How I Became Involved in the Spiritual Field

This week I decided to drift from my usual format and tell you how I got involved with Dream Interpretation. Recently I have been more open with people who ask me about this. In the past I always skirted around it or gave stock answers that I knew my interviewer would be happy with. When you read what got me started you'll understand.

As a teenager I read a book about The Silva Mind Control Method. The book essentially teaches that our minds are more powerful than we imagine and gives several exercises for improving your life through what can be loosely called active meditation. In a meditative state you essentially can 'program' your day and solve all the days challenges in advance. 

Around the time my son was born I returned to the Silva techniques and attended a course in Dublin. Following this I meditated at least twice per day and focused on improving many areas of my life. Within a few months I began to feel something happen within my body when I meditated. After several weeks more I was able to cause this feeling to happen at will and I explored it in my meditations observing the sensations. I didn't know what it was then but instinctively knew it was good for me and changed my meditation to include connecting to this feeling each time. I knew there was something intelligent behind it. Probably eighteen months later and still regularly meditating I was lying in bed in bed one night and the feeling came to me without any initiation on my part. I sat up in the dark and looked around the room. I sensed where the feeling was coming from and I looked in that direction expecting to see something. I didn't. Then suddenly I did! At the door of the bedroom I saw the white figure of a man. Yet it wasn't a man. It was just the upper torso without arms but I knew it was male. I could see right through it too. I looked like strands of thick rope with large knots draped over an invisible mannequin frame. I couldn't see any clear features on the figure. I was scared senseless.

I woke my wife in a panic and pointed the man out to her. She kept telling me to wake up but I told her I was awake. I was sitting up - she was lying down. The figure started moving towards me slowly. The panic increased as he closed the distance. Then he started passing right through me! One quarter of the way in he started doing something. The pain was incredible. I felt like I was receiving electric shocks right in my heart and there was nothing I could do - I felt paralyzed. This continued for some minutes at which point he continued through me and left. My wife and I talked about the experience but were lost for answers.

As a teenager I delivered milk in the early morning and used to take a nap in the afternoon. I would often wake to the feeling that an invisible person was holding me down on the bed, my heart would be pounding in my chest and I was terrified but unable to move. This feeling was exactly like that except now I was looking at the culprit. The visitor returned a few days later and the same thing happened. At this point I knew I needed help so went to an alternative health exhibition in Dublin. I felt awkward talking to these people because in my mind they were all fakes. Nobody could relate to my experience but one person told me how to protect my 'chakras' from it. I didn't really believe it would work and left the place feeling like it was a waste of time.

However, when my visitor returned a few days later I put the advice to the test. I protected each chakra front and back as I was told and then watched the spirit move forward. As he started moving through me I braced for the pain but there was none! I was thrilled. There was no fear either! I watched as the spirit moved all the way through me and leave. I couldn't believe it. The spirit returned a few days later and the protection worked again. Because he could no longer affect me he stopped coming. 

My experiences and encounters continued and over the next few years my philosophy of life changed. I taught myself how to see the aura and spirits at will. I then became aware of seeing chakras. I often wondered how the ancients knew about these things but when I could see them I began to wonder how we generally don't. I came across many things on my quest for answers but I always puzzled over why most people involved in Spiritual work claim to have the only correct path. Out of all the experiences I had and the people I met two stood out among the rest. The first was Paddy McMahon with his book The Grand Design and the second was George Rhatigan with his techniques for Dream Interpretation. Paddy explained Spirituality to me and George put it within my grasp through showing me I had the gift of interpreting dreams.

This site is a tribute to them and all others who have helped my on my quest.