Krista Stanley, PhD

Right Out of the Gate
I was a curious and fearless child. I jumped into the deep end before I could swim and bypassed the tricycle phase to hop right onto two wheels. Somehow, I knew things that seemed beyond my years. I didn’t have the language to describe intuition yet, but I recognized its presence.
I also had a practical side that, as an adult, led to significant accomplishments in jobs where analytic care and precision were essential. But the real key to my professional success was my ability to predict outcomes — to recognize patterns, draw insights, and make connections as I managed information coming from both conventional and unconventional sources.
Train Wrecks and Dreams
Thirty-odd years in corporate management honed my ability. I could clearly foresee the chain of events that could lead to potential train wrecks. Over time, I stopped focusing on how I could see the calamities coming and started wondering why so many others could not. To find out, I began a combined Masters/Doctor of Philosophy in Wisdom Studies.
Part of my coursework was dreamwork, and it was one of my own dreams that revealed my true calling. In my dream, cars were careening scarily on the road, creating a feeling of chaos and danger. Then a turquoise 1956 Roadmaster appeared and showed me something I already knew on some level: By tapping into the unspoken feelings of the other drivers, I could calmly steer through the chaos. This Master revealed that the Road — the journey, life itself — becomes richer by being open to other sources of information. The Field I had been interacting with my whole life was explicitly revealed to me.
The Field Guide
Today, I work as a guide to help people read the Field; a Field guide, if you will. By providing a road map to meaning in their lives, I help people learn to trust their intuition, accept symbols and synchronicities as legitimate information sources, and learn to work with the power of consciousness to reshape their life.
Contemplative Profile · Part 2 of 4 · Filmed by John Oliver, InteriorTruth.com