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Remember Carol from Friends? Well she’s got a totally new career these days!
Jane Sibbett — known best as Ross’ lesbian ex-wife and baby momma in the beloved sitcom — decided to give up her acting career. A lot of stars who leave Hollywood are looking for something a little more traditional. She… went another way.
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After making her mark onscreen with the first ever lesbian wedding on network television AND becoming an iconic villain to the Olsen Twins in It Takes Two, the 62-year-old has put all that behind her to become…
An energy healer!
Yes, now she is healing people with her hands and the power of her mind. Speaking to People on Wednesday, she explained a little bit about her new career — and her spiritual gift:
“It’s fascinating because I’m working on the memoir of this whole situation, and one of my mentors had said, ‘Go back before the gift.’ The gift has been here 10 years now. When I work with the dancing hands, it’s not me. It’s source energy coming through me, and so I just feel nothing but bliss and joy and love when I am in this state.”
When she was still living in California, Jane explained, she started hosting goddess circles for women, which included anywhere from 15 to 100 members at a time:
“They would come to my home and eventually my ranch, where we did a lot of the work. There was a lot of spiritual activity.”
In 2015, though, she and her then-husband Karl Fink headed out to live in Hawaii and open a production company. Sadly, they would split after the move… But the divorce is what ultimately led her to go more in-depth with her spirituality:
“My husband and I split [when] we were in Hawaii, and I was on my knees because I was really brokenhearted by everything, and part of that was my stuff that I had to deal with … He and I had been producing documentaries for healers who don’t call themselves healers, and one in particular, [Abdy Electriciteh]. My work with him suddenly became a part of this organization, because I’m really collaborative, so I wanted everyone to be in on this.”
Jane went on to say everything happened in perfect timing, though, even with her heartbreak:
“[This healer] asked me to go from [working on] the documentaries to producing these live events, so it was a perfect synthesis of my belief in the gift of him [and] what he was doing and me coming off of Friends. I’m really a shy person, and so for me to step up into a crowd and introduce him all day long to all these people and have a different story, each and every time, I started to feel the way that source energy or God energy was moving through me.”
Eventually, through doing these live events, she found out she herself had a spiritual gift! The former actress continued:
“Then somebody said, ‘Hey, you were so good at that. I know somebody else who needs your help,’ and so I went to one person, and then I did the next person, and I did the next.”
From then on, her small collaboration spiraled into something bigger. That’s where her “dancing hands” began:
“[Electriciteh] tapped me on my third eye and I went down, I passed out into the state of bliss for about an hour. There was no thought, there was no fear, there was just — you can’t even say it, but on the other side of it, days later, it was bliss. Some people came up to me afterward and [said], ‘We see this light coming off of your hands,’ because while I was under [the healing trance], my hands started to dance.”
Jane described the experience as something purely magical, but she had “no fear”:
“I woke up the next morning, my hands woke me up. They were dancing above my head, and I began to just watch them with fascination, again, no fear, no thought, just watching as each digit was coming online. They were showing me how they could move independently without me.”
Wow!
When Electriciteh heard about this, he encouraged her to explore her gift, which was even more amazing because she’d never been trained as a healer. She found her talents naturally:
“I wouldn’t call it Reiki. [My hands] just started dancing because I was never trained in Reiki, so I wouldn’t even know what that is. I believe in it, I trust it [but] it’s just not what I do. This wasn’t trained. This just came in fully fleshed, immediately.”
At first, Jane admitted, she didn’t even want to be a healer — she wanted to go back to acting:
“I never wanted it [and] I wasn’t looking for it, I just wanted to go back to being an actor. That was much more fun. I never had aspirations to be a healer. When I was working with the healers, I saw the troubles that they had, and so I’m like, that’s not something to aspire for.”
But the acting might be what helped her tap into her potential in the first place! The Herman’s Head alum explained:
“We talk about the muse and the muse is flow. A muse is a source coming through, and I think every actor worth their salt knows that they are embodied by the character. At some point, you give yourself over, [so] I understand why my body is trained to let itself go. That’s part of the actor crisscross there.”
What a cool way of looking at it!
These days, Jane is working on writing her memoir, but she’s also fully enveloped in the world of healing. She hosts one-on-one and group sessions, as well as organizes spiritual retreats. She’s also involved in a program called Noon Miracles, which is a platform dedicated to bringing artists, healers, and storytellers together from all over.
What a big change from acting! But we’re glad to hear how happy she is with her new path! Reactions, Perezcious readers?
[Image via Warner Bros/YouTube/Jane Sibbett/Instagram]
