Mr. Ballin

And all I want you to do is just focus on your desires for the future.

You know, what riches do you want to come to you and focus solely on those.

And so Maslin did this.

In his mind's eye, he pictured himself becoming more politically powerful and more popular and landing the job of his dreams.

And he's sort of narrating what he's saying out loud.

And Mona's telling him, good, good, keep going, keep picturing those things.

And then at some point, she's like, look, I want you to picture riches raining down from the sky on you.

sort of symbolizing you getting these things that you want.

And so Maslin did that, and he began picturing the gold and the silver falling from the sky, you know, landing on him, and he's narrating what he's feeling and seeing, and at some point he was so fixated on this idea of riches coming from the sky that he swore he could literally feel the gold and silver actually hitting his body.

And at that point, when he was actually feeling something, is when the ritual was done.

A little over a year later, on September 12th, 1994, the famous shaman, Mona Fandi, glided her way through a crowd of photographers on a street just outside of Kuala Lumpur.

Mona was dressed to the nines.

She had red lipstick on, her hair was all styled up, she had beautiful clothes on, and as she maneuvered through the crowd, she sort of feigned like she didn't want the attention, but she totally did.

So it would turn out the ritual that she had performed on Maslin a year earlier had made Maslin incredibly famous.

And in turn, it had made Mona even more famous than she already was.

And so the paparazzi, they were desperate to get a photo of her because of her unbelievable fame.

And for Mona, even though she acted like what she really cared about was being a shaman and helping people achieve their dreams and to heal and gain in prosperity, even though that's what she would say, the truth was, ever since she had had that big hit, that pop music album that had launched her into the stratosphere, ever since then, she had been chasing fame.

And now she had really nailed it.

I mean, she was like an icon in Malaysia.

And so as she maneuvered past the paparazzi and everyone's clamoring to get her attention and to get her photo,