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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Mama Mona is President of the African Spiritual Church in South Africa. Her deep compassion and the accuracy of her messages have produced thousands of welldocumented healings and psychic messages. Through her understanding of the ancestral background of her people, she has followed the tribal customs and blended them with her own high order of Christianity. Mama Mona has become a spiritual force.
We last saw Mama Mona in Manhattan where she had come from Africa to a healing session. She was accompanied by her husband, a fine, erudite man who is deeply involved with her work. He is the pastor of her Spiritualist Church.
Mama Mona, a beautiful woman whose face expresses her high ideals of service and love, does not speak English, so our conversation was interpreted back and forth by her pleasant and intelligent assistant who sat beside her. Mama's luminous eyes were on our faces as we spoke, alert to the questions and anxieties we expressed as if she needed no interpreter but caught our questions on the conduits of the mind. She sat quietly, wrapped in a powerful stillness, her white robes hanging in biblical folds.
At one of her sessions, when asked to hurry with individual hearings because time was getting short, she replied through her interpreter, a definite no. She said, “The spirit guides who are here must be given time to finish each individual completely, or they will not be available.” No further effort was made to hurry Mama Mona.
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