Leclère Alexandra - Seeing the Dead, Talking with Spirits: Shamanic Healing Through Contact with the Spirit World

With unconditional love and joy I dedicate this book to my children, Tania, Tristan, Terence, and Talia, who sustain me, and to Georges, because he is there.

Acknowledgments

Special thanks to Anne Dillon who was essential in manifesting this book. Thanks also to Diane Foster Grella and Sandy Weiss for their support. John Perkins, Penney Leyshon, Melanie Noblit-Gambino, Rosalyn Bruyere, Don Cardinal, and Jan Brugal are some of my teachers who I must thank for having blessed my path. The staff of Inner Traditions have been wonderful to me. Finally I want to thank all of my clients who are also my teachers and keep me in the light. May this book be a reflection of all the love and joy I have received.

Foreword

IT TOOK A GREAT LEAP OF FAITH FOR ME to move from writing books on indigenous people to exposing the shadow side of my life in Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. The shamans were behind me, urging me to take this leap; they had taught me about the powers of intent, courage, and focused energy, and of how to use them to transform ourselves and our communities.

We have arrived at a time in history when we know that human societies must change. The world we have created is not sustainable. We cannot continue walking a path where so few control so much of the material wealth and so many are relegated to extreme poverty. We cannot continue to glance from side to side as we walk this path and persist in the belief that the things we seethe animals, insects, plants, and all the other nonhuman entitiesare out there, separate, apart, and independent of us. Our only hope, if we are to survive as a species, is to change. We must transform ourselves; we must change the way we look at the world and our actions. We must revise our concepts of economics, science, and ecology and shapeshift the structures that govern us.

In order to step onto this new path, it is necessary for us to step outside the walls that have limited our ways of thinking, feeling, and living. And this transition must occur on both personal and societal levels.

Most indigenous peoples I have known prophesize that we have entered a time that offers the hope for transformation. Native cultures throughout the Americas, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia have predicted that the first years of the twenty-first century are a time of great opportunity. They tell us that the potential exists for raising human consciousness to levels never before experienced. They are very clear: higher consciousness is what is required in order for us to transformand to survive. These prophecies, as well as the individual teachers who shared them with me, prodded me to make that leap of faith and writeConfessions of an Economic Hit Man.

Alexandra Leclere has taken a similar leap of faith. Her Seeing the Dead, Talking with Spirits: Shamanic Healing through Contact with the Spirit World is a book about transformation. Writing it required great courage and a deep belief in our limitless possibilities. One of her goals is to open you to the possibilities for re-creating yourself and, in so doing, conceiving a new and better world. This book tells the story of one womans heroic journey, the obstacles she encountered, the discoveries she made, and the doors she opened; in opening them, she empowered her core self to walk through those walls and step out onto her new path. Through telling her personal story, Alexandra also inspires the rest of us to follow. She empowers us to take our own heroic journey.

As you read Alexandras book, I encourage you to move deep inside your own core self. I urge you to explore your dreams and to know that you have the ability to materialize them. And I exhort you to include in your personal dreams the dream that the prophecies will be realized.Together we will heal ourselves and the societies we have created; we will manifest a world our children and grandchildren will be proud to inherit.

JOHN PERKINS, author of
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man and
Shapeshifting: Shamanic Techniques for
Global and Personal Transformation

PROLOGUE

A Session

WHEN SHE MADE THE APPOINTMENT over the phone, Beatrice explained that she wanted to find out more about the strange things that were happening to her. She had intuitions and strange dreams. A friend suggested Beatrice call me because of my work with the Spirit World. My initial assessment after our telephone conversation was that Beatrice was breaking through, becoming aware of her spiritual self.

As I was driving to the appointment, my spirit guide gave me information about what would happen. I heard that I had to remove energy from Beatrices heart that was causing her trouble. She had a heart condition that I was going to heal. I was told that I would be given instructions about exactly what to do.

As I drove up to The Oaks, where I had my office, I enjoyed the magnificent view over Long Island Sound. The trees made a collage of greens as the sound of waves softly kissing the shore drifted toward me.

When I walked into my small corner office, the sunlight greeted me through the mansions windows. One window is round; the other is rectangular. In the middle of the room two chairs faced each other and a small mattress lay on the floor.

Beatrice arrived. She sat in one of the two chairs while I walked around the room with an abalone shell that carried burning sage from South Dakota. In her forties, Beatrice looked very chic, her short hair cut at an attractive angle and her coordinated sweater and skirt both made from cashmere. Her happy smile completed the picture of an upscale woman.

I went to the window and said the Lords Prayer and then a private prayer to the Creator. My instructions became clearer. Sitting across from Beatrice, I was to reach forward when I got the signal, pull out something from her heart, and throw it out the window.

I calmly put an offering of tobacco on the windowsill. I sat down across from Beatrice, who was chatting cheerfully about nothing important, making small talk. She looked to be the picture of health.

Why did you want to see me? I asked quietly.

I feel so confused. I havent been very happy. Strange things have been happening. I just havent been myself for almost two years now. I dont know what to do. Oh, my poor husband, and my children, Beatrice began to sob. Her whole demeanor changed.

Is there something wrong with your family? I asked gently.

No, theyre fine! Its me. I dont know what to do, Beatrice continued sobbing.

I heard from the Spirit World that I needed to reach forward now, grab the something from her chest, and throw it out the window. As Beatrice sobbed harder, I saw a hideous shape form on her chest; it grew larger as she sobbed more.

Dont be afraid. Im going to grab something in front of your chest, I said quietly. I reached forward and grabbed the something and threw it out the window.

Beatrice stopped crying.

How did you know I had developed a heart problem? A cardiologist is monitoring me. Over the past two years it has gotten worse and worse, Beatrice told me.

I think your heart problem is over now, I informed Beatrice.

Then I invited Beatrice to lie down on the mattress. I sat next to her on the floor. She closed her eyes and relaxed as I guided her meditation. The words that I spoke to her were words that I heard and was repeating out loud. I saw a six-year-old child.