I majored in physics and minored in mathematics at the
University of California at Berkeley until I was just
about to receive my diploma. I only needed one more quarter
to graduate. I decided I didn't want the degree because
I discovered something about physicists themselves that
turned me off to the idea of becoming involved in a science
that I realized was no science at all. This in itself
could be a book, but the 'why' of it is related to the
same subject that we talk about with archeologists. Physicists,
just like archeologists, will turn their heads to the
Truth if it means too much of a change too fast. Perhaps
the real truth is that this is human nature. So I switched
to the other side of my brain and started majoring in
fine arts. My counselors thought I was nuts. "You're going
to give up a physics degree?" they asked. But I didn't
need it, didn't want it. Then to graduate I had to go
for two more years majoring in fine arts. Finally, I was
in my last quarter before getting my degree in fine arts,
thinking "I don't know if I can do this. I'm so tired.
I just can hardly handle this."
Then Kent State happened. The whole school system across
the United States closed down, and they gave all the students
straight Bs and let them go. So I got my fine arts degree
without having to finish the last little bit.
My
changing majors makes sense now, because when you study
the ancient writings, you find out that the people of
the time perceived art, science and religion as being
interwoven, interconnected. So the programming that I
was putting myself through was appropriate for what I'm
doing now.
MOVING
TO CANADA
I got my degree in 1970. Then, after being in Viet Nam
and looking at what was happening in our country at that
time, I finally said, "I've had it! This is it! I don't
know how long I'm going to live or what's going to happen,
but I'm just going to be happy and do what I've always
wanted to do." And I decided to get away from everything
and go live in the mountains, like I had always wanted
to do.
So
I left the United States and went to Canada, not knowing
there would be ten of thousands of Vietnam war protesters
following me a year later. I married a woman named Renee
and the two of us went way back into the middle of nowhere,
and found a little house on a lake called Kootenay Lake.
We were a long way away from anything. You had to walk
four miles from the nearest road to get to my house. So
we were really isolated. And I began to live my life exactly
like I had always wanted to live. I had always wanted
to see if I could live on nothing; so I gave it a try.
It was a little scary at first, but it got easier as time
went on, and pretty soon I became adept at natural living.
I lived a wonderful and full life on basically no money.
After a while I realized, hey, this is a lot easier than
holding a job in a city! I only had to work hard for about
three hours a day, then I had the rest of the time off.
It was great. I could play music and run around and have
a good ol' time. And that's exactly what I did. I had
fun. I played music about ten hours a day, with lots of
friends who came from miles around. Our place had gained
quite a reputation by then. An average of about eleven
people per day showed up to play music and enjoy - and
we just had fun.
And
in this act, which is very important to my understanding
now, I discovered something about myself. It was from
this - returning to my inner child is how I phrase it
these days - that my inner child was released, and in
that releasing, something happened to me, which was the
catalyst that led into my life as it is today.
MEETING
THE ANGELS
While
in Vancouver, my wife and I decided we wanted to know
about meditation, so we started studying with a Hindu
teacher who lived in the area. We were very serious in
wanting to understand what meditation was about. We had
made white silk robes with hoods and were very serious
about this new endeavor we had begun.
Then,
one day, after practicing meditation for about four or
five months, two tall angels about ten feet high appeared
in our room! They were right there.
One
was green and one was purple. We could see through their
transparent bodies, but they were definitely there.
We did not expect this appearance to take place. We
were just following the instructions that our Hindu
teacher was giving us. I don't believe he fully understood
as he kept asking us many questions and he didn't seem
to understand either. From that moment on, my life was
never the same. It wasn't even close.
The first words the angels said were, "We are you."
I had no idea what they meant. I said, "You're me?"
Then, slowly they began to teach me various things about
myself and the world, and about the nature of consciousness
. . . until finally my heart just completely opened
to them. I could feel tremendous love from them which
totally changed my life.
Over a period of many years, they led me to about seventy
different teachers. They would actually tell me the
address and the phone number of the teacher I was to
go see. They would tell me either to call first or just
show up at his or her house. So I would do this - and
it would always be the right person! Then I would be
instructed to stay with that person for a certain length
of time.
Sometimes, right in the middle of a particular teaching,
the angels would say, "Okay, you're done. Leave." I
remember when they sent me to Ram Dass. I hung out in
his house for about three days wondering what the heck
I was doing there; then one day I went to touch him
on the shoulder to say something and I got a zap that
practically knocked me on the floor. And that was it
- the angels said, "That's it. "You can leave now."
And I said, "Okay." Ram Dass and I became friends, but
whatever I was supposed to learn from him was over within
that one second.
The teachings of Neem Karoli Baba, Ram Dass's teacher,
are very important to me. It was his belief that "the
best form to see God is in every form". I've also been
exposed to Yogananda's work and cherish who he was.
And later we'll be talking about Sri Yukteswar and some
of his work. I've been intensely involved in almost
all the major religions. I've resisted the Sikhs, because
I do not believe that military preparation is necessary,
but I've studied and practiced almost all the rest of
them, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist.
I've deeply studied Taoism & Sufism - spent eleven years
with Sufism. Through all this, the most powerful teachers
for me, however, have been the Native American Indians.
It was the Indians who opened the doorway for all my
spiritual growth to take place. They've been a very
powerful influence in my life.
All the world's religions are speaking of the same Reality.
They have different words, different concepts and ideas,
but there's really only one Reality, and there's only
one Spirit moving through all life. There might be different
techniques to get there, but there's only what is real,
and when you're there you know it. Whatever you want
to call it - you can give it different names - it's
all the same thing.
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