If you want to get Biblical about it, we're told from the beginning that we're created in God's image. But we forget how to express that image. Not that I say it's wrong if that's what the people want. And that is what the natives were able to teach me. Yes, I'm not doing as much work with them now as I used to because I'm more into the workshops.
Folks come for various reasons with different kinds of illness.
The method of the ritual is about harmonic balance. And whenever we're off balance, of course illnesses have to come into our bodies and into our minds, and so we can have both psychological and physiological dysfunctions. I'll give you example. I had a lady about 49 years old who came to visit me about a week ago and she was walking crooked, one shoulder was way down, the other was up and she was in complete pain. Visualize herself at the waterfall.