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::: Please note -- I'm fairly dyslexic. That's 'what's up' with the high level of typos on the
site. I fix them as soon as I become aware they exist but the bigger the site grows the harder
it is to patrol myself in a timely manner. If you find obvious typos that bug you please let me
know. I'll be delighted to fix them and I greatly appreciate your tolerance in the meantime:::
You can read more about me personally on my bio page
• What/where is Sparkling Lotus-land?
This is a descriptive reference point for my physical and psychic home base but in the truest
definition, the ‘place’ is a state of elevated consciousness. In my writing, the term usually does refer
to the places I’m living and working but I don’t mean to imply a stationary [or necessarily physical]
location. In my visions of the world’s psychic & healing web(s) there are many other people who live
and work in ‘sparkling lotus-land’ although they may have innumerable different names for the space
and general heightened awareness.
• Why a Lotus? What makes it sparkle?
The lotus flower medicine spirit is one of the most exalted healing, psychically liberating/spiritually
illuminating forces known in the botanical kingdoms. In the summer of 1996, I started working with a
commercial brand (the Starman series from Kaua'i) of Lotus flower essence. I sought deeper
personal connections to patterns of quantum healing. The essence quickly asserted a much wider
frame of impact than what I had envisioned or anticipated. I became acutely aware of the plants and
trees in my daily world – to the point where I eventually spent several hours a day in deep communion
with related medicine spirits and earth angels. I’m sure it’s no coincidence that this is the same time-
frame when I first began to have direct contact experiences with angels of many kinds. The lotus of
my meditation and dreams has always sparkled - whenever the source is questioned, my mouth
automatically replies “angels”.
• Do all your essences contain the lotus vibration?
Only in name and through the portals of sacred chanting & yoga/meditation. All three are frequently
practiced in the room where the SL stock level remedies are kept. Someday, I do hope to co-create
with lotus flowers...In the meantime I strongly recommend the Red Lotus essence from Lichenwood.
• What made you decide to develop a flower essence repertory?
In 1997 was recovering from a long illness that left me unemployed for quite some time. Our family
budget was fragile enough to be tested every time I purchased flower remedies – something I’d
started doing because they were having such a profound impact on my overall healing process. One
day, as I was worrying about the cost of replacing some nearly-gone Comfrey essence, the spirit of
the plant in my garde asked me why I didn’t trust the flowers in my own garden to produce healing
remedies. I had a few answers to that question, but they were not ultimately very “good”, or even
accurate.
• How long did it take you to build a repertory?
I prepared the bulk of the original SL remedies over the course of two summers – in 1997 and 1998.
At the end of the ’97 season, I began to feel curious about the efficacy of the essences beyond my
personal responses. From that curiosity, I cobbled-together a research project that lasted 5 years.
89 people were involved, living on three different continents. By the end of 1998, I was relatively
certain I was producing unilaterally effective healing remedies. In 2005 and 2006 I returned to active
co-creative practice in the original garden beds and a separate hilltop garden space.
• Why do you think flowers are so important?
For me, they always have been. I was quite literally raised in a garden and always held a special
affinity for the flowering stage of any plant I encountered. Extremely well-travelled (and even better
read) guests at my mother's dinner table often encouraged my interest by telling me stories of how
flowers had been important in our species’ past. The tale of the Lotus Eaters in the Odyssey made an
especially strong impression that lead to my earliest investigations into the Lotus’ various
associations with sacred and elevated consciousness. This awareness, including the careful study of
books and art in a few museums, was well in place by the time I was going to school. It wasn’t long
before early science classes taught me that all flowers have the purpose of creating seeds and, thus,
the perpetuity of their species. And I noticed flowers made nearly everyone happier and less
compressed at the auric level.
• What is your healer’s background?
I have an eclectic, unlicensed western psych background with a lot of emphasis on transformative
studies. This has been applied most frequently through work related to suicide prevention, incest
survival, and addiction recovery. It’s also applied, more personally, to the ways I’ve tended to
contribute to my personal circle of female alliances and our collective synergy, as well as the way I
inter-act and 'take my natural place' within the globalized healing community. In the mid 90’s, I began
a personal practice which has gradually narrowed to a strong focus on the healer-of-healers motif. I
like working with other healers because there is nearly always a lot less of a paralyzing fear factor and
a great deal of personal incentive. If we ARE what we DO, we must also
BE what we ARE …
• Why so much anonymity on the site and in your writing? What’s the big secret?
In fact, there is no “secret” so much as an important spiritual and psychic reality. Anonymity is
powerful as well as humbling; being largely unknown allows us to move with great effectiveness and a
minimum of linear (or ego-driven) distraction. Most of my closest friends and colleagues were raised
within the tradition of personal invisibility and serving as simple hands & feet for divine purpose. In
that respect, I'm something of a rebel, or a trouble-borrowing loudmouth, depending on your point of
view. The healers/medicine makers I've known best for the longest amounts of time simply aren't
comfortable revealing themselves in a direct way. Additionally, the first SL research project was
formed with the strong understanding that "what goes on in the lotus stays in the lotus". I'm committed
to maintaining that resolve in any writing that pertains to that specific project. I also strive to maintain
my client and teaching rosters' combined and singular privacy unless individuals seek direct mention
and concrete 'credit lines'.
• Why do you stress ‘serious’ study of flower and earth medicines when these subjects
are so joyful?
In my experience, what many peoples’ learning process has lacked is a serious (as in sustained and
well-formulated) opportunity to immerse in these subjects on one’s own terms and turf rather than
learning/doing from a template of somebody else’s co-creative landscape and/or their personal belief
system.
• How much of your ‘real life' is focused on flowers?
I write and work physically with flowers on a daily basis. I inter-act with flower remedies in 21 day
cycles, with a week off to let my systems recalibrate. Essences, therapeutic oil infusions, and
phytochemical tinctures, are shared with my first and second circle several times a week. I educate
spontaneously, pretty much whenever somebody asks a direct question either in person, on the phone
or through mail. At a certain point of the informational flow, the line/intentional channel switches to
professional output but this is still very much a part of my ‘real’ life and daily world. I also correspond
with a number of other flower-oriented people as part of my personal learning and research efforts.
This ongoing input, and the way it catalyzes my own efforts, pretty much insures that I’m at least
thinking about flowers with some part of my mind and intuitive belly, even while I’m doing other things.
• Why are you so abstract about your formal education?
Because I want to live beyond the paradigm where it’s anything but abstract. I don’t want to be
defined, in any way, by the implications of my education. Those who feel some aspect of their opinion
of me cannot be formed without knowing precisely where/when I went to school are invited to ask me
directly. Otherwise, I beg indulgence for the personal preference.
• When did you start gardening co-creatively?
The summer I turned 8 houses my first clear memories of actively learning technique & experiential
process. At an unsupervised level, I began when I was 24. The previous winter we moved from a
Comm. Ave. apartment house in Allston to a two-family house on the Brighton-Newton line. The
absentee landlord didn’t care what we did and neither did the downstairs neighbors. We
subsequently dug up the entire back yard, added close to a literal ton of supplements and extra top
soil and ‘little Findhorn’ was born. My son spent his first years in this space. This left him in fine
shape to be an active participant when we moved away from the city altogether, and I began building
the original Sparkling Lotus garden beds.
• When did you start using flower essences? Which one?
The summer I was 15, somebody gave me a home-made almond essence. I didn’t really know what it
was but I instinctively applied it to my pulse points like perfume. Later that same summer, I happened
upon a copy of Dr. Bach’s work in its original 1930’s form. I read the book dozens of times before
that summer’s overall experience had ended. Only in retrospect do I see how amazing and
auspicious a beginning it was. Also, I like to make note that for years I understood what essences
“were” without having a clue of the almond remedy’s purpose. It took me quite awhile to grasp that
EVERY flower had a healing/electrical link to our species but I think I've been consciously working my
way to that awareness ever since my earliest days with Dottie Nelson's mom and her mother-in-law.
• What’s your favorite flower?
I’m extremely partial to exotic white flowers of all kinds. Otherwise, I tend to favor whatever flower
I’m working with most closely at any given moment.
• Where should a person begin their study of flower medicine?
They should begin with the flower that is most compelling to them. If this isn’t a viable starting point,
I’ve found it’s nearly always very illuminating and meaningful to begin with a flower that was especially
meaningful during childhood. Write and meditate about these flowers. Actively call them closer to
you in your current life. If a flower IS particularly compelling, I suggest meditation and automatic
writing sessions coupled with some left-brain research of ‘facts’ about the established healing
property of the flower. From there you can learn more of a lateral nature by studying the overall
species and genus for established sacred relationship/healing properties. Take notes. Ask
questions of anybody who seems likely to give a reliable,
or thought provoking, answer.
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