There was really only one choice and that was get an education that would be involved in nature. Wildlife and forestry was chosen but somewhere in the middle something changed and it became philosophy. The philosophy would allow the entry into Lutheran Seminary to become a Lutheran minister. And that was what happened. The first and only year of seminary was difficult. It turned out that, at least in this case, theology professors did not like anyone asking them questions. They were not questions designed to make the professors look bad they were just the questions of an inquiring mind. One of the professors even said that the person asking these questions like was hard to love. This from the place that was supposed to teach the God of Love. The questioner stopped asking questions because he left seminary, disappointed, angry, but even more determined to find the God of Love. Now without a profession when a job in social services was offered it was gratefully accepted. That was the beginning of a lifelong service in social work. Transcendental meditation, psychics, mysticism, book after book became part of the search sandwiched between emotionally taxing work and dealing with the rest of life’s problems. Shamanism seemed a nice fit but an invitation to study under a Lakota holy man was turned down. A Lakota Pipe Carrier seemed as narrow as Lutheran Minister. (Did you know that both the Lakota and the Buddhists fly prayer flags?)
More books.... Jane Roberts and Seth, A COURSE IN MIRACLES, and Neale Donald Walsh and CONVERSATIONS WITH GOD. Neale’s CONVERSATIONS struck a chord. Here was the God of Love that the search was all about. The searcher had always clung to the words from the Christian Bible. “Ask and you shall find.” and “You will know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. Could it be that the questioning seminarian and the pipe carrier dropout was finally finding a truth?
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