Brandon Bays is the founder of The Journey and creator of The Journey Method, which she developed over the last


20 years out of her own direct experience of healing from


a large tumour over a period of six weeks. The Journey


Method has since grown to be a globally recognised healing methodology.


driving us to the outskirts of the ghetto. We were then greeted by six black policemen to drive us into the heart of the ghetto. I was able to go into such a violent community because something inside of me had come to peace with violence in my life. That’s one of the many, many, many life lessons that that tumour gave me.


ES: If you could ask your mother or your mother’s mother’s mother what she thinks about the path you’ve taken, what would her reaction be?


cannot afford to buy a book, let alone go to a seminar. We go into indigenous communities where people have been disenfranchised, separated, where deep trauma has occurred and healing is needed: Aboriginal communities, Maori, the first nations peoples in North America, African tribal communities, Indian orphanages, etc. The first time I went into Soweto, which is a three million person township in South Africa, our team was accompanied by six police cars, with white drivers,


BB: Interestingly enough, in our latter years I learned how to speak to the ‘Buddha nature’, the divine wisdom in my mother, and together we learned to communicate at a much deeper level. We’ve shared a real love affair for the last 20+ years. Her mother, my grandmother, was an opera singer, both living in Vienna, Austria, during WWII, and I believe both were scarred by the Holocaust. My grandfather was put into prison by the Nazis and shot through the head; so Omi came to America a


very damaged woman. My mother’s first husband was shot down by the Luftwaffe and so they both suffered deep trauma in WWII. I can’t say what my forefathers or


foremothers would have felt about my current path. What I do know is that inside each of us there is a realisation of our own inner divinity. No matter how damaged we are and how much pain we’ve suffered in life, I think all of us sense that that there is a divine potential inside. I’m sure that, in my grandmother and her mother before her, there was a sensing of that, even if they had no words to describe it nor a way to access it. I think most of us feel that we’re


not living wholly, as our full potential, whoever we are. We’re living a version of it that we present to the world. I feel that all of us have a knowing that there is greatness there, that there is beauty there, that there is love there. What The Journey allows you to do is to open into that, to realise that, to connect to that which is your own essential nature.


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