David and Mary had bought an old house that they were fixing up as an office for the two of them, as well as an apartment upstairs. They called me because when they started the remodeling, Maria had felt the presence of a child downstairs who was crying. Every time she passed, she heard the screams. I put together a team to do a cleanup. His whole family, two grandmothers and his daughter along with our four-person team got together on a Sunday morning. We had chosen to do a practice of the Tibetan Deity, Green Tara, who is the mother of compassion. Then we touched and smeared and did a special fire ceremony to release the spirit of the child, who had died there. We learned that many sad moments had passed in this house, as it had been a residence for people who came to visit their terminally ill relatives in the hospital down the street.

This was a very special clearing as Mary was able to communicate with the girl’s spirit and feel her presence recede as she crossed. Since the cleanup, David’s construction business has prospered despite Portland’s struggling economy. And Mary, a nationally recognized voice actress, achieved her goal of creating a successful home recording studio.

WHO IS AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS

A couple from North Portland called and said, “Our dog woke us up a few nights ago. We were asleep in our upstairs bedroom. He started growling at the door leading to the landing at the top of the stairs.” The wife went on to say that since that night the dog refused to sleep in his room and now he was sleeping at the top of the stairs and was restless. They hadn’t been sleeping well either.

The house was a beautiful 1910 bungalow that had been completely remodeled in a reverential and authentic style. They both have home-based businesses and needed to feel secure for both their home life and livelihood. They had been living in the house for two years and felt comfortable there until now. We talked about the history of the house, they were only the third owner and as far as they knew there had been no traumatic events or deaths in the history of the house. Her wife, B., commented that, however, she had often felt as if someone was behind her at the top of the stairs. Our team toured the house and looked at several potential problem areas in the house and one outside where a large tree had been removed years earlier. We and the owners hold a ceremony at the tree site honoring the tree and thanking it for its energy. This enhanced the fearful and angry energy in this source.

The husband, J., commented that during the remodeling he had found a strange small enclosed space under the basement stairs that he had dismantled. In space behind a wall she found a glass bottle with a red ribbon around its neck. She got rid of this, but didn’t change the presence upstairs.

Our efforts were concentrated on the landing at the top of the stairs to the bedrooms. There was definitely something/someone there. She was a woman and we communicated with her spirit and helped her move on. We thought we had completed our mission and customers said they felt a great improvement.

Two days later, we heard from them again. Trouble at the top of the stairs! We came back. We guarantee our work and sometimes we need to return to the house several times. There are often many layers to the energies that disturb a home. Talking again at the top of the stairs, we communicate again with the spirit of a woman. Maybe the same one or another and she discovered that she had died at the top of the stairs in the middle of her housework. She was full of fear because she had not finished her work and she was afraid of reprimand from her husband. We help her cross. Larry has a very strong voice that says, “Sarah.” There was a large chest on the landing, and Sharon felt there was something significant about it. She used a sound method to “cleanse” the energy from the chest, but she still felt that something was wrong. When we related the facts, B. said that the trunk had been in the family and that her sister gave it to him… Sarah!

We heard about them two days later, when, still feeling disturbing energies, they removed the chest and took it to the garage. Finally the house was at peace.