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The Wisdom of Life in Death, from an African Traditional Healer
- 2025/02/24
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It is always a gift to spend time with John Lockley. I look up to him as one of my own teachers and a model of how to live culturally, rooted wisdom and lifeways with integrity and balance. This magnificent conversation unfolds almost like a ceremony as we explore the deeper lessons of healing, ceremony, and the power of the Spirit World as we discuss death, tradition, and traditional medicine. According to John's Xhosa elders, he is one of the first white men after Apartheid to become a fully initiated Xhosa sangoma (African Shaman). In the sangoma medicine path in South Africa, there are many different tribes/lineages that make up a rich and diverse tapestry of healing. South Africa has one of the oldest living shamanic cultures left in the world. John Lockley was born, in 1971, into a divided Apartheid South Africa, with the mark of the sangoma on his face – a band of white birth skin around the eyes. At 18, John was serving in the South African army as a medic (during the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa sangoma. He immediately began to suffer from the thwasa, a severe period of ill-health that is inherent in all ancient shamanic cultures which can only be cured through apprenticeship to a shamanic teacher. Because of the restrictions of Apartheid (which ended in 1994) it would take John seven years to find a Xhosa teacher. Learn more at https://www.johnlockley.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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