I AM the Witness
A Pentecostal Preacher Becomes a Keeper of the Flame
Dear Mother,
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the wonderful conference last summer. It was my first conference, and I thought that I would share “my story” with you about my path and how I came to be there with you.
I am a 44-year-old native Kentuckian who became a world traveler through my job as an electronic specialist on offshore drilling ships. I started my world tour at the age of 19, shortly after graduating from electronics tech school. My first assignment was in the Far East.
I lived in Singapore for seven years while working in most of the Eastern countries. I met and married my wife, who is of Indian descent, while in Singapore. I found I had a curious love for all Asians and was easily accepted by them. Sometimes I would feel that I could even speak the various languages but of course I couldn’t. I suspect some karmic links here but do not have any memory of them.
While living in Singapore, I began to visit the local Buddhist temple and to visit and chant with the monks. I was a novelty to them, and they eventually baptized me and accepted me as their friend. I read and studied the precepts of Buddha and loved to meditate on them.
Finally we moved to the island of Malta, where we stayed for four years while I worked in the Middle East and North Sea. Eventually we moved back to the United States in 1980 while I continued my career in Brazil and other places.
Shortly after returning to the United States I became a born-again Christian and renounced all other teachings. I went on to become a Pentecostal preacher, no less, though not a very good one in my opinion. After ten years of this, my burning heart continued to desire more and I became desperate. I continued to pray for more, as I always had, and the Lord began to cause me to reexamine reincarnation. At first, I was repulsed by this because I knew that it would cost me my church and all of my friends. But after completing my research and looking within my own heart, I had to accept this doctrine. Eventually I was rejected by my church, where I functioned as “fill in” pastor. All of my friends stopped coming around also because of my “leprosy.”
One day I happened upon your books The Lost Teachings of Jesus, I and II. Never had I read anything which so reflected my own thoughts and more! One thing led to another and I started checking out your organization. Being very cautious, of course, of “cults,” I began to ask around. I got nothing but negative reports but it was all hearsay, which I refused to believe. I called the ranch and asked for a list of members in my geographical area, which they gave me. I called three people, each about 100 miles from my location in different cities. All three gave me high-praise reports for your organization, and my intuitive feeling was good. I found out through them about the conference and, before I knew it, I was there. What perfect timing!
Weeks before the conference the Holy Spirit started showing me an inner image of a Buddha in meditation. I did not know what this meant, but it comforted me to close my eyes and visualize it. I was amazed when I arrived at the conference and saw this very image in your book tent! You taught on the Holy Spirit, which as a Pentecostal had been my forte, so to speak. You spoke the truth (and more than I knew besides) and my heart was thrilled. Your teachings on the Holy Spirit were the perfect teachings for me.
I signed up as a Keeper of the Flame and am now relying upon the Keepers Lessons and more of your books to keep me company here in the Bible belt. Needless to say, there are not too many followers of the Ascended Masters here!
I am trying to work through my karma, as we all are, and I am hoping to start a study group if I can somehow make contact with others of like mind. I sometimes organize study groups at the local library conference room. After meeting mostly with traditionalists, I am praying to make contact with some Truth seekers, as I know these will be easier to work with.
I look forward to learning and growing in your organization and pray daily for help from the Holy Spirit and the Ascended Masters. I have always felt like an alien on this planet and it was very satisfying for me to actually see over three thousand people at your meeting who had similar views!
I would like to know when you think you will be on satellite. I hope it will be soon because you are not on my local cable. (I did try to get you on cable here without success.)
Again, I express my appreciation to you for your work and hope that I can someday attend Summit University, though at present job duties keep me here.
God bless you,
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