I have always been an intuitive. However, I found that growing up in Los Angeles sort of overwhelming to my senses. So, I was always going to the beach and body surfing and snorkeling and surfing and boogie boarding or going up into the mountains which go up to 8000 to 9000 feet next to Los Angeles in my 1956 Ford STation wagon that I called "My Surf Wagon" which could easily carry our 10 foot plus long gun boards that everyone still surfed on in the 1960s then.
So, whenever I could escape the city for something more beautiful and more like the wilderness like the ocean or into the mountains or deserts I went after I was 16 and bought my first car.
Later on, I made the drive to Mt. Shasta in at first my 40 horsepower VW Bug which was seablue with a white interior. This was another way to escape the business and overwhelming nature of the city. And back then it only cost about 10 dollars to drive to Mt. Shasta. My friend had an oval window 1959 36 horsepower VW that could then drive to mt. Shasta and back for around 10 dollars(so 5 dollars a piece) round trip.
I found I was just so more happy and centered in the wilderness. So, little by little I wanted to move to Mt. Shasta because I found I did much better there skiing in the winter and swimming in mountain lakes and streams in the summers and hiking year around. I also took my 1974 Honda 250 there around 1979 which I towed behind my 1976 Toyota Longbed with a 6 pack camper. But, I had to be careful of it overheating pulling both the cabover camper and the motorcycle. My father welded up a bracket where the front wheel was locked into where the ball usually sits on the back of the truck for towing a trailer. Then I put my motorcycle into neutral and towed it up to Mt. Shasta. I kept it there for several years. And when I bought 2 1/2 acres I kept my Honda 250 dualsport motorcycle out on my land in a wood shed while I was building my A Frame home there for my wife and family (3 kids then) starting in 1980.
Feeling overwhelmed in my senses in the city was normal for an intuitive like me. So, moving into the country to Mt. Shasta was very healing for me. Wandering around in the forest wilderness and being around nature and animals like Deer and flying squirrels and Port Orford Cedar trees and pine trees and Fir Trees and oak trees and manzanita bushes was wonderful for me in healing myself from growing up in the city.
Then starting in 1980 I had my first Tibetan Buddhist initiation in Ashland Oregon with my wife and children and I realized why people are amazed about Tibetan Buddhism on many different levels around the world.
Then I also started studying what's called the "Medicine Path" with native American Shamen in the Mount Shasta area and throughout Northern California and into Southern Oregon as well and we even went to a place called "Two Ravens" in Idaho as well then.
Then in 1985 my wife and children and I went to Thailand, India and Nepal from December of 1985 to April of 1986. Doing all these things healed me from any damage done to me by growing up in the city and going to public school. I found I was able to heal myself from many of the traumas of my life by taking charge of my life and moving away from big cities into the country.
However, by 1985 and 1986 I realized that it might be better for my children to return to school after home schooling them for 5 years so we moved then to the SF Bay area and bought another business. All these things I found very healing and unfolding of my intuitive and instinctual gifts.
Though people are in some ways biologically animals there can arise a good balance between being physically a domesticated animal and spiritual evolving as well.
Trying to find this spiritual and physical balance is what we are doing here a lot in life.
People who don't try to find this "Balance" often don't survive to be even 25 or 30 years of age.
One of the most horrific things in my life has been to watch so many friends self destruct in various ways through relationships that didn't work out to driving vehicles too fast to all the other ways that people directly or indirectly checked out.
If you want to live a long time and be centered enough to survive your life it is important to search for this "Balance" so you actually have the desire to continue to stay alive.
Without this balance none of us really can enjoy or properly survive our lives.
By God's Grace
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