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MAMA MONA NDZEKELI
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anything was no problem. The words that came from the teacher were engraved in my mind sometimes before she spoke them. I led the class until spinal meningitis and a long convalescence cut off my formal education.
It is clear to me now that I was a born psychic. From early childhood I had many visions. A familiar and recurrent one surrounded me with very small babies with wings. I flew with them in what I know was the spirit world. I would love to hear the music now that I heard then in the spirit world, sounds of a soul-penetrating sweetness to which every cell in my person vibrated in harmony. As a child I felt a naive wonder that the world did not encourage me to report these marvels.
One day I went on a spirit journey with a guide who took me through rocks and streams with ease, as if matter was no barrier. We went through a mountain and saw mystical things, which I was warned not to speak of and never will. From that time on, my psychic powers matured. I wondered at the people around me who lived their daily lives with no clue to the existence of all these realities in other dimensions.
From time to time the guide, who had taken me on the journey to the core of the mountain, would speak to me, coming clearly through my everyday life, bringing me messages from the time dimension such as, “That man you are talking to is only going to live for seven days.” I would pray hard for that man's easy departure and his progress through the spirit world.
Even though these communications from the spirit world were known, people still considered me only a dreamer, and it was not until my prophecies were reported as true that I became respected as a psychic.
I cannot really make an accurate account of my powers. In other words, some of the things I do are just as mysterious to me as they are to you.
When I grew up and became a young married woman, many people would come to me to ask me to solve their
