Virginia from Seattle says “Do anything that inspires you!”
We recently had the honor of meeting a very sprightly lady named Virginia as we were enjoying “coffee and cake” at an open air coffee shop in downtown Seattle. Virginia approached us and asked whether we would mind if she shared our table. We gladly welcomed her as she radiated positivity and the waiter brought her coffee and chocolate cupcake to the table.…
The day after our meeting with Karolina, it transpired that she had shared her discussions with us and her copy of Journey of a Shaman we had given her with her friends. We were approached by Erica,
one of Karolina’s friends, an Australian woman, who had wanted to find out more about what we were now doing. She was particularly interested in hearing about our work with the First Nation people in Whistler who came from the Squamish and Lil’wat nations.…
I met John Norseman in July 2012, introduced via a marina manager to provide yacht maintenance and crew services aboard John’s fifty- five-foot motor yacht, Izafel.
While working on Izafel, I began to get to know John. He would cook lunch onboard and we’d sit down and talk. He soon told me that he was a shaman and asked if I knew what that was.
On 31st July we left Vancouver and took the Rocky Mountaineer train to Whistler, a village located in a beautiful mountainous area of British Columbia in Canada. In winter it is a ski resort, which featured as part of Canada’s hosting of the 2010 Winter Olympics. The areas surrounding Whistler are very wild, with mountains, rivers, waterfalls and dense forests. Bears and other wildlife thrive in this natural habitat.…
On Sunday, 19th July, my wife, Leigh, and I were honored to meet an amazing Native American woman of the Haida Nation of Alaska who was to have a profound effect on us. Her name is Saand laanaay, meaning ‘beautiful dawn’, and we found her to be indeed a beautiful soul, who shared her belief system with us and taught us much.At age 46 John accepted a position in Australia as the Overseas Chief Executive Officer of a major Australian Insurance company responsible for all its operations outside Australia. This provided the opportunity to work with and understand various different cultures including Hong Kong, New Zealand, USA and Europe. It was during his tenure based in Australia that he experienced several deeply spiritual events.
…It was from age 27 to 46 that John’s career progressed rapidly holding the position of Chief Executive in various Insurance companies. With each progression in his career, he widened his skills and demonstrated the ability to turn weaknesses into strengths and to create practical positive outcomes through inspirational leadership and encouraging those around him to grow. These were all skills that he was able to apply in later life in becoming a practicing Shaman in line with his growth in spiritual awareness.
…John’s life was shaped by a series of traumatic events in the era of civil rights and anti-war movements that involved him and huge numbers of others in his generation. His whirlwind day in Paris, accompanied by a self-driven French woman at the time of the 1968 student uprising, captures the energies of those dramatic times and gives a sense of the driving forces within John that led to his major shift in later life from his left-brain professional abilities to his spiritual awareness as a practical intuitive.
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