If I am any good at what I do, giving readings for example, it is because I stand on the shoulders of giants. They say you are only as good as your associates and they, whoever said this, are right. Give me a look at your friends and I will tell you what is going on in your mind. One such associate of mine is my dear and trusted Shaman friend.


He is a Shaman of the modern kind. One that makes it under the radar. He has no blog, no large following, but is an absolute master at all things metaphysical. I learned much from him over the years. Living quietly in modern suburbia he does not seek a large following or to be popular in modern culture. But he can do something that many new age fanatics cannot do. He can move energy to any location on the planet.


Back in 2002 I achieved the distinction of teaching yoga for a living. Yes I was indeed a professional yoga teacher. By that time I had several mystical visions under my belt and truly thought I ” had arrived”. A wise man once said to me you meet the people you need to learn from and along came the shaman. Upon our first meeting I did not think much of him. My fellow yoga teachers and I used to travel all over the city doing workshops and seminars and we thought we knew it all. We had worked with, and trained the best minds and bodies in the city, or so we thought.


I remember my very first meeting with the Shaman. He invited my over to his place for a coffee and mentioned his interest in “energy work”. I was amused at his comment because back in 2002 I could already slow my heart rate down to quite a low level with pranayama breathing exercises and used a dharana concentration technique to focus my mind on an outside object so my body would feel no pain which was useful for some of the more arduous yoga postures.


The Shaman mentioned he would direct energy at me after I arrived home.
“What?” I said. “How can your energy travel over distance I live 10 miles away!” I blasted out flabbergasted.
“Wait and see,” said said the shaman, “All you need to do is to be aware, that is all.”
By this time I sincerely thought this dude was smoking something. And that something was not cigarettes!


We parted company and I arrived home. Upon the stated time, I remember it well it was 10pm that night, my body was surrounded by tingling vibrations and I started getting hot. Not uncomfortably so but the temperature felt like it increased by several degrees within seconds. I was getting very hot and my body tingled. I looked around and there was no one in the room with me. I did get a little frightened. I was surrounded, for a better explanation, by an invisible energy ball!


The distant energy persisted for 15 minutes and then subsided back to normal. Well I was impressed! This event happened years ago and much, many different visions and mystical experiences, some together and some apart have occurred with my Shaman. What did I say at the beginning of this blog? Oh yes…I stand on the shoulders of giants…