PEACE AND HEALING ON PLANET EARTH, ONE HEART AT A TIME
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Hunterdon Observer, April 9, 2005
By Dianne Lorden
“Well, People magazine isn’t known for taking anyone seriously,” says
Christina Lynn Whited of High Bridge, who has reason to know: She was once
served up on a two-page spread after revealing the unexpected source for the
recipes in her healthy cookbook.
She had channeled the ghost of James Beard.
It wasn’t her idea, but the ghost of Adele Davis (controversial promoter of
health food and author of Let’s Eat Right to Keep Fit) had proven difficult to
work with. “She was very demanding. If I was busy in my room doing
transcription and she wanted me in the kitchen, there would be quite a
commotion in my house,” says Whited. “Nothing physical, but she would get the
(spirit) guides all riled up.”
According to Whited, these are the same guides who had encouraged her to
write a cookbook in the first place. When Davis didn’t work out, the guides sent
her Beard as a replacement. Beard helped her to develop the recipes, claims
Whited, and when her book was done she contacted the James Beard
Foundation hoping they would test the recipes. They did have a chat with her,
but they also called the New York Post. Soon, Whited found herself in the Post’s
“Page Six” column. That’s what landed her, ultimately, in People. She was also
interviewed on various nationally syndicated radio shows and was even a TV
guest of Geraldo Rivera.
She thought all the hoopla “would help to publish the book,” she says. But
publishers told her: “You can’t get better than People.” They believed the media
had given her all the publicity it was going to. That was in 1988. The Beard
Whited collaboration never made it to the bookshelves, but that hasn’t diluted
Whited’s enthusiasm for sharing her metaphysical know-how. She’s all lined up
to teach some of her favorite topics through Hunterdon County Adult Education,
beginning Wednesday. Her workshops will cover numerology, colors, the use of
pendulums, and writing your own wedding vows.
“There’s a great need in Hunterdon County for people to have someplace to
go to get valid information that is from the Light,” says Whited. Her own search
for that information began years ago when she studied at the InnerVision School
of Occult Sciences in Manhattan. She ended up teaching there – on
numerology, in the 1970’s. Private lessons introduced her to pendulum work
(she first “became engaged with spirits” at that time) and she taught classes on
that at the Learning Annex in New York City in the late 1980’s.
“I think of it as: The Universe called and I ran to the phone,” says Whited, who
is also the owner of CoCo:Chenille, an Internet-based chenille design company
that uses recycled materials to create vintage-style fabrics and products.
What does Whited say to people who doubt the validity of metaphysics?
One of her favorite responses actually came from someone in the audience
during an appearance at a Borders store. After a heckler challenged her,
“Someone else stood up and said, ‘Hey, 100 years ago, no one believed in
microwaves! Now we all have microwave ovens.’ I loved that.”
But skeptics don’t bother her. “They don’t have to believe me; that’s their
path. I believe it because that’s my experience,” she says.
Intuitive even as a child, Whited recalls the time she saw a Christmas gift in a
dream. Her mother had made her a kilt, in a green and black plaid. When she
opened the actual present, she recognized it immediately. “This is just what I
saw in my dream,” she told her mother.
“She accused me of peeking, but I saw it,” says Whited. “After that I always
paid attention to my dreams.”
Her work as an adult, particularly with the pendulum, led to her becoming
clairaudient (the ability to hear sounds beyond the normal range of hearing, as
a form of channeling) and it improved her clairvoyance as well, she says. Over
time, Whited focused more and more on her spiritual work. Last year she
became ordained as a non-denominational minister and now performs baptisms
and weddings.
“My life works so much better now that I’ve made the commitment to give my
passion the primary role,” she says. In addition to the classes, Whited gives
private readings. “I give people the tools to help them move forward on their
own spiritual path. I don’t foster dependency; I want everybody to do this on his
or her own. Everyone has these abilities.”
Private sessions involve her scanning a client’s aura, checking the client’s
home for ghosts, and answering questions, says Whited. Her guides
communicate with the guides of her client during a reading, according to Whited,
enabling her to pass on information. She can be reached via her website,
circleofintention.com.
(c) Hunterdon Observer 2005