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wisdom and learning. Each time, Spirit beings have told me I’ll get the healing I need through helping others to heal. I call this experience “The Phoenix Journey”.
My first Re-birth was in 1971. Due to major child abuse, I’d been suicidal for years; but on a blustery, stormy day in January in Fort Bragg, CA, I decided it was time to drown myself in the fierce ocean waves off the Mendocino headlands.
Then a miracle happened. Running through a cloudburst towards my VW bug, I slipped and fell in front of a huge truck. Time slowed down, and I fell
in slow motion, like leaves fall from a tree in autumn, while I watched huge truck tires approach my head. I felt relief that my death would not be deemed suicide, but an accident.
Suddenly, a powerful force swooped beneath me, lifted me high in the air, moved me to the sidewalk, flipped me over, and dropped me gently onto the hood of my car. Dazed but unhurt, I lay there gasping for breath as the truck rumbled past. As I staggered off to a cafe to ponder this miracle, I knew I was worthless, knew I deserved to die! Why was I saved?
I sipped steaming coffee with shaking hands. A quiet voice inside said that I had work to do, that I did have purpose, something important to give to others, and that I must discover what that was. So I did, for I knew I had healing hands. Within six months, I was reborn as the first licensed Massage Therapist and Energy Worker on the North Mendocino coast.
In l976, a second Rebirth began when a Spirit being garbed in sparkling colored light awoke me while I was sleeping in an attic bedroom in London.
I planned to leave the next day for India, to find a guru and travel around the world. As I sat on the bed’s edge, he told me I’d taken a detour off my path as a healer. He said I was running away from healing my deep emotional wounds by indulging in too many psychedelics and wild sex. After hours of teaching me about karmic laws, and showing me visions of a dismal future of crippling illness if I traveled to India, he advised me to go to Amsterdam. He said, “By healing others you’ll get the healing you need”.
How could I argue with an Angel? So I spent 12 years, living and working in Amsterdam, receiving intense therapy, and becoming professionally trained
as a psychotherapist. My Rebirth included burning away my old suicidal depression, fears and self-hatred, leaving me with self-love and a strong positive sense of self.
In l983, a near-death experience due to hypothermia, in the sand dunes of the North Sea, forced me into a third Rebirth. The Angel at heaven’s door told me I didn’t have to die - it was my choice. Upon reflection, I realized that I still had much to learn about compassion, that I was far too selfish
and self-centered. So I turned back, and awoke in my lover’s arms, his face wet with tears of relief. He said I’d been dead for five minutes; no pulse, breath, or discernible heart beat. This Rebirth opened me to deeper empathy, generosity, kindness and forgiveness.
The Phoenix Journey, and Rebirth as a Phoenix, offer tremendous gifts and opportunities for growth. Rich rewards of wisdom, growth, expanded creativity, courage, patience, healing, profound Spiritual connection - and an expanded heart - lie ahead.
If you are on the edge of a Phoenix Journey, surrender to it: know that Divine Spirit and your Spiritual Helpers will guide you through the death
of your old life and into Rebirth as a Phoenix. Trust, and you’ll find a new world blossoming within and around you. You’ll be able to fly higher than you ever believed possible.
If you need help becoming a Phoenix, please contact Gail Raborn, CHT. at 707-827-3615 or at gail@telehealing.com
Gail offers sessions by phone, in her home office in Santa Rosa plus home visits. She offers reduced rates for those
in need. Join her 8-week
workshop, “The Phoenix Journey: Rebirth after Illness or Injury”, beginning September 30, in Sebastopol. See her website: www.telehealing.com
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