This past weekend (Jan 15-17), I led a weekend workshop on Maui for 22 souls. While drumming for the group, I continually made short shamanic journeys into the dream aspect of Haiti, during which I connected with the Vodou gods (the loa) specifically with Barron, the lord of the cemetaries; Grand-bois, the healing god; La Sirene, the Haitian version of Yemaya the queen of the seas; Erzulie, the goddess of love; and Papa-legba, the gate keeper, to facilitate and help alleviate the suffering of the dead, as well as the living.
At the workshop’s end, we all worked together and did a long distance shamanic healing ritual for the children of Haiti, in which we linked up with the efforts of my friend Ross Lewallen in New Mexico, who was also leading a circle ceremony with the same objective, on the same day.
I will continue to do this healing work in my meditations in the foreseeable future, and I invite those of you who have worked with us or who know how to do shamanic journeywork, to join us in our efforts.