I Was There: The Law of Miracles in Action

Copyright © 2014 Dr. Beverly J. Gaard.

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ISBN: 978-1-4525-9292-3 (sc)

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2014903216

Balboa Press rev. date: 04/15/2014

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1     The Meeting

Chapter 2     Who Is Dr. Bussell?

Chapter 3     Surgery or Healing

Chapter 4     Healing with Light

Chapter 5     From Blindness to Sight

Chapter 6     The Invisible Presence

Chapter 7     Proving Your Love

Chapter 8     The Cosmic Law of Abundance

Chapter 9     Removing Pain

Chapter 10     Your Harmony Tone

Chapter 11     Law of Right Action

Chapter 12     The Law of Protection

Chapter 13     Four Steps into the Kingdom

Chapter 14     He Waited Eight Years

Chapter 15     Time to Leave

Chapter 16     Absent Treatments

Chapter 17     Is the Hummingbird Present?

Chapter 18     The End Is the Beginning

Chapter 19     Directed Meditation

About the Author

To my beloved Master teacher, Dr. DJ Bussell;

without him, I would never have made it.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

My sincerest gratitude to Mary Marlow, who generously gave editing time for more than a year.

My love and heartfelt gratitude to Eve Ewing and Grace Bonnell for sharing their knowledge about Dr. Bussell.

I am so grateful for the thousands of students who have learned and passed on the teaching of the Universal Laws, and especially for the Inner Circle: Arlene, Jon, Bill, Richard, Valli, Stepfanie, Chelsea, Judith, Ozebia, Tracy, Diane, Cheryl, Lyle, and Teri.

Thank you Charlie and Maria, my editors to the end.

I want to thank my daughter, Dr. Greta Gaard, and my late husband, Robert Gaard; without them, I would never have had the opportunity to practice what I learned.

Deepest gratitude to Dr. George E. Patterson for his medical explanation of what we call the Kingdom of God

Lastly, my husband of twenty-five years, Charles, my proofreader, without whom I would have starved.

INTRODUCTION

Can you remember anything before you were born? Think for a moment! How far back can you remember? How far back does your consciousness go? Where were you just before you came into this world? It’s not hard to imagine if you take the time to be still.

I did take the time to be still, and I remember. That scene has remained with me all my life. It felt like there was no beginning or end. I was just consciousness. I was conscious of being an individual consciousness. Does that make sense?

I remember it was very dark, and I was in blackness, but I knew I wasn’t alone. There was a very large Presence, close and watching over me. I didn’t feel like a baby or a human being. I felt as if I was about to embark on a new adventure. I saw a light, and then I was born. I will never forget this event. It’s as much a part of me as my body is.

As a growing child, I wanted to find this Presence. I searched many religions: Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Judaism.

As I grew older, I found myself dissatisfied being a receptionist, hostess, model, and actress. I turned down many opportunities to be successful instead looking for something else that was more important to me, but I didn’t know where to find it.

At the age of twenty-seven, I married. Despite being happy, it wasn’t the answer I had been searching for. However, it was the right move because, along with my husband, I met Carroll Righter, the famous Hollywood astrologer of the 1950s. It must have been my destiny because Mr. Righter introduced me to the man who changed—no saved—my life. I don’t even want to think of what my life would have been without finding him.

I knew he was the one I was looking for the moment I sat down in a remodeled front room of an old house in Hollywood, which had been converted into a church. I knew it the moment he walked into the room, stepped on the platform, and began to speak. I knew it when he began to take us through what is known as the Harmony Exercise. I felt as if I had been through the exercise many times before because it felt so familiar to me. The joy and relief were overwhelming.

This is a story of my encounter with a man whose life was dedicated to Westernizing the Eastern teaching and saving as many lives as he could by his example. He taught the Universal Laws of God and how to live these laws in our daily lives: to be healthy in mind and body, to think and transform negative situations into positive working truths, to live in abundance of enough and to spare, to heal and be healed, to be protected wherever we are, to know and feel the peace that passeth all understanding, and to be aware of our pervasive connection to the power and presence that is God.

Through my personal experience, you will learn the truth that you have been seeking as I guide you into a better understanding of life and how to live it in a new way.

CHAPTER 1

The Meeting

Get up, you lazy lowlife. I’m picking you up at 10:30 this morning. We’re going to church, Carroll Righter said in a very definite tone.

Well, that was unexpected, to say the least. I hung up the phone and made sure my husband, Robert Gaard, and I were ready by 10:30. Carroll was not the type of man you kept waiting.

In the 1950s, Carroll Righter was known as the world’s greatest astrologer. He had a worldwide syndicated column in 306 newspapers each week, reaching thirty million homes. He had many famous clients, such as Robert Mitchum, Jayne Mansfield, Arlene Dahl, Peter Lawford, Sylvia Kaye, Polly Bergen—even Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Reagan were among his admirers. Carroll was also featured on the cover of Time Magazine on March 21, l969, with a story on astrology. In addition to his greatness and fame, Carroll was known as an eccentric.

Carroll Righter, known as the world’s greatest astrologer.

I first met Carroll at the Hollywood Gourmet Restaurant in Hollywood, California, which was managed by my husband. I was a hostess. The renowned ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, father of actress Candace Bergen, owned the Hollywood Gourmet, and Carroll was a regular customer. You couldn’t miss him. He was a tall, thin man with a raucous laugh and a great sense of humor. When he sat down at the table, he upset the saltshakers, threw the forks and spoons in the air, untied the waitresses’ sashes, and flipped the waiters’ ties. This was all in fun, however, since his strict Philadelphia upbringing never gave him a chance to be a child. He often said he was getting even.

Every month, Carroll hosted a birthday party at his home on Franklin Avenue in Hollywood for the people in that month’s astrological sign. The animal representing the sign always graced the front lawn. In August, representing the sign of Leo, a real live lion would lie on the grass with a watchful guard attending. In December, an elephant occupied the lawn, and the Zodiac Parade continued throughout the year. It certainly attracted attention, and attracting attention was one of Carroll’s many gifts.

At one of his many parties, a young aspiring starlet and her escort came in, and Carroll proceeded to untie the bow on the front of her dress. Much to everyone’s surprise, the starlet’s dress fell to the floor, and she was stark naked. Carroll was visibly shaken, agitated, and ill at ease. He immediately whisked the starlet and her escort out of the house and sent them home.

One Sunday in the spring of 1952, Robert and I, along with several famous actors and successful professionals, were invited for breakfast at Carroll’s home. Many aspiring actors wanted to be seen at one of Carroll Righter’s parties. Although I was an actress and model, I honestly felt that Robert could benefit more from our association with Carroll and possibly help bring more business to the restaurant.

Carroll’s home was always open to people, and I felt extremely privileged to be a guest in his home. Carroll, however, would invite people in and suddenly disappear. There was an air of mystery about him because no one knew when or if he would return, and this particular Sunday morning was no exception.

As I looked around, I realized our host was conspicuously absent, evidently to no one’s surprise. I inquired of the beautiful red-haired actress, Arlene Dahl, whom I adored, as to Carroll’s whereabouts.

Oh, he’ll be here soon. I think he’s in church, she said.

In church! That’s a surprise, I said. It was rare to see famous people in church. No doubt they didn’t want to be recognized, or perhaps they thought they didn’t need any religion.

What church? I asked.

I don’t know. He doesn’t talk much about it, and no one seems to know, she said sweetly, as if this feature was yet another aspect of Carroll’s eccentricity.

Carroll Righter wasn’t always a famous astrologer to the stars. He was an attorney in Philadelphia with little interest in astrology. Due to an old back injury, which became life threatening, he consulted with Evangeline Adams, a famous author, astrologer, and friend of his family, who checked the aspects in his astrological chart. Evangeline told him if he moved southwest, he would regain his health. While still in his thirties, Carroll packed his car, left Philadelphia, and moved to