Alexandra Hughes 0:12
Everyone and their cat is talking about witches. But what is a witch or medicine woman or priestess? How does one become one? And what is the common thread between women who identify as such magical creatures? Welcome to the witch hunt podcast, where we hold space for healing conversations that collectively explore these questions with the intention of celebrating of illuminating and elevating the rise of feminine energy magic and self sourced power. All in a world that's gone pretty much mental. Every new and full moon host is Aleksandra, Beckel Hughes, who identifies as all three of these sacred tights, in her own weird way, invites you to brew some tea to light a candle, and to join her in her conversations with witches, medicine, women, priestesses, and other magical creatures from around the world. So come gather to share in the knowledge experience, magic and sacred stories of those women, who once hunted to be burned at the stake, are now hunted to be held in the light so that they so that we can illuminate the way
Danielle Brooks 1:27
believing is seeing. So when you begin to believe what you're doing is you don't even have to believe in anything, you just have to be willing, you simply have to be slightly point 000 1% open and the universe creation will do the rest. You don't have to believe in something. But you have to be willing to be open. And if you're willing to be open, even if it's a tiny smidgen. That's okay. source will work with that. And the more open you are, the more you have the capacity for availability, allowing for these incredible opportunities to be seen, felt experienced and accepted and integrated.
Alexandra Hughes 2:16
Hello, and welcome to episode 56 of the witch hunt podcast. This is the story of real life magic and miracles and have what it takes to live a life of magician ship. Meet Danielle Brooks serial without a plan meander, conscious creator, self healing cancer survivor and conduit of a healing frequency through song and touch. You are going to be blown away by Danielle's story. And you're also going to be enchanted by her voice sidenote, my personal challenge recording this entire episode was simply not going into a deep relaxing trance simply by hearing her answer my questions. Danielle shares her jaw dropping story of how she went from the epitome of success to losing everything. And I'm talking about a serious cancer diagnosis and finding herself homeless at Ground Zero after 911. She tells us how she opened herself to the mystery learning from traditional healers of ancient lineages in the Philippines and in Brazil, and how she not only healed herself, but came to be a healer to others. She talks about how one Easter weekend she found herself in the sacred Cave of the white lady in the Philippines went into a deep trance to be sung through by the mother of creation amongst other light beings. This is as you've probably gathered an unbelievable and I don't use that word lightly story of surrender humility and integrity of being broken down and crapped open into becoming a conduit of higher frequency so as to support and uplift the sacred remembering in others get ready to be enchanted by a beautiful voice and blown away by an incredible story. And joy. Hi, Danielle. Welcome to the witch hunt Podcast. I'm so excited to have you here. What a pleasure.
Danielle Brooks 4:23
Thank you so much for having me. It is a joy and a pleasure.
Alexandra Hughes 4:28
We have had the opportunity to have a few conversations and so there's absolutely no doubt in my mind that we're going to dive deep and offer our listeners some beautiful pieces of wisdom and your you know your loving energy but let's begin with your self introduction. Could you please share who you are with the whichever listeners?
Danielle Brooks 4:53
It is a joy in the sense not only to be with you talking but to feel that outer circle of people that are listening, and connecting. And the intention is always that we can connect through our heart wisdom, and to be of support for one another in these times of incredible transformation and change. Who am I? My name is Danielle Brooks. And I'm here. Very simply, I am here, tending to the emerging frequencies of light, that will end are changing our world. My joy and my passion and my living is to be able to fully experience and to express. And to explore all that I am, which has been a lot about letting go of who I thought I had to be what I thought I was, so that I could really embrace the mystery, the magic, the beauty, that is inherent in both in me, and in every single meeting. So in my work, I serve in many different capacities, and it changes all the time. I don't hold to identities and roles. But in my service, I work as a conduit for the voices of creation, as a light singer, as an initiator into the mysteries, I have a lot of fun in the magician ship of living, I am an eternal student of the light. And I love surfing those depths and those breaths of growth and the leading edge. And in that way, my joy is to be here with you now, learning together. That is me, my sweet soul.
Alexandra Hughes 6:51
Later on, as we unpack, we'll come to understand why your voice is so enchanting and takes me to a place of great calm and great peace. But I want it and I want to ask you, I want to start unpacking your introduction
I've been writing madly these notes, you refer to frequencies of light, I want to know what that means. I mean, I have a sense of what that means. But I'd love to unpack it, particularly for people who have never heard such an expression. And I want to talk about magician tip of living and what it is to be a light singer. And this process of letting go, I often write down when I when I write to my what will be called like as people on my email list or people who follow me, you know, who were you born to be before the world told you who you should be or something like that. And this is kind of what you're alluding to letting go of who you thought you needed, or you should be and tapping into who you were, who you were born to be surfing the depths of the threats of growth and the leading edge. So there's just gonna be so juicy. Before we jump in there. And I know I'm not going to forget to come back because sometimes I do forget to come back. Let me ask you, you know, this podcast is called Witch Hunt. I don't want to limit it to the that word witch or people who identifies that and many people come on and they identify as priestesses or they identify as medicine, women or sources. I'm curious. You did say that you don't like boundaries and limits. And we did have this conversation, or I think we touched on it. When we spoke last time. How do you define your experience of being? I'm just going to say a magical woman.
Danielle Brooks 8:49
Okay, maybe can I dive off the deep end?
Alexandra Hughes 8:53
Yeah, let's dive.
Danielle Brooks 8:54
Let's just dive off the deep end.
Alexandra Hughes 8:56
Hey, baby, you lead the way with your introduction.
Danielle Brooks 9:02
Yes, I find that I can only speak about my personal journey in in that I really want to say that I fully honor and celebrate the calling of our soul. And each one of us has our own unique calling. And in my life, there has been a profound theme. And I will call it The Art of Letting Go. Because so often the identities and the roles that I have aligned with were not my truth. When I was much younger and my sense of self, who am I? I saw it in a sense of what have I accomplished. So who am I was based in my accomplishments and that's not my truth. Because when life brings you great change and great upheaval. You begin to explore what is real and what is true. What is believed And so I found that when I went through great challenges and a lot of pain, I really had to look at the roles and the identities and the stories that I had built my life around and my sense of self and how I treated myself my self worth myself value, and then relinquishing them, it began to free me. And so I will say that my greatest pain, and I work a lot with people in their pain to transform to transcend to transmute pain. And my greatest pain was the attachment to pain and the suffering my stories were causing me. And it was the stories, the beliefs that I had, that were really holding me back in my life, not only in this level, but also on a physical level, there has been a great will to continue, let letting go, I had homes that earthquakes took floods took for many different reasons, I was continually being moved, not just physically, but within myself. And so I began to explore this relationship that I have, and who am I? And that's not the question that I can give you an answer to, I simply know what I'm not. And so it's the seeking of who I am, I would say, Who am I, I, I, I am. And then I go deeply into that because whatever the next word is, holds such profundity such power, and such creativity. And it doesn't have to be dependent on what the world saves, or what I have known, it can be what I am creating what I am shaping, because I am a conscious creator. And isn't that the juiciest place of magician chip to consciously create. And when I say consciously, I'm talking from a state of love and light, from a state of allowing from a state of blissfulness and juicy joy and non attachment.
Alexandra Hughes 12:10
Now we're cooking, now we're cooking.
Danielle Brooks 12:13
The thing is a lot of people ask me about my work, what to do, Danielle, and I've spent so much time being at a loss and trying to think of what I need. And I've even had people told me I need an elevator pitch. And I'm like, I don't even live anywhere near an elevator like that doesn't even make sense to me. Or Daniel, think outside the box, I'm like, Who put you in a box anyways, I'm not in a box. So this idea of trying to come up with something that other people will understand. limits me. And my full focus is on freedom, and to explore the vastness of I am. And to be here is all that I am choosing to be at a soul level. From that infinite part of me that is in me, that is in you, that is in all of us, not from my limited self. But from the vastness of me. That's where I like to dance. I am here. So
Alexandra Hughes 13:13
of course, I'm going to ask you because I do know your story, to share it with, you're willing to do that and how you got to be where you are into this in this place of conscious creation, and a capacity to see isn't the right word, because it's just one sense. But your capacity to experience that vastness of the I Am that you are you know, when did you realize that you were a woman whose accomplishment didn't define who she was? Or that you had this invitation called to live as a magician or magician. What did you say magician ship of living? When When did the I guess magic? Yeah, live in miracles and just let go of the who you should be. But the boxes that you refer to? Can you tell us about the hurricanes that
Danielle Brooks 14:18
we wouldn't be here or
Alexandra Hughes 14:22
maybe a few, maybe a few of the little stories that took you to to this incredible place. Pain
Danielle Brooks 14:28
has been a very patient teacher in my life. And I've had the great fortune to have been raised in a family where we traveled and we moved all the time. Not just within one culture but within many different cultures. And by the time I was 14, I took my first trip to Europe alone from Canada where we were living. I had parents who, for one reason or another believed I will be just fine. And bless them for that, because I had a tremendous fear of being somewhere where I don't know anyone and anybody who knows my story will burst out laughing at this point because I have spent my entire life going to the ends of this world with no plan. I am a serial meander, I show up I might not have a contact I might not have, I have what's in my pocket, literally. And I have done this many times, creating and recreating, and reinventing and exploring all of the opportunities that life gives me. And along the way, I had a lot of opportunities to be with traditional healers and I grew up that way. And I think it was as a child in Kenya, it was just there. So Western medicine was not so prevalent for me. And I don't know if it was just an inner and innate knowing, but I always sought them out. If I was up on top of on top of a volcano or deep in a jungle, I just thought it was a delightful coincidence that I was continually meeting these wise medicine men and women, and that if I was ever sick, I would seek them out. There was something about the natural rhythm that was natural, it was absolutely natural. So I never thought that would be my path. I never imagined that it would call me by my name. And that came in a very interesting intense series of cataclysmic events that happened like within the within one week. When I was in my late 20s, or 30, I lost everything a person could lose. And I'm not just talking about material, I'm talking health and vision, hopes, dreams, everything at all. It all fell apart. And I was left not really here and not not wanting to live. I had been pregnant, and in my last trimester lost twins hemorrhaged for almost eight weeks, my marriage came falling apart my life. Up until then I had been in music and an arts and I was onstage as a DJ and an MC. And all of a sudden, my life was imploding and exploding in the media. And I had the deepest wounds. I didn't want to live and then I was diagnosed with cancer. And at that time, I went to see an Aboriginal healer, it was in Australia. And she said, the simplest thing to me, which has catapulted me down this path, she said, You're dying, and you're dying fast. But you can heal yourself. What you're going through now is not the beginning. You need to find your thread your way back to the beginning, and you will heal yourself. And so I made the choice to immerse myself in that belief. And that became the catalyst for turning my life inside out and right side up. And I began this journey of trying to put myself back together again, like Humpty Dumpty, I was broken in every possible way. And that week, would go on it that that week was intense, but it was meeting with her. That gave me some strength and fortitude for the challenges that were to come. Because later that year, I would find myself three blocks from Ground Zero. On 911, I would find myself homeless, I would find myself again in a place where I knew no one starting a new working with creation, energy over and over and over again, became a profound teacher for me. The pain became a profound teacher. I had these incredible scars. I didn't begin this work of healing and transformation to help others I did this so I could survive, so I could live. And I began to explore it by reaching out to traditional healers, which is just what worked best for me. And it was part of my calling, because what I didn't realize, but this was my great initiation, which would be the first of many. And oftentimes when you go through these profound initiations into the mysteries, you are going through deaths. And so I went through gateways of death, and I discovered light in the darkest corners and in the deepest shadows. I found light and I had scar herbs in every way, emotional physical, every way. And I also started to realize that those scars, the only way that they would be transformed is if I transform them because I can make them marks of beauty. And this didn't happen overnight. It's been a long evolution. And it's continuing and it's ongoing. It's reshaped my life. But it is what informed the way I live. What I offer is a byproduct of how I live. And it has become the foundation of what I offer to others as they go through profound change. I see it as evolutionary leaps that our soul our essence, our truth, is wanting us to go through. And there's no framework, there's no guideposts This is everyone's journey is unique, right, everyone's journey is original. But there are these leaps that our soul wants us to go into. And that is for our growth for our benefit, or expansion, or our empowerment. So we have these opportunities of choice. And that's where I love to sit. That's where I love to embrace others and support them as they make their choices. So that they can make it from a place of heart wisdom, compassion for self and all life, empathy, and to draw strength from these moments in their life that have been cataclysmic and to be able to take the power from those times and and create something new. And that my darling friend is magician ship.
Alexandra Hughes 21:49
How can we alchemy? Yes,
Danielle Brooks 21:50
absolute alchemy?
Alexandra Hughes 21:54
What if I told you there was a practice that can totally transform your life. A practice that, as one of my teachers says, is more fun than meditation more efficient than therapy and more cost effective than coaching. It's a practice that awakens yourself to the remembrance of who you really are. And it's called sacred feminine ceremony. Ceremonies for you. If you're a woman who deeply cares about stepping into the fullest version of who you were born, to be creating a life you're in love with, while doing what your soul knows, you're here on earth to do. It's for you. If you're a woman here to make a difference. A woman who knows that her first step in the creation of a new world starts with her. A woman who finds herself eternally seeking to uplevel watching woman after woman sit in ceremony with me. Shed what holds them back connect with the unlimited source of creativity and confidence that lived inside of them. Remember who they actually are, by communing with their soul has been completely and totally humbling. But it's also been a full bodied reminder of what I'm here to do. Ceremony may feel weird and new age but the truth is that it's an ancient art that the patriarchy has kept hidden, and it's time to bring her back. I host hybrid solstice and equinox ceremonies out of Toronto four times annually, and have also been hired to lead private in person ceremonies around the world. DM me at Alex underscore, in essence on Instagram, if you're feeling called to experience some ceremonial magic, there's so many unique things about your story like you're calling to traditional healers, or you're calling towards them, but they're also appearing for you. So a communion are coming together. Of the two coincidentally, you know, when anybody utters the word cancer, it can be so terrifying. But it sounds like in that moment, you didn't turn to the conventional thing, modern medicine that most people when they're scared, turn to I guess I'm curious about that choice, which may feel foreign and weird and maybe even foolish for some people. Not me. I actually lean in the direction that you lean and avoid modern medicine as much as I can. But I'm curious about what it was that took you. Yeah, like that in that moment in time? Did you even consider it? Or was it just No, this is this is what is going to work for me. Was it an intuitive thing or it's
Danielle Brooks 24:52
such a good question in the sense of we all have had moments in our life where it has been and terrifying, where we felt frozen, where we felt so uncertain. And we don't know, the way forward. And it's only natural to question and to doubt and to seek answers. And for me, I think that every form of medicine has its place. And I respect it. But there was something inside of me. That was a deeper knowing that was beyond my logical mind, because I will tell you, my logical mind thought I was crazy. And people thought I was crazy. I became very discerning about what I would share and with whom, because I needed to gather my strength. Because there was a gut feeling, and perhaps those that are listening, you can remember a time in your life when a decision had to be made. And that was just like this profound body knowing, or this sense. And I know that for myself, this has happened many times in my life, because I have been on the precipice of some intense challenges, because that's where you know, that's the edge I like to hang out on. And I have felt that fear. But I've also known that any decision that I make from fear will beget fear, even though I might not know the options that I have available. There was something inside of me that was waiting for those options. And waiting for the guidance. And, and that is this incredible wisdom from a depth of who I am. That is in me that is in each one of us. And accessing that is something that over the years, I honed and I support others in how to access that innate knowingness, that sacred intuition. But at that point in time, no, I'll be very honest with you, I was trying to die. I was done. I didn't think I had any reason to live anymore, I had given up. So there's this mystery that steps in, where I won't call it a coincidence. Far be it, it was synchronicity, synchronicity, and what I have learned in my path, and my in my journey is that we all have these points in our life where there are profound changes and decisions to be made. And there is often support and guidance from the unseen realms, we might not be aware of it. But it profoundly can impact and change. If we are available to it, simply by saying I am open, I am willing, I am ready for help, is a call to help. And it's incredible how that helped, can show up. I was not intending to go and see this Aboriginal woman, I was not at all interested. It was someone who brought me she was my human angel in that instance. So to me, I think it's really important to be able to respect and to attend and to care for the fear that we can be going through. But also give ourselves the space or the heart wisdom to come forward. And to embrace trust in ourselves. Many say it this way. There's this you know how there is this common statement seen as believing when I think about that. It's just it's backwards. It's utterly backwards. Believing is seeing. So when you begin to believe what you're doing is you don't even have to believe in anything, you just have to be willing, you simply have to be salutely point 000 1% open, and the universe creation will do the rest. You don't have to believe in something. But you have to be willing to be open and if you're willing to be open even if it's a tiny smidgen. That's okay. source will work with that. And the more open you are, the more you have the capacity for availability, allowing for these incredible opportunities to be seen, felt experienced and accepted and integrated. I was going
Alexandra Hughes 29:42
to ask you, what does it take to open up to our own heart wisdom or what was your what has been your experience in doing that? How have you gone from being open a smudge a smidge to increasing that openness to a point of trust, a cup complete, though I have to say your story, Danielle is one of trust, because you began by saying you're a meander.
Danielle Brooks 30:12
I'm a serial Mia serial
Alexandra Hughes 30:13
man. That's it. You're a serial meander, who just landed in places without a plan and just trust, you know, there's an element of faith and have trust that the universe is a benevolent place and that things will work out and a lot of courage as well, that goes along with that in today's world where everybody needs a plan and a strategy and an itinerary. And there's this desire for control. It sounds like that was a part of you already. But perhaps not in that degree. But I'm just curious, you know about that, that little openness that you had when your angel took you to the Aboriginal healer? And how did that grow? inside of you,
Danielle Brooks 31:00
it grew through an investment of my energy, when I began to realize that it was important to stay open, then it becomes a dedicated work. And I'm going to tell you this right now, it is not that I am without fear. It's simply that I am very aware of my fear. And I do not want to choose to create out of fear, that is absolute. So even when I am in the, these incredible places of challenge, I would much rather sit with it. And with the incredible uncomfortability of it. Because I know that I have two options, I can make choices out of fear, and that will create more fear, I can create choices out of love. And that will create more love, I don't need to know how I simply know that this is the way it works. The energy with which I choose to live is the energy that will shape my reality. So in those initial moments, how do you open up to your heart? How do you open up to this wisdom? When I look back on it, there's an awareness now that I didn't have then so I can't speak to that person that I was I was terrified. I had given up. What I do know is that I was in profound pain, physical pain and emotional pain and mental pain, I was in profound pain. And there is something about pain, that it provides an opportunity to go out of the logical mind and to enter into the compassionate wisdom of the heart. Pain breaks us that breaking is a breaking open. And should we allow that to happen should we embrace it should we need it as that it grows. When we open it grows, I remember so well the moment that I understood the word empathy, because I was lower than low. And I remember that moment where I could really empathize with another because my life had become a living hell. And there's nothing like an experience for you to really know something that's no longer a story. It's no longer something that is in the mind, it is live. So when you have lived through something that is profoundly painful, it comes with incredible awarenesses it opens the heart. So the empathy came, the compassion came. And those are openings that are precious, and so then you begin to consciously nurture them in tiny, little ways. Gratitude is a big one, even when I have felt that I have nothing to be grateful for the practice of coming back to Gratitude has been huge. Because the truth of the matter is, it's a question of how I perceive life and creation is all about preference versus perception. So when I can shift my perception, when I can focus on what is already good. When I direct my energy to these positive thoughts, then I am creating positivity. In this way we are magicians and in life is magic. Because what we focus on is what we create life is a self perpetuating projection, right? It's malleable. Reality is malleable in the sense that it depends on what I believe and what I alchemize so if I'm going to focus on what isn't working Even if it's 99% of what I can think of, it's only going to perpetuate that. But if I can focus on the one thing that is really good, that's the door that opens, opportunities of light. For the magic for the miracles, or the synchronicities, that uplift us, for them to happen. It's a training, it's a way of living, that grows and grows, when you invest the power of your energy and focus in it. It's not something that happened to me overnight. I'm a slow learner, maybe I don't know. But for me, it's a dedicated way of living. But as a result, I often have people going that only happens to you, Daniel is your life is full of miracles, or your life is full of magic. And, and it's not that it doesn't have its turbulences and challenges. It's just that my choice, my preference, is to focus on what I am choosing to create consciously tuning into the frequency of the reality that I would like to be in, rather than the reality I'm in look at the world around us right now. It is so easy to get lost in that world and to forget that it is an out picturing of our own power, as within so without, so our capacity to perceive, is going to shift our reality. So this isn't about changing the reality we're in it's about tuning into a frequency of a reality that we wish to be in be peaceful, be it loving, be accepting be or allowing, when you focus on that energy, it opens the door for it. It plants that seed forward, it creates something totally new, it's alchemical. It's absolutely alchemical, it's beautiful in that way.
Alexandra Hughes 37:07
Yeah, I just want to touch upon that maybe I'm a slow learner. thing, because I feel as though life is so fast paced, and the rhythms, the cosmic rhythms, the earthly rhythms, the bodily rhythms, or not. And so it's just about cycle after cycle and death and rebirth and death and rebirth and everything you're saying makes me think of Magdalene, of the tarot card and the Tarot. Just over in this incredible capacity that humans have, and that women have built in to their bodies to do that, and the invitation that the moon and the seasons bring, for us to play that out. So thank you for sharing that with us. And I want to ask because there are two things that are coming up for me because I often when I sit here, and I record these podcasts, and I have these incredible conversations, I try to do it with two ears with my own ear, but then with the ear, and the curiosity of my listeners, and my listeners will want to know what happened to the cancer. So I'm curious about that. But I also want to talk and circle back around to this concept of light, and frequencies of light and singing light and when that entered your world, but maybe we should start with the big question that everybody's going to have around how did you heal yourself? Or how were you healed? What happened? How did that story? And
Danielle Brooks 38:45
the short answer is I changed everything. Everything changed. And it changed because it had to change because I had lost everything. And there's something about losing everything. It clears the playing field. So you have to begin rebuilding. And when you start rebuilding, you have to start exploring and visiting pain and the stories that you have about the pain that you've lived with and the suffering and the beliefs that you have, and how did those beliefs come to be? So there was this incredible need for me to be able to start to reassess the way that I was creating my life. And that's a powerful point, when you start to realize you are powerful. We live in a world, especially these last 2000 years that has been invested in powerlessness. We live in an illusion that we are powerless, that we're separate. And so we have these beliefs around ourselves that we are other we're alone, we're solitary, we're not connected. We're so powerful. I mean, it's a testament to our creative power, that we've convinced ourselves we're not powerful. So though, when you start to see yourself as a creator, that's a game changer right there. For me, cancer was never the issue. Cancer was the byproduct of a whole bunch of stuff that was going on. It was trauma based. For me, it was the icing on the kick, I needed to get to the place of where is the root core of this trauma. That's what rainbow medicine woman was telling me. She wasn't giving me the answer. But she was showing me the way I need to find my way back into what this trauma is. In a lot of ways, it was by not focusing on the cancer that the cancer began to transform. I was focusing on the root cause and exploring the root cause and I and listen, it's blindly journey and I was like a mad scientist, I was trying everything and anything I was going to all over the world Lord knows I was doing it all and all of it served. Some of it I will never do again. But it served to inform me that I wouldn't ever do you know what I mean? It was, it was like, Okay. And then there were other things where it was like, I don't know why, but this is helping me but I don't, I can't see it. I don't yet understand it. But there was just an investment of I'm going to, I'm going to trust my path. And this, I want to say to everyone out there that's listening these, honor yourself. If there's something that is speaking to you that is calling to you don't need to understand it. If it is something that you feel is serving your highest and best good, follow it. Because if it is something that is going to help you to expand you to nourish you in a positive way, explore it. And that's what I did. So with the cancer, I never got to find out to what extent it was I simply got the first diagnosis. And then I began working a lot with traditional healers in the Philippines and in Brazil, and they were the foundation. There were 3d, sacred lineages that I trained in for many years. But I spent a tremendous amount of time with faith healers and psychic surgeons in the Philippines and in Brazil, years. And it was in 2005, that I finally went back to see a doctor. And I brought the paperwork from Australia. My no doctor was in Canada where I was, I had tried to go and see a doctor in New York and I had been reduced to tears because he told me how immature and irresponsible I had been when he looked at my paperwork. I was terrified to show a doctor, when I finally didn't get a doctor who would run all the tests and the exams on me. When I came back for those results, they were looking at my old paperwork, and they were looking at the results of these new ones, and bless them because they looked at me and they said, How did you do this? And they became one of the first people who studied with me. Because I couldn't give them a direct simple answer. I said I changed everything. But in changing everything. It began to transform. And it was right at that same time I was working with a faith healer in Brazil, and a faith healer in the Philippines. And I was in the Philippines and I had gone there to work with him Reverend Alex or Beto. And it was over Easter weekend. And we went into a very sacred cave. And I had been studying, as I said for years, at this point five years, several different lineages of healing so that I could self heal because I couldn't. I didn't know any other way than to explore all of what I could and to learn. But while I was in that cave, and it was the Cave of the white lady, it was a very sacred place that we would go into to pray and to be over the this weekend, which is death and resurrection, death and rebirth. But at that time, I went into a heightened state of trance. And I began to be sung by this incredible, loving, feminine energy. She sounded like she was 1000 years old and had one tooth in her mouth. It was definitely not coming from me. It was coming through me and she just burst out into the songs that went on for hours. And that was the beginning of a vibrational medicine that would then take eight, almost nine years for me to integrate into understand and to be able to work with in a really honoring way. And that was the mother of creation and she would come through me and not just her but many different aspects of creation, many different beings of creation would come through me in song, in voices that were not mine. And as they would come through me, and because of the training in my healing work, and in my hands on healing work, there was a forging of not only the songs, but the healing work. And I began to understand and to see what they were doing at a cellular level in the person as they would be singing through me and I would be working with an individual, my hands, or I would see the energetics of the transformation of what was going on in the body. And that in itself, it took years of dedicated work that was about surrender, integrity, neutrality, and humility. It broke me down and wide open, so that I would come to this place. So where I was open and receptive to be a conduit of a higher frequency that was coming in to support to uplift to spark sacred remembering, and people. And it came when we asked for it. So everything comes from within us. So when we asked for the help, they came. And that became the beginnings of this work. And I've never heard anyone else sing this way. And they were light languages long before we even those length, those words were in our lexicon. But they were there is my light language. But then there are those beings. And they are very different. They have a very, I mean, it is unbelievable, especially the mother, and it's to her I serve, I believe you've experienced her.
Alexandra Hughes 47:05
You know, you use the word lexicon, it's almost impossible to describe the experience of being on the other end of your being sung through. There's such a deep connection that is made with something so familiar yet, in this life never experienced and this I don't even know how I was calm that in love, but floods your body when you hear it, and there's no doubt in my mind that it's healing. Why do you call it light frequencies? Tell me more about that concept? Do you experience a sensation or see in your mind's eye light? Where does that term come from?
Danielle Brooks 47:55
Yeah, it is beyond the language or English language. There aren't words, words are vessels, to express an energy. That's what that's what our vocabulary is. It's a conduit in its way, words are there to be able to express and to contain and to project an energy that is then understood. And knowing that this universe is a is the frequencies of light, energy, everything is energy, energy comes in light, sound, color, all of it is an energetic. And so when they would sing through me and there are many different beings that will sing in many different it sounds like different languages. It's not one language, there are many different depending on what you need, and where you're at. And what you're asking for, will depend on who's coming through and what they're doing. And sometimes in a session, there'll be multiple ones one after the other. And as I've deepened into the learning with this, what they are transmitting is light that is supporting us in our acts and accelerating us in our expansion. And it goes beyond the language that we know our earthly languages. And it is pure light. So when I am working as a conduit, I'm feeling at all and it is unbelievable, because I'll tell you often when I've come into this work, I'm going through my own challenges in my life and centering myself so that I can be a conduit so I can be a vessel so that I can be an instrument so I can be sung. That's my full time job. Right there. The integrity of what that needs is 100% my job and it's a full time job. It never ends. But when I can do that, and to do that, to the best of my ability is my joy And when I can do that, no matter how difficult my life is outside of the session, when I come into that place, and I have a extended devotional practice, it's rich, and it's sustained. And when I come into that space, I get to be a witness, as well as front row to this profound love, that this creation that the cosmos that source creation has for us. And it humbles me beyond. There are times when I have felt profound tears, when I have seen them show up with children that are sick, when I have seen the way that we are loved, and how we forget, and I forget to it's part of our human experience, we're always forgetting, but oh my god, we are so loved and so supported. And when we make a plea, and we call for a need, they come. Now, I want to say, there's a difference between what you want and what you need. You don't always get what you want. Right? You but you always get what you need. And when you begin to understand that, there will come a time when you will only want what you need. And so when you come in and you say this is what I need, show me the way I'm open, I'm ready, I'm willing, they come through and it is expansive, it is uplifting. So I use the word light, because you feel that you feel the love, you feel the light, you feel the shifts, and sometimes those shifts are not easy, because they will begin a purging purification process, they can be really difficult when Homeopathics they call it the healing crisis. You go down, then you come back up, but you have purged you have released you have transformed. But my experience with them is love. And part of that is that I've made myself available to that that is where I sit. When I talk about my devotional life. That's where I sit. And I sit with it with non judgement, which is may only the highest and best good occur that will serve and may you receive only that what you need. And may you do so with ease and grace and love. So when you hold to that high frequency, you are aligning with the high frequency that energetic that exists and always has existed in full support for us. Does that explain it? It's not an easy thing, I often find it just much easier to do with it.
Alexandra Hughes 53:02
Well, always because the lexicon doesn't exist. For these things. It's been if words are vibrations, and words are holding meaning and realities, words have all the words we use have been constructed it in a system in a patriarchal system that has eradicated and suppressed to an extent that we don't have the language to explain these things, I believe,
Danielle Brooks 53:32
I believe and so let's talk about control, shall we? Because when we're talking about all of this, we're filtering it through our mind and just cut love our mind. It is such a busy bee. And it's genius. And it's brilliant, but we use it and not in all the ways that it was created to be used. So when we talk about the control of the mind, the control of the logic, oftentimes, our ego is always perceiving our life through its own lens of beliefs and thoughts. But when we are experiencing life through our heart, we're looking at it through the lens of that aspect of wisdom that is connected with the wisdom of this universe that is eternal. That is natural, that is ongoing. And so a lot of what I'm talking about is recognizing where we have constructed our life based on our perceptions of mind. And then knowing that we have power to transform into change that that it's malleable. And then when we do that through the lens of our heart, which is love based, which is allowing which is inclusive, which is liberating. What we're ultimately doing is relinquish Seeing the control of our, that our ego mind wants, so that we can embrace the power and control our soul essence our heart wisdom has always had. And we begin to tune in, we begin to listen, listening is key to this still small inner wisdom, sacred temple within us, that has got our back, that part of us that loves us unconditionally, that part of us that is able to experience and to see the full magnitude beyond the perception of the mind, that is able to access creation. And when we begin to listen to that, and to honor that, and to cherish that part of ourselves. Then we begin awakening from this great dream of separation. And we start to understand the connectivity, we begin to heal, we become whole, we begin to understand that everything serves, everything is connected, all is one and one is all, all is all. And we begin to see and to create our lives through the lens of connectivity rather than separation. And that's really where we're at. I sit here and I think how right now, there are so many people that are listening to your podcast and to many different wonderful, available formats to discuss this. And I love how this is rising. I love how it's rising. I love how I love the passion that people are emerging with in this way. And I sit here and I think it is time. It's time. And the question that I sit with is how can we evolve into a species that understands everything is
Alexandra Hughes 56:57
connected? That is this resonates so deeply with me on so many levels right at this specific moment think synchronicity happening here. And now. Yesterday I I went up to it's not a map. It's more Hill Hill slash mountain where the ashes have been scattered my mother, my uncle, my grandmother, for ancestors are up there and everywhere. And I just spoke and I sang and I lay and I danced and took that energy in and I and I came down and I felt like oh, I've woken something up now they want to hang out. And it was dark. There's no light, I'm in the forest right now. And I had turned off the lights and I just said, I love having you around. But please let me sleep. But there was a there was this twinge of fear. Like ghosts hanging out. And there was more that was awoken than my ancestors because of course this land has been tended to by the Algonquin, you know, by just so many peoples. So there there is there are many spirits and there is a fear of the unknown of the dark of the mystery of the beings that seem through you. I actually wanted to ask how would you to I suppose we're not really speaking to non believers or non seers. But who are these beings? Where did they come from? What are they? What is that? They know? It's really hard to
Danielle Brooks 58:34
know it's a therein lies the great mysteries, and part of my work is has been as an initiator into the mysteries. And so many of the mysteries have their own stories, some which can be shared and many who we have to honor stories choose their time to be shared. And there is much which is available to us when we are receptive to it. So if I can answer that question by going back to what your story which I love connecting with these ancestors special that how did it feel for you in your heart?
Alexandra Hughes 59:19
I went up that hill after an argument with someone and I pounded the anger out on a pillow on the floor and then I stomped up that mountain with full of rage and anger and on the way I said what medicine do you have for me today great mother and and then I and then I lay with my I took my shirt off and I lay with my back. It's not something I'd be brave enough to do today because it's freezing but it was really lovely and there was a sun shining down and I really connected and invited release and absorption of the earth and that communion which is another kind of communion. I spoke of communion with the ancestors and spirits but I also came back and I remember, and I'm doing this more I'm whenever I pour myself some water I give thanks to the river. And whenever I even, you know, start the car or fill the tank, I give thanks for the petrol for the gas that is, you know, one of our mothers many fluids and gifts, and that is causing much havoc in her balance or extraction, but everything and my mother did teach me, you know, we are of the earth and we return to the earth, and she was the woman in the 1970s that was taking bags to the grocery store, or 1970s. But that kind of connection is also true. But just to answer your question, it was very healing for me the anger was alchemize, I walked down that hill a different person. Yeah.
Danielle Brooks 1:00:51
Because you allowed it to be. You allow it to be felt seen and move through. And the foundation as I'm listening to your story, is the energetic foundation that you have been cultivating has been one of gratitude. So you are consciously creating an energy of gratitude in your life. And it's in little small ways that sprinkling of gratitude is an energetic path. When we honor our lives, when we honor our ancestors, when we honor our brothers and sisters of fur, feathers, skin and fin, when we honor it all, we are creating an energetic, of deep gratitude and appreciation. And it isn't necessarily when we talk about ceremony. It is ceremony not only in the sacred coming together, but in but very much in every moment in the way that we live. When we choose to embrace and to fortify and to nourish an energetic, that is inclusive, honoring and respectful, then that is the experience that we will receive. That is the experience that is what will then become and take shape in our world. So when you ask me, who are the spirits? Are they benevolent? What I can tell you is that in my path, and in my life, when I talk about the devotional life, my teachers, the ones that I learned through, were richly devotional and incredibly humble, and some of the greatest healers this on this earth. And it was through them that I begin and truly understood the necessity of that sustained practice of aligning with source in a direct way. And in doing that, it becomes an incredible energetic that grows, it's a garden that you feed that you nourish, and that you tend to. And when you create that kind of an energetic, that informs your experiences. If you open to your opening to something that is unseen, but you're not directing your energy, it's like opening the door and just letting anything come through. That can be very, very, very risky. So when I talk about integrity, that's one part of the integrity is growing that musculature, that energetic musculature, and learning how it is how you hold that matters, not what you do, necessarily, in this world. It's not necessarily always want you to do that matters. It's the energetic with which you do it. It's not what you say, it's the energetic of what is said,
Alexandra Hughes 1:04:02
I understand it completely what you mean, right, so
Danielle Brooks 1:04:04
here, you're sharing with me the story where you opened up, you were feeling so much, and you're asking Great Mother, what is there for me to understand or to see. And you had this experience of love and spirits. And in that time, you can also direct your energy. And you can do this in a prayer. You can do this in spoken in in many different ways. But learning to be masterful in your creation means learning how to direct your energy. So the question here is, where are you choosing to place your energy? Be very careful in this world, especially in what's going on? Let's just talk about social media or cultural it is so easy to forget that our currency, our power, our wealth is in our energy. So when we invest in our energy when we speak about the things that we don't like, Guess what we're feeding. When we criticize, guess what we're feeding. I would invite you, me, I, this is my practice. And I invite others to intuit. Ask yourself, what is the reality that you want to be in? I sit here and I think of this, and I think, oh my God, I want peace. This was my thought this morning. I so want to be in a reality of peace. So guess what, where am I focus today, peace, I need to hold the tone of peace. When I hold the tone of peace, I am informing the collective consciousness of peace. I become, I embody peace, when that is my sole focus. And it is not an easy thing to do, to swim upstream, when you are possibly surrounded by other energetics that are dense and heavy, and you are choosing something that is light. But when you do that energy is what you are directing. And when you are directing that energy out, you are embodying it. And then when you come into ceremony, when you come into communion, and you are holding an energetic like that, it is a vibratory match, like attracts like, that's the frequency that you have tuned into. That's the radio station that you are now listening to. And everything is about fine tuning. So when we fine tune our own frequency, our own emotions, our own energetic state of being. We are fine tuning the frequency of our reality of our world that is forming and taking shape.
Alexandra Hughes 1:07:17
Do you ever use the word manifestation? Daniel?
Danielle Brooks 1:07:20
I do? I do. Yeah, absolutely. things manifest into form. I'm interested in the space between before they take form. I'm interested in the alchemy and the potency and the power of how we take pain and transform and that into something that is Grace filled, loving, light, empowering. I'm interested in the capacity to be able to re create and rewrite because that is inherent in us all.
Alexandra Hughes 1:07:57
I believe that is in and my next question is a little bit about this time, which in our evolutionary journey as a species as a planet, but Oh, and now my perimenopausal brain has forgotten what I was gonna say, Damn,
Danielle Brooks 1:08:13
it'll come back. I love. I know that one. Yeah.
Alexandra Hughes 1:08:17
Let me ask you this.
Danielle Brooks 1:08:18
Well Intuit it together, everybody. Let's
Alexandra Hughes 1:08:24
I know some of my listeners can relate.
Danielle Brooks 1:08:27
I can relate. Yeah. What do you think it
Alexandra Hughes 1:08:29
is about this time in human evolution that's inviting or facilitating this rise of the divine feminine? Why is now so important for this and for our work?
Danielle Brooks 1:08:41
You know, what I was saying a little bit earlier, which is that we embarked in this great collective illusion of this dream. Everything is a dream, within a dream. And let's say for the last 2000 years or so, we've all been invested in this. This dream, which has been surrounded around separation. And that's brought in shame, judgment. Low self worth, criticism, aloneness, separateness, otherness, right? We've created an Iraqi. We have convinced ourselves that we are separate from the natural world, that we are perhaps even above it. And we began to put intermediaries between ourselves and our own divinity or shaped took Iraq Turkey. And we embarked and we embraced in this incredible illusion of separation and incredible A dream that we built our societies on fear and this separation. And in that way, we gave our power away. And we began to feel that we were powerless. And I feel like it's a dream which has come to its own natural conclusion, because let's be honest, we have taken this. So incredibly far, can we go any further, because we have taken it to such an extent that we have destroyed so much around us, and it's not sustainable anymore. And so we are having quite an awakening from this dream. And when we are awakening from this dream, it's incredibly painful. Because we begin to realize how we've created how we have done great disservice to our mother, or how we have done great disservice to one another, to ourselves. We've taken it as far as we could, and we cannot anymore. It is not sustainable. And so there is this rise, the rise of unity, the rise of the sacred remembering. What we are learning is nothing new. It is innate in us, we are awakening to our own knowingness, our own, the gifts, the wisdom, it has always been in us, but we are awakening from a great dream, a painful dream. And we need the compassion, we need the empathy, we need the peace makers, because that is how we are going to create from this place. This is how we can take the pain of what we have learned and allow it to metamorphosize into something profoundly beautiful. We can take what we have learned and transform it into something of beauty. It's our power. It's innate in us. And we are seeing the rise of people in so many different way that are feeling that beats of their heart that are feeling the clarion call, from the infinite from the unseen from nature, from our mother, our first mother. And they are awakening and they are saying how and we're doing it we really are. And it is turbulent. It is chaotic, it is challenging. But we are breaking open. And it is important to remember we are opening. So choose wisely, the energetic that you want to create and to plant in this realm. Because we are fully supported this creation, this universe is always responding to us as creators, so choose wisely what we want to create. I think that's why you're seeing such an incredible surge of people because it's not sustainable. And that pain has brought us to a place beyond the logical mind, as I was saying earlier, and it's bringing us into a compassionate heart, oh my god. And how do I step forward now, in heartful way, in an authentic way, in a truthful way? How can I ask all of these questions and sit with the mysteries of them? And not necessarily know the answers but know what my heart is guiding me into? Is union communion, oneness.
Alexandra Hughes 1:14:01
It's like the collective catastrophe taking us to this place of collective awakening. Well,
Danielle Brooks 1:14:07
it's like you know, we were saying the cycle of life. And we know this is women, the cycle of life inside of us and outside of us. And we are entering a great new cycle. It requires death and rebirth. But there is nothing in this natural world that is linear, it is cyclical. Let us enter into a greater, wider expanse. The future is ancestral in this way. Let's gather up the wisdom.
Alexandra Hughes 1:14:44
And now I've just looked at the clock and realized we've gone way over time, but I don't was I should have anticipated but could you share with our listeners where people can find you and your magic Danielle?
Danielle Brooks 1:14:58
Yes. I have a website, pure grace, light. And they can always reach out to me there is a contact form there. And that's an easy way to find me. I'm on Instagram, pure dot Grace dot light. And certainly, I think that if someone is wanting to connect with me, then putting it out there and knowing that we'll connect, there's a way, there's a beautiful way. And when we open up to the synchronicity, so to those that are wanting to connect, I'd love to hear from you. And thank you, thank you for taking time to be here together. And thank you for all that you are and all that you're doing. And all that you are becoming this path is beautiful.
Alexandra Hughes 1:15:52
Thank you. Thank you, Danielle. Thank you so much for being on the podcast, we'll put all of those links in the show notes so that people can easily find you and your offering. And I would encourage anybody you know, having experience having been in your energy and having experienced the healing, of your being sung through because it's so much more than singing, I would just strongly any encourage and encourage anybody who is feeling a pull and attraction, a heart flutter to, to seek Daniel out. It truly is a life changing moment in time that you will find.
Danielle Brooks 1:16:43
And for those that are coming to this work from this podcast, send me a note. Let me know that you've listened here. And to you I offer on your first session 20% off, and let's dance and sing together. Let's spark sacred remembering. Let's support you. Yeah, that's my that is where I love to be in service and intending to that beauty that is rising and people to support you and your evolutionary leaps. Your
Alexandra Hughes 1:17:20
voices so regulation completely chilled out. Thank you so much for your time and your energy and your wisdom and your sharing. It's been a real pleasure. Thank you beautiful for listening to the witch hunt podcast. We appreciate your presence and are so honored that you're here. If you enjoyed the podcast, please leave a review, subscribe and share it with your friends. One great way to share is by taking a screenshot of the podcast on your phone and posting it on your Instagram story. Please tag us at the witch hunt podcast so that we can help share to spreading the word like this will help us to find more witches and to wake more witches. Now you know what it's time to do? Dance it out to the groovy tunes of bass that I knew, which means I miss you in Spanish. It's by gammas guys, till next time
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