| What is spirituality? What is meant by | | | | to talk to them and more importantly, don't be |
| enlightenment? What are spirit guides or | | | | afraid to ask them questions. They will hear you |
| messengers? Is it possible to take an active role | | | | and answer you. |
| one's spiritual path? What is meant by nursing | | | | Spirit guides will never mislead you, as they only |
| your path, nurturing your destiny? | | | | do what is right and good for you. They always |
| Believing in spirituality means believing you are a | | | | have your back. They literally are the road map |
| God in the making. Knowing that all life is relative | | | | to your spiritual journey. In time, when you are |
| to the sacred, rather than to worldly ideals, is the | | | | ready, they can communicate to you your |
| beginning of being spiritual. In terms of quantum | | | | spiritual calling. |
| physics and mechanics you must acknowledge | | | | On my way to Chicago I stopped in Galena, Illinois |
| the quantum self, the quantum ocean, and | | | | because it advertised itself as the boyhood home |
| cultivate the powers of brain. | | | | of our 18th president, Ulysses S. Grant. I toured |
| Acknowledge your mind's ability to take you to a | | | | his home and the town and found it interesting |
| higher level of existence where you will find a | | | | that a baseball movie about Shoeless Joe Jackson |
| deeper understanding of the world. Ask the | | | | was being shot there. |
| questions, Why am I here? What is my purpose? | | | | Fast forward from 1988 to 1991. I had just |
| How can I change life for the better? Live in the | | | | returned from a vacation to the east coast. One |
| mystery, not in the know. When one changes | | | | of the highlights of that trip was attending a |
| their perspective, they are said to be enlightened. | | | | Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park. |
| Nursing your path means to manage, guide, or | | | | They were playing the Oakland Athletics and I sat |
| supervise your path with care and devotion. | | | | along the first base line a few rows up. |
| Nurturing your destiny is giving support and | | | | In the movie Kevin Costner (Ray Cansela) and |
| encouragement to life goals. This ultimately | | | | James Earl Jones (Terrance Mann) attend a Red |
| assures a legacy that future generations will be | | | | Sox game at Fenway Park. They are sitting along |
| proud of and benefit from. | | | | the first base line a few rows up and the Sox are |
| My spiritual journey began in the spring 1988 in a | | | | playing the Oakland Athletics. |
| year of thirteen moons. It was more a conscious | | | | As I watched the movie "Field of Dreams" I |
| awareness that something very special was | | | | came to the realization that it was the movie that |
| happening. I now know that my journey began | | | | was being shot in Galena, Illinois three years |
| long before this existence and spirit guides played | | | | earlier. Galena was portrayed as Chisolm, |
| a major role. I had decided to drive 2000 miles | | | | Minnesota in the movie. |
| from California to Minnesota for a Pink Floyd | | | | It was then and there that I realized my spirit |
| concert in May 1988. | | | | guides had taken me exactly where I was |
| It was the summer of 1991, and after watching | | | | supposed to go on both occasions, Galena in 1988 |
| the movie "Field of Dreams", my life would be | | | | and Boston in 1991. What were reasons? What |
| forever changed. The movie was about an Iowa | | | | was the message? What was happening here? |
| farmer that built a baseball field in the middle of | | | | In the movie Ray Cansela had issues with his dad. |
| his cornfield. Shoeless Joe Jackson and other | | | | When he heard the voices in his cornfield said |
| players long deceased showed up to play baseball | | | | "Build it and he will come," he did. He constructed |
| on his field | | | | the baseball field and his dad came. The voice |
| In 1988 I was in Dubuque, Iowa just hours from | | | | said, "Ease his pain." It appears he accomplished |
| the Minnesota state line. Eating breakfast and | | | | that as well by playing catch with his dad and by |
| reading the box scores of pro baseball games | | | | introducing his dad to his daughter-in-law and |
| played the day before, I had an epiphany. It | | | | granddaughter. |
| became quite clear to me that I was to drive on | | | | I had issues with my dad. The message I |
| to Chicago and Detroit to watch the Cubs, White | | | | received from the movie was that I needed to |
| Sox, and Tigers play baseball. | | | | confront those issues. I needed answers to |
| I have since accepted spirit guides influenced this | | | | questions that haunted me in life and in my |
| decision. We all have spirit guides and they are | | | | dreams. Over the next two years I took every |
| with you from day one. Some of us have several. | | | | opportunity to talk to my dad. |
| They are messengers, teachers, and healers. My | | | | I asked the questions that I needed answers for. |
| spirit guides told me long ago I was a healer and | | | | I resolved my issues, thanks to that movie. When |
| would always be a healer. | | | | my dad passed away in 1994, my mother asked |
| If you keep an open heart and an open mind to | | | | me to do his eulogy. Had I not resolved my |
| your guides you will cultivate relationships with | | | | issues, I would not have been able to fulfill that |
| them that will last for all eternity. Don't be afraid | | | | request. |