These lightning bolt experiences happened a few more times in very random places amongst various shamanic practitioners.

As you can probably imagine, this sent my skeptical science-mind into overdrive! In the long run, however, it ended up being a good thing because my curiosity took me on a ride. In an effort to understand what was happening to me, I studied and practiced energy healing, meditation, neuroscience, reiki, shamanism, archetypal psychology, tantra, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, astrology, physiology, and a whole lot more.