it too?” she asked.
“Of course”, he said. “Take a photograph if you don’t believe it is there.”
She thought he was crazy, of course. How can you photograph a vision, something just in your head? But she took the picture anyway and when she later got it developed, there it was: the stairway of light, just as she’d seen it. She called her shaman again and he came over to look at the photo.
“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you!” he said. “These things exist. San Pedro opens your eyes to what is already there!”
The photograph she took that day is reproduced in my book, The Hummingbird’s Journey to God (O Books, 2009), the first to be written entirely about San Pedro healing.
“With that experience – and there have been many others – San Pedro taught me to believe”, she says. “Before it I used to walk through this world asleep. Now I notice everything and have a new respect for the Earth, for myself and others.”
This new sense of respect is consistent among all of the participants I have worked with. Simon, a businessman from Gibraltar, put it this way: “San Pedro showed me just how beautiful life is. I had a sense of completion, like I had healed everything that needed to be healed. I am so grateful for the insights it gave me.”
Tracie, a drug counsellor from Australia says: “San Pedro was life-changing. I felt peace and acceptance and an overwhelming sense of belonging to the earth and the importance of every curve of the mountains, every stone and blade of grass; all part of the same incredible tableau and all of equal importance. Through the eyes of San Pedro the world is an exceptionally beautiful place and I can bring the