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24 A Journal of Contemporary Shamanism VOLUME 6 ISSUE 2 FALL 2013 would only become clear to me much later. And so Jesus Christ has been my principal Guide in the invisible world. He has always told me that I should help to restore traditional practices and repair the damage done in his name. He said I should encourage people to stay within their ancestral spiritual traditions or the one they grew up with as a base tradi- tion since normally this worked best in the spiritual world of invisible energies. After that learning different traditions would be something like learning other languages. He also told me to be an inconspicuous follower of his and to do my healing quietly. He said that when I encountered a great deal of darkness I was simply to let the light shine through. At one point he told me never to use his name in places where people might be offended. I slowly learned that Grail Reiki had unique properties that made it a shamanic practice. I found that I often knew how to do a shamanic practice before I read about it or was taught. Importantly I was taught that as long as I used the Grail Reiki as the ground for my other shamanic work such as for soul retrievals extractions clearings and even depossession work as well as for cer- emony there was never any danger to me from the invisible world. I was told that I should teach this to others. There was no need for other protections. It was all part of the same wider original shamanic practice. Unfortunately energy work with the hands such as Reiki had been broken away from shamanic practice over the millenia as people sought to become specialized and differentiated. THE SANGRAAL As a journalist I was used to being able to check facts through interviews and documents and such and after receiving the Grail healing symbols I was feeling a strong need to be able to do the same with the information I received from the invisible world. To my amaze- ment at that point I began to receive or be guided invisibly to information on a regular basis that supported what I was learning about the connections between the Grail and shamanism. First I learned from a Hungarian scholar friend who I suddenly heard from after many years about research showing that the tradition of King Arthur and the Holy Grail in Europe rather than coming from Celtic sources as had been thought could be traced to Asian hero tales about a magical cupthe Revealerthat would appear at feasts but served only flawless heroes. The tradition had been brought to Europe by shamanic nomadic Scythian tribes from Asia that settled in Britain in the 2nd century A.D. and in Gaul in the 5th century. 5 The written versions of the story of the Graal or Sangraal had first appeared in medieval France. San had most-often been equated with the French san or saint meaning holy. However there had never been a satisfac- tory etymology for Graal although it was often said to come from gradalis Latin cratalis for platter. Sangraal therefore was translated into English as Holy Grail. And so I learned the story of the Quest for the Holy Grail had a shamanic-Scythian origin somewhere in Central Asia. However since I had begun working with the Grail healing symbols I sensed that there was far more to dis- cover. There was a powerful energy sur- rounding the stories of the quest for this Cup that I sensed in my bones. Work- ing with the Grail healing symbols had magnified my connection to a mysterious energy that I could only describe as being higher like the North Pole is higher and inner like the source of the Earths magnetic core. This had been particularly evident to me during the Grail ceremony I conducted before a glacier in Green- land. I asked for more guidance from the invisible world. What Is This Cup The question in my mind always was exactly what is this Cup And is it a physical Cup Suffice it to say that my Hungarian scholar friend revealed to me also that the word Graal was Mongolian for Source. A light went on in my brain and something very ancient resonated in my heart. So I asked was the correct translation for Sangraal the Holy Source Answers from the spirit world would often come to me through writ- ten texts shortly after I asked and in this case I soon found myself reading a book on Mongolian shamanism where I learned that in addition to the word graal the word sang also existed in Mongolian according to Mongolian sha- man Sarangerel it meant an invocation with a smudge bowl or smoke. 6 Therefore Sangraal or Sang Graal in Mongolian could mean Invocation of the Source which made a lot of sense. And this would make it a ceremony. I wondered when and how this Mongolian tradition had come to Europe. The first known written story of the GraalChrtien de Troyes Conte del Graalappeared in France in the late 12th century much later than the Scythian settlements in Gaul. However in Mongolia itself I found that several important nomadic tribes had converted to Christianity much earlier and they would no doubt have merged their sha- manic practices with the new faith. The tribe of the Keraits for one had been Christian since at least the early 11th century some 150 years before Chr- tiens book. At the same time Chris- tian Byzantium was a very cosmopolitan place with significant ties to Central Asia and there would surely have been contact with their Eastern brothers and sisters. And a number of Christian Byzantine rites often secret were known to have come from or to have been influenced by the far Orient. Indeed even earlier Eastern Chris- tians had close ties to Central-Asian shamanic cultures and Taoism in China which had common roots as well as practices. Already in the 6th century the shamanic White Huns of Central Asia a Mongol tribe had converted to Christi- anity. And at that same time Christian- ity became established in shamanic Bon