Patrick: I was always drawn to Egypt. That was the area I was most fascinated with. Being an architect and in architectural school, one of the things I did was a competition for a tourist complex at the pyramids. I started to incorporate a lot of the angles sacred geometry from the pyramids in a lot of my projects.

I didn't know how I would go to Egypt, but I ended up entering the Peace Corps. They did not have the Peace Corps in Egypt at the time nor was it offered, but I ended up going to Yemen which was another Arab country on the tip of Saudi Arabia across from Africa.

One of the reasons that I went to Yemen was that I felt I could connect very strongly with the Sufi tradition which is the mystical side of Islam -- much like within Christianity there are definitely more mystical aspects within the Christian faith that deal with connecting more fully. It was kind of like having extra meditation practices and really striving to connect. I had gone to Yemen and unfortunately didn't connect with any Sufi groups at all there, so I just practiced meditation regularly. I had a lot of free time because of the way the culture is structured. What I then ended up developing was my own spiritual practice and learning some of the basics of other Islamic religions.

About halfway through my tour with the Peace Corps, I went on vacation and off I went to Egypt. My very first thought was to come and go to the pyramids. I first went into the Queen's chamber. The hallway got bigger and then opened into a little doorway and to the right the chamber would open. The Queen's chamber was much smaller. It has a little pointed roof where it would go up. It also had the sarcophagus in it to the right as well. Energetically, it was very peaceful there. I sat down and meditated for a while. I had the whole place to myself as I had come there early in the morning. I just sat there and felt the energy and felt drawn to move around into the chamber. I then decided I would go around and check into the King's chamber next.

In the King's chamber there is what they call a Grand Gallery. Again, I just walked in and felt right at home. I began to walk around and the sarcophagus is off to the right and the position of the head. I walked around. I knew in my heart that I needed to spend the night in this place. I didn't know how I was going to do it, but again I asked for the guidance for this to occur. Right when I was leaving, I started to look down and there was this little door where some thieves had tried to carve in and around the granite that encased the King's chamber. So the little tiny hole was big enough for someone to crawl up into. There was a gate there that was covering it but the gate was unlocked. I got my flashlight out and looked up in there and I thought, "Well that looks interesting" and this voice said, "you are going in there." So I said, "I'm going to go in there, but not now."

So I went home and the next morning I returned, and I was prepared. I had decided that I would fast. I had fasted the night before and hadn't eaten anything in the morning. I came back and had the things I would need for spending the night in the King's chamber. Again the gate was left unlocked, so I opened the gate, crawled in and shut it behind me, and kept crawling. I had no idea of what was in there and I crawled up and up and up. It went into a little alcove that was above the King's chamber.

So I sat there and meditated. It was just wonderful. I was in an almost suspended animation. There was a very nice energy there. It was very calm and peaceful. I meditated all day long right up above the King's chamber and every now and then could hear some of the tourists coming and going from where I was. I waited until I felt all the people leave and hear them shut the main gate. It was about 7:00 at night. I crawled out of the tunnel that I was hidding in and went directly into the King's chamber. It was just absolutely pitch black. There was no light whatsoever. I turned on my flashlight and found the sarcophagus and proceeded to sit and mediate in it. At that point a voice said, "No, you aren't supposed to sit in it." So I lay down. It was actually a very good fit.

I lay down and just started to meditate and before long I could hear this very high-pitched sound coming, like an "eeeeeeeeee" and I thought "Oh wow! That's awful quick!" I was lying there and I said, "Okay, whatever's going to happen, you know, just come on in." And before long I realized that this high-pitched sound was mosquitoes. And I was thinking, "Wait a minute. There's not supposed to be mosquitoes in the pyramids!" You know from the reading I had done, these forms of life where not supposed to be here. And that's one thing that I definitely have a problem with, mosquitoes. And I wasn't prepared. Now I did have a roll of toilet paper, so I thought, "Oh, what I'll do is...because I don't want mosquitoes chewing on me all night" and so I took the toilet paper and started to wrap myself up so they couldn't bite. I wrapped my arms all up with the toilet paper and I wrapped my feet because I didn't have socks or anything on. And then I wrapped my face as well and lay back down again. And once I began to get comfortable I heard this "boom.... boom" sound. And I thought, "Oh, no.someone's coming." And so here I am, laying in a sarcophagus all wrapped up in toilet paper, and someone's coming. My mind is going, "Well, like, what should I do? Should I try to get back out?" And I realized if someone's coming up the grand gallery and I get up I'll have to turn my light on in here where it's pitch black and, of course, they would see me. So I thought "I'm just going to stay put." And actually what happened was I couldn't move anyway! It was like this energy was just over me and I was there.

And so I just stayed and listened and listened. And it was this sound...like this "boom...boom" and I could feel it coming up the Grand Gallery. And I began to rationalize; I'd say, "Well, maybe it's somebody coming." Then I thought, "No, if it were somebody coming up the steps they would turn on a light." And at that point I realized whatever it is, is not human. And so it's not human, then what else could it be? Well, maybe its bats, so it's like bats flitting around and I'm hearing the bat droppings or there's something going on. And as I listen deeper, it's like no, it's too consistent. It can't be an animal or anything like that. So at that point I realized that it's something beyond animal or human. And at that point I also began to feel a fear coming in me. "Like, what is going on here?! What is really happening?" And the fear -- now I've been in a lot of situations before which were very fearful situations where people pointed guns at me and everything. But the fear just started overwhelming me and I just fell deeper and deeper and deeper into the fear. It was almost freezing me, it was just overwhelming me with this fear. I was going, like wow, you know, just being overwhelmed with this fear. And it got the closer, the sound of it, I could feel it coming closer and as it got closer I became more fearful. As it entered into the King's chamber, I could actually feel a presence coming towards me. And my fear went deeper, and deeper, and as it got closer, and closer I just had no idea what was going to happen.

All of a sudden I felt this energy was above me and I could actually, for the first time see it and it was like whirling. And it almost had this figure eight pattern. It was like moving around in circles and flying over me and at that point I said, "Well, I could die now. Or I could just allow whatever this is to happen to me. I mean this is the reason I came." And energetically then it started, it was as almost like, I said, "okay, I'm open to whatever happens." And the fear began to melt away and the energy just started to come down into my heart. I felt this warmth and this love all of a sudden just fill my whole being. And as the fear began to be transformed, it transformed right into this feeling of love. As I began to feel it coming into my body, I went back and I could hear the sound and the sound that I was hearing the whole time was that of my heart. It was like this sound that been transformed outside myself now and into the inside, so it was really transfixed now right in my heart. And for the whole evening, I just sat and laid down in meditation just feeling the energy within my heart and feeling it come all the way through my body, just allowing myself to receive whatever else would come in. And that's how most of this night went, just being bathed in this love for the rest of the evening.

I realized that soon it was going to be morning. I left the King's chamber and went back into my hiding place and waited for the first few tour groups to go through. when I felt it was an appropriate time I came out. And when I came out, I realized that I was white. I was covered in this white dust. I looked down at my arms and they were just totally white with this white powder. I brushed it off as well as I could. I also felt it in my hair and brushed it out as much as I could. I got as much of it off as I could yet it was caked all over my clothes and everything.

A few tour groups came through and I then walked out with one of them. And then as I was leaving, the guards started to call me in Arabic, "Come here!" and I pretended I didn't hear them and kept walking and walking and walked out of the pyramid and they're yelling "You get back here!" I just kept walking and walking and pretty soon, it was just such good luck, because there was a bus just starting to pull away, and I ran for the bus and I jumped on and it took off. I ended up back in my hotel room. When I got in I looked in the mirror and I was just totally white. I had a beard at the time and it was just as if someone had taken white flour and just sprinkled me all over.

I lay down and sat with the energy for a while. And later on in the day I took a shower, and cleaned up. I decided to go into the old city of Cairo where all the old mosques were located. As I was walking into the old city this woman came up to me who was dressed in orange and had a mandala around her neck. And she was a Bagwhan Rasneechi, which is very rare in Egypt. She came up to me and said, "I'm looking for someone and was wondering if you could help me?" "Would you wear the galabeia?" I would wear the robes, turban and everything, so I...we were both sort of dressed non-Western like. I said, "Sure I'll do what I can and try to help you find him." And I could speak pretty good Arabic so we walked in and she had the name of a man and I thought well "Good Luck!" you know, but I walked over and asked in Egyptian, "Would you happen to be able to help me find this person?" And he said, "Oh yes. He doesn't live here. But there's a group of his students, they have a school right across the street."

And I said "Okay...” So I went over there and it was essentially a school for Sufis. They invited us in and we told them who we were looking for and, of course, they said, "Well, the Sheik, whose name is Mohamed Osman Brahani, he lives in the Sudan. But if you'd like to stay with us we'll teach you what he teaches us." And so stayed about a week with them. It was wonderful. Their whole practice was just what I had learned in the pyramid, i.e., essentially focusing on the heart. And they would hold the heart center when they would do their prayers. And then they had this dance, which was not like the normal Sufi dancing that I was used to where they would do a spiral. Instead, they would move from left to right swaying in this infinity pattern. They would all line up and I have to admit that it was usually always the men, the men would line up and the women would then sit off in another room lined up and they would sit and pray while the men would stand and pray and usually do some chanting while they were doing their prayers. And this is what they would call zicker, which was their remembering. It was very, very powerful and the energy would come flowing in. They would dance the energy and as they did the drumming and the singing would get stronger and stronger and they would build the energy. Then they would quiet down and we would sit for a while and then would go back into it. They would do this almost all night long.

I did this for about a week and at the end of the week I started having visions. Actually a man would come to me and he was a black man with a turban. I began to tell the group about my vision. Of course they had pictures of him all over the place and that may have helped but it was just so clear. And they told me that one of the gifts of the Sheik is that he does visit us in our dreams very often and teaches us that way.

My friend and I (Bergit was her name) decided that we were going to go to the Sudan. We were going to take the train and boat and travel the whole overland experience. When we told the group we were going to go, they said, "No, no, no" and they gave us both airplane tickets, which was really quite astonishing. We flew down and got off of the flight and had no idea where we were going yet we had the Sheik's name. We got off the plane and it was interesting because before I left the group had given me new robes and shoes. They wanted to me shave but I couldn't, "No, no, I can't do that" I said. We walked off the plane and got our bags and started walking. A taxicab driver came up and we asked if he could take us to see Sheik Mohamed Osman Brahani. And he says, "Why certainly!" He knew exactly where we needed to go and he drove us right to the door. He would not take any money at all which was just total astonishment.

We went to visit inside his home. He had a very small home yet with a very big living room. People were lined up and he sat at the end in a big chair. There also were chairs all the way around the room. We came in and introduced ourselves. It was very informal and he would share and talk. I spent about two weeks with him. The first week was mainly getting to know the people. They would have dinner and share the meal. The Sheik would tell me stories and he talked a lot about how the earth had changed.

He said at one time Adam and Eve were almost like giants, they were huge. He talked about how as people would take from the earth they would get smaller. So there was a lot of this and through the years the size of man began to get smaller and smaller. He gave me a little bit of a history of this but most of it was mythical. Then after the first week he gave me some beads and said now with each of the beads you say "Allah." There were 100 beads and as you would go through them this was your way of counting out "Allah" 100 times. You'd really continually do it all the time rather than just doing it 100 times in the morning or whatever. Then as you'd go around you had another little counter, just so that at the end of the day you knew how many you had been able to say. This would give your mind a little to focus on as well.

Then the Sheik -- it was interesting -- he looked at me and said, "You know, usually I ask the people when you are saying "Allah" to focus on one of the prophets. You can focus on me, you can focus on Mohammed, on Abraham, Adam or one of the prophets." Then he looked at me and said "or if you want, you can just visualize the most beautiful light." Because he knew I had a lot of resistance to worshiping another man and I think he just tuned right into that and he said, "You just focus and visualize the light and just say Allah." It really came through as "All love" for me and so that was what I would say, "All love, all love, all love." It was so beautiful because I didn't have anything else to do and so for the rest of the week that's what I did.

About halfway through the second week, I was laying in bed. I actually had a little fever. The Sheik would come into the guest quarters to visit. There were two buildings and the Sheik had his own place. The guests would stay in another building about a block away. I was lying in bed waiting for him to come. I looked up and he was standing next to my bed and he asked me, "You know Abdolla, you really should become a Muslim." At that point I said, "No, I really cannot become a Muslim mainly because of the way you treat your women." He looked at me and he said, "Well, I understand." For just a second I looked away and then when I looked back he was gone. I looked around and asked, "Well, where are you? Where did you go?" I got up and walked around and asked everybody, "Where is the Sheik? I was just talking to him." They said, " No, the Sheik never came." I became very curious and said, "What do you mean? "I was just talking to him." Everybody said, "No, no, no, he never came, he never came." I could not believe it.

So I put on my shoes and went over to his house. And he had someone taking care of him and I asked, "Is the Sheik in?" And he said, "Yeah, he's in. You can come in." And we were both there together alone. I had asked the caretaker before I went in "Did the Sheik leave?" And he said, "No, no, he's been here the whole time." I walked in and the Sheik was lying down. As I walked in, he looked over at me and said, "You know, you really should become a Muslim." For a moment I was just speechless. Finally, I looked at him and said, "Well, I already answered you." He just smiled. We meditated together for a while and he held my hand. They were really into holding hands there. In my heart part of me wanted what they had with their faith but I just knew that I could not become a Muslim like they were and that is what I expressed to him and he said, "Well, that's okay, that's okay." Then I left and continued with all the meditation and teachings he had given me which I still do today. And that was really the only teaching.

Up to that point I had really just worked on myself. Eventually when I got back to Yemen all of a sudden it was like a whole new world had opened up for me. I was starting to do out of body experiences weekly almost, sometimes twice a week. One of the most powerful experiences happened one evening when I was sitting and meditating. I started to hear these beautiful sounds. First it was like a drumming sound and then it would move to a bumblebee sound. This would happen quite regularly yet on one particular night it moved all the way and it was like angels singing.

I had a friend with whom I would share a lot of the experiences I was having. She lived in the same house as I did. I lived at the top and she lived at the bottom. When I would meditate I made sure my door was shut and put a mattress over the door so that their sounds from the other people wouldn't disturb me. On this particular night, I could hear the beautiful sounds again and all of a sudden I was completely free of my physical body. I was in the sound and the light was just pouring in. I really wanted to share this with somebody and before I knew it I was in my friend's room with her and I looked over at her and said, "Susan, do you want to come with me and listen to some beautiful music?" She was lying in bed and she looked up and said, "No, I'm too tired" and my heart sank. Then something inside of me said, "You can experience this on your own." Instantly, I went into an even deeper level of this sound and it was just amazing. The angels were singing and it felt like I was in heaven.

Before I knew it, the sun was coming through my window and it was morning. I opened the door and was going down the steps. Susan was coming up. One of the things I was always asking was am I going crazy? What's going on here? I could have these experiences probably if I took LSD or something. That's what it was like. Is there a reality to it? That was the question that was on my mind. Is there a reality to it? As Susan was coming up the steps and I was coming down, Susan looked into my eyes and said, "Did you come to my room last night?" That confirmed it and, of course, I explained it to her. At that point I realized that yes, this is a shared reality.

That's when the healing started to come in. I found whenever I'd start to get sick I'd put my hands on my body. My whole body would start to vibrate and shake. Usually, if I felt sick I'd feel better. I did this mostly on myself. I really did not have any training or know what to do if I worked with anyone else so I did not work on others. This kept happening.

Eventually I left Yemen. I then went for two years into Nepal and continued working and meditating and staying with the energy and had many wonderful experiences there as well. But deep inside I knew that I had to do some learning about healing. So when I came back to America, I immediately sent off literature to different healing schools and eventually ended up at the New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts and studied massage. The school also taught energetic healing and vibrational healing and it was wonderful.

At that point I had also met a woman who offered to do a Reiki session on me and it was like "Oh, wow!" It was so similar to the energy I had experienced earlier. As she activated it, I would feel it go through my body. So I took the first and second degree on the first weekend without even knowing anything more about Reiki. I took it from a lady named Marilyn Alvy who was one of Barbara Ray's students and then decided that if there was more I wanted to learn it. The information I had was really very basic and the symbols were interesting but I really wanted to know more. I knew Barbara Ray had written a book and was quite famous for her Reiki. So I figured I might as well study with one of the best people and then I found out about Phyllis Furamoto and spoke with her about doing the Reiki mastership. I did not have any money. It was interesting that all of sudden my parents called me the following weekend and said that the inheritance from my grandfather had come through. My parents sent the money and so I was able to do the Reiki training. This was all in a period of over a year.

I was getting ready to do the Reiki training and all of a sudden Bergit, the lady I met in Egypt, showed up. When she arrived in Santa Fe, I thought she was coming for a visit. Instead, she said, "You know, I've been asked to take you back to Khartoum." I said, "Well, I really can't. I've already made these arrangements for the Reiki master course." and she said that we could work it out. So we went through Houston and I picked up my passport. I did the Reiki training, which was just a weekend. Then we got on an airplane and went back to Egypt. On the way to Egypt they lost all my bags and I only had like a couple hundred dollars with me. Fortunately, clothing was inexpensive and so I bought myself some robes.

We went all the way into Khartoum and they were very hospitable. That's when some of the elders came up and started to talk to me. They said, "You know, you're one of the few Americans that really spent any time with the Sheik." They started asking me all kinds of questions, like what where some of the things he had talked to me about? It was interesting because that's when they told me that the prayer the Sheik had given me he doesn't give to just anyone. At that point I could tell that they wanted me to become a Sheik and start to teach. They also wanted me to marry Bergit so we would teach together. I had not really known Bergit that well and wasn't inclined to marry her.

I spent a couple weeks with them and we worked with the zicker and the dancing. It just wasn't the same. I forgot to even mention, the reason I went back was because the Sheik had died and this was his yearly anniversary and I was really speaking with his son. They gave me their blessings and pretty much said to go out and teach anyway, "We know you're not going to be a Muslim Sheik but share and spread the Sheik's teachings and the things he had taught you."

I returned to the U.S. and within a three-week period of time I did the Reiki and then had the Sufi healing work as well. I went back to Santa Fe and then eventually up to California to study with a man named David Quigley who did Alchemical Hypnotherapy, which is a very wonderful process of healing. At that point, I started a small healing group and we did toning together and lying on of hands healing. I also began to teach some of the Reiki but I just didn't feel right with it, as I did not use the symbols or anything at all.

It was when I was teaching a class that I met T'Om. He asked me about Reiki because he felt a lot of the energy I was working with was similar to Reiki. He asked me to teach him some more about this. I told him I could teach him the whole Reiki mastership if he liked but that I wasn't into the $10,000 thing at all. I wanted to just teach it. So I essentially taught him the Reiki and at the same time taught him the "Seichim" with the symbol Cho Ku Ret. This all came about within a week's period of time. "Seichem" - I had no idea what to call it.

I was dating a woman named Christine who channeling an entity named Marat. When I started to talk to Marat about Reiki that's when Marat said what I was doing was "Seichem". Marat began to talk about the energy, how it worked and how to do the attunements. Essentially, the main thing with the attunements was first you draw the energy symbol on ______. It is interesting because he called it the "Cho Ku Ret" which is like the Cho Ku Rei with an infinity sign connected to it. You take it and first you draw it on ________ for what would be similar to a first degree healing. The second degree healing would be more that it's integrated and drawn onto the body and given more dimension. The master degree level would be where you would stand back and just visualize that person as being this infinity symbol. So those were the different facets of the energy.

T'Om was really one of the main links. He taught Seichem to Phoenix Summerfield (formerly Kathleen McMasters) and then other symbols started to come through. That's where a lot of the Everlasting Light symbols come through. Then the Mai Yur Ma symbol came through. I was also at the same time getting a lot of other images. Essentially it comes down to form. I did not put down what I was getting into any kind of a form whereas T'Om and Phoenix were very much into creating the form of it. They did a wonderful job. Phoenix, I would say is even more responsible than T'Om for really getting out and teaching Seichem. We had various conversations where she called me and asked me about the energy. I really gave her my deepest blessings to go out and teach it. I would say that she is the one really responsible as she would go out to the expos and teach it and share it. She eventually went to Australia and touched all over the world. That is how it all began.