Nita Hickok is the great grandniece of Wild Bill Hickok of Western fame. She was born in Pontiac, Michigan and grew up in San Diego, California and later in Las Vegas, Nevada. She developed an interest in the occult in her late teens and started studying with magical teachers at the age of eighteen. She saw that many people with serious life problems could easily be helped by using magical techniques.
She has been a spiritual and energy consultant for almost forty years. She has written this book to show the victims of black magic, bad luck, hexes, and curses how to help themselves. Her other interests include anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, and comparative religions. She lives in Southwest United States with her husband of 26 years.
Nita is available for consults. For more information on self-help, healing techniques, and contact information, Nita invites you to visit her web site at http://www.astralhealer.com/
Welcome, Nita. I am delighted to know your relationship to Wild Bill. That's so cool! Now, on to the interview. Please tell us more about you.
When I was sixteen years old, I became interested in psychic abilities and the occult. After being hypnotized, I found out I reincarnated. Testing me for psychic abilities, they found me to be a high-functioning clairvoyant with the ability to see what was in a desk drawer in a room next door and describe what was in a box.
I always knew I had special abilities and was able to do things that other people didn't do. It was nice to have the proof and find out there were books to read on that subject. I started reading and learning about many fascinating subjects since that time.
I graduated from high school in the seventies when there was a big increase in knowledge and interest in spirituality. I moved to Los Angeles, and started my life in learning Magic and Spirituality.
I started doing ceremonial magic when I was 17 years old. Finding a teacher after I left home, I learned from them, as well as, other people’s mistakes. At the same time, I was taught earth magic.
In the next twelve years, I did countless exorcisms, and helped everyone in and outside of my group with their mistakes and spiritual problems. After leaving the group, I began doing exorcisms and removing curses for people. I have found that people, who haven't practiced magic, are having a lot of problems with negative energies and forces. I believe this is because of a shift in the balance between good and evil. The more people that know magical methods and how to help themselves the better this world will be.
I have been doing spirit releases, exorcisms, house clearings and cleansings, house blessings and curse removal for 40 years. I have done over a hundred exorcisms of people, places, and land. Trying to help everyone, as I believe even small improvements helps the person to manifest big improvements, I believe my new book will help people, since it has advanced methods—plus my alphabet—to help others.
Wow! How fascinating! When did the writing bug bite, and in what genre(s)?
I was home ill with the Whooping Cough or what is now called diphtheria. I felt okay, but was not able to be around anyone because I was contagious. I loved the books by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote a thirty page African adventure with pictures. I have loved writing ever since then, but had problems with grammar and syntax. I studied the rules of grammar many times. I feel it is my biggest challenge.
When you started writing, what goals did you want to accomplish? Is there a message you want readers to grasp?
I want the readers of my book to know they are able to help themselves and improve their lives. They are empowered. They can change the things in their lives and transmute their lives in a positive way.
Briefly tell us about your latest book. Series or stand-alone? If you have written both, which one do you prefer?
The book I have now uses my alphabet plus adds in advanced methods and ways for people to help themselves heal and bring positive energies into their lives.
What’s the hook for the book?
You can transmute negativity in your life and improve yourself and everything in your life.
How did you develop the alphabet?
I felt that the first thing most people did when they studied magic was develop their own symbols and ways to make things work with their mindset. I felt an alphabet empowered by the divine and akashic volts would fit into the energies of a novice and be able to help them learn how to change the energies in their lives. It would empower them to see how their choices and actions cause reactions. It would help them to overcome rationalization and learn to live in the truth of the divine.
What are the ways that people sabotage themselves in their lives?
People sabotage themselves by rationalizing their actions and not seeing the damage or pain it causes another. They then set into motion reactions to their actions, which bring negativity into the person’s life. Others try to impose this mindset of I am wrong to make it, so the person, who is innocent, accepts the abuse and trauma. The cycle continues until the person learns to know and live in truth about himself and all of his actions.
Life is about overcoming the challenges, learning from experiences, and making it so you are empowered and work in the energies of the divine to bring alive the divine sparks within you and in the people around you.
Do you have specific techniques you use to develop the plot and stay on track with your writing?
I like to use an outline so if parts get shifted around I have the important subjects covered in the outline.
How does your environment/upbringing color your writing?
I was taught that I could accomplish anything that I set out to do if I just kept trying. My father inspired me with two messages. He said if you always lived in truth and tried not to lie then you would like yourself. People who liked themselves could survive any experience
I have found this to be very true, as you can put yourself in the other persons place if you like yourself and do not feel threatened by what you are experiencing. Understanding is a key to working with others.
Other people can try to judge you, manipulate you, or try to make you what they feel that you should be. Any one this is being done to should just be themselves and like themselves as all of the problems being caused is not about them. It is about the other people trying to make them into what they want them to be. They are not the Divine, nor do they even know what they are on the inside. It is up to you to be the person you are meant to be by the Divine.
Have you started any online networks or blogs to promote yourself and others?
I have the blog: http://astralhealer.blogspot.com/
After hours of intense writing, how do you unwind?
I talk to others while drinking coffee. I watch TV and movies. I read, and relax petting my dogs Bear and Buddy. I enjoy looking at nature.
What are your current projects?
I just started Astralhealer Church and plan to write instruction manuals to teach others what I do. I found that most people do not know what a specialist, such as myself, does. They try to place their expectations upon the poor person trying to help them. I feel there is a need for this and a way to have others train to do my work.
The manuals will be in different levels of difficulty. I plan to write a book about my experiences and finish my screenplay about my first exorcism.
Where can folks learn more about your books and events?
They are listed on my website http://www.astralhealer.com They are listed in the news section. You can find out about my book on my publisher’s website, as well, at http://weavingdreamspublishing.com
Thanks for letting me interview you, Nita, and continued success in your interesting endcavors!
