.

If you are open to all those things through vulnerability, then it would stand to reason that you are open to receiving love, nurturing and basically all emotions. The idea of being vulnerable seems to carry negative connotations around a state of weakness, but in truth, should carry a more positive response as the apparent gateway to receptivity.

A quotation from Anne Morrow Lindbergh that I really like is, “I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.”

In reflection, some of my most profound experiences resulting in a conscious shift emanated from my own personal moments of vulnerability. In those instances where I became vulnerable, I also became aware and, through that consciousness evolved the positive features of my story. Now for one of my most vulnerable activities, I will engage with angels for a whisper on the subject:

The heart must open fully in order to receive love, so you must remove boundaries in order to assist in manifesting the balanced heart. A warrior can express the loving spirit while wearing armor, yet finds it difficult to receive love while covered with protection. This represents the true nature of boundaries and being vulnerable.

Tremendous courage and the highest example of the human spirit shine in the light of vulnerability. In this state of being, barriers and limitations are removed, making available possibilities that were not apparent in the moments prior. Without limiting factors entering the mind, the spirit is free to explore new opportunities and experiences.

The depth of feelings experienced in a vulnerable state reaches levels within your existence that can uncover lost information and feelings in the energetic search for truth. Within your highest vibration, truth and vulnerability illuminate purpose, integrity, faith and love with extreme clarity.

To fully experience all aspects of life, be willing to allow yourself to be vulnerable and present in moments of strength as well as times of weakness. The energy of receiving love from being vulnerable creates a wave of relief that washes away all barriers standing between you and the playful, compassionate, nurturing light of the Highest Power in the Universe, God and the angels.