D.A.R.

I stayed at the Lakeshore House Lodging & Pub in Monson, ME where Ms. Rebekah, allows certain individuals to work for stay. It was while I was in the laundry matte washing bedding and towels that I saw this man in his sixties sitting at a table by the window. He looked like a cross between George W. Bush and Robin Williams and he had these bright blue enlightening eyes that drew you closer to him without you realizing. "Are you a thru-hiker?" he asked. "Doing a work for stay I presume?" "May I ask what your ethnicity is?" "Irish, Scottish, and a bit of micmac Indian," I replied. He was holding pamphlet about colloidal silver and its applications. This has been a practice for thousands of years dating back to the Greeks and Romans. In fact, the use of sliver colloids for treatments of  infections was used up until WWII before antibiotics became the standard (http://health.centreforce.com/health/silver.html). (you can check out this website to see all the applications of silver colloids).

So after this man showed me his pamphlet and I scrolled through some of the uses, he started saying that everything has a silver lining and that we are all connected. God is really Mother Nature and if we are good to Mother Nature, she will be good to us. He spoke of his friend, a pure bread Indian, of whom he attributed   much of his teaching to. He started talking about this idea of a spirit, that our physical bodies house an invisible power that can connect with people. It's the vibe you get from people, you can tell what state their spirit is in. This man kept saying that he could tell I was doing this walk to be closer to nature and that I need to remember to "walk the walk." At this point I was only a couple of feet away from this man and I was getting goosebumps but I knew it was because our spirits were connecting.

He told me that he could tell I had good parents because I was not averting my eyes as we spoke but I could not stop looking in his eyes, as if I were in a trance.

He suggested that I meditate. He also told me to take my time finding a mate because he could tell I was still trying to figure some things out about myself and the union of two people, when it is right is a bridge between the male and female hemispheres of the brain, a powerful connection that is worth waiting for. "Walk the walk" he continued to say. He claimed he was not crazy but that he has been accused of being so and it even cost him his marriage, but he has experienced many miracles.

He said that everywhere he goes he goes for a reason and that he came to Ms. Rebekah's to do laundry but he realized it was also to meet me.

"I hope I have helped you," he said. Then I shook his hand and thanked him, for what I was not sure at that point, but I knew that he had helped me in some way.

I think of this man everyday. I had a few epiphanies after I met this man and while I was home on break due to Achilles tendinitis, one being my love and need to pursue further education in the realm of alternative medicine, and two being the need to confront several people in my life for the health of my spirit.

After confronting was complete I went to the library to get a book on osteopathic medicine, an alternative medicine practiced among medical doctors. I found the book and continued to scan the shelves when my eyes caught, "The Anatomy of the Spirit; The Seven Stages of Power and Healing," by Caroline Myss, PH.D.

I opened to the foreword and the first line read:

"On rare occasions, you may meet a unique person who dramatically alters your perceptions of the world and of yourself."

Instantly I was flooded with that goosebumpy feeling and I thought of the man with the bright blue eyes back in the laundry matte in Monson. So I checked this one out as well.

The book is about medical intuition, the ability to determine a persons site of illness and the factors contributing to it by mere visualization. Dr. Myss, reminds us that it is not a gift but a skill that can be acquired with years of practice. She talks about the seven spiritual centers of the human body and how they radiate energy and that they thrive or become deprived, which can be detected by a change in frequency of this vibrational energy. Thoughts, ideas and perceptions start off as chemical messages and eventually get stored in the bodies tissues, therefor, our mind and body are intertwined and cannot be separated. Myss says that illness does not randomly strike people, instead it is due to any of the seven centers running low on energy due to negative thoughts.

Dr. Myss uses the words power, energy and spirit interchangeably as they all are synonymous with each other. Your second spiritual center your second chakras is about your relationships with people and it recommends that you do not hold grudges, and that you need to forgive others, in order to release the negative energy inside of you that may lead to illness.

I was amazed because I cleared my "rackets" with the individuals in my life that were draining my spirit and I did this after I met the man in Monson, before I knew how he had helped me and before I had any knowledge of this book on the shelf of my library back at home.

The silver lining is starting to show its glint, because I got tendinitis and stepped off the trail and decided to go to the chiropractor I discovered my love for alternative medicine and therefore visited the library and found this book and it is this book that made me realize what the Man from Monson helped me with- clearing my body of negative energy.