A Guide to Enlightenment

The day after arriving in Venezuela, I found myself in a crowded hospital room unlike anything I had ever experienced. Amid loud voices, air kisses, and unfamiliar rituals, I was invited to bless a dying man with Agua Florida. What seemed strange—even frightening—to my seventeen-year-old self would, decades later, become a profound lesson in love, ritual, and remembrance.

The morning after a life-changing encounter with Divine Light, I awoke in Venezuela eager to explore. Instead, a screaming parrot, a mysterious apple, and an ancient folk tradition challenged everything I thought I knew about fear, energy, and the unseen world. Looking back, I recognize it as one of my first lessons in the wisdom of nature and the sacred language of Spirit.

As many of you know, that was not my last visit to Venezuela; I moved there in 1980 and spent five years having babies and embracing the cul

On a moonless night in Venezuela, a frightened young bride stood at the edge of the Caribbean, convinced she was staring into a black hole of nothingness. Decades later, she would come to know that same darkness as the birthplace of grace, Presence, and profound inner peace.