In 1997, I traveled to Zimbabwe to meet a Nganga, that is a medicine person, a healer, who had been called to a very different life than he had ever imagined. He, like many young men, engaged in actions against apartheid and then when Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, he became head of education for the police force which was the domestic army. Augustine Kandemwa had no interest in being a Nganga but the spirits had other ideas and eventually Mandaza took back his original name, which had been anglicized, left the army and that life, and became a formidable healer. His story was like my own story. We had each been walking one path, which was conventional, and then we were walking another. And both of us found ourselves guiding others to recognize their soul calling and find the paths they were called to walk.
A story that I told at the Living One Webinar linked to at the end of this essay was not quite accurate. The exact version was far more interesting than my rendition. I am saving this space for Marc Weigensberg to post the true story.
A story that I told at the Living One Webinar linked to at the end of this essay was not quite accurate. The exact version was far more interesting than my rendition. I am saving this space for Marc Weigensberg to post the true story.
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Thank you for all this.
Sonia