I defied all logic and advice and travelled to the high plateau region of central Brazil. What I saw and experienced there was to change my life forever. The connection with Spirit was totally overwhelming!

For some people it is difficult to comprehend the existence of Spirit, and that they have access to energies and knowledge that we in the physical form disbelieve or find hard to understand. The entities read each person's 'blueprint', scanning the body immediately for medical problems. The entities can read everything, your thoughts, your soul, past lives, karma, intentions and current activities. When you come before the entities, you literally open your soul.

My journal was written as follows:

TUESDAY
Woke up a little nervous and apprehensive. Nervous about the trip ahead, and Drew's condition. Called in and said goodbye to Noeline, who cried and nearly sent me off as well. Left with Craig and the girls for Tauranga airport for my flight to Auckland. Sarena was starting to get emotional, so I asked Craig to take them home before the flight, as I to was finding it difficult. I gave the girls a gift each to take home and put by the bed to remember Mummy, and to feel close to me. This kept them from crying and gave me a chance to hold it together. I sat for 30 minutes, feeling quite alone, without my family and yet a sense of great adventure, wisdom and spiritual love.

After a very bumpy flight, I arrived in Auckland where my brother David picked me up and off we went to the International Terminal. My friend Mary-Jane arrived and we sat and chatted over a drink. Final check-in was at 2pm and by this time it was 2.30pm and still no sign of Drew. My concern over his health and how late it was had made me very nervous. After several phone calls, he turned up and we checked in. Drew was limping badly from a growth on his right thigh which covered the complete groin area and half way down his thigh. This lump appeared two weeks before the trip and even though the specialist wanted to give this area aggressive chemotherapy, Drew declined. The lump was causing a lot of pain and made it difficult to walk - Drew's skin colour was between yellow and grey and he looked very unwell.

Between the worry of missing our flight, and his condition, I had a huge knot in my stomach. What on earth was I doing? The odds of him surviving the flight were very poor. We were told that as the plane climbed to 5000 feet and the cabin was decompressed, this would reduce the oxygen level on the plane.
As Drew had so few red blood cells to provide oxygen, he would most likely have immediate cardiac arrest - we could only put our faith in the spiritual help around us.

We checked in and then Drew asked both David and I to do him a favour, he asked us to witness and sign his will so he could give it to his Dad at the airport. By this time I was really stressed. My brother hugged me and asked "Please come back to me Sis". After all, we were all that was left of our immediate family. I felt like crying, running and jumping into the nearest hole. Drew's father stressed that I must not feel that it is my responsibility should anything happen to Drew on the flight - we were giving him a chance, and chances should be taken. I didn't know if I felt any relief or not, all I knew was that I wanted my friend to make the trip alive and well.

Well, we have made it on board, the plane is not full so we take a middle row with 4 seats to stretch out, which is great. We hold hands tightly and pray for all its worth as the plane climbs, we reach 5000 feet and Drew suddenly has no nose bleeds and is breathing great - suddenly we know we are going to be okay. Dinner arrives, consisting of vegetarian pasta and fruit salad which was lovely. We decide it is safe to get some sleep, Drew is doing really well, there is a very strong feeling of calmness since we boarded, and I know we are being helped on this journey, I now feel I can relax for the first time.

We are now 7 hours into the trip and 2 movies later, cannot sleep. I have a lot of hip pain from sitting. I have been getting up and stretching but I feel tired and sore. Drew is going to stretch out and get some sleep - he looks up and said "I am so happy, I can't sleep", the relief is immense.

We are now nearly 10 hours into the trip, Drew has started to sweat and go from being very cold to hot very quickly, but amazingly stopped it in its tracks (with a little help of course). He has been having bad night sweats for the last week. The lump on his leg is very painful. As for me, everything in my back and hips throb, have had no sleep but have my second wind now. Breakfast arrives - cornflakes, croissant and a hot vegetarian meal (tofu/mushrooms), could not stomach the hot meal so I ate the cereal, including Drew's and his orange juice as he cannot eat this.

We are now nearing Buenos Aires, thank goodness. Drew has had no nose bleeds and the trip has been kind to him. I can't wait to be on the ground, I thought I would never see the end of this flight, but my friend is safe and well and I thank our helpers for that, and thank God we made it!

We have landed in Buenos Aires to a surprise temperature of 8 degrees C, but a lovely day. We have an extremely long walk through the terminals, could not find a wheelchair for Drew who walked very slow in a great deal of pain. Typical of Aerolineas Argentinas, they have cancelled our connecting flight as it was not full. We tried to get on another plane, but they were all full. We have a wait of 9 hours in the airport. The airline gave us a voucher for dinner for the delay. We are very tired and managed 1 hours sleep on the seats in the airport, which didn't help my back any. I tried many times to phone home on my international Telecom card, but you still go through an operator who does not speak English, I could not get past the Spanish operator. Hardly anyone at the airport speaks English and the few who do, are very hard to understand. Finally we are boarding a bus to take us across the airport to our connecting Aerolineas flight to Rio de Janeiro. We got the small plane for the 3½ hour flight which was very cramped, no movie. Dinner was very small and basic and the airline staff were very hard to understand. All I can think about is a stretch and a very hot shower in Rio.

Arrived in Rio de Janeiro, and took a taxi to Hotel De Bret in Copacabana. We did not arrive at the hotel until 1.15am, very exhausted. We checked into our rooms which were very old and basic, but clean. The room had a small fridge, bathroom, tv but no jug or coffee. The view from the window over Copacabana was incredible. Unfortunately the shower was lukewarm at best, but at least I got one. It is quite cool, and I had to put an extra blanket on the bed. I phoned home, unpacked and went to bed.