She was about 10 years older than I so in 1975 she would have been around maybe 37 and I was about 27 and still married to my first wife. I had been raised in the Saint Germain foundation and she and her husband started the Summit Lighthouse that was sort of a competing kind of Church to the one I had been raised in here in the U.S. and around the world. In fact Ghana made Summit Lighthouse their state religion for awhile which is kind of interesting in itself. It is a very New age Mystical Christian religion with many young doctors, lawyers and well educated people out of the 1960s and 1970s at that time when I first met her in 1975. She had been swimming in the ocean at Del Mar, California. I eventually in 1977 in the Fall went to Archangel Gabriel and Hope's Winter Quarter of Summit University then in winter of 1977 with my son and my mother. I had broken up with my first wife at that point. It's amazing all the interesting stuff you can do in one lifetime! I was on staff in the Mainframe computer department in Spring of 1978 there in Pasadena when they rented the Nazarene College for a year or so and moved Summit University there. But I realized I was too individualistic to be in any one religion through this experience. While on staff they said, "We cannot have people on staff here that feel they have a direct connection to God". I considered this maybe the best compliment anyone had ever given me in my whole lifetime! That I had a personal connection to God and still had real integrity in my life! (unlike most people I have met during my lifetime.)
I think it's important to say that she was very sincere and a Type A workaholic personality and that she wanted everyone to give 500% to their efforts in the Summit Lighthouse. So, when I moved to San Diego with my son this was important so I could move on in my life and away from being on staff there. I did go to a few conferences in places like Malibu at their place they called Camelot. But, mostly I lived then in San Diego and Mt. Shasta after that and raised my son and remarried. I realized that religions organizations and I were not a good fit for each other. So, though this saddened me I kept my faith with God and my personal integrity too.
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