After Don’s funeral my mother, sister, & Warner returned home. Stan came back for two weeks to help me get the house and grounds in shape. I was so far behind that I just jumped in and started working all day and most of the night. I didn’t know what else to do and the work needed to be done. For the first few weeks I talked to D. late every evening, just to have someone to talk to about Don. I didn’t spend much time grieving. I think that was a mistake. I believe I suppressed too much about the loss of Don. I also think I would have been much better off physically and emotionally if I had just holed up for a couple of weeks and cried & screamed all day instead of immediately getting back to work.
Don & I had talked about moving to Colorado after he retired. He wanted to go back to work until he was strong enough to undertake this move. We had been in our Virginia home for 12 years and were very settled in. But I still wanted to move, and felt that I would be better emotionally and financially if I moved out of our dream home
that we had designed and built together. I immediately started cleaning the place before putting it on the market.
The property was so nice that I thought it would sell quickly. So I wanted to find my new home — at least the general location, before selling. My first trip was to Spokane and Northern Idaho. I wanted property near water and had heard a lot about the many lakes in these areas.
Dana, one of my sister’s daughters, lives in Spokane where the nearest airport was, and offered to let me stay with her and show me around. She also loves to ski so I planned the trip for mid-January 1995. I spent a week there skiing, sightseeing & looking at property. I wanted to build again. During one of my drives in Idaho, as I was turning straight north to go to Sandpoint, I realized instantly that I needed to go south — way south. I didn’t know where exactly, but not in Idaho. Why couldn’t that have happened before leaving home? I was being guided to find my new home and needed to trust that nudge I was just given, instead of my brain. But I did enjoy seeing my niece and her two daughters, as well as meeting her boyfriend — now her husband.
The following month I had a trip planned to Colorado. I was going to drive around and look for land there. My main criteria were: water and alpine property, views, less than an hour from a major ski area, affordable, and a nice town nearby with a health food store.
I settled on property on an alpine lake near Steamboat Springs.
After seeing pictures of the lake in the summertime, nothing less was attractive. My plan was to live in my studio apartment in Snowmass while building my new home. My second offer on the property was accepted, so I was now comfortable in selling my house. I had remembered traveling through Steamboat when I was a child. Everybody talked about how dangerous Rabbit Ears Pass was, even in the summer time. The new property is about two miles from the pass and it is still dangerous, but very beautiful. My aunt, uncle and cousin, whom I had traveled with when I was a child, had loved Steamboat Springs so
much that we had stopped to spend the rest of the day there. It was summertime and the chairlift was operating. That was my first chairlift ride. I loved it — and still do. I remember that my cousin was so nervous that I had to take off my jacket so that he could use it to cover his head.
I went back to Virginia and put the house on the market. I also planned my next trip to Colorado for the summer so that I could meet with builders and architects, as well as see the lake and what the land looked like without several feet of snow covering it. This I did in August 1995, less than a year after my husband’s death.
My house still hadn’t sold but Don had been a pack rat, so I had plenty of work still to do. I eventually hired an architect for the new house and started working on the design. These activities kept me focused on the future and my new life.
This included a trip to Switzerland in October 1996 to remove our personal belongings from our studio apartment in Verbier. My sister jumped at the chance to come along. She had never been to Switzerland and I hadn’t for many years, so we had a great time. She and her daughter Dana have a knack — at least when we are together — to bring either rain or snow along with them. This was no exception. Although we didn’t see the sun until the last few days, we still very much enjoyed the trip. We also cleaned out the storage unit and rearranged all the furniture. The studio had been on the market for two and a half years.
It eventually sold during the spring 1998 and closed in 1999, with a few loose ends still to be worked out in 2001.
Don and I both became interested in alternative healing back in the late 1960s. He had worked with someone, also a consultant, who told him stories of how he had cured himself of many ailments with natural substances like high doses of vitamin C. Because of Don’s family history of cancer he became very interested in alternative approaches. I became interested also, even though I was living on coffee, donuts, and cigarettes. If I had known then that I would eliminate them soon, I would have enjoyed them even more.
Over the years I became more and more interested in anything related to alternative health. I eventually quit my full-time job and worked part-time as a research assistant for a wonderful nutritional and alternative-oriented M.D. who lived a short distance from me. He gave me the opportunity to travel to many parts of the country to attend seminars and visit other clinics on his behalf. The knowledge and insight that I received from him and his wife during this short period of time is still guiding me.
After the doctor’s death I continued part-time work for other doctors, and spent much of my time attending seminars and learning.
I was exposed to what I felt were the most powerful healing methods.
I loved the combination of using Applied Kinesiology (AK) with homeopathy. I soon learned the Vega BioKinesiology (VBK) method, which combines Vega testing with muscle testing.
The Vega system was developed as an offshoot of electro-acupuncture by the late German physician and dentist Helmut W.
Schimmel. He referred to his system by the name “Vegetative-Reflex-Test” (VRT) and suggested a better name to be used in the U.S. — the
“Autonomous Reflex Test” (ART). “Vega” actually refers to the German company that manufactures the instruments that are used for this testing. Both terms as well as “Vega” are used interchangeably, although “Vega” is the more widely used term in the U.S.
The Vega system can be performed with a machine or adapted to VBK by using AK, which I had been using for many years. Applied Kinesiology is a muscle testing technique that uses a muscle’s strength or weakness as an indicator, which then can be used for many purposes.
When combined with the Vega test vials, which are comprised of a homeopathic remedy(s) designed to ask the body a specific question, it allows the practitioner to determine whether that vial is producing a reaction or not, based on the indication given by the muscle’s strength or weakness. If it is reactive, whatever that specific vial represents indicates the direction for further testing or treatment. For example,
“Intox I” is the test to find the key toxin present. The test is usually
done on a strong muscle. If the muscle is weakened by Intox I, that indicates that there is, in fact, a key toxin present in the body. Then that weak muscle is used with the Intox I vial to test to see what toxin/substance strengthens the muscle. That would identify the key toxin. Then other vials would be introduced to test for the level of effectiveness, and then the body’s ability to “well tolerate” the
“effective” substance.
There are vials that represent specific organs, minerals, vitamins, key toxins, toxicity levels and stress levels, miasms, etc. These vials are then used to test what energies would be the most effective and tolerated healing methods — be they herbs, flower essences, foods, homeopathy, colors, thoughts, minerals, vitamins, etc.
The Vega system also utilizes a test kit of vials for testing for a disturbance or interference from electromagnetic stress and geopathic stress from grid lines and other sources in the earth itself, such as underground streams, fault lines, mineral deposits, cavities in the earth, etc. Geopathic stress is a naturally occurring energy in the earth that when concentrated in homes is toxic to humans and some animals.
Electromagnetic stress is a toxic disturbance from man-made electrical systems or devices.
Two of the primary sets of naturally occurring grid lines of energy emanating from the earth are the Hartmann Grid and the Curry Grid (or Net). The Hartmann Grid forms a rectangular pattern and runs north to south and east to west. The Curry Grid runs diagonally to the Hartmann grid. Where these grids cross is referred to as Double Grid (DG) and is considered to be particularly detrimental to our health.
Living in an area where these grid lines exist, especially where they cross, can be very toxic to the body. Dr. Hans Nieper, the late German physician, scientist, and author of Dr. Nieper’s Revolution in Technology, Medicine, and Society,4 stated that in his research that at least 92% of all of his cancer patients had been exposed to geopathic stress for long periods of time.
I became more interested in learning about the toxicity from the electrical systems and began expanding my testing of devices designed to neutralize these energies. In the spring of 1996 it became apparent that the devices that I had been using, which had previously been effective for neutralizing these electromagnetic interferences, were no longer working sufficiently. Because the interferences at my Virginia home were so disruptive, I began to do more research to develop a better solution myself. I am continuing that research to the present time. I have now developed and am continually testing energetic solutions that are effective, very well tolerated, and beneficial. Many of my friends and nutritional clients began using these devices, which I (with the help from my friend Beverly) later called ENERGEMS — for Energized Gems. I electronically transfer the neutralizing frequencies into crystals or gems. One Energem placed within the electrical circuit neutralizes the electromagnetic as well as all of the other negative energies from the entire electrical system throughout the entire home. As I will outline later, the same Energem can also be used to neutralize geopathic stress, lightning protection systems, microwaves (including microwave ovens), and what I have coined “electrically transmitted and atmospathic toxins.”
(“Atmospathic” will be described later. Also see Glossary.)
I realize now that this work was beginning when my husband was still alive. I believe that it is very significant that the day he fell and I heard “we have to take him,” we were working together on these electrical system problems. I have been told that Don is still working with me now on this problem —just from a different plane of consciousness, where he can be the most useful. Of course my first thought is, “Screw the work, I want him here with me!”
At this point in my life, I was feeling OK and things were slowly moving forward. I kept remembering a dream that I had had in January 1996. What I felt this dream was telling me was that if I didn’t clean up the problems in my mouth, I could end up with Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
I had had jaw/dental problems since the early 1970s and had read about the potential dangers of root canals; I had had one over 20 years earlier. I also had pain in my left lower jaw for over 20 years even though I had had a problem tooth extracted 10 years before, with the hope of addressing this. I had a very knowledgeable dentist in Virginia and decided it was time to consult him about correcting my dental problems before I moved. Since he did not do this type of work, he referred me to someone else — the dentist who had pulled the tooth 10 years prior.
I saw him for an evaluation and set up an appointment for
“cavitation” surgery. A cavitation is a hole in the jawbone. They usually contain disease-producing toxins. Mine were severe enough to be detected by X-ray, but many are only detected with ultrasound.
Energetic indications of cavitations can be tested for using AK. The cavitation was the cause of the pain in the lower left jaw. This cavitation site included where the tooth had been extracted as well as adjoining areas where there had not been any extractions.
Cavitation surgery is the process of drilling out dead or infected bone in a cavitation site. Many dentists today remove the periodontal ligament and drill out this bone just after an extraction as standard operating procedure. This process prevents the “cavitation” from occurring and is fast, cheap, and easy to do at that time.
About two and one-half months later I went back and had the root canal tooth extracted, which included the above procedure of removing the periodontal ligament.
I now believed that my dental work was complete with my health intact. Little did I know that these dental procedures may have initiated a cleansing which could have been a catalyst for what was about to begin.
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