"My name is Lee. This is my recollection of recent events that led to me receiving healing and miracles which saved my life, this was exactly 5 years to the day of my accident, which effectively ended my life as I knew it. The day was 18th February 2023, a Saturday night. My two friends Shane and Sasha were hanging out in Shane's shed having a drink and chewing the fat about life, I walked in and joined the conversation, Sasha and I had only spoken a few times at this point, and I really didn’t know too much about him. Shane had been for the last 2 years keeping me propped up mentally due to my pain and dependence on anti-depressants and opioids that were keeping me from any quality of life. Shane had been chatting to Sasha about my situation and told him that I had no options, and on the brink of throwing the towel in, when Sasha told us about something called “Ayahuasca”. It is Ancient South American tribal method of spiritual and physical healing. Plant Medicine used by a Shaman who is a spiritual healer. It all sounded very foreign to me at first, but I was totally out of options. The catch to me participating in these ceremonies was that I could not have the drugs I was taking in my system when I was to be healed.
So, I had a choice to make. Either do nothing and die, Or I could put everything on the line on a chance to receive this miracle. I thought about it for all of 30 seconds before committing myself to the process. I had no idea if it was even possible to get off all the drugs within 3 weeks, and my doctors told me there was no way this was possible, but I had nothing to lose. Sasha had been attending these ceremonies quite regularly over the past year, and he had been healed from chronic back pain, he was also addicted to painkillers at the time, and convinced me that it was possible if I really wanted it. The ceremonies were only 3 weeks away, so the withdrawal from the drugs needed to start immediately.
The following few weeks were the hardest I had ever experienced in my life. I was on my own, on my boat attempting to rid my body of everything I had been surviving on for the last 5 years while trying to keep myself and the boat safe from the changing weather patterns. I was determined to make this happen even if it killed me in the process, that was how dire my life had become.
I reduced the drug intake initially by half for the first week which was at that time difficult, but doable. The second week arrived and again I halved my dose. About 3 days in I was in so much pain that I was having hallucinations. I was sitting on the lounge suite of the boat with a throbbing mess of a foot. And the pain was so severe that a Dark spirit appeared in front of me, he was squeezing my foot and laughing at me and seemingly causing the pain. At this point I realized that this was in fact the reason for my pain. I could not go on, it was excruciating, so I weakened and took an opioid to ease the symptoms, and so I could gather my thoughts.
I called Sasha who then spoke to Shaman Kev who was to do the healing and told him my situation. Shaman Kev then called me after he and Kat spoke with spirits about it, I was instructed that I could continue a minimal dose of painkiller until the day before, because the spirits wanted me in full withdrawal on my arrival to the first ceremony. This was a game changer that gave me the strength to suffer through the Antidepressant withdrawal which I was now in every second day at this point. This was the worst part of it, I spent 4 days unable to raise my head or even open my eyes without my brain short circuiting all my thoughts and causing me to spasm in shock.
I remember thinking every day that I woke up that today would be the day that my body would die, I was sure this was the end, but I was determined to follow through, because at least this way the people I loved would know I died trying to do something about my situation, and wouldn`t have to live knowing I took my own life.
I started getting my thoughts together again the day before I was to start a plant-based diet for the 3 Days before the 1st ceremony. I got off the boat to stay with close friends while I suffered the final stint, and to my own surprise was still part of this world on the day of the ceremony. I had not contemplated this far ahead as I really didn’t think I’d be here. During these few weeks I had also managed to withdraw myself from drinking 10 cans of coke a day, which had become a worsening habit since my accident, but a constant issue in my life for the last 30 years.
Day of first Ceremony-
I was still suffering through the withdrawals and was feeling anything but alive. The last few weeks had really sucked the remaining life out of me, and I wasn’t even sure I had it in me to do whatever was expected of me to make this happen today. Luckily Sasha had also booked himself in to participate in the ceremonies alongside me, which made things a lot less daunting. The ceremony was to start at 5pm, so we caught the 3.30pm ferry off the island and headed to our destination. I remember struggling with the walk down the jetty on walking sticks, not sure what was going on around me. I was so glad I wasn’t trying to get myself there, as my mind was not working.
On meeting our Shaman Kev, and with his wife Kat, they both made me feel that I had already won my battle to receive the blessings that were coming to me during this process, which gave me feelings of hope for what was to follow. I was told however, that because of the number of drugs that I had been taking, and the amount of time I was on them, that I may not feel that anything was happening during the ceremony, but they assured me that the spirits would be working their magic. At 5pm we were led to a semi dark room where there were 5 mattresses placed around the room, each with a blanket, a bucket and a box of tissues. I sat on my mattress and tried to take in what was about to happen. There was peaceful music softly playing in the background which helped me settle into a focused frame of mind.
The Shaman then arrived beside me with a medicine cup with the “Ayahuasca” plant medicine and told me to drink. It was the second worst tasting thing I had ever tried to swallow, but I managed to get it down, but was concerned it wasn’t going to stay there for very long. I laid down on my bed and waited for the medicine to take effect. To my Surprise, the medicine seemed to sit ok in my stomach, and the thought of throwing up faded into the background. I laid there for an hour or so when Kev returned to my side with another cup of medicine and asked if I wanted to partake. Without hesitation I sent it down the hatch and again laid back as if I was on an operating table waiting to have my fourth foot surgery. I did feel that I was in a trance like state. I had tingling feelings all over my body, and could feel the spirits working on the inside of my foot and leg, I felt intense pulling and burning sensations, and it was at this point that I knew something great was going to come from this, I had to trust that I had been led here by divine intervention, and that everything I had put myself through was going to pay off in the end. After the ceremony had concluded, It took a while for the effects of the medicine to subside, but when it did, I felt very different to the guy who had stumbled through the door only 6 hours earlier. I was walking unassisted; my drug withdrawals were much less severe than when I had arrived as well. For the first time in 5 years, I finally had some hope and trust that I had been given a way out of this nightmare.
Day of 2nd Ceremony-
On arrival at the second ceremony, I sat with Kev and Kat to discuss the events that occurred during the previous night. At this point I was going to hold nothing back from them, I felt a real trust that they were really connected and working for the spirit world, so I tried to explain the experience I had with the dark spirit I had encountered while withdrawing from the drugs. I felt it was surrounding my pain, and I had the feeling that it actually was my pain. Kev said that he was going to ask the spirits to address the cause of my pain in tonight's ceremony. Little did I know at this point what was in store for me.
Without going into too much detail about exactly what I experienced, at the end of every dark tunnel there is light, and I could definitely see the light after this experience. I was finally free of my darkness. After my personal battle that night, I thought that the ceremony had ended, so I left my mattress and was preparing to leave when Kat informed me that the ceremony had not yet ended, and the spirits wanted me to return to my mattress. I was still under the effects of the medicine and wasn’t sure why I had thought the ceremony was over. So, I returned to my mattress and sat down. This was when I realized that I was not only receiving healing for my physical ailments, but I was emotionally healing and feeling things from an emotional state that I had never felt before. The floodgates opened and tears of love, joy and gratitude streamed down my face in a way I had never felt before. It was the perfect ending to an otherwise difficult ceremony for me.
Day of the 3rd Ceremony-
By now I was in total submission of the process and had full trust in Kev and Kat and their ability to connect me to the spirit world for whatever tonight's ceremony had in store for me. I was in the state of mind that if I needed to return to my darkness to obtain knowledge and truth, then I was going to embrace it with everything inside me. Kev then said to me that the darkness I had dealt with in the previous ceremony had been released, so now I had no idea what to expect.
The ceremony was a very peaceful one for me, it was filled with great feelings, and insights into a life that the spirits have in store for me. This created a lot of confusion for me purely because I had not expected anything more from this process other than to heal my foot so I could get some quality of life. All of a sudden, I had a life ahead of me. Not just a life, but an awesome life filled with freedom, love and everything that is important to my soul. This ceremony was a big win for me on a spiritual level.
Day of the 4th Ceremony-
The final ceremony, and every part of me was feeling that I had already received so much more than what I came for, and that whatever was in store for me I was going to receive with as much gratitude and love as I could find within myself, which I seemed to now be over filled with. I still had questions about things from the night before which I spoke to Kev and Kat about before the start of the ceremony. They were very supportive in finding the answers to my questions, and confirmed with spirits all the information I was seeking, and the ceremony itself was something that to this day I find hard to find the words to describe. It was the ultimate experience and something that my soul has never felt in its 50 years in this world.
5 weeks have passed since the ceremonies, and I am still totally drug free, (and coke free). I still have some pain and physical limitations, but at no time has my brain tried to suggest that I need to take any form of medication to cope with it. There is no doubt in my mind that the spirits were with me and helping me survive the impossible. It is truly a miracle that I am here now, totally reprogrammed for what the spirits have in store for my life moving forward, and I`m filled with gratitude for the new life I`ve been given."
Kat: Half a year later, Lee is doing well, with excitement about life, with new outlook, no meds at all.
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