Enchanting true stories of reality creating, healing, and love. Edited by Mary Woodhouse. Foreword by Jach Pursel.
Immerse yourself in various personal stories by ordinary, extraordinary people who walk in many worlds, within and without. People who live their spirituality. Who accept our world as seen and unseen, connected and enchanted.
This collection of personal essays offers a glimpse of what it is like to approach life from a spiritual, metaphysical stance. Stories of embracing life and love in many forms. Of wrestling with personal negativity, learning to take responsibility for the reality experienced. Of learning to love oneself and others along the way. Stories of encountering friends from the Faerie Realm and communicating with crystal consciousness. Stories of healing from childhood neglect, the grief of losing a sister, a life-threatening cancerous tumor. Experiences of manifesting success and making dreams come true. Of working magic for oneself, loved ones, and the world. Tales of wondrous spontaneous adventures in altered states of consciousness.
Seek and Ye Shall Find by CeliaSue Hecht
In my 20’s, I searched for my lifetime career and a place to belong. I wanted to become a writer but did not know how to get published. I left my home in New York and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 19.
In 1975, I met Rannette Daniels (Nicholas) through a cosmic joke. I had quit my office job declaring that I would never again work as a secretary. I also wanted to join a Radical Feminist Therapy group. At the LA Woman’s Building, a woman writer gave me a phone number. I called and was invited to an Open House party in West Hollywood. It was not what I expected. But I stayed for hours after meeting this incredible woman who was very different from anyone I had ever met. Rannette had a melodic laugh, a glow and light about her and an ironic sense of humor.
Later, I needed a job and sought Rannette’s guidance. She wanted me to sign up for a weekly Woman’s course. I did not know how I could due to my finances. She said that if I assisted her for 10 days (without pay) she guaranteed at the end I would have a job. I balked but eventually agreed.
During the 10 days, she led her first weekend Successful Living workshop and my job was to monitor the tape recorder in the back of the room. She led participants through a variety of communication exercises for two days that were fun, challenging and valuable. I observed people from the back of the room. One man came into the workshop looking like a bull dog, very angry. At the end, his face had softened and he looked like a newborn.
I knew that working with this woman was what I had been searching for and at the end of the 10 days, Rannette offered me a job as her secretary. This was unlike any job that I had ever had and soon I was leading workshops and seminars including a five day interactive and transformational SLS experience seminar. I led seminars in LA and Munich, Germany with Earthplay. I also became a published writer and had many spiritual experiences. Rannette supported me to go for my dreams, many that had seemed unattainable before I met her.
In the 1980’s life changed and I moved to Florida to be with my family. I had already lived more of my life dreams than I’d ever dreamed were possible. I decided to complete my college education and received my BA in Communications. During my senior year, I re-connected with Rannette and her husband Dafydd. They founded OIM (Obedience Intercessory Ministry), an international, interfaith, interdenominational prayer ministry.
For three years, after my father’s death in 1987, I traveled around the world with OIM praying for others and experienced many miracles. We visited many churches, synagogues and other religious venues. I explored Bangladesh, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, India, Israel, Singapore and Thailand.
Rannette was always searching and discovering new spiritual realities. During various meetings, she played tapes of Lazaris. Listening to Lazaris seemed odd to me. I could not understand the words and the accent. We were praying at churches. Some Christian church leaders preached against New Age teachings. We kept our Lazaris tapes a secret due to concerns about the reaction of others.
I was in India for eight months and listened to tapes trying to discern the wisdom. Still, I was skeptical. Eventually, back in Los Angeles, I went to my first Lazaris Event. I was nervous and did not know what to expect. I walked into the hotel room with my heart fluttering madly. I had not talked with Rannette or anyone else I knew about being there. I was on my own (or so I thought) in this exploration.
That first night, I kept looking at Jach Pursel (Lazaris’ channel) and wondering what was going on. Still, I persevered and continued going to Events. I began to love listening to Lazaris speak. He had a way of talking with such candor and humor even broaching difficult subjects with humor. I attended many workshops in LA and SF and enjoyed the camaraderie of my fellow magicians. I anticipated my moment with Lazaris at the end of each weekend workshop when I would receive a few words and a special crystal chosen especially for me.
When it was my turn, I felt very loved. The way Lazaris greeted me was as an old friend. As an Enneagram Type 4 this was the ultimate gift for me. A blissful peak experience. The personal messages and kind gestures touched my heart. I floated on Cloud Nine for days afterward.
During lunch breaks, Lazaris friends shared and compared notes about the event. Ironically, it seemed as though each person was attending their own unique workshop. Everyone felt loved and special.
At coaching sessions with Rannette, she would recommend specific Lazaris tapes for me to listen to. Sometimes she would play a few minutes of a tape in order for me to hear pertinent passages that applied to me.
I also was led to resources such as Dr. Helen Palmer’s book about the Enneagram Personality Types. I cried my way through the chapter on Type 4. The first time that I heard Lazaris talk about the Enneagram Personality Types I was shown that I was #1. Rannette played the Dr Helen Palmer’s Enneagram Personality Type Four tape at a coaching session and laughed about the accuracy of it. She assisted me in evolving and reaching for my High Side, #1.
(Enneagram Personality is an ancient system with nine personality types. There is a bottomline for each personality type. For 4’s it is feeling special and we search for True Love something we had but lost). For #1’s the bottomline is being right and perfect. The high side for #4 is the same for #1 it is to Create Something Special, going above and beyond themselves and their search for #4 True Love or #1 Perfection, the mission is to BE the LIGHT of LOVE in the world. More info, Lazaris tape ENNEAGRAM TAPE INFO at Lazaris.com.
There were also challenging times and magical results. Maybe I wanted to attend an event but did not know how I could go and the stars would align and I was able to go. During guided visualizations and meditations, I connected with my Higher Self and Unseen Friends and learned and healed so much.
At a weekend event, one Saturday night, Lazaris offered everyone the opportunity for a healing of our choice during the meditation. Before this event, I had sprained my ankle. I was walking around feeling sorry for myself and wearing an ace bandage on my foot. During the meditation, Lazaris offered the healing and I refused. I realized that I had been receiving benefits from the injury. Attention and poor me, pitiful glances and assurances from others. A few days went by and one day, I said to myself ok, enough is enough. I am done. I meditated and got to call my dance school. I asked them where the students went when they had sprains and strains. They recommended a chiropractor and I went to see him. He unwrapped the bandage, turned me upside down on a zero gravity platform and massaged my ankle. It hurt a lot and when he was done he told me to walk for 20 minutes. When I came back to his office, the pain in my ankle was gone and never returned.
Utilizing the ritual calling upon all of the elements from the Releasing Your Dreams and Visions into the World tape, I cast my dreams of living by the beach upon the wind-air, water, earth and fire. A year or two later, at a pool during a break at a Lazaris event, I met another participant who told me he had lived at a home near the beach in Bodega Bay. It sounded divine. We chatted and he told me that a woman friend of his needed someone to house/pet sit every year when she would be gone. He called his friend to see if she needed someone and voila, she did. As I drove up the coast by the beach, I remembered that years before I had cast this dream upon the elements. Filled with gratitude and wonder, I enjoyed my new abode for a year. There was sunshine, rainbows and deer galore, too.
At an Orlando, Florida workshop at the end of one of the meditations, people told me that Lazaris had called my name out loud. I had always wanted that but it had never happened before. I had not heard it and apparently, Lazaris spoke my name several times.
Lazaris often talks about listening to the Whispers and when we don’t, the messages keep getting louder until there are SHOUTS. Years before my marriage, during an event, my Higher Self came to me in a very unusual way. I had always seen her as this ethereal spiritual being sort of like Glinda the Good Witch in the Wizard of Oz. But this time, she came to me dressed in a bridal gown, wearing combat boots and carrying a briefcase. It was absurd. I did not comprehend what she was warning me about. During a coaching session years later, I shared with Rannette about it and we laughed because it was totally representative of my marriage, a premonition from my Higher Self.
Lazaris also encourages and shows us how to heal our shame, pain, and trauma. He has said life was never meant to be so painful. And when you heal your own pain, there is less pain in the world.
Healing Shame and Pain
After being diagnosed with fibromyalgia, I was intuitively shown that it was time for me to heal my pain and shame.
Dafydd Nicholas supported me to do this, often sharing and recommending Lazaris Healing Pain and Ending Shame tapes and telling me about EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing) a trauma healing process created by Dr. Francine Shapiro. I later learned about trauma expert Dr. Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger. And I took a one year Healing Trauma (PTSD) course with therapist Donna Hamilton, who had studied with Dr. Levine. All of this healing inspired by coaching with Rannette and Dafydd led to my being able to relieve 98% of my symptoms of fibromyalgia.
In recent years, I’ve mostly worked with the tapes I’ve downloaded online. After Rannette passed away in 2015, my sweet dog of 13 years Cici went over the Rainbow on September 12 2019, and Dafydd’s passing June 14, 2021, I’ve struggled with my spiritual connections at times feeling lost. Yet, whenever I connect with Lazaris via blendings and meditations, I feel uplifted, loved and inspired.
Awhile ago, I was feeling very low. I listened to the Time to Touch blending about Sirius. I was yearning to connect with Star Beings and my loved ones on the other side. During this blending, I felt Rannette holding my hand which was very soothing and comforting. In a recent dream, Rannette and I were laughing together. I’ve also had dreams with Cici and Cici has barked at me from Over the Rainbow.
There is a saying Seek and ye shall find from the Bible. I sought to find my life’s work and a place to belong and that came true. Plus, I found my deepest wishes, dreams, fairy tales and magic, much more than I ever imagined, happened too.
What a remarkable life you've had! (I read your bio too.) Thank you for sharing. The most meaningful story I've read on substack.