"This is why you have come!" From across the crackling flames, the Maasai laibon, the shaman Sarototi, rises, points, shouting at me, "Someone has stolen the flow from your life and we can give it back to you!"
As Marjana interprets, these words ricochet off the stars, off the trees of the Sacred Forest of the Lost Child, from dimensions of time, through consciousnesses penetrating through the walls of my porous skin into the very cells themselves- "...and we can give it back to you...give it back to you...back to you... to you...you." Without me revealing much of anything, someone has heard, listened, grasped-is willing to hold my story with all of its complications.
Across the Divide to the Divine: An African Initiation is of an American woman's initiatory journey before, through and after the Maasai Warriors, a story of reclamation.
Inspired by the stories of the Kalahari, in search of more, Lewis takes flight from her fashion career to Botswana. Only to discover through an intuitive, she had been a San Bush-woman in 1787, who was kidnapped by the Maasai and dragged across the continent to heal their elderly. This pronouncement will lead her to Kenya in and out of NYC on her holidays where she will be immersed in the culture through a naming ceremony, a water ritual and the final fire walk, which will open her heart, awaken her to her gifts, catapult her out of the corporate world, transform the way she sees the seen and unseen worlds.