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www.shamansociety.org 25 Tibet which had strong connections with Mongolia and the Huns. The Church remained strong there until at least the 13th century. Meanwhile in neighboring China starting in the 7th century there were a number of Taoist- Christian monasteries. 7 And so the Graal tradition could have come to the West from any one of these groups. There were many people traveling back and forth between the Far East and Christian Byzantium and between Byzantium and Europe even before the First Crusade in 1095. After the city was sacked by the Crusaders many relics and rites made their way back to Europe. And so the Graal or Sangraal prac- tice or transmission must have made its way from Mongolia to France probably by way of Byzantium brought by return- ing Crusaders or Moslems by way of Spain. Eventually the Sangraal tradition probably through resonance and a certain cultural familiarity seems to have become amalgamated with the Scythian story of the Cup which had taken root earlier in Europe and the Celtic stories of magical Cauldrons and with the Christian story of the Cup of the Last Supper. It was possible even probable I mused that they all had common ancient roots and indeed there was evidence of this. And so it seemed very possible that the Sangraal or Sang Graal was an Asian sha- manic ceremony or trans- mission possibly Christian invoking the Source. Now I wondered to what ex- actly did the word Graal or Source refer The Source of what I knew that there were in fact many Mongolian shamanic ceremonies with a cup. The Dream And so it was now five or six years after I had first learned Reiki and received the Grail healing symbols plus a physical confirmation that they came from Jesus Christ. And I had been guided by my spirit guides to understand that these symbols were for shamanic healing work and I had learned that in Mongo- lian Graal meant Source and Sang Graal might have meant Invocation of the Source. And so it was possibly a transmission and invocation ceremony that had come to the West from a prob- ably shamanic-Christiantradition of Central Asia. And yet I knew there was still something important missing. I didnt know exactly what was meant by Source. Nevertheless I was regu- larly celebrating the Grail Communion ceremony for healing as instructed by the spirits with a group of friends energizing water and grain bread and continuing to ask for guidance. It was then that I had a lucid dream that led to breakthrough information about the origin of the Grail and its function in Central Asia and the Grail as Source. In the dream there was an oriental-looking man in jeans and a t-shirt with a large topknot standing about twenty feet away from me sur- rounded by his followers. A voice said to me He is the real thing. Then the man turned and spoke to me in a language that I could not understand. He pointed a finger straight at me and I felt a power- ful electrical shock. After I awoke I continued to feel shaken by the strong jolt. Later I figured that it had been an empowerment. But an empowerment of what I thought the man must be a spirit and I began researching traditions where oriental-looking men wore large top- knots. At first I thought he might be a Japanese Samurai spirit or a Mongolian or possibly even a Blackfoot Indian spirit. A few months later however I recog- nized the face in a photograph I saw in an article on shamanic Chinese calligra- phy. His name was Master Zhongxian Wu and he was from China. He had written a book explaining that Qigong meaning energy work had come from the shamans of pre-Taoist China some 8000 years ago. Soon in 2009 Master Wu would publish another book which I promptly read and then I knew immediately why he had appeared to me in a dream. The book had a section on the shamanic origins of the Yijing better-known as the I Ching or Book of Change. Here I found the answer to what I was looking for regarding the function of the Holy Grail as a Cup that was the Source. The book explained that in ancient shamanic China long before Confucius it was believed that the knowledge in the Yijing known as The Heavenly Book had been channeled from heaven by the wu or shamans whose original function was to connect with the universal energy and to pass it on to others. Clue in the Sky Yijing was a composite of two words jing which meant a Chinese Classic and Yi for which the oldest-known oracle-bone character was a cup of water or grain recorded by pre-Taoist shamans over 4000 years ago. The Oracle Script or Seal Script traditionally had been considered by shamans to be the means of receiv- ing Heavenly knowledge and universal