Mysticism of Metaphysics

THE MYSTICISM OF METAPHYSICS

Towards Spiritual Education of a Global Society

Geraldine Pennels

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Copyright Dr. Geraldine M. Pennels October 2019

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Acknowledgements

On behalf of all his grateful clients, I wish to dedicate this book to Sam, the traditional African psychic healer, who brought me in direct contact with the secrets behind the world of spirituality and psychic miracles. If it was not for his affability, kindness and unconditional support, I might not have had the courage to persevere with my trials or completed this book. In humble deference to the devotion, indefatigability, humility, empathy and loyalty with which he always treated me and served all his clients, this book also gives recognition to his status as a true prophet and an advanced, divine psychic healer with superior consciousness.

I would like to acknowledge my friend, Christopher York, from Austin, Texas, USA, for sharing his material on metaphysics with me. Metaphysics, parapsychology and spirituality are more or less synonymous, their commonality being the abstract world of non-physical senses. Chris and I both have a common passion for the subject and also for writing. His infectious inspiration, admirable knowledge and his extensive, exciting library of books on varied topics, served as some of the sources of information in my writing, including my first book on metaphysics called The Metaphysical Method of Success: How to Manifest Desires. The latter we started as a project together under a different title and content, but various, unforeseen factors led to the dissolution of our collaborated attempt.

I wish to thank my daughter Maureen who was always willing to learn and listen to everything spiritual I shared with her. Her invaluable support, protectiveness and strength helped me get through many a difficult time.

I am also indebted to Niegel William Anderson, for his hospitality, tolerance and charity during my stay with him. In addition, he exposed me to various experiences that taught me many life lessons that helped me to grow both as a person and a soul.

Finally, I wish to immortalize my eternal gratitude to Mother Mary, the King, Sananda, the Arcturians and all the superior, positively polarized Galactics in service to humanity, who work with Sam and who individually and collectively adjudicated upon my life and trials and blessed me with their support, encouragement, gifts and most welcome presence in my life. Without their infinite, omniscient wisdom, thaumaturgical manifestations of their spiritual powers, their psychic protection and superior telepathic guidance, I would not have been able to write convincingly on metaphysics or evolved to a higher level of consciousness and understanding.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: How I discovered pure spirituality

The Characteristics of a True Prophet

The Traditional Ancestral Method and Spirituality

The Perception of God and the Voices of the Gods

The Use of Prophets in Contemporary Life

The Importance of Making Time to Discover the Truth

The Need for Humans to Expand into New Paradigms of Knowledge

Religion as a Vehicle for Spiritual Teachings

Conclusion

Chapter Two: Soul Cycles and Personality

The Paradigm of Duality and Separation in Religion

Collaboration between Government and Religion

The Dual Nature of our Existence

The Difference between Science and Metaphysics

Satanism

The Planes of our Multi-Dimensional Existence

The Fragmentary Existence of Human Beings

The Soul Cycles

The General Crime Capabilities of Different Souls

Conclusion

Chapter Three: Our Soul Motivators

Soul Motivators

The Modes of the Soul

The Roles of the Soul

The Goals of the Soul

The Attitudes of the Soul

The Duality of Soul Characteristics

Conclusion

Chapter Four: The Spiritual Causes for the Status of our Body

Body Types

The Influence of the Planets on our Body Types

The Seven Body Types

The Functioning of the Human Body

The Seven Human Bodies and their Association to Illness

Habits that may Help you to Stay Healthy

Natural Tips to Maintain a Healthy Weight

Conclusion

Chapter Five: Crime and the Influence of Karma

Negative Energy that Manifests as Civil Crime

Spiritually Harmful Thoughts and Actions

Karma

Individual Karma

How to Avoid Negative Karma

The Seven Negatives

Mental Blocks that Prevent One from Evolving

Conclusion

Chapter Six: The Spiritual States of Consciousness

The Seven Categories of Being

Three States of Consciousness and their Centres of Operation

Categories of Being and their States of Consciousness

Entrapment in a Particular Centre of Consciousness

Influences that Prevent us from Developing to Higher States of Consciousness

Two requirements for Ascension of the Soul

The Emotions

Charity

The Ten Commandments re-interpreted as Ten Actions of Love and Unity

Adoration

Labour

Reproduction

Preservation

Society

Equality

Liberty

Justice

Love

Charity

Conclusion

Chapter Seven: The Hidden Higher Purpose of Life on Earth

The First Purpose of Life on Earth

The Second Purpose of Life on Earth

The Third Purpose of Life on Earth

Conclusion

Chapter Eight: The Secrets of Life Revealed

My Initial Meetings with the Gods

My Three Gifts

Trials on the Tools of Spirituality

Faith

Belief

Trust

Obedience

Charity

Trials on Common Three-Dimensional Negatives

Money

Promiscuity

Trials on my Negatives

Impatience

Self-deprecation

Lack of Self-Love

Conclusion

Bibliography

About the Author

Introduction

I find that many people do not know what metaphysics means. From a scientific perspective, metaphysics may be described as an open, non-conclusive subject about finding answers to any question dealing with knowledge beyond the material sciences. It is an attempt to rationalize reality and life. It is about abstract or non-physical subjects such as religion, paranormal psychology, speculative philosophy and spirituality. 'Meta' basically means beyond or over and 'physics' means physical or material, therefore metaphysics, as opposed to physics, refers to sciences beyond the physical world.

Mysticism, on the other hand, deals with inner knowing based on spiritual wisdom. From a spiritual perspective, there is a difference between metaphysics and mysticism. Spiritually, metaphysics is the process of changing from a three-dimensional consciousness into ever increasing higher states of awareness to achieve unity with God. Mysticism, in contrast, is the realization that we do not need rituals and rites to perfect ourselves to unite with God, since they are based on beliefs of duality and separation, because God is omni-present energy and that it is an individual’s state of consciousness that determines the energy they align with.

The most overriding theme that every rational and thinking person in the world commonly ponders upon, for example, is: 'Does God really exist or is the concept of God merely a political farce to exploit the ignorant masses?' This book does revolve around this fundamental question as metaphysics is a subject that generally revolves around this question as the root of all research into metaphysics.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was of the view that religion was the formula for the state of slavery and Karl Marx (1818-1883) opined that religion was opium for the masses, but what did they really mean? Did they imply that God does not exist and religion was therefore a political ploy to enslave the ignorant masses? No, I believe that they meant that the truth about the concept of God and our existence as humans on earth had been commercialized for political, exploitative purposes. A South African theologian, Prof. Albertus Stephanus Geyser (1918-1985), aptly said that religion is the handmaiden of politics. In this text I make an attempt to throw light on pure religion which I refer to as spirituality, the concept of God and how they relate to the proliferation of human-created religious dogmas that create divisions in society, rather than unity and the development of the soul.

Many philosophers considered themselves atheists because they lacked that one element in their rationalization that gives credence and validity to their arguments, while those who made the spiritual breakthrough in their soul evolution, merely use cluttered, cotton-wool language that beat about the bush, to hide the truth from those who are not spiritually enlightened and that may only be understood by those who are in the know. I came in the know after I met an advanced, highly evolved spiritualist, aliased Sam, who brought me in direct contact with the truth about the real world behind the public front, clearing up all the misconceptions I, like so many people in the world, used to have about life and religion.

This book serves as a source of information to all those who have searched for answers, but have not yet assuaged their hunger for higher spiritual knowledge, due to lack of time or effort, as a result of work, family and other commitments. Science focuses on the corporeal and the control of humans, and often cannot provide satisfactory and compelling answers to our spiritual questions. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 -1948) aptly said that error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth is self-sustained and stands, even if there is no public support. Socrates (470-399 BCE), who had been in contact with the voices of the Gods, admitted that as humans we always have questions but no satisfying answers, encapsulated as ‘I know that I know nothing’.

Father Paul Duffner (1997) defines man, man identified as the human vehicle of the androgynous soul that can either take female or male form, as a creature composed of a material element, the body, and a spiritual element, the soul. James 2: 26 testifies to the fact that it is the spirit that animates the body in the same way that good deeds are the manifestation of one’s faith: ‘As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead’. Duffner admits to the fact that both theology and philosophy contribute to knowledge of the soul, saying that knowledge and the welfare of the soul are much more important than that of the body, since they determine our eternal lot. Here I may add that it is not only theology and philosophy, but also, psychology, that adds to the knowledge of the soul.

In the past, fire and brimstone religious and philosophical doctrines were adopted to suit the times, when humans were not yet intellectually and morally evolved. Today, societies are becoming more educated and morally more responsible and thus intellectually ready to focus on pure religion or pure spirituality, untainted by speculation and the fickleness of human emotions. For example, Pope Gregory in 591CE during an Easter sermon, declared Mary Magdalene a prostitute, inserting this perception of Mary into New Testament texts (e.g. Luke 7: 36-50), the final approval of texts of the books of the Bible emerging only after the Counter Reformation of 1545 -1563. But many centuries too late, in 1969, the Vatican corrected this misrepresentation of Mary Magdalene and acknowledged that there was no reason to have made her out to be a repentant harlot.

While the New Age Movement may be seen by many as another religious fad to exploit or mislead the vulnerable, its philosophy based on a wholistic understanding of humankind and the environment is a step forward in the evolution of human consciousness. Education has exposed modern society to higher thinking capabilities, while some communities and individuals still stubbornly cling to old teachings that no longer serve the purpose for which they were originally established. For example, one bedridden, sickly, 80 year old lady in a private hospice in Johannesburg where I did community service once remarked to me that God gave medical doctors the intelligence to heal people, because it is impossible for positive thoughts alone to keep a person healthy. The context of the conversation in which this comment arose, involved my support of the view of a sprightly, healthy, 90 year old lady, who, like myself, enjoyed excellent, physical health with neither chronic ailments nor any aches or pains. The latter told us that her personal life philosophy, similar to my own, has always been to never take any form of medication, to always be positive and to only think healthy and good thoughts. Ironically, the 90 year-old lady had been a nursing sister administering medication to others in her heyday, while the 80 year old had been a legal secretary.

The opposing views of the two old ladies reflect the truth of the proverb, ‘For as he thinks in his heart, so is he’ or as Siddhartha Gautama (about 563 - 483 BCE) more aptly reiterated, ‘Every human being is the author of his own health or disease’. While some people may still cling to old, material beliefs that serve them more harm than advantage, others already reap the multiple benefits of an evolved belief system based on spiritual reality, our second existence, that life of the soul that we ignore.

Metaphysics, parapsychology, religion and spirituality all boil down to the same focus, i.e. the mystical spiritual world that we cannot access through our physical senses. It is that non-physical world that most people fear, due to misrepresentations of its functions and the lack of conclusive, scientific information. We should distinguish between religious and humanitarian idealism that seeks to focus on social and political injustices as opposed to spiritual reality. Individuals are responsible for their own soul destiny and without the necessary leap beyond three-dimensional consciousness, these utopian ideals will remain impossible pipedreams. In Chapter 6, I explain the real interpretation of the Ten Commandments and how they pertain to the soul and its life in the temporary material world.

This book exposes how pure religion has been preserved throughout the ages in practice by what western society may see as primitive cultures. It attempts to provide satisfying answers to all those vexing questions about life, the spirit world, religion and psychic phenomena. Many people of both secular and religious background have researched such topics and written controversial or popular books that touched on some of the truth, but instead of providing satisfying conclusive answers, merely stimulated the interest or rubbed some people the wrong way. This can be testified by the myriad of books published on such works since centuries ago, even in the form of novels such as those of Dan Brown and Robert Grave's King Jesus. Other works of the past include, among others, Morton Smith's Jesus the Magician, Hugh Schonfield's The Passover Plot, Owen Morgan's The Light of Brittannia, the work of Jean Rousset de Missy, et al, called The Three Imposters (i.e. Moses, Jesus and Mohammed) and The Antiquities of the Jews by Josphus Flavios.

To make the revelations in this book relate to daily life in society, the following general questions that often commonly enter people’s minds are explored in each succeeding chapter, as appearing below:

How does one distinguish between true prophets and false prophets?

Why are there so many conflicting, diverse religions and religious philosophies in the world, each claiming to be the only truth with its own doctrine and rituals, yet if there is supposed to be only one God, there should only be one truth that pertains to all humans?

If we are part spirit and part human, can our spirit, which is part of the spiritual world of perfection, help us to achieve success and happiness in life?

If the present state of our soul is an accumulation of the experiences of many previous existences, is the state of our present body a consolidation of karmic consequences or our present indulgences?

If we are all born with a soul that has an evolving moral faculty that distinguishes us from plant and animal life, why is there so much crime in the world?

If the status of each person’s soul is reflected in their personality, how does it affect our intellectual and spiritual consciousness?

What are the main purposes of life on earth?

What are the secrets of life that have been kept from the general public since time immemorial?

Chapter 1

How I discovered pure spirituality through a genuine prophet

Introduction

In this chapter I will attempt to answer the question: ‘How does one distinguish between true prophets and false prophets?’ The contents are based on my practical experiences, supported here and there by secondary scientific or religious sources.

Depressed by my increasingly hopeless situation that had dragged on for seven years, I was driven to seek help beyond the conventional channels that had failed me. It was with little faith and a veil of darkness that I hesitantly phoned Sam after seeing his advertisement in two successive publications of a local newspaper, only mustering the courage to call him after keeping the second advertisement for days in my bedroom, blowing hot and cold, not knowing if it was the right thing to do. I had been drawn to the advertisement the first time I read it and regretted that I never took down the number after the first newspaper was thrown out with the rubbish. So, when it appeared in a successive edition, I was elated, as if some unseen force prompted me to give it a try.

When I reticently dialed the cellular number I had written down from the advertisement, Sam answered and asked me where I had obtained his private number, adamantly insisting that he never advertised it. He told me in no uncertain terms that he did not directly make appointments with clients and only advertised the landline that was operated by his assistants, saying that he was anyway fully booked for the next two weeks. I found it strange and was somewhat taken aback. Despite my rattled courage and little faith, to my own dismay, I told him that I was prepared to wait until he had an opening to see me, since I had already waited for so long and two weeks would make no difference. At the time I did not realize that I had been ordained to meet with Sam. I reveal more about this in Chapter 8.

At my initial appointment with him, Sam told me that he never failed to solve a client’s problem and that they all always came back with gifts to thank him. I learned that Sam did not just give hope or positive motivation to people of various social backgrounds, classes, religious affiliations and education; he brought positive results within a short to reasonable period of time. In fact, Uncle Sam, as he was generally known to his clients, was a man of very few words; a man whose presence instantly revealed an essence of honesty, humility, kindness and respect. Who was Sam and what did he do that made him so successful?

The Characteristics of a True Prophet

In western terms, Sam could be described as a psychiatrist or a spiritual doctor who specialized in healing people who not only suffered physical ailments, but also various types of negative emotions that resulted in the experiencing of a particular, perpetual, daily problem. I use the term ‘western’ in a broad sense to mean cultures based on Christianity, not specifically white European, and that embrace science and/or their own religious beliefs as the only truth. Sam deals with similar type of work done by a western trained psychiatrist, i.e. listening to patients’ life problems and then helping to solve them, although his work is done in a genuine spiritual, non-religious context, rather than the so-called African traditional ancestor–worship context as his clients may assume. But Sam was not a psychiatrist or psychic or traditional healer, in the usual meaning of these words. He was a secular spiritualist who had been blessed with divine talents to heal people with various types of problems, be it personal, social, emotional, physical or mental. The Bible testifies to these divine gifts that are to be used for the good of all people. In I Corinthians 12: 7-11, St. Paul writes: ’Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophesy...’

Victor Schermer (2003), a psychoanalyst, admits that in contemporary times, spirituality has come to be considered a legitimate aspect of mainstream psychology and psychoanalyses. The new psycho-spiritual paradigm, according to Schermer, assumes that many experiences and behaviors do require explanations that are neither logical nor material, defining spirituality as a psychological construct, distinct from metaphysical or theological. Paul Marcus ((2003), another contemporary psychiatrist, believes that spirituality is a fundamental human activity. He is of the opinion that if psychoanalyses is to avoid lapsing into the ghetto of intellectual insularity and irrelevance, it should constructively engage with other traditions, in order for the discipline to make progress.

When I met Sam the first time, I instantly felt a sense of peace and stability with him, as if our vibrations were in harmony with each other. To me it was strange since at that point in time I used to distrust black men, due to my then prejudices based on what I perceived as their polygamous culture of promiscuity and infidelity. On the phone Sam gave me the impression that he was Indian, so I was surprised to find that he was Xhosa. He looked far more humble and younger than the image he had conjured up in my mind on the phone. Before I even understood who and what Sam was all about, to my own surprise and despite my biases, I immediately told him that I trusted him. It felt like I had come home, at the time not understanding these feelings and dismissing them as silly. Hitherto I never associated myself with any particular spiritual practice or belief system. I merely embraced an eclectic theoretical approach, taking the best ideas from every metaphysical source I found that resonated with my feelings of truth.

Like many Christians who surreptitiously hid their interest in the spiritual sciences, fearful of being labeled as evil, I kept my passion and devotion to researching it a clandestine activity. While in the past during Freud’s time, spirituality was equated with the paranormal, in recent times, spirituality has received legitimate accreditation as a branch of mainstream psychology and psycho-analyses, a reality made fashionable by Carl Jung (1875-1961). Other psycho-analysts who embraced spirituality include, among others, Herbert Benson (b.1935), William James (1842-1910), Martin Buber (1878-1965), Viktor Frankl (1905-1997) and Erich Fromm (1900-1980).

Spirituality is more widely practiced and readily accepted by traditional, rural communities, though it is erroneously wrapped in various cultural superstitions and as such denigrated by urban communities who consider it primitive and backward. A white friend of my former companion and I, who had a doctorate in homeopathy and was fluent in Xhosa, told us how the white communities discriminated against him and his wife, due to his homeopathic medicine practice. He had retired as a former human resource director of the university where we had met him and moved to Port Elizabeth where he and his wife tried to join a local Christian church.

When the minister and congregation heard about his recently opened homeopathic practice, they objected to him joining their church and forbid him to attend services again, telling the elderly couple that they did not allow devil worshippers to be part of their congregation. We still laughed at the absurdity of such an ignorant, arbitrary, myopic assertion in a modern, affluent society with access to the internet and libraries, in a church up the street from where we used to live at the time.

It made me think of the beautiful, young, white woman - a homoeopath - whose photograph appeared at the top of her weekly column in the Express of East London, a free community newspaper. I always made it a point of reading her interesting articles on homeopathy that I enjoyed when I used to live there, giving tips on staying healthy naturally and the use of non-addictive medication. It was amazingly bizarre and primitive that a whole congregation of educated people in a contemporary, advanced society was still so prejudiced without any valid justification or scientific evidence, and without so much as attempting to first verify the facts before they made unfair judgments. Their very own Christian Bible states: ‘There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you – who are you to judge your neighbour?’ (James 4: 12).

Christianity is necessarily based on blind faith, since there is no real scientific evidence to the theologies of religions. So any church which throws stones at others or even so much as make pronouncements on areas out of their jurisdiction, such as medicine, clearly has hidden, ulterior, material motives. From a health point of view, I would rather use something natural and non-addictive than over-the-counter and prescription medicine that contain unhealthy additives. I can personally testify how a homeopath in three days brought my daughter back to full mental health after her father, two doctors, a psychologist and a psychiatrist had written her off and the medication prescribed for her temporary condition had turned her relatively mild condition into a serious vegetable state. If it had not been for my quick action and belief in homeopathy, she would have been permanently institutionalized on recommendation of western, medical doctors. I thank God today still that I did not listen to them and instead took her to a homeopath.

Sam was not a homeopath or herbalist or sangoma or shaman, all terms associated with more or less the same practices. Sam’s gifts may be described as those of a true prophet, while to others they may be considered psychic as I had initially thought. Many Christian churches consider psychics, like homeopaths or shamans, workers of the devil. We must not forget that Jesus was considered a high magician by many of his contemporaries, because he performed miracles such as turning water into wine and healing the sick. It was only when the Christians, decades after his death, decided to deify him that he was immortalized as a true prophet and son of God. The writing of the New Testament on which the Christian faith is based, was a gradual process that took centuries to complete. It was only at the Council of Trent (1545-1563) that the Counter Reformation decided that its list of canonical books was final and closed to any further additions or subtractions, thus producing the New Testament as we know today.

Unlike some so-called traditional doctors or psychics whose presence engendered an aura of mystery and sometimes fear, Sam had about him an ambience of peace, calmness and confidence. He was like a manifest angel, a Galactic being who had taken the human form of culturally the most oppressed people that needed him. It was seldom that one found a person of Sam’s calibre, integrity and soul maturity in a society plagued by charlatans and quacks that tainted the reputation and good work performed by gifted, good people like him. I commonly called all those who worked in some field of spirituality, whatever it was called in any particular culture, for lack of a better term, a psychic, because they use an alternative consciousness that makes use of our spiritual senses.

In our first meeting, Sam came across as confident in his ability to solve my crisis, even though I never directly told him my problem. I came to him as a western skeptic - a university academic trained in scientific empirical research and was careful not to be duped into layman psycho-babble or the sharp wit of a charlatan out to make a quick buck. My theoretical research into spirituality had taken me on a higher quest for empirical results and I found myself approaching Sam, not only with an urgent personal problem, but as a secondary thought, to also assuage my natural curiosity and scientific search for practical proof of spirituality of the paranormal type.

This was not a scientific research study. I had a real problem. I had lost me and my daughter’s identity documents and passports, and as a result her father, who was the main source of negativity in my life at the time, accused me of madness. To make matters worse, I had been jobless, penniless and dependent for seven years. I turned to Sam as a last resort. I turned to the spirituality that I started embracing since I had become an academic.

I had outgrown the Christianity with which I was raised and I felt magnetically drawn to pure, good, uncorrupted spirituality associated with the higher, hidden purposes of religion. My research hitherto revealed to me that spirituality had to do with the development of the individual soul, in order to prepare it for unification with God. In other words, the individual’s actions, words and thoughts become more and more virtuous as they progress in spiritual knowledge and practice, becoming less prejudiced and judgmental and more harmonious and in unity with nature and all people.

I was inquisitive to find out what spiritual gifts or psychic abilities Sam had and how he would help me. My spiritual self-study taught me that people who were able to manifest what might be considered miracles or those psychic phenomena that the spiritually uneducated masses arbitrarily thought were from the ‘devil’ had to do with the spiritual skills of an advanced being, such skills a function of citizens of the multiverse. This meant that psychics who used their powers for only good were closer to becoming citizens of superior planets, since these were the functions and skills of worlds other than planet earth or what people generally perceived as the spiritual realms.

My broad reading brought me to the understanding that these psychic or spiritual abilities are talents which we all possess because we are part spirit and part material. When we are awake, we live in the physical world, but when we sleep at night or when we die, we live in the spiritual world. We stifle and perpetuate this repression of our spiritual existence, due to our bulldog tenacity to cling to the evidence of our five physical senses, only giving recognition to that half of our being that exists in the physical world.

Due to my newfound higher spiritual knowledge, I had come to admire and hold all psychics in high regard, though I was aware that one could use such spiritual powers for either good or bad, depending on the status of the person's soul personality. As a scholar myself, I was not interested in proving to the scientific world the skills of an advanced soul, since such experiments denigrated perfectly normal humans who merely used the functions of their subconscious mind that forms part of our second, neglected, spiritual existence. Behavioural and neuro-psychological research had been conducted in Russia, Germany, England, the USA, France and elsewhere. I was more interested in comprehensible knowledge for my own advancement and in helping to disseminate it to the masses that did not have the time, motivation or education to do such research. I had time, passion, motivation, as well as the writing and teaching skills to do so, since I was not working. After meeting with Sam, I knew I had finally discovered that which I had been searching for all my life.

Unlike most of his clients who parked in the front and go through his front door, Sam directed me through his window to enter with my car through his back gate. At the time I did not think it strange. Sam was formally dressed in a long, black pants and a long-sleeve, striped, white shirt. The entry to his consultation room was outside in the backyard, in a room attached to the main house. Sam told me to leave any cellphones and handbags in the car and to take my shoes off at the entrance to the room. I was wearing a grey pants and a rusty-coloured, pullover, winter top with a pair of black ankle boots and socks. It took me some time to unstrap my boots, which I then left in front of the door behind his brand-new, fashionable, pointy black shoes, keeping on my socks.

When I entered the room, I was surprised to find it in semi-darkness, there being no windows, only the door opening. From my reading I knew that when the senses are kept neutral from any form of external stimulation, it focuses the attention and brings one more in touch with one’s spiritual capabilities. Psychology has already established that there are different states of consciousness and that we essentially only focus on our three- dimensional consciousness that pertains to material life.

While most people ignore our alternative states of consciousness, let alone know or believe that they exist, common logic tells us that there has to be more to a short, burdensome life than just death. The proliferation of religions, ancestor worship, psychics and supernatural phenomena are all realities that loudly compete to proclaim proof of different states of consciousness, otherwise known as alternative dimensions of reality. The most credible and more acceptable explanation, necessarily based on faith rather than empirical data, I found was the progress of the soul in various stages of development until it reaches a level on par with God. But even the concepts of God, heaven, hell and death, did not make sense or were able to explain our alternative consciousnesses such as our dreams, our intuition and instincts. What is clear is that scientific data based on empirical observation lacks the logistics and legitimacy to verify spiritual phenomena.

Spirituality deals with the letting go of the Ego and the use of the Free Will to choose the positive path based on purifying our actions, thoughts and words, in order to return to our origins as divine beings. Integrated souls are those who have progressed through numerous life cycles and in the process gradually shed their negative energy associated with their Ego. As such they have reached a high level of soul purification, that purity based on a strong presence of positive energy otherwise experienced as virtuous behaviour. My self-studies and insights into spirituality taught me all this knowledge, due to my own desire for growth in knowledge and skills beyond the material plane.

Let me reveal how I discovered the existence of the spiritual world of which I had been completely ignorant before I met Sam.

The Traditional Ancestral Method and Spirituality

Once I was in Sam’s consultation room, I securely locked away my scientific and religious indoctrinations and surfaced my objective, open mind. I resolved to let him lead the session without voicing the purpose of my visit. However, my curiosity and sense of observation were heightened. It was my very first meeting with a psychic prophet or spiritual doctor and like most people who were raised in a western tradition based on Christianity, I did have some preconceived ideas of what I could expect. Sam saw himself as a ‘spiritual doctor’ as opposed to a ‘traditional doctor’.

I was excited, yet nervous, but determined, since I had a real problem and wanted to simultaneously experience what I thought was going to be a psychic phenomenon. I wanted to know what method Sam used, if it was effective and how it tied in with my knowledge of parapsychology. I had theoretical knowledge of comparative religion and the controversial, scientific research studies on parapsychology, para-spiritual psychology, speculative psychology and speculative philosophy pertaining to metaphysics and ontology that all consider abstract reality. However, the entire academic and scientific paradigm seemed useless, restrictive, narrow-minded and rather foolish and too three-dimensional and exploratory for my taste, compared to what I came to experience practically.

It is understandable that not everybody has the inclination or spiritual education to belief in abstract reality or psychic phenomena, in reality terms closely related to the same thing. We all come from different belief systems and community practices. Although I was raised on a western tradition of Protestant Christianity, I was never a skeptic since I always had an interest in knowledge beyond the material, inherently knowing that there was more to life than what we experience with our physical senses. Psychic or spiritual experiences continue to happen among all races and all classes, albeit surreptitiously, due to it still being badmouthed by the ignorant majority.

When I met Sam, little did I know that I would find the answers to everything spiritual I had ever researched. Before I went to see him, I had many desires in my mind, which I did not tell him. I had a desire for a fulfilling relationship with an unattached, spiritually progressive and enlightened man who treated me with love, kindness, dignity and respect and extended that respect and kindness to people of any race, culture, class or creed. I had desires for great wealth and a permanent home of my own where nobody could ever evict me again. I had desires to help all those in a similar position as me, especially all those who had helped me despite their own difficulties. These desires were based on the opposite