Written from my own experiences, in the hope that more people who feel lost will see it. Having a spiritual connection isn't scary; what is scary is letting your heart become unsettled. Don't focus too much on outward forms. Look within yourself, and don't let desire blind you. People are like mountains: people come first, mountains come after. In 2000, in Linxi, Inner Mongolia, bitter winds swept grains of snow across the loess slopes. Lin Wanxing was born on the warm kang bed of an earthen house, but on her third day of life, she stopped breathing for five terrifying hours. Her great-grandmother's frail embrace and determined cries pulled her back from the gates of death. This girl marked by fate was born carrying the spirit-medium bond passed down through generations of the Lin family. Three unlit sticks of old incense in a blue-gray porcelain burner held the inescapable ordeal of that bond.
