Chapter 13

PRETTY FLOWER MAKES HER APPEARANCE

The secrets of the universe are not really secrets; they are simply unrecognized.*

A new door was already opening in my life. I was still acting as guide for Daniel Clay as he gave the personal readings requested of us through Ageless Expressions. But Daniel was preparing to guide most of the sessions himself. He had long ago been told that the day would come when he would leave the "crutch" of hypnosis behind and move at will into the Hall of Records. Now, as this book is written, I no longer work regularly with Daniel, although we remain good friends; his wife reads him the questions people submit, and he continues to give personal readings through Ageless Expressions.

As Daniel made this transition, another friend was reentering my life. I had met Eileen Rota-Wirtanen years before at The Adventure, my house in Massachusetts. In December of 1984 she was visiting Ann and me and asked for a reading from Daniel. She followed its suggestions, which had to do with certain health problems, and received much benefit. In January 1985, she visited us again. During this visit, she asked me if I would be willing to repeat the Cayce and Daniel procedure with her. I was not looking for new projects. I was busy with two manuscripts and the antiques business. But the question was in my mind: Could the experiment with Daniel be replicated, or was it a rarity?

I had no doubt that Daniel and I had duplicated the Cayce experiment. Now I wondered if it could be done regularly with others. Cayce often said that everyone can do this work, but saying and doing are very different. Here was an opportunity to test Cayce's statement. Eileen and I had worked together off and on for 10 years. I had guided her through past life regressions and had made self-hypnosis cassette tapes for her and her family. I felt comfortable with the groundwork we had done. Also, she had conducted many of her own soul development projects like automatic writing, and she occasionally offered psychic readings through palmistry. She was not a novice in soul exploration. So I agreed to try the Cayce procedures with her, and on Jan. 20, 1985, we began.

Eileen, my wife, and I retired to my office and the comfort of dim lighting and a recliner chair. We surrounded Eileen, in this and every subsequent session, with protection - white light and prayer - so we were confident that no unwanted energy would enter. After Eileen was in a trance and going to the Hall of Records, we all waited to hear what was going to be said. We waited. And we waited. Then, just as I was going to begin the return procedures, Eileen said a few words. Soon she started chanting. Then more release of tears. I closed the session, guiding her back down through the levels and through the wake-up procedure.

It was a beginning: Not a session that offered any profound information, but neither did Daniel's early sessions. What was important was that Eileen felt an energy come through her and then leave again. That was important.

Differences in the Channeling

As each person is unique, so is each person's channeling. I had started the session by doing exactly what I had been doing with Daniel. Right from the start I realized what was happening with Eileen and Pretty Flower was very different from what had occurred with Daniel and The Eternals. Eileen worked at a very different pace from Daniel. I had to go much more slowly. She breathed very deeply and shook, but had little uncontrolled vibrating. There were tears, but tears of release and relief rather than of sadness. The most obvious difference was between the entities coming through. The Eternals are forceful, energetic, even macho. Pretty Flower is gentle, humorous, and nurturing. Her voice is always gentle and sweet and often the meter of her words is poetic.

Participants in our groups tend to feel peaceful and at one with themselves in her presence, just as they are stimulated and challenged by The Eternals. Pretty Flower did not make her appearance immediately. Several entities presented themselves at different times during the first two sessions. Finally, one, a male, described himself as the "bridge," and stated that he would not appear again. Then another entity, a woman, came through.
Eileen says, "The first time Pretty Flower entered I experienced a shaking within my being. I sobbed aloud, and all the while inside I prayed that I would get out of the way and let the channeling happen."

In subsequent sessions I learned or relearned the techniques and procedures that facilitated Eileen's channeling. To do this - be a facilitator - my main tool is very careful listening. I am with the vessel as fully as I can be. During a session I note the expressions of voice, body, and vocabulary unique to that vessel and afterwards I study the tapes to become familiar with these expressions. I then use the vessel's own words wherever possible to give suggestions.

In Eileen's case, she has told me that some of the words that were most helpful and necessary were suggestions about trust, healing energies, and gentle transference. Pretty Flower herself had suggestions, often strong ones, about how I could modify my procedures. For instance, to enable The Eternals to enter through Daniel, I always took him through the Cayce levels (see Chapter 8). This became unneccessary with Pretty Flower. She said, "This entry has been the easiest thus far and I propose that in the future we might consider eliminating the levels and simply enter."
In other sessions she told me fine points of procedure and timing. For instance: "In the future we could spend a little more time with the opening, after the entry of the White Light." Another time she suggested changing a procedure "[so] that the waves of Blue Light may carry the vessel out in an easier manner."
She wanted more time to meet the soul energy of Eileen during the process of entering and exiting. She said, "There is upon entry and exiting, a spot or a vibration where we happen to meet. And it is most pleasurable. And we could, if we were not in a hurry, pause at that moment, to embrace. And the trust is built even more, as the embrace increases the expansion of the chakras and allows a healing and alignment to take place."

What was happening, Eileen told me, was that she and Pretty Flower met and danced together, faster and faster each time, until it was as if they created a vortex. Then Pretty Flower came in as Eileen stepped aside. By following Pretty Flower's advice, and giving more time during their meetings, I was able to help Eileen let go more easily to let the channeling happen. After about 12 sessions we had fine tuned our method for accessing Pretty Flower.

These are the suggestions we used.
Suggestions for Accessing Pretty Flower '...in due time, in your own time, a minute, an hour, a day, a week, a month, some time, your subconscious will reveal its gifts to you. In a dream or a daydream, when you are not especially thinking about it, new understanding, new levels of perception, new awareness of yourself and of others, new information that you may process and use to your highest potential. Information to help you achieve the highest ideals you have set and you are actively working toward. And you may, once again now, begin the process of opening yourself to the White Light. Surrounding yourself with healing love, surrounding yourself with trust, begin the process of opening the chakra centers. Begin first by opening the crown chakra and letting in the healing light. Fill the head chakra. Allow the light to move down the body, into the throat chakra, the heart center, the solar plexus area, the cells of Leydig, all the way to the reproductive system, and continuing throughout the body internally. Now surrounding the body externally with the White Light. The White Light fills all the empty places. With trust and belief in the power of love, you begin to feel the love energy flowing. Love fills your being as you begin to go to that inner spot of innocence and trust. And soon the White Light becomes an intense blue- white light. And the waves of blue light carry you out in an easier manner, and allow for the opening of the energy that comes through you. You begin to see the old woman, you beckon to her, you welcome her. At first she is but a small speck, and then she begins to grow larger and larger, until the presence of the spirit of Pretty Flower is in front of you. You begin to step aside, motioning her to come ahead, giving full permission, with love and trust, to use the temple of your spirit. You are now totally immersed in the Light. And now come the wonderful angels and spirit friends, and you realize that you are not alone. You continue to trust and allow the trust to build. And upon entering, there is a spot where the two of you meet, and you pause at this moment to embrace. And the embrace increases the vibration of the trust, and you hold hands and dance together joyfully, and this allows the proper alignment to take place. You have reached that spot of innocence, that holy place. The transition is now completing. Love continues to pulsate and permeate in and around the being. You are in tune with the vibration of the universe. You are in tune with the healing process. Focus only on Pretty Flower at this time. And now the transition is complete. You may use this time for chanting to totally align the energies. You are vibrating in truth. Or you may use this simply as a time of quiet, to align the soul energies. And when you are ready, we may begin communicating. We welcome you to this gathering and this place...

The Gatherings Begin

At the beginning of a few sessions Pretty Flower said that there were other beings or soul energies besides herself who wished to speak through the vessel. "We are crowded in here," she complained. I responded, "Although there are many energies and entities who have much valid information to be spoken and to be shared... only one can speak at a time. Therefore it is our choice and our desire that only the spirit of Pretty Flower speak to us now."
Eileen told me that at this suggestion a clearing took place. "I felt that I would explode," she said. "But when you said those words, the others left; the exiting was gentle, but swift and clean." Working with Pretty Flower, as working with The Eternals, required a new vocabulary to understand the messages fully. Each session was referred to as a gathering. A group meditation or guided meditation was a communion or a marriage. Pretty Flower usually asked each person, "How are you vibrating?" A translation could be "How are you feeling?" or "How are you?" But a very different use of the word vibration usually referred to a specific lifetime - that is, "in this vibration" meant "in this lifetime."
The process of going to or, more correctly, accessing Pretty Flower was called "the ceremony," although the word was used in other ways too. Once Pretty Flower's presence came through, she moved the recliner into a more upright position. Usually she asked for permission to "make a sound," a chant.

As you will see in the transcripts, Pretty Flower chanted often. These chants were remarkable. Each one was different. Some were soft and elongated, some high and piercing, some low and guttural. They were often accompanied by hand and body movements; Eileen says sometimes her whole body vibrated with the sound.

The Exiting Process

The exiting process is similar to the process of entering, but in reverse. Pretty Flower puts the reclining chair back into a more horizontal position and breathes a deep sigh. Through the many sessions she has explained that in exiting she goes to a different vibration - one other than Pretty Flower. The exiting is easier in this manner. At the end of many sessions there seemed not to be a full closing of the crown or topmost chakra. Eileen was back, but had not yet fully awakened, and she gestured in a fretful way with her hand to her forehead. This is another kind of situation in which my experience and attention to the vessel are important, for Eileen could not seem to speak to say if something was wrong. Guessing the cause of the trouble, I went to her, placed my hands on her forehead, and said the words, "Closing the crown chakra now - allowing the crown chakra to close...." This action seemed to be effective in the balancing of energy and in closing.

Later on, Pretty Flower herself directed that the crown chakra remain open, and Eileen reports that it does, with a sensation she describes as a continuous, slight, mentholated tingling, a sensation that increases during meditation or during sessions, and descreases during other daily activities. She says, "The Blue Flame sits atop my head always." Other than that there was almost never any physical contact with the vessel throughout the sessions. In fact, I am careful to monitor a group to see that no individual comes even in close proximity to the vessel to disrupt her energy or aura field.

Here is the exiting process that I used with Pretty Flower and Eileen.
Thank you for this sharing, communion, and marriage of the gathering. Please begin the process for this gathering to be completed. Preparing for the proper entity to return to her physical body in her temple. Surrounded with trust, with the remembrance of surrender, allow this celebration to be completed. We thank you for this time of sharing, this time of learning and growing and fun together. Allow the old woman to become smaller and smaller. Allow the souls on all levels to bid farewell. And as you part, there is a moment of embrace. With trust and with love, the transformation becomes complete. Coming back - through the light. Bidding farewell to the angels and spirit friends. In the fullness of joy, with permission, with trust, and with full determination. Vibrating in strength and in harmony. Slowly begin the process of closing the chakra centers. Beginning at the reproductive center, gently closing of this center and the cells of Leydig. Closing of the solar plexus, once again the closing of the heart chakra, the throat chakra, and leaving the head chakra, the crown chakra open. Returning to normalization, the chakra centers of the being. A gentle closing, and allowing the soul entity of Eileen to return into her proper temple, her proper vessel. Realigning the soul body with the physical body, and the mental body. And each time we do this work, there is a healing. And each time, the going out and the coming back in, the opening and the closing, become easier and easier. You are fully oriented into the present. Continue the alignment process. This is ________ (date), in ___________ (city or town), ________ (state). Are you ready now for the counting up exercise? [Vessel raises a finger to signify agreement.] We will proceed very slowly and carefully. I will count from one to ten. At the count of ten, you can open your eyes, be wide awake, feeling fine. Feeling better than before. I will count now. One, coming back. Two, coming up very slowly. Three, coming out. Four, feel total normalization at every level of your being. Five, feel the life energies returning. Six, feel the circulation returning throughout the being. Seven, coming up to your full potential. Eight, with total equilibrium and lightness. Nine, revitalizing; and ten, energized and wide awake. Just rest for a few minutes.

*The quotations at the beginning of each chapter now are from Pretty Flower.