A Place Called Home

This book is dedicated to Ms. Middletent Mother, and Indigenous people and all other people around the world who have been separated from their families, who were placed in boarding schools, orphanages, institutions, foster homes, detention camps, refugee camps, and sent to other countries to grow up separated from their families. This book is also dedicated to the ones who are not here today, Some of us made it, and some of us didn't. This book is also dedicate to Children and adults who experienced "Adverse Childhood Experiences" and complex post traumatic stress, Ms. Middletent is one of the survivors. It was very kind of President Biden to officially apologize to the Native American People, a step forward in the right direction.

In November 2024 the President apologized to the Native Americans for past wrong doings to the Indigenous People of the United States, and also in 2023 the Pope apologizing to the Canadian Indigenous People in Canada for the treatment of the children while in care and being cared for by the churches and institutions, the children were in foster homes, orphanages, and boarding schools. In 2009, the Prime Minister of Australia Mr. Kevin Rudd officially apologized to the Indigenous people of Australia for past practices and policies towards the Indigenous People and non Indigenous people, who were placed in foster care and orphanages and institutions and some of the children were sent from other countries to be cared for in Australia in those places. In this book Ms. Middletent shares with you some of her coping techniques that helped her along the way of survival. This book is about how she was able to unlock her unhealed repressed childhood trauma with the help of her mentor and teacher Valarie in the USMC in the High Desert of Twentynine Palms California, with her help and Ms. Middletent's spiritual walkabout experiences out in the Mojave Desert, Ms. Middletent was able to discover and learn about her Cultural Heritage and art, she would not be doing what she is doing today, winning Awards for her art for Earth Days, and being an advocate speaker for survivors of trauma and, Adverse Childhood Experiences, She would not be doing the things she is  doing today if it wasn't for Valarie.

The desert has been a wonderful healing place for her, Spiritually, physically, mentally and emotional healing and well-being. Surrounded by and living side by side with nature, plants and the animals and the Healing Joshua trees in the desert and the beautiful clear blue sky's and clean fresh air and the clear sky's in the evening seeing all the heavenly stars and planets of the universe at night.

Ms. Middletent says she is full of gratitude and love for being so fortunate and blessed to have been bought here in Divine time.

You could say this is why some of the Sages and Spiritual Healers and Teaches have been spending time in their secret retreats and Spiritual Centers here in the desert going back many many years but it was kept a secret, looking across the vastness beauty of desert at Little Uluru connecting to the Divine Universal Consciousness and the ever expanding universe.

 When you are ready, You are welcome to come out here and join me in the desert to experience your "Spiritual Walkabout Awakening" to meditate, rejuvenate and discover and learn about the meaning of life who you really are and what your true purpose in life is and why we are here. You never know, but you may even find much more than Ms. Middletent did, and you may even find your Spiritual Teacher out here also, through your Spiritual Walkabout Awakening.

Through contemplation and meditating and looking across the beauty and vastness of the desert, day and evening and seeing little uluru from a distance, her mind body and soul connects to the Divine Universal Consciousness, space, time, stands still, silence, listening and connecting to the sound current uplifts, heals, mind body soul and spirit.

Most people go to Ayers Rock in Australia for their Spiritual Walkabout Awakening, but for Ms. Middletent it was the other way round, an Indigenous Elder from Australia, her Spiritual Walkabout Awakening happened right here in the remote Outback, unexpected, in America in the High Desert of California upside down and inside out.

Today Ms. Middletent is a Trained Certified Master Reiki Teacher from the lineage of Usui Sensei Certified Pet Reiki for all animals, through The International Center For Reiki Training and a Certified Pranic Healer from the lineage of Master Cho, and is the founder of First Nations Wellness Project, that houses the Sacred ACE Virtual Healing Art Museum, stories and paintings by survivors of Adverse Childhood Experiences, plus the Dreamtime Spiritual Lodge, which houses the Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime Teachings.

If you are interested in learning to be a certified Reiki Practioner, or Reiki Wellness sessions, or interested in Pranic Healing  or looking for a Spiritual Walkabout Awakening, please email,  pfhillc@gmail.com For The Dreamtime Teachings Email pfhillc@gmail.com

You are invited to experience and discover what awaits you out here in the remote desert, your own "Spiritual Walkabout Awakening," visit and experience and enjoy and absorb, renew, relax, and refresh your mind body soul and spirit, listening to the Universal sound current and connecting to the spring within, connecting you to the Divine Universal Consciousness, the gateway to time and space and Healing, step back in time quietness and stillness listening to the spring with in waiting to it to bubble to the ever expanding universe, The Dreamtime in the beautiful healing surroundings of the beautiful healing Joshua trees in the High Desert of Joshua Tree, Twentynine Palms and our beautiful Joshua Tree National Park.

Due to the traumas Ms. Middletent endured growing up she experienced many out of body experiences and near death experiences. These experiences left her with the ability to see past present and future.

While you are here go back in time to learn about the Dreamtime Teachings taught by Ms. Middletent an Australian Elder Artist and Teacher, and experience, "Feel The Healing" by certified trained Reiki Master Teacher and certified Pranic Healer.

In a similar way "A Place Called Home" tells specific story of growing up in "Out Of Home Care". In the uniqueness of the book's voice and story every reader can see their own humanity, and feel the sorrow for those who have suffered in the past, and for those who have suffered today, in "Out Of Home Care" because of genocide, war and race, and immigration policies. Like Anne Frank's Diary, in "A Place Called Home" there are not only traumatic episodes, there is also awareness and appreciation of beauty in the world and gratitude for the kindness of others. A full human being is sketched in the chapters.

-Deborah Conrow, Retired School Teacher

-- Carmel Middletent