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A New Year’s Message for 2021
from our Founder, Rev. Lisa French

Hello! Well, after 2020, I think we are all relieved to begin a new year, a new cycle and a new time. Let’s talk a little bit about what’s been going on. We have all been challenged by this global pandemic and so many side effects from that everywhere…As well, most of you will have heard, that Madame Pele, the Volcano Goddess of Hawaii’s Big Island, woke up and started a new journey of erupting on the winter’s solstice! 🌋

Some themes that we see clearly for 2021 are: the releasing of pain & suffering, the healing that the soul’s truth brings to each of us, and the clearing of our paths to live a creative life that allows the spirit’s passions to shine through. This combo is about building a new wave of powerful well being. I will elaborate.

Each year the powers that be, you might think of them as an angelic host, or perhaps simply the pure gold, or the grace, a higher power, Great Spirit, a fantastic team of light workers… However you think of them, know them, see them…at the beginning of each year they shift the energy for our world and raise it up, that we may all grow and evolve anew. This happens each year about 10 days after the winter solstice, when the light returns, when the energy begins to rise up again. It becomes time for a refresh, a resetting. This of course, is what most of us know as New Year’s or January 1. It then takes about 6 to 7 days for the new energy to settle in.

In 2020, they brought the energy up a lot! They had hoped that all people would move with it into a new space of clarity. For some people that happened ….but….It was prevented on a collective level. Something was in the way. What the new higher energy brought up was a darkness, the negative emotion, that which had been repressed and perhaps hostile…these came to the surface. Tremendously toxic things that were buried, came up for all to witness. We saw that in so many different ways in 2020. A Global pandemic, terrible suffocating sickness, racial and ethnic injustices, brutality from authority figures, hate crimes, etc. We also saw that for people carrying a lot of very dark emotion, as it began to surface it was frightening! But…We are here we in 2021 and the good news (!!!) is that bringing all of that to the surface is a way to purge it, so that there is an opportunity for true wellness to be created. Now is a time for restructuring to occur in ourselves so that the collective can receive more light and radiate greater wellness in a myriad of ways.

Has all of this pain and darkness been healed and dispensed with? No. However, it is now in a healing process because it is no longer hidden. Bringing it to light is in itself a radiant cleansing, a powerful illumination and a brilliant new beginning!

We know that our world is still in the throes of a painful pandemic and that’s not over yet. What’s clear in the midst of all this, is that there’s a huge wake up call ongoing! There is a clarity that people must wake up and not go back to sleep, there is much work to be done.

What can we each do?

This may sound backwards when there is so much illness….. But we always have to start with our inner selves. In the process of doing that, we will receive the guidance we need to be able to be supportive and helpful. In this way, we are each truly able to contribute to the well-being of us all.

What’s important now is the great work of knowing ourselves.
Taking the time to find our own authentic vibration, to know our own essence. To know beyond all shadow of a doubt, who we are… To take the journey of our souls and find our individual answers. To learn to communicate really well with our highest selves and with our bodies. It is time to sustain and grow the practice of being our own truest self.

What is the best way to promote healing?
What can we do?

We can be truthful with ourselves and we can learn to listen to the voice within, the great knowing of our own higher being.

Truth always heals, even when it’s a bumpy road to get there.
Truth: that which is true or in accordance with fact or reality.

This knowing, this voice, this vision, will send us in the right direction within the maze. It will show us the way, even when all the doors appear to be closed… There is always a way! The path that opens may be unique for you and it won’t be that way for anyone else. The trick is to tune in. As you tune in, you find each one of your own dreams and you can begin to follow the threads or scavenger hunt clues to fulfill them. Don’t worry if all the doors and pathways aren’t there yet. They will open as you trust what comes from within you and you follow it. The practice is to follow each clue even if you can only see a little way ahead. You just start moving. It’s 2021, are your ready? Let’s do this!

The courage truth takes, is always worth it! Truth creates freedom, nourishes our hearts, opens our third eye, cares for our bodies. She nourishes and cleanses the subtle bodies and all of our energy systems. In other words truth allows freedom to live the life that completely suits your soul’s essential vibration.

Is it easy to do this? Yes & no. As with so many things, it takes training, techniques & practice.
How to receive knowledge and training in how to listen to your higher self?
How to follow your inner guidance system?

The Clairvoyant Center of Hawaii, a Global Sanctuary, and Magic Isle are non-profit organizations dedicated to teaching this at all levels, to the brand new, to the very experienced.

Where to start: It Starts in the 6 week classes, Clairvoyance 101 and 102.

We also offer for all people, counselings & readings on your life’s path, meditations, healings, workshops & more.

For those of you who have done those classes it continues in the two-year Clairvoyant training program in which you Journey deeply into finding that frequency that’s yours and learning to use Clairvoyant abilities to create freedom & to discover your truth.

Once you’ve passed that, you’re welcome to do the Clairvoyant Teachers & Spiritual Leadership Program. Beyond that we have one-on-one training, deprograming classes, “Your Own Birth” & more for advanced Clairvoyant healing and awareness.

We actually have years of training programs as well as 6 week classes, meditations, workshops, readings & so much more! Check out our calendar of events!

Back to Truth: The truth is that the journey of learning and mastering these clairvoyant tools have changed a tremendous number of lives for the better!

Now, if you’re reading this, you know that we are the Clairvoyant Center of Hawaii. I’m also certain as I mentioned earlier, that you’ve heard the news… that on Big Island of Hawaii, the Kilauea Volcano, home of Madame Pele; the powerful, fiery, healing volcano goddess, has become quite active since the winter solstice.

If you didn’t know that she started her eruptions right on the winter solstice, you might be interested! The winter solstice is the gateway for the returning of light. The days start to get longer. The returning of the light brings healing, it brings new dreams, it opens up new paths, opens gateways and so on…. Which is why we dream and we begin to set new goals for a new year because that light feeds into them. So inspiring!

Madame Pele, who’s been busily working underwater but not on land for the last 2 1/2 years, began to get very active on the winter solstice of 2020. Why? Clearly this year, Pele has received a directive.

What she tells us, is that because of the toxicity that came to the surface (i.e. pandemic, etc.) is so enormous, there is much cleansing that needs to be done, she is working now as hard as she can at purification. She is doing this for all of us, to burn away the toxic emotions, sickness, old structures & dysfunctional energetics. There has been so very much suffering! Pele is working hard to burn away the anguish, to clear away the hurt and the pain, to wash clean, the many wounds. She is doing this for us all. Kilauea Volcano vents for the whole planet. The work that Pele is doing is for all of us on a global level….She is working to see some space for truth to be restored… and the pandemic, having done one of its tragic tasks, has awakened us so we can begin to clear that space.

If you feel inspired, you can imagine some of the suffering or hurt in your own life & for those that you love, going into the volcano to be cleared, to be detoxed, to be released. (This is available to do for the next month or two, then Pele will change the focus.) This will help create space for a warm genuineness that always contains the correct vibration to restore wholeness & wellbeing.

Pele would like us all to have the opportunity for a fresh start…
A place to find our own truth, our own answers in 2021 and to be able to listen to our own guidance systems… thus finding & possibly restoring our soul’s passions.

Pele says it is time to replace suffering with creativity. She has suggested for us to do whatever it takes to turn it into some kind of an art form in our waking lives. To sing it, to paint it (you don’t need to have any skill you just put colors down and let it move to express). She tells us to allow it take form – music, dance, any type of artistic expression will take the suffering and transform it into creativity. Once it’s moved into creativity, then true passion begins to burn and true passion burns away pain and hurt and brings us into an intrinsic alinement with the heartbeat of our souls & our daily lives.

Pele wants to see the heartbeat of our souls, of our cultures, of our communities be restored to wholeness, health and well-being. Let’s each of us work and play very intently in 2021, to find our inner truth and to receive the training that we need to be part of this great awakening.

Take a look at our calendar of events and see what kind of magical events you can find that will support your journey!

Join us in holding the vision of all of us reaching out and holding each other‘s hands (6 feet apart, lol) all around the globe. It’s a big world but we can do this… The first step is to create enough space within ourselves and then we can do it with a smile and a lot of respect for ourselves & others. If you are not sure how to do that effectively yet, we are delighted to teach you…If you already know, come join us in creating more space for us all, as we awaken and rebuild in 2021!

The following is a transcription of Rev. Lisa French, founder of the Clairvoyant Center of Hawaii, talking about her mentor, Rev. Lewis Bostwick, who is the founder of the Clairvoyant curriculum as taught through the Clairvoyant Center. This 8-minute audio was recorded at the Clairvoyant Center of Hawaii’s Annual Lake Tahoe retreat, Sunday, October 7th, 2018.

This is unedited as a transcription of the audio:

Good morning!

We’re kind of drifting in, huh? Yeah. How’s it going? Are you awake? Sunday? Ready to walk through a wall?

Sometimes I think it’s great to hear stories about how all this started.

(Lisa points to her microphone) And by the way, have you seen the latest in Clairvoyant accessories? This is my… I’m wired. Very sophisticated!

So Lewis… you guys have all heard of Lewis right? Lewis Bostwick who started the Clairvoyant work. I think it’s really important.

I think it’s really important to give recognition to the people it came from, you know? And Lewis put all this together. An amazing Spirit. He died – passed over – it was ’95, maybe ’94. He was about 75. And he grew up in the 20s and 30s in Oakland, California.

Growing Up in Oakland

I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley too. I actually grew up just a few blocks from where Lewis started the Clairvoyant training and I didn’t know him yet in the body. But the energy was going on down the street. There was a lot of energy going on then. That was during the Vietnam war. There was a lot of, you know, crazy stuff was happening on the planet. It was a great time for clairvoyance to erupt into a mainstream idea because when Lewis started this everything was very esoteric as far as spirituality ran. It was all under the table.

And Lewis had been studying a lot of things all his life. And he came to a certain point where everybody was so serious. So I understand some of the reasons that they kept some of this stuff under the wraps is because people can misuse it. And it’s important to have integrity when you are a powerful being. Because you know, some people don’t!

And so he learned all this stuff and then he went, “I’m gonna go start me at kindergarten. I’m going to take this and I’m gonna go teach people to do this with joy and a childlike sense of fun and some clarity and some Grace,” and so he started to teach anybody who wanted to know.

Anyway, when Lewis started he was growing up in Oakland. As you know, in many big cities there are all these varied ethnic neighborhoods. Like he would walk through the Mexican district and he would sit there and read all the pictures and he would smell the food and hear the music. And he would recognize the vibration, right?

He was a very Clairvoyant kid and his mom didn’t block him. She encouraged it. So he’d walk through the next neighborhood – oh! A Chinese neighborhood.

So he’d see all the Chinese family pictures, you know, what was going on and he would go through each of these different ethnic neighborhoods and they each have different music and different food smells and different family pictures.

He was fascinated by the colors and the frequencies and the energy of all these different places and he just thought it was the most fun place in the world to grow up because there was such a huge variety of people.

It’s just such you know – Oakland – yeah, such a huge place to just kind of learn and grow and evolve and I can’t even imagine what it was like in the 20s and 30s. Wow!

But he learned to be really Clairvoyant and really develop that ability. His mom’s friends would come over and he used to get himself in trouble. He said one time they were having tea, this lady came over and she was really freaked out. She was having tea with Louis’s mom, and he looks at her and says, “When is the baby coming?” She wasn’t married!

So he kind of grew up with a lot of permission for Clairvoyance and he messed with it for a long time and he studied all kinds of things.

Starting the First Clairvoyant Center

He was actually about 50 when he started a Clairvoyant Center, first of all in Berkeley, and started training people. At first he’d have like 30 – 40 people would come in, you know, all these crazy people.

But he didn’t charge them anything because yeah, he just wanted everyone to have it. But then they’d get distracted and they go do this and they would hit a pain picture, you know, they’d be gone. So he said, “I’m going to charge them money.” He didn’t need any at the time because he ran some businesses, right? So he’d already made his money. He was getting ready to retire and he wanted to do his spiritual thing. So he started charging them and found that when he charged them, they’d all keep coming! Funny thing about that, right?

And then everybody would go into this building in Berkeley and they just started laughing and having so much fun. And finally the cops are like, “What are they doing in there? Must be some kind of drug den!”  So then they started sending the cops in to take the classes – undercover cops, right? And the teachers are like, “Uh-huh. Okay, great – let them take the class!”

So they would come in and take the class and then start liking it, you know? And a couple of times Lewis came in and he found a couple of them sneaking into the office going through the files and stuff,  and looking around trying to figure where the drugs were because why would all these young people go into the building and coming out laughing?

They finally sent in the chief of police. Because all the other cops would come out having a good time saying, “They’re not doing anything illegal!”

It was just this whole era and that’s kind of where this work comes from. Yeah, finally Louis sat down and he busted the chief of police and said, “I know who you are. You want to have lunch?” So they went out to lunch! It was really great.

You Have the Answers

So Lewis has a strong presence in the dream time. And one of the things I love about Lewis is he always says to each of us –

(I’m gonna cry, it just moves me so much!!)

“You have the answer! It’s in you! You have it. I don’t have it for you. I can show you a vibration. I can show you tools. You know, I can show you all these things, but it’s in YOU.”

Do you know how many Spiritual teachers will take your power from you, and how fast they’ll take it?  The goal that Lewis set here – it’s giving it back to you. Don’t give me your power. Don’t give anyone your power! Get it back and use it and teach other people to do the same. And that’s what Lewis is still holding the energy for. That just moves me every day because I know a lot of people who aren’t doing that, and it breaks my heart. Because the opportunity of what we can do –

( I usually start crying at least once!  And you know, it’s okay. Because it’s real.)

So it’s an amazing thing to be able to get your power back and not give it to anyone ever. And that’s what Lewis sets the energy for every day. Some pretty profound stuff.

And if any one of you decides you want to go teach this – do it!  And if any of you decide you want to come up here someday – do it! I’m happy to sit in the back row. I’ll come up and tell some stories and do some energy work, but Laura and I aren’t going to hog this thing up. Go anywhere in the world and teach people because there’s people everywhere who are waking up and they want this so badly and there’s too many people out there taking their power. “Let me just push your buttons and all their buttons are pushed! I’ll fix you! I have your answers!”

Nobody has your answers. They’re in you. I think so many people are invalidated because they just don’t know how to get them. And they’re stuck somewhere in The Labyrinth. They’re trapped and they just got so much goo all over them. And so they just kind of give up and they think maybe somebody else has it because, ” I don’t! I’m so invalidated! I don’t have it. I’m so invalidated. Maybe one of you has it, right? Who can I find, who?”

Do you know how many people I’ve read who said, “I just need to go find someone who’s going to tell me everything.” And I say, “No. You need to find yourself and use your crown Chakra and then know everything because everything is available to you. Everything.”

Everything is available to you. Everything. It’s just finding enough space within you to have it.

So! Let’s start our lecture now. You can close your eyes…

When Lisa says it is all available to you:

Ready to Find Your Own Answers?

Start with Clairvoyance 101

Clairvoyant training is where you can find enough space to find your own answers. The training starts in Clairvoyance 101. In Clairvoyance 101 you will experience great wonders. You can discover the tools you need to get your answers, and you will find something that feeds every single part of you: your own essence.

I wanted to say hello for a few minutes today to a really important concept: The Opening of the Way.

Finding Balance

I was doing yoga in the wind this morning and it’s really difficult to keep your balance when the wind is blowing hard against you and you’re trying to do balancing poses. It made me think of life and what a fabulous metaphor this is. Then it took me into looking at the labyrinth and all of our spiritual journeys through it.

As I tried to balance in the wind I was thinking of the Clairvoyant community and the magic of it. At that point in my rocky tree pose, I was looking up at this beautiful tree studded ridge and a golden eagle flew across the top. (You’re right I’m not in Hawaii right now, however I am looking at the huge growth period happening on the Big Island from a distance but more about that in a bit) The energy of freedom was so overwhelming, is so overwhelming, it is so beautiful and yet there are so many things that would sabotage that glory. Freedom is what happens when “the way is open.”

Looking at the Labyrinth

In October many of us are going to be gathering at Lake Tahoe. This year we are looking at the labyrinth, the magical pathways to freedom and the many ways that those get blocked…and… how to unblock and open them. The opening of the way. Freedom.

Labyrinth: A labyrinth is not a maze or a puzzle to be solved but a path of meaning to be experienced. Its path is circular and convoluted, but in truth, it has no dead ends. A labyrinth has one entrance (birth)? — One way in and one way out. When we walk the path, we go around short curves and long curves; sometimes we are out on the edge, sometimes we circle around the center. We are never really lost but we can’t quite see where we are going….Unless you’re using your Clairvoyant skills and your truly paying attention!

However there are many false pictures, distractions and dead ends that get simulated, over the truth. As you know, life on earth is fraught with miracles and challenges. Sometimes we think we’re walking through a wide-open golden doorway and we’re walking into an iron wall. Sometimes we think we’re walking into a cement wall and we walk out into an incredible garden filled with light and light beings.

Moving into Freedom

Lewis Bostwick, the founder of this Clairvoyant method, talked so much about Clairvoyant training being a way to get through the labyrinth and into freedom. He gave great credence to the power of joy, the power of humor and sometimes the power of anger in order to get there. As somebody who has dedicated my life’s journey to the development of clairvoyance and the radiance and the awareness around that, I never fail to be amazed by the magic, and I never fail to be amazed by the myriad of ways that egocentric powers want to feed on the magic and the grace that is really here for us all. This year, we certainly see Pele’s reaction and it’s pretty intense. She’s making quite a statement as she’s bringing up some profound magma from some very deep places in the earth; she is certainly moving some energy. It’s tremendously sad to see the hurt, and incredibly amazing to see the creative power – huge openings in the earth.

Great beings of light and wise teachers have talked about the opening of the way. In Egypt we look at whole temples that were preserved in the frequency of the opening of the way. In the British Isles we see the incredible standing stones. Throughout the world we find temples and shrines and secret places that are openings, so that we can find our way. These are powerful, strong reminders.

Creating Sanctuary

In present day, we have to create sanctuaries in our personal meditations, our homes and in our lives. As a school, the Clairvoyant Center of Hawaii is a dedicated global sanctuary. Dedicated to preserving many openings, to creating spaces where each of us can make our way through the labyrinth, where we can identify how to get through, see the way…. and be safely on our life’s path.

One of the truly scary things is that many times we will find a sanctuary or Temple or teaching that is all about the opening of the way, but in some way it has been tainted by some narcissistic form of control that pretends to be an opening, and yet it is a dead end or worse than that. We see Pele expressing her displeasure towards the incredible manipulations and trying to transform all of that darkness. When even a volcano goddess is challenged by things like geothermal fracking, what do us regular people do? We cope, we ground, we create, we get amused, we breathe, we run energy, we work, we give clairvoyant readings and healings! Beyond that we come together as a community and raise up the energy for us all….For all. Together, we open the way.

Consider the great beings of ancient Egypt that built sanctuaries that are still there and in spite of much religious or spiritual control around them; consider giant, standing stones that have danced out of the earth with the power of those who opened the way: in present day they are still usable! This is an energy level we want to reference, an energy level that we want to have, to share and access.

Spiritual Community

We sustain an energy for spiritual community that welcomes everyone who doesn’t want to destroy. We hold the energy through spiritual community that is free of competition and supports everybody getting where they’re going. There’s a great mystery going on! Be part of it! Discover it. Let’s not be isolated. Let’s not be afraid of each other and yet let’s really look at what’s real and what’s a game. We can melt away the frequency fences that control us. We can walk through walls and move into the next chapter with more gold, more happiness, and the ability to recognize how truly brilliant we are! Let’s teach others and show them that they are too.

At Tahoe in October, we come together in front of a huge, beautiful, calm lake filled with a potent level of Yin beingness, and unfathomable power. This nourishes each of us and creates a tremendous sense of renewal for all, as well as the of empowering Clairvoyant community. This is a great place to practice the opening of the way.

How does it make your life richer and brighter to come together in Clairvoyant community? This year we’ll learn more about how to transcend a dead end and walk-through a wall into freedom. How do you tell the difference between being stuck in a big sticky energy situation and our own true energy in motion that can help guide us through the dark places?

Gathering in Lake Tahoe

Let’s come together in front of a beautiful lake and consider this, lets take a look at each other and clear away some of the blocks and bring in a tremendous amount of new information. Let’s make sure the lies and illusions are cleared from our own labyrinth so that we can walk in freedom.

Like doing yoga in the wind, let’s create space to balance in challenging situations and spread our wings and fly. Like the golden eagle I saw over the ridge, let’s create more space to see clearly. And let’s learn to fly freely over the obstacles in the labyrinth.

With Spiritual Communication, Validation & Respect,
May the way be Open!
Lisa French

One of the things that people find very confusing on the spiritual path is balancing the idea of individuality and personal enlightenment, and at the same time oneness. It is quite a paradox try to understand both of these simultaneously. They are both true… But there is a lot to learn as far as understanding how to apply that to our personal universe.

I remember the first time anyone ever mentioned the concept of oneness to me. I was 19 and my girlfriend said “We are all one.” This left me completely flabbergasted and spellbound. What did it mean?  I could not comprehend it at all. How could we be all one and yet feel so separate and alone? From that moment on I started trying to understand what that meant.

Your Unique Rhythm

I’ve come to understand that truly we are all one because we are from an infinite source and it is the same source. This is what we teach at the Clairvoyant Center. But in the journey of incarnation and in the individuation of the Soul, we are each here to discover unique elements, or unique music within us. Imagine if each of us was a note in an infinite piece of music, or a series of notes, or even a whole symphony whose composition ultimately merges with many others. We are each here to discover our own unique frequencies and vibrations.  We can take that back to the oneness and be part of the whole in a healthy way.

What happens if we try to do that and we are not ready? If we attempt to merge and be one with others when we don’t truly know all the  essences and frequencies of our own unique composition of music, or when we are out of balance emotionally or spiritually or mentally or physically… Then it’s not wholeness and its not a healed state we bring back to the bigger picture. If we come back and try to merge into the oneness before we are ready, then we simply imprint our hurts, our imbalances and our lack of self knowledge on each other. The idea of oneness works but first the soul has to develop their own abilities. When the time comes we must be able to integrate in a safe way that enhances the whole, or the collective.

Your Unique Energy vs. Everyone Else

At the Clairvoyant Center of Hawaii, we teach how to recognize your own energy versus somebody else’s. When we are cluttered with many different energies that don’t belong to us we find ourselves confused, sometimes not quite on the right path, perhaps lost in one way or another or perhaps thinking that we’re really on a dead end. Lots of challenges and difficulties happen when we are all in mashed in a lot of vibrations and energies that don’t belong to us. One of the first things we teach a spirit… You!… To do this, begin to let go and clear away what’s not you. As a result, your own beautiful essences, beautiful notes, beautiful pieces of self return to you.

It feels really good in your body when you find your own vibration and you fill yourself with it. You then move it through your whole body; this stimulates healing on a multiplicity of levels. From here we can heal our souls, hearts, minds, emotional selves, spiritual selves, physical selves… The list is endless. When you can learn to do this, your life takes on an incredible shape. You see reflected to you through the events and activities and people in your life, and you become more & more of who you really are. When you really discover yourself, then it’s easy to work with others and begin to create that greater symphony.

Merging with Oneness

In the beginning of all our classes and Clairvoyant training, we discover what’s us and what’s not. What’s us feels really good what’s not doesn’t. We learn to develop self-awareness and have an intricate awareness of who we are.  We learn to discover the unique puzzle piece that is our own essence. Someday when we’re ready, we’ll be able to merge that with the bigger picture and be part of the great music of all souls when they are connected in wellness and working together.