About Your Hostess
Starr B.
Starr was Certified as a Usui Reiki Master Teacher in 1996 and combines Usui's intuitive healing method with the structured technique taught by Dr. Hayashi and Hawayo Takata. She studied Reiki with four Reiki Masters including Frank Arjava Petter of Japan and Germany (author of Reiki Fire and The Original Reiki Handbook of Dr. Mikao Usui). She is also initiated in the Yamaguchi Reiki lineage in Japan.
Starr is currently the only Usui Master Teacher in the USA trained and certified by renowned Frank Arjava Petter.
The lineage of Reiki you inherit when you learn from Starr is as follows:
Usui - Hayashi - Takata - Furumoto - Helbling - Gilgen - Popat - Frank Arjava Petter
Reiki Master Teacher Class, Dusseldorf, Germany
In 1997 Starr was certified by Sri Anand of the ICAE, India, to teach Universal Spiritual Healing. She also teaches the Christian version of Laying-On-Of-Hands healing, and is a Certified Master Teacher of Magnified Healing.
Starr is a volunteer for two Hospice organizations where she uses Reiki to soothe patients at end-of-life, and presents Reiki to nursing facilities and volunteer training groups; she is a member and volunteer at the Edgar Cayce Institute in VA Beach, and is a spiritual counselor for the International Spiritual Emergence Network of CA. Starr pursues spiritual understanding through the Kabbala, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Ba'Hai and other respected philosophies.
Starr's spiritual practice is based in Lynn, MA. She teaches Reiki in New England and throughout the U.S. She also teaches Reiki in countries including Turkey, Indonesia and Australia through her Reiki Online program.
Though brought up Methodist and respectful of all religions for the pearls of truth and wisdom they have to offer, Starr pursues and aspires to share the path of Pure Spirit which embodies all religions and all of us.
Inspiration to Learn Reiki
As I opened Spiritually, it was clear that healing with energy was a strength for me. In meditation I asked, "Is that what You'd have me do for my life's work?"
(Please allow me to preface this story with the fact that it's not unusual for people who meditate to receive
guidance in visual form!)
In response to my question, in my mind I saw my hand on my white kitchen wall. I
thought, "ok...", then my hand tilted up, and white light beamed from
my hand print. Then I 'heard', "And everything you touch will have a green glowing
light."
I called a friend who had learned something called Reiki, who gave me the
name of her teacher. That was a Saturday night, and on
Monday morning I was in Reiki Level One. Within a half hour I was in
love with Reiki and knew I was going to teach this beautiful healing modality to others.
The purpose of learning anything, of course, is to share it with others. Then,
as we share what
we've learned, we're given more to share. It's an endless flow of experience!
Thank you for visiting my site, allowing me the privilege of sharing with you
some of what I've learned.
...On Spiritual Emergence
From Thursday, September 12, to Sunday, September 15, 1996, I underwent a spontaneous spiritual experience. I was aware at all times that I was in my home but most of my awareness was in another poignant reality. For three days the phone didn't ring and no one came to the door. I trusted the process because I knew it was created by Someone much greater than me. This experience involved a mostly two-fold theme: To experience and come to peace with my deepest fears; and to release my attachments to people, places and things. I experienced a flow of events from the ancient past, the present, and the future. Vivid challenges were presented, easy ones developed into ones I found ultimately difficult. I experienced two 'deaths', and at the moment of the second and more difficult one, the journey was over as suddenly as it began. As you might imagine, I said my prayers and paced the floor asking, "What was that!?"
I didn't eat or sleep those three days, and after two days' recovery I left home and headed for the bookstores for answers. The first clear reference I found was in 'Dark Night of the Soul', by St. John of the Cross. Over time I discovered that every culture and religion has reference to such phenomena: In Eastern Traditions there's Kundalini Awakening; the American Indians call it the Spirit Quest; Shamans might refer to it as a Shamanic Journey.
Research reveals that over the past few years the number of people encountering this type of challenge is multiplying exponentially. I'm convinced we're being inundated with Divine transformational energy and that, one by one, our spirits are responding. Sometimes these experiences are spontaneous, sometimes people quest for them.
Contemporary writer Dr. Stanislov Grof has written several books on this subject including 'Transpersonal Vision', which I highly recommend. An excellent resource from the Buddhist perspective is 'A Path With Heart' by Jack Kornfield.
Six months later, I looked on the calendar and saw that the experience took place over Rosh Hashanah. That inspired me to attend Rosh Hashanah in 1997 with a small, modest congregation in Marblehead, MA, a wonderful experience! The night prior, I'd meditated while focusing upon Psalms 19:14, a verse about prayer and meditation. If I had any reservations about being at this Jewish ceremony, they vanished when the Rabbi opened with that same verse. Also, to my surprise, I experienced another period of inner challenge similar to, though milder than, the first one. It continues to occur to some degree every year during Rosh Hashanah.
The benefits of these experiences are staggering in their possibilities. They can include deep and sure spiritual knowledge, healings and cures in the spiritual, mental/emotional and physical bodies, the lifting of karmic debt, and the awakening of various spiritual gifts.
Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, and Clairsentience
I'm devoted to Spiritual service. Following my inward journey, I discovered I'd been gifted with a specialized intuitive awareness and a gift for healing. These abilities developed with time, and now, to my delight, I see Spirit Guides and deceased loved ones and pets; I see 'past lives', and current and future circumstances for the benefit of myself and others; in Reiki sessions Spirit Guides sometimes make me aware of the root issue the client needs to heal, and they guide me to use Reiki in specific ways to help; sometimes I'm able to see into a client's body to the root of a physical problem, and along with specific Reiki techniques, my Guides tell me safe and natural remedies the client can use along with any other treatment he's receiving. The intuitive realm is an amazing tool, and I use it wisely, with a hefty dose of discernment. Intuitive awareness is priceless in working both with Reiki and with Grief Healing. What amazed me most after I saw my first Spirit Being was that I wasn't amazed that I'd seen her ~ it seemed natural.
Reiki is a spiritual practice for me. It's an honor when a person comes to me for a session, or asks me to teach them Reiki, or wants to discuss spiritual matters. I believe that we're drawn to those who are right for us, and whether we draw one person or 10,000, the value is the same ~ we have been of service.
I hope that this site offers you something useful.
Namaste, (I honor the God within you that is also within me)
Starr B.
Association For Research And Enlightenment (Edgar Cayce Foundation)
Builders Of The Adytum (BOTA)
