Now, I had experienced manifestations of Faye's powerful electromagnetic energy before. Once, at a candlelight dinner, I had watched her make a candle flame rise nearly 10 inches and dance. Another time, from another room, she had turned on the faucet full blast in the kitchen where I was working. I remembered, too, how one night when she was at her home she flushed all the toilets in my home one by one. When Faye was younger, she had studied in New York with a Master metaphysician who had helped develop her gifts. I knew her capabilities. So, when she told me to keep driving, I did exactly what she said. We were never followed.

My son had a story about one night when his wife was driving their vehicle and he began to snooze -- only to open his eyes to find that her eyes were closed. And yet, the car was moving down the road in perfect fashion. It reminded me of an incident Shirley MacLaine related in her book Out on a Limb about being with a friend who was driving a rattletrap pick-up truck down a one-lane narrow unpaved treacherous mountain road in Peru. She looked over at him and screamed. He had taken his hands off the wheel, and yet the truck proceeded down the mountain without incident.

How can these things be happening in people's lives? Are they somehow different from the rest of us? Not so. For all these stories are about energy. Energy is the ability to make something happen. Everything holds energy - wood, metals, stones, animals, humans. We absorb both positive and negative energies into our energy or auric fields, and what is in our auras strongly affects what happens to us. Likewise, we are influenced by the energies surrounding us.

Many highly-tuned people see auras. Animals and babies see energy fields. If your baby or pet does not want to be around someone, it's a good idea not to force them; there may be something negative -- perhaps just a thought -- that your baby or pet sees in the aura. Auras change in shape and color as our emotions change. Great breakthroughs are happening in this field, and I believe we will all be amazed at what technology will reveal about our energy levels in the future.

In The Celestine Prophecy, author James Redfield presents nine insights, all of which demonstrate how raising your energy level can change your life. He demonstrated how by sending energy to plants, a group of individuals were able to literally watch them grow. In the last insight, the group combined their energy to make themselves invisible.

This is not just something others can do. You can enter a higher vibratory level in your everyday life. Start by realizing that you are a spiritual being in a physical body and that this High Force is within you. You were born with it. It is our own doubts, fears, and self-destructive thoughts that separate us from the flow of energy in our lives.

Shirley MacLaine relates another story in Out on a Limb when she was in Peru in a natural hot spring, experiencing her first conscious out of body trip. She was soaring among the planets and saw one at a distance. She wondered if the "silver cord" connecting her to her physical body back in the hot spring would reach that far. With that one limited thought, she landed immediately back in her body. This is an extreme example of how even one slightly negative thought can affect our energy level!

When we can raise our energy vibrations to a higher level, we will not have accidents or even illnesses. We will not need to go there! We will arrive too late, the accident will have already happened.

Everything that happens has a vibration oscillation, a metaphysical speed per millionth of a second. For example, imagine you are at a happy family gathering and the average vibration speed is 40,000 cycles per second. Suddenly an argument ensues and everyone takes sides; the energy level plummets to 18,000 cycles per second. The majority of the group disperses, but in the rush to get away, one angry driver backs into another car. While the others have left the group with forgiveness, their level has come back up to 30,000 cycles. A simple thought of love made them escape the fender bender.

Several years ago, I was at a psychic fair and had been busy all day doing readings. It was Valentine's Day evening and some of the group asked me to have dinner with them. Guessing dinner would entail a long wait, I opted to go back to my hotel alone. I was tired and depressed. Since I had not received any phone calls, flowers, or cards from anyone, I was having a major pity party driving toward my hotel. The streets were crowded, for in a college town on Valentine's Day, it seemed everyone wanted to party. I made a right turn one block from the hotel at the same time another car made a left turn and we sideswiped each other. There was virtually no damage to the other car, but I had $900 damage to my beautiful car. No one was hurt, except my feelings. Why did this avoidable accident happen? I knew instantly. What a painful, costly, pity party I had! But it taught me never to start my car without consciously raising my vibrations to a level higher than accidents.

How can we create this high energy and keep it within us? We might begin by training our minds and feelings to find the positive in every situation. Love is another way we keep our vibrations strong. As we give love to ourselves and it spreads outward to others, we vibrate at a higher cycle. When we project our positive loving energy onto others, whether in person or telepathically, it raises our own vibration level and brings changes with the other person as well.

One of the simplest suggestions I give clients is what I call the Ten Second Recharge. This can be done at home when tensions arise, at your desk or in the restroom at work, or even at a stoplight -- but don't close your eyes or take your foot off the brake. Simply open the palms of your hands and think, "I inhale peace, I exhale negativity." Continue doing this slowly until you feel your vibration level change. This works, trust me!

Some people hold an especially significant stone to increase their vibration energy. Practice and find what works best for you. Affirmations and praying a special prayer that includes the high vibrational words of LOVE, I AM and the word for GOD in any language raise my energy.

I was in an ice storm with my son and his family several years ago. Everyone was scared and I realized we were prime for an accident if the fear manifestations continued. I started saying my protection prayer very softly and soon everyone stopped whining. We made it to our destination safely and calm. About a year later, about to fly to Disney World, my little grandson whispered to me, "Have you prayed your prayer yet?" I replied that I always prayed it as the plane goes down the runway.

Change your vibrations and you change your life! It is worth it. Little by little, we can change the energy of Alaska and our planet. No one has to be sick. No one has to have an accident. I do not mean that we will not have challenges in our lives, for these are ways in which we grow. However, when we are vibrating at hundreds, even thousands of cycles per second, we will just float through our learning experiences. Like a magnet, we will automatically draw to ourselves the right job and money, the right mate and friends, and all the perfect things we need to fulfill our purpose here.

Glenn Key is a metaphysical counselor in Anchorage. For readings, workshops, and more information, call 907/729-0346 or 440-7487, or toll-free, 877/729-0342. Write glennkey@alaska.net and visit www.glennkey.com (recently revised).