For my wife Misty, our parakeet Erik-the-Bold, and me every day is a GOD day (a Growth Opportunity Day)! We accept these GOD days blessed with so many "real" spiritual experiences in the form of amazing, wonderful, challenging, often humorous lessons, insights, dreams, miracles, and change to grow by.

I am profoundly grateful to have found Eckankar, the Religion of the Light and Sound of God after so many years (lifetimes) of searching for answers to my questions about Life. My search criteria was that a religion, philosophy or teacher/master had to be able to provide me with the tools that would enable me to have spiritual/mystical experiences for myself; to prove/know Truth for myself. I felt that the biggest gamble I could take in life would be to take a chance and just trust my place in eternity to blind faith in someone else's experiences or revelations. I really hoped I didn't have to.

How joyful and enlightening to finally discover the truth about the Spiritual Laws of Life; to experience the reality, here and now, of the different heavenly/vibrational planes of existence (dispelling my fear of death through Soul Travel); to have the tools to understand the spiritual meaning of my Dreams - both sleeping and waking; to open my heart to Divine Love (God does love us!).

Over the years my Eckankar studies have taught me: the value and power of patience, love, and gratitude; the meaning of many of my past lives and my present mission; how to resolve my karma (good and bad) in this lifetime; how to balance and uplift myself by singing HU (a Love Song to God); how to daily become more aware of the ECK (Holy Spirit - the Force), the Light and Sound of God that sustains all life; how to avail myself daily of the outer and inner spiritual guidance and protection of Sri Harold Klemp, the present Mahanta, the Living ECK Master.

I have learned that we are each a unique eternal Soul, a son/daughter of God ... on a spiritual journey to eventually become a conscious co-worker with God. What an exciting adventure Eckankar is!

For more information about Eckankar, the Temple of ECK, or Sri Harold Klemp I recommend you visit www.eckankar.org