I was always a deep child, asking What is Joy? What is Happiness? Who am I? not knowing that they would prefigure my search into spiritual life.
When I was 17 I seriously started looking into the cause of my own unhappiness. Later through deep psychological work I attempted to free myself from a lifelong depression and became heavily influenced by the great psychologist, Carl Jung, who impressed me because of his willingness to encounter his darkness on the way to the Self.
This led me to Esalen Institute, a Mecca in the 70's for those looking for meaning in their lives and attempting to become free of habituation, addiction and conditioning. Throwing myself headlong into every workshop, one day I unexpectedly had what I now know to have been a kundalini experience; this spiritual experience enlightened me, not to the extent of the liberation which great saints enjoy, but enough to let me know I had to radically change my life and needed a teacher. I prayed for a guru and thereafter met her in the form of Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati. I have resided at Ma's ashram for 30 years.
One of the effects of the kundalini experience was to be an opening of my third eye and I began to give readings. I quickly tired of being the "psychic," and realized what people needed more than information about past lives was to be able to stay courageously present for the "moment" and find their power and resolution there. Therefore, I called myself a Spiritual Intuitive in a desire to distinguish myself as somebody who desired to give guidance to those who sought the intuitive wisdom within themselves. I did not wish to enhance someone's ego by telling them they had been the King or Queen of England,etc. I wanted to provide a place of love, compassion and encouragement for them to feel free to reveal and acknowledge what was already there in their lives, deal with the obstacles in life, and to seek insight, clarity and resolution from that place.
I see myself as the facilitator of your knowing. When you feel free to drop your ego or defense with me, we can begin a wonderful journey. At the end of the journey is finding the Self, the Self that has always known what to do. I look forward to being your guide.
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