Like all of its kindred Lightning Drums, the Lightning Rider is imbued with mystery. It has secrets and gifts to share. You can see many of them, but some you cannot, at least with your physical eyes. You will need to experience them instead, by riding the light. And then you will see... in a different way.

The Cherokee refer to this as "chante ishta," seeing with the eye of the heart, that moment when you break through the veil of the ordinary to behold the Greater Reality of existence, that place of spiritual helpers, healing and visioning. For sure, it takes hard work to earn such sight, for there are no shortcuts available to the seeker of Truth who must first subsume the ego and put aside the self.

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The Lightning Rider earned the gift the hard way. It lost all the moment a searing bolt of lightning turned a once living tree into an inanimate and scarred hulk of wood. But in the destruction came creation of something new, a shamanic healer's medicine drum, transformed by lightning, reborn to sound the thunder.

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Are you ready to ride the light? Let the Lightning Rider show you how, and then you will see with your heart that this companion is as sacred and alive as you or I.

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"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery