Cherie Ruffo
Cherie Ruffo is a freelance writer, Unity Minister and teacher, and entrepreneur. She is author of the middle-grade fantasy book series: Amanda Fisher & the Source Crystals.
The Journey
The journey leading her to where she is today began a long time ago. At just four years old, she woke up one morning with the feeling she would die. She was terrified and hid herself in a small cubbyhole attached to her bedroom. When her mother retrieved her for lunch, she found out a cousin had died in a plane crash that day. With that information, the feeling of death left Cherie. This was the beginning of many psychic experiences she did not understand.
A year later, overhearing her great grandmother say to her grandmother, “That child has the sight!” clued Cherie in to the fact she had special abilities. She later learned psychic abilities had passed down in her family for many generations. Having psychic abilities was not accepted in the mainstream during those years, so she knew from a young age never to discuss it outside of the family.
She was not the only one of her siblings with psychic abilities, and this attracted spirit activity into her family home while growing up. Some things that happened were frightening and the family priest became involved more than once, blessing the home and encouraging spirits to move on. As a teenager, Cherie realized the easiest solution was to suppress her abilities, and mostly, they remained quiet into her twenties.
Cherie moved to Hawaii at 22 and found a whole new world available to her in the complete acceptance of her abilities in the wonderful Hawaiian community. She soon learned they weren’t faults, but gifts to be celebrated.
Unity Church & Spiritual Study
When Cherie was 23, a friend invited her to attend a Sunday Service at Unity Church of Honolulu, and when she walked in, she felt complete unconditional love and acceptance and knew she was home. She soon discovered Unity ministries to be an open-minded, accepting spiritual community that honors all paths to God.
Leaving Hawaii several years later to return to the mainland, Cherie found herself settled in New England. In 2008, she embarked on a new career with Unity Worldwide Ministries and founded Unity Radiant Light in Providence, Rhode Island with a few friends.
As the Spiritual Leader of this community, she had no idea it would literally be her dreams she would follow in the years to come. During this time, Cherie studied different faiths, schools of thought, and finally, the Mystery Schools. In ancient times, Egyptian Mystery Schools were created for people seeking secret wisdom and knowledge. The masters who presided over these schools had extraordinary skills they passed on to the students.
Cherie’s appetite for learning about spirituality was voracious. She not only continued spiritual training at Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute but is also a student at Universal Life Tools studying with Master Teacher Simone Matthews.
Origins of The Amanda Fisher Series
While she was attending an spiritual conference in 2002, she learned about Kryon, an angelic entity who channels loving information relevant for today through Lee Carroll. Kryon opened a world of information about spirituality and the origins of humans she had never been exposed to. After years of going to local conferences, she made the journey to the 2009 Kryon Summer Lightworkers Conference in Sedona, Arizona. While she was there, she kept receiving a clear message in her dreams, “It’s time to awaken the children.” Not sure what that meant, she waited to receive additional information before she could figure out the next step. The information would not come for a few years.
While Cherie was studying spirituality, she also wrote book reviews for Reader Views. She toyed with the idea of writing a book but never came up with a concept that resonated with her. That would change in 2012 when she began to write Amanda Fisher & the Source Crystals, a fantasy novel for kids ages ten to sixteen about activating inner abilities to overcome obstacles at all odds.
The inspiration for the book series came to her in May 2012, when Cherie held her first Jerusalem White Stone Ceremony during a Sunday Service. It is based on an ancient ceremony performed when people were released from prison or bondage and given a white stone as a symbol of their freedom. The stones used in the ceremonies today are from Israel and are small and flat, with enough space to write a word on it. During a group meditation, a word is usually revealed to the person which is then written on the stone. The words may be an inspiring phrase or one to help release them from something in their lives.
During her first Jerusalem White Stone Ceremony, the word revealed to Cherie was “Imagination.” She wrote it down on her stone and it was that night she began having a series of dreams. She knew she had received the answer to her long-awaited question of how she would assist in the awakening of children and began writing the book series.
Prior to the ceremony, she had little understanding of the hidden origins of the planet and the higher dimensions of reality. In her dreams, she was visited by a man who was at least seven feet tall with long blond hair. He taught her about what was possible for this planet when it entered the ascension phase. During these lessons, she was shown gadgets and tools that do not exist yet in our reality. She has decided to reveal them in the upcoming series with the hope someone reading the stories will receive the inspiration to create them.
For Cherie, the Amanda Fisher Source Crystal series has been her own awakening experience into the unlimited possibilities available to each one of us, whether we are a child, or an adult with a willing inner child. Contrary to what many believe, we live in a time where the possibilities are limitless once we awaken. With the knowledge she has received, her greatest desire is to be of service to humanity, helping people to awaken.
Current Work
Cherie has a Bachelor’s Degree from Old Dominion University and is an ordained Unity Minister. She lives in Norwich, CT with her husband, Daniel, and three dogs. She is busy working on the next book in the Amanda Fisher Series.