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Healing from 9/11:
“The Ultimate House Call is Heaven”

by Mary Grace McCord

It’s been a year and a half now. It seems like a lifetime, and it seems like a heartbeat. For AIHT graduate Susan Chamberlain, it seems like forever since she and her young nephew, Nicholas Lanza, have shared a walk and a talk. Yet as for her eternal connection with Nicholas’ departed mom, Michele, Susan affirms that she can see her heavenly sister all the time.

Susan’s faith stretches many miles higher than this world. Her sister, Michele’s, spirit is so vast that the angels in heaven learn from her every day. At least, that’s how Susan sees it.

Metaphysician, medical technologist and AIHT alumna Susan Chamberlain was driving near Manhattan on that fateful day when everything changed forever. She saw the smoke and heard the hysteria, remembering the jarring emergency newscast from her car radio.

Her sister, Michele, worked in The World Trade Center. In this tumultuous moment as Susan checked in with her intuition, her gut reaction was not good. So she embraced her years of daily breath work, prayer and meditation to invoke the sacred. At the wheel of her car, Susan prayed and she knew: He’s got the whole world in His hands.

Driving to house calls is part of Susan Chamberlain’s daily routine: visiting homebound patients, drawing blood, and delivering the blood samples to a Staten Island hospital. As minutes turned to hours, local hospitals, airports and other public places turned eerie, shadowy, suspect. Who was the enemy, and where was the next war zone?

As a Reiki master and minister of spiritual healing with NYC’s Open Heart Sanctuary, Susan’s earthly spirit is well attuned to the unexplainable mysteries of divine wisdom. All is one, there is only one of us, and it’s all good. On the vibrational highway of faith, Susan can peacefully transcend earthly fears, as if in the company of angels. But on 9/11 even her angels had heavy hearts.

As Susan looked inward she connected with Michele, who was trapped in a smoky stairwell, running and crying, her face smeared with black soot. All day long the family would alternate between hopeful, confused, and panic-stricken.

Michele had left them a frantic phone message that morning, saying that she and her coworkers were “okay, and just trying to get home.” It was their final contact with the young mother of one.

By the time Susan filed a Missing Persons report, she already knew that Michele would never be back. The hundreds of photo flyers that she and other family members posted on prayer walls in New York City brought no answers, only an odd new question.

Touched by a photo of Michele Lanza and her son, the then seven-year-old Nicholas, documentary filmmaker Ron Whitney was the only caller to respond to the flyers. Would their family allow a video journalist to join their day-by-day vigil, in hopes that Michele had somehow escaped the terrorism?

CHIRON, THE WOUNDED HEALER

Originally trained to become a physician’s assistant, Susan had shifted to metaphysics when her health revolted against her allopathic career choice. “I had H.Pylori (bacteria-causing stomach ulcers) and even the holistic doctors were over-medicating me. As much as I wanted to help others, I knew that first I had to heal myself,” she recalls. “My inner wisdom told me that the way to heal was to change my life—my job, my habits, everything. Now I have become what Greek mythology calls Chiron, the wounded healer.”

AIHT is part of Susan’s life-change; she earned her first graduate degree in 1997, and then her Ph.D. in 2000. Our curricula introduced Susan to A Course in Miracles, a book that she has now read three times. “Each time the lessons become clearer and more in-dept,” she says. “With each reading I tap into deeper levels of healing.”

AIHT also led Susan to medical intuitive Caroline Myss. Susan’s doctoral dissertation was inspired by the works of Ron Roth and Caroline Myss; she has since attended numerous workshops with both.

ALWAYS SHOW UP ON TIME FOR PRAYER WORK

“In my meditations after 9/11, any time that I reached out and asked Michele to be with me, she did. I could feel her energetic spirit reaching back to hold my hands.”

In one of Susan’s meditative visions, Michele was ascending into heaven, in the arms of angels. “That’s why I tell people to always show up on time for prayer work. It’s not for God; He’s there anyway. It’s for you. We pray to catch the thoughts of God.”

Susan chose not to tell her family what she was envisioning during the 10-day filming of what became an HBO movie, Telling Nicholas. Though she finds the movie somewhat misguided, she is thankful for the healing prayers of thousands of people, worldwide, who saw the movie and who reached out to comfort her family.

During sister Cindy’s months of profound grief and despair, she once asked Susan to help her dispel a haunting elemental presence. Susan’s training in angelic intervention allowed the entity to leave Cindy. “Sometimes people don’t realize that there is more help for us on the other side than there is here,” says Susan.

The family still does not understand how Susan can be so peaceful when their hearts are ripped open and bleeding. “Faith resonates higher; it is spirit-driven. I so much wish to share with them the peace that passes understanding.”

“I know that God literally lifted Michele up. I do not cry for her soul, because my visions allow me to see her teaching large groups of new angels in heaven.”

“I feel no separation between us because I can see her all the time, anytime I look.” Susan Chamberlain’s tone is confident; her brown eyes radiate the quiet knowingness of a Raphael angel.

Editor’s notes: At this writing,