Some houses that Nina has cleaned in the past turned out to have been built either on the site of an old burial ground or on the location of a massacre or battle. Souls of the ones who died seem confused and unwilling to leave the place and go to the Light, where they ought to have gone upon their death.
It turns out that escorting souls to the Light usually can be done in a reasonably short time; it typically goes much more quickly and easily than cleaning out "low entities" from a property. It is also a genuinely constructive thing to do, and gratifying, too: Nina, therefore, offers her time and ability for such work.
If you have questions about the situation on your property (or any place you know of), you can ask Nina to "take a look behind the moon". If a full-bore cleaning is required, Nina will provide you with instructions. If some spirits have to be escorted to the Light, you may be able to retain Nina's services.
To spiritually clean an object is to undo this layering, with the result that the object's spirit and energy are restored to their natural state. Obviously, if a piece of wooden furniture is cleaned, it does not become a living, growing tree again, but the wood, Nina would assure you, does regain the original spirit of cleanliness of that growing thing.
Note that just as the object, here a piece of wooden furniture, could gain layers of undesireable qualities from being acted upon by, for example, greedy, bad-tempered people, so too can the spirits and energies of people, animals, plants, and objects be acted upon and influenced by the tainted piece of furniture. Some things may just make you feel ill at ease and you may not know why, says Nina, and why should you think that you are responding to the unpleasant energy of a bookcase or a writing desk? Nonetheless, says Nina, speaking for her tradition, it happens.
Let us take as our example an antique writing desk, made from tropical woods, crafted in Europe in the eighteenth century, and used in a family filled with competition and strife, then passed from hand to hand, from avaricious dealers to purchasers besotted with vanity and status. At present, let us say, this desk stands in an antique dealer's store in Portland, Maine, but it attracts no customers; indeed, the shop owner observes, people seem to shun it and try not to notice it. Will it ever sell?
Enter Nina or another spiritual cleaner.
First, Nina sees the current state of the desk's spirit and energy, the spirits and energies of the trees which were felled to get the lumber for the desk and all the stages of manufacture, ownership, and use.
Second, Nina forms a clear picture of one of the component trees as it grew in a forest. She targets what remains of that tree's pleasure at being a growing, living plant, for this will be part of what remains after the cleaning. Then, Nina begins to work "from inside out", to dispose of the layers of the onion not by peeling off the outermost layer first but by working on the layer closest to the hernel. In other words, the effects of influences will be undone in the same order in which they happened.
The first event is probably the axe biting through the bark, the cambium, then into the tree's heart. The tree feels pain and despair; so does Nina. Has the lumberman said a prayer for the tree? Has he explained why he wants the tree to give him its wood? Unlikely. More likely is that the axeman was rushed, troubled, badly paid, perhaps a native worker regularly beaten; he is barely conscious of the tree's life and beauty. He wants the tree down; he wants it to fall in a certain direction; he wants its limbs off without injury to himself. To him, chopping down a tree is a mechanical job and one he has done ten thousand times and which he will do repeatedly until he is too weak to work and earn his keep. The evening before he lost money gambling in a game, and he resents the one who took away his pay. This tree trunk could be that man's leg, the foreman's neck: he swings his axe with malice.
Nina has to catch all the despair of the tree the axeman caused, catch all the hatred that flowed into the wood through the axe, all the unhappiness and unfeeling that the man expressed and send it back through the axe into the man.
It does not stop there, though, and the next part is interesting. Nina opens up the man's crown chakra; this provides a route of escape for all that pain and darkness. Now, though, it is up to the man what he does with what has been returned to him: he can acknowledge it and send it up through the crown of his head to The Light, where it will be handled, controlled, possibly transmuted, possibly disposed of by those who do such things, and the man will have learned something.
Or, the man may remain stubborn and uncaring and hold on to the darkness, and indeed it shall be his soul's burden to bear and work off on the Other Side or in another life.
Either way, the darkness and pain have left the tree and its wood. The same has to be done for each tree which contributed wood to the desk. (Can you imagine the job it would be to clean plywood or, worse yet, those synthetic boards made from pressed wood chips? How many hundreds of trees would have to be tracked down?)
But, you probably protest, but that tree was cut down in Brazil in 1742, let's say, and it's not so much that Brazil is far away from where the desk is now as that the axeman has been dead for two centuries or more. In what sense can that dark energy be returned to him?
In the only sense that matters, I might say, if I were feeling flippant. Wherever that man's soul may be, it must accept delivery and then decide what to do with that smelly, dripping package. An interesting view of our existence, isn't it?
Here is an exercise for the reader: Does every person have the ability to right past wrongs in this fashion? (There is no answer at the back of this book.)
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Stones are the veins of the planet. They carry tremendous energy, some more than others. Stones are like people: some have high energy, and others have low energy. Do not associate with the low energy stones, for they can absorb your own energy. Others can actually have the very lowest, damaging energy. You hear about certain stones bringing bad luck or about people feeling poorly when they wear certain pieces of jewelry.
Stones are living things, even after they have been cut from the vein. Some people are sensitive to the way pieces of jewelry make them feel: one piece will make them feel fantastic, but when they wear another one, nothing goes right and they feel depressed and low.
To change the energy of a stone, the healer must go into the mine and break the vein. What is called the "heart" of the stone holds the energy better than the edges. For example, when a chunk of emerald forms in the rock, it is clear at the edges but cloudy with white tracery at the center; this is the stone's "garden". The garden holds the energy of the stone well, but the clear edges do not.
Metals may have either high or low energy, but they never have that kind of low energy that sucks your own energy. However, metals certainly can interfere with your energy; aluminum is a prime example. Also, metals can become 'dirty' and feel 'heavy'.
The energy of silver is the same regardless of where in the vein the silver came from. Gold retains its characteristic energy down to a purity of 18 carats; below that, the energy fades, until by about 12 carats the characteristic energy has vanished.
When a healer cleans a stone, he or she has to go all the way to the mine where the stone was before it was broken away from the planet. The first energy the stone absorbs is from the mine workers, which is (or used to be) sometimes bad, because they worked in inhuman conditions. Stones mined by mistreated workers absorbed anger, frustration, hopelessness, depression, and illness, the last because so many of the workers contracted pulmonary diseases.
The next energy the stones absorb comes in when the stones are sold in their rough state. They absorb the greed involved in the bargaining.
They then go to the person who lapidates (cuts and polishes) them; if the person who lapidates them also enjoys and respects the stones and their art, then the energy is better: the best stonecutters used to talk to the stones.
The stones go on to the jewelry maker who makes the setting; that person can feel joy or frustration, he or she may feel that his or her work is no more than a job to make money. Whatever their attitude, the stones will absorb the energy.
Then the stone goes to the new owner, and more energy is absorbed.
When a healer cleans the stone, she has to go back to the mine and work forward through all the hands that the stone has passed through. The healer will have the capacity to see or feel the mine itself. Nina says that when she has followed diamonds, she has gone to a very poor place populated by dark-skinned people working in horrendous, dark holes; they pull and push little wagons and carry little buckets. The diamonds from such mines store intense sadness. Nina is able to take the sadnesses away with her mind; other healers, though, have to work with 27 candles. (This technique will be explained elsewhere in time.) Nina sweeps her spiritual hand through the stone, takes out the fear, the exploitation, and other dark influences in her hand, then sends it away into the Light.
Nina then moves on to the people who do the selecting and breaking up of the lumps, searching for that little bit that will be worth turning into jewelry. These are poor people, too, who work standing around tubs, watched over by bosses.
Then she moves on to the seller and buyer, both of whom can be greedy and dishonest.
She moves to the gemcutter: gemcutting is an art, because as the stone comes to the cutter it has no light. But, the cutter can also imbue the stone with frustration, haste, pressure, and tedium: these have to be removed. Again, she sweeps her 'hand' through the stone and gets traction on the darknesses there, draws them out, and sends them to the Light. Much of this will be encountered as impurities, but also there can be low entities, which do not live inside the stone, but which have become stuck to the stone: beware when handling these.
Then she goes to the gemsetter.
So, she says, this is why it is so important to do every job, even tedious, menial ones, with a good outlook. Energy is like fingerprints: you leave traces everywhere in everything you touch or do. All of these people involved in the history of the stone have left traces of their energies within the stone. (And, in the case of lew entities, have actually caused the transfer of a more intentional thing to the stone.) Think of the different thoughts that could go through the minds of people setting valuable stones for wealthy people: did they feel resentment? were they pleased to be making something that would make a lady more beautiful?
Whey you have cleaned a stone, from then on the stone will carry the healing energy intrinsic to the stone, before it was removed from the earth.
Even a healer might look at their work as tedious, underpaid, ill-appreciated, or boring! Avoid feeling that way, or THAT is what will be associated with the stone, and then what improvement will you have made?! You will not be a Healer if you do that! Nina says, "A Healer cannot hold grudges or have impurities or low entities in her and still be able to clean."
Would you want to clean a stone for other reasons? Consider this example, says Nina. You own a jewelry store. You have a beautiful piece of jewelry but are stuck with it, because although people look at it, no one ever wants to buy it. After that piece has been cleaned, everyone will want it. The cleaning has removed the negativity which had set up a 'shield' between the stone and the onlooker. That goes for everything we take from the earth or sea or forest or anywhere; it goes for everything we create.
If you have stones that you feel are 'heavy', wait until the moon begins to
wane and then place them into real, natural perfume or Holy Water. (However,
remember not to put either coral or pearl into perfume, as that will kill
them.)