Description

By David Williams

ISBN: 978-1-78382-135-8
Published: 2014
Pages: 96
Key Themes: Mental Health, Mental Illness, Shamanism, Spirituality, True Story, Bipolar

Description

On 7.7.2005 the Celtic Shaman was sitting outside a Coffee shop in Amsterdam, self medicating his intrusive thoughts and depression with cannabis when the images from London came through. He stood in a trance looking at the TV screen. The bombs that went off in London that day triggered an explosion in Davids mind. For the next month he was to undergo a Spiritual Emergency, a Shamanic Trance Journey, which saw him being assaulted by the Dutch police, being arrested for hanging off the seventh floor of a Central Hotel, flying home to the UK to file an official complaint against the Dutch Police Force, fly back to the Netherlands to be arrested a further two times before landing up in Jail. A Spiritual Power was trying to tell David something. This is his story.

About the Author

David Williams aka the Celtic Shaman was born on St Davids Day 1966.
He was a bin man and council gardener, went to University as a Mature Student and became a Youth worker and then a Secondary School Teacher.
In January 2006 he was diagnosed with Bipolar Affective Disorder. He is now Artistic Director of the Red Button Theatre and Film Co-operative. His mission statement is to help the dispossessed and the disenfranchised tell their stories through Community Theatre. His Monologues The Lost Souls Launderette were performed at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff in 2010 five years exactly after a visit from a Shamanic force in his prison cell in Amsterdam. This is his story.