I was at the "Become the Buddha" Conference at the Scottish Rites Masonic Temple in San Francisco in 1977 in the Fall

At the time I was in Archangel Gabriel and Hope's Quarter at the Summit University which was then in Pasadena. This is before the Summit bought Camelot in Malibu Canyon which was I believe once a Catholic Monastery before they bought it.

This Conference in some ways was the most powerful of all the Summit Conferences I have attended then. However, there was a Saint Germain Conference in Camelot which was really amazing like that too.

Then in 1980 I got my first Tibetan Buddhist initiation in Ashland Oregon over the restaurant called now "The Green Leaf" restaurant by Gyaltrul Rinpoche who was a Nyingma Tulku. This initiation was one of many I received mostly between 1980 and 1990 both here in the U.S. and in India though I also went to pujas in Nepal as Well with Tibetan Tulkus I met there in India and Nepal. I also traveled back to the U.S. with Geshe Lobsang Gyatso and his Translator Lobsang in April of 1986 with my wife and children and they stayed with us a while before setting up the Shamabala Mahayana Institute in California near the SF Bay area.

However, I would say that doing the Sanskrit version of the Tibetan Buddhist Mantras (which is somewhat different than the Tibetan version) was what drew all these experiences to me and eventually to my family which have forever changed both my life and theirs for the better.

By God's Grace

And Yes 25% of Buddhist believe in God like I do too worldwide. And there is no conflict between Buddhism and Christianity simply because Christians believe that Buddhism is a philosophy rather than a religion for a variety of reasons.

I see it in a different way than likely most Buddhists do because after having studied about Gautama Buddha I realized it wasn't that he didn't believe in God it was that he thought arguing whether God existed or not was a complete waste of time and that people should help each other survive instead of arguing whether God existed or not. People should help each other and thereby increase human civilization as much as possible into something better and better.