Category: metaphysics


Crystalline Consciousness Technique or CCT as most like to call it, is a self-empowering energy healing tool that offers individuals a way to grow their conscious awareness and the benefits of improved quality of life, accelerated learning, spiritual and psychic development, enhanced creativity, and more. It can be used with traditional medical treatments and medicines, as well as other alternative and complimentary healing systems.

When we see no way out, when we can’t “think” our way through an obstacle, like Reiki CCT allows us to feel better…

CCT works through sacred geometric healing chambers, vibrations of energy, five unique life force frequencies that offer you the opportunity to release patterns that no longer serve you while they allow you to follow the process of your growth through the stating of intentions.

The CCT practitioner holds the space–the “container”–in which growth, empowerment,  “healing,” transforming and creation take place.

Those who see energy will tell you they see gridwork, fibers, spirals, cubes and other geometric shapes of energy in and around us. They see such energies shift, transform and come in during a session.

People always want to know what the crystalline in the name refers to. It’s a vibrational reference that some people call liquid crystal.

Crystalline structures are the elemental building blocks of life arranged in an ordered geometric pattern or motif that determine their shape and name. Each has its own vibration or resonance. In mineralogy and crystallography, a crystal structure is a unique arrangement of atoms in a crystal and I feel strongly that this is like the atoms and vibrational reference that practical intuitive Laura Day uses in her Circle Meditation and in her book, The Circle.

CCT is holographic in nature, quite like in Star Trek-speak.

I think of CCT as Jedi Master training, working from the inside out, a sensing of, or gut instinct. You might also see it as having a relationship like in the movie Avatar. Whether you’re in a session, or training to be a professional practitioner, you are evolving yourself and your conscious awareness without using traditional thought processes.

CCT is a multi-dimensional experience.

CCT addresses what we are attempting to do intentionally and intuitively. It grows us.

It is spiritual practice at its best. When our thoughts, beliefs and mindsets get in the way, CCT works with us to evolve us to righting our upside-down way of being in the world. We work with our guides or our Super Intelligence.

How does CCT work? Energetically and holistically – body mind spirit. It’s a process. One session involves three phases which can be performed on a sofa, bed, or massage table–almost anywhere that provides some comfort to the one receiving.

A series of sessions might be used to work with childhood trauma or to help an injured dancer whose body for some reason has resisted healing.

CCT like Reiki can also be done distance, so anyone can receive a mini-session or full session anywhere in the world. I’ve given non-talk sessions to people on their lunch hours at work in California, New York City, and England when I’m in Ohio. I’ve also worked with groups this way through one person who sends me the intentions of any colleagues who wish to participate.

Businesses can improve teamwork and grow their unique vision in this way. Individuals and groups can meet and conduct goal-planning or visioning meetings in a CCT session and talk.

In the first phase of a CCT session, Opening, the body is prepared for deep healing. As physical therapist Marion Rosen says of her Rosen Method Bodywork, this phase in CCT helps relax the ego as the breathing changes and we open more fully to receive healing than we can do on our own.

In phase two, we do a bit of spring cleaning. Our body-mind is cleared of its debris… like clearing a field or taking out all your recycleables. This is the phase where the geometric healing chambers are invoked or called in, and where we are able to release patterns that no longer serve us. Then through the stating of powerful intentions, we bring in new energetic patterns and perspectives that better support and fit us. The mind takes a rest during this process.

Like in Avatar we feel connected to the ground of us (for one sort of image)–our divine link up–so we more easily receive what we need of a divine or spiritual nature.

Phase three is a smoothing out of the process a participant in CCT undergoes, a final polishing, a deeper opening in which we experience gratitude for all we are.

To evolve yourself, for questions about CCT, and to schedule an appointment or CCT-empowered Reiki class (classes are ongoing), please make contact with Melanie A. Stinson here or DM on twitter

I used to see disorganization as chaos. Then I read somewhere that the beginning of all creation is chaos, and creation is art.

Now I use what I see around me to give me information, reframe my perspective, turn things around, and often, to create something new.

Jumping around in what I read or what I do is no longer, “Oh gees, am I ADD?” It’s a way to do a lot of things, multi-task or what have you, complete one or two items on my “To Do” List, and be open for what’s to come.

It’s using all of me to create my life. I know I’ve chosen to do as much as I can–a little each day if possible–to shift through the piles and ideas, to toss things out into the vast oasis of the present moment.

HUNA JEDI RULE #1: Now is the moment of power.

I would love to hire an organizer and get it all taken care of. But as I look around the room I’m in now, I see a life in progress: a laundry basket, a bag of clothes to be thrown out or contributed to Goodwill, a treasure chest, and a hatbox full of remarkable objects, both natural and handmade.

outdoorzengardenI do love open space–it allows me room for swashbuckling and other reminders of what I’m all about–writing vividly.

I would like one house that is a work of art: pristine and open with large bay windows looking out on the world. However, this house could not be in the Antarctic. It might be on beachfront,  riverside or lakeside. It would have a few stunning sculptures as well as plants, just a few though, to preserve it’s openness. It would be like a meditation: clear, a deep silence about it, profoundly peaceful. It would be a house filled with Reiki and the delight of enchanted nature: probably a few large crystals and gemstones (unusual ones though like Aragonite Star Clusters, Mookite, or Aquatine Lemurian Jade).

palmspoolThis home would allow nature in. (I’m getting that nature can be chaotic; it is not all pristine.) Ahh. This home is for play, and play often needs large open space to it, so one can roam, or move expressively, or give some sort of theatrical performance.

Perhaps this is a home that’s more like a giant theater or cathedral. Is that possible? I suppose it could be if I regard this home as a sort of second one. (Of course, I wonder now, is this a kind of workplace or workspace?)

This home might allow nature in simply by being in a natural area where I might see Great Blue Heron or a place like the Everglades full of mystery and mist, and curling, weaving growth (but not too crowded together so as to allow its sense of infinity and spaciousness).

See what you think. What am I going for here? Is it a real home of wood, mortar and stone? Or is it a place to go to for alone time–like a starship above a forest but inside me, a heart(h) place?

HUNA JEDI RULE #2: This is a place4us, a place of Aloha

I don’t know about you, but I feel much better about myself in this whole escapade, and I feel more like I’m accomplishing much more than I thought I could. I might go write an adventure now or a romping dance revue. Certainly I can go go go about my busy day!

A couple links for you:

aplace4theheart

placeoffulfillmentfunfaerie-finefeelings… kid friendly (but you know those mischief makers)

Enjoy 2010 the Space Odyssey (it’s got the same numbers as the 2001 version for you note takers).

sacredspace

CHOOSE JOY!

Play the game!
Click on words images links

BREATHE SLOWLY, DEEPLY

Gaze

Allow

A PLACE 4 US

YOUR SOUL connection CONNECTION

WRAP YOURSELF IN GLOWING RAINBOWS, VIBRATIONS OF ENCOURAGEMENT, ENTHUSIASM LOVE.

LEARN GROW BE & SUPPORT YOUR HEARTFELT DREAMS, DESIRES & PASSION

Relaxing Music

real or fantasy

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Reiki lets the sun rise again. Or else it allows us to allow ourselves to see that the sun rises and sets and there is day as a part of it.

Consider the uses of adversity and know that they are timely.

Storm-01-june

2 quotes from somewhere mixed in with the blues.

Color them neon.

Shock them white.

And when you’re through releasing that…

Go fly a kite…

one with an icicle tail exhaling its mother

another, lousy at stringing someone along.

Hanalei. Choose Paper less. Choose Simplicity.

This is my song.

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Today, I went to one of Ener-g’s squidoo lenses in search of a phrase she used about donations. I had received a free money reiki energy healing the night before from Amy Flynn, which I felt in my body and which was so relaxing that I had to lie back in my lounger.

I saw that Ener-g had changed that lens, and before I knew it, I was following along.

I came to the photo of her healing hands and felt the energy coming off it. I stated an intention silently as I connected to something that had at times felt like I had a pinched nerve and had a wooden crutch under my armpit on my left side.

I thought that I’d like to receive more help with that. As I gazed at the photo, I felt that my arm was in a sling and saw a hazy picture of it in my mind’s eye. I also heard, “now move it to the right side.”

I started to shift it then thought–it’s a release of some kind.

“Expelliarmus! Magnetize this energy out!”

The left pinched area felt a bit lighter.

I saw in my mind a sling and then noticed that the sling held my right side as well as though by pulling up on points on the top of my body midway between my neck and shoulder.

The feeling in me was that whatever was there being pulled up was much lighter than on the left.

I recognized the visual of the sling as the kind that a stork carries a new baby in. Since I’m not pregnant and am not planning to be, I knew it was symbolic, a metaphor for giving birth to something. But what?

I wondered, Is it this story, fable, adventure? Or is it something else? The rebirth of A Place4Us?

If you who are reading take the metaphor of APlace4Us and allow it to enlarge in your imagination, what happens? What is APlace4Us for you? Where is it? And is it one location, many, the earth?

Breathe. Grow. Blossom.

Merlin's Tabard - fiber wearable by M.A. Stinson

Merlin's Tabard - fiber wearable by M.A. Stinson

And return,
as the adventure continues.

The POFFF Master/ Weaver of Yarns

yellwresonantseed1Fascinating. I remembered using a fun link some time ago to give myself a Mayan Calendar-based mythic signature or mythos archetype. I’m a Yellow Resonant Seed, and I think the glyph for that on the left looks kind of like a person’s face and like a boat. Ohh, we’re on a journey.

I returned to the link today for some strange reason associated with writing up presentations for schools, conferences, libraries and the like as a writer, artist, dancer and professional weaver of yarns. It is also associated in my intensely jammed full and creative mind with exploring the links between fantasy and science or everyday life options. If you do this like I do, you read books like Life Colors by Pamala Oslie and Energy Medicine by Donna Eden, while remaining a fan of Chris Crutcher, Madeleine L’Engle, Susan Cooper, Kate DiCamillo, Alice Hoffman, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Anne McCaffrey and others. You probably also love oracle decks like Brian Froud‘s funky fairy oracle, or the Animal Medicine cards. I hope to receive the Hawaiian deck that contains red-footed booby birds because I love mystic flora and fauna as much as real ones, if you get my drift. And no, I’m not lost in a snow drift although a friend once fell into one as a child and was buried up to his neck. We got him out, though. (this is called going off on a tangent, but it might also be a road less travelled.)

But coming back online here with this, in my exploring I came to the words, “Inspiration Channel Attunement,” and thought, “What? What’s that?” I found those words together on another link with commas between them.

Now, I feel I’m definitely here to inspire as I continue to shift from a workaholic 9-5 jobber to something else, but what caught my attention was that this came in meaningwise to me as though I could give this kind of attunement or activation. Energy practitioners often pass on knowledge to students in this way. I suppose it’s similar to being a mind-melder, ballet teacher, or urban shaman. You absorb, glean, and reverberate in all parts of yourself with what you’re studying and becoming, and your teacher helps you attune, acclimate and assimilate.

For me, “channel” has two meanings, however. I channel energy and ideas, but I also am on a channel or frequency, like a T.V. station, and it is one that behaves as a radio transmission tower. It emits musical theater songs and dance, and tunes of joy and love, plus fairytales and storytelling (using metaphors, archetypes, etc.) bird sounds and waves of bliss.

It’s fun to discover analogies about oneself and see what ancient cultures thought. But I’d like to engage some of you right now both energetically and creatively.

What could I do for you in an Inspiration Channel Attunement, or as an Inspiration Channel for your own form of wavespell? (which sounds an awful lot like my urban fantasy novel, Jones, that I’d like Alex Etel to play the lead in before he’s past the age for it, along with someone yummy and ageless for the extraordinary being, L).

Those of you who resonate with attunements, what kind of Attunement would an Inspiration Channel Attunement be for you? Of course I thought Reiki right off the bat, and I am a Usui Reiki master teacher, who loves Fairy Nature Realms Reiki at the moment, of which I am also a master and teacher, but there are other kinds of Reiki and energies besides these.

aug11mayacalendar1What comes to you about this? And if you’d like more links to have your own kind of fun with this “game,” I’ve dropped some in below. I can’t speak for them as I have not yet visited them. There seems to be a lot to know about dreamspells and the Mayan point of view on time. I hope to visit some of these links myself little by little as I feel “called.”

Happy Galactic travels, odysseys, and dreamtime quests!

The POFFF Master/Weaver of Yarns

Dreamspell Links

Planetary Art Network
http://www.tortuga.com
2012: Dire Gnosis
http://www.diagnosis2012.co.uk
13 Moons of Peace
http://www.13moon.com
The Galactic Hardware Store
http://www.galactichardwarestore.com/
Dream of Peace Network
http://www.dreamofpeace.net/
Dreamspell Portal
http://www.dreamspellportal.net/

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A Place4Us will continue to exist in 2009, bringing you new options, new sounds & new images for inspiration, joy & upliftment.

However, the favorite blog of this creator is http://pofff.com and this is the blog that will be updated more frequently & contain more actual blog posts.

So, if you stopped by here today, come dance with us at THE POFFF real soon. And if you don’t know already, the POFFF is aplace4us.

P=Place
O=of
F=Fulfillment
F=Fun
F=Friends & many other fffs where those came from (like fantasy, fairy, fearlessness & fantastico!)

–Melanie A. Stinson, Artist, Writer, Dancer & Conceptualist
using Reiki and beyond

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Sometimes you need to stay and focus awhile on one image or one sound or one aspect of nature to receive its gifts

Numero Uno. Relaxation – It’s the gateway to awareness. Ahhhh.

Number Two. You can get that here free, but it usually feels better to receive it through physical contact. That means massage, Reiki, healing touch, breathwork, energy work like CCT – Crystalline Consciousness Technique, hugging your children (if you have them), and giving members of your family and your good friends opportunities to receive sessions that offer professional touch as gifts.

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Second in the series…

There’s nothing I like more than a day of enchantment and that’s certainly what I experienced Sunday, October 5, in the Big Apple. I knew I would attend the open class and rehearsal for Morphoses at the New York City Center, which has an incredible celebration of dance this autumn.

It was such a delight to watch ballet master Jeffrey Edwards teach company class. He used vocal sounds, and vivid vocabulary and imagery that obviously connected with the dancers. He seemed to give the dancers what they needed to prepare them for performance, something that is decidedly different from teaching dancers and sustaining them in daily class. I noticed something that perhaps only New York City Ballet ballet masters and teachers might address, what I can only call a lack of support for the upper back in the male dancers taking Morphoses’ class. Each of them had trouble on turns, losing the upper back and shoulders and therefore losing the turn.

After this classroom view, came an illuminating talk with Christopher Wheeldon, and then we were able to see Shutters Shut, which I had seen the night before. Set to a Gertrude Stein poem with voice and no music, I could again see the way in which Wheeldon is bringing in choreographers pushing the boundaries of the arts as Diaghilev once did, exploring dance in conjunction with other mediums. The dancers spoke Stein’s language and the language of the husband and wife team of Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon.

After this, I knew I would set off to see what lay at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 65th Street, a location I had used in a poem about Duo Concertante, in what seemed like a haphazard fashion. Why had that location come to mind? I didn’t know what was there. As I walked east from City Center I saw the number 140. Again in a somewhat wily nily fashion (or was it intuition), I decided to be at that corner at 1:40 p.m. I took pictures along the way as I do, noting how certain themes arose in my head as I walked.

At 1:40 p.m., I noticed the scaffolding on one side of Fifth Avenue. Though I rather blanketly discounted it, it still worked on me from behind the scenes, for scaffolding means something is being built. On the other side of Fifth, however, I began to notice roofs within Central Park. What is this, I wondered. The trees had a mystical, almost faerie-like appearance. My heart sang, Fairyland.

What is this, I asked again. I reached stairs going down and as I began my descent saw to my complete amazement, the actor Russell Crowe talking to a slighter man. I had an internal dialogue with myself that went something like this.

“Shit, it’s Russell Crowe. What do I do?”

I discounted asking for his autograph as being simply moronic and something that someone who’d grown up in Bowling Green, Ohio, would do. Having lived in the New York metro area for some 20 years, I knew I simply would not do it. I flashed to my camera as I had been taking pictures all along.

Do I ask him if I could take his picture? As I stood there, I finally allowed the feeling of the scene to wash over me instead of focusing on some need to act. I knew he would not want his picture taken. I knew somehow not to intrude. I heard his Australian accent. I also felt and would process later the most incredible power coming from him, and without knowing what I was doing consciously, I honored it. I let the two men go ahead, still wondering what this was all about for me. They disappeared in a crowd of people that was like a scene out of Shakespeare or a film version of La Sylphide, which I have been working on in script form.

Again, I began to see England and fairyscapes. Then I turned a corner and went nuts with all that greeted me. I wished I were the best professional photographer in the world, all the while taking pictures. Children swarmed around me.

A little girl in pink came toward me and said, “There’s a slide over there. A slide!”

“I know,” I said, spying it. Of course, I took a picture with my trusty little Kodak. And then I saw them… bridges… bridges everywhere… in silver chain, lined with tree stumps and stones… some narrow… some you could never walk across your self as they bridged space or other dimensions, and the enchanted fairy realms. I had seen the sign that said, Children’s Zoo, but somehow had never been in there.

As I meandered, I came to a bridge with a fence. On one corner sat a crow. I am not making this up. I may be an urban fantasy writer with a vivid imagination, but I did not make this up.

The crow cocked his head at me. Magpie flew into my head. I was stunned that he didn’t fly away as I stood so close to him. His beak seemed a spectacular golden yellow. I took his picture. Still he didn’t fly away. Then as I continued to walk and glanced upward, I saw two pinkish-orange parrots up high that did not move. I knew immediately that they were fake. I kept walking and never looked back. I was now wondering if I really saw the crow, if the crow was real or some paper mache animated thing, and for a brief moment felt as though I were in some incredible dream. But I wouldn’t allow it to be only dream. Russell Crowe had been real, as real as we are as embodiments of energy.

At some point during this I began to hear the music from Pirates of the Caribbean. Swashbuckling music. This along with the feelings of ancient England continue to embue me even now.

The next day, I went to one of my favorite haunts, East/West Books, to pick up a crystal or two, and see what else was in store for me there. After picking up Siberian Jet, a light light stone from which I feel such peace, I held some other stones, ocean quartz, rutilated quartz, orange selenite, and others. I could not decide between them. Suddenly, a staff person appeared, and she seemed to know exactly what I needed. She opened a cabinet and procured a small piece of Danburite, a calcium borosilicate crystal. She also asked if I knew about The Book of Stones, which I did not.

She made me a copy of the page on Danburite and for some reason I asked if she’d make me a copy of the one on Moldavite, a stone I’d encountered on my last visit and with which I was working along with Peridot, both green stones. Besides writing and working with the story of La Sylphide, I have been drawn to the tales of King Arthur and Merlin throughout my life and am using this story in other writing.

This is a small part of what The Book of Stones says about Moldavite: “Throughout history, and even into pre-history, Moldavite has been regarded as a spiritual talisman… More recently, Moldavite has been viewed as a relic of the legend of the Holy Grail. In some recountings, the Grail was said to be not a cup, but a stone, an Emerald that fell from the sky. In other stories, the Grail cup was carved from the Emerald. The correspondences of the Stone of the Grail and Moldavite are clear. The ancients called all clear green gemstones ‘Emeralds,’ and Moldavite is the only such stone ever to have fallen from the sky. In history, there was even a physical ‘Grail’ discovered and brought to Napoleon, who was disappointed to find it was green glass. But, of course, Moldavite is green glass. Another chalice, this one made of gold and adorned with Moldavites, was passed down through the centuries and disappeared during the second World War…”

Well, for those with a penchant for the mystical, for history, and for tales of enchantment, such information is thrilling indeed.

What does any of this have to do with Monotones II? Something about sorcery, celestial beings, and the process of discovery. I have seen the piece performed by the Royal Ballet and the Joffrey. If you’re not a ballet dancer, you may not know its difficulty. When I saw it performed by the Morphoses cast on Saturday evening, my first thought was, I would never want to perform this ballet. I believe I’ve had that thought about it before, but couldn’t say now with which company or why. I didn’t know why until the performance of the piece ended and I turned to my friend, also a dancer.

What I noticed was that my focus went to the dancers and not to the choreography. What was lacking for me were the feelings of mystery and sacred something I have experienced when the piece is in sync and when the performance of it is also a mystery, the dancers as flawless technically as they are musical, reverent, and able to be moved deep in themselves.

I noticed ribs protruding, a kind of thinness that hurt. I noticed the largeness of the male dancers’ bodies and the nuances of their musculature. I noticed that the ballerina’s leotard was wrinkled over her solar plexus and seemed almost too large for her. I know that I thought I would never want to perform the ballet because I noted every shift from each of the male dancers that wasn’t part of the piece as choreographed. Otherwise, the dancers were technically perfect, and Wendy Whelan captured a muted kind of reverence. Muted though, not soaring, not quite resonant enough. I wondered if Wheeldon had chosen this piece as much for the dancers’ growth as for it being Ashton.

When the performance ended and I turned to my friend, she said, “They were totally wrong for this. Miscast.” When I discussed what had happened for me, we agreed that somehow that was a sign that the dancers had not been able to overcome their bodies, and whatever else was at play here. I know I felt that the ballerina would need the most ravishing and perfect body ever imagined. I don’t know if that is really true, but it is what I thought. However, when a dancer transports you, and Wendy Whelan often does this, the mind turns off and one simply experiences.

For more of this continuing tale and for the seagull’s message… please stop back.

Reiki blessed bliss card
Reiki blessed bliss card

A Place For Us contributes the following edited information on this site because it is such an important directive for parents today:

“Listen well, parents of the ’90s [and beyond]. You, too, have an exceedingly important mission to fulfill… to ensure that your children remain intuitive and stay close to nature. Don’t push them to succeed at the expense of losing their soul purpose, for our purpose is our guiding force, and without direction… children will feel lost, alone, and afraid.

“So much better for… parents to focus… children’s attention on spiritual studies, as this is their true nourishment… ensuring their growth and survival. We angels are here to help you parent, and we won’t interfere or get in the way. Simply allow us to cast a new light on difficult situations, a task we complete with joy in our hearts, simply by your open invitation for us to heal. Do not ever feel that [the Divine] doesn’t hear your prayers, for S/He sends us to your side the instant you call.”

From Healing with the Angels by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D
Chapter: Angel Blessings for Your Family

Did you stop reading the above quote because you don’t believe in angels? Notice what you feel in your body right now–your reaction to the quote.

Just for a moment, place one hand on your heart and breathe deep and slow. Allow in the inspiration. Allow in spirit. Breathe in and notice how your body feels, how your feelings change. This is called, Openness and Receiving. It is a gift we all have.

Now simply state silently or out loud, “Show me what an angel is for me today, here and now, for the language above does not resonate with me and I would like to understand.”

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