HOW CHRONIC BACK PAIN WAS HEALED BY SAINT GERMAIN AND THE VIOLET FLAME
Mariko’s challenges began when she was
in her early teens, with the beginning of World War II. Although she was born in America, her parents were Japanese. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were placed in internment camps. Mariko and her family were held in one of these camps for three and a half years. Instead of succumbing to boredom, she busied herself teaching classical Japanese dance to the other inmates. After the war she became a successful businesswoman, but she felt that something was lacking. She began a quest, looking for a spiritual teacher. She thought that this person might be at a university, so she enrolled in college. After receiving a bachelor’s degree 61
