A Personal Testimony
by
Maggie Dudley
After a July day
in the garden I hear by chance that awesome piece of
music from Elgar's Dream of
Gerontius. The soul of Gerontius
leaves this world and begins its journey. I am
transfixed. I am everywhere and nowhere. I am connected
to something deeply tangible and at the same time almost
ethereal.
MY journey to a "life of the spirit" really began 8 years
ago at The Lakeland College of
Homeopathy. I guess I had been on the
road for some time, arriving at the right place at the
right time. Classes at the college with Ian Watson were
extremely challenging to say the least…but as I like a
challenge I jumped in with both feet. I can only describe
these sessions with Ian as electric. I was literally
being rewired!
The fact is that before all this I just didn't feel quite
right. Like most people I was carrying an awful lot of
junk around. It didn't seem to help me much but it was
familiar and there was a weird comfort in that. One day
at college Ian explained to me that I did in fact have a
choice about how I lived my life. What, me? A choice, no,
no surely not? I was a victim in this world and would be
so till my dying day….
Ian presented me with an option: a suggestion that things
could be different. Then the resistance kicks in, so Ian
works with that… and then the grief about so much wasted
time, and Ian works with that. But a seed had been sown
and nurtured. What was originally just an idea, a
concept, became a possibility. So I went out and
practised behaving differently. Ian suggested setting an
intention that I would let go of all that stuff. That
gentle intention became a very powerful force for change
in my life.
To cut a long story short my rewiring is ongoing and
incredibly exciting.…..Ian has helped me find my sense of
who I really am. I have a place in the world now, which
feels right. I can experience my deep connection to the
beauty of nature. Best of all I have come to know what
love is all about, for myself, my life, my friends, the
world.
This journey of seminars and residential workshops has
been one of my life's greatest adventures. The outer
world of my experiences is more the richer for the time I
have committed with Ian to an exploration of my inner
world….
Gerontius continues "I feel in me an inexpressive
lightness, and a sense of freedom, as if I were at length
myself, and ne're had been before."
But what is even
more wonderful…. You don't have to wait until another
life. YOU can do it RIGHT HERE and RIGHT NOW.
Maggie Dudley, Cumbria, U.K.