Biography of a Spiritual Practitioner...

My name is Jeff Anderson, and I am a licensed Spiritual Practitioner and Counselor. I'll give you a little bit of my history. Not all, but a snapshot.

My best friends in junior high and high school were preacher's kids. I hung out with their families, and saw something in them that I recognized within myself, though I was not at all sure at the time what that was.

I bounced around to various protestant philosophies, looking and looking for a Truth I somehow new to be there, somewhere. My search led me to become a psychology major in college in the late 1970's.

I explored the pioneers of psychotherapy; Jung, Freud and Pavlov. I was not totally satisfied with the answers that I found in psychology, however, and I continued to investigate various religions and philosophies including traditional Christianity and Eastern religions such as Buddhism.

In the mid 1990's the bottom fell out of my life. A broken back resulted in my losing everything that I held dear, everything that I defined myself by. The marriage, house, career, health, money, toys, status, even family and friends went away. What was left was just me, and God.

To be honest I almost didn't survive that experience. I fell so far and so fast I was not at all sure that I could walk out of the black hole I found myself in.

At the very bottom one day I was talking to God. The discussion was basically about if I had it in me to rebuild my life. I wasn't at all convinced. In truth, i was ready to cah it in and try agan next time.

And God said to me very clearly, as It does once in a blue moon, "Jeffrey, if you choose to walk out of this, you will know abundance and joy and love that will make what you have experienced in the past pale in comparison."

I will never forgot those words.

Since my only other option was to check out - and I really don't think we get out of this that easy - I took God at It's word, and began my walk out of the darkness and back into the Light. Though by no means a traditionalist, I came to understand what it meant to be reborn.

Shortly thereafter I came upon the Center for Spiritual Living in northern California and began studying metaphysics. I started taking classes again, and after 5 years became licensed as a spiritual practitioner and counselor. And I'm still taking classes, now in grad school, still studying world religions, philosophy, metaphysics, quantum physics, and lots more. The adventure continues  : )

I came to understand that the reason I have been through what I have is so that I can help others to find thier way out of thier own brand of hell.

There's more, but it's just a story.We all have one.

I am currently in private practice in northern California, USA, where I counsel, teach and write.

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