Publisher's Synopsis
The book discusses the journey of a muslim female born in Apartheid South Africa. It involves her experiences of studying in Ireland and while there experiencing depression and anxiety. This eventually culminated in her qualifying in psychiatry in South Africa, and practicing there. Her interest in consciousness and metaphysical aspects of being resulted in her exploring these areas To this end she travelled to South America and worked in New Zealand to further gain insights into spirituality. Her experiences with Ayahuaska and shamans in South America had created a profound awareness in her of the benefits of plant medicines and their benefit in healing. She also paid heed to all non allopathic treatment modalities and sadly saw how present day allopathic medicine was so controlled by pharmaceutical companies and monetisation of health She became aware of control issues by benevolent and non benevolent influences on humanity. Mostly however she was aware of and experienced the power of love and the scientific effect of this emotion/factor in healing. Transpersonal psychology and its influence on psychiatry was another area of exploration especially as it involved spirituality and everything pertaining to the spirit of mankind In describing her journey she hopes to bring attention to her readers that a very holistic form of treatment is available to humanity that has been suppressed and maligned by conventional allopathic medicine, mainly because of monetisation issues