He said he first learned about sangomas from a local friend and spent many years studying the practice before giving up his job advising banks on risk and information security in February to train as one himself.
"It's not something you just decide to do – it chooses you rather than the other way round and it's such a massive process that you don't enter into it lightly," he said.
"Some people might see this as a weird decision because I had a successful job in the UK and quite a nice life.
"This is very different and there was a period of learning to renounce control, to think less and do more. Before, I was paid to ask questions but here, questions aren't important. It's about doing things without asking."
He conceded that locals might have initially been nonplussed about a white man training as a sangoma, whose skills including reading bones and prescribing herbal cures are sought out by an estimated 50 per cent of South Africans.
And despite the seemingly strange and secretive rituals, he insists that Westerners can learn much from sangomas.
"It's very much grounded and there's nothing New Age or airy fairy about it, you get your hands dirty," he said.
"Here, if they want a chicken to eat, they kill it. In England I'd have gone to the supermarket.
Telegraph
The force is strong within you Brit
I knew you were going to say that ..
If it was something to do with being hungry, that could well have been me MBK
TB did you just say something, I hear your voices inside my head..:)
I am taking a distance learning course in telepathy
I am taking a distance learning course in "bone reading" and will be ready to help nubile young tribeswomen with their problems..
Hmmmmmmmmmmm - Cabbage you say? Will that be with butter and black pepper?
I am now residing in the part of the sub conscious mind, where no one has even been before.My trick to woo my followers with my diet of cabbage and pixie dust..:)
Don't ! The very thought of it makes me want to puke :-/ Shuddering.
I am not in a State of Mind to Change Carrer paths any more.... ;)
"How did he manage to vomit goats blood?"Vomiting it is easy, drinking it in the first place would have been the problem for most. Of course Drac would have failed that test because there is no way he would have given the goats blood up having first drank it.
How did he manage to vomit goats blood? Very odd - but to each their own lolI always wanted to be a Spy - but I could never find a Mati or a Hari :-(
So can I become a bank consultant now?
VEry Educational!
Most Gurus have a special trick to awe their followers - Whats yours ?
My tag line for today is beware of MBK..
You will never be able to satisy all those women :O(
Haha.. Valid point ..
I wish I could turn into a Guru.. I have Baba Ramdev and Sai Baba in mind..:)
I don't think it was much of a switch as both careers are all about smoke, mirrors, false forecasts, lingo, sales pitch, and lies. Only the costume is different. :-)