Death: Final Destination or a New Address?

Saturday, January 17, 2026

Dr. David Cumes

South Africa
USA

Very few of us would go to a totally unknown destination without the right preparation, yet we neglect to educate ourselves about the most important journey we will ever take. The crucial factors to consider include; preparation, passing over, the afterlife realms, reconciling with our karma, and reincarnation or becoming a spirit guide. Find out how dysfunctions may be visited on living people because of an unhappy or unfulfilled spirit, and explore the factors determining how successfully we traverse the spiritual plane.

David Cumes, M.D. was born in South Africa and received his medical and surgical training in Johannesburg. Specializing in urology, he later taught at Stanford Medical Center and currently has a private practice in Santa Barbara, CA. He is a Western trained surgeon steeped in the allopathic paradigm of medicine but he is also a sangoma (African shaman,) being initiated in Swaziland in 2002. Dr. Cumes is also the author of seven books; Inner Passages Outer Journeys, The Spirit of Healing, Africa in my Bones, Healing Trees and Plants of the Lowveld, Messages from the Ancestors, Mpofu’s Grandmothers Loving Lessons and The Source (about establishing an indigenous healing center in remote South Africa.) He is a bridge between Western medicine and indigenous healing wisdom, continuing with his surgical practice but also practicing sangoma medicine out of his home. His roots are in Africa, and he is also convinced that since humanity began there, so too did the first healing techniques.