Akiane, child prodigy

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Akiane

The Inspired Vision of Akiane Kramarik


Akiane Kramarik is an American child prodigy in the fields of art and poetry. Born July 9, 1994 in Mount Morris, Illinois, she was the third of four children born to a Lithuanian mother and an American father. She also has Jewish, Polish, Hungarian, Slovak, Russian, Bohemian, Chinese, French, Danish and German heritage.

Although the family was very poor, the children created their own fun using their imagination, and they were mostly home-schooled. Her family was atheistic and rarely talked about spiritual matters, but one morning sometime when she was four, Akiane began sharing her visions of heaven. Because Akiane was home-schooled, and had never been out of their sight, the parents were certain that no one else could have influenced Akiane's sudden and detailed visions about the spiritual realm.

These dreams and visions, which to Akiane seemed to be actual life experiences, sparked an intense interest in drawing. Inspired by faces, Akiane would sit for hours drawing with black lead pencils or charcoal, erasing and shading their features. The walls of her home were filled with sketches of angels, family, her friends, and faces that she dreamed about. When she was six years old, she began using color pastels, and moved to acrylics when she was seven, being frustrated with oil pastels not being able to render details. She intuitively figured out how to mix and blend them. Now her favorite media are acrylics for full figures, and oil paints for large portraits.

Akiane's first poem was so deep and thought-provoking that the parents weren't sure how to handle another phenomenon. Akiane had always had quite a challenging time with the three languages spoken at home, Lithuanian, Russian or English, and didn't enjoy reading as much as the others, yet she now began to write or dictate poetry that needed no editing. Up until that time Akiane had only read nursery rhymes, so the source for the stunning imagery and wisdom of her poetry was a mystery. They could only wonder at her intricate connection to God's mind.

One morning, Akiane was found gazing through the window at the sky, her face glowing, her eyes sparkling. Asked what she was doing she simply answered, "I was with God again, and He told me to pray continually. He showed me where He lived. I was climbing transparent stairs; underneath I saw gushing waterfalls, and as I was approaching Him, His body was pure and intense light. What impressed me the most was His hands -- they were gigantic! I saw no bones, or veins, no skin or blood, but maps and events. Then He told me to memorize thousands upon thousands of wisdom words on a scroll that did not look like paper, but more like intense light. And in a few seconds I got somehow filled up. From now on I will get up early to paint. I hope one day I'd be able to paint what I was shown." Today she gets up at 5 a.m. five or six days a week to get ready to paint in the studio and write, and works for about three hours a day.

Her images were often surprising in other ways. In Found, which portrayed two abandoned babies discovered in a rainforest in Madagascar, Akiane painted a background of waterfalls, only to discover later that this was the exact location where the orphan siblings had actually been found.

Akiane spent a lot of time searching for the right faces for models for her pictures, but then she discovered that if she prayed, the models would come into her life right away. For over a year Akiane was looking for Jesus model and finally asked the whole family to pray with her. The very next day an acquaintance brought her friend, a carpenter who stood almost seven feet tall, to meet Akiane. Akiane immediately knew she would paint him as Jesus.

When asked why she thinks she received the gift, Akiane thinks that she has been blessed by God for one reason and one reason only, and that is to help others. Akiane is hoping to use her amazing gift to help feed needy children around the world.

Akiane was one of the children interviewed in the documentary, Indigo Evolution, by James Twyman. Her first book, Akiane, Her Visions and the Messages to Mankind, is due out in 2006. Akiane’s website is www.artakiane.com.

Happy, Happy Birthday to Cassie

Today is Cassie's birthday!!!!!!!!! Happy Birthday to you Cassie!!!!
Cassie is one of Macy's bestfriends. They met when they were two and had an instant connection.
Above is a picture of Cassie and Macy from 2 years ago. Cassie loves animals and donates her allowance to Save Ohio Strays and other organizations to save animals' lives.
In honor of Cassie's birthday, please make a donation to Save Ohio STrays....just click on the link below.
Save Ohio Strays


Macy & Cassie - Our Youngest Donors to Date!

Cassie and Macy are our youngest donors to date! Cassie, at the ripe old age of 2 started her reputation of being a life saver. “Never do harm” has been her motto, and that sticks even with bugs! Macy’s mom told of a time when Cassie was sleeping over and a spider was in their room. Macy woke her Dad up to get him to come catch and release the spider for Cassie.

Well, these girls have been doing bake sales for some time now with proceeds going to many of the wonderful animal rescue groups of our area. They had a big sale on May 7th and advertised their sale as usual. The girls have a great following and even some of their teachers come to buy their delectable goodies!

They proudly attended our first general meeting bringing a jar full of change and hope for our future. They beamed as they presented it to Sandy Caldwell and excitedly told the attendees of their love for animals. “Animals are so cool” was on their little donation jar.

We knew we had to give them a very special thank you, although they asked for nothing. These girls do it because they sincerely love and want to help. What better ambassadors for our future than young people like these?

At our volunteer meeting, we asked them to attend for a little surprise. We had made photo albums up for them and named one of our just recently saved kitties after each of them. They beamed with pride as we gave them their new buttons with the face of their kitty namesake that they helped to save. Best of all, we brought their namesakes along with a few of their closest 10 friends (we are swimming in kittens right now) and everyone enjoyed themselves.

These young animal lovers are our future – our future volunteers, our future fosters, and our future hope to help save homeless pets. Thanks Cassie and Macy for your love and generosity! You give all of us hope!

Spiritual World of Children

The Secret Spiritual World of Children

by Etan Boritzer

Most of us understand that we cannot physically see beyond the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum, for instance, to the edge of the infrared or the ultra violet. Accepting this, it might not be too much of a leap to realize that we may also be missing something – like being able to see or hear other beings that might actually be around us.

This is the basic premise that – if you accept it - will enable you to give Dr. Tobin Hart’s remarkable book, The Secret Spiritual World of Children, a credible read.

A Psychologist and Associate Professor of psychology at the State University of West Georgia, in Carrolton, GA, Hart started on the trail of collecting startling otherworldly anecdotes from children ten years ago when his then seven year-old daughter Haley, in a matter-of-fact bedtime conversation, revealed to him how she saw her “angel” and described their interactions. During his research he also collected accounts from adults who, for the first time, revealed their own similar but hidden childhood experiences.

“I have come to think of Haley’s angel as an aspect of her Higher Self, or higher intuition,” says Hart. “Socrates called his voice Daimon, Ralph Waldo Emerson called this the Oversoul, Meister Eckhart named it the Inner Man . I don’t think it matters whether this is thought of as guardian angel, a guide, her heart, or whatever. What is important is that she can find it on her own and that it serves as a wellspring for love and wisdom.”

In studying these stories, Hart observes that children seem to develop their own “spiritual style.” One child may be a “natural mystic” in his/her ability to access guides or guidance, while another child may be an “empath,” naturally open to others’ feelings. Or perhaps a child is a “natural philosopher” asking the Big Questions very early on. He suggests acknowledging the unique and inherent qualities each child has as they bring the mystical down to earth in our everyday lives.

This is quite a different approach than what passes for childrearing in many societies, especially in the West where much of the focus is on getting kids “to fit in.” Hart’s advice to parents is to give up imperial rule in favor of “holding and beholding.” That is, providing the usual safety and love children require while simultaneously appreciating their special abilities.

Obviously there is no way to qualify the personal experiences detailed in The Secret Spiritual World of Children, but the ring of truth in these narratives is discernable. And fascinating narratives they are, from children predicting auto accidents, or describing simple but powerful moments of ecstatic unity feelings, to a father relating how his five year-old boy fell three stories out of a window and miraculously survived without injury because, as the boy puts it after the fall, “The guys dressed in gold caught me.”

Fascinating as it all is, the reporting is not sensationalist. And there is an important message to be learned from this book. Adults have to learn to listen and accept these stories as important information about their children’s natural sensitivity. “Spiritual” experiences are not something that should be repressed, and to dismiss or denigrate these experiences can do real damage.

Children can come under intense pressures because of their sensitivity. For example, one little girl predicted that “a truck with a man who can’t speak English” would hit the car she was riding in with her mother. When the accident did occur as predicted, she went into hysteria in the hospital when she discovered the accident had been caused by an illegal alien. The poor little girl thought she was the one responsible for the accident.

For the most part, Hart believes the vast majority of the extraordinary experiences he details are powerful and positive for the child involved - even nurturing. But not all encounters with things unseen are pleasant, and sometimes children can be overwhelmed and confused by disturbing experiences. As adults, it is important we learn to guide our children and teach them to differentiate what feelings or sensations are their own, and what they might be picking up from somewhere else. This discernment helps the sensitive child navigate in every level of a multidimensional world

So, what is a parent to do to help their children balance heaven and earth? Hart provides some wise counsel that we should not make too much nor too little of a child who seems to be in touch with other realities. Parents should learn different ways to nurture their child’s creative inner flow while integrating it into the “normal” world. Most certainly they should not hush up the amazing experiences. Simultaneously, the child must also learn to take responsibility for her or his “talents” without being made to feel special or “better than” because of them.

There is a spiritual ebb and flow, an arc to these experiences developmentally. Once a child starts integrating into society, meeting kids who do not talk about or acknowledge spiritual experiences, the child may just turn off the flow. Today, at 16 years of age, Haley tells her Dad that she remembers when she talked to her spirit guides but that now “she just knows.” Another child states that she is “too busy” to be in contact with her guide.

Treated wisely, it appears there is a natural integration rather than dissipation of these modes of expression as children grow up. Suppressed, ignored or derided, the opposite seems to occur. For example, one woman, forced to repress her childhood experiences by her strictly religious family, suffered from depression as an adult. Faced suddenly with her repression as she watched her own daughter go through similar experiences, she recalled her own powers one day in a flood of ecstatic memories. Her life changed dramatically thereafter for the positive.

Reading Hart’s book, the message seems to be that if we accept our children’s spiritual lives during this time of social change, we can, perhaps, be reawakened as adults to our own innate spiritual heritage. In turn, we can then wisely shift education and child rearing practices to augment our understanding of who we are as spiritual beings for the betterment of all concerned.

Etan Boritzer is the best selling children’s book author of the “What Is?” series on inner values and character development in children.

Dr. Tobin Hart may be reached through the Spirit Institute, childspirit.org

ps Melanie Uttech took that picture of the kids at the Hessler Street Fair.
Isn't she an Awesome photographer???