Biker Shaman

While camping at a Renaissance festival in Maryland I became acquainted with an unexpected spiritual teacher. The campground was filled with various travel trailers and a few tents. In the middle, one tent stood out more than the most. It was a twenty-five foot tall teepee. It’s owner was a practitioner of Native American philosophy. He was a grizzly-looking man of about five feet ten inches tall, always in his worn black leather jacket. Rhett was his name and his voice was raspy like he had one too many cigarettes.

One day I got into a conversation about spirituality with him. He surprised me with knowledge of energies that I had never heard of before. Raising his hand above my arm, I could feel first heat, then a tingling sensation that actually raised the hair on my arm. "What was that?" I asked. He explained to me that if you focus your attention on a point, that energy is created at that point.

He then said, "When I tell you, hold your hands out in front of you, palms up." I watched as Rhett faced his palms towards each other and focused his attention between his hands. He then told me he was ready and to raise my hands into position. He raised his hands above my own and opened them, as if dropping something into my hands. I felt a weight hit my hands. It shocked me at first. Then I felt the heat and tingling sensation again, traveling up my arms. I was stunned.

"Would you like to see the energy?" he asked. I answered with an enthusiastic "YES!". We walked out into a field behind the campground. The sun had just fallen below the tree line, but it was still light out. Rhett told me to hold my hands above my head and point my index fingers at each other about an inch apart. "Focus your eyes between your fingers."

My eyes focused and between my fingers I could see an energy passing from my right hand to my left. I closed my eyes, shook my head and looked again wanting to be sure I saw what I saw. I then began to take my fingers out of alignment. Moving them slowly up and down, I was amazed to see the energy arcing between them like a science project.

Over the next few weeks I would play with energies and I began to see them around people and then witnessing the interplay of energies between people. I also began feeling energies as people would walk by me I would feel them some more powerful than others.

One day while standing in the campground taking to some friends, I suddenly felt a rush of energy at the back of my head. I turned to see Rhett on the other side of the campground about a hundred feet away. He was laughing. My new friend had created an energy ball and hit me in the back of the head as if it was a snowball.