From the start it was a strange injury. I do several sports; karate where I was a purple belt, and tennis which I play competitively at the club level. And so I always have plenty of opportunities to get injured. But I didn't get injured while I did a sport. I didn't even get injured within several days of doing one of my sports. I just woke up one morning and my heel hurt. Within two days, my leg started to hurt and within hours I couldn't put any weight onto my leg at all. I had ruptured my calf muscle. Recovery involved about six weeks in an air cast and physical therapy that included everything from swimming to special stretches.

After about three months I began returning slowly to my sports. After about nine months, I was back fully to my sports. There was, however, a nagging tightness and sometimes aching in my leg that never seemed to fully leave me. After a strenuous workout it would even develop spasms at times I had full range of motion and didn't seem to be hindered sports wise other than the discomfort, so I knew that something else was going on. I spoke to JC and asked if he would do a healing on my leg.

Early one August morning after a very powerful baptism ceremony, JC performed the healing. I don't know what energy he was tapping into; I did feel tingling up and down my spine. It was excruciatingly painful when he put his hands on my leg and pulled off whatever it was he was pulling off.

That night when everyone had gone to bed at my house, I went into my meditation room to do some chanting and ceremony. My chanting kept getting interrupted because I felt like snakes were crawling over my body. I knew from the rational world that there were no snakes in my room in my house. But they felt so real that I couldn't concentrate.

Finally after several fruitless attempts, I decided to call it a night. As I was closing up my altar, I suddenly heard a very distinctive hissing sound coming from the corner of the room. I couldn't see anything, but the noise had a distinctly otherworldly feel to it. It made the hair on the back of my head stand on end and my blood instantly ran cold in my veins. It had the effect that a good horror film will have on someone - paralyzing.

I ran out of the room, closed the door and called JC even though it was near midnight. Normally JC & wife have an answering machine on so they do not have to answer the phone at night. But on this night JC had fallen asleep downstairs by the phone and had gotten up and was standing by the phone when it rang at midnight. I remember sobbing to him that something was hissing at me and I was terrified.

JC said that he had taken a serpent off of my leg that morning and had cast it away but sometimes this serpent energy will follow the person and “stalk” them. He taught me a secret mudra (a hand position), a mantra (a vocalization/prayer), and a movement to chase it away.

When I touched the doorknob of the room, I immediately felt the same cold horror. My hair stood up and my blood felt chilled again. I walked carefully into the room with my arms crossed in front of me and my hands tightly holding onto the mudra. In the corner where the energy was most intense I performed the combined movement and mantra twice.