Interview with A Shaman

Willie “Windwalker” Gibson Speaks About Life As A Psychic

By Julie Pyle

Sitting in the living room of his modest brick house in a quiet Louisville,Ky. neighborhood, Willie “Windwalker” Gibson may not at first appear to be the stuff movies are made of.

However, first impressions can be deceiving.

Hollywood has indeed come calling, in the form of screenwriters wanting to make a movie based on the life of this shaman/minister.

Science fiction and fantasy—with particular emphasis on psychics and alien invasions—have experienced a revival of great success in all aspects of pop-culture, but especially in movies and television. Gibson believes this is due in part to a cosmic shift that has caused many people, who previously had no paranormal experiences, to become more receptive.

“The Earth is changing. It’s going through what the Native Americans call now the Great Cleansing,” he said. “Look what happened to New Orleans, okay. That’s just the beginning. Earthquakes, you’re going to see volcanic eruptions, things like that. The Earth is kind of tilting a little bit on it’s axis, and what it’s doing is changing the energy of the Earth and it’s opening up to people that’s blocked.”

Gibson also helps to open people to paranormal experiences by teaching them how to tap into their own psychic talents.

“Everybody has psychic abilities. You’ve just got to open your mind up to it,” he said.

One of his students, Schmon--his wife of 17 years--has learned how to see spirits, to communicate with guides and to create medicine circles.

He teaches students individually until they are ready to join a circle, where they can further hone their skills and learn from one another.

Gibson’s abilities came to him more naturally, however, and his gifts were apparent at a very young age. When he was ten years old, his father started taking him to funeral homes, and not just for people Gibson knew well.

“The butcher would die or the neighbor down the street would die, and he would go to the funeral home. But he wouldn’t take anybody but me.”

He now knows that his father used these opportunities to help prepare him for life as a psychic.

On one occasion, Gibson went with his mother and father to an uncle’s funeral in another town, even though he had never met his mother’s brother. After viewing the body, the young Gibson went outside and saw a man standing under a tree. The man motioned for him to come closer, and when he did, Gibson realized that the man was the deceased uncle he had just seen. Stunned and confused, Gibson followed the man’s instructions and asked his aunt if she had a package for his mother. She did and presented it the next day. When Gibson’s mother saw what was inside, she began to cry.

It was a photograph of her mother, the only picture ever taken. Her brother had been unable to give it to her before he died, but he wanted to make sure she received it.

After years of trying to block things out, Gibson tried to learn more about the paranormal on his own. However, in 1981 he had a life-changing encounter with the paranormal that would send him down a path he never imagined.

“It wasn’t until I was a cop that I really focused in on trying to learn more about it, to where I could do something about it,” he recalled. “What happened was, when I was a policeman, I was assigned to a Native American burial ground, and one night I seen this Indian walking up the road on the burial ground. And I stopped him. I said ‘What are you doing here?’ He said ‘I belong here.’”

Gibson said the Native American man’s name was Singing Fox, and he was a shaman whose spirit protected the burial ground. Singing Fox became a spirit guide for Gibson and gave him his name “Windwalker.” Every night, when Gibson was on patrol, Singing Fox trained him to become a shaman.

Since then, Gibson has had other teachers –both living and dead. He has even employed the Internet as a useful tool for consulting with other shamans.

Besides being a shaman, Gibson has also been a minister in the Church of Christ for 15 years. While he has encountered some people who express doubt that a psychic shaman can also be a Christian, he sees no discrepancy.

“Shamans are not witch doctors. Shamans are spiritual people that can go into different realms, meditation-wise. And they’re healers, they’re counselors,” he said.

Schmon also practices Christianity and attends a Catholic church.

“That’s where I feel the spirit of God at, is the Catholic Church,” she said. “God is in all churches, but to me, He’s in one certain church that I go to.”

These days, however, Gibson feels more acceptance of his abilities from the general population, as evidenced by the warm reception and high interest at a recent psychic expo. He also notes this season’s television line-up is conspicuously packed with shows of the paranormal realm.

While he thinks many seem like good shows, he said one in particular more closely resembles his own psychic experiences.

“Ghost Whisperer has got it right on the money,” he said.