Judy - different methods

[Guest guest]

Judy -

When I was in high school my allowance was $100 a week. I formed

relationships with Weiser's bookstore in New York (it was way

cool in the 70s), Yes! Bookstore in Washington DC and the Vedanta

Center in California.

I would order books from all over the world - most notably India and

China - Wei Wu Wei favorite British/Chinese author. I studied the

Bhagavad Gita, Tao, Patanjali's aphorisms, all of Ramakrishna and

Vivekananda's works and became a disciple of Paramahansa Yogananda who

wrote Autobiography of a Yogi.

I also loved Christian Mysticism - the Philokalia, Dark Night of the

Soul, Practice the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence - I got five

translations and wrote my own this book was/is so powerful for me.

Somewhere in here I followed Ram Dass when he was around me

geographically. I still have vivid memories of all those moments.

I studied with Rammurti Mishra (one of the boys from India) in the

70's in Babson Park. I then followed him and lived at his ashram in

Monroe, New York. This experience was profound. He often used me to

do chakra work demonstrations so I received so much shaktipat. There

I met some of the other boys from India. Later, came home to

Redington Beach and he just so happened to open an ashram .5 miles

down the same road that I lived on several months later - coincidence

I'm sure!!!!!

I lived at Shangri-La Health Institute and taught yoga there in Bonita

Springs in the 70s and learned to become a raw food vegan which I have

recently returned to. There I met the author of athan Livingston

Seagull. But I was more interested in another author Ken Keyes and

studied those works intensively - Handbook to Higher Consciousness - I

still touch base with this work now.

Did A Course In Miracles from 79 to late 80s.

Got lost in the workin world - didn't feel the need to invest in

myself spiritually.

And now with the " loss " of what I thought was a life time partner and

the sleep " deaths " of two friends in my bible study group this year -

here I am - Pain calls me back to the work.

Now I oscillate between A Course in Miracles, Eckardt Tolle's Power of

Now, and Byron 's Loving What Is and the work. I also have one

of the most extensive healing/music cd collections this side of the

Mississippi! - right now listening to fabulous Buddhist chanting with

a Western beat - lovely (Chants to Awaken the Buddhist Heart by Lama

Surya Das)

While only the work was able to really crack my shell, I think every

single experience in my life prepared me for this moment with the work.

When it comes to spirituality and spiritual relationships I have no

trouble listening to my heart. I simply ask for help, really want

help and miracles happen - like that teleconference where only 7

people were online so I got to be selected to do the work with Byron

- wow what a nice gift.

Thanks for asking Judy - you really made me see how blessed my life

truly is and continues to be. Jan