John’s life was shaped by a series of traumatic events in the era of civil rights and anti-war movements that involved him and huge numbers of others in his generation. His whirlwind day in Paris, accompanied by a self-driven French woman at the time of the 1968 student uprising, captures the energies of those dramatic times and gives a sense of the driving forces within John that led to his major shift in later life from his left-brain professional abilities to his spiritual awareness as a practical intuitive. This was to be the beginning of his journey that led him to provide practical help to others through his shamanistic abilities of spiritual leadership, healing and teaching.