The Curious Mask 

Hi,

This is what started me on my spiritual journey.

Up to when I was 5 years old, my father was a cook on the big cargo ships from the ‘Holland-America line’. This gave him the opportunity for quick visits in many countries when the ship was in the harbour.

On one of those visits he came across a small market somewhere in South America, I honestly cannot remember the country anymore. He was looking around to buy something to bring home, when he was approached by an old woman who said she had something special for him. Long story short, he went with her and bought a wooden mask.

At the time I was 4 years old and we were living in a small fisherman house and the mask was hanging on the wall in the living room. My father was on another trip and I was home alone with my mom, who was in the kitchen making dinner.

I was in the living room which was separate from the kitchen, playing. Suddenly the mask came of the wall and floated towards me. I walked around the chair and the mask followed me around, not being threatening, but at a respectful distance, I never sensed any bad intentions from it, it seemed more curious than anything else. Funny enough I was not scared at all. We all know that children are far more accepting to the unusual than we, adults are. After having circled each other for maybe 2 or 3 minutes I went to the kitchen to tell my mom, that the mask had come off the wall and was following me around.