Experiences From the Light

Chapter 10:Past Lives

One night I attended a shamanic healing ceremony facilitated by a Peruvian Shaman. Everyone took turns seeing the Shaman throughout the evening, and it went on until the early hours of the morning. He hit the sides of our bodies with sticks—not directly striking our bodies, but striking other sticks that he held in place. As the sticks collided, sparks would fly off—the more issues a person had, the brighter and more powerful the sparks.

He told me that I had a huge emotional issue in my chest and even after banging the area with his sticks and watching a mighty spark fly into the black night sky, he indicated that further healing work may still need to be done in the future.

I drove back to my apartment at 3 a.m., feeling ...