02/10/2025
This is Atarangi Muru in the trailer as a guardian, Ngati Kuri Tohunga from Ahipara. Many years ago now she was encouraging me to be aware of the smell of cancer in a woman on a marae in Porangahau. Rather than smell it, there was a metallic taste in my mouth which was the cancer. This was in my late forties. I had already smelt stage four cancer in my late twenties and it was like a rotting smell by a kuia Mere Lucas who was teaching me matauranga Maori in Australia.
Most unpleasant smell, if I may say so.
Likewise in my late 50’s I smelt this rotting flesh smell again. It is quite a distinct smell.
Another smell is the flowery smell of diabetes. Although it is not as strong as cancer. In my own practice, the scent of Sexual abuse can be a strong smell with some yet not with others.
When we master the eye of the heart, we have access to all the senses to smell, hear, see, feel, sense, know and prophecy where you know if something will happen or not. Like for e.g. knowing someone will die.
Some people might have one or two of these abilities and some of us have all of them. You cannot learn how to have them. You can only become aware of whether or not you possess these abilities or not.
It has not always felt like a gift for me in my younger years, as it felt like a curse for me especially when you haven’t been mentored in them is it difficult to understand that you cannot explain how it is that you know these things.
As I got older, I learned to accept these abilities with an understanding that they are in fact, inherent spiritual gifts passed down from a long line of Tohunga in both my mother’s and my father’s whakapapa.
There are screenings happening in different places so it will be an interesting watch from any of us who are interested in indigenous healing
Profound ancestral wisdom woven into Māori healing traditions, illuminating a restorative path to mend the wounds inflicted by colonialism.
