Holistic Healing

Q- We are going to be discussing holistic healing on a general basis. Can you tell us how long you have been involved in holistic healing?

A- Since about 1961, I had just finished what they call my right of passage, in my tribe on my 12th birthday that is when I made my declaration to my elders that I would accept the passing of the mantle so to speak of the family Shaman from my Great Uncle Jacob to me.

Q- What does that entail or are you allowed to say?

A- Well I am here to demystify the mystical and they’re a lot of various practices and modalities around the world that have a hallmark of your either coming into womanhood or manhood and that is usually your 12th birthday.

The morning of my birthday my uncle Jake showed up at like 7 in the morning and we started walking and we didn’t stop walking till that night.  This is a feat considering I grew up in Pittsburgh and we just started walking and eventually wound up heading over the bridge that connected you to downtown. 

Then through downtown off over another bridge and up into the mountains which were then populated but it was like the suburbs.  We walked through there and back through another set of bridges back into town, crossed town and back into the mountains so to speak in the area in which we were living and then back down to the house where everyone was waiting with birthday cake and all this other stuff.

So it was a combination between Western society and with the regular birthday and doing tribal things. My background is African, Seminole and Cherokee.

Q- What do you actually find the most satisfying in your work or do you want to call it your mischief?

A- Well it is a little bit of both.  People ask me what do I do to relax. . .I practice my craft.  You are a forever student. If someone says they have learned everything and they are just sitting here waiting to leave then run.

I think what I find most satisfying is how every case can be the same but different. You are pressed the task of ferreting out the cause of whatever the dis-easement is in order to get this person back in balance and then looking at the transformations that take place as they incorporate what you prescribe as lifestyle changes. You get them back on their feet and back to their life.

It would be like two people came to you, either two women or two men, and they both had a headache and it was both on the right side of the head. Through the process of elimination, you help them determine what do they do or what might tick them off or sleep patterns. 

You may find out that one persons ache is caused from grinding and gnashing their teeth either during the day or at night when they are sleeping.  Or another one always sits hunched over and the ache always comes from the cervical or thoracic area of their back.  You can’t treat them both the same.

However “Allopathic” or western medicine does. It wasn’t until the mid 80’s that we sanctioned an approved chiropractic. At the same time most Americans don’t know that there was a huge amount of conferences that went on.

They did specific things the beginnings to outlaw all holistic therapies. You name it hypothetic, radiotherapy, aromatherapy, avionics, chiropractic, massage therapy, magnetic therapies, crystal and stone therapies, there was even a therapy developed by Tesla that literally realigned the spine by putting a low voltage of DC currents through the body. They outlawed all this. That was the beginning of what became the AMA.

Q- Why do you think they outlawed the information?

A- They didn’t want the competition. That is the rock bottom of it because there were too many, quote unquote doctors, physicians metaphysicians out there that were healing people and less people were coming to the modern doctors. So we are now starting to turn away from the holistic side of medicine, which is where they grew out of, but you see the drug companies became their push.