Journey of discovery, discovery of purpose . . . ?

Hi everyone,

We have a friend who is a psychic - Yvette (http://www.yvettedixon.com/), my wife has visited her for readings for years. We visited her last weekend (I have had readings from her 3 or 4 times now), and she told me that I was meant to come to America - there is a purpose in my coming here - and that I was on the right path to fulfilling that purpose. Oooo-errr! Well I'm glad that I at least do have a purpose - its something I have been wondering about for the last 40 years or so!

I can believe it though. The circumstances to my being here in America were certainly both strange and swift in the making. Throughout 2005 I, having finally acquired both funding and planning permission,  was busy building my educational tourism project - Cinderbury Iron Age Village on the borders of Wales. I also started corresponding with Naomi via an online dating website in March. We sparked immediately and soon were having weekly 6 hour phone conversations on a Sunday evening. Within a matter of weeks I was certain we were going to get married, and we hadn't even met face to face yet. She came over to Britain for a visit in September; I went to see her in America in November. We both new by then we wanted to get married and in December I returned to Arizona and we got married in Sedona by one of the famous Sedona vortex sites at Cathedral Rock.  I loved Arizona - coming from Britain America, in contrast, seems so huge, so vibrant.

Cinderbury (a stepping stone according to Yvette), wasn't bringing in the level of income I had hoped for, or could live on, and as Naomi had a secure job with the Sate Health Services Dept. it was obvious I was going to be coming to America rather than she come to Britain. It was only when I arrived here that I discovered that I had come to the centre of one of the greatest of the pre-Colombian cultures in all of the United States - the Hohokam (meaning ‘those who have gone', or ‘all used up').

Not only that, but also to one of the fastest developing cities in America, Phoenix, and that development means that there is plenty of work for an experienced field archaeologist!  It certainly looked like it was ‘meant to be'.

But having come to America the biggest revelation to me was discovering Edgar Cayce. I saw him mentioned in an episode of the TV programme ‘Decoding the Past' on the History Channel. Intrigued, I went to the library and started reading everything I could get on Edgar Cayce.

Now, my spiritual journey of discovery had already begun back in Britain and was really sparked by my devastation over the breakup of my second marriage in 2001. My first wife, and mother of my son Laurie, helped a lot and introduced me to writers such as Deepak Chopra and Ekhart Tolle. My university friend, Don, invited me to something that was helping him - the Landmark Forum. That added another piece to the puzzle but was ultimately unsatisfying because it was totally a-spiritual. Though he did also introduce me to Tom Robbins for which I will always be eternally grateful. Later, I was fortunate to meet and become involved with an extraordinary soul called Sheila and discovered ‘Illusions' by Richard Bach, Wiccan teachings, String Theory, and psychic ability.

The discovery of Edgar Cayce took my journey several stages further with insights into new areas such as holistic medicine, reincarnation, karma, the importance of dreams, Atlantis (always intriguing to an archaeologist), and especially a re-evaluation of the meaning of God and Christianity (I have always been, and still am to a certain extent, extremely wary of organized religion. Christianity, especially, has been so badly misused and misinterpreted historically - and I find, having come to America, still is!). But the discovery of Cayce in turn led me to my involvement with Arizona ARE and, later to the Children of the Law of One.

What has bought it to an even further level was in reading (I do read a lot) ‘The Holographic Universe' by Michael Talbot. This, more than everything I have yet read, brings together so succinctly both the science and the spirituality - the oneness of the universe - something that will be the subject of future blogs and further work with the Children of the Law of One.

I have also been drawn to exploring the possibilities of the internet, particularly via audio and video blogging and blogging in general. A very interesting book - ‘Naked Conversations: how blogs are changing the way businesses talk to their customers' by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel brought home to me the power of the internet and blogging to connect people. It crosses all boundaries both physical and cultural. It bypasses those who would control or block our ‘connecting', whether they be political or religious or otherwise.

Some say that the year 2012 marks a major change in human consciousness - in Mayan terms an end to the current way of life and the start of a new cycle - entry into the Age of Aquarius. If this is to come to pass, and I hope that it will, it will be by individuals across the world coming together - connecting - to make that change happen. And I have a strong  feeling that the way that they will come together will be by the internet - and especially through networking sites like zaadz.com.

I still don't yet fully know what my exact ‘purpose' is in being here in America, but I am pretty sure it has something to do with the internet and blogging, and being small part of the raising of human consciousness!

Until next time ....