Welcome to the personal side of Nathan’s Pages. I would like to spend a little time describing just how I came here to be writing this to you. No, I won’t bore you with the technical details of my computer, word processor, and internet service provider, but I would like to tell you a bit about my life’s journey here.
For many years I was primarily a logical, left-brain kind of a guy, but at the same time had a strong yearning to let my creative side "out of the closet" so-to-speak. Even when I was a 16 year old teenager, I was fascinated with the art of photography as much as with the technical side of it. Even though I studied to be a scientist and engineer in college, I took at least a couple of courses dealing with creative cinema and fine art appreciation. I’ve always loved humor and playing with words, like punning for example, and thought I might even like to try a hand at creative writing and play writing. I have done a little of this, but mostly for my own amusement. While I declared - out loud even, that I can’t draw a straight line, I decided anyway to learn how to oil paint in 1994, and while I have done, and enjoyed, doing that, I concluded that I will not seriously rival the works of DaVinci any time soon. Yet, I love fine art, good literature, and anything well-crafted in general. I also enjoyed woodworking and cabinet making for this reason. Thinking back upon it now, with any project I was given to work on, I always favored a creative approach if I had any choice about it. Still, over the years as my work was of a highly technical nature, I tended all too frequently to submerge the tendency. It wasn’t until about 1997 that I learned that the cost of submerging the creative energies is to manifest illness, as well as limiting beliefs about life’s possibilities. Additionally, I’ve observed that another and equally important cost of doing this is to stifle your intuition.
A person’s innate intuition is one of the greatest and most beneficial assets that they can choose to cultivate in life. I truly believe everyone has this faculty but it can get pretty out of shape, or atrophy like a muscle not used much over long periods of time. Now prior to 1997, I considered myself to be intuitively challenged, or, to be kind, totally out-of-shape intuitively! Notice I didn’t say I was intuitively devoid, because even then I wouldn’t have believed that. In fact it was not that I didn’t believe in intuition, psychic phenomenon and the like. For example, I had read about the scientific researchers such as J.B. Rhine of Duke University who was doing work in Extra Sensory Perception, and work that was being done by other researchers behind the Iron Curtain at the time. However, while I allowed for the existence of this faculty in general, I was pretty certain at the time that I hadn’t seen it in myself. Also, ever since being introduced to the Edgar Cayce material in 1968, I had been amazed at the scope of what was possible in this area. Looking back at it now, though, I realize that my intuitive faculty has always been in operation, as in everyone else, though I didn’t recognize it for what it was then. After 1997, that was all about to change for me.
First, I think I needed to stop and smell the roses and it seems as that the Universe has a way of always meeting our needs. Though I retired for the first time in 1995, I went back to work shortly there- after, and in 1997 had a heart attack that required a quadruple by-pass operation. Within a week of coming out of the hospital I lost my first wife to a serious illness, and my life changed profoundly in almost every area in a ‘blink of an eye’. One of those profound changes was in the area of my intuition.
Within the course of several months, with no obvious conscious involvement on my part, I went from being what I termed “intuitively challenged," to what others termed “intuitively gifted." Now, to this point at least, seeing little evidence of strong intuitive gifts working in me, I was more than a little uncomfortable with that kind of attention and pretty much went out of my way to avoid it. Here’s how that change started, however. At first, friends would innocently ask me about what I thought the outcome of something would be - a football game for instance. Now, I am not really into most sports and know little about football, so when a friend who was really into the sport actually asked me about a particular game, I told him I didn’t know anything about football and couldn’t tell him. He was persistent though, and kept after me to guess, so finally, to oblige him, I threw out something I was sure I had totally made up, and went on to embellish the prediction with waht I then felt were equally fictitious details.
I was pretty certain that this “junk” I was throwing out as a response would persuade him to leave me alone about football. This was not to be, however, as I received an unexpected call from him sometime after the game, telling me in amazement that I was "right on." As this was a playoff game, and there were others to follow, the same scenario repeated itself over and over. My friend would ask me what the outcome of the next game would be, I repeated that I knew nothing about football…he persisted…I resisted…and finally I threw out more "junk" about the outcome - that inevitably became the "reality." Interestingly, even though this result happened repeatedly, I still believed that it was total coincidence, and found the resultant attention somewhat annoying!
My feelings aside though, this type of thing began happening with greater frequency as time went by. Another friend, who had recently moved to the city where I lived at the time, was on one occasion telling me about a special teacher of hers. One day, I was having coffee with her and her husband, and she asked me what I thought her teacher looked like. Well I told her I had no idea, but she persistently continued to ask me the question anyway. As before, with the football game, I obliged by throwing out some more "junk," making up this fantastic, totally unlikely description (or so I thought) about what her teacher looked like. Just then I saw her jaw drop and I thought it was in reaction to my absurd response – however she asked me to excuse her because she was going to her car, where she happened to have a photo album with her teacher’s picture in it. When she came back with her teacher’s picture it was my turn to have my jaw drop and my face go white, because what I was looking at was an image of the absurd description I gave to her!
Also, about the time this happened, I began having images of people come into my head that I had not yet met, and as unlikely as it seemed to me, when I met them, that’s what they looked like! I began to realize at this point that something special was happening even though I didn’t understand it at all. By the time I met my wife and spiritual partner, Joy, the unexplained and the unexpected events, continued to keep coming to the surface, except this time much more frequently.
Joy teased me, for example, about never having hugged a tree, and when I finally did so, the result was that they responded to me by telling me their names, showing me images and mentally conversing with me! Nor did the phenomena stop there. Joy, who was very much into crystals, or the "stone people" as they are sometimes called, brought me a present of a clear quartz crystal point and while I was getting dressed in another room she told me about it through the door. Before I saw it, however, I first literally felt it – that is to say my whole body was vibrating in response to its energy and communication with me. Another time, I purchased and brought home a mushroom-shaped Amethyst dream stone. To my amazement one night, the stone telepathically communicated with me and told me he would like to be called by the name Arthur!
And so my intense connection with mineral kingdom began, yet some more time would pass before I would become to be called by the nickname "The Crystal Speaker." While I will write about how I got that name in detail in one of "Nathan’s Articles" on this website, yet I would like to acknowledge that I was told through Joy’s Angel channelings that these gifts were developed over a number of past lives where I was a “Crystal Speaker,” that is, I spoke for the crystals as they communicated their ancient wisdom to my heart and from me to the world. I would also like to acknowledge Joy for her belief in the reality of this gift of mine and her encouragement for me to do intuitive crystal work professionally.
It was not long after I discovered my strong connection with the Stones that Joy and I conceived of WolfStone, relocated to NH, and opened up our retail gift shop, with gifts from nature and spirit and also our holistic healing center. Our vision was to have a place where like-minded spiritual people could gather and talk while they sampled teas from our tearoom and purchase those things of interest to them. Joy & I also saw our center as a place where we could bring in presenters who would come to WolfStone to put on interesting programs for our customers and clients, in addition to our own programs. Some of the presenters were local to NH and little known, and some like Freddy Silva and Miriandra Rota were internationally known in their fields and had a sizable following. We were blessed to see this happen and make new acquaintances and friends in the process. Eventually though, we phased out most of the retail shop to concentrate on our healing work, teaching work and other intuitive specialties such as the crystal readings.
As with any new and significant journey, there is an abundance of opportunity for growth and blessing if you allow yourself to be open to it. For me one of these opportunities came shortly after relocating to NH and before we even opened our doors for business. Let me lead into this by saying that I have been fascinated by the subject of hypnosis since I was about 18 years old and in college doing a research paper on the topic. After college my interest deepened when I read a popular book at the time: "The Search For Bridey Murphy," and was introduced to the area of past life recall and the work of Edgar Cayce. Shortly after that I saw at a New Years Eve party, a most amazing performance by a local, ethical stage hypnotist, Kelly Woodward – and no he didn’t make anyone cluck like a chicken! His performance really heightened my interest in the field.
A few more years went by and I found myself drafted into the U.S. Army in 1968. This turned out to be another significant milestone along my path to sharing this website with Joy and all of you. Shortly after being inducted, I read a book called the "The Sleeping Prophet," a book about Edgar Cayce by author Jess Stearn. As fate would have it, my permanent duty assignment located my late wife Gloria and I about a one hour drive from Virginia Beach, Va., where Cayce lived and worked for 43 years. Located there is the headquarters for the Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), the organization that maintains the Cayce readings, encourages work on them and disseminates the work in a variety of ways. The ARE was a source for much additional learning for me, not only about the Cayce work, metaphysics and holistic and alternative healing, but also about hypnosis. Ironically, even though I never met Cayce while he was alive, I consider him to be one of the most influential teachers I have ever had.
After leaving the military service I was more interested than ever in the field of hypnosis, yet I never saw myself working as a professional in the field. Instead, I continued to work as a scientist and engineer and so on, until 1997 when, as explained earlier, my whole world changed.
What all of that background had to do with being open to opportunity for growth and blessing is this: when I moved to NH I had the strong desire, after retiring 3 times before, to finally engage in something I was passionate about, and for me that included the field of hypnosis, holistic healing, spirituality, metaphysics and energy work. I knew I needed retraining, so I began to research the possibilities and it was there that I was introduced to the world of Transpersonal Clinical Hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). EFT, which we talk about extensively elsewhere on this site, is a phenomenally effective energy healing technique. Yet when I first researched it in 1997, while I saw the potential in it, it did look a little strange to me and was not something I had a long-standing passion for.
I decided, though, that someday I would get that famous "round-tuit," and look into it further. So I decided to limit my retraining research in the area of hypnosis and more specifically, the spiritual orientation to hypnosis called Transpersonal Hypnosis. After a lot of research, the work of one man, Jack Elias of Washington State, stood out. Jack brought his extensive background in Eastern philosophies and techniques, his knowledge of numerous types of hypnotherapy, NLP, inner child work, shamanic journeying and more into an incredibly powerful, life transforming system. I say sincerely that my life and spiritual path was profoundly changed for the better from my course studies with him. I highly recommend his courses and other products, to those who are looking for a greater meaning in their life and want to transform it. His website, for those who are interested, is given at the end of this page.
Now after completing my studies with Jack Elias, I set up a practice as a Transpersonal Clinical Hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner. My new-found career in transpersonal clinical hypnotherapy and very old, high level interest in Edgar Cayce and past life recall, led me to my next spiritual teachers. One well-known Cayce researcher, a multi-published author that I had read, was a man called Henry Leo Bolduc of Virginia. Henry is also a pioneer in the field of past life regression therapy and has a decidedly spiritual approach to it, referring to it as "spiritual archaeology." Now, I had a notion that I would like to explore making Past Life Regression work a specialty of mine, and doing a search on the internet I came across Henry’s website and the fact that he was doing a week-long intensive training that was approved by a certification body in that field. Henry also mentioned in the advertising for the course that, although he had been doing these intensives for more than a decade, he would probably be retiring after this one. For that reason, I was highly motivated and signed up to take his course. Not only was it a chance to study under a pioneer in the field but also with a well known Cayce researcher.
In preparation for Henry’s class we were required to read several of his books, one of which was called "Journeys Within." Now ostensibly, I thought what I was doing by reading this book was to learn about Henry’s own life journey and transformation through exploring past lives. Yet, as I look back on it now, there was a Higher Purpose that I just wasn’t aware of yet. In "Journey’s Within" (a book that is now in the public domain - see Henry’s website listed at the end of this page to access it.) Henry talks about how he happened to get sidetracked into teaching about opening to channeling. One of the people he taught to open to Channeling was a friend and student of his, Miriandra Rota, who at the time of his writing the book, lived in New Hampshire. Miriandra’s experiences with Henry, including the channeling of an amazing cosmic being known as Pretty Flower, captivated me and totally caught my attention. I began to wonder if she might still live in NH and how great it would be if I might someday get to experience her channeling of Pretty Flower.
When I went to Henry’s class, my opportunity to do this arrived, as improbable as that seemed to me at the time. To enrich the learning experience for his student’s, Henry arranged for guest presenters to put on "optional attendance" programs throughout the week. To my amazement, one of these optional presentations was by Miriandra Rota, doing a public channeling of Pretty Flower, followed by several days of private channelings. When I mentioned my excitement about this to a fellow student, it turned out she was a personal friend of Miriandra’s who offered to introduce her to me. When Miriandra arrived, I did get briefly introduced to her before the public program and really liked her energy and that of her partner, Grayson.
The Pretty Flower channeling I witnessed was a wonderful and incredibly powerful experience for me. I decided to stay after the graduation ceremony for Henry’s class and sign up for a private channeling with Pretty Flower via Miriandra. What I heard through that session was so extensive and impressive that I was nearly speechless. I knew I wanted more, yet Miriandra mentioned to me that she had decided that after my reading she would no longer be doing live, one-on-one readings, but instead would soon start channeling in workshop intensives. I was somehow inspired to ask her at this point if she would consider coming to NH, to WolfStone, as a venue for these workshops. I was totally "blown away" when she responded with an emphatic yes!
Soon after coming home from Henry’s course, Miriandra followed through with a phone call and we set the dates for her to put on a 3-day program at our place. Needless to say, those events were a sellout success and we’ve had her and Grayson back often since then, and have also attended her events elsewhere in the country. Miriandra also channels other amazing beings such as Merlin, Beings Of The Sea, Khalil Gibran and others. If you ever get an opportunity to hear her channel or to attend one of her workshops, please take advantage of it. In any case, the numerous spiritual teachers coming through Miriandra have been a great gift and blessing and have opened me to new understandings and spiritual growth. Pretty Flower also told me about specific intuitive gifts and healing gifts, which were emerging for me, and though I found that hard to accept, she proved to be incredibly accurate.
Miriandra and attendees at her workshops, have become personal friends to Joy and I and have played an important role in getting my own channeling and healing work into other parts of the country and into Canada. Along the way I found that I could do this work remotely, apparently anywhere in the world.
In 2006 my healing work took a new direction when a client walked into my therapy room, which gave me that ‘round tuit’ opportunity to re- look at EFT, that was developed by another remarkable teacher, Gary Craig. EFT, from an important perspective, is a bridge to personal peace, and when people arrive in that place they are open to being much more loving and tolerant. Who would of thought in 1997 that the weird-looking energy healing modality, EFT, would become for me yet another powerful blessing and influence along my spiritual journey. Both Joy and I are greatful for EFT entering our lives, and enthusiastically embrace and share the blessing of this technique with others.
So why am I here writing this? Because I have discovered along my path that each of us is an amazing being with much of value and of beauty to share, enjoy and be thankful for. That is what my wondrous teachers have done for me.
To close with the words of author and psychologist, Michael Newton, who gave us a glimpse into what life between lives is like: “If you are able to assist people in seeing the light of Divinity within themselves and foster self-discovery, then you will have made a real contribution toward the ultimate enlightenment of our race.” Michael Newton, PhD.
Shown below are links to the websites of some of my teachers mentioned on this page.
