| Carole (C. J.) Gomes, the owner
and founder of CRYSTAL EXPECTATIONS, has studied crystals
with Katrina Raphael, and has been a herbologist for her entire
life.
She has also been involved in a variety of different
spiritual traditions from Wicca to Native American Traditions
to Hinduism.
She
has studied Feng Shui for the past ten years with a variety
of Feng Shui masters, including Master Lin Yun and Master
Sang from California. Master Sang's techniques come from a
long line of Feng Shui practitioners and, since he will not
sell or make his knowledge available through regular commercial
outlets, his techniques are only available to his students.
C. J.
is also a Reiki Master, is a duly initiated Shaivite Hindu,
and is certified in Magnified Healing, Rebirthing, and Neuro-Linguistic
Programming among other disciplines.
C. J. opened Crystal Expectations in the late 1980s as the
first (and still largest) center for the sharing of spiritual
information and techniques in the Southeastern Massachusetts
area.
The
store now enjoys a formidable reputation as being one of the
most respected (and long-lived) metaphysical stores and centers
in all of New England and has been host to a wide variety
of spiritual traditions and practitioners throughout its history. |
 Gary
Gomes, the co-owner of CRYSTAL EXPECTATIONS, was among the
first wave of Westerners to take up Hindu astrology and is
a founding member and Board member of the American College
of Vedic Astrology located in Sedona, Arizona.
He has also
lectured on Hindu Astrology throughout the continental United
States, in Hawaii and in England.
He has
also written extensively on this system of astrology, and
has been published in the United States, England, France,
South Africa, Australia, and India. His honors include being
recognized and certified by the Bharata Vidya Bhavan, an Indian
institution devoted to traditional Hindu knowledge, as an
expert in Hindu Astrology.
Gary holds degrees in Sociology and Business Administration
from the University of Massachusetts. He is an ordained Swami
of the Temple of Kriya Yoga and is a duly initiated practicing
Hindu of the Shaivite tradition.
He has
studied Hindu Astrology with several prominent Indian and
American astrologers, is certified to instruct Jyotish (Hindu
Astrology) by the American Council of Vedic Astrology, has
organized an Institute for instruction in Jyotish in the New
England area, and has done charts for thousands of individuals
from different parts of the United States and the world.
He is
also an Assistant Professor of Jyotisha (Hindu Astrology)
at the Hindu University of America and is a Reiki Master.
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