A Rain Forest Story
DaVeed Forrest CusackAn edited version of the amazing life story of DaVeed Forrest Cusack Dearest hearts of light,
Born an heir to a cattle and oil barony in South
Texas, I set out to traverse the difficult labyrinth of
the establishment of conservative America, of the
early 1970s, to be groomed as a Washington DC
politician. I did my all to be the "Dutiful
Establishment Son". Working as an intern for one of
the more influential power brokers in our nations
capital, I was privy to the back-room deal-makings of
the Cabal of the major oil barons. I temporarily
helped them to sale the mentality of a society that is
based on petroleum industries. Gleefully we cut huge
deals as we unconsciously destroyed the earths
ecosystems. I was fortunate enough to sit in on the
Watergate hearings, however as a result, I quickly
became disillusioned by the cynical intrigue, of our
countries present model of corporate controlled
democracy. As a young idealist, I was repulsed by the
immorality of Washington politics and the hypocrisy
of their society. I decided to abandon my attempts to
follow the path my blood family had set up for me,
much to their dismay. I more desired to follow my
hearts yearning to discover my soulful spiritual
mission on earth.
I was soon attracted to studying the ancient Mayan and
Incan cultures of Central and South America. I
planned to take a several week pilgrimage to their
sacred sites to gain deeper insights, but the night I
left the country I was in a near death auto accident
near Hermosillo, Mexico. I remember sitting in
council with angelic beings that informed me that I
had been physically shattered. I begged them to allow
me to return to my mangled body so that I might
realign my life to my highest spiritual purpose. I
soon awoke in a peasant hospital with broken legs,a
cracked coccyx and jammed vertebrae. Although I was
in excruciating pain and crippled, I was inwardly
ecstatic that I had been granted my physical life back.
I began to be visited by mystical Mexican Curanderos
who prayed over me and helped me to understand the
"Ancient Ones" of their ancestral linages.
As soon as I was able, I left the hospital and crawled
onto a train headed for the deep mountains of southern
Mexico. I was in search of native shamanic healers, I
intuitively felt could help me regain my health. I
encountered Mazatec shamans who miraculously began
quickly healing me. They then instructed me to go to
the mystical city of Palanque to pray for further
guidance. There I encountered shamanic healers that
instructed me in their sacred ways of reconnecting
with my ancestral lineage, which eventually led me to
Lake Attitlan in the deep mountains of Guatemala,
which is known as an ancient spiritual initiatory
site. After apprenticing with a local herbal shaman
for some time I eventually met one of my "twin flame
soul mates", a woman called Shandara, a spiritual
transpersonal psychologist on Sabbatical from San
Francisco.
After an intense courtship we married and began an
adventure that would shape my future and claim her
life. We headed south to research the ancient Incans
of the Andean mountains. We hitch-hiked through war
torn Central America, escaping many attempts on our
lives, holding on to the dream of establishing a
holistic rejuvenation community, deep in the tropical
mountains. After being tortured and beaten nearly to
death several times, by both the police and military
as well as anarchistic revolutionaries, we eventually
headed towards a valley deep in the southwestern
Colombian mountains, where we'd been told there was
virgin forest beyond the craziness of modern man.
The valley we soon discovered was an incredible
peaceful paradise when we arrived. We quickly began
our first attempts at tropical homesteading.
Shortly afterwards this awesome beauty was eclipsed by
the arrival of one of the most fearsome revolutionary
groups in the modern world, known as "La FARC", {The
Revolutionary Forces of Colombia, as it is known in
English}. They destroyed our newly planted gardens
and threatened to kill us, accusing us of being CIA
spies, forcing us to flee into the deep jungles for
our survival. Less than a year later, my beloved
wife, Shandara, passed on to the other side, suffering
physically from elephantiasis and malaria, both the
results of starvation and deprivation. I was on my
deathbed with these diseases, as well as hook worm and
yellow fever for over two years.
Miraculously, jungle shamans appeared out of the
forest, to heal me with their mysterious ancient
herbal preparations, that kept me from being consumed
by these normally deadly parasitic diseases.
Afterwards, for the next seven years, I explored the
last of these magnificent Columbian rainforests,
learning how to survive from the deep jungle shamans.
I learned from them how to tune into the invisible
voices of the supernatural world including the realm
of the plants and animals. I became an expert at
mixing herbs synergistically including the
vines,roots,barks,leaves,flowers and fruits of the
virgin forest. For many months at a time I would be
alone struggling to overcome the threats of loneliness,
starvation, poisonous snakes, killer cats and every
type of tropical insect based pestilence imaginable.
In 1987 my youngest brother Patrick, began searching
for me. He contacted the American embassy in Bogota,
who were able to locate the only Colombian family that
knew I was still alive. Through much heart felt
negotiations, I eventually was able to arrange to be
smuggled back out to the civilized world, with the
help of certain members of La FARC, who'd become
disillusioned with the escalating violence that was
engulfing Colombia.
When I emerged from the deep forest in 1988, I was a
completely different person. Ancient Incan teachings
and surviving the deep jungles have made me into a
real life "Curandero del Corazon". Though my reentry
into modern civilization has been a major culture
shock, I am enthusiastic about sharing the wealth of
healing knowledge I've acquired. With my beloved
friends, we have now set up "The Wellness Crusade,"
which is an international company that teaches people
how to be eternally young at any age. With many of
these same friends, we are presently setting up an
International rejuvenation City in La Paz, Mexico,
(for info go to Google search engine and type in,
rainbow gathering Mexico, for web links), where we
will teach people from all over the world in holistic
healing lifestyles for plants, animals and humans. I
invite you all to become a part of this endeavor in
whatever way you feel inspired. Please share this
message with any and all you feel will appreciate what
we are doing to help bring peace on earth, here and
now!
From a shamanic perspective moving into the Millennium
is really a major historic earth event. This next
cycle of growth for humanity will be one of the most
powerful cycles that's ever been on this planet. I am
so grateful to be here helping other souls overcome
their challenges and reconnecting with their "Divine
Nature." I would really love to invite you all to
explore at a deeper level the implications of doing a
community endeavor together, that will finally bring
the voice of the deep forest people, of bliss and
ecstasy, to the industrialized part of humanity.
Through film, music, dance, and the Sacred Arts we can
heal the sad wounds of humanity, now and forever more.
I look forward to conversing ASAP!
With warmest Aloha,
DaVeed Forrest Cusack
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