Their variation of reality only didn't sit well with me. I believed just like a parrot of Bible sentiments, that I didn't also start to comprehend, or the city crier that no one desired to hear. Jesus would display me more, significantly more.

As divine synchronicity would have it, I swallowed a hallucinogen that led to a near death experience the afternoon after Christmas, 1970. When I was in the dark gap, with just the mind that "I Am", George Harrison's tune My Special Lord began playing.

That has been my style performing to Lord, not George's! Shortly an excellent white mild started showing from the night, as my soul sang "I actually want to help you Lord" ;.Then some body began to arise out from the light.

That Holy One oscillated between masculine and feminine. As I'd been praying to Jesus, I thought it might be him, but with no beard. I began crying from the depths of my soul, as the Sacred One proclaimed telepathically in to my heart.

I realized that Being to be just real love. Then it absolutely was over. I was picture back to my human body, experiencing the words to a brand new song telling me "it's been quite a while coming, it's likely to be quite a while gone." How true that has been.

Per year later, I saw the protect of Autobiography of a Yogi. It was Paramahansa Yogananda who'd come to me! Next got meeting Baba Memory Dass, who confirmed that I wasn't crazy and explained that Yogananda had appeared to numerous small religious seekers on drugs.

He also autographed my copy of Be Here Now. My next decade was spent becoming an future yogi and training Yogananda's Self-Realization Fellowship classes and workouts, chanting, meditating and getting initiation into Kriya yoga.

Yogananda's route and linage of gurus brought the essential understanding for me personally to know Jesus and Christianity better. Yogananda also revealed me the primary reality behind the oneness of religions.

And he produced me to Babaji, the Mahavatar who sent him to America back the 1920s. From the time I heard the title Babaji, I knew I realized Him. He and Jesus come together, behind the scenes, in the cosmic system of things.

And Babaji was to be the next phase in my continuing religious evolution. But, I didn't know at this time that He had apparently manifested a body again and was residing in the little town of Haidakhan, in northern India. That would come later, combined with the mystery and myth of the current manifestation.

After reading Bhagavan Das sing, I acquired a dotara and started chanting mantras to God daily. This easy, ancient two- stringed instrument is simple to perform and allows one follow the drone noise in to silence.

Now, I acquired my own personal place in the woods and met a person who'd lived with Babaji. He done a Vedic fireplace ceremony that Babaji had taught him to start my new abode.

I questioned and grilled him again and again, asking if this new Babaji was the exact same entity Yogananda wrote about. Sure, one and the same but peoples egos however problem His true identity.

Babaji's new Kriya yoga was the trail of reality, ease and enjoy while doing karma yoga- function - and keeping one's brain on Lord, through duplication of the historical mantra Om Namaha Shivaya.

Babaji said that mantra alone was stronger than a lot of nuclear bombs and His 1-800 number. I started at this point really performing japa, or the repetition of the mantra on 108 rudraksha beads, to get that vibration into my subscription consciousness.

I also learned acim methods to chant it on my dotara. With all this going on, I ordered "A Program in Miracles" and began the day-to-day classes immediately. I attempted to make feeling of the Text but got nowhere;

each sentence bogged me down and needed to be re-read over too many instances to assimilate. I was just too young, I told myself. I was thirty-three. I'n deal with this Text later, someday, maybe.