PEACE AND HEALING ON PLANET EARTH, ONE HEART AT A TIME
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
 |
 |
 |