Laughing Crow's journey has led to spiritual growth

Using energy fields for healing has become her way of life.
By ROBERT L. KURTZ
VINDICATOR CORRESPONDENT
PALMYRA -- If one's spiritual beliefs were graded according to insight into them and commitment to them, Laughing Crow would do quite well. Her slight physique belies a largeness of heart dedicated to a set of tenets that have been forming within her for most of her life.
Born and raised in Palmyra, where she lives, Laughing Crow stresses that from childhood she has been drawn to the mystical realm. She has always sensed a strong bonding with animals and nature, a oneness that would express itself in several ways in her adult life.
Her college training was in music, and her mystical journey took a consequential leap forward in 1980, when she started practicing self-hypnosis while enrolled at the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati.
In 1984, while Crow was associate organist at St. Xavier in Cincinnati, Sister Caroline suggested she read Rabbi Harold Kushner's "When Bad Things Happen to Good People," his book on overcoming life's adversities based on his struggle with his son's fatal disease.
She initially railed against the book, only to discover that she was fighting its teachings precisely because they threatened her perceived notions of reality. "The result was, it allowed me to accept new ideas," Laughing Crow states. "That was an ability I did not have before."
The change
That willingness to accept new ideas has led her on a journey of exploration centered on writings and teachings from a multitude of sources.
In 1986 she returned to Palmyra. By 1989, she had become a vegetarian, as well as a committed environmentalist.
In the early 1990's, she began studying and participating in dream analysis, but she also severely wrenched her back. When a physician suggested she see a psychiatrist, she forsook that advice, and began practicing yoga. In five weeks her back was restored to complete fullness, and she has not seen a doctor since.
At this time came an increased realization that she possessed a particular psychic perception known as clairsentience, an ability to read reality through the body.
While a clairvoyant's principal entr & eacute;e to supernatural comprehension is through their power to "see" other realms, a clairsentient's entire body is the instrument that takes in and perceives energy fields. "I read my world through vibrational patterns," she states. Clairsentients believe their DNA -- found in every cell -- is the basic building block to psychic understanding.
Organic interest
The year 1994 saw important change in Laughing Crow's life on several levels. She started Cosmic Dreams Farm and Greenhouse -- dedicated to organic farming and biodiversity -- in Palmyra and began devoting 4-5 hours a day to meditation.
She also read Deepak Chopra's "Creating Affluence," his volume on nurturing wealth consciousness and unleashing our creative potential. She also became aware of a past life as an Ohio Valley American Indian girl who was killed in 1642 at the age of 19 while defending the land from white settlers who were bent upon destroying it.
She also read James Redfield's "Celestine Prophesy," a fictional Peruvian journey consummating in spiritual enlightenment. Additionally, her music at this time began to decrease in importance.
In the mid-90's she began studying Silva Mind Control with Marjorie Dearmont, a practice that, as she says, "Instantly lowers brain waves to alpha level or lower to optimize creative and healing powers." She also practices ChiLel Qigong, a method of discovering and transmuting health, healing, and human potential through Chi, the innate life energy. She also read Dr. Sonia Choquette's "The Psychic Pathway," a how-to book on metaphysical training covering a wide array of psychic techniques, such as tarot cards, meditation, and dreams.
Choices matter
Through these influences, she says, "I learned that we are in control of our reality, that we create our life as we go on. Reality is something we create by the choices we make."
In 2002, she read Dr. Alberto Villoldo's "Shaman, Healer, Sage: How to Heal Yourself and Others with the Energy Medicine of the Americas." Dr. Villoldo spent nearly 25 years in South America with descendents of the Incas, learning their traditional shamanic healing practices.
She also began to study Reiki with Karuna Master Edward Coyle. Reiki is an ancient Japanese method of both healing and stress reduction, emphasizing the need to elevate one's "life form energy," as the higher the energy level, the higher one's contentment and well-being. It was Coyle who bequeathed her the name Laughing Crow, a full nine years after she first sensed her American Indian past life.
In 2004, Laughing Crow became a Certified Practitioner of Energy Interference Patterning, or EIP.
"EIP looks at our feelings and emotions as a result of our belief systems and how our beliefs have presented themselves in our overall health and life experiences," says Bernadette Curtis of Holistic Pathways of Gorham, Maine. "The EIP process aids in restoring balance and energy by first identifying the core belief, neutralizing and releasing the unhealthy emotion, and manifesting a new belief." The healing process of EIP works in conjunction with human DNA, using the psychic powers of geometry and numbers to break DNA patterns.
While her work is centered in this region, she feels its scope is global.
"We do not own the earth," she says. "We are stewards here, charged with the responsibility of caring for the planet and all its inhabitants. We have an ecosystem that is dependent on each other. We need to look back on the earth or we won't have an earth to live on."