Until 1989, South African-born Michael Brown was living what he called a blissfully unconscious life as a music journalist. He then developed an acutely painful neurological condition for which conventional medicine had neither cure nor relief. This caused him to set out on what became a 9 year odyssey of self-healing. His travels took him to the United States and Mexico and into then beyond the healing modalities of Reiki, Breath work, Shamanism and the wisdom of Native Americans and Mexicans. The outcome is an evolutionary new healing procedure called The Presence Process.