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Modern progress is wonderful, but sometimes it arrives
too late. Yesterday I read of a Boulder woman, Caroline
Richardson, an environmental healer
who can handle
the healing of any environmental space
like a home
or office.
Her spiritual cleaning service began last summer, when
she helped a friend rid her home of the spirit of a pet
cat that had died several months earlier.
We needed her in the summer of 1987. We had an ailing old tomcat named Jethro. We also had a contractor at work on bathroom floor -- we went camping for the duration.
Upon our return, the bathroom looked great. But Jethro had vanished. Within a few days, we had swarms of flies, and the odious spirit of the dead cat suffused our home.
It did not require Sherlock Holmes to deduce that Jethro had crawled beneath the then-open floor to die, and that his crypt was now sealed by plywood and tile. The trick was to find Jethro without ripping out a $600 job.
If only we could have called on a psychic environmental healer -- a few chants and beats on her home-made horsehide drum, and then no more flies, and even better, no more bouquet of feline decay.
As foolish rationalists, we bored small exploratory
holes until we found maximum flies and stench. We recalled
Tom Sawyer,
and figured that 13-year-old boys might
retain an affinity for dead cats to take to the cemetery
during thunderstorms. Alas, every one we approached refused
our generous offer.
The chore fell to adults. I can report that our house,
like that of Richardson's client, felt much clearer
after being purged of Jethro's aura.
Although the Lingering Cat Spirit has been exorcised, I could still use an intuitive environmental healer to rid my house of these mystic scourges:
· Public Service Supporter Sprite. You go through the house and turn off every light, curling iron, video game and boom box that isn't in use. Just moments later, they're all back on. The kids swear they didn't do it, so it must be a malicious phantom -- perhaps the ghost of Reddy Kilowatt, who vanished mysteriously a few years ago.
· Safeway Poltergeist. You get home from the store at night and haul in every bag. But come morning, you always find something left in the car. In the summer, it's always mayonnaise or milk that spoils in warmth, whereas in the winter, it's pop that freezes and explodes all over the car.
· Keychain & Checkbook Hobgoblin. With both at hand, you start for the door. By the time you get there, this invisible incubus has taken them from your pockets and placed them in spots where you won't find them until after the stores are closed.
If the New Age healers of Boulder can purge these malign spirits from our daily environments, they should prosper while improving our lives, and if they'll venture to Salida to sterilize my house, I'll forgive them for not being there for us when Jethro's spirit refused to move on.
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