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Bill Flanigan

Distance Healer

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Bill Flanigan

Distance Healer

About Bill How I Evolved into a Remote/Distance Healer I was introduced to channeling while becoming attuned to Reiki in the 1990’s, with the sole purpose of treating my partner’s stomach and feet while we watched tv at night. He passed away in 2000, and for the next decade, I only did Reiki about once or twice a year for my in-laws, about half in person and half with distance. Based on their feedback, the Reiki was as effective with distance as with proximity.

The Beginnings of Hands-free In 2010, I was sent a spiritual message that I would be going through spiritual changes in one year but no other information was offered. Exactly a year later and continuing for slightly over 3 years, I spent about 40 hours a week in direct spiritual practice, but did not put hands on anyone until the 22nd month. Essentially, I was exploring any and all limitations of my new channeling abilities full time, with childlike wonder, often walking barefoot in nature.

By early 2013, I was treating friends and neighbors in my fabulous attic in Denver with surprising results. In late 2016, I took up public practice in Charlotte for 11 months. Then I moved back to my hometown of Atlanta, where I had the honor of treating hundreds of people, about 85% in-person and 15% distance prior to Covid.

My Continued Spiritual Evolution While traveling and living as a full-time nomad (carless) in 2022, another spiritual change has occurred. Since 2013, while channeling for others I assumed I was surrounded by helping spiritual entities, but I never felt them. Now, I feel or sense maybe 8 of them, grouped near my stomach area. I assume my clients have loving spiritual entities surrounding them as well during their treatment, even if they do not feel them.

My Personal Life Journey Born in the South in 1967, I grew up with with two primary messages about being gay. God does not love gay people, and are not as worth oas others about spiritual things like healing. Trying to exclude an entire group of people from God’s love and acceptance is extremely cruel, destructive, abusive and must be called out for the hate that it is.

2000: The Year I Lost my Partner Legal Fact: When I first got to University of Maryland Shock Trauma hospital in Baltimore, they would not let me see my partner because, “We don’t accept partners, you are not family.” This, despite the fact that they had a copy of our power of attorney the whole time. They kept me from him for 6 hours until his biological family got there. In that time, they had given him a breathing tube (which he was adamantly against), and he lost consciousness, never to regain it. We never got to say goodbye to each other before he died. We were “Love At First Site” and strong in our relationship, so I sued on behalf of both of us with the generous help of Lambda Legal NY and a private DC firm (now called Wilmer, Culter, Pickering, Hale & Dorr) that worked on our case (Flanigan vs. University of Maryland) pro bono. We were the first Gay couple in America to ever sue over hospital visitation. Sadly, we lost at trial, legally, in 2002. The Good Part: An Epiphany By the time of my partner’s death in 2000, I no longer believed that gays are unloved by God, but honestly, who knows for sure. The first 9 days after his death he was allowed to visit me for about 3 minutes, on 3 different occasions, and able to communicate 3 things to me on each visit. About an hour after he died, his mom and sisters left the hospital room, and he appeared to me only. He was hovering in the ceiling area looking down at his body on the bed. Through my first conscious experience of emotional telepathy, he communicated to me that he was shocked that he was dead, that he was not ready to leave me, and that his feet no longer hurt. My mind was blown. After he left, I ran out to my in-laws in the waiting room to tell them the amazing news: that he had already visited me. I wanted to shout from the rooftops, “God does not hate Gay people!! If he did, he would have never allowed this to happen!!” Instantly, I wished that I could share what I had experienced with every LGBTQ+ person in America, but couldn't because it must be experienced individually. But, through distance healing it is possible for anyone.

This healing practice is in honor of Robert Daniel for teaching me what Love is and in appreciation for all of his help, from the other side, these past two decades.

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