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John Lockley


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John is one of the first white men, in recent history, to become a fully initiated sangoma in the Xhosa lineage of South Africa.
He was born, in 1971, into a divided Apartheid South Africa, with the mark of the sangoma on his face – a band of white birth skin around the eyes. At 18, John was serving in the South African army as a medic (during the war with Angola in the 1980s) when he had a strong, prophetic dream calling him to train as a Xhosa sangoma. He immediately began to suffer from the thwasa, a severe period of ill-health that is inherent in all ancient shamanic cultures which can only be cured through apprenticeship to a shamanic teacher. Because of the restrictions of Apartheid (which ended in 1994) it would take John seven years ...more

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Ancient Aliens: Africa’s Extraterrestrial Contact

I’m super excited to be part of the new Ancient Aliens episode on Africa’s Extraterrestrial contact.

It is season 22, episode 15 - Africa’s Extraterrestrial Contact. it airs tonight, August 6th, at 10:00 PM EST on the History Channel in the US.

The human race as we know it can trace it’s ancestral roots to Africa.

I will be speaking alongside some well known experts. I will touch on African cosm

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