The White Room

by Hayley Y.

A few years ago my son, then 18, suffered what I guess can be called a nervous breakdown, or a mental breakdown, when his girlfriend left him suddenly. I say ‘suddenly’ although there were signs. I caught the signs; he didn’t.

After days of not eating, not talking except in monosyllabic grunts, and crying when he thought I wasn’t around, I decided to call a friend of mine who is a Reiki Master. At that time, I was still a beginner at Reiki and didn’t feel confident enough to try it myself, alone. So we arranged for a treatment with Maureen. During the session, I tried to offer Reiki from the hallway, to assist. While the treatment was in progress, I had my eyes closed, sitting in a chair in the hallway, and I had a vision of a white room, or whiteness, just blinding whiteness and I felt my son enveloped by a cloak of calmness, which is the only way I can describe it. After it was over, about 45 minutes, my son felt better but didn’t say much. Maureen had a look that seemed to say it all went well. We thanked her and made small talk and left. The drive home was uneventful. I didn’t share with him what I saw, nor did I ask if he saw or felt anything.

The next night, my son approached me in the kitchen and asked if I was doing anything that night, which meant he wanted my attention. We sat and talked. He was still very upset about being dumped, but there was something else on his mind.

He said that while Maureen was working on him, while he was lying down, he began to feel the table being lifted, or AS IF it were lifted. He kept his eyes closed and felt multiple presences in the room, standing in a circle around him and Maureen. The room was white (in reality, it was a dark color). The figures that were standing around the room were clothed in white. He pictured Maureen in similar garb, even though she was dressed casually. The entire scene was WHITE. And he felt a healing energy entering the top of his head, spinning as it entered, like a white tornado, and filling every cell of his body. He felt ripples of tingling energy running through him. I asked if it freaked him out, and he said no, it felt very calming and natural to have these people in the room with him. And they offered him some kind of calming mantra which he could no longer remember. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, at the time. He said he could tell their main concentration, or point of concern, was on his heart. Later, he was still depressed, but with much less pain, if that makes any sense.

The next day I called Maureen. I asked what, if anything, did she sense while working on my son. She said oh, her guides were there, dressed in white in a white room, as they always are when she does a Reiki treatment. So I asked who. She said she’s not really sure, but she always calls them the White Brotherhood. I asked if she meant the Great White Brotherhood (who are supposedly Ascended Masters) and she said no, just that the name seemed to fit her group of healers/helpers who always appear in her mind’s eye as dressed in white, and always in a white room.

So… I had a vision, while in the hallway, of whiteness, or a white room, and my son had a vision of a group of beings dressed in white, in a white room, and Maureen also had a similar vision.

My son had a few more sessions, but not as dramatic as that first one. Within about a month, he was out of his depression.