Spirit Chat with John Livingston, Author and Shamanic Healer
September 5, 2012 by Staton Ann | 0 comments
John Livingston featured on StatonAnn.comI have found throughout my practice that I enjoy working with and learning from other healers, as I believe we all have truths and knowledge that we can impart on each other to help raise the consciousness of the masses of people.
Because of my passion for learning and disseminating information, I am starting a new series that features healers, spiritual advisors, and healing modalities from around the world. The ‘Spirit Chat Series’ is born.
Our first featured spiritual healer is John Livingston. John Livingston, MA, is a trained therapist, clinical hypnotherapist, and past-life regressionist since the mid-70s; and shamanic healer and teacher, with advanced training from core and indigenous shamans, since the mid-90s. John is master exorcist of demons and dark ETs, depossessor of ghosts. He practices Re-scripting as a method of healing primal and traumatic wounds. He is a certified Shamanic Breathwork™ facilitator, and shamanic minister. His BA degree is from Univ. of Southern Calif., and MA in psychological counseling from Chapman University. John is the author of Adversaries Walk Among Us: The History, Nature, And Removal Of Possessing Demons And Spirits.
I asked John five questions about his background, his journey and his inspiration.
SA: Tell us about your journey. How did you get to where you are now.
JL: I am the oldest son of a Scots-English father, great story teller and friend, master dowser and construction superintendent, also alcoholic womanizer; and American-Swedish mother, great compassionate listener of tales of woe, healing nurse and birther to two generations of children, also sexually abused angel. My journey took me through surveyor, heavy equipment operator, army jeep driver, field geologist, consulting geologist, college student in psychology, marriage and family counselor, individual and family therapist. Then at age 50, I quit as therapist for I was sure I did not believe in what I was doing or how I was doing it. It felt like giving advice that was not helping. I returned to my geology business that at least I understood and could not hurt anyone—for 5 years, then began combining my professions for 5. On my 60th birthday, surrounded by friends– living the good life and American dream: semi-retired, golf 3 days a week, blonde girlfriend with house on lake—I thought, “There must be something better than this.” Within 2 years I had stopped drinking, given my geology and hypnotherapy clients away to others, and traveled for three months through the southwest of Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado where I’d not been. During the odyssey, I quickly understood the meaning of “spirituality” which was a part of my quest, challenge from a previous therapist, as it was painted across the evening and morning skies of my various campsites. I felt Creator in my life. In mountains of New Mexico, alone and reading The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner, I began having mystical experiences of deer talking with me, the full moon awakening me and singing a song about me, an eagle flying over at the moment I asked myself, “Is this what I’m to learn and do?” Thus I returned home and began studying shamanism, a journey that is without end.
SA: What do you believe is your purpose in life?
JL: During one stormy night of hard winds in 1995, a few weeks after I stopped drinking, filled with frustration and passion about not knowing myself, I walked outside and yelled up into the dark night sky, “Who am I?” And to my amazement, from the wind-blown blackness came a gentle soft loving audible response, “You are a healer.”
Shortly after I began seeing shamanic clients, I was at a séance where through a series of synchronicities I became the person who removed and guided to the Light the soul of a young boy from a boy who was brought by his mother to the circle so this could happen. The story spread and people began referring those who had spirit entities attached to me. I had success in clearing them for several years, until one day entities appeared that would not leave the clients. Or would leave and return. I became frustrated and angry, driving myself to know an answer. That evening the Archangel Michael appeared before me in my living room and said, “The problem you are having John, with your life and your clients is due to demons. I will remove the one from you and that is the way you will remove those from others.” And Michael commanded the demon to leave, and it did, and that is the way I have been clearing demons since. Simple methods, simple commands, invoking the help of angels and archangels in the clearing of thousands of clients–and tens of thousands of demons, non-human, non-souled bundles of dark negative energy sent to a specific individual to create chaos in their life by dark forces—to provide peace, love, and empowerment in their lives.
SA: What drives you to do this? What inspires you?
JL: The words, “You are a healer” keep me going; I cannot forget them, the loving knowing within them. I trust them. Also the several hundred letters I receive each year from clients, relating the meaningful impact I’ve had on them, and for many, that I’ve had on their entire family whether or not I worked with them all. Some of these are based on one to two sessions that I’ve had with an individual, or maybe 4-6 that I’ve had with various members of a family. For I do not believe in long-term counseling or healing or therapy. I do not believe in creating dis-empowered dependents of my clients. I believe that the presenting issues of my clients relate to an ailment within the physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual bodies of the total energetic body of the client, that they and other medical doctors or healers have been unable to help. I believe the work must be specific to the ailment or it is useless. I believe that Spirit must be present within the client and the healer, and that fear must be absent, therefore love must be present, for healing to occur. For love is the only healing element and it is freely given in infinite supply to all who open to it whether healer or one being healed. Healers do not heal. Only love heals. Healers provide the vessel through which the love comes from Divine source to do the healing.
SA: What knowledge do you have that the world could benefit from knowing? In other words, what concept could you teach the world that would make the world a better place?
JL: Beyond that, people benefit from learning to focus on providing for self first, your wants, especially loving yourself, and trust that all others, including children, have the Innate ability to take care of themselves. All of our answers are in our heart-mind, available to all with an open heart. Some who have given away their power, or who have had their power taken by those stronger in some way, may want temporary help of another to be re-empowered. Some who have lost their connection with Spirit and have had a run of bad luck, may want re-connection by another. Some who have forgotten who they are and their purpose in being here may reach out for help from another. Reaching out for help from another –providing the agreement is clear and straight– is an act of empowerment. Providing help to another who asks is an act of service to the world and Creator.
On the web:
John Livingston, Spiritual Counselor and Shamanic Healer
Available worldwide for individual sessions:
Phone: 928-203-4096
Skype: captsedona
Website: http://www.john-livingston.com and http://www.IntegratedHeart.com
Author of: “Adversaries Walk Among Us”
JK
