Born in Italy in 1965, I lost my mother at 11 years old without knowing what was coming. This helped me to understand that, as one of the main pillars of the Buddist tradition says, everything in this world is impermanent or Anitya.
Accepting this impermanence so blatantly expressed through this crucial event in my early Life was not immediate. Still, it soon became the primary fuel for a search for the “beyond” as one of my main interests.
Fast forward to 24 years old, after having already started deepening myself into Eastern philosophies and spiritual teachings and studying psychic phenomena, I decided to go to California to study Transpersonal Psychology (TP). Towards the end of my academic cycle, unexpectedly, I stumbled across a workshop by Dr. Roger Walsh (www.drrogerwalsh.com), a professor at U.C. Irvine Medical School and a well-known contributor to the field of TP and great scholar and practitioner in the Buddhist and Shamanic traditions.
To my great surprise, instead of a workshop on such subjects, I was introduced through Dr. Walsh to A Course In Miracles (ACIM – www.acim.org), a course in spiritual awakening channeled from Jesus Christ himself. The teaching of this course has had an immense impact on my life, and I consider it to be the primary response to my search for the truth “beyond the veil,” which the event in my early Life had so strongly determined. It taught me that death is an illusion as much as physical reality.
These central concepts were also extensively discussed in Eastern traditions such as Vedanta and Buddism, and learning them through this Christian tradition helped me reconcile not just the physical with the spiritual but also what seems to be historically and philosophically dividing our world’s Eastern and Western traditions.
ACIM has expanded my life and brought me a deeper sense of connection and understanding of Life through its spiritual psychology concepts and practices. As this fantastic masterpiece entered my Life, through a series of events, I was introduced to channeling non-physical and non-human in person and through various other sources such as books and videos.
This learning and the evolutionary process has contributed, on the one hand, to my realization of how we, as human beings, are still relatively backward technologically, psychologically, and socially. Extraordinary steps forward have been taken throughout the centuries, especially during the last 100 years. Yet, relative to our self-destructive potential, enormous work still needs to be done to overcome the barriers of the “negative ego.” On the other hand, my “initiation process” has helped me to realize that, even though we are just in an early phase of our natural evolution, we are in an acceleration process that is bringing us closer and closer to the realization that we are not alone in this universe and that we are provided with great help to improve much further in all ways.
Today, after adding three years of academic courses that have given me the title of Holistic Counselor, I feel I have comprehensively understood who we are as individuals and as a society. Simply said, more and more of us are starting to realize that we are not just human, but also spiritual beings who are part of an infinitely larger whole.