*Break the vicious cycle of suffering*

Welcome to my website!

About my website:

Celestial Aspirations
As the website name would indicate, the things I write and post on this website will promote the most noble and, these days, rare of human virtues, as well as spiritual growth. Fundamental values from which I write and towards which I strive include Truth, Compassion, Love, Understanding, Wisdom and Forgiveness. As the words at the top of the sidebar say, the celestial aspiration I have for myself and for others is the aspiration to love and wisdom through the suffering endured in life.

Your suffering is directly linked to others’ suffering is directly linked to your suffering
There is a vicious cycle in this world, within which humans justify and perpetuate their own individual behavioral and spiritual degeneration (and thereby that of the entire planet) by telling themselves that because this or that bad thing was done to them, and they got hurt or angry, it is ok for them to do the same bad thing to others, perpetuating the vicious cycle and passing on the bad, thereby keeping the cycle of suffering and the bad of this world thriving. This pattern is often perpetuated within the context of our unconsciousness of it, while other times, it is chosen. This website is about striving to break that vicious cycle by becoming conscious of these patterns, coming to understand them and working through them and the pain associated with them to achieve heartfelt behavior consistent with the values set forth here, gradually finding a new paradigm to work in, which will ultimately cultivate the emotional and spiritual states that heaven is made of, which include, but are not limited to peace and joy. It all begins with you, the individual, breaking the vicious cycles that you are responsible for perpetuating in your own personal life.

Breaking the cycle
This purpose will become manifest by example as I map out here the path of my own healing process, particularly in the “My Diary” category. I don’t know the course of the whole path, but I always know what step of the path I am currently on, and the next step becomes clear when I am able and ready to implement it.

Reiki
Reiki is emerging as a main proponent on my website and in my life, because it is the means by which I am accomplishing all of my emotional healing. I recommend it to anyone who, like me, has tried different methods for emotional healing, including years of psychotherapy, with no results, and some other less effective energy healing modalities. I have become certified in reiki levels 1 and 2 and as a reiki master and am now offering healing sessions. More information is available on the “Reiki Healing Treatments” page, while more detailed information about reiki in general can be found in this article: What is Reiki?

About me:

My name is Lucia Ray. I was born in Canada in 1968 and I went to school and grew up in the U.S. I graduated from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada with a double major, honors degree in German and Scandinavian languages and historical linguistics in 1992.

In addition to Canada and the U.S., I have lived in Sweden, Finland and, unofficially, Algeria. I have traveled around Europe and feel quite at home in Europe. I spent the last ten years of my life living in Finland earning a living as a translator, translating Finnish and Swedish into English. Currently I am in a major life transition and I don’t yet know what the outcome of this transition will be.

I consider myself a citizen of the world. Due to the sort of life I have led, I have basically lost the sense of “home” that most people have and the sense of being “from” somewhere and having a country. I don’t know where I’m from, simply put, because I have been “from” many places in my life, which, for one reason or another, I haven’t ever felt fully socially accepted in or part of. I’m just a citizen of the world and home is where the heart is.