2000 was of course a big year for me, I’d launched my Millennium project in September 1999, not without some trepidation, and had secured enough photography business to support my new ‘Bohemian’ lifestyle as it had been called by my last employer. Meditation and channelling were fundamental to its success; I’d completed the channelling course at Runnings Park in December 1998 and during 2000 had successfully completed a commission which had taken me to Halifax in Yorkshire, Ashford in Kent and Brighton in Sussex – with several other places in between, all during the fuel crisis. By way of an annual review and a rest I decided on a personal retreat to a caravan in Pembrokeshire for a week in October. I’d taken a newly acquired book explaining Shamanism and spent the dismal wet days reading; on the brighter days in between I managed some exploration of the area, including the recently completed Oriel Ty Ddewi, where I saw a book The Celtic Shaman on display. Needless to say it became part of the library and I began working my way through it, to understand this ‘new’ discovery. My dreams were vivid and included one where I saw a man with ‘feathers growing on his hands and arms flying effortlessly about the trees in the air demonstrating how easy it is to fly. In the dream I wake up, someone comments that we've all been asleep’. All very meaningful for a seeker, and the way forward seemed clear. Shamanism is an ancient practice for bridging the physical and spirit worlds, the shaman being the intermediary on a self-directed spiritual path using inner world guidance, independent of dogma or other intermediaries.