About 25 years ago I came to the conclusion that things around me did not add up. My usual down to earth attitude received too many knocks as happenings in my own home became weird to say the least! I found lights turned on at night when I knew for sure I did turn them off. When I was reading a book in bed I could have sworn that someone rushed passed my bedroom door and when I checked on my children - for sure they were fast asleep in their beds. Since my husband was overseas at that time and no one else lived with us that I knew of and could have blamed for playing pranks on me, I started to feel quite uneasy in my own skin. To top it off things I knew I placed at a particular spot dissapeared and then reappeared 2 days later. One evening standing in front of my bookcase looking for a book to read, I got gently pushed towards the bookcase by an unseen someone, because when I spun around nobody was there. I noticed doors that just had been locked sprung open again with the lock still in place, I would find pegs I used to lock the doors on my bird cages to stop my little darlings from escaping, laying in orderly fashion in front of the cages in a neat row; again, nobody else was with me in the house! This is the time when I met that someone that helped me making a choice - I either should look in the yellow pages for a Psychiatrist or under C for a Clairvoyant. None of these two choices appealed to me at that time but decided to give one of them a go; what did I had to loose? My sanity perhaps? That seemed to be under threat anyway, so I made an appointment and met - my future spiritual teacher.
With a sense of relief that I was not the only one who deals with strange happenings and with the help of my teacher I embarked on an incredible journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening. I found out that when the pupil is ready the teacher will appear and for that I will be eternally grateful to my teacher Georgie. She took me under her wings and even today our friendship and her guidance means a lot to me. I joined Georgie's spiritual development group and with her help and the help of my unseen friends, who I call the "upstairs department", the lessons started. What mostly amazed me was the discovery of my own spirituality which I had denied for so many years. I had turned my back on orthodox Religion in my early teens as I could not find the answers to my questions and with that unfortunately I had turned away from God also.
It is relatively easy to throw something away but very hard to find it again as I found out!Through many hours of meditation and soul searching I found my way back into God's hands realising the reason of my existence here on earth.
With my rediscovered faith and belief in myself and with the help and encouragement of my spirit guides and my teacher I started after months of meditation and learning to "spread the word" so to speak by holding spiritual development classes my self. It was quite a huge undertaking on my part as I was never a person you would find sitting in the first row or speaking out loud to be heard. This is when I learned that with the support and teachings of my guides and spiritual teachers everything is possible. I was able to answer questions asked by my students intuitively and practically learned a whole lot more during holding classes than I ever dreamed of.
Over the years my spiritual guides and my teacher Georgie would more or less gently nudge me in new directions. I would be told for example to start my own healing group within a week. So with another student at that time and now a dear friend, Russel and I would sit in anticipation how our healing guides would arrange for our first "healing subjects" to appear. And of course - they came and a whole new chapter of my life would begin as two of my main healing guides would introduce themselves to me.
Not long after that I was asked to open up a Spiritual Church in Coffs Harbour; me - standing in front of people holding services and all what it entails to run a Church? And again I learned not to underestimate the power and the determination of my guides and teachers to get me on my path. Soon I would find myself conducting Church Services, holding Naming Ceremonies and Funerals. I became an ordained Minister of Religion in 1992 and this truely cemented my faith and belief to serve and to lead a life filled with counselling those in need, helping people to find their path in life, comforting those who lost loved ones and guiding new students towards finding their spirituality by introducing them to their guides,
My life is still about learning, teaching, healing and counselling; I joyfully accepted the role I have to play in this life knowing that I have the backup of my beautiful family, my friends and the "upstairs department"!
God bless, Barb |
