How Conscious Crossings Began
In the spring of 2000, I was running in the park near my home with Jinna Russell. We ran together several mornings a week as we were training to run as part of a relay team in the White Rock Marathon in Dallas that December. It was also a good way to catch up, although we worked in the same office, sometimes we were both so busy that we had no time to talk during the work day.
One particular morning, Jinna said to me, " I had a dream last night that we were helping people to cross over.
You were just... handing them to me...very precisely and matter of fact... and I was bringing them to the Other Side.", Jinna replied.
I remember thinking that was interesting, but we had no frame of reference for anything like this, and the dream was just mentally filed away, forgotten about for the time being.
Not long after that, I came into the office one morning and told Jinna, " I had a dream that you were holding up several signs, there were three or four pieces and together it spelled out the name, 'Lllewellyn', do you know what that is ?"
"No", Jinna thought for a moment. " I don't know anyone with that name."
So, again, the dream was just filed away.
The Fall of 2000 was a very difficult time for me. I have not had to deal with death very much as an adult and in between September and October there were three deaths that impacted me greatly.
First, a patient who had been seeing me for a short period of time did not show up for his appointment, when I called his home I was told he had shot and killed himself the day before. This was quite a shock, as he had seemed very postive about the future.
Then, one of our very much loved cats disappeared. I finally found his body in the park a week later. We were devastated.
Shortly after that, my beloved grandmother died after a long struggle with Alzheimer's Disease.
I felt that there must be a reason for me to have to deal with this much grief in such a short period of time. I began to feel somewhat unsatisfied with my work... although I love doing acupuncture,massage and Reiki, I felt like there was something more I should be doing, but I had no idea what that might be.
Jinna and I began to do a weekly meditation and soon realized this was a profoundly powerful method
of gaining insight into our future work.
In early November, a little more than a year for me since I had felt like there was "something I didn't know yet" JInna came into work and reported another dream to me.
" I was told in a dream over the weekend that we were already 'doing all the parts', but I didn't know what that meant." Jinna said ." Then, yesterday, I went in to Half-Price Books, and there, in the wrong section, was this book, it practically fell out on me."
Jinna handed me the book. The title was Conscious Dying (see footnotes). " This is what we are supposed to do !"
The book described a theory that, if a person dies in a state of awareness of moving to the Other Side and has discussed and even practiced what to do beforehand, they will die without fear and with a sense of peace.
At that moment, we still did not know exactly how we would be doing this work. We just knew we needed to learn. Every time we meditated from that point on, we were given a piece of information, sometimes a little sliver, sometimes a big chunk.
And we became frequent visitors to Half-Price Books, finding books that were backing up the information we were getting in dreams and meditations.
And, many of the books were from publishing company called Llewellyn Publications. This is the base, this is how it started. The message - follow your intuition.
The journey has been fascinating, and we are honored to be able to share the results with you.
Jennifer Walz, L.Ac