Sunday, July 10, 2011

Chapter One~ MESSAGES FROM MOTHER EARTH

Chapter One

₪ Messages from Mother Earth


“Here is my story from my heart to your heart, from my spirit to your spirit”.
~ Crystal Gingras ~

I attended a vision quest ceremony in 2009, where I fasted for three days without food and water and slept as little as possible ( we are supposed to stay awake the entire time). My purpose to pray for a vision was to see what I needed to elaborate on in mu life, in the future. This was not the first time that I had practiced this kind of ceremony. I had completed my first vision quest about five years before.

My first vision quest lasted for one night and I was called back in the morning after sunrise. Before I went to be alone with the earth that night to pray, everyone who was present in the seven days of ceremonies cleansed off in the sacred lodge with the stone people and the water for cleansing.

Upon my return of the ceremony through the night, I went back inside of the lodge to cleanse again, and share my vision of I wanted with the elder who was conducting the ceremony. I had decided earlier that day to sit on a tree that had fallen over near a stream of water..........



We co-exist as one on this beautiful, planet earth, I know as our Mother Earth. She is plentiful, beautiful, and absolutely gentle and compassionate. In spite of that, we do not see her or treat her with the respect that she absolutely, undesirably deserves and needs now more than ever. The earth is pleading for us to pay attention to her, like a mother demanding her presence to be known to nurture her innocent children. She is patiently asking us in the upmost respect to listen and she will guide us on our journey here that we know as earth. I feel that it is imperitive that we start to listen to her now and begin seeking all that she has to share.

Humanity has poisoned the fluids (water and oil) in her body, we have ripped her veins (trees) into shreds over and over again and we trample on her and drench her with chemicals every day and we continue without hesitation. Many people keep wanting and needing more, yet many are so lost and feel so alone. There are many children and adults who are depressed and suicidal. The death, abuse, addictions and disease tolls are increasing each year including our babies and small children. There are many children, men and women on medications with life- long addictions and illnesses. I visited Pine Ridge, South Dakota a few years ago, and heard some of the elders talk about all of the killings through chemicals in the water and the land. I saw the flesh eating rot that was on a woman’s body before she healed herself with her plants in the garden. I went there to help build natural housing and assist with permaculture, which is all natural gardening and farming of the land. I went to a house to ask a family there if they were interested in natural housing, like earth ship homes from dirt and recycled tires and the children ran inside scared saying there was a white person there. I cried when I heard the story of how they have been trained in school for many years to run and hide because they have been massacred for so many years, even in my time

In 2008 I was traveling and heard about an Indian reservation where they shut off the electricity in severe cold weather even when there were children and elderly in wheelchairs in the homes. I witnessed the mold and torn in ceilings of the trailers that are on the reservations. The water is not safe to drink, even on my reservation where I am currently living in Pawnee, OK to assist with the community garden. The tap water is not safe to drink here and everyone knows it.
On a lot of reservations that I have visited over the years, there is a very high rate of suicide in teenagers and the drug and alcohol rates are very extreme. I had heard about Pine Ridge, SD being like a third world country and I do not believe that is an exaggeration. There are many churches and groups who may go assist there for a week or two, but what many of them need are permanent people and businesses that can help to make a real difference. The job rates are low on some reservations and in Pine Ridge, there is hardly any fresh produce and it is difficult to grow crops as the grasshoppers will eat the food as soon as it grows. You can drive through the reservation and see all of the dead trees, empty land and no grocery stores or health and rehab centers. They do have a new school and nearby there are huge painted signs to stay off of drugs.

Seeing all of these families and children living without electricity, no running water in the house, healthy foods, outside bathrooms, made me wonder where are all of our leaders? What are they doing and why can’t they help these children? Why do I see thousands of people traveling to other countries and we need just hundreds to help in places in this country? I believe in helping out other countries as we are all important, but why are the children of this country not on the news and receiving more assistance? This book and the profits of this book are for the children of mother earth starting with all of those left behind and forgotten.

Mother Earth says … you are not alone. I am here, right under your every step, right here every time you walk, drive, ride your bike, I am beneath you holding you up; I am carefully watching over you no matter what you do or say to me, because I love you unconditionally. I am the Earth Mother, I am your Mother and each and every one of you is my children. You are forgiven every day that you walk this Earth because I am here to cleanse you and wipe your tears and feed you food from my womb and give you water from my streams, from my very veins that run through and all over my body. You are never alone for I am always here. “Your brothers and sisters are the trees, you carry the same DNA. Just because you don’t look alike or move alike doesn’t mean you are not related. Your brothers and sisters are here to help to carry your spirit, to give you medicine when you are sick, to give your breath when you can’t breathe and help you when you feel like you can’t do it alone. Our time is running out, you can only help yourself and you have everything you need right where you are. You have the Earth right under your feet and you have the sky right above you and the waters all around you. You don’t have to give up; this is not a demand but a choice that you have to make. It is all up to you.


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Author BIO~Crystal Gingras, Chapette Hetas

Dedicated
to
Mother Earth

You are there for each of us, as you always have been and always will. You are as certain as the stars in the sky. You are the pounding in my heart and the waves of everlasting emotions that fill me and filter me and ground me to my core. You are my inner strength, my inner wisdom, my life. From you, from ground, from earth, from the womb of my beautiful mother, thank you.
Crystal Gingras

Journal Date: November 2007 Location: Guatemala

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Crystal Gingras, (Pawnee name is Chapette Hetas which translates to Turtle Woman) started attending Ceremonies with her mother around the age of five years old. She started doing aura readings for people by seeing the colors and blocks in people’s energy field at the age of eight. Crystal also went to homes with her mother where people had spirits stuck in this earth plane and needed assistance crossing over into the spirit plane. Crystal continues to travel to do this work to this day when called upon.

Crystal’s background includes but is not limited to: professional intuitive artist, intuitive healer and body worker, soul healer, Usui Reiki Master instructor and Karuna Reiki practitioner. At the age of twenty one, she started traveling to several workshops with different tribal and non-tribal teachers. Some of her travels included, Mexico, Guatemala, Egypt, New Mexico, South Dakota, Arizona, California, and she worked with many elders that were Mayan, Azteca, Lakota Souix, Peruvian, South American, and from Tibet. She has traveled to see Amma from India as well as the Dalai Lama from Tibet. Crystal believes that guides, angels and helpers are the ones who do all of the work through us. Crystal was born in Wichita, KS May 18, 1980 when Mt. St. Helens erupted and is named after the healing crystals that are formed and live inside of the Mother Earth. Her Pawnee tribal name, Turtle Woman (Chapette Hetas) is named after the Mother Earth, since we call her Turtle Island.
Crystal’s passion and purpose in life is to assist others in fulfilling their destiny and coming into their own power to walk their own truth path. The truth path is the purpose of the soul’s journey here on Mother Earth.
Drumming with some of the members
of the 13 Grandmothers in Washington D.C. 2010.

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Thursday, July 7, 2011

PAWNEE DANCERS painting by Crystal Gingras

This
picture is called Pawnee Dancers. I painted this from one of my grandpas paintings that is on the wall of every Shunatona I know in my family. I loved the colors and I matched them as well as I could. I am selling my prints for $20 each.  All prints are personally signed by me.

If you want a signed copy of Time Is Running Out, I can send you paypay request for however many books you would like.

Love, Light and much Gratitude from my heart to all of yours,

Crystal Gingras
Pawnee Dancers by Crystal Gingras
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Time Is Running Out Ch. 7 Continue to Grow....

One of my teachers was a Tai Chi instructor and he was unsympathetic! One by one, he had each of us come after him to choke him and on the way towards him he would place his hands together to build his chi (life force energy) and as we got near him he would direct his hands at us and knock us on the ground. He continued to do this practice to every student there. Then, one of the Spiritual teachers there from Texas gets up and decides to test his chi level with him (this teacher was very intuitive and was able to move objects and communicate with the spirit world and I stayed with him and his wife during my summer school breaks to learn more). My teacher had put his hands around this man’s neck and was squeezing with all his might and I remember both of their faces were turning red and I remember someone had to stop them from killing each other! To me, that was an experience of ego and trying to be more powerful than someone else and show off. I can still remember feeling confused and embarrassed by the whole situation.
I also wonder if some spirits don’t like you to curse because for one, recently one of my friends that talks to spirits frequently tells me that they get nervous when I cuss. As a teenager, at the Spiritual Camp that I attended, one of the guys there was walking in front of the church cursing and this spirit like flew right out of those brick walls and knocked him right off his feet! We all immediately knew why! He saw the spirit fly right out of the stones on the church wall and knock him down. I spent a good three summers there at least and I was honored that they ...........


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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Time Is Runninng out..Chapter 12 CEREMONIES FOR HEALING

Another ceremony that I have learned is the Blessing the Water ceremony. There are many, many, many, different ways to bless the water and I will share this simple, yet powerful one that each of you can practice and share with others. First of all, blessing the water each time before you drink will connect you with the water that is all around you and inside of you. You simply rub your hands together a bit to build up a little energy and then place your hands over your water for about five or ten seconds. You may wish to think love or balance, peace or health while blessing your water. If you are at home or alone, then you can say this out loud. The actual vibration of your voice saying that word will help to infuse the water with what you say. I want to share some facts about water in great detail for those of you who do not understand the importance, or maybe you can just learn some fun facts! (WATER the Next Great Resource Battle by Laurence Pringle)
“Water is the most important substance we consume. We are mostly water: A woman’s body is 55 to 65 percent water, a man’s 65 to 75 percent. Our blood is 83 percent water. Even our bones are 25 percent water. In our bodies, water makes food digestion possible. It carries hormones, nutrients, and disease-fighting cells to and from body organs. Water makes it possible for wastes to leave our bodies through urine, feces, skin, and lungs.
All this can be accomplished with about two and a half to three quarts of water a day. Take away this water and the chemical processes of life soon break down and stop.
We are conscious only of the water we use directly. Drinking and cooking account for two gallons a day. In the average American home, each person uses an additional eighty-five gallons daily: twenty-four for flushing toilets, thirty-two for bathing, dishwashing, and laundry, and twenty-five for such as gardens, lawns, car washing, and swimming pools.
The total-eighty-seven gallons a day for each person-is an estimate. Other assessments put the average consumption in America much higher, up to 175 gallons a day.
Scarcity of water has long been a fact of life for westerners. It has resulted in water laws that are different from those in the East, and in the building of huge dams and other projects for storing and moving water. Conditions in the arid West are dramatically different from those in water-rich areas. Yet both Nevada (with nine inches of rain annually) and New Jersey (with forty-five inches) face water supply problems.
Water-rich or water-poor, people all over the United States can no longer take dependable supplies of clean water for granted”.
Each time that you practice this Blessing Water Ceremony, you are also Blessing and aligning yourself. This can be practiced in a body of water outside, in the shower, in the bath, or with a bowl of water in front of you. First, you take three to five deep breaths and cleanse your energy and relax the mind. Next, face your right palm upwards and say, this left hand represents the grandmother water spirits. Then, face your right palm up and say this right hand represents the grandfather water spirits. After you say both out loud, scoop up a handful of water and say I now thank and bless the grandmother and grandfather water spirits and connect you both together in peace and balance. If you would like to add a special blessing for yourself, then scoop a second cup of water in your palms and ask for special blessings from the grandmother and grandfather water spirits of life. When you are finished make sure that you give thanks to the water and the ceremony and for all things in your day that you had to give thanks for.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Time Is Running Out FINISHED!!!

Hello Everyone! Namah Shivaya Beloved, Nawa,

I have now completed my book and am working on preorders for my book now!!! Please email me if you are interested in a pre-purchase. The cost of my first book, "Time Is Running Out" is $22.00. Pre-orders will be $22 even and mailed to the address that I will send you after you email.

The publishing process takes about 3 months and I will add your name to my pre-order list and you will recieve a signed copy, hopefully at a book-signing somewhere in your city!!! My email address is crystal_gingras@yahoo.com

Please let me know how many copies you would like to order. Also, if you are interested in doing a book signing in your area that has a venue for me to do a public speaking on one of my chapters for a couple of hours, or even the entire day. I offer workshops for Universities, groups, or healing Centers. I enjoy speaking, teaching, sharing as well as guided meditations, teaching Reiki, sharing Deekshas/Oneness Blessings, Bodywork, Breathwork, and my favorite, tool sharing for spirit traveling and healing with rattles, drums, chanting and singing native american prayer songs and healing songs. 



Email me if you have any other comments or questions.
Thank you to those of you who have already purchased copies of my book.

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Thank you for all of your love and support,

Crystal Gingras, Turtle Woman

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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Chapter Three~Releasing Attachments

Chapter Three

Releasing Attachments


Releasing-crying, laughing, breathing, yelling……
The simple fact is, is that we all ecompass our own perception of what this world is about and wjhat the world has been in the past and what its "supposed" to be like. From the day we are born we start forming attachments with our parents, family, relatives and friends. Even when we are in the womb we are forming familiarities with voices, sounds, vibrations and energies of those that are around us…just as we are forming our tastes-buds, our likes and dislikes by what our mothers are eating and ingesting. We are also imprinting their emotions and vibrations, their anger and their love. Some people call these connection cords or strings. There is the energy cords, the string theory, there are books and books and public and motivational speakers out there that talk about these cords and attachments even down to the years that it takes for them to dissipate on their own. People talk about how kissing someone on the lips can take about 3 years to fade away and sexual intercourse takes about 7 years. There are different healers, cultures, scientists and the sort that all agree on a certain time limit that most of these have an effect on the physical and spiritual body.

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