Aontacht - Volume 7 Issue 3

And the more ways I found to leave my body,or experience the inner worlds and all thatdwells there, I came to the unbridled realizationthat I could and did exist outside of my body.That I was not only my body. That my meness,did not require that I be in a body. ThatI experienced the inner planes about 1/3 of mylife, while sleeping...and eventually I realizedthat I was a spiritual immortal. It was surelyless a philosophical conclusion as anexperiential conclusion arrived at by leavingmy body in a wide variety of different ways.Ohhh...my body will die, and I will perhapsfight for every last second and breath of thislife. But beyond this body is...everything else.My past...my future, a vast array of otherpossible life experiences.It was a time of a lot of hard physical work, butalso more exploring sacred plants and learningabout all the life forms that lived in the greatforests of the United States. We made a lot ofmoney in those days and created and managedan organic farm and a Holistic HealthFoundation. We brought in some of the bestteachers in the country and put on manyworkshops throughout the western UnitedStates.I studied past life regression, various forms ofhealing, astral projection, lucid dreaming, tookand taught many magick classes and had yearsof personal instruction from many wonderfulteachers. And I did so while living and workingmost days in the deep forest, often far fromcivilization, amidst a solid matrix of life - allintelligent and capable of communicating.Each of our Paths are our own and equallyvaluable. But as a Druid...as a Protector ofthis planet and all her inhabitants, it is goodto not get too caught up in all the drama of life.For me, the personal experiential knowledgeof the inner planes has been life-altering in agood way. Walking between the worlds hashelped me to be relatively fearless, for whatdoes an immortal have to fear? There are noentities out there that I give the right ofdominion over me. Not society, nor thegovernment or the police. Not any dark innerworld spirit or entity nor any monster orthought pattern.Every hour of every day, I am a Druid, a Priestof Nature, a Friend to the Wind, and a servantof GAIA. And the View of the Inner Planeshas never been so magnificent.Guardian of FireAontacht • 49