Encounters with Spirits: How I Met God, Angels, and Demons

I have never been to heaven and neither have I ever been to hell, but both have come to me. Amidst an exotic landscape of distant lands, intra-clan rivalries, and family legacies begins the honest, humble, and achingly sincere autobiography and testimony of CAN ũa Waya. While most stories begin in the “ordinary world,” Waya’s ordinary world was populated by witchdoctors, werewolves, and shape-shifters. In this book he tells of his life in which spirituality—in some form or other—has been inextricable from the everyday events of his life since earliest childhood. Waya has experienced the many faces of God as he journeyed through complicated relationships with his family and encountered both catastrophic and mundane obstacles, yet he still arrived at an unconditional, unshakable faith in God. Though Waya examines demonology, extraterrestrials, and the occult with an uncommon intimacy, his main goal and purpose is to point those seeking lasting freedom from demonic oppression to Christ Jesus, whose compassion remains unchanged. “Do you want to be helped?” I answered and said, “Yes. Please help me, Lord.” And that was all the praying I did that morning. There may be no prayer dearer to the heart of God.

I have never been to heaven and neither have I ever been to hell, but both have come to me. Amidst an exotic landscape of distant lands, intra-clan rivalries, and family legacies begins the honest, humble, and achingly sincere autobiography and testimony of CAN ũa Waya. While most stories begin in the “ordinary world,” Waya’s ordinary world was populated by witchdoctors, werewolves, and shape-shifters. In this book he tells of his life in which spirituality—in some form or other—has been inextricable from the everyday events of his life since earliest childhood. Waya has experienced the many faces of God as he journeyed through complicated relationships with his family and encountered both catastrophic and mundane obstacles, yet he still arrived at an unconditional, unshakable faith in God. Though Waya examines demonology, extraterrestrials, and the occult with an uncommon intimacy, his main goal and purpose is to point those seeking lasting freedom from demonic oppression to Christ Jesus, whose compassion remains unchanged. “Do you want to be helped?” I answered and said, “Yes. Please help me, Lord.” And that was all the praying I did that morning. There may be no prayer dearer to the heart of God.

CAN ũa Waya is a Kenyan journalist who currently resides in Canada. He has worked for various well-known news organizations and taught languages in Kenya, France, and Canada. Waya received Christ as his personal Savior when he was seventeen. He holds a diploma in biblical studies from the Bible school of the Nairobi Lighthouse Church in Kenya. He has also studied at universities in his native Kenya, France, and Canada.