I began my awakening and my spiritual development consciously around 1990, possibly a few years before. The question in my head at that time was “Who am I?” and “What am I?” and “There has to be more to life than this?” and “There is no point to this mundane life, just work and play?” I was searching, searching, searching for something that felt more real and meaningful to me than the life I had. My life was sad, lonely, disappointing, I was losing myself and somewhere in me I didn’t believe that that was how it was meant to be.
By the time the Twin Towers event came around I had been growing into a healer and a spiritual teacher for ten years. I can’t remember now if the idea of being a shaman was even in my understanding. I was very naive and ignorant really of such things. Somewhere in that time other people were pointing out and telling me that I was a Shaman. Later God asked me to put Holy in front of the word Shaman and to accept myself as Maria Brooks, Maria Magdalena, Holy Shaman. Believe me it was a tall order and one that I wasn’t too impressed with. What I did know was that before this time occasionally I was taken in meditation to a real situation and asked to perform certain tasks.
The first big experience that was way out of my understanding came on 13th March 1996. I found myself being taken to Dunblane, near Stirling in Scotland. There had been a massacre, sixteen children dead and one teacher. That evening I went to my spiritual development class, blissfully unaware of what had taken place that day. We went into meditation and suddenly I was in a school playground. Anxious parents stood around in the playground crying but I was not in their dimension. I could see children pulling at their parents sleeves trying to get their attention but their parents were not responding to them. I realised that the children were dead. It was like being in two different dimensions, parallel universes. I spoke out to our meditation teacher Pearl Graham for guidance on what I was supposed to do as this was very new to me. She told me to just go with it and do what I am guided to do, all was well. So I did.
It was as if another part of me came into existence. I was told by an invisible presence to gather the children. I presumed it was because I was a school teacher myself and used to children. I gathered them up and encouraged them to come with me into the school and I settled them down to wait for me. Next I was taken into a gymnasium and I saw the teacher with her spirit still in her body hanging on for dear life. She was very confused and not accepting that she had died. Spirit children were dazed and confused, some still in their bodies also. They needed their teacher and I was guided to coax her to come away from her body and to take these children into the light. They needed her and she stepped up immediately. I guided her and all of the children towards the light and they went in ….to heaven… I presumed. As the years went by it slowly dawned on me that this kind of experience was part of my training to accept and become who I am, Maria Brooks: Mary Magdalene/Marija Magdalena: Holy Shaman. I am the Lord’s advocate. (Those words have just been given to me as I type.) All my training, apart from those two or three introductory years with Pearl came directly from source. Ultimately of course everything was a planned purpose. The Twin Towers gave me a whole new understanding of a power that we know so little about, a Divine Intelligence that we call God. These stories give us a small glimpse of the meaning behind the expression “God can move in mysterious ways.”
A Video recorded in 2008, where I describe my experience with the Twin Towers: