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I was born with under-developed nerves in my inner ear, which caused an 80% hearing
deficit. While on a family trip when I was nine, we stumbled upon The Grotto at
Mount St. Joseph's, a monastery in western Maryland. This was a natural spring with
healing qualities. I was anointed with this water by a monk, and less than a week later,
a routine hearing exam revealed that I now had above-average hearing.

From this point on, I realized we are never alone. I couldn't comprehend why people
felt they had to "go to confession". I knew we could speak with God at any time. I've
been interested in a consciousness beyond my own for as long as I can remember. At 15
I finally convinced my family to allow me to take Reiki training, and have been a
practicing Reiki Master since 1999.

During a retreat which I attended in April 2002, I was opened as a channel and while
attending an event at the Hidden Meadows Healing Center labyrinth in Brunswick,
Maine the following October, I communicated for the first time with Archangel
Metatron. Since that time I have learned through meditation and communication with
Archangels and Ascended Masters how to assist others in their journeys to becoming
one with their Higher Self.

I effort to bring my spiritual self into my relationship with my brother, my wife, my
young son - into all my relationships. I share the Native American belief that we
are all Connected.

About Me

Transcending Pathways

This is an article written about Tim Dougherty

TIM DOUGHERTY
A Psychic’s-Eye View of a Light Worker
by Barbara Balkin

       I’m an empathic psychic who discovered my ability in 1975. At the time I was in my early 30s, working as
a secretary in a law office. Over the next few years I found myself increasingly using my psychic gift to help
others. Although people rarely become monetarily rich doing this, the rewards were so fulfilling that in 1991 I
left the 9 to 5 world to pursue this work fulltime.

       In order to link with people psychically, I hold their hands, close my eyes, and osmose into them. In my
body, I feels their scars: physical, emotional, mental. In this way, I’m able to determine how best I can be of
help. When I sense people are on a healing journey - first themselves, then others - I recommend they take
Reiki I, a one-day training which opens them to healing and starts them gently down their spiritual path.

       Initially I offered psychic counseling out of my home, and over the next eighteen years through various
metaphysical stores in Freeport, Camden, Belfast, Boothbay Harbor, Brunswick, Portland - as I look back, I’m
bemused to realize that I’ve lasted longer than many of these stores. I also taught classes in metaphysics through
the University of Maine’s Continuing Education Program in Augusta and in Bath/Brunswick.
I’ve been affiliated with the Whole Life Tent at Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners’ Common Ground Fair
since the mid-80’s.

       From time to time I come across a healer/teacher so gifted I feel moved to write about them, hoping others
will more easily find them. In July of 1988 I wrote about the work of Jill Turner in Sanford, Maine, who was -
and still is   - transforming people physically, emotionally, and spiritually through her channeling partnership
with Tu’shua, a Tibetan Master. Because people are eager to heal and grow, Jill’s as busy as she’s ever been.

       In January of 2003 I wrote about another Light Worker, Dawn Hall, a healer/teacher who channels Lord
Maitreya. Dawn has since moved to California, where she continues her transformational work, consulting with
people in person and by phone. That’s the beauty of Light Work: if you show up for it, the work gets done,
whether the healer is sitting across from you or is on the other end of a phone line!

       Now I’d like to introduce you to someone fairly new on the metaphysical scene. Tim Dougherty attended a
class in dowsing I held in Augusta ten years ago, when he was 17. He came to see me a short time later, where I
was working in a metaphysical shop. Because of Tim’s wonderful deep, healing energy, I talked with him about
Reiki and learned he’d already taken Reiki I. I encouraged him to continue his Reiki training and connect with Jill
Turner or Dawn Hall. When Dawn began teaching in the Brunswick area, I let Tim know. He attended one of her
classes and also a three-day seminar in her home.

       Because we were so impressed with Tim’s loving nature, his maturity, and his ability to truly ‘see’ people
in a heartfelt way, he joined Crys Garland, Herb Brewer and me on the staff of the Whole Life Tent at the
Common Ground Fair. We feel like a “family of friends” now, and get together at least monthly.

       So now you know almost all I do about Tim’s background and training. (To stay chronological, I’m saving a
bit more, ‘til the last.) Until I sat in his kitchen recently, interviewing him for this article, I thought I knew all
there was to know about his own healing journey, but I was in for some big surprises. Here goes.

Barb: “So, Tim, what was your first experience in ‘the healing biz’?”

Tim: “I was slow to begin talking and wasn’t pronouncing things properly. My mother sat me down and
enunciated words slowly, moving my lips with her fingers until I learned to shape my mouth so I could say
words correctly. In second grade standard testing showed I had 80 percent hearing loss and was getting by
through reading lips. From that point on, I had a hearing aid in both ears, which I hated.

         “I was 12 and we were living in Baltimore when my grandmother heard about a monastery in western
Maryland called The Grotto at Mount St. Joseph’s. A natural spring there was supposed to have healing
qualities, so we decided to make it a day trip. I remember walking through the woods and being drawn to stand at
the railing, entranced by the stream. A portion of the stream had been diverted to a fountain inside the Grotto, an
outdoor, open chapel with altar and benches. A monk prayed over us and anointed our heads with water from
the fountain.

       “The next morning, when I woke, I lay in my bed, hearing for the first time the traffic in the street outside
and my family’s voices. I left my hearing aids on the nightstand, and kept telling my mother I could hear. But
she wouldn’t believe me. She took me to the audiologist who had been testing me annually, and retesting proved
I had gone from 80 percent hearing deficit to above-average hearing. The audiologist was so astonished he sent
me to Johns Hopkins, where they did lots of tests on me, but could find no explanation.”

       Turning around, Tim opened a file cabinet drawer. removing a folder. “Look, I was going through some
papers just the other day, and found the test results.” He showed me the paperwork, and there were the test
graphs, the before and after, in black and white. Surely this can be considered a miracle.

Tim: “This experience confirmed for me the feeling I had always had of being part of something bigger than just
me, a ‘universal consciousness’. I remember arguing with my family because I couldn’t comprehend why they
felt I had to go to confession, when I knew we could speak to God directly at any time. At 12 or 13 I told my
mother, ‘I am God,’ and she thought I was being an egomaniac. In my mind, both Christ and I were the sons of
God. It was plain as day to me, but she couldn’t accept it.

       “When I was 15, my family finally let me take Reiki I training. I was in a play at school at the time, and I
remember going to rehearsal after the Reiki class and asking the other kids if they’d like me to use Reiki on them.
They could feel the energy and thought it was cool.

       “In 2000, when I was 18, I took Reiki II training and a year later I became a Reiki Master/Teacher. In June
of 2003 I was working in human services when Dawn Hall encouraged me to take a weekend retreat at her home.
This was about knowing, awakening, and using what Dawn calls an uplink to God. Basically, it was a lesson in
stepping out of your own way and allowing God’s love to come through you for a greater good.

       “Donna McGowen of the Hidden Meadow Healing Center and Labyrinth in Brunswick was at Dawn’s
seminar, and when I told her about what happened to me in her labyrinth a few weeks later, she asked me to
write it down for her. I’ll give you the pages, to help you tell my story.”

       Tim passed me the pages, and I began reading:

       “After Dawn’s retreat, I began to attempt channeling with paper and pen. I would sit down and say a
prayer Dawn had taught us, then wait to hear a voice or see someone. After a while I became frustrated and my
channeling book quickly became a journal of my own thoughts and feelings. About a month later, I posed a
question to myself in this journal, and instantly had an understanding of the question and the answer. It was just
as if someone had leaned over to me and said, ‘Hey, dummy, it’s all pretty clear, and this is the answer.’ I was
suddenly overcome with emotion and didn’t know whether to cry or giggle, and found myself doing both. This
question-and-answer thing continued for some time, and after discussing it with a close friend, I decided to pose
the question, ‘Is this just a roundabout way of me talking to myself?’

       “I quickly had an understanding that this Source who was answering all my questions was something far
greater than me. A few nights later, I dreamed of walking around in a never-ending circle, but didn’t think much
of it when I woke in the morning. But later in the day I met with a few friends and we wondered what we’d do
to celebrate the Harmonic Concordance later that week. One person said a store in Portland was having a
celebration, another knew of a group of people who were going to attend a retreat in the woods, and someone else
spoke about a celebration at Donna McGowen’s in Brunswick. I instantly experienced the feeling I’d get during
my writing when I’d be asking questions and receiving answers, so I said, ’I’m going to go to the labyrinth.’

“My friends decided on the retreat in the woods, so I was feeling a little weird about going my own way and
almost backed out, but somehow I knew I had to go to the labyrinth. The night came and I arrived at Donna’s. I
was immediately pulled to the labyrinth, but Donna was holding a meeting in her Little House, so I went in
because I wasn’t sure what else to do, and I didn’t want to get kicked out.

       “When I sat down, I recognized several people from Dawn’s retreat, but didn’t feel comfortable about
talking to them. There was a little celebration that I sat through and it seemed to take forever. I was fidgeting and
squirming. It felt like someone was saying, ‘Hurry up! You must get going - there’s not much time to waste!’
As soon as the celebration ended, I was up and out the door, on my way to the labyrinth. I felt as though if I
didn’t get there that second, I was going to miss something very important. I walked through the labyrinth the
first time, and it felt like I was walking any other place - no inner fireworks went off, or any other outrageous
thing like that.

       “There was a woman playing a drum in the center of the labyrinth, and that was very nice. I sat on a bench
outside the labyrinth and listened for a while, feeling like I missed something or didn’t do something right. I had
an overwhelming urge to go through the labyrinth again. This time was very different, though. I could hear a
voice for the first time in my life, and it just repeated, ‘Be like the turtle.’

       “I walked as slowly as I could, and then I felt I had just walked through something. I opened my eyes, and
the entire labyrinth was full of very tall men. Some were Native-American looking, but most of them had long
blond or black hair, and they were all wearing white and blue robes with gold braid trim. Some were bearded and
some weren’t, and they were all different ages, from early 20’s to very old. I walked for what seemed like
forever, and every time I walked through one of these beings, I felt like I was rising out of my body. I finally
exited the labyrinth, and as I did, the voice that was telling me ‘be like the turtle’ said, ‘You are now in
attunement with us.’

       “I went over to a nearby bench and sat down. I felt completely exhausted, but at the same time, full of
everything around me, part of All That Is. After a while I began to feel very energized, like I’d just woke from
the best sleep I’d ever experienced. I went back into the labyrinth one last time. I could see all the Light Beings I
had just walked through, surrounding the labyrinth in a circle. The labyrinth itself felt like it had become a spiral
moving up and down, no longer just one flat surface.”

I put the pages down, trying to make sense of what I’d just read. One thing tugged at my mind, so I asked Tim,
“How could you walk around in that labyrinth with your eyes closed? If you tripped on one of the stones which
mark out the path, you could land on one and really hurt yourself badly.”

Tim: “I saw the labyrinth energetically, as I walked through it. It’s the same way I see the Light Beings I work
with - I see them energetically, through my Third Eye.”

Tim went on:          “Three days after my experience in the labyrinth, I gave a friend a Reiki session and was
compelled to move my hands differently. I saw several Beings in the room who were helping me. The person I
was working on said he felt several different pairs of hands working on him. That’s the first time I ever did the
work which I do now, with a team of Saints, Archangels, Ascended Masters and Avatars.”

Barb: “Can you tell me who specifically helped you when you worked on your friend that day?”

Tim: “Well, Archangel Michael was on my right, and his hands were over my right hand. Archangel Ariel was
on my left, and her hands were over my left hand. Archangel Uriel stood at my friend’s feet and caught whatever
was leaving him and directed it up to Brahma, who floated about four feet above the table, sitting cross-legged in a
yogi position. Brahma reached out and altered whatever came through to him, turning it back to Light and the
Heart of God. I felt as though he was in another dimension, however.

Barb: “That was three years ago. Has your work evolved since that time?”

Tim: “Now I invoke a giant gridwork with millions and millions of lights, and each one of these is a Light Being.
So when I have someone on my table, I say, ‘Whoever is highest and best to come in and heal this person, please
do so now.’ And the room fills up with the Light of the numberless Light Beings - Archangels, Ascended
Masters and Saints among them -   who show up for the person.

Tim can tell from my rather stunned expression that I’m having trouble accepting this. Actually, I’m dealing with
feeling unworthy of such attention. He leans forward, his elbows on his knees, his hands clasped, saying, “Look,
let’s say you’ve always been interested in a particular angel or saint or a Lakota Sioux spiritual leader, like Sitting
Bull. Well, I believe you’re interested in them because they’re around you energetically, all the time, doing their
best to be of service to you. And on some level you do know this, you sense it - you may even have a whole
shelf of books about them. This is because they’re part of your soul’s blueprint. So when I invoke them, they
come rushing in to be of service to you in your soul’s growth.”

Barb: “What about animals - do they ever come in to help? In my work with people, I quite often ‘see’ and
communicate with a beloved cat, dog or even a horse who has passed on.”

Tim: “Sure. When I worked on Laurie Kennedy, the animal communicator, the other day, in addition to all the
Light Beings who showed up for her, she had a Kodiak Bear and a guinea pig appear. When I told her after the
session, she explained that the Spirit Bear had been given to her by her grandfather, an Indian elder, in a previous
life.”

Barb: “Oh, my. I’ve only seen animals from people’s present lives. Tim, can you tell me what’s going on with
you when you put your hands on someone on your table?”

Tim: “Sure. My guides channel Light through your Higher Self, directly into you. My job is to facilitate the
space and translate for you what’s going on that I’m seeing and hearing. This method allows for very deep work
on the internal structures and methods that have been put into place to keep you stuck. In essence, you’re doing
the channeling and I’m helping you put all the pieces together.

“This is why I make it very clear to all my clients that it’s a life-changing experience, but at the same time a
whole lot of work. It’s vital to understand that you’re engaging in a process of healing, not an event. I won’t be
putting my hands on you and suddenly your ankle will no longer be broken. I’ll help you find the reason you’re
in need of a broken ankle, and then teach you the tools that’ll help you no longer need this dysfunction. Then,
not only will your ankle heal, but you won’t need to break it, ever again. In other words, it’s just as though you’
ve learned to do corrective surgery as opposed to pain management.”

Barb: Gee, why would a person have to see you more than once, after a session like this?”

Tim: “Like I said before, this is a healing process, and it takes time. You’re learning a way to rewrite how you
engage with life, and through each session you get new tools that make it easier. Your guides and the Light Beings
are rerouting the way the energy moves through your body, to make it easier for you to choose a more functional
way of living. Think of the dysfunction as being like a cancer: you wouldn’t go for one session of chemo and
expect it to be gone. You’ll probably need multiple rounds to completely eradicate it.”

Barb: “But some people aren’t ready to embrace healing and health right away, are they? I’m reminded of a
woman who came to see me last year. In referring to her health, she kept saying ‘my heart attack ‘. After a
minute or two of this, I felt like responding, ‘It sounds as though you’re setting a place for it at the table every
night. If you’d stop owning it by bringing it into every conversation and calling it MY heart attack, you might
never have another.’ But of course that wouldn’t have helped her at all, because she would have felt I was
attacking her. She was a long way from being ready to hear this.”

Tim: “Right. We help people become more comfortable with whatever their issue is, plus give them the tools
they need to keep them in that space of love. Eventually they become attuned and comfortable enough with
feeling peace and love and health to be able to stay there. ”

Barb: “What happens when you have someone who’s really stuck?”

Tim: “The other day I got a phone call from a woman who I’d worked with a month previously. She told me
she felt like she wanted to have another session, but felt she hadn’t been using the tools from her last session. I
explained to her that sometimes it takes a couple of sessions to get comfortable enough with not being in the
dysfunction so you’re able to be involved in your own process. In other words, using the tools that she was
given during her session is her way to be involved in her own process.”

Barb: “So there hadn’t been a big enough shift yet for her to feel worthy enough to accept the benefits which
come from using the tools?”

Tim: Exactly.”

Barb: “Okay. So, where do you prefer to work with people?”

Tim: “I work with people in their homes or over the phone.”

Barb: “How can you do this work by phone?”

Tim: “It’s really simple - because energy has the ability to transcend space and time. I can work with you in
your immediate space, by telephone, or from the other side of the planet.”

Barb: “You just went right over my head. I don’t follow you.”

Tim: “It’s the same way you would work with a client on something from a past life. There are no limits about
where you are or when the issue was created. Energy addresses the issue through love, without limits.”

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       During the Spring of 2006 Tim and I did a swap. He came to my home, where I did a reading for him. Then
he set up his massage table and worked on me. At the end, he leaned on the table and said, “If I were you, I’d see
a doctor. There is a growth, a mass, to the left of your navel about the size of a grapefruit.”

       Of course I was horrified, and frightened. I knew that this was not a medical emergency as much as it was
emotional and spiritual. Over the next four months Dawn Hall worked on me several times over the phone line
from California; a visiting Mexican shaman named Tzen worked on me once; and I went to one of Ray Reitze’s
Earthways healing days at his home in Canaan, telling his group my story. Ray and his class all worked on me.

       In late September, on the Friday of the Common Ground Fair, I was sitting in a back row of the Whole Life
Tent with my eyes shut, participating in the shamanic traveling part of Chris and Susan Bakaley Marshall’s
presentation. Tim had entered the tent just before the presentation began, and was sitting next to me. Our friend
Crys Garland was on duty at the staff table, keeping an eye on things. At one point I put my hands in front of
me, eyes closed, and bowed in prayerful thanks for insights I had been receiving. As I did so, Crys saw a tall
angelic being in a blue robe kneeling in front of me, returning my namaste. At the same time, Crys heard in her
head the words, “Tzen will take it,” and she assumed this meant the mass in my abdomen.

       Later in the day, Crys told me about this, and I suggested she also tell Tim - who, after all, had been sitting
next to me. And Tim explained to Crys that she had witnessed one of his guides at work.

           Two days later, at the end of Ray Reitze’s talk in the Whole Life Tent, as I was approaching him with
thanks and his volunteer t-shirt, Ray pointed at my abdomen, saying, “Whatever you’ve had onboard there is
shrinking, and getting ready to leave.” He was right. In the next week, the growth dwindled to the size of a pea,
and migrated down to my groin. I called Dawn again, and she did the last bit of energetic light work over the
phone.

       I then began some hard work of my own which lasted several months, on my dysfunctional family of origin
stuff which I had been so sure I’d left behind me. (I’m uncertain whether it was Casey Stengel or that other great
philosopher, Yogi Berra, who said, “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”)

       I therefore feel very grateful to Tim - his sharp spiritual eye put me on my own healing journey, saving my
ass at that moment in time. And who knows, perhaps even my life.

       This Spring Tim volunteered me as a guinea pig. While I lay on his massage table, Tim called Dawn in
California and told her what he was seeing energetically, in and around my body. And she was able to ‘watch’ as
he worked on me. At the end of the session, Tim put Dawn on the phone with me. She said it was both thrilling
and humbling, to witness one of her students doing such profound work.

       Tim, like Dawn, has a growing client base from the spiritual, metaphysical and healing professions: body
workers, social workers, an astrologer, a psychic, a lawyer. Tim and Dawn heal the healers.

       Many health practitioners are initially drawn to their work out of compassion: they sincerely wish to help
others. And some of them experience burnout because they unconsciously take on their clients’ pain. In their
one-on-one energetic work, Tim and Dawn remove this. Then they delve deeper, dealing with whatever the
practitioner is still carrying that may be causing distress. Many times they witness scenes from past lives, which
can also cause problems today.

Ray Reitze recently had cause to see Tim, so I called Ray, asking if he’d like to comment on Tim’s work. Ray
said he’d be honored, and mailed me the following:

“I have met and worked with Tim two or three times now. It was clear to me the first time I met Tim that he is
deeply connected to the Divine Presence of God, the Masters and Angels. His love is tremendous and his energy
is amazing. Tim Dougherty is a True Master in his own right. I would call on Tim to sit on the Council of Elders
any time. In the deepest of admiration and love, Ray (Old Turtle)”

So there you have it. Because it’s always frustrated me to read an article and not have access to all the people
mentioned therein, you can find:

Tim Dougherty at 207-512-2259 in Farmingdale, ME; e-mail transcendingpathways@yahoo.com and website
www.transcendingpathways.com
.
Dawn Hall at 949-542-7970 (store = Tushita Heaven) in San Juan Capistrano, CA; e-mail at
tushita_heaven@yahoo.com.
Laurie Kennedy at 207-892-9699 in Windham, ME.
Chris and Susan Bakaley Marshall at 207-589-3063 in Montville, ME; e-mail moonart@midcoast.com. Shamanic
work and art therapy.
Donna McGowen’s Hidden Meadow Healing Center & Labyrinth at 207-443-5349 in Brunswick, ME: website
www.hmhealing.com. In addition to her gem and flower essences, Donna attends Joseph (Beautiful Painted
Arrow) Rael’s Mystery School in Arizona and works with Melchizadek.
Ray Reitze at 207-426-8138 in Canaan, ME; website www.earthways.net. His excellent book, And We Shall
Cast Rainbows Upon the Land, is available at Leapin’ Lizards in Freeport and Portland.
Jill Turner at 207-324-5066 in Sanford, ME. She also appears on the first Monday evening of the month at
Donna McGowen’s, for an interactive talk and meditation. All who attend have energetic clean-up work done on
them by Tu’shua and his host of healers as they sit through the meeting.
Tzen by calling Anne Koch at 207-874-2884 in Portland, ME.
Barbara Balkin, empathic psychic, at 207-442-7744 in Bath, ME, where I strive to live by the words of Lao-
Tzu: “Kindness in words creates confidence, Kindness in thinking creates profoundness, Kindness in giving
creates love.”