Spiritual healer uses Celtic, Viking traditions
Daryl Shaun Price, left, hugs Jelene Wilkinson after her reading on Monday, April 20, 2015. Price has been using techniques based off of Celtic and Norse traditions to help Wilkinson work through spiritual struggles.
Daryl Shaun Price describes himself as a spiritual coach who uses his personal gifts to combine counseling with aspects of Celtic traditions to help people come to a deeper understanding of their behaviors.
Daryl Shaun Price, left, interprets a set of Celtic cards as he performs a spiritual reading on Jelene Wilkinson at his Clearfield home on Monday, April 20, 2015. Price, who describes himself as a spiritual coach, compares the readings to "a blood test for your spirituality."
Daryl Shaun Price organizes Celtic cards as he takes a reading on Jelene Wilkinson. Price uses a combination of different techniques including card reading, rune casting, crystal tuning and more.
CLEARFIELD — A wellspring of emotions erupted when Jelene Wilkinson of North Ogden attended a Celtic reading session with Daryl Shaun Price at his home.
Wilkinson said she was surprised to experience such grief even though she also became emotional the first time she visited with Price.
“It takes some work for me to open up to the spiritual self because it’s like I don’t feel anything,” she said.
Wilkinson said she has worked for five years to overcome the suicide of her husband of 18 years and she believes Price’s techniques are helping her. Her recent appointment was the second time Wilkinson had visited with Price.
“You are changing from something you used to know,” Price said to her during the reading as he looked at stones that came from ancient Celtic traditions. “How you used to believe the world worked is not the same anymore.”
A licensed counselor, Price said he has incorporated spiritual gifts and Celtic and Viking modalities, including crystal casting and story weaving, into the work he does to help people with their emotions.
“These come from a time before truth was so watered down,” he said.
In addition to the physical aids he uses, cards, Price said he is a psychic and is aided by an ability to hear people’s auras. He said he can hear messages from all living things that sound much like music to him, which has led him to his artistic expression as a musician.
Price read from Celtic Rune stones both he and Wilkinson had chosen to help the universe communicate spiritually with them in an effort to help her.
Besides the stones, Price also counseled Wilkinson through the use of Rune Casting Cards.
When Price asked Wilkinson to pick out the best card for her as they were face down, she handed Price a card with an ear of corn on it.
Price told her the card represented harvest or accomplishment.
“As you bring past, present and future together, you will be harvesting your work,” Price said of the journey Wilkinson had been traveling in her emotional healing.
Price picked more cards, forming a circle around the card Wilkinson had chosen, explaining that they would explain to her how to move herself forward.
One card, a druid, he said was a helper card.
“This card always talks about discipline or lack of control,” he said.
A card Price placed in the location to indicate Wilkinson’s future was a dagger.
“This is a huge symbol of both defense and security,” he said, as Wilkinson began her emotional outpouring.
“One of the things of being emotionally securing is being open to feeling too,” Price said. “You can’t be secure in something you’re not feeling.”
Price pulled the divine child card in connection with Wilkinson’s past.
“Everything in your past that you did not have control over, you have to let go of,” he told her. “Divine child is always about liberation. … You have to take the time to make sense of it for you. Your creativity is where you will be able to get it out.”
Price encouraged Wilkinson to take time for herself, telling her she would feel more welcoming in her life and that she had many people supporting her.
Wilkinson continued to wipe away tears well after her reading was done.
“I’ve grown a lot since he’s been gone,” she said of her husband. “I still have a lot of work to do.”
She said she believes the reading and future similar experiences will be able to help her make sense of her husband’s death and her life to come.
Wilkinson said she found Price after a Reflexologist told her she needed to do her homework and would be well served to get help.
“I need to progress in my journey of finding peace and direction,” she said, noting that having a reading from Price is one way she is working.
Wilkinson said her first session with Price was good. “It was helping me see inside myself, helping me see what I need to do,” she said.
But she said her April session went deeper as she works to be intentional about healing.
“This was more targeted,” she said. “We went to what the blockage is. It’s time to really address it — time to move forward.”
However, Weber State University physics professor John Sohl discounted the healing and spiritual claims of such work by Price and others.
Sohl said spiritual healers are continually invited to scientifically prove their claims to the James Randi Education Foundation that several years ago started offering $1 million to any person who demonstrates any psychic, supernatural or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation.
He invited Price to take the foundation up on its offer.
“If he can prove it, we would love it,” Sohl said of tests where Price’s psychic abilities would be tested. “That’s a whole new area of investigation.”
For those who may be struggling with thoughts of suicide or know someone who is, help is available at the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-8255.
The troubling issue of teen suicide is the focus of the Standard-Examiner’s 2015 initiative. Through the year, the newspaper will explore the complex problem through a variety of stories, videos, photographs and graphics. The aim of the Teen Suicide Initiative is to raise awareness in our communities and to provide information about resources available to youth, parents and citizens to prevent such deaths.
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