Chris Griscom

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Chris Griscom circa 2000.
Chris Griscom circa 2000.

Chris Griscom (born 3rd June, 1942) - is a healer, author and teacher and is considered by some to be a master of spirituality.[citation needed] Her teachings focus on fostering peace and exploring and expanding consciousness. They are aimed at opening the heart and emotions and are based on working with Divine Light and the Higher Self. They are non-dualistic and transcend traditional beliefs.

Chris has written and published thirteen books and has traveled and taught widely; she has worked with thousands across the globe and her books have sold millions of copies.[citation needed] Her best known and widely-translated writings are Time is an Illusion, The Healing of Emotion and Ecstasy is a New Frequency.

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[edit] Biography

Chris Griscom was born Christina Johnston[1] on 3rd June 1942 in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. As a child, she traveled extensively with her father, an agricultural entomologist. This early immersion in nature is credited with awakening in her a deeper awareness of the interconnectedness of life and setting the stage for her life’s work[citation needed].

In 1962, Ms. Griscom volunteered for the Peace Corps and spent the following nine years working as a Peace Corps representative throughout South America. During this time, she began to experience the various spiritual beliefs that characterized the native cultures with which she was involved.

In El Salvador, through the direct experience of the monumental mortality rate around her, Chris awakened to an amplified awareness of life and death[citation needed]. Dealing with death on a daily basis, she began to believe that life does not end with death, nor does the spirit die with the body. These beliefs laid the foundation for her now internationally recognized[citation needed] spiritual work at The Light Institute and The Nizhoni School for Global Consciousness.

She returned to the United States of America in the early 1970s, married Richard Griscom and settled in Galisteo, New Mexico. She soon began studying massage and acupuncture. Through this, she came upon what she calls the ‘Windows to the Sky’, what she believes to be “a powerful, ancient form of acupuncture which precipitates awareness of the higher octaves or dimensions of experience.” This led her to work with many, including Shirley MacLaine. Like thousands of others, Shirley credits her work with Chris as enabling her to connect with her deepest and richest abilities and knowledge.[citation needed]

Building on this work, Griscom founded The Light Institute in 1985. It is now a world renowned spiritual center for multi-incarnational exploration and light healing.[citation needed] Believeing in a need for soul-centered education, she founded the Nizhoni School in 1988. The school offered a standard academic curriculum combined with applied spirituality. Through this unique curriculum individuals of all ages from all over the world were taught to 'discover and access their inner wisdom and strength'[citation needed]. In 2004, the Nizhoni School moved from on-site education to education through the media. It is now focused on the development of media programs with the purpose of reaching a greater global audience. While her reach has become global, Griscom continues to appear regularly on public access television in northern New Mexico, broadcasting her 'Knowings' talks that are open to the general public.

Griscom’s humanitarian services and contributions in holistic health and education have been twice recognized by The Indian Board of Alternative Medicines. In 1996, the Board awarded Ms. Griscom the Sewa Chakra Award for her work with AIDS patients. Ms. Griscom again traveled to Calcutta in 1999 to receive the Board’s Lifetime Achievement award and to form the International Board of Alternative Medicines[citation needed].

Ms. Griscom is a resident of New Mexico and a mother of six. She continues her work at The Light Institute and in giving international talks and seminars. Her published works include Psychogenetics: The Force of Heredity, Nizhoni: The Higher Self in Education and Quickenings: Meditations For The Millennium. Her recorded works include Knowings, The Creative Self, The Gift of Peace, Transcending Adversity, Parent/Child Relationships, and The Dance of Relationships.

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A key aspect of Chris Griscom’s teachings is the Higher Self. She describes it as “the spiritual vehicle, the power that changes and awakens the emotions. It is the megaphone of the soul.” Through the Higher Self one comes to realize one is brilliant, essential and possesses abilities one never imagined. One begins to use these talents not only to make life more fulfilling, she says, but to create a way of living and relating that is open and inclusive. This happens automatically, for, she teaches, as the individual starts to discover her or his true self, she or he begins to comprehend the powerful forces that not only effect oneself but all of humankind; one discovers how multi-faceted, rich and wondrous is oneself, the world and every being.

Griscom goes on to say that out of this larger way of seeing and being, one comes to experience ecstasy, “that exploding creative force when consciousness coalesces itself, the marriage of bliss and rapture. This is the sourcing, creative force of the universe, the Higher Self in action.”

Another important element of Chris Griscom’s work is accelerating the downfall of "you". “This is a magnificent conscious expansion of the human race as a whole,“ she writes. “We, as a species, are making a pivotal leap of consciousness into oneness, a consciousness in which we dissolve the illusion of separation from the Divine.”

Griscom teaches that, according to cosmic law, we must continually expand the expression of the Divine. This is why we have come into body. That we now have the great opportunity in our bodies to be the expression of Divinity, to further the expression of the Divine; and that we, as human beings, have the unique opportunity to do so from the position of the heart chakra.

“The human heart and the capacity to hold a sense of being, a point of light in the universe, expands in quantum leaps[,sic] the divine expression.”

Griscom teaches that we can learn to use our creative energy to activate the "heart chakra". We can shift our consciousness from the lower chakras, which are solely concerned with survival and procreation, to the "heart chakra". Once we learn to do this, we will move on to “the ever radiant (dimension) of life, where the heart is activated, where there is no separation, where there is a true merger with the Divine.” We will, she says, become the embodiment of the Divine force.[2]

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  1. ^ Psychogenetics (2000), ISBN 0-9623696-7-5
  2. ^ The Light Institute About the Light Institute Retrieved on June 6, 2007

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