“They would bring home shamans, natural medicine men and women, healers from any type of culture. And I’m sure we had an Imam, we had a Sufi Elder, we had a woman who practices Healing Arts with pure energy. We also had a Kahuna at home. A Kahuna is a wisdom keeper from Hawaii. Huna meaning the sacred legacy of mysticism the wisdom of the Hawaiian culture. And he came home and he saw me, and I saw him and it was a sensation of remembering, remembering in terms of this being in front of me is not new. “I know this being from somewhere”, and he looked at my parents and we were all sitting in a circle and he opened up a sacred ceremony with water and said “your daughter is not ill, your daughter is not crazy. It’s just that in your culture of western perceptions right now, you don’t have the capacity yet to embed a person going through these states. With understanding and compassion and realizing that, this person is merely in a different state of being which doesn’t mean she is not functioning or she is forever ill or she needs to take medication. And that allowed me for the first time to feel seen, to feel understood and feel an ease. And this is when my actual journey started into the healing arts and into understanding how many ancient indigenous tribes and cultures have such a deep holistic perception of the human being. And of the interconnectivity of body-mind state, nature never being outside of us, never being disconnected from that, to basically invite me to learn from him. And with every learning, healing took place.”