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“The Shamanic crisis, when properly fostered, yields an adult not only of superior intelligence and refinement, but also of greater physical stamina and vitality of spirit than is normal to members of the group. The crisis, consequently has the value of a superior threshold initiation: superior in the first place because spontaneous, not tribally enforced, and in the second place, because the shift of reference of the psychologically potent symbols has not been from the family to the tribe but from the family to the universe.” Joseph Campbell. The Masks of God.
Shamans, Ancient and Modern
In the East a long tradition of female shamanism has remained undisturbed even into this century. In Japan and the island complex of Okinawa, it was usual for women to exercise spiritual office. This situation is now being eroded, more by twentieth century materialism than any attack on female power.
The shamanic tradition is perhaps the most ancient magical path emerging from the Paleolithic caves and the tribal hunting cultures. Unlike the functionary in any other system the individual is empowered directly from the invisible worlds, chosen by spiritual beings rather than elected or entitled to office. The individual is marked out by physical and psychological symptoms which are often extreme, bordering on insanity or critical illness.
These conditions are finally transformed through a powerful rebirth crisis. The individual is awakened to the spirit world and to the nature of his or her true vocation. This violent interior experience marks the end of the old life and the birth of the new. The individual often experiences a frightening vision of his or her own death and rebirth. Henceforth the shaman is empowered and serves the community through the ability to communicate with spiritual beings in deep visionary trance; travels to the other world in spirit journey, and is assisted by a company of spirit helpers.
Daughters of The Gods
“Pure in heaven and pure in earth. Pure within and pure without. Pure in all six roots….You who draw near, loosen now the reigns of your grey horse as you gallop to me over the long beach.”
Japan has a long history of female shamans. Women holding priestly functions were called in various ways, itako, okamin, or kuchiyose. Kuchiyose means ‘to hear the words of gods or spirits’, ‘to consult the oracle’, or ‘women themselves who play an intermediary role’. The kuchiyose were independent from any particular shrine and travelled where they chose. Collectively these women were called miko, ‘the daughters of the gods’. Miko women served in shrines throughout the land as far back as the late prehistoric period. It was customary for the Emperor to be advised by miko women. The kannagi were ‘the propitiators of the gods’. They were very often attached to the high-ranking shrines.
These shamanic priestesses were quite unlike the sacred women of the ancient world. They were apprenticed directly to the supra-mundane powers and mediated directly between the deities, the deceased and the living. Their lives contain bizarre and even frightening episodes of possession. These women experienced the deities not as role model or psychological principle but as a possessing presence.
The shamanic tradition survived unbroken despite various legal prohibitions. Haniwa pottery figures from fifth- and sixth-century tombs show shamanic regalia. Pottery figures wear the flat hat like an oblong board, strings of bead around neck, ankles and wrists, and, from a sash around the waist, a round mirror with five bells and a bow. Each item carried a magical significance. The copper mirror was traditionally part of the costume of Tunguistic shamans of northern Manchuria. It was a receptacle for the dead person’s spirit, a place to see the soul, and a receptacle in which the kami, the possessing deity might dwell. The bow, which emitted a resonating note, was used as a magical tool for attracting the deity. It also acted as a conductor, through which the deity might enter the body. The magatama beads, also found in Korea, were used to ritually summon the deities. When attired and empowered by full ritual regalia, the miko would prepare to enter the trance state in the sand-garden, the saniwa, a sanctified temenos serving as a magic circle. The miko would be accompanied by a musician who played magical tunes to soothe the deity and an interrogator who would address the deity. Questions might be asked about the harvest, fortunes for the coming year, the likelihood of robbery, sickness or fire in the village. Proper procedures had to be followed to ensure the safety of the medium and the smooth appearance and departure of the deity.
In the remote villages the miko acted as a the link between the ordinary people and the tutelary village deities. Many miko women lives in enclaves affiliated to large shrines known as mikomura, miko villages. They set out at specific seasons on long peripatetic journeys, delivering prophecies, messages from the dead, and offering consultation.
The different titles conferred on these women point to a rich and varied tradition. Women known as kumano-bikuni were based at the Jippoin temple at Nachi and were venerated as oracles all over the country. In the Edo district the women called ichiko were reported to travel great distances to make seasonal calls. Near Osaka women called shinano-miko were still visiting in the last half of the nineteenth century. The institution of the miko was widespread throughout Japan. They were part of both court and village tradition until the time of the Meji restoration.
Shamanic practise was not confined to commoners. Emperors took advice from miko women speaking as the mouthpiece for the deity. The Wei Chronicles include a description of a shamanic queen, Himako or Pimako by name, who lived alone in a heavily guarded palace attended by a single man who transmitted her words. The consort of an Emperor, later to become the Empress Jingo, was herself a miko. Descriptions remain of a rite in which she acted as a medium. In this rite the Emperor and the chief minister took the other traditional roles of musician, who soothed the deity, and interrogator, who questioned the deity. The Emperor wanted to know whether to attack the Kumaso people. The deity advised an expedition to a rich land full of gold and silver which would be delivered into the Emperor’s hands. The Emperor, instead of thanking the deity in the proper manner, committed the crime of ‘raising words’ in opposition to the deity. He laid aside the zither he had been playing and declared, ‘it is a lying deity however high you may climb, you can see no such land in the west. There is nothing but sea.’
The enraged deity pronounced a curse: ‘Go straight in one direction.’ When the lights went up the Emperor was found to be dead. A second rite was conducted seven days later with the same interrogator and the consort again acting as a medium.
“What are the god’s instructions?”
“The land in the west is to be ruled by a child in the Empress’s womb”.
“What child is this who is in her womb?”
“It is a boy.”
“What is your name?”
“This is the will of Amaterasu-omikami and of the three great deities Sokozutusu-no-o, Nakazutsu-no-o, and Uwazutsu-no-o. If you wish to find the rich land, then make offerings to the deities of heaven, earth, mountains, rivers and seas. Make a shrine for our spirit at the top of the ship, put wood and ashes into a gourd. Make many chopsticks and flat dishes and cast them on to the sea.”
With these words, the account ends. We are left wondering what happened to the Empress. Did she have the son who ruled the lands of the west?
Miko activities were suppressed in 1873 when the government decreed that miko were all deluded and forbidden to practise. Many miko continued to practise in secret. In theory this prohibition lasted until 1945 when General MacArthur’s legislation ended restrictions. There have been three outbursts of shamanic cultic activity in recent history each related to the Japanese legal and political situation. The first rash of new sects appeared in the middle of the last century at the time of the collapse of the feudal system. Of these, thirteen groups survived, misleadingly known as ‘the 13 sects of Shinto’. A second period occurred in the 1920s and 1930s, at a time of economic depression and increasing militarianism. The third burst took place after 1945 with the liberalisation brought about by MacArthur. In 1964, 378 cults were still registered. The life histories of the cult founders share similar patterns and reveal strong shamanic overtones.
Mediums and Mediators
‘Certain special human beings, however, may acquire a power which enables them to transcend the barrier between the two worlds.’ Carmen Blacker. The Catalpa Bow
The life of Nakayama Miki, who founded ‘Tendrikyo’, follows the pattern typically seen in shamanic individuals. Her early life was marked with personal disaster and unhappiness. She survived the dreadful famine of the 1830s to be married at thirteen to a man she hated. When a neighbour’s son fell ill while under her care she petitioned the local deity to take the lives of her two daughters in return for the life of a boy. In due course the boy recovered, her girls died. In 1837 her surviving son Shuji was afflicted with agonising leg pains. The local yamabushi, Ichibei, was called in to perform exorcism. One night Miki acted as medium for Ichibei as his assistant could not come. According to the story, the spirit causing the affliction possessed her and she fell into violent trance.
“I am Ten-no Shogun”, came the voice.
“What manner of god might Ten-no-Shogun be?”
“The original god who has descended from heaven to save mankind”, answered the deity.
Miki was possessed for three days sitting upright, transmitting the words of the deity. The possession only ended when her husband agreed to follow instructions implicitly. She began to behave in excessive ways, giving away the family property, even having the family house pulled down. After a long period of total destitution she was blessed with the power of granting painless childbirth. Her fame spread. In 1869 she started to write an Ofudesaki, a long divinely-inspired poem. It took her another fifteen years to complete the work. She died in 1887 aged 90. Her teachings remain encapsulated in one of thirteen Shinto sects.
The foundress of the Omoto sect was Deguchi Nao. She was born in 1837. At eleven she was sent out to work due to the extreme poverty of her family. She was soon married to a drunken and spendthrift husband with whom she had eleven children. Of these three died in infancy, one disappeared, another was killed in the Sino-Japanese war. Two of her grown daughters later died after becoming insane. In January 1892, following the death of one of her daughters, she had a vivid dream in which she was wandering in the spirit world. A day or two later she fell into a violent state of possession, leaping up and down with pain. In this state a voice spoke, conversing with her own, announcing itself to be Ushitora-no-Konjin, come to restore the hideous state of the world to paradise. During the next year she often fell into trance, wandering around the town roaring wildly. She was arrested on suspicion of arson and confined to a room in her house. Here she began to write an Ofudeska, scratching characters with a nail on the pillar of her room. This work was to fill the next 27 years of her life. On her release from confinement she discovered that she had the powers to heal through prayer.
Another foundress in the shamanic tradition was Kitamura Sayo, who established Tensho Kotai Jingudyo, the Dancing Religion. She was called ‘Ogamisama’, meaning great goddess. She too suffered an impoverished and miserable childhood. She became the sixth wife to a weak and mean man, procured by his mother, to be used as a cheap harvest labour, dispensed with and divorced at the end of the season. Half starved and treated cruelly by her in-laws she took up ascetic practise as an escape. In 1944 she became aware of the god Tobyo who began to speak through her, giving her sound advice on a wide range of matters. She underwent a complete change of personality delivered sermons and extempore song. Her language however became so coarse and unconventional that she chose to wear men’s clothing while speaking. She taught the ‘Selfless Dance’ to her followers. In 1964 she accomplished a world tour, visiting 36 countries giving three sermons a day. She continued to be worshipped after her death. In her life she was credited with healing miracles, diverting the course of streams, and arresting the spreak of fires. Even today she is worshipped as a living goddess. ‘The presence of the deity inside her has transubstantiated her into a divine person.’
These women who became the inspirational founders of popular cults, each experienced suffering and deprivation in early life, loneliness and even cruelty in close relationships, the untimely death of children and rejection by the social group as a whole. It is this alchemical process which gives birth to shamanic qualities, powers and inspiration. The true shaman only comes to birth after much personal suffering and misery; the cost is high.
The path of mediumship, is less extreme. It used to be an occupation reserved for the blind. This type of mediumship shows strong shamanic overtones but lacks the spontaneous crisis which gives birth to the visionary powers. It is replaced instead with a traditional training. The young blind girl was apprenticed at about twelve years of age, before the onset of menstruation, to an older itako, a blind medium. She lived with her teacher for several years. Her training was strict and lengthy and included an ascetic regime, learning sutras, chants and invocations. Finally, she was deemed ready to take initiation and prepared for the ceremony through severe ascetic practise. This included sleep deprivation, food taboos – neither cereals nor salt – and a regime of cold water over each shoulder daily. She had to keep away from all sources of heat.
At her initiation ritual she was wedded to her tutelary deity. The deity came to take possession of her. The initiation included a wedding feast at which she wore a bridal gown. Finally, at the transmission of power, she was presented with her own magical instruments, the bow or one-stringed lute, a rosary, a fan-shaped drum, a mysterious box and a pair of puppets. Once initiated she was expected to summon ghosts, call the kami, deliver inspired utterances, serve as an oracle and speak with the dead.
Carmen Blacker asks, ‘if shamanism was so widespread in prehistoric Japan, if an inspired woman could be discovered to serve in virtually every shrine in the land, how is it that today these natural shamans are so rare?’ She concludes that ‘they manifest themselves only in terms of crisis, anxiety, and the collapse of tradition. Were the conditions of modern secular life more propitious to the display of such powers, it is likely that many more owmen would exhibit them in Japan today than might be suspected. Many women appear neurotic, or even half-witted merely because these powers are repressed or disguised within them’.
Okinawa – Village and Royal Priestesses
‘Women seldom play a leading role in Japanese folk religion, while their place in Okinawa is conspicuously important’. Kamata Hisako. Shaman Priestesses
Okinawa is an island group with three main cultural divisions: Okinawa, Miyako and the Yaeyama archipelago. Okinawa’s geography has produced surprising variations from island to island. Women have held a particularly significant role throughout Okinawa. ‘It is women that are privileged to hold priestly rights in the rituals of the village or kinship group’. The significance of women in the priestly role is reflected in the traditional folklore of the region. Ifa Fuyu summarises the mythological themes: ‘According to Okinawa mythology, the first son becomes the king; the second the anji (local governor) the third the farmer; the eldest daughter, the kimi-gimi (the royal priestess) and the second, first noro (village priestess)’.
The Okinawa people held a mixed concept of divinity, believing in both the ancestral gods and those of the elements. When the Sho family became the rulers of the Okinawa complex, their ancestral gods became the ruling gods of all the islands. The king’s sister became the royal priestess, kikeo ogimi. In later days this position was assumed by the queen instead. This office holder represented the entire people before the divine presence of the ancestral gods.
In the villages there were priestesses called norokumoi meaning ‘a person who prays’. In the days of the Sho dynasty, the village priestesses, also called noro, were appointed by the royal government and were under the control of the royal priestess. Shimabukuro Gen’ichiro, was born on Okinawa, provides an insight into the succession of the noro:
‘In the old days a noro was succeeded by her daughter, and as it was a matrilineal succession, the family name of the noro changed with each generation. But as the social customs changed and male-line succession became more dominant, with a strong consciousness of family name, the daughter of the noro became deprived of her right to succession and instead it became a practise to make her niece (her brother’s daughter) the next noro, thus making it possible to retain the position of the noro within patrilineal relatives. In more recent times the position is succeeded by the son’s wife, as in the case of the noro of the Itoman village, so that the position is succeeded constantly a long a given line’.
Each of the three islands of Okinawa had its own practises and organisations. Hirara city in the centre of the Miyako Island was once a branch office of the court. A divine priestess, o-amo, used to be attached to this office. She was appointed by the court. In 1865 the o-amo requested that her post might pass to her son as she had neither daughter nor granddaughter, indicating that the legitimate line of succession was matrilinear.
Villages continued to enjoy independent organisation despite the court’s appointee and followed their own traditions. In some villages any woman of a certain age might act as cult official. In the Ikema island divine posts were selected from village born women over 43. Tenure was held for three years. The women of Oura village in the northern part of Miyako island were eligible for office at 49. In other villages the post was reserved for women in special families. Still other villages preferred to select from those women with an unusual physical condition, taking this as a special sign.
On Miyako island, the supreme priestess was called upu-zukasa (up means ‘great one’). Once appointed she served for life and was not encouraged to leave the island even for short journeys. She was selected by ritual lottery, thorhg it is said that the choice was known to the incumbent through dream premonition.
Miyako island had a unique religious organisation called uyagami. Its members performed just one ritual a year. The wives of certain families who had reached the age of 50 were qualified to serve. The office was inherited from mother-in-lawa to daughter-in-law. Between June and October the uyagami women met for a week each month in the bush, which was extensive on the island.
The festival which they performed was especially important to the whole island. Islanders returned home especially to attend. The women represented the group lineage both past and present of the island. The uyagami were called the ancestor gods. They wore huge crowns a meter in diameter made from vines. During the festival these women were perceived as being deities by both themselves and others. In the 1960s there were fourteen uyagami on Ogami island.
On the Izu island those who wished to become miko hd to show psychic abilities including sensitivity and the ability to have significant dreams. These signs were called miko inclinations. Women here might become miko only after the menopause. Women showing obvious signs were examined by the existing miko. In order to be formally recognised the miko had to pass a final trial called kami-sode, ‘the descent of the god’. The prospective candidate had to prepare for seven days, bathing every morning in the sea when the sun rose, pouring sea water upon her head seven times. She carried a branch of a sacred tree and a fan. At the end of the seven days she was recognised ceremonially in a special hut or hall. She sat with the fan and branch amidst drumming and music. Other miko danced around her, encouraging trance and awaiting her possession. The new miko was expected to become frenzied, shrieking with convulsions as the power descended. Her motions were thought to become especially intense when the correct name of her deity was spoken. When the descent was completed, she was divinely possessed. The frenzy passed. She joined the dancing miko.
The miko officiated at public rituals and assisted with every aspect of village life, giving advice, consultation and prophecy to help the general welfare of the villagers.
This way of life is now fading. The ubiquitous television and western cultural values have spread like a plague into even the most remote places of the world, bringing the all-knowing eye and the deities of the technological age.
Ichiko. A shamanic Medium.
Itako. A local name for a female shaman.
Kannagi. Mediums serving high-ranking shrines.
Kami. Spiritual beings.
Kimi gimi. A royal priestess.
Kuchiyose. ‘To hear the words of gods or spirits’, women who play an intermediary role delivering messages while in trance.
Kumano-bikuni. A Buddhist nun with the powers of prophesy and divination.
Miko. ‘Daughters of the gods’, shamanic mediums.
Ofudesaki. The revelations of a founder of a new religion, usually written through automatic writing in poetry form.
Saniwa. ‘The sand garden’, the temenos especially purified for a ritual.
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My business is seeing the truly glory of Spirit on Earth. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Society™ and all that it is. Spirit, humanity, sex and love again at last. And the end of our legacy as either servants or witches or unpaid carers or indeed, ignored mistresses, other women, other men even, and the weirdos that are at the bottom of society. This is our world and it is time to take it back and I can show you how. And that makes my life, truly, worth living. I want you to feel the way I do. Alive, with the right to be and the belligerence to exist in this profane and male ‘God’ led world of male supremacy, female supremacy, domestic, casual fascism, tribe rules from hell, with beautiful and kind, love intelligence laden, female and male Cinderella warriors at the bottom, caring for everyone else and getting nothing but hatred, ridicule and isolation for it. The meek are already inheriting the Earth and I can show you how.
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I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They told you I and my kind were dictators and that you were slaves, when all we had done was love you, honour you as companions and above all, we had let you just live. We were the holy communers, the ones who gave birth to human beings, the leaders of society, the creators of society, the vehicles of Divinity on Earth and the channels of wisdom. The ones who looked after everything and the ones who built everything and ran everything, because we could. And because we loved it. We are and were the force of creation. And you loved us and you lived. But they told you that you ‘deserved’ power too and that we were the ones standing in your way. And you believed them. The oldest ‘divide and rule’ strategy of hate in history and it worked. They used it and you bought it, hook, line and sinker. You had to give up sex, love, magic and your own spiritual gifts and you burnt, destroyed and violated me for 8000 years. The world calls that male supremacy. And indeed, family supremacy, Matriarchal supremacy and supremacy of the material world and all who believe in it. Men and women like you. When all that you are are slaves to a reptile force to generate hate energy for them to live and thrive and vampire the human race. The puppets of a hate force, that chose to destroy women and men like me, for hate to grow, so they could live. You bought it and it worked. The greatest fraud in the history of the world. I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past and I forgive you for becoming enslaved and taken over by the machines of the alien reptile force that invaded and took over Earth 8000 years ago. They taught you to hate me and my kind and you believed them. They taught you that my mind was evil. My mind, my sex, my body and my ways of life. The humanity, the glory of sexuality and the glory of creation and creativity and the glory of Divinity in each and every one of us. Our souls. They taught you that human beings are separate from Divinity, that sex was wrong and that women who have minds of their own are uppity slaves. They vilified us but much much worse than that, they destroyed your relationship with all that is unseen, all that we honour and love. They taught you to hate what is really God. By teaching you to hate us, you hated all that is good in yourselves. They taught you to hate the light. They taught you to kill us. The daughters of The Universe. The High Priestesses of God. The Spiritual Mothers. The Sacred Whore High Priestess Avatars of The Universe. The Sacred Army of Love on Earth. The Shamans, the Mystics and the Communers. They called me Eve and blamed me for the downfall of the human race and created the awesome profanity that is religion. Of men, by men and from men. Of reptiles, by reptiles and from reptiles. Christianity, Islam and Judaism and every other philosophy around the world was poisoned. There are no female spiritual leaders left. It is all profanity. They chose you to represent them because they wanted to divide us and they did. They told you to hate me. And you believed them. Now I am back and I forgive you. I forgive you because I can. Because I came here to save your soul. And because I finally know who I am. I am THE High Priestess Monarch of the ancient past. I came here to return your soul to The Source. God, The Mother, The Universe. To return you to what is really God. Because I love you. And because She loves you and your kind, whatever you have done. Whatever you have done to me and whatever you have done to Her. And most of all, whatever you have done to yourself. We forgive you. This is your redemption. Your freedom and your ascension. We are here to save your soul.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
You bought the Sacred Whore like a piece of meat and you called that a wife. Your trophy wives. Your dancing girls. Your chattel and serving girls. Your piece of beauty. You bought us like you would cattle. Then you called it wives. Now you call it prostitution. The High Priestesses of the real God. You bought us to buy God, The Mother, The Universe and you caged us, separated us from our Divine gifts and skills in the Temple and drove us mad and then lost interest in us, because we had no gifts left, no excitement, no hunter in ourselves and no hope or joy left. Then you just called us mad and discarded us. You called us evil and you call love obedience, even though it had already killed us. You moved into our Temples and you played with the divination tools and thought you communed. The destruction of Atlantis was your gift. You stole us from God, The Mother, The Universe and you tried to usurp us. You vilified us, enslaved us and you still envy us today. You call it intuition. You might want to think about this when you hate us out of your jealousy. The mystic gene means physical tortuous pain and taking on the empathy of the human race. All their pains, evils and dark thoughts. We see and feel everything. We make crucial sacrifices to be near Spirit and the unseen and we go without for years. To be shaman is not glamour. I make it glamour. To be shaman is a specific Samurai existence, ascetic and harsh. We commune to be guides. And you take that and you shame yourselves because you just want the meat. You didn’t just want the meat. You wanted our beauty of spirit, our personalities and our love and kindness. And you destroyed them, because you caged us and called us wife.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
The High Priestess Sacred Whores, the High Priests and the true protectors. Those who do not have the gift like either the High Priests or especially like the highest of all, the High Priestess Sacred Whores but who honour, protect and facilitate them to the world. Who honour the Shaman Sacred Whores of this world most of all, and who know who they are and who they are not. Who know the difference, who do not envy and who protect and love the representatives of Spirit, GOD, THE MOTHER, THE UNIVERSE, on Earth. Who honour their wisdom and who honour the latent Shaman in themselves too and who honour the communing ability of the High Priestess Sacred Whores. The non violators. Our only friends. The New Society exists. It is called Enlightenment. It is called Love. It is The Holy Grail.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2012
The master race. It's all a lie. You are brought up to be a despot king and it is only your sister who ever tells you that you have become a pratt. The master race is all a lie. There are no kings in an equal world. Your father was misinformed. What he brought you up to be was a killer. Pure and simple. A misogynist. A modern misogynist. A polite killer.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
I enter the magical hours of pure feeling, pure thought, pure imagination and I think and I write and I 'mysticise' the Universe. I escape at will, the truth of my humanless, Samurai solitude, and I pursue the truth of love in myself and in everyone else. I am philosopher. I am shaman. I am alone. I frontier the Soul to be spirit on Earth.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
Amera Ziganii Rao is a former hard news journalist who is now turning professional with her art forms and indeed, her healing forms, after a long journey of inner searching, self teaching and exploring many layers and areas of both craft and wisdom. She is now working on her first book of philosophy and esoteric thought, and social, cultural and spiritual commentary. She is also showing her first photography collections. And last but most definitely not least, she is building a business to share her Sacred Whore High Priestess Society consciousness and empowering explorations to reach as many people as possible across the world. She is in her forties and lives in London.
Amera Ziganii Rao © 2011
In the meantime, please enjoy this website. I have included many of the subjects I am covering, areas of experience and insight that I will be exploring to the fullest in my book, the courses and all the other work that is to come as a dramatist, novelist and essayist. I also of course, include many of the wise people on this planet, who have come long before me; authors, screen dramatists, playwrights, film makers, artists, and other enlighteners and grand carriers of the wisdom I have found the most helpful on my journey, to find peace and become enlightened. The seemingly impossible journey, in the face of oneself and one’s circumstances. People who have contributed massively to my healing on this mad journey called life, in this insane existence called The Universe. People who have helped to make me as good a carrier of wisdom as I in turn, can be. Thank you.
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