A haunted beach, T’ai Chi Chih, and peace

Dear Sr. Francis,

We finally find time to write to you about our experience in Mozambique. We arrived at a campsite and our stand was facing the beach. A lovely place. The kids went to the beach playing; meanwhile we built up our tent. After supper we were all very tired and went straight to sleep. We all slept well that night.

The next day we had a lovely breakfast and a wonderful day at the beach. We had bought some fish for that evening. We cooked and ate outside the tent, with coconut trees all around us and millions of stars looking down to us. At 7:00 the kids went to sleep. We stayed outside chatting and enjoying ourselves. At 10:00 we decided to go to sleep as well.

When we lay in our tent, Sam told me that he was not feeling well, sort of dizzy and he failed to sleep. I suspected food poisoning, but the kids were sleeping deeply and they ate a lot of that fish. When I closed my eyes to sleep, I felt suffocated, drowned and I tried to scream, but I was paralysed. It took all my will to force myself to open my eyes and then all was normal again. My husband went through the same experience. As soon as one of us closed the eyes, a dark power tried to get hold of us. We both had never had an experience like this before and were very scared. After one hour of no change, we decided to come out of our tent and pray for help.

After praying, we felt we had to become one with our surrounding environment and ask for peace. So we decided to do Tai Chi Chih.

Up to this time we had hardly ever done Tai Chi Chih together, because we were both more comfortable to do it by ourselves. So around 1:00 a.m., we did Tai Chi Chih facing the ocean, because we felt the negative energy presented itself in waves from the seaside. Slowly all our fear faded as we felt protected and in tune with the surrounding environment.

We sat after Tai Chi Chih on the floor for a while to praise the universe for its helping hand and then we went to bed. I could close my eyes and felt better. Sam felt also much better, although I had a light sleep that night.

From that day we did every evening Tai Chi Chih. We stayed there five nights as planned and felt after that night protected and welcome.

On our checkout, I had a chat with the manager and she pointed out that the campsite was haunted and they had a cleansing ceremony conducted to clear the area. I then told her about our experience and she was shocked because she thought it all had passed. This experience was very bonding for the two of us and since then we enjoy to do Tai Chi Chih together.

Thanks again for having taught us these wonderful movements.

– Your Ruth and Sam