The second part of my memoirs begins with a powerful recurring dream before I turned 50. Episodes 2 and 3 describe how music returned to my life after not really having played the piano for some thirty five years. Aged 53, while recovering from a hysterectomy in Kalk Bay, I began to spontaneously play on my grandmother’s 1901 Bechstein piano which had returned from Switzerland. Episodes (4,5 and 6) describe my evolving relationship with spontaneous playing of pianos in many contexts as my professional work took me to the Balkans and central and Eastern Europe over the next few years. In 2005, during a vision quest in the Cederberg mountains, I was introduced to ‘Tone’ an esoteric aspect of myself and a new unusual thread began to weave itself into my adventures (Episode 7).

A very significant dream described in Episode 9 set the scene for a voyage of self-discovery and a musical past life in Italy which is developed in the next two episodes (10 and 11). Serendipitous events allowed the exploration of ‘Harmonic chant’ with David Hykes (Episodes 12, 13, 15 and 16) and beginning to record my spontaneous piano music (14). I started a mindful and soul-expanding program of Liberal Arts with Wisdom University held annually at Chartres, France from 2006-2012. Under the umbrella of the “New Chartres School”, with faculty comprising leaders in Science and Spirituality, I was a sponge soaking up this rich exposure to the metaphysical (Episodes 17 and 18). A particularly powerful experience was participating at a seminar at Chartres with John o’Donahue, the Celtic priest and poet the year before he died. (Episode 19).

March 2007 was my first visit to the United States, prompted by my desire to explore the evolution of my music with mentors who were beginning to come into my awareness. (Episodes 20 and 21). This was also the year of my mother’s death which occurred during a magical walking in the labyrinth at Chartres cathedral in July 2007. This final episode finds me returning to Cape Town yet again and concludes the second part of my memoirs.