My Experience of Spiritual Awakening

I was 19. It was the middle of my junior year studing Forestry at university. I was walking across campus when the invisible light switch clicked. I felt like a kitten picked up by the scruff of my neck, turned 180 degrees, and set down again. I realized I had lost the ability to see the intensity of color. I could only see pastels around me. I walked back to my room.

I had been very involved in my studies and campus activities and sports, but at this point I felt like all of my energy and verve for life had been instantaneously sucked out of me, leaving me a closed vacuum. I felt a large hand coming down in front of me, as if this was the end of my university experience. I was shocked. Leave university? What would my parents think?

I stayed in my room for several days, going to no classes, and having my meals brought to me. This force overpowering me I could only describe as "a vast impersonal irresistable force of Love". There was no Jesus or God as my liberal Protestant upbringing had pictured. A voice said, "You are attending university for the wrong reasons. What do YOU want to do with your life?" I thoughtfully replied that I wanted to help people, and never have to work for money as an end in itself.

I decided to withdraw from university and become a fulltime volunteer helping people through an organization that would look after me financially. Then I went to visit the professor of a class that had opened my eyes to alternative ways of viewing life in society, my Ethics professor. As I left his office to begin the withdrawal process, the invisible light switch clicked and all the intensities of color returned to my vision! My energies returned as strongly as if they had never been gone.

After this, I read everything I could get my hands on related to parapsychology and comparative religion. Every couple of years, I would have another mind-blowing experience, and I would hit the books again, searching for others who had experienced something similar and how they had made sense of that experience. There are many magnificent books out there!

I tried various forms of meditation to build a relationship with my Higher Self, to no avail. When I was 44, I was trying again when I found myself in a vast cathedral of golden light, a ring of watchers around me. A guide was with me and said I was ready to begin my psychic training with him. I practiced daily meditation under his guidance. It was awesome, and the beginning of an incredible journey I could never have imagined.

Can't wait to see what I do next!

Love from Zing