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Linda Crawford, LICSW

Guided Self Healing Institute
20 Muzzey St.#2
Lexington, Massachusetts 02421, USA

617-232-2858
781-274-6644 (fax)
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What is an underlying question that gives form to your work or interest in this field?

How can we better perceive and understand the holographic nature of the unified field as that nature displays in our daily life?

What is your personal experience of collective wisdom in groups?

My most profound experience of collective wisdom with groups has been as an Empath Healer. My current understanding of my form of Empath Healing is that in the moment that a person's information - form - manifests in my body, there is a place of secondary "show and tell" about how the energy field works. The information encoded in the field can be, for that moment, forming the client's body and/or my body and coming into third dimensional form. The self, “in-formation”, if you will. In a larger sense, each lifetime is a moment of “in-formation”. The internal subjective experience is simply a "longer" moment - a lifetime. It is possible that how we experience this lifetime is that our "consciousness or awareness" perceives within the field -- forms a physical body around/from a subset of Unified Field information and holds that physical body more or less stable for a "moment in time."

Working in a group field is a large part of what has allowed me to begin to understand some of the Empath work. If I can hold that… for a “moment”, the information that is held and shared in the field is simultaneously shaping the client’s physical body and mine, it is easier to comprehend how consciousness shapes the field into all moments of experience in a non-time/space bound way. We make sense of it through a combination of the collective consciousness and perceptual illusion - i.e. I am separate and that person is separate from me - but that is only convenient perceptual illusion.

When I am living an Empath Healing, “I” align with other information in the part of the field that calls itself "John Doe", share the configuration third dimensionally for a moment without judgment (I have often said that I'm at my best when I'm doing an Empath Healing and shift the information - metabolize the experience for the "person" into a different configuration in the Unified Field and when we return to our typically perceived configuration, the "person's" configuration is different. "A Healing" or “trans-formation” of symptom or relationship to symptom has occurred. The Empath function has modeled a moment of conscious awareness of the unified field simultaneously held with compassion and non-judgment, so change simply occurs. It is non-time/space-bound -higher order- consciousness for a moment.

What is it about the work in this field that excites you and connects you to your own deepest self?

My exploration and conceptualization of Empath Healing is truly at my current edge of understanding. For 9 years I was fortunate to be part of a weekly healers group that worked with subtle energies to both support our personal healing and healing within the larger collective energy field. This group was an invaluable arena of exploration for each and all of us as part of a larger transformation of our understanding of daily reality. Through a deep and abiding commitment to presence and following the movements of the energy field as they were experienced, each member was able to develop and expand their personal form of high sense perception and validate through shared experience the evolution of consciously perceived group mind/energy field phenomena. Observers of some of the meetings even questioned whether the sound and movements of the members had been choreographed because they were so synchronized. The Empath work opened for me there and continues to unfold. Integrating that core work with other transformational forms is currently the most exciting aspect. It is in that exploration that I experience my deepest truest self and the most joy.

Please provide a brief storyline or snapshot of what brought you to this work.

I have been in practice as an LICSW since 1974. In 1991 I was using hypnosis with trauma clients and began to see the energy field around them. Since the phenomenon was so clear and yet unknown to me, I began to study auric phenomena. I have explored with Anamika, Barbara Brennan, Jason Shulman, Roselyn Bruyere, Robert Jaffe and Andrew Hahn as initial teachers. Through many hours of holding presence with a willingness to experience what was happening in any given moment, several parts of myself opened that I have embraced as the truth of myself as I currently know it. I have also developed a DEEP appreciation for the wealth of life that I, as yet, know nothing about. I am an Empath and tonal healer. When I align and am willing to follow the energy field as it presents itself to me, much information is available that is not seemingly available in my regular state of consciousness. Over time, this information has proven valuable and reliable. My work with clients has expanded to include substantial trans-dimensional work integrated into our ongoing process work and in the last few years I have been training in Guided Self Healing, a trans-dimensional diagnostic and treatment framework that is exploring a comprehensive model of psycho-spiritual and energetic transformation. The work is powerful, efficient and also evolving. See www.guidedselfhealing.org

How would you like to be available to others in this field?

I am particularly interested in being in touch with other people who are Empath Healers. I have a decade of experience learning within that form and I am just beginning to hold a clearer understanding of how that experience is deeply related to collective consciousness and manifestation. I am also available to supervise therapists who are working to expand their approach to clients to include a deeper psycho-spiritual approach. I am also beginning to supervise and teach within the general area of Energy Psychology group and conference venues.

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