EXPERIENCES WITH DIVINE LOVE

Experiences with Divine Love

Here is My Testimony

As far back as I can remember, I've always had a fascination about God and spiritual matters. In the first decade of my life I attended various churches and was even baptized twice by the time I was 14 years old. My freedom to explore spiritual thought is attributed to my mom's influence to not thrust religion down my throat. Coming from a Protestant background, I recall my mother, Helen, telling me her family used to threaten her with fear of hell and damnation that she eventually left her hometown to start a new life in California just to get away from her relatives.

To my good fortune, my mother wanted me to find God in my own way, and so I did. Not that she didn't add her own two cents now and then such as "don't take the Bible too literally" which sounded sensible to me at the time and allowed me to question and to seek God not only in the Bible but elsewhere. Why not, God is a big God; why should He be confined to one book.

Just before finding the messages, I was listening eagerly to preachers, waiting in anticipation to hear what my ears were not hearing. I would pray earnestly to God, asking Him to please reveal the Truth about Himself since my soul was convinced I was not getting the whole Truth, as if some important detail was being left out. Soon after my prayer request to God to show me the way, I found "True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus", which I am convinced is a True account of Jesus' life and teachings. In fact, I found the messages twice in one year and in two different places, which was very interesting since finding these rare messages is like finding a needle in a haystack.

"Seek and ye shall find" was an important ingredient for me in finding these Spiritual Truths, as well as the willingness to be open in the way God chose to bring that Truth to me, and to let no boundaries of fear or ignorance stand in the way. Sacred doctrine is not always a good thing if it restricts the freedom to question, ponder, and dispute spiritual matters. Through these Messages of Truth, we are moving towards a new spiritual awakening of who God is and how we can become closer to Him.

But my real adventure in spiritual unfoldment didn't really begin until I started practicing what Jesus and the angels wrote through Padgett. I remember my first experience in receiving God's Divine Love after praying for the Love, which presented itself like a warm glow in my heart just as the angels informed Padgett. Eventually, my spiritual faculties opened up to a certain degree, wherein, I experienced spiritual visions and angelic encounters, one of whom was the spirit of my mother, now an inhabitant of the Celestial Heavens.

Today, I have no doubt that life continues, and that I have a soul and spirit body that reflect my soul condition. Moreover, I know that God exists, for I have perceived His Presence and His Attributes of a Real Loving and Caring Father who is not far off in the universe waiting to condemn us, but is very near, a heart beat away, waiting in the wings and knocking on the door of our hearts to come in and share His Love and Spirit with us.

Throughout the years, it has been reinforced on my soul consciousness that to Truly know and feel God's Presence, one must obtain the same quality of heart as God, and that can only come by receiving and possessing His Divine Love, an everlasting pure Love. In my fourth decade of life, I'm still praying and growing in His Divine Love with the realization that the best is yet to come.

Many Blessings in His Love be with you,

Rev. Holly Bianco
23rd July 2009

Experiences with Divine Love

What the Divine Love has meant for me.

The date was Sunday, August 14, 1994 - it was a day of reflection, a day of searching. I had just gone to Bible study in a small town in Texas. As I was driving along the long dusty road to my small farm house, I remembered the times past and I was saddened. I recalled the younger days when I was free, free from worry, free from "life's" expectations. I was but a soul, living for the moment, soaring on the winds of change. I thought to myself that my life had never been as peaceful and happy as it was when I was a boy. I didn't know how to reclaim that peace. I had been going on dates, to bible study, to parties looking for that lost key. I tried and tried but to no avail: something was missing. But what?

I had many questions with no answers. Why was I placed on this earth? I didn't feel as though I belonged. Why was I pursuing a higher education, was it the thing to do? Sure I enjoyed what I did, but how did it fit in with God's plan? I was confused as to my existence. The only thing that I knew that was right and True was my Love for God. I wanted nothing else but to be with God. I cried out to Him with fervor, asking Him to take me into His arms of Love. I was asking to leave this plane of existence.

Needless to say, He didn't grant my prayer. Or did He? After my tenure in Texas I had several job prospects around the country. I asked for guidance and my heart led me to Chicago. I had no idea why I was going to Chicago. Most of my family lived there but the job was insecure and offered little pay as compared to my alternatives. Yet my instincts told me to go to Chicago. I began work at one of the top institutions in the world studying evolution. My optimism quickly faded as I began interacting with scientists who believed the only god was the god of science, and that immortality meant being published. My search led to local churches and the World Wide Web, a network connecting millions of souls throughout the world.

I started to search the web for answers. Answers to my spiritual questions. I soon realized that my exploration was not going to be easy after a search. On the word "spiritual" brought up hundreds upon hundreds of web sites. And of course every web site had a different take on the spiritual realm and the existence of God. So for the next several months my free time was spent surveying the contemporary viewpoints of religion. I read about ancient Mayan prophecies, the secrets of Atlantis, global ascension, Christ Consciousness, and sacred geometry just to name a few. The amount of metaphysical and spiritual sites and viewpoints was staggering. One day, however, I happened on a site that mentioned something called Divine Love. The author wrote of a man named Padgett who was chosen by Jesus to communicate the spiritual truths to the world. Mr. Padgett apparently communicated with Jesus through his gifts as a medium. I wondered, is this possible? I read on and as I continued I became transfixed on the messages. Mentally, the messages made complete sense: Our Loving Father providing a way for His Children to come into His Arms of Love through Love, and not some blood sacrifice. Spiritually, the messages were the answer to my prayer. Back in Texas I asked for God's Love and believed the only way to Truly receive His Love was by leaving the physical body and entering into the spiritual world. Now I have come to know a wonderful opportunity, an opportunity to be in the Arms of God's Love while living in the flesh. Needless to say this newly discovered opportunity changed my life. Already I have noticed differences; what I deem important and how I interact with other mortal souls. No longer am I defensive towards the negative views and attacks from others. I am now aware of how my thoughts and actions affect others. No longer do I want to die. Sure, I look forward to becoming a Divine Angel in the Celestial Heavens, but I am now learning to accept who I am, and where I am, along the path of salvation. Rather than living for the future I am starting to enjoy the moment.

My aspiration has always been, since I can remember, At-onement with the Lord. Having discovered the teachings of our Master Jesus, my "aspiration" is no longer some intangible event to be reached far in the future, but a way of living, a way of thinking, a way of acting, a way of loving and being Loved. I thank our Father for the opportunity to receive His Divine Love. I thank Jesus and all those who devoted their time to spreading the word of his message.

God bless you all,
Dr. Rev. Michael Nedbal
November 26, 2000

Experiences with Divine Love

My Encounter with Divine Love after a Long Journey

At a very difficult time in my life, I was searching the Internet for information about the soul and stumbled upon a web site containing something that I never expected to find, Messages from Jesus, no less, and from other Celestial Spirits. In my earlier years, I became interested in, and practiced an Eastern Philosophy (Buddhism), for more than 16 years. Later on, I joined a Metaphysical Church and also did some research on Huna, a Polynesian religion. These philosophies seemed, then, to contain answers to many questions I had, but which the Christian religions did not satisfy. I believed, though, that Jesus was a great philosopher himself, but that his true teachings were misrepresented by the Churches. Though Buddhism taught us that there were many gods in the Universe, acting as protective forces, and not only one God, I had accepted this point of view with some reservations, as I sensed that there was only GOD. But I found logic in the theory of reincarnation, taught by this doctrine, since it seemed to explain many aspects of life that I could not, otherwise, understand. Yet, for some reason, I continued to ask the Universe to reveal the Truth to me, and, to the best of my recollections, I yearned for this since my early teens.

Somehow, the messages from Jesus and the other Celestial Spirits caught my attention in such way that I was convinced that, in response to my souls searching for Spiritual Truths, I was prompted by these Angels to find and read their messages. I read them with amazement, every possible moment that I could find.

In so doing, I could grasp, from their high spiritual content, and especially, from the very detailed account of the spirit world, that these messages could not have been originated from any human mind, or even a spirit imposter, but from a higher source, or as purported. I had before learned about communication between mortals and spirits, so the concept was not far-fetched. With this discernment, my interest grew more in these writings.

Though what I had read was very convincing, one morning, after reading yet more of the messages, I ascended my thoughts to Jesus in a very sincere manner, somewhat like this, as I recall: Jesus,if these messages really came from whom they are said, you and others in the Celestial Heavens, then surely you can hear my thoughts and can send me a sign which I will clearly understand. Please confirm that these messages did not come from someone trying to impersonate YOU, but are, indeed, from YOU and your followers in the Celestial Heaven. Although, these messages are of high spiritual content and it is hard to believe that such information could have even been conceived by any human mind, still, I would appreciate your confirmation. Please forgive me for questioning you, if you are, indeed, the source of these messages.

Well, after having this conversation with Jesus, I continued with my daily task and had completely dismissed the thought from my mind, as, perhaps, I really did not expect to get an answer. Approximately one hour and a half later, my phone rang and I was unable to take the call at the moment. Upon checking the Caller ID later to see who had called, the Caller ID displayed: JESUS PEOPLE US. I was in shock! I clearly understood that this was the answer to my question, through a sign that I would understand. I could not utter a word for a few seconds as I paced in my room, totally dumbfounded. Three or four days later, I called the number displayed, in order to find out who was the person that had called me from that number. The first words I heard was a recorded message saying: JESUS LOVES YOU. I was, then, absolutely sure that I had received my answer, not only the sign I had asked for, but to my search for Spiritual Truth. I was taught before that the Universe or our Guides do send us signs (messages) all the time and that we just have to learn to understand them. Jesus had given me a sign that I could understand!

Many times when reading the messages I felt as if they were actually talking to me, or answering questions in my mind, the very moment upon opening the book and choosing a message. Amazing!

Although each and every message is a source of high spiritual knowledge and inspiration, I have been touched by many, but in, particular, would like to cite an excerpt from one of Jesus messages entitled, The Only Way to the Kingdom of God in the Celestial Heavens in the Angelic Revelations of Divine Truth, Volume I:

THEN, AS I HAVE SAID, THIS DIVINE LOVE OF THE FATHER, WHEN POSSESSED BY THE SOUL OF MAN, MAKES HIM, IN HIS SUBSTANCE AND ESSENCE, DIVINE LIKE UNTO THE DIVINITY OF THE FATHER; AND ONLY SUCH SOULS CONSTITUTE AND INHABIT THE CELESTIAL OR DIVINE KINGDOM OF GOD. THIS BEING SO, IT MUST BE READILY SEEN THAT THE ONLY WAY TO THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM IS THAT WHICH LEADS TO THE OBTAINING OF THIS DIVINE LOVE, WHICH MEANS THE NEW BIRTH. THIS NEW BIRTH IS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE DIVINE LOVE FLOWING INTO THE SOULS OF MEN, WHEREBY THEY RECEIVE THE VERY NATURE AND SUBSTANCE OF THE FATHER, AND WHEREFROM MEN CEASE TO BE THE MERELY CREATED BEINGS BUT BECOME THE SOULS OF MEN BORN INTO THE DIVINE REALITY OF GOD

These words and profound teachings expounded by Jesus are very convincing, and through my soul-perception I feel the Truthfulness in them. I was also taken by the beauty of The Prayer that he wrote for us, to pray for the Divine Love. There was something special about it, and simply Beautiful, as never before I had seen.

Through my daily and earnest prayer to the Father for His Divine Love, I sense that connection, as I grow stronger in my Faith and firm resolution to follow this path. I give thanks with all my heart and soul for the precious gift of this knowledge, and for my souls ability to recognize and accept these teachings as True. I have, indeed, had a life changing experience.

In my awareness of the of great importance of our souls development, I sincerely pray that more and more of our brothers and sisters will be awakened to the Fathers Divine Love, in the knowledge that it is the greatest gift that any mortal, or spirit, could possess.

Geraldine Cousins
March 30, 2008

Experiences with Divine Love

My Testimony

My journey to a True relationship with God was, and is, a long, and erratic one. Not that, that was bad. Because all experiences tend to turn us, eventually, in the right direction, if we seek the Truth. George Stokes said once that; "Our weaknesses become our strengths, and our strengths become stronger".

I was born to Marguerite and Russell Kenney in 1946, the first of seven children. I was the oldest of 7 children, and had 6 sisters. Both of my parents were Roman Catholic. I was required to go to catholic schools the first 9 years of my school life, and the same for my sisters. My dad was in the military, so we moved frequently. I went to many different catholic schools. Some Dominican, some Franciscan, some Benedictian. I was exposed to many different priests and nuns. Some were very loving and dedicated to a Spiritual Life and to teaching. Some were mean and bullies. Just a cross section of human life.

Most of the schools that I went to, Catechism was the first class of the morning. Often, in some schools, we went to mass in the morning before regular, if you can call it that, classes started. With the exception of math and science, courses like history and geography were heavily slanted to the "catholic" influences in the world. I am grateful for the education that I did get. They were very structured and disciplined classrooms, and there was excellent communication between parents and teachers. So I received an excellent education the first nine years. So much so that when I started public schooling, the classes bored me so completely that I didn't want to be there at all, which was one step further than when I went to parochial schools. I had studied most of the material many years before, and with such a depth that most of the public school classes were years behind.

Anyway, first thing in the mornings, some of the things that I was introduced to were the concepts of "We are all Created in the image and likeness of God" and "God is Love". That our purpose was to "Know, Love and Serve God in this Life, and the next". Also, "To Love God with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, thy whole mind and thy whole strength". This of course with, and from, the churches view of the Gospels and Epistles of the Catholic Bible.

Of course with these were the doctrines and dogmas of the church, the mysteries of God and the church. Such as; the "holy trinity", communion "The body and blood of Jesus", baptism, confession, confirmation, etc. Enough to confuse anyone, much less a young child. I learned their versions of prayer (the Our Father, the Hail Mary prayers). But so often, my prayers were just the repetitious kind, just to get through the rites, rituals and ceremonies, or, to do penance after confessions. But sometimes, I went to church to commune with God, or to seek intercession from Mother Mary, or Jesus, to ask for help and direction. These times I often felt a sense of connection to God, and that my prayers were more "heartfelt". Rarely, during these times did I say formal or repetitious prayers, but just talked with God from my heart. I did this because of the insanity and madness in my home life. My dad was prone to physically abusive outbursts towards my mother and me. My mother was prone to psychological abusiveness towards my dad, myself, and my sisters.

I have said all this, not to be long winded, but to set a background to my Spiritual growth experiences.

Often, I spent a lot of time wondering, or daydreaming, about what I was being taught religiously at home and at school. At about 9 or 10, I didn't really know whether or not their really was a God. One afternoon, I was by myself in a large field, wondering and daydreaming again, and I stopped and screamed at the sky, "I don't know if you really are there, but I want to know!" in a desperate way.

Something immediately changed. I was not so aware of the material world around me. I was in some kind of an "altered state of consciousness". I was aware of soft gentle voices in my head giving me information (spiritual impressions). I was flooded with it. To this day I do not recall everything that I was impressed with. However, it was well established within me that God existed. That God was the Creator. The part that I do recall is, that it was pointed out to me in a way that i could relate to, in a way of explanation or example to think about, that God had Created the human body perfect. That not even doctors completely understood how it worked. I had a very clear perception of the Truth of the statement. That statement is as True today, 57 years later, as it was then. There are still greater understandings of the human body and the human being today. After that experience, some of the kids at school started calling me "bright eyes". It confused me why they were doing so.

At about 12, I was very strongly considering going to seminary and into the priesthood. After one 40 hour devotion, where I had volunteered for many time slots on the schedule for being on a kneeler in the chapel, and using the time to pray a lot, just the "talking to God from my heart" prayers, I had the strong impression not to pursue the priesthood. That was a little confusing as well, because I had a strong sense of "a calling" to serve God.

The next 7 years were mostly about adolescent growth. Then I went into the military service. Again a guided situation, as I volunteered for the Air Force, rather than get drafted into the army and war on the ground in Vietnam. With my new found freedom, began drinking and sexual exploration. These activities brought a beginning sense of emptiness, disconsolation, and a sense of the lack of fulfillment in my life. There was not very much of any spirituality in my life.

By the time I was 26 I had been married, fathered a child, divorced, with a young lover who betrayed me, almost shot in a gunfight where a man got my gun out of my holster, and almost shooting him with another gun. I became very conscious afterwards that I did not ever want to kill someone. Although, in my mind, I considered myself a coward, and experienced considerable shame. I must say here that during the whole surreal incident I was somewhat aware of my spirit guides, or guardians, guiding me and protecting me. I was fired from my job shortly afterwards.

And there I was, alone, as I thought. I began to drift through my Life rather aimlessly. I was in great crises as to who I was, or what life was really all about, or what meaning it had. I began to drink more and more often, often being drunk. This went on for about a year, I becoming more and more depressed.

Then I went with my sister and her new boyfriend on a journey to the west coast. This was the beginning of almost 4 years of traveling around the country. During these four years some of the Truth I was looking for, as an understanding of Life and what meaning it had, began to appear in my Life. Mostly in the form of books, as I was not very socially inclined. I felt like a misfit.

The first book that had a profound influence upon me and was radically different from my religious or spiritual upbringing was the "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramahansa Yogananda. I also recall a book on soul travel called Eckankar. More and more often books would seem to appear right in front of me, or my attention was drawn to them. I read the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, The Essene Gospel, The Fourth Way by P.D.Ouspensky, The Urantia Book (which I promptly put down), the writings of the "Ascended Masters" through Elizabeth Clare Prophet, some of the "White Eagle" channeling's, I recall something about the writings of "The Great White Brotherhood", and Carlos Castenada's first book, which I promptly put down, and the writings of Meher Baba, and various other spiritual writings.  

Needless to say, my search for something, something that would give me answers, or make sense to me, were guided. Although I wasn't always aware that it was what is called guidance. I didn't call it a search for Truth, but more a search for meaning, or purpose.

In about 1975 my brother-in-law, Marty Ketterman told me in Santa Cruz, Ca. that he had met some people who were talking about "The Divine Love". About a year later, Michelle and Marty took me to a church service in Ben Lomand, Ca. I was, at the time, about at the end of my wits, having spent another year or so of considerable drunkenness and depression. I don't recall much of the talk, or sermon. What I do recall is that at the end of the service, about 70 people held hands in a circle and prayed "The Prayer Perfect" (Prayer for Divine Love), as I soon learned it was called. I did not know the words to the prayer, but as I listened they inspired my soul. The power and force of the Love in the room was so palpable that I wept. I felt a great love flowing in and around me. I recall feeling like I had "come home". This situation happened several times more during or after services, which I regularly attended.

Marty and Michelle let me use their copies of "True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus". They also introduced me to George and Kathryn Stokes. George always said that in studying the messages, that it was important, or necessary to pray for the inflowing of the "Divine Love" prior to studying the messages, as prayer would open up the souls perceptions of the Spiritual Truth contained, and place the soul in ascendancy over the material mind, as the Truths could not be understood by the mind. That became my practice, and has always been my practice before studying the Truths of Spiritual Progression contained in "Messages from Jesus and Celestials".

I do recall one day that I was hanging out on the cliffs above Capitola that I heard, very strongly, the thoughts "go to East Cliff and see George". I almost didn't believe it. The same thoughts were repeated, and then, "You will have to hurry, they are getting ready to leave". I hitched a ride straight to the East Cliff offices, and went in one of the front doors. George and Kathryn were sitting there with Amy and a young fellow by the name of Adam. I told George that the spirits had told me to come see him. He did a Neuro-Psychic check out on himself, and then said to Kathryn "Its true". He then told me of his vision as to my future. We did leave East Cliff very shortly afterwards and went to Rev. Michael and Deborah Holmes house.

To make a long story short, I continued to pray as often as possible throughout each day, as this was the advice given by the spirits in the messages. I longed for the At-Onement that the messages spoke about.

At about two years (I had been without a drink or a drug during this time) into this journey I had made it a practice to go for long walks on the beach from 17th Ave in Santa Cruz, Ca., around the bay to Seacliff Beach and then back to Capitola, Ca., rather than go to the community potlucks. One Sunday I was getting back to Capitola Beach. There was a very large piece of driftwood (about 3 ft high) sitting on the beach. As I walked by it, after praying most of the day, I started to feel the spiritual energy, the Divine Love, very strongly. All of a sudden, I recall feeling my spirit body. It was like a big goose down parka, all around me, a feeling that my body was expanding. (It is very difficult to express experience, but I'm doing the best I am able). The energy of the Divine Love was increasing. Then, I was in my spirit body and out of my physical body. I was in this very intense silver-white light. I was being escorted by a very bright spirit. I seemed to recognize the presence of Jesus, but it was too bright to see. Further and further into the Light we went. It seemed like I was going straight to God. At some point we seemed to stop. I was conscious that this energy was from God and that this was God's Love. It was indeed overwhelming. My prayers had been answered. I did not want to return to the Earth plane existence, but i was told that i had to go back into my body. That, it was not my time yet, and that i had a Spiritual work to do. I don't have any idea how long this journey lasted, but when I came back into my physical body and a "semi- normal" state of consciousness, leaned up against the driftwood, the front of my shirt, and my face, were completely wet from the tears of Joy. I had the impression that this was the Pentecost, that I had heard about since my youth.

I will not tell you that this state persisted. I will tell you that for some time afterwards, weeks or months, I was in a state of perfect peace, or as some say a state of grace. I was completely happy for the first time since my childhood days of playing outside and a condition of wonder and awe, that I often had, despite the chaos inside our home. I continued my Spiritual practices of prayer and meditation, and the study of the messages.

About six months afterward I began to think that since I hadn't had a drink for about 2 1/2 years, and had learned techniques in Neuro-Psychics for attempting to get to negative beliefs and motives, that it would be alright for me to have a drink now and again. That I was somehow immune to getting drunk. See what "thinking" will do for you. I was off again on periodic episodes of drinking (they were months apart for quite a while). When I drank, I got drunk. Let me tell you that this effected my ability to pray and stay in a Spiritual condition.

By 1982, about 2 years later, I had been drinking everyday for about 3 months or so. In great dispare, I attempted to take my life, as the remorse and self loathing were too much to take, as i thought. But once again the angels intervened. It was a failed attempt. I made some calls and asked for help. I also did my best to start praying again as often as I could. I got help and began to practice the 12 steps (a spiritual outline for spiritual progress based upon moral principals, self examination or self inventory, prayer (for the Divine Love) and meditation. I have not had a drink now inover 31 years, by the Grace of God.

I have found, in my experience, which I feel is the only True teacher, or way to really truly learn and "know" anything, that even with the Great Power of the Divine Love and daily communions with God, that for the Greatest Happiness to be achieved and maintained as a constant Spiritual condition in this material Life, that it is necessary to have a daily practice of a process of "false ego" death. A thorough way of honestly asking ourselves the Truth of our motives, or the cause to the conditions manifest in life, and removing, or a "renunciation" of the false beliefs and attitudes of the mind learned in Life that cause the conditions, internally and externally. This would be "integrating the Divine Love in our minds". Application of both the principles of Natural Love and Divine Love growth at the same time. Learning, through experience, what Love actually really is, and developing an ability to manifest that in everyday actions and interactions. I have found the 12 Steps to be an excellent way to do self-examination, or self inventory, as to the mental "false ego", and blocks to self love, the love of others, and the Love of God. The power of prayer for the Divine Love makes the process ever more quick, and effective, as the Divine Love develops the soul, and it's perceptions of Truth.

The Peace that passeth all understanding, and Happiness, from the sense of connection with a God of Love, is with me now almost all of the time. I continue to study the Messages from Jesus and Celestials. I continue to grow and expand my consciousness by God's Great Grace through prayer, and therefore my happiness. I am so very grateful to God, and my Celestial guides and guardians, that I really cannot find the words to express the spirit of it. God, Truly is, Love. I know, beyond a doubt of mind that God, in His Love, is Merciful, Caring, Personal, Response-able in a direct way to All His Children, and at all times, when we ask for His Love and Tender Care, and we belive and have Faith in Him.

In all this time, I have learned that our helping of others is most effective when we share our very personal experiences, when necessary, in the most truthful and vulnerable way. That creates an atmosphere of trust, genuineness, authenticity, transparency, and warmth. These are found in psychotherapy to be the actual qualities, or attributes, that create human connection, and help others to have hope, or belief, that if someone else has risen from the depths of depression and despair, or any other human condition, that they might also, by using the same tools. They may then inquire as to the tools and experiences of the person sharing. Pretentiousness, lectures, teaching, and sermons in the most authoritative way are not effective.

With my Love, another brother and friend on the journey, Rev. Dave Kenney

Experiences with Divine Love

ENCOUNTER WITH GOD

Testimony of Patricia Doyle
Written 12/94; Revised 5/11

I swear to God that the following is all true.

I had never heard of a near death experience when I had one on October 26, 1974. It changed my whole life. It changed how I look at life, and what I want to do with my life. I have no fear of death now, but instead look forward to the peace and joy it will bring--and freedom from material bondage. I don't have a death wish, however. Instead I live life much more fully.
At the time of my NDE I lived in Shaker Heights, Ohio in a 3-family home. My husband and I lived on the second floor. We had tenants on the first and third floors. On the third floor, a brother and sister, Mike and Emelie (names changed), had lived there for twenty-seven years. They were in their eighties and Mike held the world's record at that time for the number of pacemakers put in one's body. About once a year Mike would have a heart attack, which would necessitate a new pacemaker.

One day while I was talking with Emelie, we heard a loud thud upstairs and quickly went up to investigate. We found Mike collapsed on the floor and he appeared to be dead. I immediately called 911 for help, and then tried to resuscitate him, but to no avail. Mike had not had a heart attack, but had died instantly of a stroke. In the weeks that followed, Emelie became very dependent on me for support and companionship.

Several months later we moved to Akron, Ohio for my husband's job, which meant selling the home in Shaker Heights. We took our time finding the right buyer, a very nice couple that was well informed of Emelie's situation and dependencies, and they were willing to help her. I set up a meeting for Emelie to meet the new owners, and when they arrived, I called her, which had been our pre-arrangement. But as soon as I identified myself and started informing her that the new owners had arrived, she hung up on me. I went to her door and knocked. When the door opened, there stood Emelie with a butcher knife raised above her head, and her eyes had a zombie-like, glazed-over look. She looked as if she was really crazy enough in that moment to plunge the knife right into my chest and face area.

All of a sudden a tremendous power came into the environment. I could feel it in me and it felt like it was all around me . . . a power so wonderful and awesome that it felt greater than anything I had ever felt. It was a loving presence so enormous it felt like all the love I had ever felt in my entire lifetime amplified by a billion . . . yet the Love that I felt from that power was greater than that. I could see that it affected Emelie as well, for the arm that held the knife began to slowly melt to her side and an expression of great calm and peace came over her. The situation was immediately transformed from threat of imminent violence to one of harmony, gentleness, oneness, and, predominantly, Love. I did not even have time to be afraid . . . it all happened in an instant. This Love transformed my very essence at the same instant.

I told the buyers of our home what had happened, and, although amazed at the experience, were not deterred from purchasing the home with Emelie upstairs.
Ecstatic experiences and revelations continued, and I felt an intense spiritual calling to communicate these experiences through visual art. My husband, a college textbook salesman, supported me in becoming a visual artist, yet could never fully understand or support my spiritual unfoldment. He couldn't understand the enthusiastic expressions of intense joy and rapture these experiences awoke in my soul. He talked me into going to a psychiatrist for evaluation, which, due to the nature of psychiatry at that time, had no diagnostic code for "spiritual or religious problems". According to an article in the Fall 1994 issue of the Washington Post entitled "The Spiritual Crisis Mode", this changed in May of 1994, clarifying for the first time in the profession of psychiatry that spiritual or religious problems are not necessarily symptomatic of a mental disorder. Psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, author of Spiritual Emergency: When Transformation Becomes a Crisis and The Stormy Search for the Self: A Guide to Personal Growth through Transformational Crisis, states in the Washington Post article: "We became aware that some of the experiences we've labeled as psychotic have been stages of transformation instead." Psychologist Emma Bragdon, author of A Source Book for Helping People With Spiritual Problems, states, however, that few therapists have any education or experience in recognizing or dealing with spiritual emergencies. Bragdon writes: The extreme looks very much like psychotic breakdown....They seem to have manic behavior as well. Certainly there have been many people who have been misdiagnosed and treated inappropriately--which means they've been medicated or hospitalized, which obstructs what the spiritual emergence is all about.

This sounds almost identical to my own experience! The psychiatrist my husband arranged diagnosed me as having a psychotic breakdown with a manic condition. He recommended hospitalization for a few days of "rest", but when we got to the hospital, fortunately, there were no beds available. I was given an injection of Haldol, which, by the time we arrived home, was already beginning to cause intense muscle spasms in my back, arms, shoulders, neck and face, causing tremendous pain for hours, because I had been given a drug for a condition I did not have.

Although traumatized by this response to my spiritual emergence, my constant prayers and daily testing of the validity of my experiences left me with the realization that I felt more exuberant about life, love and being an educated, creative person than ever before. Above all this, I also felt a growing relationship with God and Jesus and an unshakeable faith in that Higher Love, which was so magical. I quickly left the psychiatrist in the dust, leaving him to figure out how to count past 1,000, so to speak. I didn't think we needed to be paying $75/hour for me to teach him about what was really happening to me. I knew my connection with God was good and healthy for me. It gave my whole life a purpose, meaning and happiness I had never known.

Following the calling to be an artist, I went back to college at Kent State University. I also continued to have numerous and varied spiritual experiences, inspirations and visitations, many of which have been channeled into artworks. These experiences, always accompanied by God's Love, have included impressions and visions regarding Jesus and a new version of the Bible or a separate new testament that would be directly inspired or written by Jesus. I know this sounds incredible, but in November of 1976, Jesus himself impressed me with these thoughts and called me to discipleship, and, however odd it may sound, to the ministry of the Foundation Church of the New Birth, even though I did not even know of its existence.

In March of 1980 my cousin, a chiropractic doctor in Encinitas, California, invited me for a visit. During my stay I felt a welcoming acceptance and understanding within my cousin's circle of friends and in the community at large regarding spiritual emergence. Feeling more and more drawn to this community and its supportive atmosphere, I told my husband of my decision to move there, inviting his participation. He declined. Sadly, yet amicably, we parted ways, ending what all who knew us considered a good, solid marriage, over spiritual and religious differences.

Three thousand miles away in Washington D.C., a young man named Jonathan Sperry had a spiritual experience guiding him to move to Encinitas, California in the same month and year. We kept crossing paths in powerful, magical and mysterious ways, and found out that we even lived on the same street. One day we decided to sit down and get to know each other, and as we each shared our spiritual journeys and experiences it became apparent we needed to talk further. The next time we met, Jonathan said he wanted to share a book with me that had been part of the culmination of his own spiritual journey, The True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus, giving me one of four volumes of automatic writings received by Esq. James E. Padgett. Having experienced the living spirit of Jesus to the limited degree that I had, I instantly recognized the writings as genuine, brought them to my heart, prayed to God in gratitude, received an inflowing of his Love, and then clearly felt the spirit of Jesus with us, whose presence I had felt little of since November 1976.

With this background, I have come, through my soul's perceptions and experiences of God's Love, to embrace The True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus, published and disseminated by the Foundation Church of the New Birth, Inc. I study the four volumes as most people study the Bible. I believe in the living Jesus, who is ready to come at any time, any minute, any hour, any day to any one, and has done so many times since his death.

Experiences with Divine Love

How I Found God, Peace and Happiness

After spending two years in England and 15 years in West Germany, as it was called at the time, I returned to my homeland Barbados in the Caribbean in March 28th, 1980, with my four children, without my husband, not much money and not very happy.

I stayed with my sister at first for a little and then with my brother for a short time. I found a job right away but because of Jealousy on the part of those who were there longer than I was, I thought it best to give up the job; I really did not need the stress. I move on, in and out of jobs.

Things got really hard for me I could not even keep my kids together and I begin to feel like a failure.For two years I searched for happiness and peace of mind, which, I felt I desperately, needed, but could not find it anywhere, in anything or in anyone. I tried different Churches and Religions but none of them brought me the happiness and peace which I sought, although I was not exactly sure how and from where this happiness would come. There was just this restlessness and a longing within me that nothing would fulfill - I was longing for something but I knew not what.

My children, who were born in West Germany, blamed me for bringing them to a country that was foreign to them. They had to make new friends, go to new schools and try to get used to the language because they spoke more German than English and they too became very unhappy. Everything went downhill for me and I also started to blame myself for being a failure to my children.

I had always believed that there was a God, and there was Jesus, and I had not gone to church in about 16 years. So one day, after praying, I set off to find myself a job. To my surprise I found a job - because the manager had told me that he did not have any vacancies. Yet he hired me and put me to supervise a section of the Hotel. Although the distance meant a lot of bus fare and working nights sometimes, I took the job.

Now my prayers to God were to guide me to the church with the most and highest truths, because there was too much controversy over which church was the right or the best one.

However, I started my new job, and one day the receptionist invited me to go to her Church fete. I told her that I would think about it. But you see, deep down inside my heart, I knew that I would not be going because I had asked God to show me which church He would have me go to, so I did not go with her.

What I did not know then was that this lady belonged to the Foundation Church of the New Birth, and that God had inspired the manager to employ me so that I would meet this lady. (Sounds strange right?) This Church was not well known and had not been heard of by the majority of people in Barbados. That was in late 1981.

So, my search for happiness continued until April 1983, when one day through politeness, I was forced to play a game which I hated with a passion. The game was Pool. After learning the basics of the game, to my surprise I found that I was beginning to like the game!

In a couple of weeks I became quite a pool player and loved it so much that I set out to find a pool table nearer to my home so that I could play on my off days and at other times, and I did. Then one day I looked up from the pool table to see a man looking at me. It appeared to me as though he had been watching for some time. I paid him no attention and kept on playing. After a while I noticed that he was still there. He never attempted to smile or make any come-on-motions. He was just watching.

My game was over by this time and I started to leave. The man was still there when I reached the door and we started talking and then we exchanged names. I will call him H_. Then it was really time for me to go. He gave me a ride to the bus station.

From then on H_ became my pool partner and for the next three to four weeks I found that I was laughing and singing and enjoying myself more than I had done in years. He was a lot of fun and I fell in love with him, but that was not to be. One night, after a game of pool, he took me home and we sat and chatted for a while. During that conversation I told him that all I ever wanted was to be happy, and how unhappy I was, and that if I could be happy for only one week, it would fantastic.

H_ turned to me and said: "Brenda, What you need is the Divine Love of the Father." Well you can imagine my surprise, not to mention my ignorance; for I had never heard of Divine Love in my entire life. I asked him how, when and where. He then told me that he had a book in his car that I could read, and that if I liked and understood what I was reading, I could keep the book and if not, I could return the book to him.

In May 1983, H_ gave me the book. I read and studied it, and that book was the key to the door to a new life, new hopes, new dreams, and new beginnings, a better understanding of how one can achieve happiness and peace of mind beyond compare.

Ever since that day my whole life has changed as a result of reading and praying to God for His Divine Love, and, yes, I have found the peace of mind and the happiness, which my soul had so longed for. And let me say here, that to this day, I have never had to retrace my steps in any way. I am now filled with the Father's Divine Love, and I feel truly blessed.

In this process I have discovered who I am, what my task in life is, and where I am going. I have also found my true relationship to man and to God, our Heavenly Father. But this peace and happiness cannot be found in any material thing, for material happiness is only for a short time. It can only be obtained through the fervent sincere prayers and soul longing of a person.

I realized later that H_ was the second Angel sent from God to save me from myself and to show me the way to true happiness. But, the receptionist was the first Angel, whom I did not recognize as being sent from God. So, the Heavenly Father, in all His Love and Mercy found another way to reach me through the game of pool or billiards if you will.

That book was volume I of "The True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus" through Mr. James E. Padgett. These writings are through Spirit-to Mortal communications. More information on the volumes can be obtained from the Foundation Church of the New Birth Inc.

Rev. B.M. Foster

Experiences with Divine Love

Homecoming, My Story

.....Fast forward years later I had an invitation to move to Santa Cruz and took it. I ended up being on the beach mediating, every morning before dawn, until 10:00 am for 3 months and was asking God, to please give me a sign, or answer that would answer my longings for completion. By this time, I had decided to go back to school and was studying at Innergy Holistic Health Institute.

One day, on Mothers Day, the director of the school and his fiance saw me cleaning the rooms and asked me to go with them to a religious gathering.They drove into the woods. We ended up in Ben Lomond. We were late. There was a huge circle of people who were already in prayer. The couple I came with became separated from me. I found a place in the back, on the outskirts of the circle, went into my meditation pose, closed my eyes, cleared my mind and was in the moment and being open.

The next thing I was aware of could only be described as rapture. I felt brilliant warmth of golden-white light invade me. I felt peace, fulfillment, joyousness and love. It was overwhelming, yet I felt no fear. I felt like I was being drawn high up in the sky. I was in bliss. I wanted for nothing. I felt complete. The connection I felt was to God.

When I came back into myself and opened my eyes, nearly everyone was gone. I hadnt noticed. I felt weightless and like I was still hovering above the ground. Contentment and happiness dont begin to describe the shift I felt in my soul. I had no words for what I was experiencing, as it still lingered with me. All I knew was that here was the answer I was searching for so many years. Later on, I found that it had a name, Gods Divine Love.

Thirty+ years later, I am still praying my journey home.

Rev. Carolyn Stokes

Experiences with Divine Love 

My Divine Love Journey 

Werner Voets 

My Divine Love journey began in the year 1999. 

I was in a dark place, feeling unhappy not knowing why. I did not understand what the world held against me, or what I had done wrong to deserve it. I had always tried to treat others like I wanted to be treated, but that didn’t seem to help. I felt all alone and forsaken.

Then one day my grandma (who is in the spirit world) led me to “The Truth.” She kept repeating “The Truth, The Truth, The Truth,…” every time I sat behind my laptop from work. I had an internet connection, so I started searching for the truth. I did not find what I was looking for right away, until I heard it clearly: “Truths.com.” That’s when it all started!

At first, I was a bit apprehensive about those messages. I had the idea that God indeed had forsaken me, or He did not even exist. I had done everything I was taught and still I was in this dark and unhappy state. As I started reading the messages, I felt the warm presence of my grandma, so I kept on reading.

The more messages I read, the more appealing they started to be. I almost devoured them at an amazing tempo. By the time I read the first volume, I was disappointed that I had reached the end. I wanted to read more. So I started to read all the other volumes as well.

In the meanwhile, my grandma gently started “pushing” me to make my own efforts to receive what I had read about so much: “The Divine Love.” I did not comply immediately. I was scared to be “fooled” again, but since I had nothing to lose, I started asking for the Divine Love.

I was so afraid that it was a hoax again. I made it really clear to God that I would do anything that was necessary to receive this Love and He could not let me down on this. If He existed, He had to let me know. I had been doing what was in the Bible all my life. This was His last chance. Or, was it mine?

I had such a big drive inside that I knew I had to receive proof. If not, I would have become an atheist for the rest of my life.

So I started following my intuition. I said; “Well God, do you need proof that I truly want to receive Your Love. Ok, I will prove it to you. I will translate the prayer I found on the internet and memorize it. I will start reading the New Testament again and pray this prayer for Divine Love several times a day even when I am at work. I’ll make time to pray so You can see that I’m truly longing to receive my proof of this Love, I’m reading and learning about.”

I persevered and made very clear I did not want “no” for an answer. “If it is true, I will get my answer!” And so I did.

One evening I was reading my Bible and finished reading the chapters of John again – because it was said in the messages that he was the one closest to Jesus and understood best what Jesus was teaching. I was feeling happy and content and asked God if I could maybe just hear somebody from the Spirit World that I was on my way to receive the Love I had read so much about.

I concentrated on my hearing and asked God for help until I finally heard what I wanted to hear: “I am here with you, Jesus!” What a beautiful, warm and loving voice he had.

I jumped around on my bed thanking God for reacting immediately to what I had asked of Him. I was filled with joy and gratitude and kept on thanking and thanking him over and over again. Then it happened.

Since I am a medium, I started feeling energy building up. At first, it felt as if my spirit wanted to leave my body, so I laid down on my bed preparing to take off. But that did not happen. It was as if a storm of energy raged through my body. I did not know or understand what was happening until it started dawning: it was the opening of my soul by receiving the Love I had been asking for.

Things have changed since that day. My life started filling with Love and understanding. I could see everything from another perspective and saw life was good. I learned a lot of new things and felt my life was finally complete.

The joy this Love still brings to my life is indescribable. I feel blessed, happy, and everything but forsaken. That is why I started to look for ways to attract other people to these messages, this Divine Love. One of them was by writing a novel. It took me quite some time, but again I persevered.

Seven hundred copies of the Dutch/Flemish novel have been sold and handed out. When the sun shines, I jump up my bicycle with a rucksack full of novels and hand out free copies to people I meet on the street and are interested in it.

Now, some years later, they (the angels, of course, who else) asked me to let somebody translate the novel into English. I found a professional translator and the book, The Truth? A Paranormal Journey, was born. I learned more about Amazon and the way to share a book to the public, so now it is available as a Kindle and paperback version.

I have also ordered 500 copies here with a local publisher so I can send them or hand them out to people, when I wander the streets of London or any English/American town or city for that matter.

I hope people will be attracted to the Divine Love as moths to light. I hope I can be an active participant in drawing people’s attention to this Divine Love and the Source of it, because I know and have experienced what it can do to a person. Believe me, it is not something you want to be left out from. It is so wonderful, so blissful, that everybody should experience, embrace, and enjoy it!

I wish the world and its inhabitants all the love, warmth and happiness they deserve and need.

Love, Werner 

Experiences with Divine Love

On finding my spiritual road map
by Sandy Wagner

A couple of months ago my father's mother passed over. Going through her collected photos and papers of a 90 years lasting Earth Life, I found a story I had completely forgotten about.  Something I had written during my senior years of high school back in 1993, a story about a modern day Christmas miracle that my grandmother had kept in one of her drawers.

Reading the handful of copied pages it took me awhile to recognize my once own words, but the farther I read, the more of my memory reappeared from a place far back in the basements of my mind:  The story dealt with a hard-hearted Scrooge-like character who reluctantly opened his home's door to a boy who supposedly had lost his way to his parents house during a cold Winter's night. As you may already imagine, the Scrooge-like man is not as hard of heart as he had appeared at first. It doesn't take him long to pick up his coat, ready to accompany the boy on his way home to his parents house.

Anyway, to make a long story short, in the end, it is the other way around; it is the little boy who is walking the man home, home to His Heavenly Father.
Now, the interesting part about this little writing of mine is a little remark I had made therein about the man now finally being able to open up his soul to the inflowing of God's Divine Love.

Why is this interesting, you may wonder?  Well, to me this is interesting because I had unconsciously pronounced an innermost belief that consciously I had only adopted over a year later, in the spring of 1995.
There is this true saying about the teacher who appears once the student is ready. And another truth often recited about the pregnant woman who all of a sudden sees pregnant women everywhere around her. I have always thought that when I first read the volumes of True Gospel revealed anew by Jesus in 1995, that these books told me nothing altogether new, but only clarified, affirmed and deepened the beliefs I already had. But you know how it is - how we sometimes misinterpret things from our past? So I have never been sure that this indeed had been so.  Reading the old Christmas tale the other day, here I had real objective proof.

Usually, whenever I am asked how I became a follower of the so-called "Padgett Messages", I have a nice little story to tell about a childhood fascination with angels, probably most common among small children, but which did not disappear as I was becoming a teenager.  Quite on the contrary, resulted in an increased interest, both in various organized religions, as well as spiritual experiences of a more personal nature.  Do you remember Michael Landon as angel Jonathan Smith in "Highway to Heaven", or the tv series called Miracles and other wonders aired in the late 80th and early 90th?  Those got me hooked badly.

Another fascination of my early teenage years included a female singer I became a fan of at the age of eleven. Pop ballads I listened to all the time for years, for seven years to be exact. Thank God for the invention of headphones, else I think my family would not have endured the same songs over and over and over ... and over again.

Who would have thought that this very fascination of the singer resulted in my being invited to Los Angeles, together with a group of fellow fans from Germany, Austria and Switzerland, to meet our teenage idol during spring break?  On this trip, and due to my second major fascination, that of angels and spiritual matters, I became friends with Miss Holly B., who happened to be a devoted follower of the "Padgett Messages" for many years, and was easily persuaded to hand me my very first copy of volume 1 of "True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus"

Coincidence?  Maybe.  Or perhaps it's just been one of those occasions when the right teacher appeared once the student was ready?  For ready, I certainly was, and open to messages, so goosebump-causingly similar to my innermost beliefs.  Angelically guided for all those years?  I must admit that I like this interpretation.

In the end the "how" does not matter. What does matter though is that at the age of 18, I found what became my official Spiritual road map.  A short and simple Truth, the Truth of the availability of God's Divine Love through faith and an earnest desire to enter an intimate soul-to-soul communion with the Father.

By the way, I still keep finding great Truths, in-between the covers of books, in art, music, and night long discussions on Spiritual matters with family and friends.  More recently in nature too.  So to claim that my search for Truths would be over with what I found, within the ~2000 messages Mr. James E. Padgett received from the World of Spirits through automatic writing almost a hundred years ago, would not be entirely correct.  But with each little yearning my soul sends out to the Father, and with each small drop of His Precious Divine Love in return, I feel how my soul's discernment of Spiritual Truths improves, slowly but surely.  A precious Spiritual road map I have found indeed. 

Sandy Wagner 

Experiences with Divine Love 

My Divine Love Testimonial 

    When I was about eight years old, I had dreams that scared me so much; I went to my mother who told me to pray to God and the Angels for protection.  She told me that they would protect me.  So, thereafter, I would pray every night for help and protection.  I wanted to be sure God heard me, so I would pray really hard.  From then on, I felt safe and did not have bad dreams.

    My mother was searching for the Truth at that time and was introduced to the Mormon Church, which she began to attend.  All of us kids would go also.  We were all baptized when I was nine years old.  We went to church regularly, rain or shine, several times a week.  I embraced it with the faith of a child, and as best I could at that age.  Our lives seemed to revolve around the church for many years.

    However, when I was about fourteen, I remember sitting in church and having a distinct felling that this is not all right.  At the same time my doubts about the Mormon Church being the only true church on Earth, as they purport it to be.  But, I seemed to have a sense about things that I could not explain.  I seemed to know things without knowing why I knew them.

    In LDS Church sacrament meetings, the sacrament is passed to members of the congregation after being blessed by a priest from the Aaronic priesthood, they believe that the bread and water that is blessed by the priest was in remembrance of the blood of Jesus, which was shed for us.  I was ordained in the Aaronic priesthood, and passed the sacrament.  But when it came to blessing the sacrament, I would no longer participate, because something inside of me was telling me that something was amiss.  The sacrament is considered most sacred and important element in the Sunday meetings.  However, I could not do it until my questions were answered.  No one could explain it to me that made sense.

    I still attended until I was eighteen years old, but I had serious doubts that it was "The One and Only True Church".

    By then my questions grew to include:

    *Why, if all people were created equally, were women and blacks not allowed to hold the priesthood?  Of course, since then the Church has had "divine revelation" that black people can now hold the priesthood.  So another question arises; how was it that I knew that before the highest elders and the President/Prophet of the church?

    *How was it that Jesus death and blood spilled 2000 years ago, can miraculously cleanse the soul and make it whole?

    Needless to say, my questions were never answered.

    After I graduated from high school, I began my lifelong search for the Truth, because my mother believed there was "A True Church", I believed there was a True and Loving God, and that the Truth was available.  I began to read books on spirituality and decided to leave no stone unturned.

    As I read, it became apparent that many people think they have found the truth, have settled into this religion, or that philosophy, because everyone had a different idea of what it was.  I had to know it for myself, and I was determined to find it.  So I continued my search for Truth.

    In 1971, I was initiated into Transcedental Meditation, and began to meditate regularly.  I began to have experiences of a transcendent nature.  Some of the experiences I recognized from childhood, like leaving my physical body and floating in the spiritual realms.  Just when I was beginning to think I had found what I was looking for, I had an experience that changed my path.

    It happened when I was in a deep meditative state.  My mind was clear, except for the mantra I was repeating.  It was impressed upon me that what I was looking for was what Jesus of Nazareth know and taught 2000 years ago on earth, and still teaches.  I was told that it could not be found in the mainstream churches.  I had the feeling that this was the answer to my prayers.

    Only a month or two later, I was introduced to the books "The True Gospel Revealed Anew by Jesus".  I could not put it down!  The more I read, the more I wanted.  It was answering all my questions about where we came from, where we are going, who God is, and who Jesus is, and much more.  I was elated, because it made so much sense.  My soul was saying eureka!

    It has been a great blessing to know that this Divine Love is always available to fill our hearts.  It sustains me in all my travels and keeps me company when I am alone.  I have continued to search for Truths.  I have found much.  Most notably, was in 2004 my heart was despondent.  I had stopped reading the Messages from Jesus and Celestials.  The natural love in my life was not fulfilling me.  My heart was longing for more love.  Of course, i knew where to turn.  I began to pray for something, or some way to heal my heart.

    One beautiful, clear, full moon night, I was doing qigong with my arms up in the air to gather the qi.  Images of Jesus started to flood my mind.  Pictures and statues I have seen flashed across the screen in my mind.  I started to think; "Jesus is doing qigong!"

    So, I ran in and did a Google search on "Jesus sitting", and "Jesus standing".  Lo and behold, in most of those images depicting Jesus, he does appear to be doing qigong, as I know it.  As I searched through these images, I found one picture of a Chinese man doing Jesus Qigong.  This intrigued me.  So I followed the link and found Master Li, Jungeng, doing, what he calls "Sheng Zhen Wuji Yuan Gong", a form of qigong he received from Jesus, and other founders of great religions.  The words, "Sheng Zhen" mean Divine Love, and qigong means "to cultivate".

    I knew I was onto something, so I jumped in and began to study and practice this Sheng Zhen Qigong.  It was healing my heart.  Since them I have realized most of the saints, gurus, and masters, can be seen doing qigong.

    Other questions started to come to me.  I remembered how we taught our children when they were only two and three years old.  They were too young to understand the words, so we simplified it with a little body prayer.  We would hold their little arms up and pray with them; "More Love God, More Love Father/Mother God!"

    Now, I am delighted that I can now teach this Sheng Zhen Qigong, which is a physical fitness exercise and a spiritual practice.  There is much less resistance from the minds of my students.  We do not need to get into much philosophy, or dogma.  It is very simple; all we need to do to receive the greatest gift in the Universe, is to raise up our arms and hearts to Heaven, and with the faith of a child, to be filled with the Spirit and Love.

Gregory Boster

Experiences with Divine Love