Crystal's Mystical Journey

So what’s Reiki and what the eff are Chakra's? I KNOW RIGHT?! When I was tiny, I lived in a tiny, poe-dunk town in south Florida. I lived with my grandparents, my uncle and my mama, in a tiny, cinderblock three bedroom, one bathroom house. My grandmother, was an energy healer. A Curandera, in Spanish.  I remember women would bring their very sick small children to her, she’d do something with an egg, saying prayers over them, cracking the egg open, looking at the yolk, and telling the mother what the ailment was, based on the yolk. The children ALWAYS rose as if nothing was ever wrong with them. And they’d come in LETHARGIC!!! With legs and arms limp! As a mama, now I understand that they REALLY should have taken their babies to the hospital, but se’ la vie’! In my experience, in Hispanic culture, we always see La Curandera first, and LAST we see a real doctor. Also, I don’t know any crazy Hispanics. I think because of the healers of our communities, they’d tell us “i...

So, how’d I go from Deacon to Shaman? LOL, I KNOW RIGHT?! Spring 2018 I was on a flight with my family, when I felt my “soul” kind of throbbing and I turned to my very Christian husband and said, “I feel like I should become a Shaman.” He turned, a slight smirk spreading across his face and he said, “Aren’t you already a Shaman?” I was taken aback and said, “What? No. How am I already a Shaman?” He goes, “baby, you talk to trees. And with all your tinctures and oils and weird stuff you do.” I laughed and said, “Excuse me, our tree gives us super delicious oranges! If you gave us gifts all the time, wouldn’t you want to be thanked? Trees make AIR it’s important! I’m pretty sure if they made Wi-Fi more people would care about the rate at which we’re tearing them down!!! And doing stuff with oils isn’t bad!! Jesus used oils and they were all over the bible!” He just grinned and shook his head at me. It was his “I love you, weirdo.” Grin and head shake. God bless him, he does put up ...