The lives of traditional and modern healers, mystics, and shaman are  “. . . lessons in physical, emotional, and spiritual bereavement and disempowerment, followed by rebirth into a new relationship to power.  Behind closed doors, through anguish and ecstasy, mystics gain access to the spirit, access so profound that they become capable of breathing an energy, like Divine electricity, into ordinary words and acts.  They become able to heal others through acts of genuine love, forgiveness, and faith.”

– From Anatomy of the Spirit by Caroline Myss.