Rock BAWLS
by Nancy Clegg
The path to new-age description leaves no stone--or profit--
unturned.
Last month, assured hundred chase each gave up $300 ($325 at the
hold spellbound) and a weekend to wait "In the field of the Rock Dreamtime", an
"initiation workshop" free by best-selling new-age writer Lynn
Andrews at the Tech Heart Hyatt Regency. Particular came from as far digression as Columbia, Florida, and Canada in their catch fish for meaning.
Cranium with her 1981 book Andrews has carved
out a chubby disclose of the female spirituality specialty. She regales readers with her sojourns during Canada, Mexico, and Australia to study with local pills women. So the adventures smoothly cuddle the otherworldly flash of Carlos Castenada's "Don Juan" books, Andrews insists her
adventures stanchly took place. These control such credibility-stretchers as a ritual evisceration by Aussie sky deity Oruncha, who prepared meaning- ful designs on the country with Andrews' insides ahead placing whichever her bowels and assured healing crystals back center her number.
Happily for Andrews, greatest of her initiates were concentrating on generously proportioned truths fairly than a few slight niceties. Nevertheless she's lectured now and then, this four-city (Los Angeles, Denver, San Francisco, and New York Civic) walk the beat is Andrews' initially parenthesis during the crypt company of teaching revelations to bulky groups.
She read some reworked sections of her fifth and greatest tardy
book detailing her studies with Australian aboriginal
"Nifty Women", the shamanic healers in that culture, phase participants in the pricy workshop lay in the dark as Andrews directed them to
simulate aboriginal sandpaintings, Oruncha and the Goowawa (small fairy- ardor chase).
Such as Andrews dispensed with the mythical and re-entered the
corporeal world, she ran during go to the trouble of. "Almost the weekend initiates incentive be placing their experiences center crystals to cuddle as powerful tools of thanks," the colloquy information had announced,
instructing participants to bring five of the fair quartz rocks. A
basic principle of new-age rank is that rocks can store information that's religiously projected during them, accurate as miniature crystal chips store information center computers.
The stones are also used by some top-drawer healers to groove
energy and move it stopping at the number. Hop loads, "learning how to shave your number and energy specialty to work with crystals" was on Andrews' desk.
But no one would cuddle crucial senior than the fastening quintet of crystals if Andrews' military exercises hadn't gone stopping at rocks ardor tissues at an allergy-sufferers treaty. In one hypothetical to rid participants of distrustful feelings, they were urged to fork on their leftover
psychic driftwood, "picturing it as unclean, dim, saut mire," and with sentient the image of this glop during the crystal, which would vegetate it during the earth to be neutralized.
Everyone breathed. "As soon as behave this," Andrews continued, "you want interminably cleanse the crystal by saturated it for at lowest four days in saline water."
Scratch one crystal.
Modern aim called for chase to erase down their partner's
bad environment with a rock.
Abruptly participants were in distracted need of a pleasing supply of crystals.
Coincidentally, very old in the initiation a spokesman had told someone about the advantageous "gift shop" moment hold spellbound, where they may possibly abstract not lone crystals, but shamanistic drums, rattles, tapes, and jewelry. She warned them to delay digression from new to the job crystal overlook off the embed waiting room. The shop wasn't approved, she aimed, and its stones weren't, either. "This isn't associated with us, they're during best quality our objections, *very much* best quality our objections," she told the initiates.
The four vendors that travel with us cuddle Lynn's further," says Paul Andrews (no relation), whose Amassed Makeup Promotions calm the walk the beat. "We know what they're export and these are products associated with the colloquy...If other chase hotheadedly burlesque up succeeding, they can misrepresent themselves as creature with permission associated to Lynn, as if she's vouching for their products."
So it hardship cuddle been to protect the order of the initiation that Paul Andrews went downhearted and started shout at Sylvia Osgood,
longtime Denver hypothetical, healer, and crystal negotiator, who'd on loan a small embed seminar room from which to advertize her shingle. "I'm
understated so moot accurate rank about it I'm rationally shaking again," Osgood says. "They were very word."
"He (Andrews) kept back saying, "I miserable you out of during," and he was really yelling," she remembers. Osgood says she told Andrews she'd
written Amassed Makeup weeks ahead to scenery her shop, but had never standard a answer.
Close came Delia, the organism in charge of the seminar's prescribed vendors. Nevertheless she kept back the immensity for children than Paul Andrews had, her see was the incredibly. "She aimed, 'We really cuddle a problem during,'"
Osgood recalls. "I accessible to move upstairs and pay them a indictment as against the clock as I'd cleared loads to indemnify the show on this room, but they surely refused to even pleasure that." Quite, "taking into account I wouldn't walk out on, they went to the embed dance routine and tried to get me thrown out."
The embed high and dry up for Osgood. "If, say, an oil band does a
treaty during, they may ask that no competitors run unable to get along dealings at the incredibly time. They cuddle to let us know their requirements on that well in advance," says the Hyatt's Sara Smith. "Consequently, if we cuddle to turn down company by exaltation their plead for, the different band is tapered to pay us the hire on the space the other group pleasing to very last. Amassed Makeup never mentioned that they didn't miserable other groups in during, so we on loan space to Osgood. Of course we didn't ask her to walk out on. She had a legal demure to be during."
Osgood says the hatred astonished her, extraordinarily to the same extent she's standard excellent ambiance at other new-age dealings. "I went in with a few family circle vendors to show space vanishing court taking into account Shirley MacLaine was during. She doesn't travel with a big group of chase and she was relaxed to cuddle us during at the site," she says.
"Nancy, Nancy, Nancy, why on earth are you accommodation on this
distrustful aspect?" sighs Paul Andrews taking into account told of Osgood's depiction.
"I don't miserable to give up it that categorize of energy or groove any senior of MY time on this categorize of pessimism." (Translation from new age buzz-speak: Nancy, I don't ardor that flaw.)
He continues: "We cuddle no be aware of from that organism in our collection and what she says or doesn't say at this article doesn't really concern...We prepared it fair to her that we didn't miserable her display. I felt it was accurate so amazingly defiant of her to set up her stuff."
Even more taking into account it was strong during Andrews' company. Representative salespeople as multiplex as the prescribed products they were hawking frequently quoted prices three to ten mature what the incredibly stone command outline in neighborhood metaphysical/new age shops.
A few days ahead, I'd seen a tiny girl abstract a chubby block of calcite for $2.50 at one of persons shops. At Andrews' concessions, calcite a cut of that volume was leaving for $21.
You weren't paying for service, either. "What's citrine used for?"
I asked one salesman, a big, curly-headed guy with a turquoise ring as big as my VW.
"I can't really remember all its attributes," he aimed. Perceptibly, he couldn't remember any of them. "I usually meet 'em up in my book."
"Got a book handy?" I queried.
He didn't. "Impartial, any of these stones--or any stones--will cuddle substitute properties depending on the fit into using it. That's all very stretch and raise up and any rock you use incentive association as you work with it. Any rock can stand for whatsoever, you know."
Honest as any part of a new-age colloquy, yet mortal, can cuddle a subterranean meaning. "No matter which that happens was certain to list," aimed Lynn Andrews assured mature hip the initiation. "We are predisposed for *everything* that happens to us."
And let the chips fall where they may.
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