Elora Gabriel grew up in remote areas of the high desert country of Oregon and has never fully adjusted to "civilization"—if that is an accurate term for our increasingly mechanized world. She has remained very close to nature: "Even today, I can sense the heartbeat of the Earth, know what it's like to be a tree or a butterfly, and feel the clouds as they ride across the sky," Elora says.

From her earliest years, she has been fascinated by other realms and dimensions. "I was convinced that other worlds lay just on the other side of the veil—perhaps over the next hill or hidden in a secret glade in the forest. I searched and searched for clues to these magical realms, through what seemed like the unyielding solidity and banality of physical reality." In fact, it required decades of work developing what some people call high sense perception before Elora could reliably tap into other dimensions and connect with their innumerable inhabitants.

Elora has worked relentlessly to push her way past the veil. An essential part of this process has been that of cross-referencing her perceptions and information in any way possible: by comparing notes with a colleague who is a very clear channeler, or by muscle testing, or by experimenting to see if the information is accurate. For example, recently one of Elora's "sources on the inner" recommended small, specifically programmed quartz crystals as a way to hold the potency of a Cosmic Essence blend in a spritzer bottle. Elora and some of the members of her staff are sensitive enough to discern that the technique worked, which Elora re-confirmed with muscle testing.

She is constantly cross-referencing information and pushing forward her ability to remember past lives, to see clairvoyantly, to hear, to connect with other beings: "I discovered that the finer and less dense levels of existence contain not only angels, and the spirits of the departed (as is commonly known), but myriads of other beings, including nature spirits, archangels, ascended masters, creator goddesses and gods, higher dimensional extraterrestrials, and pure light beings," Elora says, "and I found that I could reach and communicate with a vast array of these beings, ultimately even reaching beings from other star systems, galaxies, and universes."

As Elora's abilities gradually expanded, she discovered that she had an unusual ability to connect to very high level celestial beings and to "pull in" powerful energies. She has been said to have the capacity of invocation, an ability that—in its highest form—enables one to bring heaven to earth; in other words, to anchor divine energies into physical substance. "This is what I do," explains Elora. "It is a gift and I use it, to the best of my ability, to help humanity."

Elora feels that it is easy to become overly entranced with the realms of spirit and lose grounding in physical reality, while, on the other hand, so many humans are deeply entrenched in matter and blind to spirit. What fascinates Elora is the interface between the two: between matter and spirit, between physics and metaphysics. How does consciousness affect matter, for example? How can cosmic, celestial energies be imprinted into a physical substance and thus affect humans on emotional, mental, and spiritual levels? Such questions led Elora to the development of Cosmic Essences in 2003.

Cosmic Essences go beyond traditional flower essences. While made with pure water and perfect blossoms, like other flower remedies, Cosmic Essences are created with an added step: the water itself is charged with powerful spiritual energies. Using focused intention, Elora imprints a unique pattern into the water for each essence. This makes Cosmic Essences unusually potent, so that using them often produces immediate and noticeable results. The public response to Cosmic Essences has been enormously positive—and thrilling for Elora, who says, "This work has required all of my training and all of my gifts and abilities. It seems as if I had been preparing for this my entire life."

As part of her interest in health and healing, Elora founded a natural supplements company in 1995. She says, "The Green Willow Tree is a wonderful avenue in which to assist many people with their physical wellness," and is an entirely woman-owned and run business. Over the years, even while the health supplement industry has recently been in decline because of the economy, The Green Willow Tree has grown and flourished (see www.greenwillowtree.com).

Elora and her husband live in the country outside of Asheville, North Carolina. When not working, Elora is often to be found gardening, meditating under a tree, or walking in the woods with her three extraordinary cats.