How Do I Make Our New Home Our Own? (Predecessor Energy)

We received a call from a newly single mom, C., who had recently moved into a new home that she had purchased for herself and her son. She loved the home but felt that, somehow, it was still not hers.  She said that while she had moved in 5 months before, her efforts to unpack and personalize the home were stalled.  This was totally contrary to her normal, get it done, approach. Something was holding her back.  She didn't fell comfortable in her own bedroom - she wasn't sleeping well.

We arrived at a very pleasant home in an up and coming older neighborhood.  The house was a cozy home that had been built in the late 1940s.  We learned that she had purchased to home from the sons of the second owner.  They had purchased it in 1951 and had raised their family there and lived there their entire life.  C. said that the purchase had taken an unusually long time. She felt that the sons were very reluctant to sell - to let go of their home.

We made a walk through of the home and felt nothing particularly negative, certainly no entities or ghosts.  We located a very interesting and energetic ley line running through the center of the house, generally positive energy.  Interesting in that the consequence of this energy was that the two ceiling lights on this line were always going through light bulbs. 

What this house needed was a clearing to remove predecessor energy and a house blessing.  Predecessor energies are patterns of energy left behind by previous occupants and/or events.  These can be negative energies from death, trauma, divorce, bankruptcy, abuse or positive energies from happy, active and fulfilled lives. If the vibes are great you may not be calling us.  However, if it don't feel right...

C. needed to clear the house of its past, as pleasant as it may have been it was time for a new beginning.  We began by opening the house to possibilities, using sound, smoke and fire we dispelled the old and made way for the new.  There were changes in C.'s bedroom and her son's that enabled them to own their space and begin to move on.  There were ceremonies we conducted to imbue the house with their intentions and hopes.

C. says that she and her son now feel like it's home.  They've gotten unpacked and C. is sleeping well for the first time.

Energy Shifters On the Air!

Tonight we were on a leading Australian Psychic radio show, Psychic Dilemma with Jenni B.

Jenni's show airs weekly in the States at 6pm Pacific time, 9 Eastern.
Tonight's show was a bit out of the ordinary for Jenni, who normally does readings for her audience and with guest psychics that she's interviewing.  Of course, the subject tonight was Energy Shifting and the paranormal. 

Sharon and Jenni began discussing the definition of paranormal and of entities.  Sharon and Larry spoke of related phenomenons and actual "ghost" encounters.

Later in the show we were able to interact with callers from around the states.

Listen to the show at: http://psychicdilemma.com/radio-shows

Practice Makes Perfect

In order to work with energy, to perform clearings, it is essential not only to be aware of one's center, but imperative to cultivate a practice that strengthens your center.  Recently, we have re-initiated our observance of the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Chöd.

Chöd literally means, "to sever."  It is a practice used to sever attachments to the material, to those things that obstruct the understanding of truth and purpose of bringing enlightenment to all beings.  The practice is traditionally conducted at funerals or as "last rites" for one who is crossing over.  

Machig Labdron the founder of Chöd

It is a beautiful, selfless practice.  The core of the chanting and visualizations are to prepare your entire body as a most succulent offering to all beings in the universe.  From the external point of view, gods and demons will appear; from the inner point of view, these gods and demons are simply one’s own conceptual proliferations that are out of control.


Our offering does not discriminate. It is equally given to the "good" and the "evil."

Carl Jung said, "One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious." The process of feeding our demons is a method for bringing our shadow into consciousness and accessing the treasures it holds rather than repressing it.

We are fortunate to have a center for the practice in Portland, The Movement Center.

I urge you all to find a practice that enables your own pursuits.

Namaste, Sharon

100 Year-Old Orphange

The Waverly School 1931 - 2011

Energy Shifters has been asked to work with Green Light to Developers to help prepare a remarkable property for its new life as a cooperative community in the heart of Portland's inner southeast neighborhood.  The Waverly School, was built as an orphanage in 1931 on the site of a Victorian mansion that had also been an orphanage since 1894.  The developers have planned a community of 20 family homes on the site.  Soon it will be time to tear down the structure and make way for the new, Waverly Commons.

Waverly Commons Plan

 Obviously Waverly has a complicated history, filled with sadness, trauma, loss and abandonment.  The developers understand this, but weren't sure what to do about it.  They wanted to honor this place that had (on the bright side) given shelter and education to thousands of children for more than a century.  And, what if there were spirits trapped at the school or negative energies that might cloud the future of the community or compromise the safety of construction? Green Light contacted the builder of another community, Cully Grove who referred them to Energy Shifters, as we had performed the same services for their start.

We knew this was a big undertaking, so we started by doing a walk-through with the developer.  The space had only a few obvious, weird spots.  It's a huge space - over 60,000 sq.ft.  Right as we went in 

We felt a stubborn hovering spirit; one that was there to protect.  We explained what was going to happen to the building, that there would be new families there, ready to start new lives. We asked its name. "I am Jose," it said, "but call me Joe."  We worked with him and persuaded him that his job here was done and that it was time for him to crossover.  He understood and departed.  

As we moved into the foyer, the reception/intake area, we were drawn to the room on our left.  We discovered that this was the waiting area for new admissions and for family visits.  This area was our focus for several visits.  Yes, this project continues to engage us.

                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Antiques and a Presence of the Past (Tough Sell)

I got a call from a gentleman in Vancouver, Washington.  He wanted to sell his house.  He had been showing the house for 6 months and nary a nibble.  "Something is wrong, something is driving buyers away," he said. We arrived on a beautiful, early fall day.  The house was fabulous, a custom-built home about 12 years old. The landscaping was entrancing and archetypically NorthWest. The owner is an antique dealer and a distinguished, published author of numerous books dealing with American silverware.  Who could resist this wonderful home?

After a tour of the home he explained that while there had been many showings, no one had made an offer.  After some questioning we learned that the previous owner had been extremely possessive and a very reluctant seller. The client felt that she might have an influence on potential buyers. 

We crisscrossed the home and the yard, but I kept being drawn back to the entry.  There was a resistance, a block immediately upon entering.  There was a grand staircase opposite the front door.  I started up the stairs and stopped at the first landing and sat down.  The obstinate spirit was here.  I felt her presence.  This was her house, she said.  She resented the present owner and was asserting to anyone that dared to enter "her" home that they were unwelcome.  This was not a lost, departed soul, this was someone who had imprinted her personality throughout the house.  It seemed that she had centered her presence on the staircase and a closet beneath the landing.  I sat with her for a long time and made it clear that the home was no longer hers.  She finally agreed and retreated.  The atmosphere immediately cleared.  The owner was amazed at the change and very pleased.

We checked back about two months later and asked if the owner had been successful in finding a buyer.  He said, "No." The house felt so much better that he he had decided to stay... and he is still there.

HELP! I see ORBS in my childs bedroom

I received a call from a women who was very nervous and concerned because every night when she went into her son's bedroom she would see orbs, orbs of light passing across the child's room. She told me her dog, who was very old and to whom she was very attached, had passed away recently.  The dog had slept in the room by her child's crib.  Could these orbs be related to the dog?  If not, what? She also felt other strange energies in the house.

We went to the house and began our investigation, there were many things going on in this house. There was an energy vortex near the child's bedroom and very strange unsettling energy in the parents' bedroom. The whole house felt like it was tingling.  When we went upstairs there was very strong pervasive energy that was difficult to pinpoint.

We moved outside and determined, after much dowsing, that there were some dry faults under the house and several energy vortexes. We closed the vortexes and worked on closing the dry faults and moving them outside the house.  This session resulted in eliminating the orbs and light forms in the son's room and a marked improvement in energy throughout. 

Several months passed and we received a call from the woman again, saying that some of the disturbing energies had returned and could we come back for a second session? It was the holidays and the rainy season here in the NW, so we couldn't get back to her until late winter. In the interim she had contacted in turn, a psychic, a feng shui practitioner and a geomancer.  The psychic scared her and told her there was no fixing the angry spirits.  The feng shui practitioner had her move furniture around and add some plants, to no avail. The geomancer came to her home and did his consultation from his car.  He then planted some steel rods, wound in copper, at various points around the foundation of the home.  None of this seemed to help, in fact, things felt worse, our client told us when she called asking us to please come back.

The client told us that she was determined to sell the house and move, but she wanted to make things right in the house to facilitate a sale.  More importantly, the energy had become so unsettling that she had not been able to sleep in her bedroom with her husband for months.  The energy she felt was sad and angry.

First we dowsed around and under the house and found that the dry faults had become wet faults during the winter, but that the moisture was most marked under the home.  We dowsed the perimeter of the foundation and found the steel and copper rods placed there by the geomancer and immediately saw that they had been placed in such a way that they had "dammed" the flow of the fault, retaining the excess groundwater.  We removed the rods and performed some earth acupuncture with bamboo stakes in the appropriate points of the faults which drew off the excess moisture.  We still felt that there were other factors that we sensed but could not precisely place as to their origin or true nature.

We found some anomalies in the EMF (electromagnetic fields) in the house and the client called in an electrician a few days later who found and repaired some faulty wiring in the walls and a few switches.  Again, things were much better, but we asked to come back in a few weeks with some other tools and complete our investigation and the clearing.

On our third visit we went back to the upstairs family room that was a source of some intense energy.  We found a very large vortex that rose up from the earth through the garage and into a seldom used part of the family room (unused because of the eerie feeling.)  We took advantage of this vortex to introduce the client, and a few of our students we'd brought along, to the practice of controlling and moving the vortex energy.  We manipulated the vortex, "corralling" the energy with our outstretched arms and hands, then pushed it back into a narrow (6") column, then expanded it again, as far as we could.  After becoming comfortable with this process we again contracted the vortex and "created" an energy form of a rose quartz tube to contain the vortex and keep it from influencing the room and the family. This became fun, non-threatening and immediately effective.

We then turned our attention to the master bedroom.  This room had always seemed strangely inhospitable, sad and angry and not a relaxing space at all.  One by one we focused on the room, walking through and scanning it with our hands and allowing ourselves to be drawn to the source of the energy.  We found the source in one of the large bedroom closets.  As a group, we sat silently to listen and learn what the energy had to tell us.  It was the spirit of a tree, a very large Douglas fir that had been the mother tree to the hill top on which it had grown for almost 200 years.  This hilltop had been cleared less than 10 years before to make room for one of those developments of giant homes on big lots.  It had been home to thousands of birds, bugs, mosses and many, many living forms.  It sheltered animals and the native people long before Oregon was "settled."  It had been ruthlessly cut down along with her numerous "children" and neighboring trees and plants with no ceremony, no respect.  It was a murdered spirit that needed to be honored and released.  We gathered the client and our group together and gave ceremony for the release of the great tree's spirit.  The effect was profound.  The energy in the home was finally balanced and calm came to the house and land.

Golems in Portland

The team got a call from one of the Real Estate agents we work with about a house she had for sale that had, “… really weird energy.” She said the owner’s sons always felt like there was something in the basement when they were growing up. They thought it might be the ghost of the original owner, Dr. Dammasch, who had started one of the first mental institutions in the Portland area.

When we arrived at the house we were immediately pulled to the back of the house where there was a large tree growing at about a 45º angle. This was odd because there was nothing blocking the tree from growing straight, when you stood near the tree it felt like you were being pulled downward.

We went inside a began walking around the house sensing, feeling and listening for what the house had to tell us. There was still this strange pull toward the back of the house and toward the basement. When I put my hand on the doorknob to the basement I got this message "Don't come down!" So I asked my partner, Lisa to put her hand on the knob and she got the same vibe! SO-O-O-O… what do we do? Well we went down to the basement to find out what was going on.  There was the spirit of a young girl, but she was of no real bother, just frightened, and had followed the Dr. home one night many years ago. But as we walked toward the back corner of the basement there was that amazing downward pull, like a vortex that you knew you were going to fall into; a real sense of vertigo.  I tried communicating with the rather large and stoic figure that was guarding the entry but it only wanted to speak with one of the guys, so Larry began to communicate with it and learned that it had been their since before the house was built, put there by someone involved either in the underground railroads or with the Chinese laborers in Portland.  It appeared to him very much like the legendary figure of a Golem.

We did a rather long releasing ceremony and closed the vortex, released the young female spirit and went upstairs to the second floor where we found an etheric pattern of Dr. Dammasch, cleared this and were all done for the day. I have to say of all the strange things we have encountered during clearings, this was one of the creepiest.